"YEAH I JUST GOT IT. THANK YOU." - Tablo
EPILOGUE MEME. I'd love you if you did it. :)
So. The CJ Big 4 in Las Vegas concert. *___________* MADE OF A LOT OF AWESOME. Oh my God, you guys. My life was turned completely shiny this weekend... save for majority of Sunday, but we'll talk about that later.
The majority of my pictures are on a borrowed camera... I tried to unload the pictures through my camera but I don't get any of the videos that way, so I'm gonna return the dica to my friend and ask him to burn the pictures and videos for me. :DDD
First off, I want to thank my best friend in the whole wide world and her mom for taking me to the airport and also picking me up. My original plan was to leave my car at the airport overnight, but by offering to take me, Nikki saved me the overnight parking fee. ^^
But yeah, I decided to make this post the concert squeeing post, and do a separate complaining one in the next post. Let's just say that United Airlines suck hardcore. DD: Hilarious however that I'm doing this post so fast... whereas I still haven't uploaded my pictures from Hollywood Bowl. In my defense, my pictures from this concert are SO MUCH BETTER.
I got to Las Vegas around 7:30am or so, and got to my hotel by 8am. I got out of the gate and I knew I was in Las Vegas. I saw the slot machines. XDD
I was staying at the Excalibur because it was the cheapest hotel that came with my flight package. :/ First thing I thought to myself when I was riding in the shuttle was... "I'm staying across the street from the Pyramid one and MGM Grand... wtf, I'm so cheap." I forgot to take a picture of the Excalibur, but there wasn't much to look at really. It's a castle wannabe. But yeah, I couldn't check into the hotel until at least noon, so with me with my backpack on my back and Coach purse on my shoulder, went down South Las Vegas BLVD until I reached Caesar's Palace. I saw cops talking to some hookers on the way, and the sidewalks there were littered with so much XXX business cards, I've never seen so many pictures of blonde bimbos in my life. Should've taken a picture of that too, damn.
Wish I could've stayed here. There's so many BEAUTIFUL shops inside Caesar's Palace, omg. Chanel, YSL, D&G, A|X, Gucci, Fendi, Prada, sldkfsdf fuck you name it, they have it. I also felt very poor, but with all the replicas of Italian/Roman art and architecture around I kinda felt cultured. HAHA, cultured in Las Vegas.
I kinda went walking around the shops and around the casino... also kind of scoped around the outside of the Colosseum to see where the artists could possibly be coming out after the show. Whether I was inside or outside in Vegas, I kept on coughing so bad. All the nicotine filled air was not good for my lungs. T____T
I went into some shops... the first thing I bought was a present for Nikki, as a thank you and part of her birthday present. I wanted to also get a picture of Chris Angel's supposed glass office but I couldn't find it, I was probably in the wrong area? idk. But the shop that was selling office Chris Angel merch was also an exotic car shop where you can rent them too. sldkfs ugh, so expensive and beautiful and I REALLY WISH I WAS RICH.
I left Caesar's after that, because it was about 11am? I decided to walk through the casinos to avoid the desert heat outside. I'm an AC junkie, what can I say? From Caesar's I went to Bellagios, and that hotel/casino is just as shiny. I went walking around a bit and found this really cool patisserie place that caught my attention because they had crepes. And then I saw the chocolate fountain and lskdfs magnificent. I got myself a fruit tart, cheesecake, and an iced coffee to get my energy up and to stay awake. At this point I've only slept an hour since Thursday night?
