120311 - Asian American Film Festival at SF Japantown

Wong Fu Pro's Wes tweeted about it this morning and I nearly freaked out because it's jtown. I'm there quite often and I wanted to see Wong Fu Pro super badly. Admission was free so I asked my mom and we later went!

Hotel Kabuki is NICE. I've never been in there before (and of course for good reason because why would I need to go into a hotel there anyway lmfao) but there was a staff member near the front and he directed me where to go. I wrote my name on the paper (even though I was already RSVP-ed for two) and walked in. The setup was very similar to that of a church meeting of our's, with seats facing toward the center of the room and two mics set up on both sides.

I couldn't see any open chairs that were together but later on two people walked out and my mom and I took their spots. I looked to my left, diagonally, and then nearly gasped because seated in the front row of the left side was none other than Phil, Wes, and Ted - WONG FU PRODUCTIONS! Omg I was freaking out seeing them in person. I was thinking, "I'm in the same room as Wong Fu omg they're right there IN THE FLESH flajsdlkfasdF". I wanted to snap a photo since I had a really good angle/view of them but I didn't want to look like a stupid teenager who just came to see some youtube celebrities (even if that is who I really am OTL. H-Hey I did enjoy the speakings!).

They went up to speak third. Haha typical Wong Fu humor/personalities. :) They said they weren't very good public speakers and Ted (whose hair is so grey, it's shocking) sat down because he wasn't speaking at first haha. I recorded the audio feed on my iPod. They talked about how "Wong Fu Productions" all started and how they've evolved and expanded over the many years they've been together.

After they finished speaking, Wes and Ted returned to their seats while Phil went to the other side and crouched down behind the chair of Christine Chen while he talked to her. I've seen her in some of their videos before! Then later I noticed Chris Nyugen also :)

Finally it was break time! Immediately hords of teenage girls like me appeared and were discussing whether to to approach them or not. "Wes is talking to people!" one said. Then one girl went up to Phil and they took a photo together. falsjdf I'm jealous cause they talked a little bit. More and more girls arrived but Phil then went off to talk to some people and I never got a photo with him :( Some took photos with Wes but then he too went to chat with some people and I was like flajsldkf noooooooo.

Just as Ted was about to stop I asked if I could take a photo with him and he said sure. Since I was all alone I had to ask a random girl if she could take it for me and she was like "sure......." Ted's cute :) He seems to be the quiet type though haha. After he was done with photos he walked right past me to get some food and omg, shivers.

Some girls asked Christine for a photo and she seemed so surprised haha "ME? Are you sure you want me??" I didn't really know who she was but she's super nice! When I took a photo for these girls she told me "Your camera is so cute!" hehe. :)

But before I could take a picture with her Wes turned around and we immediately asked him. One of the girls was wearing a Nice Guys tee and he said "Nice shirt" haha. He asked if we were all friends and I said no... so he did the individual photos with us. :) flakjsdf he put his arm around me and I was thinking "OMG CAN HE FEEL MY FAST HEARTBEAT THROUGH MY ARM" lol I was spazzing out. Thanked him and left. :)

I really wish I asked Chris for a photo! NO one went up to him D: I would've if the break time hadn't ended and I had to go like 10 minutes later.

It was SO COOL seeing them in person though. Gah I wish I could've actually talked to them though. That's my only regret!

110708 Seeing SJM's Henry Lau up close and personal

「我一看到你，I go Cra Cra Crazy」- 表白, Henry Lau

Hello everyone! It's been a while! For the past month, given a few days, I've been spending it as I usually do, in Taiwan, visiting family and just having fun.

(Btw, this is a long intro so I would just scroll down instead of hearing-er, reading me blab xP)

I often think of myself as having extreme bad luck when it comes to kpop encounters, the things that are always on my lame. How lame right? But you see, whenever I'm not in Taiwan, my favorite groups decide to drop by Taiwan and hold a concert. When I am there, people seem to boycott my little island. Thanks a lot, right?

So I wasn't particularly surprised when I found out Super Junior M's long stay in Taiwan was coming to an end a good full week before I returned. You rock SME. However, they were returning the day after I arrived for a fanparty, which I was not able to attend due to the fact that whenever we first arrive, we immediately head down to southern Taiwan, and not Taipei. Sigh.

Yeah sure Siwon and Donghae were still around somewhere filming for Skip Beat but it's not like I would be able to find their location and stalk them. That's creepy. Oh and then then filming finished.

So imagine my excitement when I discovered that Henry arrived in Taiwan the same day I made my way up to Taipei. This was my chance, my last chance. Erika had previously said to me "T___T you have to see sj-m or any member before you leave though!"

How I wanted to, so so badly! Knowing my luck, chances were slim, especially when Henry tweeted photos of himself in Yilan, the same place where we had almost gone, but instead had gone to somewhere else. /FACEPALM.

I had also secretly hoped that the SM Store was opening before I left. Finding out that it opened on the day when I was leaving (but that was ok, since my flight was late at night) and then finding out that Henry freaking Lau would be there as the special guest left me speechless. OH THANK YOU GOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

So the store planned to give out tickets for the lucky 330 fans on Day 1 (630 on Day 2) for the sneak preview where they could actually purchase things at 11 am. I figured, a few hours early would be decent enough, right? But due to my annoyingly slow moving dad when he's not the one who's in a rush who tagged along although I was perfectly fine by myself, I arrived a little after 10 to see dozens of girls there. Oh and then we found out that the line I was standing in wasn't the line for the ticket at all. That line went around the corner for another block and a half.

Check it out below: (this was me walking from the back of the line to the front of the store)

A store worker was telling someone that he was shocked when he arrived to open the doors this morning because many many girls had already started to queue up.

Anyways, I made a new friend while in line! She's the same age as me, but then again most of the girls there seemed to be around high school age, I'd say about 70%. Her favorite member is Donghae and she attended Super Show 3 along with the Fan Party. Lucky duck ;____;

So we eventually made our way to the front of the line and managed to secure a ticket. Alas, it was for the 9 pm entrance, which I could not make... oh well. I was #319/330. x) I offered my ticket to my friend who had refused hers from the lady because she couldn't stay that late either.

