December is all about queueing for me. We queued for the Xmas shows, we queued for the booking of bbq pit... and today, we queued for MayDay Concert tickets!
We reached Central at about 9.30am the queue was already this long. 
The official time to exchange the coupon was 2pm TODAY but we heard that the first in the queue (whom we thought was insane) started queueing at 2pm YESTERDAY. Luckily our fellow MayDay concert fan-friends, Idy and Irwin, reserved a place for us. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
The official time to exchange the coupon was 2pm TODAY but we heard that the first in the queue (whom we thought was insane) started queueing at 2pm YESTERDAY. Luckily our fellow MayDay concert fan-friends, Idy and Irwin, reserved a place for us. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! 
We looked around and found out that besides a uncle who was half balding with greying hair, we might just be the oldest fans queueing for the tickets today. And we were definitely the only fans who even brought our daughter to queue with us! My stamping kits and drawing pencils couldn't occupy little missy for very long. She started to dance around the little space she had and bumped into everyone around us. Clement and I had to take turns to bring her out of the queue so that we wouldn't get complains and perhaps got thrown out of the queue by the security guards.
I bought Jaimie to look for YiHui, my colleage. She came a little later than me and she had to stand in the sun!! She was an ardent fan of MayDay. She just came back from their same concert in Taipei 2 weeks ago. I wonder how many copies of the CDs she had bought because 1 CD only comes with 1 exchange coupon for the concert. And she had so kindly bought me something from Taipei.
This was the queue outside the mall, where Yihui was. 
I walked down further and met this good samaritian ex-student of mine. He wasn't a MayDay fan. He was conned by his friend to queue to exchange for the tickets while the friend was having a holiday in Taiwan. He thought he could just come at 2pm until I told him otherwise. Poor Calvin. Luckily he got his tickets too. No.. his friend's tickets. =_=
And this was the crowd outside the mall. And the queue went on and on and on and on and on and on..... there were only 5000 tickets to give away.
When I came back, Clement took over Jaimie. He brought her to see the boats since we were at Boat Quay. According to Clement, Jaimie dashed into a shop with balloon decorations and asked for an orange balloon herself. =_= Shame girl!
Irwin got bored and he walked around the mall. So Idy and I spent the entire morning catching up and taking photos.
To get the tickets, we need to have the queue label (which we pasted on our arm), the original CD and of course the coupons that came with the CDs.
The organisers decided to start issuing the tickets an hour earlier than the intended time. This was good news to us because little missy woke up really early this morning although she had very distrubed sleep last night due to a sickening mosquito which bit all over her forehead. In fact, we had brought her stroller out in case she needed to sleep before we got our precious tickets.
Ahhhh... Idy and Irwin, see you next Sunday!!!
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Good practice just in case we need to do that to register our kids in Pri school...
Wow, that lady in pics is the most glam and gorgeous maid I have ever seen! I see that she's the same one that was queueing to see Mickey at T3! More model than maid me thinks ;P
Whoo Hoo! you guys are really queuing king and queen and princess too!
I didn't know you were so crazy over Wu-Yue-Tian!!! *laugh*
MF,
i made sure i put on makeup when i queue nowadays. =_= and no more sloppy tshirts.
Nah...Q-ing is national pastime mah, so we're naturally good at it. The presence of a 3yo was an anomaly, though. The little one did generate some entertainment for those nearby when she broke into dance when the organisers started playing Mayday songs. :)
wow...i am glad i am not a fan ..otherwise, where to find time to Q .. : P
Next time will be a Q-Mama..when my chidren starts on their IDOL craze..hee : 0
cheers,
astee
Astee, it can be done lah. Idy and Irwin did it. So did we.
The help from the IT family did make things less painful for us than it otherwise might hv been. The session turned out to be an enjoyable one - we had a good time chatting and catching up with each other. To Jae, it wasn't much different from her usual weekend trips to the shopping malls - with balloons, music, running around shops, taking the lifts and escalators, looking at boats and fish along the Singapore River...
It's all about executing the right strategies so that the q-ing part doesn't become a pain in the a$$.
Hiya, 五月天的超级粉丝家族! Happy Holidays and a Blessed New Year to you guys!! :)
The moment of getting the tickets on hand must be magical! 5 hrs of waiting and to see idols in 1 week's time - woo hoo!
Enjoy the forthcoming concert! Rock!
Wow..this is really fun watching concert with buddies..surely you guys looking fwd and enjoys during the concert. :)
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