I went back to Excalibur by 12:30pm and checked in, got to my room and took a shower. I still had a lot of time left, I tried watching TV but there was seriously nothing to do. Tried taking a nap but the coffee and sugar were making their rounds through my system so I couldn't. I got bored so I decided to put my hair in french braids so they'd be curly looking for tonight. :D
Left my hotel at 4pm after finishing basic make-up and all. Walked through NY-NY hotel/casino, saw the LV Coyote Ugly bar. I kinda wanted to go inside and see some girls clog dance or something, but I didn't. I was afraid they'd card me or something. Have I mentioned how boring it can get in Las Vegas when you don't have money to throw away or if you're not 21 yet? You can't gamble or drink or shop or... anyways. Eventually got back to Caesar's. I looked around the entrance to the Colosseum and people were starting to gathered up by there but still not a lot. I went to F.A.O Shwartz to buy a present for Epik High guys, I remember watching an episode of Music Core that Tablo liked little figurine things so I was looking around all three floors for something like it. I ended up getting three Smurf figurines, but now that I think back on it, I wished I wasn't so cheap and bought tons of Star Wars stuff for them instead.
I kinda squeeed when I saw the dolls though, not a big Barbie fan so I almost passed these up (but they're not Barbie dolls), but these dolls are kinda awesome. Especially the Wizard of Oz/Wicked ones. I WANTED THE ELPHABA ONE SO BADLY YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.
I was walking back from F.A.O to the Colosseum and by chance I ran into DJ Tukutz. He was dressed in that white shirt/black suit combo that they wear, with an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth. I wasn't sure if it was him at first but once I got closer... I kinda pointed at him and went "DJ TUKUTZ!" which then he stopped and looked at me. He was in a rush, but I bowed and said "Ahnyounghasaeyo", and he did the same and walked on. I wished that I could've given him my present then, but he was in a rush to get... wherever he was going, idk.
I called incoming and kawaiimetalchik right after meeting him, and walked around some more to see if I could run into some more people. I think I saw members of SG Wannabe, but I didn't know what they looked like prior to the concert so I might've just walked on by. T____T Later I found out after talking with some people who were waiting to be let in that if only I stuck around the entrance, I could've met people. These four people talked to the guys of Epik High and SeeYa. cry. I ended up begging some woman to take my present and give them to the guys because no one came back around to the entrance. :/
On the ticket it says the concert starts at 7pm, but really the doors opened then and it started a little after 8pm. I met a really nice girl named Sami there, who came from Orange County, CA. Vietnamese girl, she was there to see SeeYa. And later was completely in love with SG Wannabe... especially JinHo. We got two glow sticks and I ♥ Hyori balloons for free, that was kinda cool. I wish I snabbed more of the balloons though, I'm sure they had plenty left. By the time the concert started and people were in their seats, the $60+ seats (the 2nd mezz) were completely empty, so they even shut off the lights up there. And only the middle section in the first mezz was filled up. Otherwise, everyone else was in the orchestra section. This concert didn't have that much promo so I didn't expect it to be sold out, but I wish there was more of a turn out.
The concert had this concept thing where each of the artists performing would have a category thing... SG Wannabe had 'sorrow', Lee Hyori had 'desire', Epik High had 'anger', and the only one I can't seem to remember is SeeYa's concept. >.>;
First up, it was a girl group called SBlush for the opening. They only sang one song and introduced themselves and left. They had the sexy concept and spoke a lot of English...and apparently been around a year, but idk. Then SG Wannabe came out, and I can't believe I never really listened to them before. THEY ARE SO AMAZING. Their voices are incredible and they're not bad looking either. I'm completely in love with JinHo, seeing how he was the most active one on stage. The other two, DongHa and YongJun were just... standing there. Except for random times where DongHa decided he wanted to move too. But for that same reason, whenever JinHo did something like ruffle his hair or dance a bit, all the girls that were there... as well as the old ladies who were sitting next to me were going "WHOOOO!!!" and at one point where he was taking off his jacket: "TAKE IT OFF!!!!" But yeah, I've downloaded two of their albums to start me off now and I definitely encourage everyone to have a listen too. *_____*
Next was what I was mainly there for. EPIK HIGH. Now they know how to put on a fucking good show. They sang 8 songs. slkdfs I really think they sang the most, even more than Hyori. Their setlist went like this...