People had already started accumulating by the front and also across the street to wait for Henry, who wasn't due for another 3 1/2 hours. My original plan was to just hang out in the nearby Starbucks or 7-11 until around 1 or so but if that happened, I'd be in the back and unable to see Henry at all probably. So we made our way across the street and after a few people near the front left, we managed to squeeze our way into the front line! It was a loong...long....I repeat, LONG....wait for that black van (which turned out to be dark blue lol). There were many false alarms. The first one was the funniest because a silver van stopped directly in front of the store and everyone who was sitting (including me) jumped to their feet amidst the screaming that had started. Then two middle aged women stepped out and everyone went "Aww.." lol. It was pretty hilarious.

The audio speakers were set up soon afterwards in which they played SJM's Perfection CD on replay until Henry arrival. Yeah, remember when I said long wait? Yeah, let's just say I memorized the 'Perfection' fanchants by the time he arrived. xP

After reading multiple news reports, it seems the total estimate of fans there were over 1000. DANG! I was guessing a couple hundred but over a 1000? That's crazy! I forgot to mention that the area was especially cramped already. Add a thousand fans and that equals craziness beyond belief.

Screaming arose when Henry's blue van FINALLY showed up, a good half hour early than expected because apparently the police asked them to start the show sooner because the crowd was getting out of control. The van pulled up and first exited some people and then finally Henry's orangy hair color was seen and then he came out, waving to everybody.

Let me just say, I was speechless (not literally though because I was screaming along with everyone else xP). Maybe it was because my dream to see someone while in Taiwan was finally coming true or maybe it was because I had a dang good view, but Henry looked AMAZING. More amazing than he usually does. I'm serious. He looked stunning and his face looked flawless (I can still picture it when I close my eyes).

He's seriously beautiful. After waving a few more times, he disappeared inside the store.

Oh yeah, and asian fans are scary. Seriously scary. The area in front of me was a car zone and security had already told many people that they're not allowed to be there. Of course, all was void and ignored when Henry arrived. Yeah, the girls all around me were screaming "GET OUT OF HERE YOU CAN'T STAND HERE MOVE!"

(Just goes with my theory that international kpop fans are brutal to each other online, while Asian kpop fans are well...both. xD)

Still super upset that I was stupid enough to not think to bring my dad's DSLR camera. WHY OH WHY DIDN'T I BRING IT. OH THE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS I COULD HAVE TAKEN THAT DAY.

Oh Henry was his usual cute self and appeared in the second floor story window of the store first hiding behind some boxes, and then jumping up, disappearing, and then repeating about two more times. How precious is he? ;____;

I managed to catch a pic of him mid-jump LOL.

Soon after the press conference started. Blah, so much for "the best view would be across the street"! Balloons and cameramen were in the way! We only saw the top of Henry's head, sometimes. If we were lucky.

See what I mean?

Since we couldn't see him, I decided to focus on his voice. Oh, his voice. It's a pretty voice. ;__; The speakers were very clear so we could hear him during his interview, and oh Henry. Such a fail sometimes in Chinese xD Forgetting the word for "fan" (ge mi) and than "vacation" (du jia). Haha oh and he sang the chorus of his song "Off my Mind". HIS VOICE.

The interview was pretty brief and afterwards he disappeared into the store, the other dude than announcing that Henry would have to leave pretty soon. You can imagine everyone's disappointment.

When he was walking out, Henry was clearly supposed to be heading towards his car but suddenly he walked in the other direction, yes, towards the fans! Oh wherever will you find such an idol who loves his fans as much as Henry does? (forever bitter towards the people who ignore fans at airports and wear face masks while walking through them)

Fancam: Watch from 0:20, where he exits the store and decides to give some love back to his fans.

Oh Henry, you see what you caused? You cute little mochi.

My gosh, everyone lost control of their senses, yes, me including. Come on, if one of your biases was heading your way, what would you do? What would the thousands of girls around you do? SWARM.

Lol Henry looked overwhelmed for a second, especially when someone hugged him. Haha he awkwardly hugged back. I suppose it was difficult hugging someone when everyone is trying to edge in on you. Oh gosh, but still he was so kind. He waved and touched a few hands, NOT MINE THOUGH. OF COURSE HE TOUCHES THE HAND OF MY FRIEND WHO'S RIGHT NEXT TO ME BUT NOPE NOT MINE.

Oh well. I'm not too upset, because I still can't believe how close I was to him. How close exactly?

I'm close. I'm the one whose face is clearly visible over the car. LOL THAT POOR CAR WITH A DRIVER INSIDE. Yeah that was a road. With cars. Driving. Well, trying to drive earlier at least. It's probably a tad difficult to drive when the road is overrun with screaming fangirls. This reminds me of Justin Bieber in his movie when he was out on the streets with fans chasing after him and getting practically attacked by his fans. Yeah. The almost exact same thing happened with Henry. Not 100%, at least multiple fans were not throwing themselves at him like *cough* some Beliebers.

I was literally just a car away from him. Omg. That thought alone made me insane for hours. Still does. When I close my eyes I can still visualize him standing in front of me. I only managed to take one shot of him then, granted, not a very good one because my camera was zoomed in 5.0x accidentally and well zoom was not necessary then lol.

Although it was during my one picture of him during the swarming that he touched my friend's hand. Sigh, maybe I shouldn't have taken that photo? Oh well.

Oh, and he did a heart with his arms alskjdflksjdlkf WHY IS HE SO PRECIOUS. I haven't found a photo of that yet though... After a few more seconds he and his security managed to return to the van and drove away soon after, Henry waving from the window and all.

Probably the best shot I took yesterday:

It feels surreal having been so close to that violin prince. I have to say it's amazing to see him receive so much love from so many people. It was tough on Henry during that ONLY13 hate he got (which broke my heart because no one who did anything wrong should deserve so much unnecessary hate), so I just hope he was super happy and pleased with all the love. :)

Irony because THIS was the best night of my life.

