On the 16th of May, 2007, 11:30pm, I was in Midvalley, having finally watched Spiderman 3. (Thanks Chez!)

As we walked to the toilet, loud music blared through the public announcement speakers at maximum volume. It was Gary Moore! It was his extended Still Got The Blues shred! I was like, “YEAAAHHH ROCK ON MIDVALLEY!”

The rest of the crowd did not think so. Girls covered their ears, and guys could be seen with white papers crumpled up in their ears! This was a primarily Chinese crowd, though.

(Pardon the quality; it was a screen capture of a video recorded with my Nokia N70.)

They played a hard rock greatest hits CD. Guns & Roses – Knocking On Heaven’s Door, Ugly Kid Joe – Cats In The Cradle, Creedence Clear Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain?, Def Leppard, Scorpions etc.

As we went around the mall, I was hoping to spot a group of Malay mat rockers in a corner somewhere, with skinny torn jeans and a curly mess of long hair, and air-guitar along with them.

Unfortunately, I did not spot any even in the car park where it was still blaring away.

I was enjoying every bit of it.

The next night, I was there at a similiar time, but the music volume was considerably lower. Also, because I had just watched Sumo-Lah! with a Malay crowd, they did not seem perturbed by the music at all.

I wish I whipped out my camera; instead I was trying to record a video of people looking annoyed at the music.