Day 1 of the event
The 8 days covers mini-museum, styled in the form of a living room (TV, windows, walls, table, pillows, curtains, beanbag, even lampshade). The covers disaplyed in the TV set don't seem very well organized.
Christy Yow on stage
My photo with Christy
Andie Chen on stage
Andie posing for shutterbugs at the covers gallery
Took pic with Jean Danker
Day 2 of the event
The official unveiling of the 1000th issue of 8 days, along with the mannequin sporting the dresses worn by Zoe, Cherie, Joanne and "Angelina Jolie" on the cover shoot.
The Polo Boys on stage, playing some onstage games with 6 NATurals.
The female cast of "The Pupil" on stage.
Sylvia and Sezairi on stage. They will grace the cover of 8 days issue No 1001.
The Polo Boys, lawyers and Singapore Idols gather at the backstage region behind the stage for TV ads.
Picture with the male host Tim Oh.
Upon seeing that super-weird Mr Hao Lian try to start a conversation with one of the Felicians, I quickly told him to "talk to the hand". And yes, thats his brother next to him, aka Mr Gwai Lan.
Suhaimi with Sezairi's family and friends.
Suhaimi Yusof conducting a few kampuing-themed games like "Chatek", "Five Stones" and "Zero-Point". Yes, Mr Hao Lian is indeed one of the fans who went on stage for the last game.
Felicia makes her grand comeback!!
Sweet Felicia at Radiogate
Mission accomplished... I took pic with Felicia once more :-)
A billion congratulations to Triple H and Shawn Michaels for becoming Unified WWE Tag Team Champions for the very first time!!! They defeated Big Show and Chris Jericho in a TLC (Tables, Ladders, Chairs) match at WWE: TLC pay-per-view event earlier today. DX FTW!!! :-D
To Jeri-Show, if you ain't down with that, then we got TWO WORDS for ya...
SUCK IT!!!
December 12thRight after the SI Top 2 roadshow at Jurong Point ended, Naomi and myself took train to Iluma. Missed out on Ann Kok who was there at 3 pm, but that didnt matter. Christy Yow got on stage a few minutes after 4 pm and talked about the movie she appearas in, "Chinese Rose". Some of us then queued up to take picture with Christy at the Canon photo booth. I nearly fainted upon close contact with that despicable Lei Jun (known for his horrendous BO)... once a skunk, always a skunk, what more can I say?
Andie came at 5 plus and talked about his role reprisal as Tony Lee in the upcoming "Fighting Spiders Season 2", then went to the 8 days covers exhibit section to pose for a few photos. I stayed around a bit longer to look through the various covers, and then went off to Shaw Towers to have quick dinner. I nearly went berserk after a short dialogue with Mr K (forever wearing bermudas and slippers!! Pls stop it already!!!), on my way to bus stop. The more he talks, the more I feel like giving him a Spear. I didn't even wanna hear his story on his most recent conflict with whichever fanclub... this is precisely why I don't ever join local singers' fanclubs, not even Rachel Leong (geddit!!).
December 13th
I went to church in the morning, did brilliance control duty (aka brightness and contrast adjustment for side cameras) for morning service. After that, I had lunch with Mother and Brother at Hk Cafe, then headed off to Iluma by bus... reached Bugis at 12.30 pm.
There were quite a lot of fans present at Iluma, majority of them were fans of Sezairi and Sylvia, with about 8 NATural fans seated in the middle (most of them went up on stage later). The artistes on stage from 2 to 3 plus were the Polo Boys (Nat, Kiwi and Julian Low), the ladies from the upcoming drama "The Pupil" (Rebecca Lim, Janice Koh and Elfaeza Ul Haq), and last but not least, the Singapore Idol season 3 finalists (Sezairi and Sylvia). The 1000th cover of 8 days was unveiled and it featured Cherie Lim, Zoe Tay and Joanne Peh (as well as an animated version of Angelina Jolie) dressed in specially esigned dresses bearing all previous 8 days covers).
