Saturday, November 19, 2005
5566 meet and greet!!!!
left-->deejay li lian
top right--> 5566 dancing tou xin yes i love you
She and her friends finally stood up, waiting anxiously for their turn amongst the sea of hysterical screaming friends. As each row of people went up the stage, the girl could not help but feel as if she were a child again, excited, jumpy and happy. Minutes later, she found herself standing at the end of the stage, gearing up for that long-awaited moment. She felt as if her heart had sunk all the way down her stomach, beating wildly and furiously as a strong surge of adrenaline overcame her. She rubbed her right palm on her boardshorts, took a deep breath and eagerly went up the stage, barely trying to contain her excitement.
The first handshake. Warm and exciting, as she looked at the youngest member of 5566- xu mengzhe.
The second handshake. The smile made her legs turn into strawberry-flavoured jelly topped with a dash of whipped cream. Of course, she returned wang renfu a smile too...
The third handshake. Her favourite of them all. It was warm, it was sincere, it was ultra funtastical supercalifragelisticexpialidociously SUPERB! probably wang shao wei was the only one she mumbled "xie xie" on the first round of handshakes. ooooh.
The fourth and last handshake. Made her turn all woozly and fuzzy and jiggly...? Sun xiezhi sure was super-NICE today...
HIHI! i'm back with the itallics again. hmmm as you can see, i've uploaded some photos of the meet and greet session i went to with leng, agogo and leng's sister today. (leng, ur sis is highly CRUSHABLE, did u noe that?) We reached Tiong Bahru plaza at around 9am and immediately sat down to wait for 5566, who would be appearing six to seven hours later. Fortunately we managed to get some seats near the front, but i wish that those fans right in the front could be a little more considerate and not keep on waving their placards and banners because the rest behind would want to take photographs... okay??? How did the four of us while our time away? We chatted, sent xie lao shi prank smses, played uno, read digital fortress and stoned. We had lunch at long john's silver and the grilled fish wrap was delicious... Then agogo and I went up to Comics Connection to buy 5566, K One and 183 Club wallet cards and Harry Potter and the GOF stickers for our new GOF sticker book. I think i've more or less completed my POA sticker collection...
Back to 5566. The deejays ling zhi and li lian came!!! Li lian is a pretty host!! Oh oh and the last two hours of waiting was FUN! Once in a while li lian would appear and play games with us, or play our favourite 5566 songs! And when they played shi jie zui mei de feng jing I was singing so loudly!! yay. yes, 5566 song-singalong time is really enjoyable, and when the clock struck three, everyone was eagerly awating 5566's arrival. Leng and her sis were quite composed, but agogo and I were first-timers so we were both freaking out and talking about our nervousness and everything... AND thank God I was sitting super near the barriers, when 5566 was making their way to the stage, I managed to see them UP-CLOSE but I only got a blurred picture of shaowei and a rear view of renfu. We were all frantically trying to take pictures of 5566 on the stage, but we were usually blocked by some placards... Fortunately I still got many fantastic shots. YAHOOOOO! They performed Tou Xin Yes I Love You, one of my fave songs in the 3rd Album! Their dancing is absolutely dazzling, and maybe our Dance examiner might have graded them with Honors. hahar. After talking for a while, it was TIME FOR THE MEET AND GREET PART! This time we all freaked out, and during the performance the four of us actually called out renfu's name in unison reeeeally loud! And the whole time I was shrieking "SHAAAOOWEEEEIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!" and I must've sounded like an angry hyena because leng almost went deaf from my screaming. oops, sorry.... hehe....
And now, for the BEST part, the most supercalifragelisticexpialidociously wonderful part, the meet and greet session!!!! While queueing for our turn, agogo and I were frantically trying to make ourselves look neat and tidy, and before we knew it, voila, it's time to meet 5566... Before going up the stage, this man was supposed to chop something on our concert tickets, but he had conveniently forgotten to chop on mine. Anyway, I walked up the stage and shook each of their hands. I think I squeezed shaowei and renfu's hands particularly hard *whoops* and agogo was so thrilled that she kept squealing, "They looked us directly in the eye! They looked us in the eye!!!!" It all happened so fast, and we still weren't very contented with ONE handshake. We were debating on whether to risk going for another round of handshakes, and, finally, we quietly joined the queue again. At first, the guard only let leng and her sis in, but after some pleading, they obliged and let agogo, myself and two to four others pass. We were so happy to be in the queue, but there was one more problem. All our tickets except mine had been chopped on already. We presumed that once you had a chop, you weren't supposed to queue again. But anyway we just took the risk and shook their hands again! The second time was quite exciting! According to leng's sis, mengzhe might have known that we'd already greeted him once! But anyway he shook our hands... My encounter with renfu was quite remarkable. Agogo and I guessed that he too knew about our 'secret' because he gave me a look before shaking my hand. Oh and i don't know what made me do it, but i turned and told him "jia you" and he smiled very briefly before shaking leng's sister's hand. Come to think of it, I wished every one of them!!! Too bad shaowei was busy with a reporter, so he left his hand stretched out and I squeezed it VERY tight... Then xiezhi... the same reaction as the first round, I guess.
THE WHOLE SESSION WAS HIGHLY EXHILARTING!!!!!!! And I kept my right hand from contact with anything except my handphone and tickets, until I got home and pressed all the wonderful smells of 5566's palms onto a green piece of paper and pinned it on my bedroom wall! I LOVE 5566! especiaLLy sAm wAng shAowEi!!!!
and only during the handshaking session did the girl realise the magic of two simple words-"Xie Xie".
