Wonder Girls (& 2PM) World Tour 2010.
and here is part 2 of the reports. ~
THURSDAY - JUNE3
We were originally going to leave on Friday, buuuuuuuut, yea. We somehow ended up leaving on Thursday because im stubborn and thought taking a mere 2 hours off our trip to Atlanta... but really, it didn't make a big difference at all. I DO like car trips more than planes but they DO take a lot longer. I get motion sickness after long rides sometimes so i was worried about that, thankfully i didn't!! So we drove up to my aunts house Thursday to knock the 2 hours off and chilled there for the evening.
I'll admit, part of it was just an excuse to see Raymond and my aunt Jill lol. My cousin is my guilty pleasure. NOT in a bad way!! jeez guys. whatchu thinkin here... tch. He is just all sorts of funny. You know me and funny guys. Its like a magnet effect.
When we got there, we picked up Gwyn at a nearby gas station and we all went out to eat. Gwyn got to experience first hand how my close family is lol. Its intense. Although without my dad it was just a tiny bit bland. Its ok though.
We went to Outback Steakhouse, at least it was better than the one by my house. My mom and aunt were harassing our waiter. Raymond hated him for some reason, kept on saying "hate that fuckin guy, hes such a douche". Quite funny. I also like how Ryan's (my other cousin) girlfriend Paige, who i like a lot, always hangs out with us even if Ryan is NEVER around. He's such a douche cousin. Paige is sweet though. I think she is very convinced im a bit of an oddball though. lol. She is hard to talk to. We all went back to the house, played Scattagories and went to sleep. I had the worst time sleeping. I was still breaking out in frikkin hives and i was pissed. Plus, her house makes weird noises at night... dnw.
FRIDAY - JUNE4
We woke up pretty early, i forgot what time... 6am, or maybe 8. I have no clue. It was early, its all the same lol. We got our shit and booked it up outta there.
We drove and drove and drove. You know the drill. Stopped a few times to stretch the legs. Searched for a Wal-Mart all over the place, found one. Ate lunch at Subway and bought crap. I was craving coloring books dirty style. I found some. I was a happy camper.
We eventually made it to our destination. I have never been to Atlanta before other than the airport in between flights and driving through it on my way to other places. Overall? I thought it was a nice place, it was pretty for the most part. Very different, buuut, i don't think i would ever want to live there OR stay there a long amount of time.
We were staying at the downtown ATL Merriott, which was a very lovely hotel imo. I was so shocked at how NICE everyone was. Our bell boy/guy whatever, Sinatra, he was quite cool. He was so curious about everything, why we were there and all that, what band we were seeing blah blah. At first i was like 'dang this guy is strangeee' but then i was like 'o, ok this guy is straight'. lol. whatever. you get what im talkin' bout.
We talked to him about 2PM, and the gals, and all about them. Or, sort of. All the way on the walk to our room, he was so curious. In the hallway, he asked who one of our favorites was, Kim answered with Nickhun (her man of coarse). lol. He started mimicking how a fangirl would scream Khun's name, not caring that he was saying his name wrong. He was saying Nickkwon or some shit. In my head i was like 'er, not so much...', but still made me lulz. When we got in the room he helped us unpack as he kept telling us he was going to go look 2PM up and listen to them. Which he DID, and by the end of the day i think the whole hotel staff knew who 2PM was. Even the girl at the front desk kept mentioning it. It was also funny cause i guess we were the only 2PM fans there. It was a bit silent. No little asian girls.
view from our balcony.
We hung out in the hotel and unpacked, me Gwyn and Kim walked down to the venue to check the shit out. There was another live going on that night apparently, Imogen Heap. The Tabernacle (venue) was super awesome to me, really old and churchy.
I dont remember what else we did, which probably means nothing. We went to eat in the little restaurant in the hotel with our weird waiter and pretty OK food. It was funny, good bonding time i thought.
