Man..what 2 days in Genting!! Unforgettable journey :D
Fuh…got back about 8pm on Sunday. Dad picked me up from the LRT station and boy was I freaking slumped back..was damn exhausted. Gotta head to pasar malam immediately…wasn’t even walking straight by then LOL. But anyway, flashbacks fpr 2 days of my crononical events before I head to Genting. 
Friday, 23th
Alarm clock rang at about 11 plus and surprisingly I jolted up faster than any other days I had (LOL obviously..too excited). Priest (Kok Hou) called to meet at the Subang Jaya KTM commuter by 2.30pm (Lai lai will be driving us up while Jon will be going up taking the LRT and bus service). So I get myself changed, bathed before I leave, ensure that I have all my stuffs packed, nothing whatsoever left behind and I waited patiently..when it started to rain cats and dogs at about 2pm. You can’t imagine how infuriated I was. Of all the time it had to rain this heavy when I was about to leave. What the heck, Mum drove me to Subang, slow and steady in the heavy rain.
Arriving at the station, Mum had to pay RM2 just to get into the entrance. What crap! If it wasn’t for the damn heavy rain I could have just walked for a distance. However, the rain was just too heavy for me to get down. Called priest but no one answered, till his mum picked up to tell me that he was out getting something. Needed to exchange plans so I told his mum to inform him to meet up in front of Carrefour’s bus stand instead as it’s not possible to meet up at the train station with the rain this heavy. Called Finrod (Winson) to find out his whereabout. He has been waiting in the station for 15 minutes. I lead him out of the station to my car and mum dropped us at the bus stand. He went in to Carrefour for some munchies and snacks needed for the trip up there while I waited in the bus stand in case priest arrives. Lai lai (Amin) reached at about 3.45pm and we wasted no time stuffing our luggages into the boot and board on. Genting here we come ;).
Inside the car, priest played all the Idol songs that were sang from the start of Workshop all the way to final Spectaculars and we were all singing along, reminiscing the memorable songs performed (Big Spender, Angin Malam, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Don’t Let Go to name a few). Mind you, all 4 of us in the car are avid Farah fans and we could not help but talk about why Farah was eliminated just a week before the finale due to the fact that we never got over it. If she was in the finale, our anxeity of the trip could have been even greater than ever.
Upon reaching the slopy roads all the way up, we started counting how many buntings and banners they as we passed. I know, it’s silly but we wanted to see the hype it gives. The more you put the more anxious you get. Visibility on the road isn’t perfect, added that it was still raining and thick mist on the way. There were mixed number of buntings..with TMNet and MI. Even singers Jenny Tseng and Francis Yip seemed to have more buntings. Hoi..apa ni..patut more what..MI..international show leh..more publicity lah. But as we went higher, more MI buntings noticeable amidst the thick mist. Alas.
While waiting for priest to do the check in at Theme Park Hotel, smsed Mum, Ellyse and Mel that I’ve finally reached. Minutes later, we bumped into Kai Ma, Kai Yeh and their family descended from the lift. Had a little chat with them. From a distance, I could see Jon coming. They (KM & KY) told us that we had better queue up as early as 6pm as last year people started the line really early. All 11 Idols are staying at the 7th floor and most of the forummers are on the 8th floor. We tried to get one at 8th and fortunate enough, we got room 8243. 4 rooms away were Ostrova and the gang. Man, can you imagine having to fit 12 people into their room? LOL…6 is already a whole lot and I think this could possibly recorded into the book of records for having the most people stayed in 2 nights here =P. No guessing where the rest will have to sleep..or probably just stayed up all night XD. We received our key cards and went to our room. Lai lai wants to record the show live so he brought along his laptop and while he’s busy setting up the equipment to the tv, we hang around, get dressed, do what we had to do and prepare ourselves for the big showdown.
A view of our room, (From L-R: Lai lai, priest, Finrod & jon)
After that, we went down to First World Plaza Burger King to grab a late minute bite before the show begins. We clearly noticed a number of Daniel fans here as they are all dressed in pink (Daniel’s favourite colour), even the guys!! We were like giggling at the corner, commenting, making fun of the craziness of their fans as how far they would go to support him. As we’re making our way to Arena Of Stars, I was calling Ellyse like mad cos I thought she couldn’t enter as her tickets are with me. Anyway we’re getting late and I’ve called her for over 8 times but no one picked up the phone. Couldn’t delay any longer so we went in and waited at gate F, the furthest to the left of the arena. Big crowd was already cheering. Oh wait, as we were walking along the aisle to arena, there’s these 4 really young gals dressed in pink with the words Vote Daniel encrypted directly at the front, screaming their Idol’s name and running all around. I was like my god..how extremely maniac can his fans go..
So we waited patiently till the guard allowed the clear sign for us to go in. Waiting was boring. Some of us decided to bring up some fun started screaming for their Idols. DANIEL!! DANIEL!! DANIEL!! I joined in the crowd to shout NITA!! NITA!! NITA!!. LOL the feeling was unbelievable. Never in my life I had felt such excitement and adrenaline pumped up to shout and scream all my might for an event and this show succeeded to open out my timidness. And out in the blues, Jon shouted MAWI!! MAWI!! LMAO!!! We started to laugh and then people pula started shouting the AF finalists pula..Marsha! Felix! Amylea!! Hehe..it was so cool I tell ya.
