Hello again. Just thought I'd share my another video of David's performance up here. I was late uploading it because it took me forever to find that cable to hook up the camera to my computer. Sorry if the video doesn't start from the beginning of the song. I was drawn in by his deeply moving performance of "A Thousand Miles" earlier that I forgot to start recording lol. I never knew so much emotion can be conveyed through such a simple yet beautiful song. Then again, everything pretty much sounds better live haha. Anyway, I just wanted to share that with you all. I'm going to head out here now, but I'll talk to you all later!
P.S. In other news, David is going to perform on AI8 results show this Thursday and I might be meeting the DASG people this week to collect my own DASG cd. So I'm pretty excited about those. I'll let you know how that goes again.
Hey All! I hope everyone's having a fun time so far and this week has been such a blast for me. Last Saturday, a few of the DASG members and I got the chance to welcome DAVID ARCHULETA at the airport!! That was pretty crazy though. Sal sent me a pm on MSN as soon as I got home from work that he'd be reaching Singapore in an hour's time. It was like... LAST MINUTE! So we both had to cab down and rush to the airport. Oh! It was so rushed that I forgot to comb my hair after I got changed but whatever haha. It was funny 'cause we got to "promote" DASG to the cab driver who seemed clueless about who is David lol. So there at the airport, we met up with Larissa, Steven and Sheryl. Here's a video of us greeting David as he lands at Changi Airport at 1:15 in the morning. If you can spot me, I'm wearing yellow.
David Archuleta was wayyy cool in person than you'll ever see him in American Idol or youtube. We couldn't take photos with him but it's AWWEESSOME because he was just right in front of me!! One of his fans, that I just knew of at the airport, requested to have a picture with him, and he replied, "You want to have a picture taken with me? I look really bad." haha.
Oh yeah. David actually mentioned this while he was still here in Singapore, "I love the warm weather here. Everyone here is so friendly and nice and I want to thank the fans who came to the airport late at night to show me their support." - fansofdavid.com
I love meeting people who are really well known and stuff, and you expect them to act all big and important, when they are some of the most down-to-earth cool people you've ever met haha.
Then it was David's showcase and autograph session at Iluma, the new mall opening up at Bugis, on Tuesday! Ian and I reached the mall near 12 in the afternoon and there was already a queue for the autograph session outside. But there were several familiar faces, so that was really exciting. Some came as early as 9:30 in the morning after watching David on Channel News Asia haha! The showcase would only start at 7pm but it was fun just hanging out with the rest of the fans before the show. We had many passer-bys who looked at us in amazement but we promoted David to them in case they didn't know who he is lol. I got to grab lunch too with some of the DASG members who were already there, and we ate lunch while queueing outside the mall haha!
Meanwhile, the other fans were doing cool stuff like making LAST MINUTE banners and writing last minute fan letters! What was so weird was that people around me talked to me about David although we didn't know each other and we could relate to each other pretty well. Crazy huh? he he. It's also AMAAAZZZING to know people who live like as far as India who were willing to travel here. Like Larissa, she's the no. 1 Singapore fan that I know of in person and she would willingly travel around the world just to see David. But anyway, Ian and I explored the mall a little bit more after lunch although we already did a few days before the show (if you have seen Ian's entry on our fansite) and we managed to snap a few close-up pictures of the stage and a HUGE poster of David. Cool stuff! We also helped with distributing the fans that Team Archie had made to the first 205 people who came.
More people joined the queue in the late afternoon and before we even knew it, the queue were already so LOOONGG!! It was almost unbelievable. DAVID ARCHULETA has sooo many fans in Singapore!! More guys were coming out too. But the fun part was when Sheryl and Farhana finally decided to show our huge DASG banner which was designed by Zaren (apparently my twin brother lol) to the crowd. Hazel then led the queue with two very strong cheers. I guessed we were soooo LOUD that people across the street could hear us. That was awesome!!
We were able to enter the atrium only around 5 in the evening. Those of us who there for the autograph session after the showcase since morning were pretty fortunate because the centre of the atrium were reserved for us. But oh my heck! There were incredibly so many people, the entire mall were filled from the 1st level to the last. David Archuleta should do a full concert here instead haha! While waiting, a number of his songs were played on repeat. Honestly I love all of them. Maybe I'm a little biased... but I'm pretty sure all of the songs were just amazing.
It was only around 7:30 when David really arrived on stage and I finally got to see him perform LIVE!! Of course I was loving it lol. I was at the 1st row beside Sahira, Wendy and Candy, and I had such a good time! David was amazing amazing amazing amazing, and he sounded so good live! I never thought I'd get the chance to see a successful AMERICAN IDOL runner up like him performed in front of me, and I always thought the Americans were lucky. David sang with so much soul and I was really happy that I got to see him even though it was just a small showcase. I admire the way David has gone with his music and career, and how humble of a person he is! He is just down to earth. He performed 4 songs, starting with the party starter "Touch My Hand", followed by "A Little Too Not Over You" (i'll put the video up for you guys later on), "A Thousand Miles" in which he played the keyboard, and ending with "Crush".
Photo credits to Regina (besides myself)
The crowd were momentarily insane and we sang the whole way through. It was full of energy!! Like I've said, when David Archuleta jumped on stage, I felt like jumping too among the crowd!
I didn't know what to say to him exactly during the autograph session but I did tell him that I was at the airport on Saturday and he went "Yeah!" with a lot of confidence and a big smile (he remembered me haha). Of course I didn't forget tell him that his performance was awesome and he initiated a hand shake with me. Cool! Oh! After the show, I got to talk to Boy Thunder from 91.3FM for a bit too. 91.3 ROCKS! Thanks for supporting David Archuleta!