01. FAQ
02. Flow
03. Follow The Flow
04. Paris
05. Love Love Love
06. Fly
07. 혼 (Hohn)
08. Fan
I took a recording of the entire show... at least up to Hyori before the battery died, so maybe if I'm feeling generous I'll upload it for Epik High? When talking to the audience these guys are so hilarious. Tablo talked about how during his college days he came to Vegas to win money to pay for Stanford, and how he'll now pass around a hat for the audience to put in a dollar so they can do gamble... and once they win they'll split it equally with everyone. XDDD I noticed that when speaking English his voice sounds a tiny bit deeper than when speaking Korean? Does that make me too obsessed for noticing, you think?
I cannot describe how awesome they are. I took so many videos of them, but they're on the other camera. And both YouTube and PB have that 100MB limit for videos... I have to reduce them all. >.> I love that Tablo told everyone to get up at the beginning of 'Flow' and then asked why people sat back down before going into 'Follow the Flow'. He told those of us who still had healthy legs to stand back up. XDDD Haha, and the security didn't do much so I got to go up by the stage a lot. Except at this one point at the start of their performance where the security guy said I have to go back to my seat and I'm telling him I'll go once Tablo looks at me, rofl. By request, I called kawaiimetalchik during 'Flow'... totally surprised that they would sing this song but fantastic nonetheless, and befitting of their appointed concept. And once 'Love Love Love' started I called incoming. I let the phone on from then to... the end of the their set, but I don't know how much Cait got, because once I got back to my seat the phone had disconnected.
SeeYa came afterwards, and I knew less about them than SG Wannabe, unfortunately. Even though they're apparently the female versions of the male trio. Before looking into SGW, the only thing I knew about them was that some of them (uh, JinHo) performs so eccentrically that HeeChul liked to immitate him. XD; If anyone knows that one episode of New Xman during Star Battle, you know what I'm talking about. But anyways, they sang a few songs... the only one I knew of was 'Shoes'. They also sang one song in Chinese... which I only knew because they kept on singing "wo ai ni" during the chorus.
Lee Hyori was the last act. She had this cheesy video of coming to the hotel in a van with her backup dancers, kinda partying and fooling around in the car (for the camera), to the back of the Colosseum, up the stairs to the backstage, and then to the actual stage where she came out and started dancing. She's gorgeous, you guys. She looked at me (or somewhere around me) and smiled, and I swear that smile can turn a girl into a lesbian or something. She performed (not in order) '10 Minutes', 'Dark Angel', 'Get Ya', 'Toc Toc Toc', '그녀를 사랑하지마', a cover of Britney Spears' 'Everytime', the first couple of lines from 'Memory' from the musical Cats, and some other songs which I can't remember the titles to. She had this awesome tango dance choreography before '그녀를 사랑하지마'. *_____*
Since Hyori had costume changes, they played random clips of stuff to pass the time. One of the clips were of her at Lee JunKi's birthday celebration, where she talks about how she introduced BoA to JunKi hoping they'd hit it off and date, etc. And then other clips of her mini-drama '사랑한다면 이들처럼", then finally this kind of cheesy trailer-esque thing about there being a prophecy of Hyori coming to Las Vegas as a "Dark Angel" with random Las Vegas aerial views and short shots from the "Get Ya" music video.
l;asdk;lksdfjas, amirite? During the last two-three songs of her set, she and the backup dancers were dressed... well, you can see it in the picture, and at one point she had the dancers go down the stange into the audience to pick a guy and bring him up to the stage. They tied his arms over his head to their "cage". She sexy danced in front of him and then with him... interviewed him (like "do you have a girlfriend?"), kinda joked about his nervousness and lack of erection, also gave him a hug and sent him off the stage where the backup dancers brought up another guy - American this time (the first guy was Korean). He was... very enthusiastic. They did the same thing like the first guy, except the interview part was short because of the language barrier... but he was hitting on her so bad with what little Korean he knew, telling her that she's beautiful and that he doesn't have a girlfriend. Hyori made a point to say that his Korean went from formal to informal, haha. He also stole her little cane and tapped her on the butt with it (jealous! jk), sexy danced with her kinda horribly, kissed her cheek when she gave him a hug.