Went back to the room and went to sleep, kinda. Actually not, i watched a movie and browsed the net since i wasnt tired. I kept Kim awake lol, cause im a brat. Kim and Gwyn woke up around midnight or 1, and went out to bear the Atlanta streets as they waited in line. There was no one waiting (and not for a long while i think lol), but they held it out and got a good spot way ahead of everyone. I wasnt sure how hardcore Kpop fans could be. They are in different ways, but i guess not sitting in line ways. aish.
I was still being lame since the LM.C concert i guess, and i was still crying over my fuckin hives, so i stayed in the hotel and slept while they waited out there. I honestly felt quite left out... but by my own fault LOL. Like, i left myself out, which i did. XD such a loser face. Cause Kim and Gwyn went to the little park and stuff and it looked fuuuun... and i missed Chansung walking. Which ya know, IS SO EXCITING! -slight sarcasm- but still. ;; i would have squee'd a tiny bit at that, just... a tiny bit.
SATURDAY - JUNE5
I remember waking up a bit late, i was tired and i slept REAL good in that hotel bed lol. When i woke up, i remember the lobby was suddenly silled with little asian girls. Its like... where Kpop goes... KOREA goes. I was so baffled. I don't know if i have ever mentioned it before, and no offense to anyone on my flist in anyway, but i really dislike asian-loving-asians. if that makes any sense. its something in my own head of a dictionary. It is what it sounds like, an asian person who only loves asian people. It SORT of makes sense, but not really, to me, its completely retarded. You see, im allowed to love asian people/guys, because im frikkin white. If i was a white-loving-whitey, it would be the same concept. Same shit different story.
this is the awesome sign Kim and Gwyn made in the park as i was being a bum. ~ they came out cool.
I was so wtf when i saw how many asian people (they were asian-american, there were SOME Koreans but, yea) were at this live in comparison to non-asian people. I felt like i was in the wrong place lol. But the point is, most asian-loving-asians i come across (not all, trust me) are very snobby people, who think only THEY are allowed to listen/love...what ever the fuck asian thing or person it is they are loving on. I squinty-eye-disagree is VERY much. So there is my rant basically on the crowd of 2PM/Wonder Girls. Because i didnt know what to expect with it at all. But, i kinda guessed right. Overall. ugh. I also felt old there. and mature... LOL.
Whatever man, i know its hard to ignore the audience when at lives, but im the sort of person who tried VERY hard to ignore everyone around me and enjoy what i was there to see. I did my best.
Oh, Kim's old highschool friend came to our room also, he was visiting her. He was OK, but overall a bit strange. Im glad Kim didn't marry him or i might smack her. What would Onew think... jfc. But yea, they chilled in the room and talked to my mom mostly, i let in a few little comments here and there but mostly sat there and colored while i waited for Kim to finish changing. I didn't know i was supposed to also be getting ready or i would have lol. I was a bit out of it the whole time it seemed. I must have been in an ultimate about-to-see-Chansung mode or some shit.
Ah, Kim posted her gifties to Khun on her report, i'll post what i got for Chansung. Though i didn't take a picture of it all done up all purty cause i don't have the same mind-set as Kim and always forget to take pics of things like that. Where, she remembers lol. I thought i worked hard on it too... fml. I got him all matching, coordinating colors and shit, jeez man. Black and blue and turquoise. AI. i tell ya. i even packed it up by making shirt ROLLS! with cute little black and white polka-dot ribbon.
but yea, i got these things:
another shirt also, that said "Italian Stallion". I thought it was appropriate, but it was more or less the joke gift. and for the record, if anyone comes across photos or anything of him wearing these shirts, inform me and i will love you forever.
and i can't forget the most IMPORTANT gift, Labbit.
at first, when i bought him this lovely Labbit (everytime i say that name i cant help but think of a vibrator, i believe there is a Japanese vibrator with a rabbit theme named something like that lol), on impulse at Urban Outfitters one fine day, and from then on i only grew to love the Labbit more and more, then i was a bit sad to see myself give him to Chansung. BUT. i knew Chansung would take care of Labbit very well. so i told Labbit to go, and not run away in between the time i placed the gift on the floor and the time Chansung opened the gift. I think he listened.
