Thursday, September 18, 2008

Da Event, "Merdekaz-ubolous Night"

A thousand apologies to everyone out there... I know I have been abandoning you for awhile now but they say good things come to those who wait :p ok that didn't work... I feel really bad now...
Opening for the night are our very own 1 am dance act with their performance entitled, "Change". They have recently visited Hong Kong for a dance conference and was so ministered and at the same time touch lives whenever they have the chance to. All 5 of them braced the stage, Sharon, Doreen, Nai Lin, Rachael and Jay (who wasn't there that night but Vitto took his place) took on different "mask" and danced a night of moving transformation they experienced in each of their life's testimony.


Right after Deborah went up for the second performance of the night, I already felt like it's a night featuring all the best artist of the year or something. She belted out a song she wrote and won in a songwriting competition entitled, "Delete you". We were taken aback when Manuel, from Peru sang us Viva Forever with his bamboo flute! It strangely brought me tingles of nostalgia of certain times... mmm i mean the serene kind =)




This time the Street Nation took the stage by storm and had us all fixed and anticipate every dance move they make. In short, it was crazeeee!!


Leong managed to take some footage of the students from Sunway University College doing some interview about Merdeka I'm trying to get him to upload it on Youtube so you guys can have a look if you're on! =)

For the next act we had a Marielle on the vocals and Carlos on the guitar doing a medley of 2 songs for us.



Marielle had a bad sorethroat that day but she gave her best anyways! It actually made her sound even more soulful accoording to some, they never knew she could sing like that! They did "Shy that way" by Jason Mraz and Tristan Prettyman and "Dream a little dream of me" a version did by Laura Fygi.

The crowd gotten all hyped up as if Street Nation wasn't enuff, Flava Crew threw themselves up the stage (literally) to show us even more moves we've never seen before and by that I am not exaggerating.




Clad in a simple T-shirt and jeans, with his hair to flip and a guitar to play, it's a perfect recipe to stir a crowd, he knows how to capture the audience this time with only one musical instrument. Well, what can I say? He's good =)

Last but not least, saving the best to end the show, is our guest artist, T4C! There are really 3 of them but they mentioned they're looking for another one - here you can see Garrett all smiles fidgety with his fingers and tears. He just adores them. T4C belted out most of the songs from the likes of Josh Groban (You raise me up), Don McLean (Vincent(Starry, starry night)), Elton John (Can you feel the love tonight), Il Divo (Nella Fantasia) and everyone's favourite hymn,





All in all, this TOT is one of the best night of performance we've ever had. We had a full house. We had a fun night. We had the best emcee and we have the best team or organizers =)
Thanks to everyone who is involved and made this night one happen. Until the next TOT, take care and go crazee!!

-peace out-
Fly[B]oi