Chris Martin Totally Waved at Us.

(Ok this photo's not taken in Singapore but I wanted to show you the butterfly confetti.
I now have a bunch of them in my bedroom!)

I screamed and sang my heart and lungs and thorax out last Monday when Coldplay performed at the Singapore Indoor Stadium for around 10,000 people (me, Anisah, and Awi included).

The journey to Singapore was not hassle-free. A bit of stress and tension was involved, but at 8pm, when we finally arrived at the venue, I realised all the crap and nonsense was worth it.

I can't even begin to describe to you how magical the whole experience was. I'm just going to leave you with photos and a few videos. Unfortunately, my photos are still in my camera, but I don't have a card reader. So I'm taking photos taken by other people and posting them here. :)




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They appeared onstage playing with sparklers. Sparklers! I was, by that time, going absolutely bonkers.



Okay, I swear man, Chris totally waved at me and Anisah during In My Place. He was looking up at our direction for a few seconds and Anisah and I waved our arms off frantically, leaning forward from the rails like we might just fall over before Chris returned the gesture. Chris' wave can be seen in the video above at 2.23. You see, we were standing at the banisters (you can see the banisters in the video when the person recording the vid turns the camera around after Chris waves) and there weren't many people in that corner we were standing in. So I guess the both of us were in plain sight from the stage. We did stand out somewhat thanks to our headscarves, so, you disbelievers of my story, please just let me believe Chris waved at us! Lol.



Yeah. Here's In My Place from a closer angle. Watch the wave at around 1.43. Pause it at that second and I'm telling ya, he's so looking up at us. Haha!

The band sparked a surge of jealousy in many of us when they proceeded to perform at a section at the back of the stadium AMONGST a bunch of lucky audience members! Those lucky sonofaguns behind the band got to stare the band's asses. And the people at the front got to receive, to quote Chris, the band's 'sweat and spit and nonsense'.
DAYUMM.

Aren't Jonny, Guy and Will just the sweetest?

But I was too happy to be jealous for long. The band asked us to do The Mexican Coldwave, which is basically a Mexican wave but done in the dark and with our phones. I went a step further and used my camera, too. :)





The video above is a montage of short clips of every song performed that night. I can even spot me and Anisah in it! :D

I think the best songs they performed that night were the more epic tunes. You know, the ones that are just meant to be played live with thousands of people singing along. The ones that make you feel like you can take flight and just float around in the air. Last Monday's best songs were Death and All His Friends, Politik, Life in Technicolor i & ii, 42, aaaand Fix You. And I completely teared up when they started Death and All His Friends. And Fix You, of course.



After Death and All His Friends, the band bowed and left the stage, only to come back a few minutes later for an encore. They performed their final 2 songs, The Scientist (which brought a lump to my throat because it's my absolute favourite song that made me want to marry Chris when I first heard it) and Life in Technicolor ii, which is just the best song ever to end the night with.





After the band left the stage for the last time and the audience began exiting the stadium, me and my group jumped the barriers and went down to the pit where I collected a whole bunch of butterfly confetti to take home with me. Yes. I risked getting shot by security guards for the precious confetti. O_o They are now stashed away in a very secret place in my room.

A few of my favourite butterflies.

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On the journey home, we listened to my Coldplay albums to refresh the memory of the night before, and I got all emotional in the car. Aww...


When I grow up, I'm so going to be a Coldplay roadie so I can attend every single Coldplay concert, hand the boys their instruments and mop Coldplay sweat from the stage.


Thanks to Anisah for being my Coldplay-loving sister, Rudy for being my favourite Coldplayer, Felicia and her sisters for all the fuss you guys had to go through and making this plan work out, and of course, to my Awi for being the best boyfriend in the world and putting up with my Coldplay obsession.

Awi, we went to a Coldplay concert together! That has always been... like... our lifelong ambition! And Anisah: SQUEEEEEEE!



Lots of love, from Me.

ps: I'll put up my own photos soon when Anisah comes back with her laptop. :) I have vids, too, but you'll have to put up with my crap singing voice if you're gonna watch them!
pps: The whole of this week for me basically revolved around stages and performances. I still haven't told you about the staging of the play I'm involved in!

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Click the above link to see the Coldplay puppets at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore.

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Click the above link for The Star's review of the concert.

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Here are a few photos taken from my camera! :D

Posing proudly with the butterflies.

Violet Hill.

Confetti shower during Lovers in Japan.

A few seconds before he totally waved at us... :P

Life in Technicolor ii