Archu-Concerts Galore

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m a little lost.   So many upcoming Archu-concerts! (Hooray for the US Archies!   And for all the Archies travelling to the States to watch him perform!).   So many unfamiliar names of concert halls and venues!    So many unfamiliar names of cities ( they are unfamiliar to us simply because we do not live in the US haha!)

Since our minds are in a whirl, and since Madam here is still groggy from jet-lag, we will do a “whirling” post of David’s concert tours.   In no chronological order.  😯

It’s just a good feeling that we know he is still belting out songs!   As long as he is out there touring and singing and having fun with the Archies who are able to reach those venues, we are happy!   Makes waiting for new music a little more tolerable!  

 

David Archuleta Christmas Tour with Special Guest Nathan Pacheco | Boise, Idaho | December 5, 2016

Deseret Book Company

Monday, December 5, 2016 at 7:30 PM

Boise, ID

David Archuleta Christmas Tour with Special Guest Nathan Pacheco | Las Vegas, NV | December 16, 2016

Deseret Book Company

Friday, December 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM

Las Vegas, NV

Tickets On Sale also now for Tuacahn, Boise, Mesa, and Las Vegas!

Tuacahn seats are becoming fewer by the day but are still available listed as “good’ for Thursday and Friday, while Saturday is ‘limited!” Click below to head over to purchase tickets!

A BYU-I Christmas w/ Archuleta & Pacheco

DEC3

Center Stage
BYU-Idaho Center
Saturday, Dec 3, 2016 at 7:30 PM (MT) to Saturday, Dec 3, 2016 at 10:00 PM (MT)

A BYU-Idaho Christmas

with David Archuleta and Nathan Pacheco

Saturday, December 3

7:30 p.m., BYU-Idaho Center

6:00 p.m., Preshow dinner in Manwaring Center

David Archuleta and Nathan Pacheco will be the featured guests at the university’s sixth Christmas program in the BYU-Idaho Center. They will join the BYU-Idaho Symphony Orchestra, combined choirs, and other students from the College of Performing and Visual Arts. Pop singer David Archuleta and classically trained tenor Nathan Pacheco are featured together on the popular YouTube video of “The Prayer.”

Tickets go on sale September 19. $10 for

BYU-Idaho students, $15 for general public. No children under six. Event dress.

David Archuleta

 ✔@DavidArchie

Just Announced: Indianapolis, IN – Nov 28 at TBAhttp://www.bandsintown.com/event/12940029?artist=David+Archuleta&came_from=217 …

Music feels more complete when listening to David Archuleta.   And Christmas music feels more divine when listening to David Archuleta.   How wonderful it is that he will soon begin to warm up the Season with a whole series of concerts with just that!  🙂

PS:  Sorry for the messy post  😥   For a more orderly, more organised chart of David’s concerts, you must visit theVoice.   Djafan has done a beautifully laid-out bird’s eye view of them.   Right from the amazing venue of the Tuacahn Amphitheatre on Nov 3 to the night before Christmas Eve.  😀

David Trapped!

David Archuleta ‏@DavidArchie 15h15 hours ago

Donated blood today for @RedCross. Don’t forget to donate y’all and make a difference.

Well done, David!  😀   And looking dang good too!  😀

Loving the pic for a crazy reason!   It’s as if the tables are turned.   We have often felt trapped under David’s power.   But this picture makes us feel like WE HAVE TRAPPED DAVID WELL AND GOOD for a change – bound and tied up and surrounded by a barrier formed by those happy ladies !!  😀

Revenge is sweet!  😛  😛

“You are Beautiful”

My trip to Mongolia brought me to briefly meet 2 local girls.   Their conversation was an eye-opener. It almost directly connects to what David has been advocating in the lyrics of his song and his message:  “You are beautiful” … “Don’t you bring me down.”

They were discussing their looks and their eyelashes.    Or lack of.

Girl 1 :  “I don’t like looking like a Mongolian!”

I quickly told her she was very pretty and asked her why she wanted to look any different.

She continued, very coyly :   “You know, I have these slit eyes which I don’t like.   I want to look like Kim.”

Girl 2 :  “Kim who?”

Girl 1 :  “Kim Kardashian of course!”

