Well not merely a dream. More like a resolve really to achieve something, maybe miraculous, but not entirely out of the realms of the possible. After hearing David sing live in Malaysia for a short 20 minutes at Sunway, there’s this nagging feeling of unfulfillment ; a hunger not quite satiated and still raring for more, much more, of the same.
So I have this dream of bringing David back to Malaysia for a full concert. “Bringing?,” you may ask. That’s quite a bold stance to adopt almost as if I have the actual means to get him to Malaysia. Well I feel I have the most important asset to draw upon in my quest and that is you, you and you. Yes dear AAMers and other fans of David out there who left Sunway that day thankful for the opportunity to hear him live; shouting yourself hoarse and feeling the pounding of your heart and the rush of blood through your system. We all left Sunway that day breathless and high from excitement. It was a good feeling wasn’t it? Some of you managed to relive that day at Manila but many of us didn’t get to enjoy the experience of a full David concert. So the purpose of my post – a petition.
This time our petition must be wider in scope and more ambitious in objectives. We are targetting 5000 names this time and the dateline is end August to gather that number. I don’t think it’s too difficult a target to achieve judging from the size of the crowd at Sunway in April. The petition is just one aspect of this project.
We are also going to create a video consisting of stills and video clips from fans with messages expressing their desire for David to come back for a full concert. So we need your help here in providing photos of you and/or your friends or video clips that are not more than 30 secs long . Group shots would be ideal as we ‘re aiming for volume here. The more the merrier.
Also we need to design a mock poster promoting David’s concert here as if it is really going to happen. If we have a clear and tangible vision of what we trying to achieve than the easier it is to realize that dream. For this we need your artistic and graphic expertise to design the poster with which we can ‘promote’ the idea to media, other fansites , concert promoters, radio and David’s team itself.
Yes we will be sending all these material to Jive, Azoff Management and David himself to let him see the dedication of his followers here. That’s the ultimate audience that we want to target with this exercise. So please lend your support by logging on to this link : David Archuleta concert in Malaysia and submit your signatures. Add it to your own blogs so that your readers can lend their support as well. Please submit your graphic ideas, photos and video clips as soon as you can.
An impossible task you may think; a bridge too far but a lot of wonderful things have been achieved by daring to dream. A journey of a thousand miles must necessarily start with that first important step. We must take that leap of faith that together we can achieve this. Failure is not an option.
- John
Update 15th June 2009: Woot! we’ve logged more than 140 names so far. Thanks guys for signing the petition. Keep ‘em coming! ![]()

Awesome! Will rally all friends & colleagues to sign this petition. We can do this!
By: farida on June 14, 2009
at 11:11 pm
oooh & family members too
By: farida on June 14, 2009
at 11:18 pm
Hey Farida
Thanks for the support.
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 14, 2009
at 11:22 pm
HERE WE GO AGAIN WHEEEEEEEEEEE!
As a wise person once sang…
“Imagine all the peopleeeee~”
By: Anne on June 14, 2009
at 11:39 pm
providing photos of you and/or your friends or video clips that are not more than 30 secs long ??
john,
when is the last date to send??
By: amira on June 15, 2009
at 6:25 am
Amira
As soon as you can. I haven’t set out an exact dateline but I’m targeting end July for the video to be ready.
Don’t forget about the mock poster. If you have any design ideas please submit them as well.
Thanks for your support
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 7:14 am
Hey guys
I luv the lot of you! You guys are pretty amazing. I just checked the petition and there over 50 names already! Wheee!
We’re off to a good start with our dream
Thanks for your support everybody.
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 7:22 am
ok.. i will…
=)
excited!!!!
By: amira on June 15, 2009
at 7:43 am
OMG!
this is so going on the webshow next week.
http://www.youtube.com/SpeakWebshow
By: Suemitraa on June 15, 2009
at 8:34 am
I had that full concert experience at Manila and I want more! The concert was over before I knew it. The adrenalin resulted from the combination of “reality” and “surreality” was absolutely like supernovas burning (to borrow the phrase from James Padfoot).
HOWEVER, nothing will ever beat having David Live in Concert in Malaysia itself! Our home turf. To see the home crowd loving D. To hear the home crowd scream for D. To have the home crowd sing along to D. In our own stadium.
Kylie
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 9:48 am
Oh, and guys, hand in hand with the petition, performance of David’s songs on the salesfront and radio front are PARAMOUNT now!
