i know what i did last weekend

while you were here having your ketupat and rendang and listening to all hari raya songs, i was somewhere looking at bengawan solo and having fast food while awaiting that concert to start.

haha. show mi singapore 2007 at the indoor stadium. that was where i was.

all the way to singapore. i have said i will never get enuf of sammi cheng right???

the fan craze started on friday the day sammi touched down from hong kong. fans were already waiting outside, many of them plus camera crew from mediacorp. you can see the recording on you tube.

anyway, i got the 'best' position. i got to talk to her and got her to sign autograph with my name. she recognised it and was surprised. yeah!!! she knows me! hahaha....

both of us were wearing tee shirt with skull. ahem...great stylists think alike. i wonder where hers was from. will check later. i also showed her the miniature doll i had on the necklace. i asked if she remembered. she said of course lah, it had appeared in all newspapers. haha....i gave her the big version in earlier concerts. so that was a good start to greeting her at the airport.

the yummy bread from a japanese bakery in holland village.

i have to thank my singaporean friends for being so hospitable to chinching and me. they drove us around and even offered lodging for us. there was a bunch of them. rachel, minzhi, sihan, rae, wendy, guoching, jennifer and minzhi's sis. oh, thank you chinching's friend lynn and kamwei for coming out for lunch too. in the excitement of going, i even forgot to pack my pyjamas! so had to buy there.

the concert in singapore was only so-so. how sad, i went all the way there and this was my review. i had good front seats but the atmosphere was just not right. i feel singaporeans are not as crazy as malaysians. haha...they stood up all right but there was no dancing and screaming. my friend said, like kayu. plus, sammi was not feeling well. she had sorethroat in the morning and had 2 doses of medicine before the concert (she explained near the end). no wonder i did not feel 'her' on the stage. the presence was just not there. however she came back (better late than never) when she came on stage in her last costume change (the white suit). the concert rundown was similar to genting's concert but it was shorter. everything seemed rush (i think she was rushing to end the show so she could rest). there was supposed to be an encore, but she cut it. the stage costumes was only soso. those new additions were just too plain for a concert i think. sigh. like something she did just because she had to. in a way it was lah, singapore show mi was an addition to the original world tour line-up. see i am still a rational fan who can come up with critical comments not like others who are like so blinded.

the stage which was similar to all other world tour venues.

a new attire but i thought jeans was too casual for a concert.

original concert costume, still retained.
black ensemble which i think was really ugly. like just a piece of sheath over her flat body. it made her look flatter.
her sporty attire for the power dance medley. the mic was not working that well and kept falling off.
new white suit with super hill platform heels. very nicely cut but not suitable for a concert costume right??
mc yan from the group lmf flew in just to rap one song. another guest star was stephanie sun. although sammi was not feeling well, her voice drowned stephanie's totally when they had their duet. hmm...now i know how unpowerful steph's voice is. hehe.
ok, what am i going to write for this one? i am sosooooo jealous!! that girl there is my friend who went with me to all sammi's concerts. yeah, my mi travelling partner!!! and she got picked to go on stage because she was 'plump' enough to make sammi look thin. boo hoo hoo!!!! that means i will never get my chance to go on stage. she hugged sammi thrice when she was on stage! she must la!!! and took photo of herself and mi with her handphone!! ooowww.....green green green.

i am going to end this post with a poem i saw on the train on my way back home yesterday. it summed up how i felt for not being picked on stage. and it would nicely sum up the end of the whole sammi world tour experience for me this year. so melancholy.

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden