23/11/2012 6.30pm
Ill recall from the beginning, as much as i remembered.
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it started with me spotting the SM Town pink bus at Bishan on the day when we are heading over to liyu's 21st.
tada! the bus 13.
thats very blur i know. cos im standing like 8 lanes away from it? and i had to capture quick, cos there are seriously many people passing by at bishan mrt bus station.
- and then tickets were sold to the named banks and samsung handset user, which both I have. I didnt buy the priority tickets. Tickets were selling out fast. Then, public sales started, and tickets were sold too. Neither did I buy the public sales. you wonder, how the hell i get to watch SM Town right? haha no, not free tickets like many lucky people won. hold on.
- in the meantime, i checked online for trading and selling and WTB of tickets on RITS page and forum. Also saw the blacklisted ones cos they are selling the tickets at really ridiculous rate. crazy.
- then selling of the merchandise which i didnt get too, cos i didnt know ill be watching in the end.
then 7 days before the concert, those crazy fangirls went to queue up for the moshpits. what to say... too hardcore. too kiasu. too much of an epitome of a singaporean. on the concert day itself it rained. heavily. they are pitiful. but what to do? i just kept thinking why didnt the security guards chase them off since under the regulations that RITS imposed, no overnight queuing is allowed. why? or maybe they did, but we didnt know. BUT, i forgot when, was it before or after the concert, that i got to know that the fans queued the wrong direction. Meaning, the last person at the queue was let in first. so that implies that person queued first were the last?!?!?!?!?! omg. i never want this to happen to me. arent they poor thing? they might not be queuing up themselves, they could hire people to, or take turns, whichever it is, effort is put in, but not reaped. what to do? they had already went against the regulations...
and then, 2 days before 23/11. i was surfing the facebook; Running into the Sun page. saw loads of comments on trading of tickets. and guess what? the first comment that entices me wanting to buy from the seller, actually posted this, "
4 tickets! side by side. 1 for $100 EACH!!" That ticket costs $218 fyi, its row 58, i thought omg 50% discount is this person mad?!!? immediately i asked my sister to whatsapp this person. and blah blah blah, decided to get the tickets from him and then, here comes the exciting part. (usually what we do, we will always consult our parents) i told my dad, he said it could be a scam like those ZoukOut fake tickets. So we thought about it, and realise that it could be a scam... cos no one will want to sell 4 tickets at $400 making MORE THAN HALF THE PRICES' LOSS. NO ONE. cos those that i saw online, majority are selling it at original price or SLIGHTLY lower than the ticket itself. and so, we were sorry and felt upset too nonetheless that we had to deny the offer.
After which, i had a htht with my sister. she said,
"are you willing to part with your say 100 bucks if its a fake?" "you can just treat it as donation, or means you helping others to tuition free of charge la" "i dont know, i want to experience it both the concert, and if worse scenario, being scammed" I was shocked by what she said the last sentence. she's a miser lol and she said that. she must have been mad. mad over her SMTown's bias. and so ive decided to give it all.
The next day, ie. a day before the concert, i was lying on bed checking out the comments hoping to find one decent low price and good seat to buy. hahahah messaged a number of keen sellers, but those good ones like
VIP seats selling at $175 CRAZILY CHEAP, were sold out =.= then i saw this comment by a lady, selling
2 light blue seats for $150 each. great! and so i got that.
By the way,
if you want to check if the tickets are blacklisted or fakes, what you can do is
1) e.g. RITS they did post up blacklisted tickets, so you can just check their fb page. yes effort. or google the transaction number. HOWEVER, this is no full proof. so that means, some blacklisted tickets may not be reflected online. Thus, only the ticketing office e.g. sistics, has it.
2) to check if they are fake tickets like ZoukOut's, call them directly. I did call them to check but the person doesnt sound like he is very willing to help cos like what their T&C wrote, buy from authorised outlets. i.e. no underground trading. So, if the seller aint your friend, or your friend' friend or anyone who are related to you, TRY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE NOT TO GET FROM THEM. thats their take.
so bobian, cant check if its ok. then i tried to determine the person's credibility by messaging and check the person's details online. at least thats what i can do other than just sit there and kena scammed right.
Thank goodness she is a really nice lady and we sorta became friends LOL cos she's my uni senior la.
happily posted this picture up on fb! hahahha HAPPY LIKE AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA WAS DAMN IT MADNESS THE NOON AFTER I CONFIRMED MY PURCHASE WITH HER HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
ACTUAL DAY!
rushed down from school after class at 3pm. mad search for light sticks. hence asked my sister to look for it at bishan area since she's coming down from that region. but to no avail. only skinny glow sticks. eeeyer
went over to raffles city above city hall station to check out Party City. saw BIG light sticks and star wand light sticks, good enough right? but no. BLUE COLOUR. I WANT PINK COLOUR. i mean, i dont mind getting blue one but I WANT PINK. cos i love snsd more than sj hhhehhehheh but too bad no.
met up with sister and toured the whole of marina square to find light sticks =.= but nil. so, we gave up on searching for that. THEN IT RAINED. IT FRICKING RAINED. GETTING EVEN HEAVIER AND HEAVIER. ugh wanted to head over to the place but since it rained and im worried of no shelter to shield us from rain while queuing that we stayed awhile at Marina Square instead... together with the concert goers haha.
