2GETHER 4EVER

I'm going to attempt to write this post in Mandarin. Hahahaha I might give up halfway. Here goes nothing.

昨晚去看了S.H.E 2GETHER 4EVER 演唱会... 真的是感触良多。3年没见，其实也不是很长的时间。可是那时间对粉丝真的是一个漫长的等待。

配着 live band，《SHERO》开始的时候，全场一起喊：“S-H-E-R-O”，我的鸡皮疙瘩全出来了。还有，当电脑控制的荧光棒在复歌的部分换颜色的时候，真的让我十分惊喜！超美的！

3个半小时的演唱会，简直唱到疯，笑到爆，也哭得稀里哗啦的。我在第四首歌《远方》已经开始流眼泪了啦！还有，这个Selina真的是爱哭，一直弄得我跟着一起哭。《梦》唱到一半就唱不下去：“这是我唱这首歌最早哭的，很抱歉。要听完整版，请大家去听CD啦！” 哈哈！接下来三个人一起唱《花都开好了》又哭！全场一起帮S.H.E唱，真是温馨。

《魔力》的时候，体育场被分成三组，看哪一组唱得比较大声。Selina 的组赢了，所以我们都变成‘任奶奶’的人。太好玩了！还有，全场的荧光棒都被关掉，剩下全场的手机的绿灯（我们放了贴纸）。三个女生都很惊讶：“好像萤火虫哦！”

Taken from Ella's Facebook page.

E+S: /讲无聊的东西/
E (to Hebe): 你是来做客的是吗？
S: 讲一些话嘛！SAY SOMETHING!
H: 新加坡很好啊...
E+S+全场: /哭笑不得/

3个半小时真的有太多笑话了，一时之间真的记不起。可是，她们好像是唯一可以在台上讲拉肚子，放屁，‘奶’，的东西吧。Ella的英文也让我们笑翻了，不愧是S.H.E的开心果！Hebe真的唱到爽。她的假音超赞的。当然，三个人用了嗓子和超棒的合音唱了34首歌。整个演唱会太完美了- 是我2013年去过最好的。

很感谢S.H.E一直存在着。困难重重，今日能看到三位老婆一起站上舞台为我们表演，我的心情无法形容。这样看起来，唱到80岁的诺言应该不难实现！期待与你们的下一次相聚。爱死你们了，我的superstars!

Someday things will be perfect

Friday was almost perfect. I felt like the luckiest fangirl in the world really. Got to have my own personal time twice with my favourite band and it really didn't matter that for the second time I had to wait for them till 4am. I'm not going to write a whole fan account about my encounter with the boys because it'd be a freaking essay, and some things are better just kept in my head.

Their set at the ION Fashion Concert was really amazing. I cried again ok. Haha! Acoustic versions are totally their thing. And what a bonus when Martin sang snippets of some demos and songs never performed before. Super cool. 

Paul stop it omg.

Didn't manage to get a pick during their gig itself but the guitar tech was being really nice and I got one from him.

Morgan gives great hugs. No picture with John at their hotel because of.. circumstances that I should probably keep to myself. HAHA.

The next three consecutive weekends will be occupied with S.H.E, JJ Lin and MBC Korean Music Wave. So busy. Hahaha!

Into Your Arms

Sorry to all who have been putting up with my tweets and Instagram posts of The Maine for the past few days. This will be my last one in a while, I swear.

It was amazing getting to meet all of them up-close and finally listen to them perform live. I miss them so much already, but it's really Kennedy who I'm gonna miss most.

I won't forget the hilarious moment at the airport when your luggage sticker came off your bag and got stuck on the front of your jeans. And how embarrassed you looked when I told you. Hahahaha.

I won't forget the interview we had where you, Jared and Garrett answered every single question so thoughtfully and sincerely.

I won't forget the signing, where you hugged me without me asking, while saying, "It was a great interview we had, please take care." And then you looked at me with that sad smile of yours which made me feel like crying. All the while ignoring the security guard who was rushing me off. Lololol.

