Boy band Energy blames heavy snowfall in Dalian, China, for
their no-show at the Singapore Heart Foundation's charity show,
Affairs of the Heart, on Sunday night.
Why, who in their right mind would want to be stuck in freezing
Beijing when they could be in sunny Singapore?
The guys had missed their flight, no thanks to a protracted trip to
Beijing airport. What usually takes seven hours on the road, had
stretched to some 10 hours, lamented Milk, leader of the Taiwanese
quartet. The band was the most popular group in Singapore,
according to Y.E.S. 93.3FM music chart's year-end tabulation.
"We really wanted to go to Singapore. It's freezing cold in Dalian,
with the temperature dropping to minus-15 degrees Celsius," he told
reporters over the phone from Beijing yesterday. "It was so cold,
we couldn't sleep."
The guys had lingered at the airport for a few hours, before giving
up hope of catching another flight to Singapore.
"We were really disappointed," Milk added.
Especially since the trip had been for a good cause - to perform at
a charity show. The guys were looking forward to meeting the
"kidney patients" here.
Kidney patients, at the Heart Foundation charity show? Hey, their
words, not ours.
"We hope the company can rearrange another trip for us to visit the
kidney patients," said Kunda, apologising profusely, sounding
remorseful. "It would have been our second performance for the
charity in Singapore."
Apparently, Energy still had fond memories of performing at the
National Kidney Foundation's fundraiser in April and were a little
confused.
But we're sure the Singapore Heart Foundation will not take the
boys' blunder to heart. - TODAY
