The First Time

Last Sunday, I went to Celine Dion's Taking Chances World Tour with my mom at Stadium Merdeka. We were there around 6.40 ish and the queue for the RM 288 seats was overwhelming ! For those who's familiar with that area, the queue was until VI's gate. Yeah.. I thought it was crazy!

Turned out actually, there were 4 rows for the patrons to queue, but those lazy bums who were too lazy to check out the queue in front decided to just queue at only one row and hence the super long queue (Luckily, the entrance for our seats was at the other side).

Since this is the Celine's first performance in Bolehland (hopefully won't be the last as well), hence a large crowd turned out that day (even the King and Queen were there!) Especially veterans le.. Haha.. I would say 70% veterans and 30% youngsters.One thing good about attending a concert by an international star is that you could see the attendance of different races from different regions (Particularly, leng chai angmohs :D)

We waited for almost 2 friggin' hours before the show began. So, out of boredom,3 female foreigners decided to brighten up the atmosphere by starting the Mexican Wave!It was so awesome cuz everybody joined in! I never thought that all the patrons was such a sport ! We did that for like 10 times .. Cuz it was too damn boring.. (Note to the organisers: Next time pls play some ads on the big screen and some nice music for us!)

Based on my vast experience on attending concerts ;-p , the organisers would usually play the ads for upcoming concerts..But dunno why they didn't this time...

The Mexican Wave

Anyway, the reason for the 2 hours wait was due to KETIBAAN YANG DI-PERTUAN AGONG.. And almost everybody started boo-ing.. Haha but there are some who applauded. Well, still the King right? Right after the King and his sidekicks were seated , the lights were put off and ..

It's SHOW TIME, baby!!!!

Here are some of the videos.. She was really really really incredible! Her voice is phenomenal!! The quality is as good as those in her CDs, if not, better.. Particularly, during her rendition of Eric Carmen's "All By Myself". (Minute 1:32 is the pinnacle of the performance)

Mostly her songs for the night are from the 1996 Falling Into You album (which is my favourite!). There are also a few songs from her latest album, Taking Chances and she did perform one of her favourite songs in the album, i.e. My Love.

The concert lasted for an hour and half (the shortest that I've ever been to) and it ended with everybody's favourite song : My Heart Will Go On...

Though it was a little short, my mom and I had a blast dancing to her tunes =) I'm sure everyone else who attended had fun too! Hope that she'll perform in Malaysia again!

A tribute to Queen, the famous rock band since 1970's

p.s. Luckily it didn't rain that night, if not, we'll be soaked...

p.s.s. I saw someone who freakishly looked like Shiang Jiun.. I really thought it was her! Haha..Unfortunately, it looked like her, dressed like her..but it wasn't her ;-p