SMTOWN WAS BEAUTIFUL.

How do I even begin to write about the most epic day of my life....


I'll start from the beginning!

Saturday, Sept 4, 2010.


Early in the morning my friend picked me up to go to SFO for our flight to Los Angeles. Basically the whole time we were freaking out.

When we arrived, more freaking out. It was funny because when we were slowly descending down to the airport, I saw a sign that said Staples (the store). I pointed it out to my friend and she got all excited for nothing hahaha.

We wanted to go to the International Arrival area to see the place where the SM Artists walked (lol) but we couldn't.

My friend's family's friend picked us up. She was really nice, and my friend being Korean, she was Korean also (I only understand a tiny bit of what they said sometimes). Ahjumma was super friendly :D

Then we went straight to the area around Staples Center! I was squealing inside when we passed by and also the JW Marriot, where some of the artists stayed, although most stayed at the Sheraton...which we never did find..... -.-

After parking, we went to a nearby Starbucks where when we walked in, these two guys and a girl who were wearing pink Soshified shirts walked out. Later on, some girls wearing the SFI Shinee World shirt came in too. :D It was so cool.

We stayed for a little bit to eat a sandwich and then we decided to go to the LA Convention Center a bit early, as we were planning to go to the Koreaboo fanmeet at 2 pm. We left a little after 1 pm. When we got to the parking lot there, there were many girls and guys walking too and some people were standing there, wearing tags that said "SM Town Live '10 in LA STAFF". So we followed some of the people in front of us up the stairs and into the building. There was a little sign that said "SM Town 505" (actually I don't recall the exact room number...it was 500 something lol.) I was a bit confused as I remember the Koreaboo people saying the fanmeet was in 408AB but we followed the people lol. Then we came across a giant, and I mean GIANT, line of people that went all the way to the end of the hall and around the little bend there and back again. I was like "....I THOUGHT WE WERE EARLY." There were many people wearing pink shirts there and then this girl came with name tags and asked for your name. She wrote with a pink sharpie.

It wasn't until later, like 20 minutes later, until I realized something was not right. A girl wearing a Soshified shirt came and said, "Any Soshified staff? Anyone?" Then it hit me. I remember reading that Soshified was NOT planning on coming to the Koreaboo fanmeet. I was like "uhmmm...." Then the girls in front of me turned around and said, "This is for SNSD only. The one for everyone is somewhere else." I was really annoyed lol. We waited all that time in line for NOTHING. So we quickly ran to room 408, where thankfully, the fanmeet had not started yet as we got there before 2:00. But there was a line (probably not as long as Soshified...but then again there were crowds of people lined up in the front.)

The atmosphere was amazing. I wish I could be with kpop lovers 24/7. A girl in front had on a red DBSK Always Keep the Faith shirt and then a guy walked up to her and said, "I loove your shirt." Lol. Then the girls who I guess was friends of that guy started playing Lucifer and two of them started dancing to the tutting part. I was like alskfj;alskfd inside. I also heard someone playing Sorry, Sorry. I had been texting my Twitter friend who was near the front of the line so haha we went over to their. Although the front wasn't really a line...more like a mob.

They finally opened the doors at 2:15 and it was legitely mayhem getting in. Some people started screaming AHHHHHHH when everyone was pushing in lol. When people were in, they immediately charged for the different booths. My friend lined up for the Super Junior one, where a line was already growing while I went for DBSK stuff for Yuriko xP. After I managed to get some stuff, I went back to the SuJu booth where my friend was almost near the front...however there were people cutting in line all over the place and then they announced they sold out of shirts. :( I was very sad. I didn't get any SuJu stuff! But I did get my SHINee Cheer Pack that I ordered off SFI earlier to be picked up at the meetup. :) It was really gorgeous...the LED stick and the glow in the dark shirt hahaha.

So after I predominantly got everything I wanted, we walked around just to browse but didn't do that much. There was a DJ playing music and then he started playing Sorry, Sorry and OMG. SO FREAKING EPIC. Everyone cheered and then people all over the room started dancing to it. I felt right at home with all the kpop lovers. LOL.

My friend and I signed one of the SM TOWN shirts that Koreaboo was selling. The dude said it was going to be given to the artists and you could sneak your name into the shirt if you wanted LOL. So I wrote "SHINee Hwaiting! -Glennda". I hope the shirt got to the SM artists!

There was an aegyo competition, which I didn't join and now regret (I do have confidence in my aegyo LOL). This adorable girl won (psshh I can do better HA).

We left soon after because there was nothing else to really do...although I kinda wanted to stay. I wish I did because there were dance competitions (which I wouldn't have joined anyways but still) and also dance mobs, where the whole crowd danced to a song. They danced to Abracadabara and Ring Ding Dong! Urgh! I would totally have joined that! x___x

So we ended up walking to Staples Center, where a small crowd was already gathering. We decided to just line up anyways, even though there was almost 2 hours left until the concert. More people started to gather and then we see a sky writer...which eventually wrote "RELIVE SMTOWN AT ALLKPOP.COM" It was so freaking cool! I mean, how many times do you get to see letters in the sky about a kpop concert? I can only imagine the clueless people who don't know of kpop who saw that and wondered what allk-pop was LOL.

I managed to meet up with a friend of a friend of a friend, who I started talking to through facebook LOL. It's complicated. But we let her and her sister join us in line haha. I also met some new people who happened to be behind us. They were SuJu stans. It was pretty funny because they were trying to figure out how to smuggle in the light sticks so one of them stuck it in her shirt.

I'm not sure when this happened but apparently some people heard Lucifer being played in Staples before the concert started and everyone was screaming because obviously SHINee was in rehearsal xD. I just heard that people were like glued to the walls of Staples to hear more.


It was pretty much agony waiting for the Staples staff to let us in at 6:00. When it finally hit 6, people started yelling "5...4....3...2....1....