The doors finally flapped open and we made ourselves in..pushing and edging our way. We sat on the yellow seats all the way to the middle of the screen. Each seats are placed with TMNet hand pads written Daniel on one side and Nita the other. So whoever you’re supporting, you could switch either way to show the cam who your support goes to.
The handpads. Whose your pick?
Inside the arena from my point of view. Located near the stage, Daniel’s family and supporters are all seated on the left while Nita’s all the way on the right.
Look at the amount of audience!
The show commenced at about 8.40pm with the arrivals of VIPs and celebrities on the red carpet interviewed live by Adam & Marion outside. As the celebrities made their ways into the arena, we noticed immediately last year’s Idols namely Nikki, Zamil, Jac, Rydee etc. Surprisingly Andrew and Fahmy who both went hiatus were also present. However, Vick and Dina were nowhere in sight. A few minutes later, Paul and Kak Jee came and the crowd went wild. Strangely, Roslan wasn’t with them. I thought all 3 should arrive spontaneously but this was not the case.
Okay let’s skip to the part of the opening act by our Top 9 starting it of with Pop Ye Ye and Shut Up. LOL Shut Up was a weird group performance to sing..don’t get me wrong, I love how they sang but it wasn’t really suitable..as if requesting for the 2 finalists to shut up pula =D.
Daniel started off first for the night with the winning single, Mimpi. It sounded pop-ish and wasn’t really vocally challenged like last year’s Gemilang but I like it. Makes a good studio recording. Ooh..he didn’t bring the song well..the sound in the arena was too loud and we could not even listen to a single word he sang..towards the end the pitching was clearly all over the place. Bad start. I was expecting the judges to give bad comments but nolah..they’re praising him! Shocked as I can be, even Paul wasn’t really throwing him down with the razor tongue but true comments. All he said was his obvious pitching.
Nita was up next with Berhenti Berharap. Did as amazing as during the Unplugged week. All 3 judges gave good comments.
With his second song, Daniel rendered Heaven Knows better than Mimpi. It was his audition song back in Penang so no surprises if he picked this song to sing in the finale. Once again, all judges gave good comments. I think at this point, the judges had very much toned down their bitter judgement on the Idols. It’s already the end of season so it’s best to describe the best for both of them to let the viewers decide. Well, if the mistake was clearly made, then no choice but to critic lah LOL.
Nita’s second song, Big Spender..her outfit didn’t quite fit with the song. Someone even mentioned it made her looked slutty on the stage. LOL aww..that was harsh but she brought the song as good as she totally blown the auidience and viewers during Classical week.
Daniel’s final song given by the judges was Angin Malam. Gotta admit he made wonder to the song by adding the nice waves with his decent falsetto. It fitted and his voice blended perfectly. No wonder gals were even more captivated after he sang this during Classical week.
Daniel singing Angin Malam
Nita’s final song..the winning single Mimpi blew the arena to bits. It was awesome, it’s no denial that she nailed all 3 songs and the title of the next Malaysian Idol should be given to her..but we know the chances are..having to compete with Daniel’s overboarding passionate fans wasn’t an easy task.
Nita singing Mimpi
The show ended with the both dueting Tarzan’s soundtrack which they sang bilingually (Kau Di Hatiku or You’ll Be In My Heart) and slowly the rest of the 9 Idols emerged from behind, surrounding Daniel & Nita. Excellent, we all gave standing ovations to mark the last for tonight.
Daniel & Nita with Kau Di Hatiku & You’ll Be In My Heart
All 11 Idols on stage.
As we exit the arena, went back to our hotel to check on Lai lai’s recording. We played back the performances again beginning with Daniel’s Mimpi. Surprisingly there wasn’t any audio fault on tv but we all agreed it was very loud and clear in the arena. Whoa..towards the end of the song..memang his pitching lari habis. Clear cut across that Nita was the best for the night. I took out my handphone and without any hesitation, started pressing on V,O,T,E then space N,I,T,A. Couldn’t really vote much. Been spending hundreds of votes for Farah in the past 3 weeks…credits very limited at this point so I’m only giving 15 at the max. It’s all up to the entire nation to decide who do you want your Idol to be.
We then went to Starbucks down at First World Plaza with the availability of internet connection and the forum was the first place we typed in. A report from forummers live from Genting LOL.
At Starbucks. From L-R: Jon, Me, Finrod, priest, Nim and Lai lai
Michael joined while we all sat down and talked about the overall show just now. Forummer lowch1 appeared and we introduced each other. Lai lai’s initial plan of staying at the hotel with us cancelled as he had things to do early next morning so he had to drive back to KL on the night itself and will be up again the next day for the results show. On the other hand, priest wanted to hold the Idols sleepover party at our room but by then the Idols were all already too tired so never happened on the first night. I think it was about between 1-2 am that we left and we went to Nim’s room at First World.
Uggh..I finally got to look at how ’small’ the rooms were and boy they weren’t kidding with the size of the toilet LOL. The bed was like a ruler long from the wall and you gotta watch the tv sideways. How uncomfortable man!! We started chatting, joking, laughing, everything till it was about 4am that we finally left the place.
While walking to our room, I guessed our conversation alarmed Ostrova and the gang when they popped open the door and man..you won’t wanna look at the sight of the room with stuffs and bags from 12 people scattered all over LOL. We hung out about 20 mins by the door when he finally got back into our room.
Finrod and I stayed up all night, playing PSOne which priest brought while Jon was already in bed sound asleep. Priest wanted to lay his eyes for 15 minutes but he eventually dozed off till the next day LOL.
To be continued…..