But, i miss Labbit so much, even though i knew he is in a good home. Im totally gunna get my very own Labbit, and LOVE him hard. Thats for another time though. I wish i could buy all the Labbits at the store but... i think thats taking on a little too much responsibility.
Anyway, so yea. That was the first time i got an idol/fandom guy a gift. It was really fun. I might continue to do that in the future lol. It depends on the person, Chansung was really fun and easy to shop for to me. I think Maya would be too, but i think with him i get overwhelmed by AWESOME ideas, i just end up getting nothing in the end. Don't worry Maya, i have a GRAND plan for you sometime near your birthday. >:3 its actually not that grand... don't get excited.
Awesome aside, where was i. Ah yes, getting ready. SO, Kim's buddy and his mom left, i got ready as quick as i could since Kim was like "arent you gunna get ready" and i was like "whuuuut?! oh yea". lol. So out of it. got ready, all purtied up, or so i thought, in the end i still think i looked like crap... :( sorry, im emo because im so ew with myself lately. I love "10 out of 10", but i feel gay listening to it now cause i always say "aw... im not 10 out of 10, im like... 5 out of 10, or 4". lol. yea, i went there. I will totally give my personality 10 out of 10 though. ;)
Ahem, whatever. I felt hot. Thats what counts.
We walked over to the venue where this blob of asians was. Seems this group of fans didn't know what i 'line' was, hence why they werent there earlier. We sat around and waited a bit, me and Kim were VIP, so we had to wait with other VIP people to be let into the venue first to meet the bands and take pics and all that. But in the meantime, we got interviewed by a Korean guy from Korean Times. His english was pretty terrible, but he was cool, asked us how early we got there and took pics of our sign (i wonder if we will find that article ever...), and when he asked our names he said his daughter was named Victoria or something.
Which, random comment, Kim lol. For this new WGM couple, Khun and Victoria. I saw people calling them Khuntoria or something and it made me laugh, one, because it automatically made me think "lol, if me and Khun dated...", and two, because of Petoria, which is a Family Guy episode where Peter makes his own country called Petoria. So, if Khun has his own country... yea. Thats all i got on that. moving on...
Not much else went down. Me and Kim morphed into the VIP blob of people, which also weren't making a line of any sort, and waited. They eventually moved us into a single file line, separating the girls from guys (there was only about 15 or so guys in the VIP), and made us wait pretty much FOREVER. It was hot as hell outside as well. We had to stand there holding our crap for who knows how long while we listened to obnoxious surrounding people. Then again it wouldn't be a concert if they let us in on time.
Though finally, they did. They let us in slowly, checking out tickets and all that. The girl in front of me didnt even have a VIP ticket... wtf where you standing in line for. We all ran and got in...some sort of line in this weird upstairs area. A lot of girls thought they could butt in front of everyone... after a few minuets we heard a lot of screaming and people getting out of line again. Alas it was only the 2PM guys getting in their designated area to take pictures... why do people scream for that. I know its something normal i guess, thats been happening ever since...i dont know, the Beatles? But even if i lived back then and loved the Beatles i don't think i would understand it.
The line moved, blah blah, when we got closer to the Wonder Girls portion of the VIP experience, we noticed all the gifts were being placed in a certain area. I was a bit bummed that we could't give them the gifts in person, but, not much i could do about that. We put them on the floor and moved on.
As we were standing in line too, some staff guys were handing out flyers to an after party for 18+ fans, which i had heard about from a few other people via interwebz but i heard you had to pay $300 for it or something. It was all a bit confusing, but i wont even go into the after party business right now. Thats a whole other story. Although naturally when we got it i was a bit excited...
