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Update: More reason & motivation for us fans! Don’t underestimate the power of the fans indeed!

Please keep voting and requesting for David’s songs on the radio!!

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Well as most of you are aware, the rumour about David starring in a Philippines mini series has definitely been confirmed. A lot of different and interesting opinions about this as you can see from the discussion from the previous thread but whatever you may feel about it, this deal is signed, sealed and is definitely happening folks!

To be honest, I’m just excited about the fact that he’s in the same time zone again woohoo!!

Anyways, the Archies in the Philippines have been pretty darn busy giving David an amazing welcome at the Manila airport (serious kudos to them) and keeping us updated about the happenings over there. In fact, Manila’s TV5 and their crew have also been amazing in giving us updates. For latest happenings on David and the show, check out the website that they specifically set up just for this Project!!!

http://followarchuleta.ph/

Also the Manila Archies got an amazing opportunity to sit down and talk to David for a couple of minutes and have a Q & A more or less and some of his answers are pretty interesting particularly about the mission and what other projects he’s doing. Hopefully it will allay some of the fears that he will be totally incommunicado during the two years as he said he’ll try to keep us updated and stay in touch even during his mission! Yay!

He also said that after this project, he’ll be headed back to do some recordings and hopefully, we will get some songs released during his two year absence! I really hope his plans pan out because going cold turkey without D’s music for two years would be pretty darn difficult…

Check out the video of the Q & A with the fans below:

On the miniseries, “Nandito Ako” (which translates to mean “I am here” I think) David will be playing a mixed Filipino/American guy named “Josh” who left the Philippines after he was separated from his mother in a fire when he was five. Apparently he saved a girl during the fire and now he’s a singer and is back in the Philippines to look for his mom.

You know, I have never seen a Filipino mini series and have absolutely no idea how it is like but seriously, I’m just stoked to have more David news and see him on my TV again especially before the long drought. [Okay so maybe not on MY TV, but you know what I mean]

Here are some promo pics to whet out appetite.

So what are your thoughts on David the TVStar folks? Are you stoked?

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How do you adequately pay tribute to a singer that has such a hold of your senses when so much has been written about him already? How do you do justice to the exceptional vocal magic that he possesses? And how do you articulate the many high points and countless hours of pleasure that his singing brought?. Worse of all how do you bid a proper goodbye – albeit for a short while – to such a wonderful emissary both of music and in personal character – an ambassador who has positively touched so many lives not through trashy, over the top buffoonery but simply by being himself?

It is quite impossible to effectively wrap all that has happened  into one neat package. There are just too many instances, images and moments that are precious and unforgettable to say definitively that any one of them defines the special connections that David has forged with us. The tapestry of David’s journey with his fans all these years does not easily lend itself to being  woven.

I suppose the only meaningful way to pay homage to what David has meant to us is through his music. And in this, there is one piece of music that really stands out for me which – with its message – I think is a very fitting expression of what has transpired in recent days.

I don’t know whether it was by intent or by accident but for one brief 3 minute interval in the past the clueless folks at American Idol somehow got David. They understood him and saw where he was coming from and it resulted in a sublime recording in the studio version of ‘Think of Me‘. This song as all of you must recall was during Andrew Llyod Webber week on American Idol where David and his fellow contestants had to tackle stage musical numbers. It is an iconic number from The Phantom Of The Opera and performed by a female soprano.

But in David’s tender male tenor voice the song has been given a smooth contemporary pop feel. It’s evocative without being sappy, the emotional impact is sustained without the histrionics of lesser vocalists and although the arrangement is simple the vocals are no less powerful.  It was such a mature performance – far more than his 17 years at that time.  It’s a travesty that he has not been given more credit than he deserved for his beautiful interpretation of a classic.

It is also a shame that he has never sung this song in public since he graduated from American Idol. I hope that in the next 2 years as he embarks on his mission he will revisit some of his past performances and realize that in this song he really came into his own and displayed the potent vocal talent that has not surfaced much since then – largely due to the quality of material that he has had to deal with. In this rendition he truly lived up to his reputation of someone ‘born to sing‘. I hope that somehow David will find that same voice again, or at least some producer with a keen ear, in the near future as it is a shining example of his ability to weave pure gold out of hay.

Recall those days, Look back on all those times

Think of the things we’ll never do

There will never be a day when we won’t think of you..

Hasta leugo David…. for now.

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Thank you everyone who contributed to this thank you video to David. Sincere apologize to those videos that were unable to be uploaded.

As you all know, Amy went to David’s My Kind of Christmas Tour in Santa Rosa, and she handed the video through Janey of FOD to be passed on to David .. Hoooray! Thanks Amy!

The CD Cover

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This guy right here is 21 years old folks!!!!

Can you believe it??? I still remember when he was a shy 16 year old on American Idol. It’s been a truly awesome  journey that he has taken us on and what an amazing ride it has been!!

