萧敬腾《收藏》签唱会

Event: 萧敬腾《收藏》签唱会
Date: 10th August 2008, Sunday
Venue: Fountain of Wealth, Suntec City, Singapore

Well, I was going to lament on some unhappy, and probably profound thoughts after Agnes’s sad entry, but, today’s event has completely blown me away. 萧敬腾 aka Jam, was at Suntec City to autograph his debut album. As an autograph collector, I was at the event too. I was not alone. I went with S and XH and got ourselves drenched!!! Is true, we were partially drenched!!!

Around 12 noon, there was a torrential rain. The rain subsided for a while and poured heavily again and this went on till the end of the autograph session. Jam sang two songs from his album and began signing hundreds and hundreds of albums as well as shaking hands with all the fans who went on stage!!! Yes, I shook hand with him too. He would look right into you and smile shyly before each and every fan leave the stage. So, I think he has one second to remember all the fans’s faces? Alright, I am daydreaming there. He had a very firm and warm hand shake!!! Pretty sincere!!! If only I never need to wash my hand.

I could not count how many people turn up for the event but I supposed there were easily at least 500 fans!!! It took Jam approximately one and a half hours to autograph for all the fans who queue up. I was very afraid that Jam will not sign all the albums as he had a mini showcase at DragonFly, St James Power House at 5pm later on. By the time he left, it was already 330pm or thereabouts.

S, XH and I had fun. It was the first time I attended a rainy autograph session. As Chinese believe water/rain symbolizes luck, S supposed that Jam will have a very good singing career. Jam is really good. Despite his young age, he has very powerful and husky vocals. In case you think I am making all these up, here are some evidences of the autograph session:

NO CAMERA PLEASE

19th June 2008, Thursday, Bugis Junction

"Please keep your camera
No photography please
We are not super movie stars or idols
We are just a bunch of passionate music makers
We love music
We will like to communicate through music with you all, since you are like my friends
If you still insist on taking photos of us, you can leave the venue
We hope you are here because you like our music"

" No photography please
Photography makes me feel like a worker, not a music maker
Please keep your camera"

"Miss, no phorography please"

"No photography please. If I see you taking photos again, Babe, I will come and pull you"

"To thank all the fans for listening and respecting us by keeping your camera, I will sing you more songs."

Sodagreen's lead vocal, lyricist, composer

SodaGreen's lead vocal, did say all those, except, he said it in Mandarin. Well, he was right that we should be supporting their music, and not busy videoing or taking photos. Although the performance was a mini one, and the audience was not as large as I and XH had thought/imagined, but, I applauded SodaGreen for giving a 100% effort performance.

XH and I were very fortunate to be in the front row. Yes, if you are lucky, you may just get to catch a glimpse of both of us on TV. Both of us were very excited. We were more excited when the lead vocal walked down the stage to sing to the fans and XH and I shook hands with him!!! I do not know about XH but this is something I have always wanted to do!!! It just seemed so fun and meaningful, especially for a fan.

After they sang their numbers, we went up to the stage and got our concert tickets autographed by all six of them. Lead vocal's hand shake was a strong, firm, confident and sincere one. I did not managed to get my book autographed as the members were afraid that the book would be put up for sale online. Fortunately, I managed to get S's CD autographed. The CD cover is now nicely covered by their signatures.

Well, will update again later. Think I'm going to be down with the flu bug again.

Good Morning!