NRJ Awards 2006

Firstly, let me comment on the cold. ITS FREEZING NOW! -22 degrees celsius. Even walking to my school which is 5 mins walk away (abt 1 km) is torturous. And it is kind of a paradox since inside the building there is heating facilities, so its either u are cold or u are hot. Anyway while walking about Helsinki city centre today, we could only tahan about 10 mins of walking around before we ran into some bldg to get warmth. It is terrible, you lose feeling of your fingers, ears and toes.. i think i have to get some new gloves and maybe earmuffs.. i heard that up north in oulu, where kqy n wl are, and where i was initially supposed to go, it is -30 degrees. Anyway, the sporean peeps have taken a trip to Estonia, Tallin which is a ferry ride away.. but me n xz din go because of NRJ radio awards 2006! and also cos it is so cold now, still go walkwalk for wat. (http://www.nrjradioawards.com/nra2006_en_final.html)

NRJ awards.. We went to Kamppi, which is the Helsinki city centre, did not really explore much due to lack of time, and also the COLD. We tried to find the senate square but we horland and we found this nice skating rink. then we went back to the station and took a train to Pasila where the areena was located.




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Then we had to brave the cold to get from the Pasila station to the Hartwall Areena which is the home of some helsinki ice hockey team. The place sits 11000 pple and is really massive. Actually the main crowd of people were young pubescent gals who were rooting for their idols.. Darin (swedish singer wif a hit called 'Step up'), the finnish idols(yes, finland also got and they received much more applause than craig david who suffered the fate of having his thank-you speech interrupted by the appearance of these idols) and some other nordic bands.



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Ever wonder what happens during commercial breaks? These 2 jokers throw darts at each other stomachs, set each other on fire, use a huge elastic band to twang on the other person's barebody etc.

Craig David and Amy Diamond

She is only 13 and released a single already!

Westlife, t.a.t.u, darren hayes from savage garden all graced the event. as u can see, we got pretty good standing seats cos we are like 2 metres from the stage only. Up close! i was surprised that the nordic bands could play such catchy music.. it made up for the disappointment of shakira not being there.. she pang sei last minute.. i emailed the publicist to kaobei but she referred me to her record company grrr.. too bad green day, madonna n robbie williams couldnt come. (they were nominated) imagine boulevard of broken dreams LIVE! i got snippets of videos of the other bands performances. but they amt to abt half a GB!

The Pretty Hostess of the show
Amy johnson or smth lidat

That being said, it was a pity the awards lasted so short a time, only 1.5 hrs.. but for 49 euro to see n exp the place, it shd be worth it.. we found a way to save money on transport too by doing the by left way cos if you want to travel to helsinki normally will cost u S$7.20 by bus for a journey like clementi to jurong! damn ex lor.. also found out that printing paper in my school is free.. at night can go back n print wads of stuff..

To supplement this entry, check out http://xnz-2006.blogspot.com/2006/01/finnish-winter.html . i haf been trying to yousendit the videos but it has been uploading for an hour and still cannot!