Leehom @ Amway 30th Anniversary National Convention 18-June 2006
Written by/ Shane (English) & Joanne (Chinese)
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The year of Amway Malaysia’s 30th anniversary. The year Leehom turns 30. Pure coincidence, fate, and just the usual craps – it didn’t really matter to most of the HOManiacs members who attended the Amway National Convention last Sunday, cos’ the only word that popped up on our minds that day, was “LEEHOM”.
Albeit the “weirdness” of having to accustom our ears to hearing “Amway! Amway!” instead of the familiar words of “Julia! Julia!” that is sung to the melody of well, “Julia”, honestly, we did have a rocking good time with Leehom on Sunday night.
Let’s not even talk about the 10 hour wait we had to go through. And out of that, 6 hours were spent listening to some “believe-in-us” talks which were well, least inspiring to the bunch of hungry and tired peeps like us. Gruelling speeches by CEOs, VPs, MDs and GMs which started with “30 years ago…” didn’t really help either.
But nonetheless, if it weren’t for these “30 years ago” history, we most likely wouldn’t have been able to see Leehom perform on our shores for the 2nd time this year. Short of saying another tour of concert is much anticipated here in Malaysia, this night’s short performance helped fill-in the gap for a bit. And for that, Amway, we love you. Very much. Oh, and the Commonwealth Games-like fireworks, parading and stints – magnificient.
The highlight of the night (other than Leehom, of course) was when HOManiacs performed a “Mission” of which I shall simply term as a “G4 Mission”. What happened was due to the abundance of empty seats on the side of the stage (reserved for Amway VIPs, and we were initially seated much further away), the whole bunch of us HOManiacs decided to take a risk and leave the original seats our asses have been stuck to for the past 6 hours, for what we “hoped” to be better seats in the house. You see, the move required getting OUT of the stadium and re-entering via a different entrance.
So imagine this – 40 odd HOManiacs who rose quietly and quickly from their seats, one following another, moving along in quick steps, silently, no words, no time allowance for doubts – and all we had in mind was to “move quick”, and FOR GOD’S SAKE PLEASE DON’T LET LEEHOM COME ON STAGE BEFORE WE SETTLED DOWN.
Although I had to single-handedly grab our humongous club banner as I moved along with the flow, I just could not help but notice the silence we actually managed to keep as we moved to our next settling ground. All I heard was foot steps, quick foot steps, and with all of us towards one common direction, one common aim – we just needed to get there quick and not get kicked out. Personally, it was quite an interesting phenomenon, sorta reminded me of some G4-movie or the likes. If only we could have captured a video of that short 5 minutes stint, that would have been totally awesome.
Hunger + Tiredness + Running + MORE “believe-in-us” talks for another 1.5 hours = very very impatient HOManiacs.
11.45PM. Freaking 2-hours past the initial schedule, they finally finished their talks/speeches/rants, and have invited Leehom on-stage. I have no other words to describe the scenario among the audiences the moment Leehom started his performance, other than “havoc”. Everyone just basically lost control of themselves and got hysterical. Ahhh…the power of a “superstar”.
Leehom performed a series of songs, spoke English most of the time though he was speaking very little on this night, possibly because it was absolutely getting late on a Sunday night (midnight, I mean) and had to briskly perform all the songs on the rundown.
By the fifth song or so, he even teased the crowd saying “Aren’t you guys tired? It’s getting late – I should stop now”. And as the crowd roared in disagreement, he then said “Well, OK, one more, or maybe a couple more.” Well it turned out a “couple” more meant going beyond two. Hurray for us!
Not only was Leehom sweating profusely (it was a very warm night at this outdoor stadium filled with 43,000 people), us HOManiacs were, needless to say, sweating like a pig. By now, most of us had basically managed to squeeze into the left side area of the stage. With the help of our club banner plus our largely recognizable yellow foam-hand, we caught Leehom’s attention when he walked towards the end of the T-stage. I think for a moment we were oblivious to the fact that this wasn’t a Leehom concert.