The concert ended after Hyori, I wished that all of the artists came out and sang a collab song together, a cover of an old song even like they did for the Hollywood Bowl. But no, the dancers came out first and bowed, followed by the band. Then the artists rolled out, and it was hilarious, Epik High guys came out with their mouths taped closed. XDDD
At the end of the concert, Sami and I went outside quick to wait for the artists around the back where they could've possibly came outside. Begged with the security guy to let me go backstage to take just one picture, but no go. I ended up going back inside to the main entrance. Good thing I did though, first one of the guys from SG Wannabe came running out and away with his security guy... I think it was DongHa. Afterward Hyori came out, I almost didn't recognize her. She was so tiny!! She came out wearing her hair in a bun, the Pink sweatpants from Victoria Secrets... I got to see her face to face and bowed to say hello (like I did for Tukutz earlier) and how much I enjoyed the show. There was no chance I was getting a picture, she was being ushered away so fast.
Later JinHo came out, and I asked if I could get one picture of him... his security guy was telling him to ignore me and keep going, so JinHo just smiled and said he was sorry and walked away. SeeYa came out afterwards, but I couldn't even get near them to say a word. After that... the backup dancers came out and they were taking their time, hanging out in front taking pictures at the banner and stuff. I was surprised that no one was asking to take pictures with them or anything, I liked the backup dancers, the unnies were cool. I took pictures of them, and then the girls told me to take pictures with them. The guys came out shortly after so I took pictures with them too.
Finally, Epik High came out, and that's who everyone was waiting for. Everyone crowded Tablo... I think DJ Tukutz and Mithra Jin walked away ok? A little boy came up to Tablo and he hugged him and patted him on his head. Maybe a relative? Does Tablo have a little brother? I can't remember. But I asked him if he got my gift and he said "Yeah I just got it. Thank you." als;kdfjs my first words exchanged with Tablo, I felt incredibly happy.
On my way back to my hotel, I stopped at a restaurant that was open in NYNY late into the night and got something to eat, I was really hungry at that point. Then I walked back to my hotel, got into my room... set my alarm just in case I fell asleep and tried watching TV. I did end up sleeping, and woke up around 6:15am, right when my flight was departing. I got my stuff packed up and washed up quickly, checked out and went to the airport around 7:30? I was in line to go through security... and I look back and the dancers from last night are there, how cool. I bowed to the unnies and they recognized me, which was even better.
Now I was put on standby to go on the 8:32am flight to San Francisco, which was the plane the dancers were getting on... assuming that they're connecting there and then going to Korea. There were five seats left on the plane and I was about to go on... except the closed the hatch without letting any of the standbys on. So I wait for the next plane which was like two hours later? I went to go get some food and then walk around some more... and I passed by someone who looked like Mithra Jin. I told myself I was seeing things, but when I turned around and walked back three minutes later, there was Tablo, Tukutz, and Mithra on the Star Wars slot machines. :OOOO
I stopped and talked to Tablo a bit, I kinda froze up in my fangirling that I said some pretty stupid things to him like "When are you leaving?"... which he replied "Now? I'm at the airport." XD;; Way to make an impression, me. He was adorable though, saying thanks for complimenting him on the show and all. And he was patient enough to take a picture with me - I had to take it on my cell phone because the cameras were in the back which I checked in...and my phone being LG Chocolate, is very stubborn when taking pictures. Tukutz was in a big hurry to get back to everyone else, but he still took a picture with me. And Mithra Jin was I think the nicest. He didn't say much, but he took his time to say a couple of words and take a picture. ♥ I could've gotten on the same plane with them to SFO, but the flight ended up being overbooked so it was unfortunate but at least I got to meet them. I was talking on the phone to incoming and was being greedy... I asked Tablo as he was bording if he'd just say 'hi' on the phone and he said "I'd prefer not." I felt so sorry and just sorta mumbled "bye" and backed off. T_____T
Then I was stuck at the airport forever, having to go to another airline and buying a new plane ticket to come home. DD: The End. XD;;;;;
So. The CJ Big 4 in Las Vegas concert. *___________* MADE OF A LOT OF AWESOME. Oh my God, you guys. My life was turned completely shiny this weekend... save for majority of Sunday, but we'll talk about that later.