After the few people went in front of us, they were telling us go get our cameras ready and make sure they were on flash setting, and we would go in groups (if we weren't alone). First was the Wonder Girls meet n greet. It was NOT a meet n greet people. It was actually the farthest thing from a meet n greet i have ever been a part of in meet n greet history. I was very disappointed about that, and felt pretty ripped off. Thankfully VIP tickets weren't anything over 200 bucks, not that 150 is a small amount, but still. I'm not entirely satisfied about the whole VIP experience, but im also not entirely upset about it. Its really 50/50 for me, the way they did it sucked, but still being able to potentially 'meet' the bands and get a photo with them was really cool. So, im eh with it. I was still excited either way.
So there is my 2 cents on that.
We moved up, gave the dude our camera and walked toward the purty ladies. Really, they were gorgeous in person. It hasn't been long since i knew about the Wonder Girls, and i know since i found out about them at the same time 2PM, i will admit i gave 2PM more love (i make up the typical excuse that its because they are guys...), but after this whole experience i really grew to like them more, as artists and people too. And even though i only really knew about 4 of their songs, i heard a lot of other songs i really liked, so i'll probably listen to them more often from now on. :)
They seemed to have some open spots when we walked up to them, for us to stand. Sunye actually grabbed my arm when i got close to her and pulled me next to her. Which i thought was funny. I don't remember her putting both her hands on my like in the photo, but i guess she did lol. My dad has plenty of jokes for that one. She was really nice though, they all were. When i walked in first though i remember Yubin standing out most to me (maybe cause she is probably my WG bias), but she was really pretty. :D All their english is good... but it seems Lim's is the best. I know she is a little funny looking, but in a way i thought she was cute. Kinda like the ugly duckling or something. LOL. Sohee is like a chipmunk. So cute. Ye eun reminds me of someone... i don't know who. someone.
I look terrible in all the backstage photos. Its like... i look half decent in any OTHER photo we took on the trip, but these ones... just whoa. I'm sure its half because of the people we were standing with lol. Oh well though. I still like them. Kim looks adorb even though she says otherwise.
After that, we walked down a weird little path-way they made for us all to 2PM photo opt. I got nervous all of a sudden. I was FINE the whole time, but just them i got smacked in the face. Just like the whole Maya issue i mentioned in the before report, same deal. I HATE IT. It makes me all fidgety and not able to think properly, which is probably why i never remember these encounters like i should, instead they just feel like a dream or something. I will admit though it wasnt AS bad as it could have been. I need a name for this so i can use it in the future and everyone will know what im talking about... lol.
We stood there waiting for the people in front of us to hurry up, Taec was right there behind the little curtain thing. We gave the guy our camera and we gestured for us to go ahead. All i heard was a few "Hey's" and "Hi's" and i dont know what else, maybe some "Sup's" from the guys. Probably Taec and Khun, and im pretty sure Junho too. It went so fast, it was gay... lol. IDEK. I wanted to stand next to Chansung, or hug him, or do something to him ( heh.. ;) ), but i felt so rushed. I felt like there was this damned little asian guy pushing us out of the way. There kinda was lol, but jeez. When we were done, 0.5 seconds later, we said bye, they did too, or Khun did, and maybe someone else. I dont know. I exchanged a dumb-face with Chansung, which was the best thing that happened the whole time (for those who don't know, i cherish Chansung's dumb-face).
And... thats it. yea. They gave us our "gift" and shoo'd us away. :<<<<<<<<< squinty eye disAGREE. speaking of squinty, Khun looks extra squinty in our picture. Normally he doesnt look that 'asian' to me. Thats fine though, Khun is my bias #2, so i was happy and pleased to be next to him as well. And i like how Junho was slightly looking around me. Makes me feel taller. :) even though i had on heels...
Ah well. what next. They led us off to the real stage where we could get our spots. We got a pretty good spot off on the left side against the barricades. Good thing those things hold a lot of weight... a lot of pushing went down during 2PM. Wonder Girls, it calmed down a bit but it was still a tight fit. I tell ya, 2PM should do their own world tour thing. But... at the same time i would probably be very scarred to attend.
