Marie Digby & Faizal Tahir

Yesterday after CSC Lab, He and I made our way to One Utama (OU) to see Marie Digby since she's playing live for her KL showcase there. Sofiya and Diana had already gone first with Sofiya’s sister. The two of us arrived around 6 pm and had our dinner. After prayer we met up with my cousin, Kak Yong, at the left side of the stage. It’s a bit disappointing that we can only see her side feature but at the same time we were quite close to the stage. (First principle of economics: People face trade-off.) She played Say It Again, Stupid For You, Beauty In Walking Away, Fool, Unfold, and her famous Umbrella. The crowd was a bit lame because they were only familiar with Say It Again. I love it when she sang Unfold because I love her acoustic version more than the recorded one.

After the short showcase He accompanied me in the long line towards GAP for her autograph session. A few interesting thing happened. While we were lining up, Marie walked pass with her bodyguards surrounding her because there were a few fanatics, believe it or not. Then while we were talking a girl tapped me from behind. She had a microphone in one hand and a dude by her side had a video camera with him. I thought they were doing an interview about Marie but instead they came up to me and asked, “Do you want to wish any of your teachers Happy Teachers Day?” I’m like, pfff. Anyhow a few minutes later, as I sat on the couch waiting, a woman suddenly asked me, “Are you waiting to take her autograph?” while pointing at my Marie Digby CD in my hand. When I nodded she asked me to pose with the CD as she took my picture. Well, maybe because they saw a ‘selekeh’ girl like me can get a hot boyfriend like Him by my side, so that’s why they decided to take my pictures. So finally I arrived at the end of the line.

When I went up to Marie her bodyguards didn’t allow anyone to even shake her hand. Take note from bigger acts and act a little bit humble. She just said ‘Hi’ And ‘Bye’ to me. By the way, I love her more in her YouTube videos than in real life. Afterwards the five of us, (Kak Yong, Sofiya, Diana, Him and I) made our way to my house to drop my cousin off. Before making our way to INTI I made a stop at ‘Burger Pak Cik Sedap’ (Kak Yong and I gave the name so It’s not an official!) and 'introduce' it to the three of them. We finally arrived safely at INTI around 12am.

In the car I put on Faizal Tahir’s Aku.Muzik.Kamu CD which I had just bought at OU. I totally love it. I have to agree with Sofiya though that the sound is almost the same for all the songs. I guess it’s because he co-wrote most of the songs with Audi Mok so there's least variety in one sense. But somehow, the second time I listened to the whole album earlier this morning when everybody’s in class, I started to tear up because somehow his songs touched me in a way that I can’t describe. I said to Him that somehow I connect with the album but I still feel it’s something deeper. Whatever it is, the album is most deserving of its Best Album award :)

-C-