But I wonder what the audiences from the other races thought of Leehom and his performance (since they pretty much comprised a big percentage of those who attended the convention). It would be so cool if we were to have Leehom on the cover of “Eh!” the Malay entertainment magazine, or appearing on the renowned Astro Ria Malay-channel, or even Astro Vaanavil the Tamil-channel! After all, he did do a collaboration with our very own Pop Princess Siti Nurhaliza a couple of years back – something which I thought was very refreshing and unique – they should consider working together on a song or something.
Also, I have to apologize to the Amway-guy who apparently came to KL all the way from Shanghai for the convention, who pleaded to be given one of our foam-hands. Sorry man, our foam-hands are too precious to be given away! At least you got to take a picture with our club banner =)
Yet again, gratitude goes to Amway for bringing Leehom to Malaysia. The 10 hours wait was almost forgotten when Leehom came on-stage. Almost, that is.
A big “thank you” goes to all the HOManiacs members who attended the event. You just made a crazy night even “crazier”!
Ta!
Songs Leehom performed for the night:
1. Your Song
2. Julia
3. Forever Love
4. Descendants of the Dragon
5. Wei Yi
6. Ai De Jiu Shi Ni
7. Heroes of Earth
8. Zai Mei Bian
9. Shangri-la
10. Impossible to Miss You
太累了！太累了！好久都没有这种感觉，好奇怪哦！无论已往再怎么跟力宏的行程，也没有这晚那么累过。无法用言语来形容，唯有和我们一起的朋友们才能感同深受吧！门票上注明傍晚6点开场到晚上11点结束，开放入场是下午的4点。所以从下午的2点就到达了会场排队（是力宏曾经办过演唱会的场地），而且在场的人数并不是想象中的多，还以为很早到吗？大错特错！尽然有人早上8点左右就到了。为了什么呢？参加AMWAY 30周年庆典吗？那是其次，当然主要原因是为了我们的“金曲歌王- 王力宏”！想想看不知是巧合还是。。。力宏今年也刚好是30岁喔！
在那么炎热的气温下，等了将近1个小时左右，忽然间听到好收悉的旋律。是什么歌，谁的歌，就是力宏的歌嘛！一首接一首我们大家都收悉的歌，干嘛会在这个时候播啊？是“歌王”在彩排啦！就因为这样，大家开始猜疑到底力宏晚上会唱多少首歌又是哪几首呢？从我们听到的音乐中（回音太重又断断续续地）好像应该是有[爱的就是你]，[唯一]，[JULIA]，[在梅边]等。我们猜测大概会是以下这几首吧！？
1） JULIA
2） 唯一
3） 在梅边
4） 爱的就是你
5） 不可能错过你
6） FOREVER LOVE
7） KISS GOODBYE
8） 大城小爱
9） 花田错感觉上好像我们是“他”肚子里的蛔虫一样，就连曲目编排都猜想的到。真不可思议，对吧？
时间一秒一秒地接近开场，相对的到来的人数也不断的增加。惊人的是，我们的入口处大部分都是印度同胞，简直是80%印裔20%华裔的比例。不过有一点还蛮生气的，“他们”这么迟来尽然还干插队，完全不理会早来排队的人。更奇怪的是，我们尽然任由“他们”，这想话吗？没办法嘛!谁叫我们人数不比人多呢？而且当晚的主要目的是AMWAY周年庆典，理所当然AMWAY的会员才是重点咯！
快接近下午4点了，太阳公公开始慢慢地被乌云遮着，一阵阵的凉风吹着吹着，天气好像不太对劲哦！要下雨了吗？真是天公不做美啊！终于等到开门时间了，雨点一滴一滴地从天而降，所有人你推我挤想要以最快的速度进入会场，逃过被雨淋湿过后的惨状。这让我回想起力宏为[盖世英雄]专辑宣传-吉隆坡签唱会的画面 ，那天几乎里里外外都湿透了，还好这次算蛮幸运的，当我们一踏进座位就开始倾盆大雨了，还好我们逃过了这“劫”，可惜还是有人淋湿了呢！我们的座位是舞台的左方，位置距离舞台相当的远，站在舞台的人看起来几乎好像小朋友一样，非常渺小。还好主办单位设有大型荧光幕，要不然可就惨咯!
