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Started the night with dinner at a nice little a Vietnamese restaurant at West End. It’s the best Asian place I know. It’s fast and reasonably priced. Though I have to mention that I did see a mouse run through the shop a little while ago but I guess maybe that’s why the food tastes so good!!!

Headed out to the entertainment center around 7 pm and my girlfriend was already going off her rocket! It seemed a little gloomy while driving there because there was a bush fire only a few suburbs away and smoke was flowing over the roads.

Finally we made it to the gate and the hype was building up. We looked at our tickets and saw that the special guest playing with Linkin Park was a feller named Chris Cornell. We were seated by 7:30pm and by that time Chris Cornell had already started…and he didn’t stop till one and a half hours later!!!! It was ridiculous!!! Who has ever heard of a special guest playing his entire album at a concert?!?!?! It got to the point where people were giving him the finger and told him to F*@K OFF! Seated behind us was a gentleman in his mid to late 40s who also brought his family to the concert (himself, his wife and 2 children under 18). Boy, you should of seen him swear his nuts off about Chris Cornell! It was hilarious! The Mexican wave proved to be more exciting than Chris Cornell.

When we all got back from intermission the stage was covered in cloth so there was this curiosity building up…oh man can I say the opening was completely mind blowing! It kicked off with my favorite song on their new album (’Minutes To Midnight‘) ‘No More Sorrow’. The entire entertainment centre was rocking hardcore till the very end. I felt so satisfied yet still longing for more Linkin Park. Everyone lingered for at least a full five minutes to make sure that Linkin Park were definitely done; you couldn’t risk missing a single second!

Being in the concert I felt oblivious to the outside world so when we exited, the entire center was smothered in smoke from the bush fire. The whole experience was so surreal… Sure, I also went to the Chili Peppers concert which was also out of this world but this experience seemed somewhat more empowering!

What a night!