They made us wait, of coarse we had to wait until all the VIP-ers were done. Though it wasnt TOO bad, i have waited a lot longer for a live to start before. I guess im sort of used to it. My feet though were KILLING ME. I kept looking under the stage to see when they were coming, since i could see feet.
Eventually, 2PM finally came on. They didn't play a lot of songs, which was understandable since they were opening, but all the songs they DID play i highly approved of. Without U, I Hate You (니가 밉다), Heartbeat, 10 out of 10 (10점 만점에 10점), and Again & Again. Thats all right? Yea. IMO, a good setlist. Short but sweet. I think 10 out of 10, naturally, was the most fun. But Again & Again got everyone excited. I liked all of them...
I took video's (fancams), i was only going to record some, but i ended up doing pretty much all of it. Uploading by Kim.
Without U
Click to viewHeartbeat
Again & Again
MC #2
I Hate You
10 out of 10
Chansung and Taec liked to come tease our side of the audience. I was so pissed at myself for being short when Chansung attempted to slap some hands. Although i think even for him it was tough since the gap in between the stage and barricades was pretty wide, and imo, hes not a super tall guy himself.
I think i get to like Junho more and more too. I thought he was really cool/cute in person. IDK, everything was awesome. I really can't say much because i was fully immersed in the live, you had to be there to enjoy it. They were all awesome. It was really hard for me to see these guys and think "man, we are in the same age group". Maybe its because i still see myself as immature. Or... i dont know. In comparison to a lot of girls my age, i think i look really young. So i guess technically, im the one who doesnt look my age group... i gotta work on that huh. lol. So fine though... so fine. Those guys.
After they left, we waited a bit more for the Wonder Girls. Another good example. Same age group. Look a lot more mature. lol. Aish. The Wonder Girls put on an AMAZING show. Their opening was spectacular. The whole, white curtain, silhouette thing. Awesome. Even all of their individual performances was amazing. Im not going to explain it all, cause even though it was short-ish, there is detail.
They each did their own single performance as well. I think my favorites was Sohee's. They were all good though. Sohee was having wardrobe malfunctions, poor bb. Ye eun was a bit messy too, but not too bad. I am sure i would do the same, so i didnt hold anything against her for it lol. Not that i would anyway.
Since Sohee was on our side, i also watched her a lot. I dont know how many people noticed, not that it was a big deal, during one of the songs though, she picked up a water bottle (i guess to drink), but the performance started before she could put it back down, so she was holding it behind her back for a long while, then she pretended to walk over to the side, and as she did she threw it off behind the curtain. lol. IDK it was cute.
I think my favorite one was with the white outfits, Ye eun playing piano and the 'snow'. It was so pretty. Sohee was crying, and it almost made me teary too. It was just really pretty, and touching. I felt the love. lol. What else... i dont know. Thats all i got.
It was all really great. I had so much fun. I was actually a bit nervous for my first KPOP live, since i didnt know what to expect. Although, i kinda had a feeling, and my feelings were right.
We went and found Gwyn after it ended and walked out. Kim went to the merch booth to see what they had, no 2PM stuff. lol. She got us WG's 2DT CD. yay~ After the live, most of everyone sort of hung out outside the venue chatting and/or hoping the boys (or girls?) would come out to go back to their hotel. They probably did at SOME point, i mean, they have to, but i had no interest in such an activity.
We didnt have much time before the after party (... yea), so i told Gwyn i was going to the hotel to rest my feet, and walked back. We hung out in the room awhile, chatted, blah blah. We were (or i was) excited for this after party. I hear a lot about them but never have i been able to go to one. I wanted to drive, i totally could have... but my mom instead made us take an expensive taxi.
At first, when we were getting closer to the Velvet Room (the club it was at), i was worried, because it didnt look like it was a place a club would be at... it was a small strip mall, with normal stores in it and in a residential area. But alas, there was the club, with long lines out front.
