So you know how for PBL, after our State Business Leadership Conference, I experienced what many called “PCD” (Post-Conference Depression) because of the awesome experience I had at SBLC…

Well now… it’s in KMF/HB withdrawal :-O

The 7th Annual Korea Times Music Festival was literally my first real concert (like thing)… the venue, Hollywood Bowl, was just amazing! Although I sat pretty far (in the faraway land of section L1), the big screen TV’s provided on both side of the stadium-like place made up for the distance. So yeah, I went with my friends, people from Aethiopeia, Hypnotic Asia, and uh… I guess Soshified? (lol… because one of my friends is a member of SSF too… so I guess it counts? haha – but don’t get me wrong, there were TONS of SSF-ers at the event… a pool of pink I must say!) Since I was going to KMF/HB mainly to watch/listen to So Nyuh Shi Dae (SNSD/Girl’s Generation), I of course was wearing the awesome pink S<3NE/SSF t-shirt and bunny ears… The ironic part is that… that shirt is probably my only article of clothing that is pink! But yeah… anyways… let me give you guys a chronological timeline of my experience as a K-Pop fan 😀

On Friday, May 8, 2009, I went to the SSF meetup at the Wilshire Grand Hotel. I got hopelessly lost on the way there (had to call my living GPS friend for help) so I arrived 15 minutes late – but it was no big deal… because people were coming and going. I bought my shirt and 3 other people’s and got the goodies that came with them… the only thing was that the balloons weren’t there yet so I just pulled out my laptop (which I brought in case I got lost and had internet connection so that I can Google map my way around – I’m prepared! lol) and just chatted on the SSF shoutbox… and when I got bored, I called my friend Diana who was like taking turn talking on the phone with my other friend Michelle… they were seriously trying to trick me or something -_- lol…

While I was waiting, my life as an obsessive enthusiastic stalker following fan began! I heard people screaming and saw people running but wasn’t sure what it was… by this time it was around 10:15PM… and then BAM! It hit me that SNSD was arriving at the hotel! That took like 15 seconds to register in my slow head T_T so I ran like the wind (actually, not really since I was sitting like 10 feet from where the SNSD girls were trying to get into the elevator… and lo-and-behold! I got a measely 5 second video clip of Taeyeon and Jessica! Well, here is the video clip…

Sunny and the rest of the girls came into the hotel and then the elevator a few minutes after that, but I, being ever so slow, short, and blind, did not manage to get them on video 🙁 Well sometime during the wait for the SNSD/SHINee balloons, I also managed to see the backs of SS501! At first a group of guys walked by and I was like eh… they’re not SNSD… screw them… but then people started like screaming and spazzing and yelling “double S!” and I was like ahhh no! I missed seeing the front of SS501 :-O And sometime during that night, I also managed to get to see SHINee walk in from the back way but they were covering their faces… so I couldn’t see them…

Well, I finally managed to get one SNSD balloon for each person that bought a shirt (through me)… and left at 11PM because I had to pick up my sister from her friend’s house…

So yeah, I got home and was like “spazzing” about my first nonexistant encounter with SNSD… I mean, at least I was in the same space as them! I didn’t sleep until around 4AM and the bad part was that I had a blood/health test at 7:30AM… so I ended up only getting 3 hours of sleep that night…

So on Saturday, May 9, 2009 I headed out to Korea Town and got there around 11:30AM. Aethiopeia was having like a little forum gathering… It was pretty cool – I got to meet all the people I talk to a lot in the shoutbox on Aethi 😀 With our lagginess, hopelessness, tendency to get lost, and anything else that was a factor that I do not remember, we managed to get to the Ventura Parking Lot by 3:30PM… where the KMF/HB shuttle takes us from the lot to the actual Hollywood Bowl where the event was to take place.

Once we got to our destination, we were on a hunt for free stuffs! (now who don’t like freebies? NOT me! lol) After our “shopping” spree was done, we decided to call former singer and current DJ/VJ Isak for Arirang Radio/TV from SM Entertainment because she had promised us (Hypnotic Asia) the week before that while she is at KMF/HB, she would give us the opportunity to interview her! First call resulted in a miss call, but the second call came through and we talked to her cousin… however, her cousin wasn’t with her so we had to wait for her cousin to call back when they’re together again… Our moment occurred around 4:30PM… A little bit earlier than that, we recieved a call from her cousin telling us where Isak was currently. So we searched around and finally saw her filming/interviewing. Isak is really pretty and nice!!! Then we finally got to interview her! She even fullfilled our request of giving a shoutout to Hypnotic Asia and all of her loyal Mid-Day Break listeners! We were so ecstatic! Right after that, Mari and I managed to get her to sign/autograph something real quick (Mari with her SM book that she made, and I with my measely notebook that I have never used before lol…)

To read more about our little adventure with Isak and watch the video clip, go to Isak’s Interview! (and yeah… I’m the one wearing the S<3NE shirt in the middle lol…)

The concert… was epic! Although I do not understand Korean… it was still… EPIC! I did record some of the performances (whether whole or just a little bit)… but towards the end (where the groups I wanted to see were performing…) my camera ran out of memory and then battery… I felt really sad =( especially since my memory ran out right after SNSD sang “Girls’ Generation” and “Gee”… so I didn’t manage to get “Himnae” on video… but I did get it on audio! I also had to only audio record all of SS501’s performances… and then somewhere during that time… I ran out of memory T_T well anyways, below are my fancams of Taeyeon’s duet with Lee Juk, singing “Goose Dream” and Jessica’s duet with Lena Park, singing “You Raise Me Up.” Just beware that I did sat in the faraway land of section L1 so my fancams are 1) blurry 2) shaky 3) sad

I’ll post up my other fancams later after I have put my watermark in the background =D now I’m so tired! Time for bed ^_^v

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May 12, 2009 @ 8:40AM

Okay, so after the concert… we like sped to the Wilshire Grand Hotel to a) see if we catch any last glimpse of the singers b) Mari and I really needed to use the restroom ROFL and c) Diana and Mari had to wait for Alta and Jenny… like literally… Wilshire Blvd never seemed so long in my life =O it just kept on going… and going… and going… and I was beginning to doubt myself if I was even going in the right direction… because I was just heading to the hotel based on my noobie knowledge of the area… (remember I got lost just the night before… lol)… We finally saw the hotel around 12:15AM… but couldn’t find any street parking/cheap parking lots so we circled the area for a while… and finally gave up and just decided to park at the Ernst & Young Plaza (which ended up costing $7.05 for almost 2 hours)…

Our efforts were not in vain… we got to see first see SS501 like right when we got to the main lobby of the hotel, and then SNSD and SHINee at the same time at around 1:15AM… Unfortunately… I”m a little on the slow, short, and blind side T_T so I only got to see SHINee’s heads/faces… being a SNSD fan… I was really hoping to see the girls and maybe get their autographs but I didn’t…

And yeah… my camera DIED toward the latter part of the concert (like I mentioned somewhere up there) so I couldn’t record anything while I was at the Wilshire Grand Hotel that night… but my friend did! Check out her Youtube channel!

And so… we had to go home… and we left the hotel a little before 2AM… next year, we are SO getting BETTER seats… and (maybe) staying at the hotel! And I hope that SNSD will come again… although there is a chance they won’t because they have already performed at KMF/HB twice… there are talks about how artists don’t come for more than 2 years… I’m just hoping that they do come again… if not, they better have a debut or tour in the US! lol…