alright. let me see.. when did i come back from korea?
16th may.
what day is it today?
now at 12... it's 3 june.
so why the hell am i still updating my blog on my korea trip?
because i've been freaking lazy, that's why. alright. my bad.
DAY 3 -- SHINHWA 'STATE OF THE ART' TOUR
so i was talking about drinking all that soju crap and burning my throat yeah? that didn't dampen my mood at all.. oh no no~ i mean.. how could i think about containing my excitement with shinhwa in sight?! am i nuts?!
when we got there.. wow.. the number of japanese fans there.. you would think you're in japan. from afar.. we could already see a big hot air balloon in the sky... marking the location of the concert venue, olympic park gymnasium~
it says: 'shinhwa concert - shin hyesung'..courtesy of my dear's fanclub
we queued quite a long time to get the concert merchandises.. which included stuffs like handphone straps... and some other things like notebooks... we didn't get much.. our package already included most things.. our main thing was to get the t-shirts..
i have no idea how long we queued.. almost an hour? i have no idea.. and there was this paper.. where we were supposed to put down our orders... we realized that we didn't have it and i was given the task to go search for it. but freaking hell~!! everyone had it except us.. i had to ask this korean fan standing before us to let me have a look at the paper... so finally.. i decided to approach this group of japanese fans at the end of the line.. haha.. my 3 years of japanese at last served me good... to think i actually spoke japanese in korea. huh.. that's pretty. out. haha.
by the time we got our stuffs.. a lot of people had already entered the hall. we got to our seats and shooed off some girls who took our places.. hahaa.. poor them but to hell with them. anywayz.. all the time, i couldn't think. like seriously.. this felt like a dream~! two years in the making.. this concert had been in me and ying's mind for like.. 2 years~!! and finally we are here.. not even in singapore.. but in korea~ their origin~~
you know.. i really don't know how i'm going to relate the whole concert experience again. i mean... i remember so much about it but i don't know what to say about it~~!!
my dear was great.. he was the first to do his solo part.. he performed midnight girl first, from the latest album.. and it was all .. i don't know.. him! because he's just so good with ballads... and so.. syrup-y. haha~! i thought he would do kat eun saeng gak but damn it he didn't~!!! he even hugged this girl on stage at the end of that song... i'm telling you, i will die to be in her place. AND I MEAN IT. I SERIOUSLY DO. just when i thought it was over... he came out with a such a breakthrough and did livin' la vida loca!!! he's mad i'm telling you~~ i was so impressed.. my dear is not known to be a dancer.. or rather, known to be sucky at dancing... but he actually did a ricky martin track?~! it's breakthrough totally! he was soooo .. flashy! so.. i mean.. he wore sequins!! haha.. and he danced flirty-ly... goodness, for someone who would just burst out laughing around girls... ahhhh~ CAN U SENSE MY EXCITEMENT. haha.
second to do his solo was dongwan... he was a breakthrough as well... he turned into a full-time rocker.. and he looked like he was the vocal of some rock band. good try.. because he has such a powerful voice.. it served him good when he did powerful songs... and guess what? he did his ending at MY side of the stage.. he jumped and fireworks came out~ wow... and there was this blast of fire... all the fans immediately took a step back~ and i felt it on my face.. imagine.. i was sitting pretty far from there!
the lights came down but i saw something still burning on stage.. and i was telling ying, "eh.. it caught fire." true enough... there was this guy rushing out in the dark to step it out. lol..
andy and eric was their usual hip-hop state.. but andy, i'm telling you, improved so much in his rapping.. he actually sounded black. talk about being impressed~!! i didn't agree with their cornrow hair though.. but i guess they suppose that matches their hiphop look. their song was high and they even had junjin to do their new song, highway star together. i just love this song~~ even before i found out it was in their album~! it had such a retro feel to it... and i love retro~!!! even the dance was retro.. junjin was PLAIN HILARIOUS.
my dear.. as usual.. was his lame self... his self-invented diet song was truly one of the highlights. it was a beautiful acapella and they were so harmonious.. but the song was being eating little and about burgers.. cheese... ham... bulgogi... i can't believe they actually even tried to make it sound like some serious ballad... they even introduced themselves as shinhwa, the acapella group. geez!
minwoo's solo was pretty him too.. i mean.. u know, the usual hiphop stuffs. but seriously.. that man, though small as he is, really just catches all your attention. sometimes i watch him on tv, i'm just like.. yeah minwoo... stop hogging the screen~! but when it comes to the real thing.. you can't turn your eyes away seriously. his stage presence was sooo strong! he did a cute song, the advert song from lee junki's guava juice advert.. and awwww. it was sooo cute~!!
junjin's solo was another breakthrough. he was more known as a dancer but he actually sang ballads~~! when he opened his solo with a dance, i was thinking.. man.. that's boring~ another dance? but when he started his ballads.. wow i'm impressed~! i heard he learnt from hwanhee of ftts.. but i swear he sounded like hyesung. haha.
they sang a lot of their 8th album songs.. and although i wasn't too familiar with them.. i was still screaming my head off.. so when brand new finally came on.. i screamed even louder and at that moment, i really felt like my throat was going to burn. but i didn't care. this was THE SONG. the song that made my love full blast and the song that i was waiting for.. watching the dance live.. hearing the song live.. that's a huge phase of my life completed...
gosh.. i don't know where i would be if i didn't go... i would just... cry in regrets!!!
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