Glad you had a wonderful first show and birthday in Singapore. I hope to see you and the boys again. Less than 7 years, you guys promised.

"I'm falling in love

But it's falling apart

I need to find my way back to the start

When we were in love

Things were better than they are

Let me back into... 

Into your arms."

LOL I sound like a lovesick fangirl but I have a lot of feels... This is quite embarrassing okay bye.

Hectic May

Here are music events happening in May 2013.

10th: Lunafly Showcase
18th: A-Prince Showcase
20th-21st: YouTube FanFest (Boyce Avenue, Chester See, Joseph Vincent, David Choi, Eat Your Kimchi, Ryan Higa, Mychonny, etc.)
22nd-24th: Music Matters Live (Faber Drive, At Sunset, AOA, M.I.B, Spica, The Summer State, etc.)
23rd: Social Star Awards (PSY, Ceo Lo Green, Aerosmith, Blush)
24th: A-JAX Showcase, M.I.B Fanmeet

So many events. What the hell. I die.
I'm soooo glad school will be over then so I can dedicate all my time fangirling over the whole week of 20th. LOL.

Breakeven

So the past week has been pretty eventful.

I went for The Script's concert with Yiyun and it one of the best ones I've ever been to. I'd hate to admit it but this gig beats All Time Low's and Boys Like Girls' gigs anytime (YES I SAID BOYS LIKE GIRLS).

It was brilliant I tell you. The image of the stadium singing 'ohhh these times are hard yeah they're makin' us crazy don't give up on me baby-eh-eh' (lyrics of 'For The First Time') repeatedly instead of shouting 'encore' is still prominently etched in my mind. These guys sure know how to work the crowd. Danny, Mark and Glen were all so happy that day. Ah, I really wouldn't have it any other way. Still suffering from a little bit of concert depression.

And today was another great day because we finally submitted our first production - 'SHE'! Much thanks to my awesome crew and group. I was initially quite intimidated about being Director of Photography but it seemed like my fears were unfounded. So glad I had James around to help me as camera assist. And thank you director Rix for being patient with me. I'll try to be patient too when our roles are reversed for the next production.. Hehehe.

The awesome crew!!

I'll try to blog about my trip to Hong Kong soon - when I am really free. That's gonna be next month. Byeeeeeee.

All Time Low in Singapore

So I'm like pretty lazy to update anything yet but here are some photos of All Time Low's time here!

Went to the airport and got Jack's siggie on my Don't Panic album. And took some photos with the awesome ATL crew!

Evan Kirkendall. He is so aborable *_*

Drum tech Alex Grieco!

Oh hai Jack.

Gonna be writing a concert review with Justine and it's gonna be up on JermzSG so be sure to check it out there!

12월

*Warning: Image and video heavy*

Here comes the last month of the year. It certainly has been a crazy year, but woah, the first week of December has been insane! And I mean it in a good way.

29th, 30th November (I know this ain't December yet, but shh):

These two days are what I'd like to call 'Pre-Sundown Festival', simply because I spent the night of 29th at the airport waiting for BtoB's arrival, which was actually a last minute decision and the 30th trying to catch them again but ended up catching other artistes at the rehearsal. Lol.

Here's a pic I took of my favourite member Ilhoon hur.

Stef, Brenda and I camwhoring while waiting at the venue for rehearsal the next day. Hahahaha I'm so gross.

Ended up seeing Anthony Neely and Liu Li Yang! Anthony acknowledged us when we waved by showing us a peace sign. Hehe cute. See why I like HIM artistes? Haha!

BtoB did go for rehearsal after the fanmeet at J-Cube, but by that time we were already sitting comfortably at Stef's place munching on pizza and watching MAMA (Mnet Asia Music Awards). Check out Justine's and Cheryl's write-ups at Dinoseoul about Sundown Festival 2012's press conference and concert. Photos here, here and here. Video highlights below.