AHHHHH!!!!" They finally let us in around 7 minutes later and it was crazy. Wel, there were doors all around the building and people lined up everywhere because you had to pass through one by one through the metal detector while handing your bag to the other security guard, who didn't do much except open it lol. I hid my lightsticks into the DBSK shirt I got for Yuriko (hehe) and folded it neatly and placed it on top LOL. So when they opened the bag all they would see is a bright red shirt.

My friend and I ended up being seperated from the nice girls we met in line (and sadly we didn't get their names) and my friend of a friend of a friend with her sister. I immediately ran for it, trying to look for concert goods but they were nowhere to be seen...Then we came across the giant mob of people (and I mean crazy mob.....you could not get through it...) around the YesStyle table because everyone wanted the free package from them. Haha I wasn't completely sure on what was going on but I joined in with the pushing and the shoving for some white slip apparently. This girl who got it was trying to get out of the crowd and ended up shouting "Here! Here! Take it!" and gave one to me LOL. It was just asking for like basic information and how we got to know about YesStyle.com . I ended up borrowing a pen from this random dude cause I didn't have one haha.

After making an entire circle of the first floor of Staples Center, we trudged to our seats in Section 206. :) We were kinda scared to see the creepy old man from the Soshified fanmeet sitting two seats from us....but then later two Cassies came over and it ended up the guy was in the next section lol. There weas also a kinda cute guy on my left side who was a really amazing singer....haha and I only know that because he kept singing along to songs. Pre-concert, some songs were being played over the sound system including this one which we didn't really know and the guy next to me said, "It's H.O.T." Yeah. Then BoA's "Eat You Up" came on and when I told my friend what the song was called, she thought I said "H20" LMAO.

ARE YOU READY TO HEAR ABOUT THE ACTUAL CONCERT? LOL A COOKIE TO YOU IF YOU ACTUALLY READ WHAT I WROTE ABOVE.

Btw not all of these are in order....I tried.


So the lights dimmed and people screamed, as expected. xD. The intro video started playing and it was very adorable. Then the first act was up - J Min!

Haha I did cheer but I didn't know who she was...I recorded it and you can hear my friend and I saying, "WHO'S THAT?" "I HAVE NO IDEA!"

But she was really good :) Her voice and her guitar skills were pretty darn amazing. Then she went on to talk about how most of us in the crowd probably didn't know who she was because she spends most of her time in Japan. Then she went to speak half in English and half in Japanese. She performed another song and then was gone.

Then the CSJH The Grace girls came on - Sunday and Dana! They each performed solos and then one duet together. Their voices are just gorgeous. Seriously. Even though I don't really know CSJH The Grace....I was awed by their vocals.

f(x) came on with La Cha Ta! The stadium went crazy! (I feel bad for the opening acts because no one really knows them.... D: ) OMG I LOVE f(x) SO MUCH. I remember sitting there, screaming slash recording, and thinking about how that was f(x). IN THE FLESH. OMG. I was really disappointed to see that f(x) came as four ........ Amber missing as per the usual now.... I was really sad because I heard some girls talking before the concert about how they saw f(x) including Amber...

After they were done, they stopped and talked for a little bit. Of course Krystal did most of the talking since she is a Californian girl (along with Amber...). She mentioned how amazing it was to be performing in LA's Staples Center. f(x) did introductions also and OMG SULLI IS SO ADORABLE WITH HER ACCENT "Hi, I'm Sulli~" with her tongue rolling around her name. She's so cute. xD And LUNA OMG ADORABLE ALSO. "Hiii~ I'm Luna! *waves*" Victoria, I LOVE HER. She spoke Mandarin! She said something along the lines of how she knew there were lots of Chinese in the crowd (crowd screams) and some other stuff. :) She's too cute. Krystal ended their talk segment with "I'd like to introduce my sister, Jessica..." (crowd screams more)

So yes. Next was Krystal and Jessica with their Tik Tok duet! Eeeee Sica! :D They were both awesome.

After that, Chu started playing. ^____^ The biggest surprise was during Amber's rap part and you know how the song goes "AMBER!" before Amber raps. This time, however, instead of saying "Amber", they go "MINHO!" and CRAZINESS OMG. I WAS FREAKING DYING BECAUSE HE WAS THE FIRST SHINEE MEMBER I LOVED AND THE FIRST SHINEE MEMBER FOR ME TO SEE IN PERSON. Anyways, of course the crowd goes wild. That was just not expected at all. He did the rap pretty awesomely because he is Minho after all and then he left the stage right after that lol. f(x) finishes with Chu and then goes off. Although I was still pretty much dazed...my mind was only thinking "HOLY CRAP THAT WAS CHOI MINHO!"

Zhang Li Yin came on and she spoke a lot of Mandarin haha. I reallly like her! She's so underrated though x___x She has a lot of talent! I believe she sang one or two songs...I know one of them was a Mandarin song though, all apparently from her first album which she's been singing for a long time now. So I hear.

Then it was Kangta! Whoo! After a solo (or two) he said he was going to sing a duet with Ara-ssi, and I distinctly remember that because both my friend and I thought he was going to sing with ARASHI LOL. And then Staples showed the names "KANGTA ARA" and we went OOH. Ara-ssi. Aha....... It was pretty funny. My friend decided to save the battery for the camera but was unprepared for Onew when he came on stage as a Chinese delivery boy LOL. (Crowd goes wild of course). I was like HOMG IT'S ONEWWWWW ONEWWW OMG. So it was quite sad my friend didn't get the best shot of Onew before he rushed off stage. But it was a really adorable duet! My friend got a good shot of when Kangta got on his knees and gave her the flower. It was ADORABLE OKAY.

I believe Kim Min Jong came on next. Yeah. Didn't know who he was either, but he was pretty awesome too. xD

Then it was ...yes.......my beautiful biases.....the shining SHINee baby!!!!!! Onew appeared all of a sudden in the middle of the stage singing Stand By Me and OMG CRAZINESS (but I'm sure you already knew that). I was freaking out. There they were. Onew. Jonghyun. Key. And on the other stage - Minho. Taemin. (would you look at that! my top two~) Stand By Me is such a pretty song...although Onew, Jjong, and Key did most of the singing and Taemin and Minho kinda just stood there looking pretty for the majority of it haha.