By 3 plus, the SI fans had dispersed and left Iluma, taking over front row position were the Felicity fans as well as the Jollity fans. Urghhh, it's that guy in bermudas and slippers again... 3rd time I had seen him in a row!! Also, Mr Hao Lian (the guy in formal clothes) and his stuttering younger brother were present. Suhaimi got on stage before 4 pm and promoted the upcoming okto show "Those Were The Days". He then conducted a few kampung-themed games with a few fans as players, including "Jacky Cheung" who so happened to be at the front row (kena chosen, no self-volunteered)... he didnt win the rubber band knotting round, but at least he didnt go loony, like the other time at Chinatown Point.
5 pm... Felicia finally came!! She looked really sweet and beautiful in black dress, but she wasn't feeling well... her voice sounded kinda raspy and for an instance, I thought she sounded like Sylvia Ratonel, hee hee!! The onstage game was for 3 fans to pose like Felicia as seen on one of the pages seen in Issue 984... the fans were a plump guy in Japan-themed shirt who seemed to have a big ego, a young lady with good figure in white top and a weird middle aged lady who likes to snoop into other people's bags. Fel left the place at around 4.20 pm, surrounded by lots of security guards. One of the security guards pushed me so hard, he nearly bruised my face. When Mr Hao Lian saw the card that I made for Felicia, he tried to start a conversation with me, I simply told him to "talk to the hand".
I took taxi to Radiogate alongside Eric, and Felicia came out at 6.05 pm. Abt 20 of us fansqueued up to get autographs as well as take pic with the beautiful Miss Chin. Mission accomplished!! After having dinner at Great World City (Eric needed me to accompany him back to his workplace, so I obliged) I went back home feeling very happy. But deep down, I am actually not pleased with a few guys (Mr S and Mr F) who chose not to go for the event. I am also very pissed with those 2 idiots Melvin and Paul who keep taking too many solo pics of Fel... when will they ever stop!!! They seriously need some Attitudde Adjustment.
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Photo album for Day 1
Photo album for Day 2 Part 1
Photo album for Day 2 Part 2
Friday, 11th DecemberAnother busy day at work from 9 to 6, as always. After knocking off, I headed down to City Square (Farrer Park region) and joined Jolliteers pus NATurals to await start of programme. Turns out that both Nat and Joanne were already present way before I arrived. They got on stage and talked a bit about what they've been up to, then they sang Christmas songs. Jopeh sang "Last Christmas" (one of the song sung during Xmas gathering at Leisure Park last year), and Nat sang "The Christmas Song" (the one that starts off with "chestnuts roasted on an open fire"). They then headed to the pumpkin-shaped chariot to light up a huge Christmas Tree via foot pedals (think Prince Charming and Cinderella). The 2 left a few minutes before 8. Some of the fans headed down to carpark, while I chose to head back home to recuperate. The train ride wasn't very pleasant, I had to endure a few rantings from Mr K regarding a certain conflict which I don't even wanna know about.
Saturday, 13th Dec (12 to 3 pm)
Slacked at home for most of the day. Left the house at 11 and reached Jurong Point at abt 12.30 pm following a rather long train ride. Had quick lunch at Mos Burger with Naomi, then we headed back to the SI stage region. Think the turnout was quite similar to the one at Together roadshow last week. Man, the roadshow started damn late at 2.15 pm, caused most of us to get sprained ankles as well as 'pins-n-needles'. Sezairi and Sylvia got on stage, sang a few songs and gave away tickets for the Countdown at Marine Bay as well as mosh pit tickets to the Grand Finals on December 27th. S n S then stayed around for abt 20 minutes to sign autographs for fans at barricade region, they left at about 3.05 pm. Naomi and I then took train from Boon Lay down to Bugis for next event. Continued in Part 2...
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Power Up a Christmas Tree event
Singapore Idol Top 2 finalists roadshow at Jurong Point
