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Sunday, April 03, 2011

It was Stefanie Sun's [是时候] autograph session last Friday. Here are 10 pointers to share:

#1. The first original album that I ever own, was Stefanie Sun's [The moment] compilation. It was only last Friday, some 8 years later, that I finally saw her up close. She was gorgeous!

#2. I've attended autograph sessions of big shot stars like S.H.E, Kit Chan and Fish Leong, it still felt a little surreal when meeting our best homegrown export diva. She maintained 100% eye contact and a perpetual smile with every person, even when she was signing.

#3. Me: 燕姿，要继续加油哦!
Her: 好啊，谢谢!
Me: 你好瘦哦!
Her: 对阿。。。 (露出无奈的表情)

#4. She only officially sang one song at the session. I was hoping for at least 2. I didn't expect it would be [愚人的国度]，but it has to be the most apt song, because it was 愚人节, and that song's MV was released on the same day. But then, I've already heard her sung this song Live during her "The Answer is..." concert 2 years ago.

#5. An April Fool's joke was planned prior to the event by host CruzTeng, but it wasn't realized unfortunately. Read about it HERE.

#6. I felt abit sad that the local music industry is being supported by largely foreigners. This had been most obvious at the event, when I couldn't spot Singaporeans within a certain radius around me. In fact, I'm not exaggerating when I say 60-70% of the fans who went, were non-Singaporeans. Read Point #7.

#7. Host: 有多少人来自香港?
Fans: (Somewhat loud cheers)
Host: 中国内地?
Fans: (Tremendous and thunderous cheers and screams)
Host: 那么。。。新加坡呢?
Fans: (Not very loud. But luckily there was an active and vocal group of YanziUnlimited FC to help)

#8. Even after holding countless autograph sessions, the IMM management was still very bad at queue control. There were NO barricades that formed a queue boundary, so it was ONE big crowd below, squeezing through to get to the side of the stage access. Thumbs down to IMM.

#9. YanziUnlimited fanclub was nice enough to do a fund-raising for disaster relief through Mercy Relief. They set the example by donating more than $2k, and encouraged fans to donate. Everyone would pass by the donation box before heading up stage, so I guess it would be quite a good sum of money raised. Thumbs up to the FC.

#10. It took me just around 1.5 hours to get to Yanzi. Not very long actually, but apparently she sang a small part of [当冬夜渐暖] after I left.

Bonus point #11: I took a video and have uploaded it HERE.

人生是黑白的.
12:29 AM <3

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