Watching an Icon

I was in Bacolod yesterday for "Lea..Your Songs". It was Lea Salonga's concert featuring fan requests. I nearly missed this one! I forgot about this since at first I thought our practicum duty will start this week so I decided not to come. I thought the concert will be next week until I saw Lea's tweet that she was in Bacolod for a concert the next day! I posted back with a sad face since I thought I'm not able to see her perform. Lucky enough, my cousin tweeted me back in the afternoon that they haven't bought tickets yet. Thank God for Twitter! It took a while for me to decide since I have classes the next day. But, heck! This is once in a while, so yes it is! And I did not regret a second of it. I was with cousins Vic Vic, Michelle, Siote and wife Pola, and aunts, Tita Els and Tita Neneng. We cut lines when we arrived, we also cut lines in Potato Corner..Haha! Shhh!

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Fans sent her song requests and they consolidated them for her concert set list. Songs included are Lady GaGa's Poker Face, Beyonce's Halo, Air Supply Songs, OPM and Jologs songs, Rihanna, Akon, a couple of Glee songs and of course Broadway classics. She did her rendition of Bayan Ko, the one she sang in Cory's wake. It was the most requested song in her site. I wanted to put up a request last year when I heard of this but I couldn't think of anything! haha! She also did a duet of A Whole New World with an audience. He is American and good looking but the singing was funny! haha! He makes up tunes on certain lines. The whole audience sang along with them to help him out. It was like we were singing with Lea too! Imagine that. You are singing a duet with the real Princess Jasmine. The feeling must be surreal. If I am male and have a good voice (doesn't have to be great, good will do), I will run up on stage and sing my heart and lungs and head and guts out!! What was funny was the guy asker Lea for water before they start singing! Haha! That was fun! She also answered some fan questions posted in her site like, how many boyfriends she had. The crowd teased her with Aga Mulach! haha! And here we are, getting a feeling close moment agreeing and commenting to what she was sharing regarding her wedding anniversary since we are following her on Twitter! haha! She also sang some Micheal Jackson as a tribute to him. We were looking for ABBA and Motown songs for her to sing also! It would be more fun! I was singing along more than half of the concert. The songs were very familiar since they were popular fan requests. Too bad she did not sing Sun and Moon and We Could Be In Love. Those are among my favorites. But nevertheless, the concert was a BLAST! I was in awe the whole time of how amazing her voice is. And I was shaking my head periodically of the beauty of her music. And you know, when I saw amazing, I'll put my money on it! She is really a world class performer and the concert came natural to her as if it was not staged. Together with her brother, Gerard Salonga and the Filharmonika Orchestra, they made songs sound so classy and glamorous even if they were belting out jologs songs.

Her guests included Reymond Sajor, World Champion Vocalist, and Ai Ai de las Alas. It was Ai Ai who broke the house down. She was hilarious. She went up on stage dressed up like Annie and she had this stuffed toy dog as her pet. She was dragging the dog on the stage as she enters! Hahaha! She also danced non stop like crazy!!! We laughed so hard that we didn't get to hear the name of the dog.. She named it Bantay, last name, Bata! hahaha! 

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We were hoping to go backstage to have photos taken but connections were down last night. We just went home and bought take out pizzas. 

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I just came home this morning since I still have a 10 Am class. And now, I'm sleepy! We slept around past 1 in the morning after some pizza and Coke. I am now having a Lea hangover. I can't get the fun out of my mind. I hope this isn't the last one! 

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Love and Bliss!