时间是下午的4点30分左右，开场的表演嘉宾是个本国的女生团体 （不太认识，不好意思。嘻嘻！）劲歌热舞的献唱了4至5首歌吧？因为安排着座位场面导致有点混乱，所以没太留意。陆陆续续多位本地歌手出场表演，例如Malaysian Idol – Daniel & Jacklyn，马来歌手和印度歌手。各自发挥所长，使用浑身解树把整场的气氛搞到最High！ AMWAY的成员们配合度相当高，几乎全场的人都一起欢呼，欢呼声把音乐声都给盖过了，太震撼了！全场人数大约是4万3三千人，每个人只要小声呼喊都是那么的轰动，更何况是“喊破喉咙”呢！如果你有在现场的话，就有机会体会这种震撼！就好像现在进行着的世界足球赛一样，全场一起欢呼胜利。
到了大概是傍晚6点10分吧，有位男士一直一直在高声呼喊“AMWAY AMWAY AMWAY”所有人开始High起来了！欢庆AMWAY 30周年的节目内容宣告真是开始。原来之前的表演纯属暖场而已，更多的精彩内容就会陆续登场咯！其实啊！我们是为“金曲歌王”而来，不是他出场的时候对我们而言都是纯属暖场吧！不过刚开始几乎大家都可以配合的很好，我们也一起和他们欢呼（虽然不太了解在High什么啦!）。大游行开始咯！先由摔着AMWAY大旗的队友开始，紧接几位美女身穿着采用气球和各式各样的料子创造不同地造型，接着是每个州的州旗。之后司仪开始介绍AMWAY成功的会员出场，他们分别由红，蓝和绿队组成绕场向全场的观众挥手，接受大家对他们的欢呼和支持，场面太轰动了!这还不算什么，更厉害的来咯！分别由不同款式的古董名牌车子承载着“最最成功”人士们出场，然后一一的介绍他们上台一起为当晚揭“开幕”仪式。
节目一开始就由AMWAY MALAYSIA的总裁致词（30分钟），接着亚洲总裁致词（应该是吧！讲了15分钟）就到AMWAY集团主席致词（由于第一位花了30分钟第二位15分钟，理所当然这么高的职位当然要讲更长咯！）没错！是45分钟。45分钟耶！ 我们都快昏了！还真的能讲哦！不过想想看，这是他们的庆典嘛，自然而然地会和所有人一起分享和告诉他们“因为有你们，AMWAY的成就和成长才会不停的往上升。。。”（类似啦！不太记得了）对我们而言唯一的目标是见力宏，其他的都不是重点。时间一分一秒的过，等了又等，时间差不多是晚上9.30左右吧！致词终于完毕了！！！太好了！接着应该就是余兴节目了吧！还真的呢！司仪介绍印尼歌手出场，她演唱了大概4-5首歌吧（忘了）。我们苦等已久的“金曲歌王”要出场咯！蛮怀期待的我们最终失望了。司仪尽然上台邀请“成功”的会员上台演讲！（昏了！）一个接一个，重复再重复他们对AMWAY的看法和自信，感激该直销公司为他们带来了前所未有的希望和梦想，几乎他们的台词我们都猜想得到。当晚的讲师当中，另我印象最深刻的就是一对夫妇，他们的学历并不高但所分享的理念却等到所有人的掌声，欢呼与认同 “Today Me Tomorrow You！ ”，对于忠实的会员们必定是有一定的影响力，厉害吧！
整晚最惊险的时刻就是这时候，原本我们是坐在跑道后面的椅子（距离舞台是非常非常远而且都被印度同胞“包围”着），因为看到左边的观众开始移位到舞台前面去，让我们有了种冲动也好想到下面那里去哦！怎么说也比较接近舞台嘛！但是另一方面又怕再移位的同时力宏就出场，那怎么办嘛！经过思考后，我们还是决定赌一赌运气吧！当我们要移位是，那里的警卫尽然把门给锁起来了，再也不给人下去，气死我了！庆幸我们认识几位AMWAY的会员，她们人好好，帮我们视察状况，确定了位子和哪一个门才可以顺利通往舞台前面，再通知我们。接到通报以后，我们一行40人吧，什么也管不了了，马上收拾往目的地前进。到了入口处，我们一堆人跑啊跑的（好想马上就要被人逮到一样）往空位的方向找位子安顿下来。幸好一切都还蛮顺利了，也没有任何差错！要不然可就遭殃了！被赶出去再也进不了，连看力宏的表演都煲汤，可不就划不来吗？