The majority of my pictures are on a borrowed camera... I tried to unload the pictures through my camera but I don't get any of the videos that way, so I'm gonna return the dica to my friend and ask him to burn the pictures and videos for me. :DDD
First off, I want to thank my best friend in the whole wide world and her mom for taking me to the airport and also picking me up. My original plan was to leave my car at the airport overnight, but by offering to take me, Nikki saved me the overnight parking fee. ^^
But yeah, I decided to make this post the concert squeeing post, and do a separate complaining one in the next post. Let's just say that United Airlines suck hardcore. DD: Hilarious however that I'm doing this post so fast... whereas I still haven't uploaded my pictures from Hollywood Bowl. In my defense, my pictures from this concert are SO MUCH BETTER.
I got to Las Vegas around 7:30am or so, and got to my hotel by 8am. I got out of the gate and I knew I was in Las Vegas. I saw the slot machines. XDD
I was staying at the Excalibur because it was the cheapest hotel that came with my flight package. :/ First thing I thought to myself when I was riding in the shuttle was... "I'm staying across the street from the Pyramid one and MGM Grand... wtf, I'm so cheap." I forgot to take a picture of the Excalibur, but there wasn't much to look at really. It's a castle wannabe. But yeah, I couldn't check into the hotel until at least noon, so with me with my backpack on my back and Coach purse on my shoulder, went down South Las Vegas BLVD until I reached Caesar's Palace. I saw cops talking to some hookers on the way, and the sidewalks there were littered with so much XXX business cards, I've never seen so many pictures of blonde bimbos in my life. Should've taken a picture of that too, damn.
Wish I could've stayed here. There's so many BEAUTIFUL shops inside Caesar's Palace, omg. Chanel, YSL, D&G, A|X, Gucci, Fendi, Prada, sldkfsdf fuck you name it, they have it. I also felt very poor, but with all the replicas of Italian/Roman art and architecture around I kinda felt cultured. HAHA, cultured in Las Vegas.
I kinda went walking around the shops and around the casino... also kind of scoped around the outside of the Colosseum to see where the artists could possibly be coming out after the show. Whether I was inside or outside in Vegas, I kept on coughing so bad. All the nicotine filled air was not good for my lungs. T____T
I went into some shops... the first thing I bought was a present for Nikki, as a thank you and part of her birthday present. I wanted to also get a picture of Chris Angel's supposed glass office but I couldn't find it, I was probably in the wrong area? idk. But the shop that was selling office Chris Angel merch was also an exotic car shop where you can rent them too. sldkfs ugh, so expensive and beautiful and I REALLY WISH I WAS RICH.
I left Caesar's after that, because it was about 11am? I decided to walk through the casinos to avoid the desert heat outside. I'm an AC junkie, what can I say? From Caesar's I went to Bellagios, and that hotel/casino is just as shiny. I went walking around a bit and found this really cool patisserie place that caught my attention because they had crepes. And then I saw the chocolate fountain and lskdfs magnificent. I got myself a fruit tart, cheesecake, and an iced coffee to get my energy up and to stay awake. At this point I've only slept an hour since Thursday night?
I went back to Excalibur by 12:30pm and checked in, got to my room and took a shower. I still had a lot of time left, I tried watching TV but there was seriously nothing to do. Tried taking a nap but the coffee and sugar were making their rounds through my system so I couldn't. I got bored so I decided to put my hair in french braids so they'd be curly looking for tonight. :D
Left my hotel at 4pm after finishing basic make-up and all. Walked through NY-NY hotel/casino, saw the LV Coyote Ugly bar. I kinda wanted to go inside and see some girls clog dance or something, but I didn't. I was afraid they'd card me or something. Have I mentioned how boring it can get in Las Vegas when you don't have money to throw away or if you're not 21 yet? You can't gamble or drink or shop or... anyways. Eventually got back to Caesar's. I looked around the entrance to the Colosseum and people were starting to gathered up by there but still not a lot. I went to F.A.O Shwartz to buy a present for Epik High guys, I remember watching an episode of Music Core that Tablo liked little figurine things so I was looking around all three floors for something like it. I ended up getting three Smurf figurines, but now that I think back on it, I wished I wasn't so cheap and bought tons of Star Wars stuff for them instead.