Then they got together in the middle stage and Noona Neomu Yeppeo started. FREAK OUT ALSKJDF. I LOVE THAT SONG. (well I legitely love most of their songs xD) Crowd goes wild at Onew's "Noona my MVP~~". alsjdf Taemin and his cute dancing. laksjdfas;ldkjfadf. When the song ended, they had a short talk section. OMG. Well, of course they said their signature "Annyeonghaseyo! Binaneun SHINee imnida!" But they immediately followed that with another 90 degree bow (because our boys are so polite :D ) and "Hello! We are SHINee!" MORE FREAKING OUT FROM ME. I was hoping for individual introductions in English but it didn't happen, sadly lol. But Key spoke English! He said a LOT actually o.o His English is more English than Engrish, and I was very impressed! What he said was adorable too. He talked about how SHINee means to receive light and how tonight they were receiving a lot of light. It was adorable. He ended with "Are you ready for the next song? ARE YOU REAADYYY? GET DOWN!" And Get Down started playing. Minho - amazing rapper. Seriously. He's so freaking fierce, that bb. Then that song was immediately followed by Juliette. AHHH THE DANCING. AND MINHO'S "SHIN HO~" *air kissy thingy* I LOVE TAEMIN'S DANCING SO MUCH. Okay I'll stop fangirling now.

SHINee went off the stage after that and TRAX came on. I OFFICIALLY LOVE THEM. They're amazing! Especially the blonde one (forgot his name haha sorry...) with his guitar skills. But really, TRAX is underrated also. I think they played this song which I don't know of and then they played their newly released song, Oh! My Goddess. I really really love that song....it's gorgeous. ^___^

After they went off stage, it became dark again and then Staples changed it from "TRAX" to "LEE YEON HEE TAEMIN". MORE FREAK OUT AS YOU CAN ASSUME. Taeminnie was on the piano for Lee Yeon Hee and her beautiful voice. (Seriously. All the underrated girls have amazing vocals.) Taemin~ I have a piano too at home~ you can come over anytime you want~ Haha no but really he was pretty good too. :)

Next was "ZHOU MI LUNA" eeehhhh omgg Zhou Mi! I love him!!! I was really not expecting a duet between him and Luna. (If I had known he would have a duet with anyone I would have guessed Victoria since she's Chinese also lol). I showed my mom when I got home the fancams of their duet and she thought Luna WAS the Chinese one in f(x) because her pronunciation was really good. Everyone already knows how gorgeous Luna's voice is anyways. It's simply omg. In the end the two held hands and it was so cute!!!!!

Of course right after Zhou Mi would be "HENRY HEECHUL JAY". Henry came on with an AMAZING violin intro for Heechul's Sonata of Temptation. HENRY IS SO GOOOOD I DON'T EVEN. Heechul is epic. Just simply epic. Then he "kissed" Henry and everyone screams. Hahahahaha oh gosh Heechul. Of course you would. Even in America. XDD. Jay came on for a little bit but most of the times it was just Heechul with his epic voice and then he dropped to his knees and it just got more epic then.

I think Seohyun and Kyuhyun had their maknae duet after that. Haha Staples Center had a fail. They wrote "KYUHYUN HEOHYUN". Of course the crowd screams when the two hold hands....all I must say is that it was really awkward lol. Kyuhyun had his serious maknae I-don't-wanna-do-this face on and Seohyun had her calm face as usual. xD But their voices are beautiful together!

Later Eunhyuk, Shindong, Minho, and Key (the main rappers of SuJu and SHINee!) came out from the crowd with A-Yo! AHH EPICNESS. AGAIN, MINHO IS A FIERCE RAPPER AND THE REST ARE AMAZING ALSO. Eunhyuk's whole ghetto outfit was pretty awesome with the bling LOL.

SNSD appeared with Run Devil Run! SONES go wild O.O It was like a blur of pink lights from them lol. But ahhh the epic So Nyeo Shi Dae! They really are in SYNC. Their leg movements in Run Devil Run were amazing. You have to give them credit for their awesomeness :) Then they had a short talk segment also, where they started taking off their black jackets and SONES went crazy again. I was just kinda sitting there awkwardly, thinking "Am I supposed to cheer about SNSD stripping off their jackets? o.o" But they then continued with Kissing You and then went off.

Super Junior appeared after (I think??) and EXTREME CHEERING. It is SuJu after all. ^___^ They came out with the korean Super Girl remix. AHHHHH I LOVE IT. You really can't stop staring at Donghae's arm muscles lol. And OMG YESUNG. AND WOOKIE. Super Junior just screams epicness. They had a short talk section also with their introduction and Henry speaking some English on behalf of SuJu ^____^ Then they got Siwon to say some stuff and he was adorable! XD His English is really awesome too! It was cute when he said "Are you having......enjoying?" Haha SO CUTE. He was really humble to everyone. Oh Siwon. ^___^ They started with No Other and ahhhhh cutenesss! After that was Bonamana and c rowd goes wild, especially during the pelvic thrust part AHAHA. Oh gosh. Lee Teuk was totally teasing the fans during one of his solo when he revealed a part of his shoulder lol. Oh Teukie you. I was kind of sitting there dazed (yes xD) because they were right there. SU. PER. JU. NI. OR. They also had this dance thingy and after that they went off too.