1st December:

This day was insanely insane really. Brenda and I went for 2NE1's soundcheck which I won tickets to. It was pretty cool seeing them again after their guerrilla concert at Clarke Quay last month. I was really happy to hear 'I Love You' live. They also sang 'In The Club' and 'Stay Together' which I wasn't very familiar with, but I love the former. The girls were really friendly and pretty (Dara, please stop all your perfection) and it was awesome to see them so up-close. No pics for this because security was darn strict and I almost died when security caught us taking photos. Eek. Anyway, do check out Mel's review of the concert (photos here) and yes here are video highlights again.

We then went over to MBS to catch PSY at his showcase.

As many of you might know, 'Gangnam Style' is a highly overrated song to me. But I was won over by this man who had so much stage presence! I will not go on any longer because you can just read my review over at Dinoseoul, photos here. And yayyy video highlights... again.

As a bonus, check out my favourite song from him.

Just hear all those people singing along. One thing's for sure - you go to a PSY gig, get ready to enjoy yourself, A LOT.

5th December:

I turned 20. And I had Feature Analysis exam that day. Luckily the movie we were made to watch was 'Finding Nemo' and not something like 'Out of Africa' or 'Citizen Kane' or I'd have killed someone. Faseha and Mary bought me food and drinks for my lunch (hehehe free food) and my awesome classmates dressed up like me.

Sigh Hirzi you really... LOL.

Met up with Stef and Brenda after school for dinner. Thanks for the cupcakes hehe love you both. Thank you too, to those who wished me be it in person, through text, Facebook or Twitter! ^^

6th December:

After finishing our presentations for Overview of Production, our school had a pizza party (yay free food again) and I went over to meet Brenda to get ready for RaNia's Singapore stop for their Asia Tour. It got delayed for quite a bit but overall it was a pretty nice event. The only thing that marred the night was this 'official' videographer/photographer blocking everyone's view for a nice group photo of the girls during the autograph session. Not to mention, she kind of shoved me out of the way when we were walking past each other. Omg, disgusting inconsiderate stuck-up fat piece of shit. The next time I see her she's gonna get a high-five from me... on her face... with spiked gloves.

Anyway, the showcase itself was really enjoyable. I wasn't familiar with their songs but they certainly did impress me quite a bit.

We were really close to the stage - closest to ANY K-pop concert/showcase I will ever be. We even got to shake hands with Xia. So cool. Deserving special mention is main vocalist Riko, who sang a solo song, 'That's Me', and who totally stole my heart that day. Sheesh, I think I'm a little infatuated with her. She's so gorgeous and just oozes a kind of elegance and innocence (though that doesn't seem to fit when one thinks about RaNia LOL). I swear I couldn't take my eyes off of her throughout the whole night. HAHA. Sorry not sorry.

Hi I think I love you.

Read my full concert review here (don't worry there is no spazzing in there), you can also check out the rest of the photos here.

8th December:

Freaking SHINee World 2! I would first like to thank Radio 1003 for the tickets that I won through their Facebook contest. I got more than I asked for when the tickets turned out to be free standing tickets. The concert was... wow, just wow. And although my life decreased by many years from the sound of the fireworks I really enjoyed myself.

My concert companion, Sziyi!

Let me just say how flawless the boys were. They were all so happy and I'm sure their emotions went on as much as a roller coaster ride as much as mine did. And Taemin... whenever I see him I just feel so proud of him. I was in awe watching his solo performance of 'Get Up!' originally by Korn ft. Skrillex. Was that really the cute maknae of SHINee screaming 'SHUT THE F*** UP, GET UP!'?! And his performance of 'Internet War' with Jonghyun absolutely got me crazy again. I already saw it live at SMTOWN, but this time it was 352748 times closer... and better.

Just five metres away from me during 'Internet War' and just working it during 'Lucifer'.