I kinda squeeed when I saw the dolls though, not a big Barbie fan so I almost passed these up (but they're not Barbie dolls), but these dolls are kinda awesome. Especially the Wizard of Oz/Wicked ones. I WANTED THE ELPHABA ONE SO BADLY YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.
I was walking back from F.A.O to the Colosseum and by chance I ran into DJ Tukutz. He was dressed in that white shirt/black suit combo that they wear, with an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth. I wasn't sure if it was him at first but once I got closer... I kinda pointed at him and went "DJ TUKUTZ!" which then he stopped and looked at me. He was in a rush, but I bowed and said "Ahnyounghasaeyo", and he did the same and walked on. I wished that I could've given him my present then, but he was in a rush to get... wherever he was going, idk.
I called incoming and kawaiimetalchik right after meeting him, and walked around some more to see if I could run into some more people. I think I saw members of SG Wannabe, but I didn't know what they looked like prior to the concert so I might've just walked on by. T____T Later I found out after talking with some people who were waiting to be let in that if only I stuck around the entrance, I could've met people. These four people talked to the guys of Epik High and SeeYa. cry. I ended up begging some woman to take my present and give them to the guys because no one came back around to the entrance. :/
On the ticket it says the concert starts at 7pm, but really the doors opened then and it started a little after 8pm. I met a really nice girl named Sami there, who came from Orange County, CA. Vietnamese girl, she was there to see SeeYa. And later was completely in love with SG Wannabe... especially JinHo. We got two glow sticks and I ♥ Hyori balloons for free, that was kinda cool. I wish I snabbed more of the balloons though, I'm sure they had plenty left. By the time the concert started and people were in their seats, the $60+ seats (the 2nd mezz) were completely empty, so they even shut off the lights up there. And only the middle section in the first mezz was filled up. Otherwise, everyone else was in the orchestra section. This concert didn't have that much promo so I didn't expect it to be sold out, but I wish there was more of a turn out.
The concert had this concept thing where each of the artists performing would have a category thing... SG Wannabe had 'sorrow', Lee Hyori had 'desire', Epik High had 'anger', and the only one I can't seem to remember is SeeYa's concept. >.>;
First up, it was a girl group called SBlush for the opening. They only sang one song and introduced themselves and left. They had the sexy concept and spoke a lot of English...and apparently been around a year, but idk. Then SG Wannabe came out, and I can't believe I never really listened to them before. THEY ARE SO AMAZING. Their voices are incredible and they're not bad looking either. I'm completely in love with JinHo, seeing how he was the most active one on stage. The other two, DongHa and YongJun were just... standing there. Except for random times where DongHa decided he wanted to move too. But for that same reason, whenever JinHo did something like ruffle his hair or dance a bit, all the girls that were there... as well as the old ladies who were sitting next to me were going "WHOOOO!!!" and at one point where he was taking off his jacket: "TAKE IT OFF!!!!" But yeah, I've downloaded two of their albums to start me off now and I definitely encourage everyone to have a listen too. *_____*
Next was what I was mainly there for. EPIK HIGH. Now they know how to put on a fucking good show. They sang 8 songs. slkdfs I really think they sang the most, even more than Hyori. Their setlist went like this...