I felt like I was struck by a thunderbolt.   Why would a girl living amidst the beautiful mountains and valleys of Mongolia want to look like someone living in Hollywood?

Girl 2 immediately lashed out a remark which saved the day for me.   And made more sense of it all.

“Well, as for me, I am happy to look like me  –  what my heritage has given me.”

I left them soon after, happy that there are still girls who don’t care about having thick eyelashes or not.   And they won’t have anyone tell them that they should have them.   That they are happy and feel beautiful within their own skin.

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The pics are hilarious – David joking about girls wanting to look like this or that and imitating them taking selfies with his phone while at the TOFW concert in Sacramento.

10 years ago, everyone thought David Archuleta was going to remain the super-cute kid he was. Someone within our Archie-group who thought David was just a pretty face, remarked that perhaps he had no other interest whatsoever besides singing.   But David quietly and steadily grew into a man who is deserving of praise and respect.   He conquered fears.   He dug deep into who he truly was and what he felt he could do to uplift others.   More importantly, in relation to his music, he believed in himself and the direction he wanted to go and made no apologies for it.   He made decisions on his own mental strength.   His values are exceptionally worth anyone’s admiration.   Despite his superstar Adonis looks, he brushes away compliments and concentrates on qualities which are more solid.   And that makes him cuter than super-cute to me.

David included the song BEAUTIFUL in his BEGIN. album and in his concert repertoire for a reason. He wants to say:   Hey, look!   You guys are beautiful too!   Let your own magic happen!   Don’t let others put you down!

(Watch the BEAUTIFUL video posted in the last thread)

What we need within ourselves is confidence and courage to be the best of ourselves.   You may take the best selfie (after having deleted 100 of what you thought were not beautiful enough haha!) but we must remember that sort of “beauty” is only skin-deep.

I think David will agree with something Winston Churchill once said:

That we should have the courage to stand up and speak or what it takes to sit down and listen.

And guess what?   We don’t even need fluttering thick eyelashes to do that.  😀

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Mixed Emotions

I go away for 3 weeks.   There is no wifi everywhere I look.   Only mountains, steppes, trees, grass, bushes, streams, rivers, scattered villages, the odd farmer.   Beautiful Siberia and Mongolia.

But everyday during those 3 weeks, I panic.   Am I missing so much happening in Archudom?   His new music is out, I’m sure of it!   His new music is out and I’m missing all the fun and fanfare!

So now I’m back.   Straight into Archuland.   Woah,  eyes on the ball, ears finely tuned and heart palpitating.

No, I was wrong.   No new music.   I was disappointed.   My emotions felt stretched.   I was struck by the feeling of doom that I am forever waiting for something that is never going to happen.   And that’s very upsetting.

But why should I feel that way, I ask myself after having calmed down.

Afterall, there had been posted so many delightful pics by our wonderfu Archies.   There were vids. News of sold-out shows.  David himself had posted pics and instagrams.   There was even happy news about his Christmas shows with Nathan Pacheco.   I should be very happy for David.   And for all the excited Archies.

The fact is I have not completed my process of learning.   About not being greedy for what others can give me.   About not being demanding.   About never expecting and assuming.  About not being paranoid with the actions of others.  So that annoying young man is not yet ready to publish his new music.   So what.   Keep waiting.   So there are a few more lines in his musical head he is not willing to put down.   So what.   What are you going to do about it?!   Simple.   Swallow your emotions, now rendered extremely fragile, and pray.   That’s his lesson No. 1001 to us.  😉  😉

Following David Archuleta seems to be a never-ending lesson of learning about life, about dealing with patience.   Jeeezz .. learning from a young man decades younger is an exasperating thought.   But there you go  …   all kinds of things happen in this world.   Especially after you’ve met David Archuleta.  😛

 Yes, David, continue to play hide-and-seek with us!  😀

Trouble is, I never learn.   Not when it comes to David Archuleta.  I can preach all I want to others and to myself.   But this mixed ball of confusion will continue for as long as that young man gives any indication of continuing to sing.

Is all this upp-ing and down-ing and all the in-betweens mixed emotions killing me?   Or izzit making me stronger??  –  in order to continue having more and more upp-ings and down-ings and experience more mixed emotions in the future???     It boggles the mind just thinking about it!