随着时间慢慢的流失，等着等着已经是晚上的11.30分了，为什么我们的“盖世英雄”还未出现呢？到底有没有邀请他啊？苦苦等了将近10个小时身心疲惫的我们，忽然之间全身充满了无比的精力。。。终于等到了！全场的观众等的不就是这一刻吗？大家开始不停的呼喊“力宏！力宏！”，场面开始混乱起来了，完全不受控制。原本坐满人也整整齐齐的椅子，也变得凌乱不堪。而人呢？到哪里去了？全部已经拥到舞台前方去了。而我还乖乖的站在原地，开始录影。穿着白色长袖而中间有个老虎头的图案上衣，配搭黑色的长裤和帽子的力宏一出现，把整场的气氛带进了高潮，观众们随着音乐不停的摇摆和呼喊！突然发觉我身边的人却不见了，我到处寻找她们的踪影，怎么找也找不到，奇怪了到底跑去哪里啦！怎么可以丢下我呢？录着录着视线开始被人阻挡了，不管三七二十一跑到前方继续录影和拍照。在那同时也一直寻找我们会员的踪迹啦！终于看到咯！原来她们已经堆在舞台前面了咧！手上拿着歌迷会的手板和布条，太耀眼了！哈哈！力宏是不可能看不到我们的啦！！这晚力宏并没有说太多的话，只为观众们带来一首接一首的K歌。以下曲目排名不分先后，分别有：
1） Your Song
2） Julia
3） Forever Love
4） 龙的传人
5） 唯一
6） 爱的就是你
7） 盖世英雄
8） 在梅边
9） 心中的日月
10） 不可能错过你小插曲
1） 力宏在唱JULIA Chorus 的部分，把“Julia”换成了“AMWAY”，还真配合的！
2） 和在云顶的演唱会演唱[不可能错过你]的模式是一样的“and lower and lower and lower…and higher and higher and higher”当音乐从新开始的时候，全场的观众又尖叫了。
3） 忘词和歌词调换程序是勉不了的。几乎他的每场演唱会必定会发生的事，当然这次也不例外咯！不过也都还好，并没有失准的太“厉害”，观众还是一样的投入及陶醉在他的歌声里。
4） 因为力宏出场的时间已经很晚了，大概唱了4首歌吧! 他很顽皮哦！说很晚了，该会去啦！我们这么可能放过他呢？等了一整天耶，才唱那几首歌吗？怎么可能！于是所有人一直喊“Encore!Encore!”他做出了“勉为其难”的表情，“OK Lets play another songs”。。。何止Another不知不觉已唱了Few More 了。。。
5） 尾声时，力宏和Dancer跑到一个大型人造地球模型，一群人围着圈圈跑。力宏唱完了[不可能错过你]以后，就把节目带到了尾声。结束时间大约是晚上12.20分吧，当力宏一离场我们也没待着，收拾收拾就闪人了。。。预算下时间应该差不多凌晨1点左右才到家吧！还要冲洗再睡觉。。。隔天又是星期一，又是上班上学天，还把自己搞得这么累，这是太辛苦了！大家也都辛苦了！不过为了可以看到力宏精彩表演，还算是值得的，你们说对吗？
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