I have decided to make this both an account of what happened and throw in all my feelings as well both positive and negative. It will also be a review of fandom because my mind is blown away by the psychology that lies behind fangirling as a hobby. Then again, I can never say what I think my blog post will be because it is always unpredictable.
So today is a repeat of April 7, 2009. I got to meet David, again. I think I'm damn lucky. Nobody comes once a year and certainly not all the way from America. But oh wells, Archuleta is awesome. Therefore he is here again. I marvel at how nice he is. School today was like, uhm.. a moment out of time. Like I was just waiting for it to go by. I did learn stuff but I was most of the time just hoping for 4pm. Yes I ponned 4-6pm lecture. Mr Tzang Merwyn Tong, I'm sorry. I honestly know that ponning lectures isn't the right thing to do but mmm. Once in a while wouldn't really kill, I presume. So after school ended I rushed down to Bugis.
Didn't really need to rush, I would soon find out. I got there at like 4:30pm and the signing was at 7pm. Moreover my beyond-awesome junior had called in to the radio station and won us a pair of priority passes. Had we not gotten those passes, I would have had to pon all four lessons in school. Which would probably make me die and never catch up with any other mass commie ever again. God forbid that.
Okay so when we got there we were kinda like.. "How we supposed to know who works in 987fm?" Then Junior got a text: "Hi. I am sitting at Starbucks with a pink top. Come and register with me." So we found that dudette. Registered. Got into the freaking front of the queue. That felt kinda amazing. To just be there when the other dudettes had queued since morning. Awesome. Oh yup forgot to mention that I bought one more copy of David's album just so to get the notebook that came with it. (Turns out this was an awesome decision) Waited for David. Waited kinda long. Okay actually 10 minutes isn't long, but when you're waiting for David, it is trust me.
So SBL started playing. Whole song finish he haven't even come. Then he came. HE CAME. I was like UHM WOW. That is DJA standing right in front of me. Got the centre front place somemore so he was about three metres away. That was uhm, totally amazing. I snapped photos of him non-stop I didn't even listen to the interview carefully. He is the most good-looking male I have ever seen in my life lol. Some people I know would puke upon me saying that. But well I still think he's damn good-looking. Like, the most. The most handsome boy I have ever seen in my life.
Then after the interview we sang him a birthday song. A super freaking early one. One month and thirteen days early but hey who cares. We see him once a year. He looked happy. He looked happy the whole day today actually. Oh how cute & how awesome. Then his autograph thingo began. The very first person he signed for was the little girl on the wheelchair. I'm sorry but that was like beyond sweet and I melted inside like butter on a hot pan. He's always so sweet to like under-privileged and/or disabled kids. That dudette must have been really happy.
Then it was our turn. Oh hoho. This was awesome. I was kinda like oh my, what am I going to do.. Ok and what am I going to say. So I decided to tell him thanks for coming and that I skipped school to see him. Or something like that. I'll say whatever comes.
I started my iPhone voice memo recording.
The security pointed to my phone, I thought it meant I couldn't bring my phone on stage. Then he said no photography, I was like oh sure.. And I went up. Girl before gave David Donald Duck plush toy and he was like: "Oh wow, Donald Duck.." -laughs a little-
MY TURN.
"HI DAVID!"
"Hi!"
"I SKIPPED SCHOOL TO SEE YOU!"
"Oh -chuckles- noooo. Thank you."
"Love your music, thank you!"
"Aww thank you very much."
He totally disapproved of me skipping school. It was said all over his face. Lol David, once in a while seriously nevermind one lah huh. It's for you anyway. And then I got off stage. Mesmerized, indeed. I don't know lah, there's really something about him. It's a glow that shines through very sweetly. Then I couldn't believe it was over.. Like uh, so fast. And now I was miles away from him so I decided to go eat dinner then go back and see him leave. Then I suddenly went: "OH DANG. Forgot to shake his hand."
During dinner. BRAINWAVE! Uhm, did I not buy another album? I can get up there again if there's time! Frantically rubs off the heart shaped chop that signified I've already met David. Finishes dinner, runs back to Bugis Square to queue again. The queue was short. The time for me to absorb that I was gonna meet him again was kinda.. short too. I didn't formulate my speech well this time. I got there, got another heart on my hand.
On stage.. dudette before me finished signing.. I put my album inlay in front of him. And I did not say anything. As if I was mute. He looked up at me with the: "Why this person so quiet ah." look. And I smiled at him. I said thank you, and I asked: "Can I shake your hand?" He replies: "Sure" -shakes hand and walks off stage- MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Talked to him three sentences and shook his hand. Oh awesome. Completed it.
Then we hung around a while more till he left. Before he left he said thank you Singapore, that sweet little 19-year-old kid. We knew the place he was exiting by and ran to the sidelines. Junior hadn't touched him yet so she stuck out her hand over the railing. Sweet as ever, David ran through all the hands that were out. Because he was sweet enough to look at his fans, he almost crashed into a potted plant and he gave the oh-whoops-haha-i-totally-did-not-see-that-plant face. Adorable max, yes. That was the end.
Went home feeling kinda bittersweet. Don't think I'll ever see David again. What puzzles me is how fandom makes people devote their whole lives to one thing and nothing else. So, you love David. Has he ever loved you back. Mmm. I'm happy to know that fan-girling will soon be outgrown. I'm also curious to know what I'll think of myself next time. Well at least there's gonna be a story to tell the kids. I think it's part of being a young teenage girl anyway. And for now.. I'm happy being this way. David rocks, he's the most good-looking human being my eyes have ever seen.
