"Hospital! Take me to the hospital!"
"This is the hospital"
"SO TAKE ME IN, BASTARDS!"
- Inuhiko, after being shot in the leg; Leviathan
I've just come back from the Akademi Fantasia (AF in short) 2 concert and man my throat hurts. I predict tomorrow I will be wandering around with no voice, with but a single note book to announce my thoughts to the world.
The concert was pretty good, I have to say. Despite the fact that most of the 'singers' can't sing *coughmascoughcoughfitriCOUGH*, Aznil knows how to whip the crowd up into a frenzy to the point where you don't really care who's on stage; ya just gotta cheer for them. #1 host in Malaysia, definitely. ::is sniggering at the memory of him shaking his 'moneymaker' on stage::
Although I managed to stay my hands when it came to some singers.
Never. Never in my life will I ever do the bloody mesra for you Bob. Nor the Breep Breep. I have my dignity! Which, sad to say, didn't extend far enough to stop me from clapping like a madwoman, yelling out to my heart's content and wavin' my arms and groovin' to the beat. This is where sheep mentality kicked in. Everyone was doing in, so why can't I?
Besides. It was fun. And the guy sitting next to me was egging me on (not blatantly egging ^_^) and crowd atmosphere and all, y'know?
Heehee. And Arys did the whole mesra thing though. I will never let you forget it! NEE~~VAAA~! And man, that girl's voice can hit such high pitches, I think I went deaf a couple times. (Teasin' ya, Arys!)
Ooo... Kaer's voice live is glorious. He sings so sweetly I swear that boy is half-elfen! I mean, he's got the ears and all... And as for Bob... geez... I wish I could hate him but sadly his voice is magnificant. Darn it.
Zahid, of course, was the crowd pleaser. Fun fun fun, and he really really puts me to mind of a teddy-bear. Honest! Great singer, great performer.
Adam got stuck with that Petik Bintang song, so he didn't really have to sing well. Just dance, do his pretty boy moves and yell into the mic. HEAPS of fun. Huge crowd pleaser, especially since he didn't actually need to bring singing talent into it...
Heehee. I still stand by my opinion that his singing is subpar compared to, say, Kaer.
Fitri... what can I say? I cringed throughout the performance, and the guy next to me shared my opinion of wishing we brought ear plugs.
[tangent]::thinks about it:: That makes him the second guy to actually strike a conversation with me in this past year. Wow. New record for me![/tangent]
And Anding... ::pause:: Dear god, did I mix up Anding and Adam's song? I think I did. For the paragraphs above, switch "Adam" with "Anding". And the singing talent thing doesn't matter cause they both can't sing. See, to me... that's what Anding is. Entirely forgettable. ^_^
I think Adam sang Tipah tertipu. Featuring Zahid, so it was a gauranteed crowdpleaser. Oh, but the lil boy who was brought up on stage from the audience to dance throughout the whole song was darn steady. That kid can DANCE, even though he got lost in the beat somewhere. ::sweatdrops::
But I feel for the lil kids who were brought up on stage, full of confidence that they could dance/sing/whathaveyou... only to stand up and stare at the huge huge HUGE mass of people looking back at them.
Some of them started crying ^_^
Anyway! For the girls... gawd, did they have to get Mas to sing twice? Why?? She can't sing! Arys and I were cringing and holding onto each other in terror. The guy next to me looked like he wanted to sink into his seat and die. Though we were in the minority, as I now believe Bruneians will cheer for almost anything.
Though at this point I really must say. Bruneian people, when it comes to AF, are darn sporting. The teens/adult who were brought up stage to do absolutely ridiculous things (Bottle of water: $1. Rather nasty-tasting Sugarbun beefburger: $2. Ticket for almost front-row seats: $65. A rather old looking woman and a teen girl having to put on feather boas and do a sexy dance for Zahid? PRICELESS) did them with full enthusiasm.
I mean, at the end they had this guy who was old enough to be my father, and certainly is someone's father, go up onstage to do the AF trademark ending dance, Menuju Puncha.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Anyways, after the songs and the dances, when all was over and done with, the AF stars lingered on stage a while more to pose for pictures, sign autographs, accept gifts and flowers and so on. Arys and I, deciding to try our luck, pushed forwards and was met with a solid. Human. Wall.
We couldn't move, couldn't budge, people were pushing and shoving from all around us. Arys was rather worried, but managed to snap a couple pictures of Adam and Zahid, albet a bit blurry cause of the constant shoving.
Meanwhile, I stood there all by my lonesome. Though I was about 3 people away from Zahid, he upped and ran off to the other side of the stage towards the fans there. You could almost see the wave of people following him, and I was carried off as well, not that I minded.
Heck, the fangirl in me just wanted a little smile in my direction, maybe a lil' wave, and I'd have been happy. But oh no... the moment I was again 3 people away from him he upped and headed back to where he just was. And the moment he did glance my way, some bastard stepped in front of me, and being a foot taller than I am, proceeded to block my view. Not to mention he was screaming Zahid's name for some strange reason.
It wasn't meant to be, especially when more people, people much much taller than my puny 5 foot self, began to cage me in to essentially hide me from anyone looking for me, much less glancing my way. Although... Kaer did glance my way and for a very brief moment the tall people parted and he caught my eye, and gave me a rather comforting/sympathetic smile.
A rather nice condolence price... though I bet he's thanking God that he's not as short as I am, at just the right height for other people's armpits.
Geez people. Ever heard of deoderant?
Ahh, but pity I didn't manage to get close to the stage. I'd have offered Zahid a look down my shirt (Yes Lil! I went to that place with my mom, tried the shirt on and let my mom look... and she said... "Ahh, it really does look good... fine fine! We'll get it!" For everyone else's reference, it's an incredibly low U neck shirt that shows a remarkable amount of cleavage. Pretty and flattering shirt!)::sniggers:: Ah well, his loss! Hahaha.
All in all, if I had the moolah, I'd definitely go and buy tickets for the next concert, a couple of days ago. It was that fun, Aznil's incredibly funny and I swear I must've broken a rib or two laughing. My sides still hurt!
God. The entire concert was worth it just to see Aznil in action.