3.00pm- Agreed with Fleur to meet at Jurong East MRT station at 3pm. She brought along good friend Felicia and they were struggling mentally at the CD-RAMA because TGL album is out of stock there. You see, there are many ways to get the tickets, and the easiest and fuss-free method is to buy the album.
3.15pm- The shop assistant replaced the phone back onto the receiver. All branches have ran out of stock. Brilliant. I suggested Sembawang Music, and Fleur accompanied Fel to West Mall to hopefully buy her album. Really hope she buys it. Meanwhile, poor ol’ lonely me sets off for Expo to ‘chop’ a place further up front of the queue.
4.09pm-After spending a full 10 minutes walking from Hall 6, I’ve finally reached Hall 1. The queue looks long, but still okay, perhaps just a hundred ahead of me. The music boomed loud from those closed doors, and a familiar voice accompanied it. Apparently DT was doing a sound check. Now, should I queue?
4.34pm-Received an sms from Fleur. ‘We’re at Redhill’. Damn. The queue’s lengthened by about 7 people now. I think I better queue.
4.57pm-Fleur and Fel finally reached, and Fel’s got her album! Made a mad dash for the toilet at Hall 2.
4.59pm- Came back from the toilet and… hey where’s the queue? Okay they moved the queue outside, out of the air-conditioned comfort of the Expo, and into the open. Thank God we’re still in the queue. Took out my Chinese to do. Did I just spot a photographer snapping me? Weirdo.
5.13pm- Collected the 2 free tickets I won for the Singtel download contest, and I’m giving one to someone called Janice. The thing is, I have no idea who she is. But I decided that if I had to give out the ticket for free, I’ll give it to someone who truly appreciates DT’s music. And I chose Janice. Enjoy the ticket.
6.00pm-Doors open! Fleur ran faster than me after we passed the ticket collector. I’m astounded. Got a good place not too far from the stage, perhaps just 2 to 3 metres from the stage. Thank God.
7.00pm-We want David Tao! Where is he? Thank God I’ve had some training from all that standing during parades in secondary school, because the people around us has started to moan. Besides, I was sure I was sticking out like a sore thumb because I’m 1.67m + 1 inch of Fila slips + standing in front of 2 girls who are shorter than me. Meanwhile, his MVs started flashing on the giant screens besides the stage.
7.30pm- The lights died down, and people started screaming. Is that David? Nah, it’s his opening act, WILD. I have no freak idea why they call themselves that, when they’re 5 girls on instruments, and they call themselves a classical-pop group. Please, EMI, do get them to change their names and pick up some English. The Singlish-speaking people here can ramble stuff which are far more grammatically correct than 5 girls from London. Nothing against them, because I thought they were great performers. Just work on the language and the group name.
7.40pm- David enters with ‘Susan Said’, blowing the crowd away. I became busy grinning to myself (sorry no dirty thought here) and helping Fleur with her cam because I’m, after all, at a great advantage when it comes to taking photos behind the crowd. Then he sang ‘Love Can’, before stopping for a game with the crowd. After that was ‘Who Do You Love’, before he stopped to hand-pick the 3 winners for the unreleased Sony Erricsson phone, which cost about a thousand bucks. He was then supposed to end with ‘Yue Liang Dai Biao Shei De Xin’, but we pressed him for one more song so he (or rather, all of us) sang ‘I Love You’, and it was very sweet. Bye to the black-shirt-and-jeans-and-lipbalm David.
9.00pm-The showcase ending about 10 minutes ago, and we spent the time taking photos of ourselves and all that. Fel and Fleur were totally obsessed with their self-photos so I’d rather snap them than join in.
David was charming and he looked very natural, and most importantly, he has no airs AT ALL. He’s like this nice ol’ friend singing to you and it cheers you up instantly. He’s tall, full of nice smiles, and he never fails to hit those ol’-so-very-high notes. It’s visible that he takes pride of his work and puts all he have into singing and bring out the best to all his audience. Brilliant job, David.
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