You see, since i got the tickets from buyers, i wont be getting information directly from the organiser if theres a change in event or venue or refund etc. So... i was worried sick. overheard some fans saying to meet at some escalator. and i thought there will be ushers over there to facilitate, but no. i guess thats just normal fanclub meet up place lol
while we were getting all anxious and worried... the press conference took place.
cut the long story short. we went over to marina floating platform when the rain got smaller.
crossed the road. queuing up at the Entrance 2. such long and messy queue which got even messier after a few minutes when people started to all run forward and cut queue. noting that its kinda weird i moved over to the "official" queue. but after 10mins, ONLY the cut queue people get to move in! then, i got my sister to check out at the entrance, to know that the queues are ALL MESSED UP. then, i ran forward to join my sister in getting in. sometimes its not good to always abide the "law"
got in. another round of queuing. no bag checks as mentioned earlier. no tickets scanning as what was suggested. so i guess anyone with the blacklisted or fake tickets can just enter. just dont sit at the wrong seats i.e. occupied/booked seats can already.
RITS is pretty poor at such things. Ushers who dont know how to usher or rather, they dont know what are the FUNCTIONS/OBJECTIVE of an usher. to facilitate the crowd. ALL OF THEM GOT 'BLOWN OFF' BY THE RAIN. that only reflects their poor management and crisis analytical abilities. due to the rain, and so, long queues at 6pm when concert starts at 630. they had to rush. no back up plan at all. yet they claim it to be a rain or shine event. by saying that, we assume that they are fully prepared for a rainy day right? but no. eeeks.
anyway, got up the place. WAS TOO PSYCHED! OMG WE ARE ON OUR WAY UP TO THE AUDIENCE SEATS. THIS IS FO REAL! HOLY SHIT!
look at the crowd below lol
while rushing up, we grabbed the lanyard! FREE WHAT HAHAH
without zooming. thats how far we are seated. lucky us didnt get the 100 bucks per ticket nor the cat 9 newly released ticket thats like row 69. otherwise even further. this is row 48 :)
trying hard to zoom in lololol damn it la. if i knew no bag checks and its EASY TO SNAP PHOTO OR EVEN TAKE A VIDEO ILL BRING A PROPER CAMERA! UGH others are taking like crazy. but well. at least im enjoying the whole show. not like im distracted by taking photos too right hahahha i brought my binoculars! its a must if you are seating that far. unless you are like standing at moshpits la.
a nicer photo by kpopstarz
the song list!
First up, hot summer. f(x) appears in their red hot suit. and since they are the first, and stage is wet from the rain just 30mins - 1hour ago and even though officials did clean and dry the stage, luna fell down. painfully. a loud boom made by her mic. its was so loud that i thought that was fireworks ok until my sister told me its luna. :( poor girl...
and the concert started! wow goosebumps.
then the chinese song came in. lol originally sang by Jolin and David. omg i thought SMT invited them as special guests appearance but no hahahahhaha true also la, SMT has got far better and popular artistes than them why would they want to invite them over lol
was trying to take a picture. but poor cam quality la :( supposedly Victoria in pink dress and Zhou Mi is white suit, both at sub stage.
hahahah looking out for snsd. first item is by Jessica and her sis, Krystal! OMG my sister was thrilled and she kept repeating "OMG JESSICA VERY PRETTY! OMG I DIDNT KNOW SHE IS SOO PRETTY! SHE IS PRETTIER THAN I THOUGHT OMG SHE IS VERY PRETTY" I was like okok chill! i know she's pretty!! lol i thought she looked the same though heheh
Then, changmin and kyuhyun sang Just the Way you are. holy goodness, the fangirl is sitting at the middle of the stage. and i was whole time wondering how she managed to get up there?!?!?!? lucky draw? nonetheless, she is DAMN LUCKY! GOT SQUISHED BY BOTH HANDSOME!
after this was Oppa Oppa by Dong Hae, and others hahahhahahahaah DH is more prominent. omg i was literally gone when they said, "i say donghae, you say oppa" "donghae!" "OPPA!" "donghae!" "OPPA!" OMGOMGOMG MY HANDSOME BOY!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I did the fan chant along with this song! the only song that i can memorise fully the fanchants hahaha but it seems like we were the only people around that region who screams the fanchants. WHUTTT but we no malu (embarrassed) enjoy is the most important!
bam ba bam bam bam bam x2 @#^$%&$%@&%&@ superman hahahhahahh so cool la this scene! those boys rise up from the elevated stage together with the red animation/background at the back!
BoA! I knew her since her blue colour album! hahahaha when was that? my favourite song then was Number 1, Princess Atlantis. wow KPOP has come this far now... omg ive just checked, Number 1 was 2002. means I knew her when i was Primary 6?!??!??! 12 years old! ahhahahaa now im like 10 years older?! anyway, i realise, either she's getting fat or lack exercises, her arms and thighs are jiggling as she dances. o, maybe she's just too energetic in dancing that, that happens. lol
screaming moment when they got onto the substage! omg so close to the vip. using the binoculars, i could see EACH OF THEIR FACES! OMG I SAW YOONA'S FACE THE MOST! COS SHE KEPT GOING OVER TO THE STAGE LEFT!
when coming to the end, the groups began to perform their comeback songs. wind began to blow STRONGLY when BoA performed, i think it did drizzle abit. but fortunately for her, it rained when she finishes her performance.
the rain grew BIGGER when f(x) performed. omg and people start leaving... and cheers for f(x) grew louder. loadsa support for them. even i did scream.
if the rain aint clear here, look below. sorry bout the pixel. not snow ah
after theirs was sherlock by shinee if im not wrong. also, heavy rain.
when SNSD was performing, the rain got a little smaller but still...
tried to take the small little sparks from fireworks, idiotic people who want to leave but stood there for a while 5-10mins. wth. if u want to leave, get lost. u dont stand there. dumbass
slightly wet. thankful for the poncho, umbrella and the raincoat which we prepared to shield us and our bags from rainwater.
light blue tag for light blue seats people!
the next day, on twitter from my friend that i got to know, yuri sneaked into the crowds watching rehearsal for Shinee LOL the news only get published like 12hours later. i wonder, how my friend get this info... hmm...