But as manly and badass he may look during these performance, I guess SM's not going to let him shed his innocent, and uh, feminine side yet - he appeared on the VCR of 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon' as Minho's girlfriend. Sigh.

Jonghyun thoroughly impressed me with 'Y Si Fuera Ella'. There was so much emotion. And the whole rose petals, water and blood plus needing a dancer to help him off the stage combination was a nice touch. The last part was funny though, if anything.

The most touching part was when a VCR of the boys since pre-debut days showed and they started crooning 'The Name I Loved'. It was beautiful and I couldn't help but tear. Yeah okay I know I cry every concert, go away...

I was sad to see them go but they came back for an encore and the boys started throwing balls everywhere and I managed to catch one that Onew threw. LOL uh here it is...

LOL no judging allowed please.

The fans and SHINee also celebrated Minho's and Onew's birthdays and it resulted in a cake fight initiated by Jonghyun. Haha, and Key was being really cute and all with his Buzz Lightyear glove.

Got to meet Wenhui and Vinnie after the concert too.

All in all, I thought that the first SHINee World was better, despite the number of awesome stages. I think too much rock remixes and screamo makes me wanna die (and because I was quite bummed that they didn't sing '1000 Years Always By Your Side'). And because they sang 'Romantic' the first time round. Heh. But you know, they never disappoint and it was still a stellar concert - great way to end the K-pop craze in Singapore for 2012.

So that concludes these past few days. Back to studying. Be back after exams!

SMTOWN Live World Tour III in Singapore

Wow. Just, wow. SMTOWN was just the most amazing concert ever. I was a little skeptical on whether I should go at first, but boy, am I glad that I decided to. I was really impressed with most of the performances and I especially enjoyed the collaboration stages. Anyway, here's how my day went down.

My friends and I reached pretty early - around 1pm, considering the fact that we got seats. We were disappointed when the merchandise booth stated that the lightsticks were sold out, but we were so happy later when we got free ones from Samsung by just waving. Lol. We took it one step further and did body waves as well. SO. EMBARRASSING. We also went around collecting hand banners which was a lot of fun. Most of them were EXO ones though. I'm not complaining - I just wished that I could have gotten some SHINee and the TVXQ one. Uh well.

So cool! But what do I do with them now?

Things seemed pretty bleak in the evening when it started pouring like crazy. The sky looked so dark it gave me such an end-of-the-world feeling. But the ominous clouds eventually cleared and we were all so thankful.

Fast forward to when we entered the concert venue. There were so many people that I think they gave up on bag checks, so we got to our seats pretty quickly. Our seats were pretty decent, and the atmosphere was awesome. And we absolutely had no idea that the extended stage was going to be so close. Haha we kinda freaked out.

Mandatory ticket shot and an awesome view.

My amazing concert companions ^^

Anyway, the concert itself was just uh-ma-zing. I was definitely looking forward to seeing EXO the most... just because. It was my first time seeing EXO, BoA, f(x), Kangta and Super Junior live. And they were amazing. All of the acts were, even though there were some slip-ups (literally - lots of the artistes slipped on stage and some fell).

Thankfully my kungfa panda didn't fall at this part.

While it was disappointing that some of the performances were lip-synced to - EXO's 'History' and 'MAMA', SHINee's 'Lucifer', and the one that upset me the most - Taeyeon's 'Devil's Cry', the collaboration stages were really impressive. I especially enjoyed Changmin's and Kyuhyun's 'Just the Way You Are' and 'Open Arms' by Ryeowook, Onew, Baekhyun and Chen. Of course, it was also great getting to hear TVXQ's 'Humanoids' even before it was released. Lucky us. Hehe.

Oh god Baekhyun please come into my open arms.

Of course my favourite Taemin and SHINee charmed the socks off of me with their cute little antics and English. Haha!

2min moment at 2:37. Urgh Taemin can you get any cuter?

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And Internet War ft. Jonghyun and Taemin. That totally sent all of us into fangirl spasms. LOL.

Lol at how Taemin has to bend to be on eye level with Jonghyun.

The weather took a turn for the worse when BoA was performing 'Only One'. It was horrible that I missed the Sehun and BoA dance break because I was busy putting on my poncho. I was so looking forward to that part! :(
I was so impressed with f(x) when they performed Electric Shock (how apt lol) live in the heavy rain. It was totally a the-show-must-go-on moment and I was incredibly touched.

And as if on cue, during the last song 'Hope', the rain suddenly stopped. It was like the heavens knew. I was even more touched and even though it was a happy song I started tearing up. It was beautiful. Even as I write this and reminisce I feel like crying. Hahaha I'm such a softie, pfft.

Anyway, to end off, I am so glad that I decided to go for this. It was indeed the biggest K-pop event in Singapore thus far, and I anticipate the next one in 2014.

Do check out Dinoseoul's write up here, photos here.

And also watch the highlights of SMTOWN Live World Tour III in Singapore that I did if you haven't! :)

While I Was Gone

I know, I know. I've been away for a very very long as I've been busy with school and Dinoseoul (I'm writing there). So I'm gonna try updating on some significant events that I actually remember.

30th September: Keane Strangeland Concert
I've never been a super big fan of Keane or anything but I got free tickets so why not right? And am I glad that I went! The atmosphere wasn't quite like any other concert I have been to... it was pretty chill. I was especially awed by Tom Chaplin's amazing vocals - he sounds exactly the same as he does on the record! And I did take a slight liking to pianist Tim Rice-Oxley. Hehe.

11th October: Brian Joo Up-Close and Personal Concert
Again, I got free tickets for this - all thanks to Rachy! I think in K-pop now, solo artistes are often overshadowed by idol groups and Brian Joo is one of them. He is an awesome vocalist, he can dance, he speaks fluent and American-accented English (oh yes me gusta) and he is genuine. The concert literally brought fans 'closer' to Brian as the setting in Butter Factory was a really intimate one. Although I wasn't familiar with most of his songs, I still enjoyed it a lot - I really love 'Domino' and 'Let It Die'.

Oh and because of Rachy, again, I got to go up and snap a picture with the man himself! It was funny though, when I had to tell him that my name was Rachel so he'd write her name on the poster. Haha!

27th October: Recording
The Poly bunch met up for audio and video recording of 'Starships'. The video recording was a failure though and we ended up, uhm, camwhoring. What's new? That said, I'm sure we will be more productive the next time we meet for filming.. I think.

Don't ask me what I was doing.

31st October: Halloween/Skyfall Preview
So Chapman students had the privilege of catching Skyfall more it premiered in Singapore! I'm not going to spoil it for anyone but it actually might be the best Bond movie to date! Love it when the antagonist is batshit crazy.
And because it was also Halloween, I dressed up as Bond!

No I'm not that light.

2nd November: 2NE1 Fan Gathering
So my favourite K-pop girl group had a guerrilla showcase in Singapore, which was a big big thing since things like that are rarely held in Singapore, what more a K-pop group? The squeezing from the audience was horrible and there was this inconsiderate girl in the second row standing on a freaking stool but other than that it was fun and amazing... partly because it was free. Haha! Nevertheless, I still managed to take awesome photos!

My personal favourite :)

Check out the rest of the photos here and Rachy's write-up here.

3rd November: Melodi's Birthday Celebration
And then our dear Mel turned 20! Her parents, the Poly bunch and Cally held a surprise for her and I didn't know if she cried because she was shocked by my face or if she was touched. But either way, I'm glad the surprise was a success! Thank you Mel's parents for having us (and to Mel's mum for cooking extra rice for me). I had a blast! Love you Mel!

No prizes if you guess where this is from.

Happy birthday girl! ^^

I'll try to re-visit this space as often as I can! I promise... I really do...