01. FAQ
02. Flow
03. Follow The Flow
04. Paris
05. Love Love Love
06. Fly
07. 혼 (Hohn)
08. Fan
I took a recording of the entire show... at least up to Hyori before the battery died, so maybe if I'm feeling generous I'll upload it for Epik High? When talking to the audience these guys are so hilarious. Tablo talked about how during his college days he came to Vegas to win money to pay for Stanford, and how he'll now pass around a hat for the audience to put in a dollar so they can do gamble... and once they win they'll split it equally with everyone. XDDD I noticed that when speaking English his voice sounds a tiny bit deeper than when speaking Korean? Does that make me too obsessed for noticing, you think?
I cannot describe how awesome they are. I took so many videos of them, but they're on the other camera. And both YouTube and PB have that 100MB limit for videos... I have to reduce them all. >.> I love that Tablo told everyone to get up at the beginning of 'Flow' and then asked why people sat back down before going into 'Follow the Flow'. He told those of us who still had healthy legs to stand back up. XDDD Haha, and the security didn't do much so I got to go up by the stage a lot. Except at this one point at the start of their performance where the security guy said I have to go back to my seat and I'm telling him I'll go once Tablo looks at me, rofl. By request, I called kawaiimetalchik during 'Flow'... totally surprised that they would sing this song but fantastic nonetheless, and befitting of their appointed concept. And once 'Love Love Love' started I called incoming. I let the phone on from then to... the end of the their set, but I don't know how much Cait got, because once I got back to my seat the phone had disconnected.
SeeYa came afterwards, and I knew less about them than SG Wannabe, unfortunately. Even though they're apparently the female versions of the male trio. Before looking into SGW, the only thing I knew about them was that some of them (uh, JinHo) performs so eccentrically that HeeChul liked to immitate him. XD; If anyone knows that one episode of New Xman during Star Battle, you know what I'm talking about. But anyways, they sang a few songs... the only one I knew of was 'Shoes'. They also sang one song in Chinese... which I only knew because they kept on singing "wo ai ni" during the chorus.
Lee Hyori was the last act. She had this cheesy video of coming to the hotel in a van with her backup dancers, kinda partying and fooling around in the car (for the camera), to the back of the Colosseum, up the stairs to the backstage, and then to the actual stage where she came out and started dancing. She's gorgeous, you guys. She looked at me (or somewhere around me) and smiled, and I swear that smile can turn a girl into a lesbian or something. She performed (not in order) '10 Minutes', 'Dark Angel', 'Get Ya', 'Toc Toc Toc', '그녀를 사랑하지마', a cover of Britney Spears' 'Everytime', the first couple of lines from 'Memory' from the musical Cats, and some other songs which I can't remember the titles to. She had this awesome tango dance choreography before '그녀를 사랑하지마'. *_____*
Since Hyori had costume changes, they played random clips of stuff to pass the time. One of the clips were of her at Lee JunKi's birthday celebration, where she talks about how she introduced BoA to JunKi hoping they'd hit it off and date, etc. And then other clips of her mini-drama '사랑한다면 이들처럼", then finally this kind of cheesy trailer-esque thing about there being a prophecy of Hyori coming to Las Vegas as a "Dark Angel" with random Las Vegas aerial views and short shots from the "Get Ya" music video.
l;asdk;lksdfjas, amirite? During the last two-three songs of her set, she and the backup dancers were dressed... well, you can see it in the picture, and at one point she had the dancers go down the stange into the audience to pick a guy and bring him up to the stage. They tied his arms over his head to their "cage". She sexy danced in front of him and then with him... interviewed him (like "do you have a girlfriend?"), kinda joked about his nervousness and lack of erection, also gave him a hug and sent him off the stage where the backup dancers brought up another guy - American this time (the first guy was Korean). He was... very enthusiastic. They did the same thing like the first guy, except the interview part was short because of the language barrier... but he was hitting on her so bad with what little Korean he knew, telling her that she's beautiful and that he doesn't have a girlfriend. Hyori made a point to say that his Korean went from formal to informal, haha. He also stole her little cane and tapped her on the butt with it (jealous! jk), sexy danced with her kinda horribly, kissed her cheek when she gave him a hug.