We’re not sure what David did for his 21st birthday but the AAMers had a grand time celebrating it here in Malaysia!!!

Here are the AAMers “armed” with our brand new David Archuleta wristband courtesy of the awesome SandyBeaches

You probably can’t tell from just looking at the pic but the age difference between the youngest and the oldest here is approximately half a century!!! What other young singer can lay claim to such a diverse fanbase? It is truly quite amazing if you think about it!

And of course, we had to cap off the night with a little birthday wish Malaysian style:

This vid may be a bit lot dark but the voices are loud and clear

Thank you to all the AAMers that joined us for this outing even if the notice given was a little short and Happy 21st Birthday again to the amazing David Archuleta!! May you have many many more and may all your wishes come true….

 

Also, if you haven’t seen this yet, here’s a beautiful birthday vid made by the super talented Kelvin Beh..

 

Lastly, this birthday vid is not ours but its definitely a must see for all David fans. Take your tissues out guys:

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MAY GOD BLESS YOU ON YOUR BIRTHDAY DEAR DAVID

As you all know, David will be celebrating his 21st birthday on Dec 28.

A special birthday for a very special once-in-a-lifetime guy who has profoundly touched our hearts and given us an immeasurable amount of joy with his stupendously enrapturing singing; 

and raced our pulses with his smouldering good looks and show-stopping smiles;  

a guy with a vision of the world peculiar to himself in the face of the grim and grey music world in which we now live;  

an uplifting inspiration in a cynical world with his doggedly perseverance even in the face of self-doubt.

All that by the age of 21.

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Let us be thankful and rejoice in celebrating him and the presence of such a being living in our midst.

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Now that he will be leaving us soon for 2 years to take on a full-time religious mission, there is all the more reason to celebrate him:  for his strength of character and his steadfastness in his beliefs.

Let us keep the David-spirit alive by our forever love.

Let us pray that he will be kept safe and warm in God’s hands.

Let us hope that he will come back to us after he has done God’s work.

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I have written him a birthday message on behalf of AAM, in a birthday card which I handed to Akang to be hand-delivered to Janey of FOD to be placed into David’s hands at the Santa Rosa VIP on Dec 14.   Thank you to these lovely ladies for making it possible.

Trace

Below are pics of the 10 1/2″  by  10 1/2″ card and our birthday poem to David:

Poem for David

Dear David

xxx

Time has swiftly flown many months and so have you

Far away from us to take on another amazing cue

 - Remember that you have taken with you our willing hearts

Don’t want them back just want you here again to energise us anew

xxx

We understand much of God’s work you ardently want to do

But do not forsake us, our love will never go askew

 - Please remember that though we are many miles apart

There’s nothing that will stop us from joining your longest queue

xxx

It is your your 21st birthday soon your desires and wishes to renew

So sad we are unable to embrace you in the same venue

 - Do not forget that, of us you are now an integral part

Birthday prayers we are sending up and not just a few

xxx

We pray that the sky is the limit for your music and you

We pray you do not turn your back on us and the world, refuse

 - God has lovingly placed you in all the world’s heart

And He has divinely coloured you in His hue.

xxx

Archuleta Avenue Malaysia

December 2011 

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=>  2 years

=> 24 months

=> 104 weeks

=> 730 days

=> 17,250 hours

=> 1,051,200 minutes

=> 63,072,000 seconds……!

The figures get more daunting the more you think about it. It’s like a fast receding express train, the longer you watch it the faster it seems to speed away.

When I was told about David’s decision, I wasn’t terribly surprised. It was a possibility that was always hanging in the air for as long as we knew David. That someday he would suspend his music career in servitude of a higher purpose wasn’t as remote as we would have liked to believe. But we probably never expected that such a step would actually come to pass. That the hammer did fall was in many ways shocking and numbing.

The decision has been made – although not without some trepidation and second guessing the way I see it – to heed a call from God no less. A call that most if not all LDS members like David has to answer. He has chosen to hang up his mic so to speak , ‘disappear’ for 2 years so that he can do God’s will.

But does it have to be this way?

Can’t we serve God by being kind, thoughtful, caring and loving to our fellow humans? Can’t we do God’s work by championing the cause of the downtrodden, speaking for those who don’t have a voice or teaching that might does not always make right? Is humility and empathy not godly enough?  How about using our music to give pleasure to those of our listeners? Isn’t it noble enough to stir the emotions and hearts of countless people with the power of our voice alone? Aren’t these virtues good enough in the eyes of God?

Does serving God require us to disengage, disassociate and disconnect from the world in general? Are we assuming that God can be so demanding and unbending in his decrees? Do we really have to assume anonymity while in our service to God?  Doesn’t it seem like we’re smearing his good name a wee bit here?

Are we to literally aimlessly wander around for the next 2 years, much like the Israelite did for 40 years, until we reach our promised land? Are we being punished here?

2 years of nothing but paucity, aridity and emptiness. See you in 2 years time.