We waited in this line (they separated the people under 21 and 21 and above), and checked ID's and made x's on our hands. The security was VERY intense. We waited very long in the line... my feet were already hurting. It didnt budge. I saw other people being let in. Obviously those with connections. We eventually got in. Got patted down and bag checked. We got in. Browsed around, got drinks, chilled. It got boring quickly. Like i have said before, if we could drink, it probably wouldnt have been AS bad.
I also felt like i was in another country. As more people came... EVERYONE WAS ASIAN. Other than what seemed to be only my group, and some other one being the only white people. It was so odd. I don't think i had ever felt more out of place in my life lol. It was also very stingy. A lot of people with connections, and people who looked like they knew what was going down. IDEK.
The VIP tables were all on the sides and up on a higher balcony area in the back where we were hanging out. The side VIP tables (i heard) were around $600, while the higher, cooler tables were $1000. crazy SHIT. but you know what. those people payed for that shit. cause they all were hardasses, apparently. and thats what its all about in the club scene. I GUESS. So many hooch-ass Korean girls too... I felt REALLY downgraded with all of them around. Which is saying something, because never in my life have i allowed a hooch to downgrade me. I know im better than all of that shit.
tch.
But, yea. I saw a fair amount of fine guys, they all gave off the douche appeal though. Every girls i saw was a bitch. I could tell. This is also a PERFECT example of my asian-loving-asian theory. PERFECT. Because they were ALL like that. After a very short period of time, i felt really uncomfortable there. But i wanted to stay for the sake of WG or 2PM...
Time went by. We got there around 11pm, 12am... 1am. They still weren't there.
Kim was pretty pissed, i got the VIBE from her big time. I don't blame her though. This shit was shit. Totally ripped off. Waste of time and money. I don'e even know why i didnt think first anyway, because in my head i KNEW the guys would have just went back to the hotel, showered, and CRASHED. Why didnt i just say that to myself and accept it? High hopes i guess. Not that we would have actually gotten to 'club' with them anyway. JYP has some shit to straighten out.
We all gave up and left. The bouncer out front called us a taxi and we waited. One of the employee's out front asked us why we were leaving so early. Right as we were getting into the taxi this guy got carried out of the club, people were yelling. The bouncer who was carrying him threw him on the floor and the guy looked like he was going to explode. It was intense. Kinda funny. The most entertaining thing of the club...
We went back and crashed. We were all bummed about that shit. But i fell asleep very quickly.
All we did the next day was leave lol. We drove and drove and drove. All the was home. Dropped Gwyn off. So. Yea. I guess that concludes this report. They were long and detailed huh? Thats why it took so long. I can't help it i just get into it...
RATING
Fandom Itself: 10
Company/Organization: 2
Other fans: 3
Overall: 8
ADDITIONAL SHIT
random and slightly lame. i know. but, its still exciting.
whence browsing OMONA, i came across a photo of Chansung wearing the shirt i got him. oh happy day. no sarcasm intended. it really made my fucking day.
originally it was the girl who brought Chansung that mass basket of banana's (really?..) who has posted it and BRAGGED about how he was wearing her hat. she even posted her photo and continued to brag on and on about it... i was annoyed, aside the point. I saw the other crap she bought him too, which was mostly just the hat, i think some other crap, the bananas and a butt-fuck-ton of dried mangoes... I mean yea, its a good present cause its what he likes, but i can imagine the guy gets SO much of that. IDK. if i were him, i would get bored of that.
The POINT is, i was really HAPPY and relieved that 1: he was wearing it, and 2: he actually GOT his gift. I knew if he wore any of the shirts i got him it would have been the Under Cover one... its so him.
Me and Gwyn were talking about finding the video, which i did. He wore it in NY, the next day. :)
Shut the fuck up im PLEASED.
But you know what THAT means... :>
LABBIT IS SAFE.