Yes, you heard me. RADIO. So unfortunate that we don’t have official music and sales charts hence radio charts play an important part in the game.
Get going on requesting and voting.
For both TMH and ZG. We are not going to let any of David’s song tagged as “not successful”.
Thank you again for every effort and support you guys have shown. The images and memories of David thanking us after the showcase was very overwhelming indeed.
Kylie
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 9:55 am
Also a reminder about the petition:
1. Do not spam – this won’t help at all
2. You can sign on behalf if you really have their support, otherwise refrain. It will only hurt the purpose and David.
3. Do leave comments.
4. Haters and pranksters, take it elsewhere, thanks.
Kylie
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 10:00 am
Good morning everyone! Woooh! Petition, petition! Love the excitement!!!
Is this the continuation of the previous one?
Do I need to sign again?
By: eunice on June 15, 2009
at 10:33 am
Eunice, this is a brand new petition! So you have to sign your name again.
Kylie
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 11:01 am
I’m on it! Gonna spread the word later.
By: Debbra T on June 15, 2009
at 11:05 am
I will bring a long my family to the concert if it’s really happen. So do I need to sign on behalf of them?
By: damania on June 15, 2009
at 11:17 am
Hey, guys, promote the petition in the Twitter.
Many people lurk there!!!!
Kylie, can non Malaysian fans sign the petition too?
Any instructions for them?
By: eunice on June 15, 2009
at 11:19 am
HI Damania,
Ya, you will get to bring your family to the concert, but first we have to work hard to get David back.
I think you can sign on behalf of them.
And please pass the word around. Sign the petition!!!
By: eunice on June 15, 2009
at 11:23 am
Damania,
Yes sign on behalf. Number of signatures give an indication of attendance strength and hopefully ticket sales.
Eunice,
Although the target is Malaysians but non-Msians, please do show your support – we value your support! But please leave in the comment section that you are from overseas.
Twitter – yes we will be promoting the link. All of us should and twice a week. Because it may get buried down and twitterers may not check their tweets so often.
Promote all over the cyber space – Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Anywhere la
Kylie
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 11:28 am
dont forget also to promote at Archilicious and DAnetwork!
By: amira on June 15, 2009
at 1:21 pm
umm…do we need to pay? the donation thing… lol…
By: christine on June 15, 2009
at 2:01 pm
Haha. NOTHING is impossible, John. we can and we WILL get him back here (hopefully before I fly, haiya *sigh sigh*)
All the best for the petition! I signed already. Gonna ask more people to sign em.
By: Debz on June 15, 2009
at 2:33 pm
christine, no need and no obligation re: the donation.
Kylie
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 3:25 pm
Sorry OT here.
Oh wow, Iglesias/Ciara’s song has been burning up the Hitz Top 30 chart last few weeks….at #1. How is that? Some fanatic fans out there
Kylie
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 3:59 pm
Come, come, come. We are all hopelessly waiting for you to come.
Ppl, signed the petition quickly.
By: K H on June 15, 2009
at 4:24 pm
That’s the spirit guys
We have over a hundred names so far woot!
Don’t forget to send in your photos and video clips.
Can we be as fanatic as Iglesias / Ciara fans?
Yes we can!
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 5:00 pm
I’ll sign it
Then Jules said this song is sick and ill but that meant cool. What’s that supposed to mean? Was she being sarcastic?
I just heard ZG on FlyFM again this week and it was awesome!
By: Nik Maryam on June 15, 2009
at 6:28 pm
hopefully got > 200 signs until midnite..
target : at least 100signs/day ?? =p
By: amira on June 15, 2009
at 7:01 pm
sick in the parlance of the hip means “cool”
Speaking of which it’s not cool that ZG is out of the MWC show!!! Only 1 week in the top 10? Cummon Archies we gotta do better than that!
Go request!
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 15, 2009
at 7:55 pm
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hey guys! how to submit the video?
By: Jason on June 21, 2009
at 8:36 pm
Jason submit your pics or video clips to archuletavenue@gmail.com
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 21, 2009
at 11:06 pm
ok….thanks!
By: Jason on June 22, 2009
at 3:10 pm
is that okay with the video clip i sent?or u guys more preferring the group shot?
By: Jason on June 24, 2009
at 10:13 pm
Jason we’ve received your video. Very nice, thanks!
Can you and your friends do a group video as well cos we need the numbers.
By: Archuleta Avenue Msia on June 24, 2009
at 10:52 pm
well….see what i can do.
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at 11:47 am
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