Queen of SM! BoA! SHE IS SO COOL OMG. I forget what she sang first.......but her voice when she's speaking English is really adorable haha. It's kinda higher pitched and just plain cute. She had some technical difficulties where she kinda halted the concert (but she is queen so I'm sure it's fine xDD ). I don't remember much except that it was dark and you just hear BoA crying ".....I can't hear my voice in my ear monitor~~~~ *repeats*" But then I think some staff fixed it and she started with Dangerous like a pro. After it ended, she stopped and talked for a little bit, sitting down on a stool. She talked in English about how it was her return to Korea after 5 years and her 10 year anniversary since debut! (loud cheers). BoA is just too cute. She then sang one of her favorite ballads from her album (I think). Then there was "I Did It For Love" (or was that the ballad?....o.o) where Key came out and sang with her! The two had a very long moment where they stared into each other's eyes and I was like oooh. Intense. Hyungwhore Minho must be jealous lol.

Super Junior came out again with the Sorry, Sorry remix and JUST FREAKING EPICNESS since it is their most popular song. A lot of sick dancing and I think this was when Siwon like opened his shirt and showed off his chocolate abs....oh gosh. I was pretty much dead.

SNSD brought out Tell Me Your Wish remix with their new outfits from their Japanese Genie PV. Eeeeee~ The leg motions are really cool haha. Once again, so freaking in sync, just like SHINee. I actually caught some times when SuJu was not in sync during Super Girl xD but then again most of them have not danced that as the rest of the official SJ-M members. :3

SHINee came back later with Ring Ding Dong and ahhhhhhhhhhhh. So cool. I love the dance. Taeminni was so presh. Yeah and during the "rocko rocko rocko rocko~" (or whatever they actually sing haha) with Minho in front. Yeah. I was pretty much screaming my lungs out whenever SHINee was out. The most anticipated song of them was Lucifer, however. I distinctly remember when the stage went dark sometimes and you couldn't tell who was next, some people started chanting at one point "LUCIFER~ LUCIFER~ LUCIFER!"

Later there was a Jonghyun and Yesung duet (YESUNG MY BIAS AND JJONG...WELL I FREAKING LOVE JJONG OKAY). So beautiful. omg. Yesung was really kinda sorta close to me. :3

There was also a Onew and Ryeowook duet! Haha Staples had another fail with "ONEW RYOWOOK". DUBU LEADER AND WOOKIE ARE AN AMAZING COMBINATION. They sang "The Name I loved" from SHINee's Year Of Us Mini-album which I found kinda funny because it's a SHINee song. But Ryeowook did fantastic. EEE.

f(x) came back with NU ABO. Dude. Luna's high notes are 10000000000x more amazing live. WHY IS HER VOICE SO FREAKING GORGEOUS.

Soshi came back with Oh! :D and SuJu came back with A Man in Love. ^___^

There was a dance battle with Taemin starting off all being epic! He's crazy good at dancing....it's pretty amazing. Eunhyuk joined soon after, followed by Hyoyeon, Luna, Sooyoung, Yoona, Yuri, and Minho. It was pretty amazing...and very intense.

Then f(x) came back some time later with Mr. Boogie. I still haven't seen that performed with Amber yet. :( Once again - Luna. Simply amazing.

SHINee was back with Up & Down and I was very disappointed when Lucifer didn't start playing afterwards lol.

I know a certain friend of mine has probably been scanning this for her bias xP so I'll finally get to it. It was already 3 and a half hours into the concert and then finally the stage darkens again around 10:34 pm. Some random Engrish is spoken (which I don't remember) and then you hear. "WE ARE DONG. BANG. SHIN. KI." The crowd went simply insane. The Cassies next to us finally stand up lol. Changmin and Yunho descend from the sky OMG IT WAS SO EPIC. They didn't actually perform for a very long time. They sang a part of Mirotic (hot dayum Changmin's high notes were SO SO AMAZING. I DON'T EVEN . OMG. ) Then the two had their own little solos and then were back together for this song.....which I forgot the name of. But it was epic. It is DBSK lol. They stopped to have a talk and I thought they would say a lot of stuff but basically it consisted of "HELLO! WE ARE DONG BANG SHIN KI! ..... THANK YOU!" My friend and I were LOL-ing because we were expecting a long talk hahaha.

Super Junior had "Don't Don" with Heechul on drums, TRAX and Changmin....Changmin and his very very ripped shirt which he completely ripped off later...well at least the top part. It was uhm. Revealing Changmin. O.O Very gorgeous.....lol. Changmin's voice is so beautiful eeeekk.

The stage goes black once again and then you hear the introduction to Lucifer (the one in the MV and not official studio mp3). CROWD GOES WILD OMG. As wild as Sorry, Sorry and DBSK. The Cassies stood up too and so did the guy next to me (who kept singing along haha). Lucifer is a song that almost everyone enjoys (minus select Sones :P ). AHHH THE TUTTING PART LIVE IS AMAZING. SHINEE - SO MUCH IN SYNC WHEN DANCING IT'S CRAZY. Maknae is so fierce and everyone is just so fierce. AHHHH. I just wish my camera didn't die before that and that they sang Lucifer earlier....but it was to make it more epic I suppose. xP. Jonghyun/Onew's voices are so beautiful. I've missed the full version of Lucifer~ It was nice to see them perform it again. I was dying during the end when Taemin is strutting around like the princess he is xD. If only that song could have gone on forever and ever.

I believe SuJu came on with "U" at sometime. AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE. CAUSE I CAN'T STOP THINKING BOUT YOU GIRL~~~

The last to perform was BoA with her epic Hurricane Venus performance. She's just too fierce.

Then everyone came on stage with their pink official SM TOWN '10 shirts and I felt like crying because it was ending. The best night of my life was ending. SM family is adorable. Jonghyun had his camera out and was taking selcas of everyone. There was fanservice all over the place and BoA was on the back stage still in her Hurricane Venus outfit. Confetti poured out from the ceiling and everyone linked hands and bowed. Slowly they all exited the stage, not without me being jealous when some of them high-fived the lucky fans at the floor seats. Some of the groups said final goodbyes, like SHINee who said something along the lines of "Thank you! We are SHINee!" And then they were gone. SM Town was over.

I was pretty much crazy dazed afterwards. It was so much epicness packed into one night. If only it could have lasted longer.