Okay, that's enough talking about the show. Remember the DASG CD I talked about on my previous entry? That was the mini project DASG had and it's also considered as a country effort from Singapore to David. It really is so much fun working with all of them on that project. So anyway, we got to pass the CD to David personally during the private meet and greet session and showed him the the video of Let's Talk About Love we made. He was really touched by it as he got tears in his eyes when he watched it. Kinda weird I guess 'cause it was quite embarrassing when I first saw the entire video especially with me inside it but now I'm moved too. David was the first to clap after the video ended lol. Ah! I actually got the that video with me... but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to show that haha. But if you're clueless of what I'm actually talking about then you can read more about it
here. Ah! And we gave our Rainbow Club donation and our huge DASG banner (which was signed by all of us at the end of the day) to David too.
Before I go I wanted to share this with you guys really quick. Ever wonder how David Archuleta will look like in a malay traditional outfit? See it for yourself. So now I know what colour am I gonna pick for my own traditional outfit this year lol. I know I talked a ton about David Archuleta, but I think that only makes it even more appropriate to share one of his songs today. So the song for today is You Can - David Archuleta.
Heeeey guys! It's getting late here but I wanted to make sure I made a blog though before I got too busy with other stuff later this weekend. So I'm making it at the morning time right now. Just thought I'd share a few things that had gone on last week because it was a pretty GREEAAT week. So I'm going to try and be quick here.
I'm going to start with last week Monday where I had a day off, my first ever day off on a Monday! (not like having a Monday off is anything interesting haha) and I got to see Watchmen at Downtown East E!hub again. The nearest Cathay Cineplex from home and I simply love Cathay for its comfort haha!! And a bunch of my friends were really into the show, and it's been getting much hype so I decided to go see it. Oh you know what's weird is that I somehow doubted the ticketing staff believed I was already over 18, especially since she determinedly reminded me that the show is rated M18 like an amazing four to FIVE times before and after she handed me the ticket. She even highligted the word "M18" on the ticket in yellow in front of me lol. Ah. I'd probably looked like some immature underaged kid who loves to cause trouble but haha... of course I was compelled to show my IC which has my good-looking face on it (coughs). No, no, just kidding! I'm tired. So anyway, I actually don't really like the show despite the cool superheroes and crazy visual effects. At more than 21/2 hours, it tries to cram in nearly everything and the ending feels rushed. But this blog might get insanely longer than I intend for them to be so I'm not going more into that lol.
Then last Saturday, I got to meet up with my hyper CRAAAZY DASG fanclub members to complete our project for David's upcoming promotional trip to Singapore in April (which was confirmed by Sony BMG)! We did a few recording with piano accompaniment and that was sooo cool! And it really wasn't easy to get everything right but we pushed it and once we got going I had so much fun! A lot of work went into it but it was awesome working with them. We jammed out to music, danced like idiots, and got some good exercise out of it haha. It was the energy everyone brought and even though I sweat so bad it was worth it. It started off with Sheryl's cool random idea haha and now we're working on editing it and getting everything together now, but I can't wait to see the finished product which I'm so pumped for.
So it's left with the t-shirts and banners! Oh. And some of us are involved in making a donation to a charity under David's name which is really nice. I always think about how those donations will help out, even if it's not a huge contribution. That small amount can help change someone's life one way or another. And here it is the T-shirt design by Steven.
"Let's talk about you. Let's talk about me. Let's talk about how we can be one big family..." haha. If you havent listened to this song yet, you should 'cause the lyrics are great.
Later on that evening, I got to hang out a bit with RJ "Alien" haha. And Farhan "Josh". I was a little bit hyper because I'm already dead tired heh. I think I would probably be more hyper if I wasn't. But it was uber fun hanging out with those two cool guys. Hilarious stupid and daft jokes lol. And oh my heck! I was supposed to meet them at 4 for a movie in town but I ended up meeting them like 8 haha. Sorry I know, I owe you guys one. We'll catch a movie some time soon, okay? Anyway, we had our dinner at the Glass House Fish n Co' and what's funny is that while we were eating, it suddenly struck my mind that the place doesn't accept NETS payment and I had not much cash with me. And so I ended up dragging RJ along to the nearest ATM which wasn't that near I supposed. We even entertained the thought of leaving Farhan behind to pay everything by himself haha. Are we awesome or what? Of course, we weren't so bad after all. That was really funny!! We had a good time.
Other thing that happened this week: I'm still reading James Patterson's Sundays at Tiffany's which I borrowed from Orange. It takes me so long but I'm almost finishing haha. And the other book I really want to read is Jon & Kate Gosselin's Multiple Blessings. Since I'm so hooked to their high-rated reality tv show on Discovery Travel & Living called Jon & Kate plus 8 - following their daily lives and focusing on the challenges of raising their eight children — a set of fraternal twin girls and a set of sextuplets. It's so cool seeing them handling all 8 small kids and each having totally different characters haha.
But anyway, I'm talking more than I wanted. So I better get going here. Talk to you guys later!
More people joined the queue in the late afternoon and before we even knew it, the queue were already so LOOONGG!! It was almost unbelievable. DAVID ARCHULETA has sooo many fans in Singapore!! More guys were coming out too. But the fun part was when Sheryl and Farhana finally decided to show our huge DASG banner which was designed by Zaren (apparently my twin brother lol) to the crowd. Hazel then led the queue with two very strong cheers. I guessed we were soooo LOUD that people across the street could hear us. That was awesome!!
"Let's talk about you. Let's talk about me. Let's talk about how we can be one big family..." haha. If you havent listened to this 