But we forgive him for all our emotions of whatever genre the moment he stands before us to sing.   I think I can say this for all of us Archies!  😀

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In this vid, David talks about Emotions.   That we need to go through all those emotional ups and downs. (around 2.10)   Hmm …  😀  😀

Off on the Trans-Siberian Railway

No, not David Archuleta.   Me.   It’s time for me again to take a break.   This time it’s taking a ride on the longest railway track in the world through Russia, Mongolia and China and stopping at Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk on Lake Baikal, Ulanbator then en route to Beijing and Shanghai.

Will David ever make such a trip?   Maybe.  Maybe not.   I don’t know that guy anymore.   He is all grown up and needs to spread his wings and shock us in every way. Young people like to do that sort of thing.   But it is good – keeps us Archies on our toes   (What does that mean?   Dunno.   LOL!  😀   )

He comes out with the biggest surprises nowadays  …  such as singing a song like Workin’ in the middle of a street,  then disappear to Taiwan without warning and being treated like a VIP.   Even sing to perfection a Chinese song!!   There is a rumour too that he sang “I Am A Child Of God” in Mandarin with minimal last minute coaching and to maximum perfection!   What the heck!   Totally out of human expectation.     So I can safely say that I might even bump into him in the train diner on the Trans-Siberian, right?   Wouldn’t that be precious?!   What should I do if I did?   Make him sing for his supper?  😛  😀   And why not – David is always ready for some fun and very sporting!  😀

Liking very much this pic of serious David.   Mentally taking his image with me.

Hair looking good.   Hope he doesn’t go running to an enthusiastic barber back home!  😥

(PS: I look at the pic below and strongly doubt there will be wifi for me to tap on.   Hopefully, either John or Sheba will take some time off their busy schedules and write something.   So  …  Happy and Safe Travels to moi.   C U guys sometime in September.   Tata!   Be good and happy and listen to Archie!  😀   )

-tracewillow-

Too Cute!

David tweets –

“This is Snow at the Shanghai Baby Home. She has a congenital heart defect and needs another operation. Such a cutie!”

“One of the highlights of our time in Shanghai was getting to visit the Shanghai Baby’s Home. It was started to help kids in orphanages who need lifesaving treatment. It was touching. These littlest ones are people who can’t help themselves. I’m amazed by Daisy and the Shanghai Baby’s Home crew who constantly are fighting to help these kids’ lives. So glad that the Cook Family brought us here! It reminds me that I need to be grateful that I’ve had a home and a family who has taken care of me. We played in the play room and made forts. The kids saw my phone though and seemed to know that there may be some games on there. . They immediately found a Disney game that I whip out from time to time. Glad we could all share a love for Disney. Link to their Facebook will be in my bio.#Shanghai #shanghaibabyshome#China #orphans “

David Archuleta and Chopsticks

David posts on Instagram –

“Had some down time this week to stop by Wen Wu Temple Park and get some good food by Sun Moon Lake with our travel companions Kym, Matthew and Keli. 🍚🍽🐟👌🏼 Photo Cred: Keli Teh #Taiwan #food#wenwutemplepark #sunmoonlake #foodie“

Well, it wasn’t the delish-looking fish which caught our attention.   Or the fact that David is eating (what’s new?!   LOL  😀   )

It’s – HE IS USING CHOPSTICKS !!!

There is a fixed way of holding a pair of chopsticks.   It is taught to a child the moment he or she begins to learn to eat at the family table by himself/herself.   The wrong way will be dealt with immediately by a parent with a sharp whack on the knuckle.

Is David using his chopsticks the correct way?   Well  …

More like we are wondering if he succeeded in picking up a single morsel of that lovely fish.  😀   Or did he have to resort to knife and fork eventually.  😛   He looks rather amused with himself in the pic – probably getting hungrier by the minute as he ploughed through his attempts.   Knowing David and his tenacity, he would have done just that!  🙂

 image cr: http://www.thekitchen.com

We are also wondering why the Westerners call chopsticks – “Chopsticks”.   It’s a funny name, come to think of it.  Anyway, this vid might weakly explain it.   (haha not really!)   If David is wondering too, he might just relate to this musical “explanation”  😀