The concert ended after Hyori, I wished that all of the artists came out and sang a collab song together, a cover of an old song even like they did for the Hollywood Bowl. But no, the dancers came out first and bowed, followed by the band. Then the artists rolled out, and it was hilarious, Epik High guys came out with their mouths taped closed. XDDD
At the end of the concert, Sami and I went outside quick to wait for the artists around the back where they could've possibly came outside. Begged with the security guy to let me go backstage to take just one picture, but no go. I ended up going back inside to the main entrance. Good thing I did though, first one of the guys from SG Wannabe came running out and away with his security guy... I think it was DongHa. Afterward Hyori came out, I almost didn't recognize her. She was so tiny!! She came out wearing her hair in a bun, the Pink sweatpants from Victoria Secrets... I got to see her face to face and bowed to say hello (like I did for Tukutz earlier) and how much I enjoyed the show. There was no chance I was getting a picture, she was being ushered away so fast.
Later JinHo came out, and I asked if I could get one picture of him... his security guy was telling him to ignore me and keep going, so JinHo just smiled and said he was sorry and walked away. SeeYa came out afterwards, but I couldn't even get near them to say a word. After that... the backup dancers came out and they were taking their time, hanging out in front taking pictures at the banner and stuff. I was surprised that no one was asking to take pictures with them or anything, I liked the backup dancers, the unnies were cool. I took pictures of them, and then the girls told me to take pictures with them. The guys came out shortly after so I took pictures with them too.
Finally, Epik High came out, and that's who everyone was waiting for. Everyone crowded Tablo... I think DJ Tukutz and Mithra Jin walked away ok? A little boy came up to Tablo and he hugged him and patted him on his head. Maybe a relative? Does Tablo have a little brother? I can't remember. But I asked him if he got my gift and he said "Yeah I just got it. Thank you." als;kdfjs my first words exchanged with Tablo, I felt incredibly happy.
On my way back to my hotel, I stopped at a restaurant that was open in NYNY late into the night and got something to eat, I was really hungry at that point. Then I walked back to my hotel, got into my room... set my alarm just in case I fell asleep and tried watching TV. I did end up sleeping, and woke up around 6:15am, right when my flight was departing. I got my stuff packed up and washed up quickly, checked out and went to the airport around 7:30? I was in line to go through security... and I look back and the dancers from last night are there, how cool. I bowed to the unnies and they recognized me, which was even better.
Now I was put on standby to go on the 8:32am flight to San Francisco, which was the plane the dancers were getting on... assuming that they're connecting there and then going to Korea. There were five seats left on the plane and I was about to go on... except the closed the hatch without letting any of the standbys on. So I wait for the next plane which was like two hours later? I went to go get some food and then walk around some more... and I passed by someone who looked like Mithra Jin. I told myself I was seeing things, but when I turned around and walked back three minutes later, there was Tablo, Tukutz, and Mithra on the Star Wars slot machines. :OOOO
I stopped and talked to Tablo a bit, I kinda froze up in my fangirling that I said some pretty stupid things to him like "When are you leaving?"... which he replied "Now? I'm at the airport." XD;; Way to make an impression, me. He was adorable though, saying thanks for complimenting him on the show and all. And he was patient enough to take a picture with me - I had to take it on my cell phone because the cameras were in the back which I checked in...and my phone being LG Chocolate, is very stubborn when taking pictures. Tukutz was in a big hurry to get back to everyone else, but he still took a picture with me. And Mithra Jin was I think the nicest. He didn't say much, but he took his time to say a couple of words and take a picture. ♥ I could've gotten on the same plane with them to SFO, but the flight ended up being overbooked so it was unfortunate but at least I got to meet them. I was talking on the phone to incoming and was being greedy... I asked Tablo as he was bording if he'd just say 'hi' on the phone and he said "I'd prefer not." I felt so sorry and just sorta mumbled "bye" and backed off. T_____T
Then I was stuck at the airport forever, having to go to another airline and buying a new plane ticket to come home. DD: The End. XD;;;;;