So everyone slowly left the venue and I did manage to meet up shortly with one of my LJ friends :)

Just simply. Amazing.

Thank you SM Town for the best night of my life. It truly was.

~~~

I'm still uploading pics onto my tumblr (elektric-angel.tumblr.com) and videos to youtube. :)

Yesterday was the best day ever

Hi. So I haven't posted on blogger since I got back to the US.

I've been getting reacquainted with what was once my life - livejournal.

I can has new friends from the kpop fandom yo! :D

Thank you omonatheydidnt @ LJ!

Yesterday was epic.

All because of this:

HEllo my boys! I've missed you!

Yes. SHINee makes us go crazy.

I had been refreshing the sment page allday on the 20th waiting for this to come out. As luck would have it, SM releases it after I turn off the computer, so I had to watch it on my iTouch.

Omona people are amazing. Well, Shawols (SHINee's fanclub, short for SHINee World) are.

This is a screeneshot:

Do you see it?

That's right. Maximum comments reached.

Shawols spammed the entire post with glitter text, pics, gifs, and even videos. It was AMAZING. I wasn't there for that party because of timezone stuff -.-

But a second post was made, dedicated to the continuation of the SHINee Party and I am proud to say I contributed :D

This is what we were doing all day.

Seriously, glitter text is so much fun. It made my eyes burn but I got used to it LOL.

Feel free to check out the omona posts here and here.

Did I mention we maxed out the second post too? Haha that's over 20,000 comments! I was so mad - I got the second to last comment. Thanks livejournal!

I remembered why I fell in love with SHINee in the first place. I love them all so much lol. Aren't these stars cute?

The MV is awesome, btw. I spazzed and fangirled like crazy with everyone else. Shawols can be very perverted xD lmao.

HER WHISPER IS THE LUCIFER - JONGHYUN

It hurts doesn't it? xD But oh so pretty and oh so addicting.

Minho actually got a singing line in the song. Like, an actual singing line. His rapping is awesome, btw. Although I still can't stand his hair.

*squeeee* maknae Taemin is just too ... smexy now lol. What happened to cute you, minnie?

Isn't bb boy so cute?

He used to be all:

And now:

Yeah now there's a difference. haha. I kinda like the long hair :D When I saw the teaser for this MV, I didn't like it because I seriously thought he looked like a girl but it's growing on me. :)

Not key's hair though. Not Minho's. But I still love them. :)

Bling Bling JJong is alskjdfsdf~ I miss his blonde hair though.

I found it funny how they shaved their pits lol.

I got about a bazillion new gifs from yesterday's spam so have some cute Minho with his cute old hairstyle:

This is what I posted on the spam yesterday:

FANTASTIC ELASTIC LOVERHOLIC ROBOTRONIC SHINEE MAKES US GO CRAZY

Fun stuff. Blinding stuff.
Can't get enough of the sparkly text xD


It took me a while to understand why everyone was spamming in glitter text. I thought they were just having fun. Then I understood. Shiny SHINee. LOL.

I will never forget yesterday. Shawols need to get into the Guiness Book of World Records for that.

Yay for all my new friends on livejournal!

I've been revamping my account. My layout is still HSJ and my bio and stuff still says everything I loved about jpop. I'm pretty sure all my new friends think I'm crazy. The only thing I've changed is the intro post, which is looking pretty sick. Check out my livejournal here!

And check out my lovely screenshot: this was epic (please excuse my language)

Yes that was my goal, to be one of the highest rated comments. I refreshed a few minutes later and....

Ciao guys~

All good things must come to an end.

So this is my last full night in Taipei. In less than 24 hours, I will be at the airport, trying to hold back tears as I count the last few steps of Taiwan land before I hit the airplane floor.

I'm going to miss my island paradise so freaking much. Everything about it. The food, the people, the places, the crazy drivers, the unbearable heat - every last thing. I think this may have been one of my best vacations here ever.

I went to so many different places and it was amazing. I met up with my cousin who lives on the opposite side of America from me. The last time I saw her was two years ago at a relative's wedding and I'm glad she was in Taiwan too. We saw Eclipse together yesterday and went to karaoke (even though I went a few days ago) with my other favorite cousin. Haha my two favorite cousins from the two sides of my family together~

I don't want to return to the cold weather. I don't want to return to having to bring a jacket everywhere you go. I like it here, where I can wear short sleeves and shorts 24/7, where I can sleep without a blanket and with the fan blowing and the AC on. I don't want to return to needing a ride from a parent everytime I want to go somewhere with friends. I like it here, where I can just hop on the MRT and get to young people hang out places. Taipei is that convenient. I like it here, where there are 7-11s, Hi-Lifes, and Family Marts everywhere you go. I also don't want to return to the land where we stand out sometimes just because we have a different face. Sure these are better times but I like it here, where I blend in with everyone else.

I also don't want to go back to the land of ugly people but that's just me. xD

Asian people are just so much more fashionable too nrghh. There you have (most)people my age dressed in Hollister hoodies, jeans (overly-saggy in the case of boys), and Vans or Converse. Here you have girls (and guys) with their dyed brown hair dressed well...so freaking gorgeous! Asians are just stylish yo. Pictures (courtesy of google xD):



So I see people like that everywhere I go! Guys here are dressed so much better than Americans too, just sayin.

Sorry if I sound so negative towards America. Don't get me wrong, America's cool I suppose. Haha.

I've had fun blogging from Taiwan xD Next time I come, I can stay here for a whoole lot longer now that I got my handy dandy trusty Taiwan passport yea-hay!

Love and peace.

We are Family.

Today I was just sitting around outside when this cute little adorable family walked by. The little girl, just a toddler, was riding this totally awesome toy motorcycle thing (except with three wheels, not two) that actually worked with like idk some motor inside it. The young mother walked along side her, steering the toy every now and then. The father walked behind them. It was the cutest sight ever ;w;

The toy was legit. I was like /jealous lol. I wish I could have had something like that when I was a kid.

That kid does not know how lucky she is haha.

Today we went out to dinner! We ate at this little Italian restaurant that didn't really have a lot of customers because it's a bit pricy (although still cheap compared to what we pay for restaurant dinners in America -.-) but the food was really good.

There was another reservation table saved and I was kinda intrigued to see who would come.

In walked this lovey dovey, cute, giggly young couple holding hands. They look only a few years older than me.

I was like = =;; /SNIFF. WHYY.

It was so not fair.

I was very much jealous.

Yes.

That's right.

I mean, you read and watch young couples in books or tv shows going out to a fancy dinner but in truth, you don't really see them. So I was a bit surprised.

ORZ. I WANT THAT.

/headdesk

They were so cute that it was gross. Not really. But still. They were seated across from each other and then the guy moves the chair to sit right next to her.

BARF.

Naw. Jaykay.

/sigh.

You know what I imagine for me in the future? LOL I want a Taiwanese dude with fobby asian hair and then I can picture us riding on his motorcycle (cause everyone in Taiwan rides a motorcycle) and asdlkf. There are too many cutesy couples here I tell you.

I wonder if I'll ever get to do anything remotely close to that. ;w; /facepalm

Ooh that reminds me.

I have finally decided to...

well. I won't say it.

This quote will describe everything.

"If he's dumb enough to walk away, be smart enough to let him go."

^_^;;;

After months of praying, hoping, and crying, I have given up. Well, actually, I wouldn't use the term "given up" because it makes me sound lame lol.

After everything I've put through, after everything I've done, I am now in the process of moving on.

Finally.

I've wasted too much time!

It's a whole world out there!

There's plenty of fish in the sea!

...right?

I used to only want that fish but fishy swam away from me. I weep, mourn, whatnot, and go find another.

I don't know when, I don't know where, but I will someday.

I've always wanted a fishy but now I don't know where to start over.

Everything's going to be okay.

That's what I'm telling myself.

Aira deshita~

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Dream a Dream

Guess what? I am now officially a resident of Taiwan, R.O.C.! ^__^ YES!

We went to the officials place thingy yesterday after taking a picture and after signing some stuff, voila, he handed me my ID card! It's pretty~ lol. I don't like the picture though.

Well, it's better than my picture for my in-the-progress Taiwan passport. That one is just terrible. I know most people take decent pictures and people say "oh you look fine" but if they look at mine, they really will say, "Oh...my." I'm dead serious lol. I took it at Costco before I left. DAMN YOU COSTCO. No lighting whatsoever. There are like dark patches on my skin cause of the picture lighting and I look evil. :'(

In America, all they do is take the picture, develop it, print, and then give it to you. Here in Taiwan, they actually photoshop for you! Well, they don't make you like super gorgeous but they touch-up the photo for free, like erasing stray hairs and stuff.

Yeah. My dad says I'm not a "citizen" because "citizens" are 18 and can vote. o.O lol.

~
I keep having epic dreams with my favorite kstars. It's really weird. The other night I dreamt I met Karam and I got to take a picture with him.

Last night was really strange...I was with SHINee's Minho/Jonghyun who were like fighting over me? o.O It was like an asian drama...

Basically I was in an amusement park with my friend from my old school and suddenly I was at the same park except with Minho, Jonghyun. I think Minho was my supposed boyfriend but idk lol. We had been having a great time but then suddenly we all sat in this place with seats across from each other. Minho wasn't happy suddenly for an unknown reason and I was going to go microwave food so I said, "Jjong, come with me". We walked a short distance and I split a bagel in half just as he said, "Are you still choosing between us?" I went O.O and dream me suddenly realized they were apparently fighting over me (orz orz orz). I held up the split pieces to him and told him to pick one (idk i think they were supposed to represent me? or minho/jonghyun??) After toasting the bagel, we walked by and I was going to sit in my original seat, next to Minho but we returned to find him lying down, pretending not to hear me when I asked him to move over a bit. Dream-Minho was mad at dream-me and then dream-me got sad and said "Fine". Dream-me moved to sit next to Jonghyun with dream-Minho still ignoring me.

Okay fastforward a bit to a little bit later. We're still there except Minho is now on the other side of Jonghyun, igoring us while JJong tried to get me to listen to his ipod with him, saying "C'mon, just listen! O c'mon!" I shook my head and just stared at Minho, who looked in the other direction.

Fastforward some more. This random girl appeared with Minho and she snipped off a corner of the piece of purikura I apparently took with Jonghyun and laughed. I was like "Hey! WTF". I don't remember what she said, but she linked arms with Minho (who kept a neutral facial expression) and walked away.

Then fastforward. Minho was lying down somewhere against a wall and then this truck apparently backed up against it and Minho got hurt o.o Dream-me is apparently very strong and was carrying Minho to somewhere, a hospital ? Dunno.

Then suddenly we were dodging bullets. I really have no idea what goes on in my head.

Then my dad came in to close the curtains as sunlight was streaming in. The end. I tried to continue the dream but it didn't work.

LOL. I have problems.

~

Oh in other news, SMTOWN LIVE '10 IS COMING TO LOS ANGELES ON SEPTEMBER 4! 500 MILES AWAY FROM ME!

I must go :O

I needa see SHINee, Super Junior, SNSD, and f(x). Yuriko needs to see Max and U-Know. :D

The problem is that it's during our church conference thingy..

I have decided that if I somehow manage to get the impossible tickets, I'm going. I shall return on Sunday lol and still be present for a bit of the Labor Day Conference. ^___^

I'm sorry, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I'll see all those...people soon again anyways.

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Super junior - No Other live



Yayyy! This was an amazing performance. Everything is just perfect! They're all smiling and happy happy joy joy.

I especialy like the kiss Yesung blows during this. :D

Yay SuJu hwaiting!

Oh and D-NA's latest performance was beautiful too. Yay for normal outfits and Karam in a blazer :P

I always seem to end posts with kpop news huh?

Oh. I got my hair done today! New hilights :D Haha you can't tell that much if you look at me straight on but from the side and especially from the back you can. :)