Hooray! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the Special Stage is one of Korea’s finest achievements. I couldn’t help but laugh while watching it and I even warmed a little to that 2AM guy whose name I don’t know :D

Oh, and for people who say that the show was 빅뱅 biased, well of course it was. They are currently the industries leading stars and have just released their latest mini album. God help us when 동방신기 start doing the rounds again :D

I can’t really explain the awesomeness of the concert in words and I don’t really remember what was performed in what order anyway, so I’ll just show you my best pictures in chronological order :D

The concert was amazing and it was great to be closer to the artists than previous concerts. My plan is to get even closer next time but I don’t really know when the next one will be. Anyway, enjoy these for now :D

Check out the rest of the photos in my .Mac gallery over here :)

This PV is sugary-sweet and even after all I’ve read about Tiffany, I still think she comes across the right way. I curse the cuteness of this PV ! <3

동방신기 Rising Sun / Beautiful you / 풍선 (Balloons) / Hug / Phantom / 믿어요
슈퍼주니어 돈 돈! / Marry U / Miracle / 소원이 있나요 / Full Of Happiness / U
천상지희 The Grace 한번 더, OK? / Too Good / My Everything / Iris / Boomerang
소녀시대 다시 만난 세계 / Kissing You / Baby Baby / Tears / Girls’ Generation
Zhang Li Yin I Will / Lovers / Believe in Love / One More Try / Y(Why…)
SHINee Replay / In My Room / Love Should Go On / A Crisscross Love(Jong Hyun Feat.Zhang Li Yin)
SMTOWN Only Love / Let’s Go on a Trip

Credit for SYP : Tangera

I’m so excited about going to this :D I haven’t actually got the tickets yet but I’ll be booking them next week. If anyone else is going or knows someone who is, let me know :)

Some random pictures from my daily trip to Home Plus. Taken on my phone so excuse the quality.

1. When am I going to see any royalties from this guy clearly using my name? 2. Wang Grip XD 3. Yea, I had another ice cream >> 4. I am addicted to this stuff.

I’m trying to resist just spazzing and flailing at this performance but I don’t know why. It totally deserves it. The dancing was great, the vocals were strong and sharp and although the rap will never be as good as YooBin, it was awesome nonetheless :D

I hope you’re not expecting an apology for posting this because there isn’t going to be one. A few observations if I may though:

- everyone should have a Soshi girlfriend
- this song is seriously growing on me right now
- I want a Soshi girlfriend D:
- if she was wearing red specs and an apron that would be neat too :D

I met with Leah at 11am, inside Seoul Metro. We hopped on the train to Sadang and then transferred to the Green Line and headed for Jamsil. We arrived to find the place absolutely mobbed by teenage schoolgirls who ran off the train like the concert had already started. We followed the crowds and decided to try to get in and sit down. We went up to some guy and he asked us if we were part of a fan club. We said no but he let us in anyway because we were lame and foreign.

            

We were seated in the Sonyushidae section because they had an unobstructed view of the stage and we weren’t even going to attempt to sit on the top tier with Cassiopeia or E.L.F. We were quickly surrounded by lots of 14 year old boys XD

            

Some of the guys around us kept getting up and moving around and as a result, they lost their seats which they weren’t best pleased about. I think they probably deserved it though because they were being losers and making a lot of noise and mess. By this time the place was filling up and there were seas of red and blue appearing.

            

A couple of hours before the start, the Mnet camera crew came around to interview some of the fans. She didn’t come over to us, but there is a chance that I will appear on Mnet and the official SBS broadcast. I’m in the front row of the Soshi group waving my pink ‘heart shaped’ balloon XD

            

There were reports of some problems with the fans and such but I didn’t actually see anything sinister with my own eyes. All I saw was a lot of people moving their banners around and E.L.F shouting down at the Soshi fans while they made the banners go wonky. For the most part, people got on really well as far as I could see :)

I didn’t take many pictures of the performances because like everybody else [save the V.I.Ps] were pretty far away and my camera doesn’t do too well in the dark. Leah took more pictures than me and even some videos so I’ll send you that way once she’s posted them :)

            

Artists who rocked [ALL]

Mighty Mouth, Buga Kings, Typhoon, Maya, Peter, Bae Chi Gi, A’STAR.1 [total surprise :D], MC Mong, SS501, Jewelry, Epik High, Wonder Girls, Sonyuhshidae, Super Junior, Dong Bang Shin Ki

Songs that rocked

Circus, 데자뷰 + Fighter + 널 부르는 노래 (Remix Ver.), 1.2.3.4. Back, Breakdown + One, So Hot + Irony + Tell Me (Rap Ver.), 소녀시대 + 다시 만난 세계 (Remix), 갈증 (Remix Ver.) + 돈 돈!, Rising Sun

I’m not sure how to finish off this post other than to say it was an incredible experience and I just want more. I wish I had taken my Nikon D50 and also that I was closer to the stage but I just can’t fault it at all. I was saying to Leah that before, I knew they existed because I saw them on TV shows, but now I know they exist because I saw them with my own eyes :D

As always, all my photos can be found at my .Mac Gallery so check it out.

I was going to leave this until later in the week but I got the urge so up they went. There’s plenty of room for expansion which is definitely something that I’ll doing in the future. Bring on the Wonder Girls album :D

I’ll start filling in the gaps at the bottom next but I decided to go for greater wall coverage this time round because I don’t know when I’ll next be getting some good ones :)

I wasn’t really looking for justification for my purchase of the Anycall Haptic but here is proof that it was one of the best things I’ve done since I arrived in Korea :D

[Opening] Let’s Haptic
[Episode 01] Haptic Battle
[Episode 02] Haptic Scandal

I think the adverts are cute and fun which suits the phone perfectly :) I think the pairings are balanced and I think the length of the commercials is just right. They could never have recreated the Anyband style despite how much I wish Junsu would go back to it ^^”