The Young & Restless

On Saturday, received sms from priest to pick him up from Arena Sports Complex opposite the Assunta Hospital. Plan was to get to Sin Chew Jit Poh to check out Daniel where he’s doing charity-raising for the recently burned 2 year-old victim. We’re practically late for almost an hour so by the time we got there, Daniel had left the scene. Then priest called Daniel to find out his whereabouts. He’s having lunch there, so we went there too (LOL no we had no intentions to stalk him but anyway we never bumped into him) at the rear end coffeeshop.

After lunch, we decided to go to priest’s place to lepak before we proceed to 1U. Ostrova and the gang are still in Red Bok karaoke-ing as a celebration for his 20th birthday. Even sempat caught an episode of a new TVB drama about a luxurious hotel where you have those typical power-hunger domination again starring Ron Ng Cheok Hei, Kenix Kwok Ho Ying and Joe Ma Tak Chung. It’s really cool movie, it’s gonna take a pretty much long time for Wah Lai Toi have it on as War & Beauty was just slotted very recently. Left for 1 U at about 4pm.

Omg…can’t imagine the amount of congestion on the way. Thought with Deepavali and Raya at the corner, mostly would have gone back their hometowns to celebrate but the way I saw, cars on the street didn’t really change much. Met Ostrova, Yumi, Teng, Yen, Evonc and another gal which I didn’t know her name at Tower Records. Crazy Teng bought few more Daniel’s singles for safekeeping in case any of the Daniel fans couldn’t find anymore LOL. We were sort of hoping to catch Corpse Bride but eventually we spent the rest of the afternoon chit-chatting at Burger King before the Top 3 performances at 8.30pm. Finrod smsed pula to check on us. Well, if he had transportation in the first place, he could have joined us…but turned out he could have joined us had he came straight from college instead of going back since we weren’t sure we’re gonna be at 1 U earlier..Oh well..what the heck..

Fareesya joined us a little later at Burger King. Somewhere at a distance outside the fast food entrance, we saw all these group of teens dressed in goth with sparks of hair dyed purple (Errghh..reminds me of Lee Harding from the current Australian Idol 3). Apparently, it was a sort of meeting as they stood there pretty long before it dispersed. Well, they certainly got our attention and everyone walking by.

Then there was sort of an exciting topic that I brought up regarding about Daniel that someone observed questioned about his sexuality (yes the queer thingy) and boy it became really hot and our table became the noisiest..At that point, everyone started relating their stories about gay people they’ve met. Ostrova brought up the PLU term which only the gay communites would be familiar (which I shouldn’t reveal what it meant here if you don’t already know LOL) and Teng started calling him a gay. LMAO…was so damn funny man at the moment..obviously Ostrova denied that but the weirdest thing is the ‘gay’ word was being mentioned so damn loud that I believed every table around us clearly heard it and there we are still debating on the topic like no other business..LOL..our table became one of the noisiest and we shared all the attraction in the restaurant…but we all came out conclusion that gays are still human and that we should respect them anyhow like we respect each other. So their lifestyles doesn’t really comprehend with ours but that doesn’t mean we should totally condemn or shun them.

As clock approaches 8pm, more and more people, mostly gals dressed in pink are seen in the restaurant. Yup, many of them are clear signs of Daniel supporters who are anxiously waiting for the show.

As we headed to the stage at New Wing, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw so many people piling around the stage. I see pink people. Yes. You heard right. People with pink attires are scattered all around the stage, with a nifty Daniel banner at one sight. There was even a cute little boy in front me holding his single while decending the elevator! Whoa..the manias..the hype..Daniel really had a huge impact on the teeny bopper gals. We tried to squeeze ourselves at the very right side of the stage, clearly wasn’t a good location as the speakers were facing directly at us. Met with Kenny, Uptown, Kai ma kai yeh and their children and even Daniel’s parents are there too. Later, we spotted Kuaci from above making his way down with a new haircut and oh..he had the Farahnatics t-shirt on.

When the show finally began, Farah was up first singing Siti’s Percayalah. She also mentioned about Jac emerging as the winner at the Voice Of Asia held at Shanghai a couple of days ago and we all cheered. She got too excited she forgot she had to sing 2 more songs but instead called out for Nita. Nita performed Get Here from the workshops. Then Farah came back to greet the crowd and apologised for her little blunder..LOL aww..she’s ever so sweet. She sang Kembali Lagi Di Sisimu and Gemilang. Her voice never failed to impress us. We grouped and shouted "We Luve U Farah!" 2 times after her song and she acknowledged us with a smile ;). Nita returned, priest shouted for her to sing Big Spender but too bad they didn’t have the t-minus track prepared. She took on Hati Ini Telah Dilukai and finally Fame.

Next, as soon as Daniel stepped in, the crowd really really went wild. The crowd located in the centre of the stage who were sitting all the while all stood up and lunged forward to the stage man!! 3 securities stoodby and held on before they could proceed any further. Thank god. Screams of ‘Daniel!’ and cameras all held forward, not missing even a blink of it watching their Idol performed, or so the anxiety of these mostly consist of teeny boppers. Daniel kicked it with Angin Malam, then with Heaven Knows, the song he sang during his audition in Penang. Of course, the peak of the show was Daniel with his winning single, Mimpi. Everyone was anticipated, even myself as I really like the song. However, the mic seemed to have a slight problem with the interference towards the end. Looks as it was ending, Farah & Nita appeared and sang along with him. The crowd was satisfied as due to the mic problem, it sort of ended too abrupt. The wanted more and majority shouted "Encore". They brought out chairs and table for the autography signing session and in no time, the crowd rushed to the line. All I can say is..the line was superbly long..and the number of people bringing his single to sign, his CD is selling well. Mmmhmm, that’s the power of Idol. He might not have the best voice in the comp, but the x-factor that this people sees in him was enough to transform him into a celebrity within the duration of 3 months.

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