After the mind blowing encounter with T-ARA at the airport, we decided to head back to our hotels and get some rest. Mind you, me and that Hahmchin were so in awe that we weren’t even mad nor worried that we weren’t able to get a GrabCar after 30 minutes of trying. Only when we were slightly out of our daze did we remember there were airport cabs. *insert Hyomin’s blur moment. Lol*

So, the next day, me and my friend got up bright and early to start the day. Also, I had a copy of a Sunbyung themed fiction that I had authored and I had forgotten to sent it for binding back home. I had printed it out for the Queen’s who gifted me that Sunbyung banner and I wasn’t about to hand that 184 page fiction in spare bits of paper to such a special friend.  We were supposed to have reached the fanmeet at 1pm but we got delayed and we reached only around 3pm because I had some problems searching for a bookstore that could do that.

But thank God, we managed to reach and redeem our tickets in time. During that time, we met up with some other Queen’s and hung around for a bit. I think some other Queen’s recognised my tattoos and there was a well-known Hyomin photographer, 69_simple, who gave me some Hyominidot cards and their Hyomin photo cards. I was supremely happy and then she asked me to follow her and I met the Queen’s who had been the one to arrange the Sunbyung banner to be given to me. She’s a total dear and had been following my Sunbyung stories on Asianfanfics, yes, I’m calling out to you water_rid. Hehehe.

In regards to the Sunbyung banner, I had posted it on Instagram and little did I know that Hyomin herself had liked my photo. I nearly cried tears of joy when I found out later at night. I’m honestly not too sure when she had liked it because my phone was being spammed with constant notifications and I kept clearing them without checking on the names. But here’s a look at that joyous post that makes every Sunbyung shipper have a field day then:

I handed her the fiction and she even asked me to autograph it. It was super flattering and a little embarrassing since I’ve never done it before, but, a big thank you water_rid for always reading my stories and I promise I’ll get the next one started as soon as I can. Soon after, we were told to head into the hall and I was still carrying Jiyeon’s gift bag. 

My seat was quite far away from my friends and I had secured one of the most beautiful seats in the house. A17, which meant front and dead center. I think I got the seat cause I was the first person to pay and purchase the tickets when the sales window opened, so that night of not sleeping was worth every second. I sat down for a bit and looked around me but didn’t recognise any Queen’s around me. But I think I garnered quite a bit of looks because my sleeves were rolled up (Thailand has an extremely warm temperature like Malaysia) and there were quite a few stares at my Hyomin tattoo. Even had a Queen’s come up to me and ask me if he could take a photo of it. (Again, I was embarrassed from the attention) There was another Queen’s from Australia who recognized me and we spoke for a bit before she went to her seat.

Was setting up my camera and stuff while waiting for the fanmeet to start and I’m not 100% sure what time it started but when the lights went dark, the crowd went WILD. The girls came out on stage and the cheering was absolute madness! They were supposed to open immediately with Tiamo but I think there was a technical error and the music didn’t play for a good two to three minutes. And they switched on the stage lights for a bit to check on the error, and there stood Hyomin, looking every bit like a goddess.

At first, she kept her eyes down as the technicians went to check on what was the error about but after an awkward minute or so, she looked up and sheepishly smiled and made small waves to the crowd. That was just a supremely adorable moment. Then the music kicked off and the crowd went wild with the Tiamo performance. The fanchants were beautiful and everyone enjoyed every single second of it. Here’s Hyomin looking absolutely sheepish and cute:

So, I won’t drag too much about what games were being played and what songs T-ARA sang since there is an abundance of it on YouTube and this site. I’ll just skip to the most memorable moments for me. Again, I apologize in advance if I sound like a total spazz for the next few paragraphs, the fan meet really made this Hyomchin weak in the knees. 

Warning: You may think what I’m saying is a figment of my imagination, but I’m just gonna share it anyway.

After Tiamo, the girls sat down and I watched Hyomin for the most part, taking photos of her and generally just gawking at the woman I adore. Hyomin as usual, scanned the crowd and then she spotted me. Then she stared at me for a long time, looking at my arm, my teeshirt and then back to my face. She had this cute little frown and looked deep in thought. Again, my teeshirt sleeved was rolled up and I think she recognized my tattoo since she had liked it on Twitter. The amount of eye contact shots I got from her was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. I’m not kidding when I say I have hundreds of eye contact shots of her. 

Also, she kept grinning at me, I swear, there were many times I thought my poor heart would burst. Somewhere at the beginning, I pulled out the Sunbyung banner I had and held it up for a short while before placing it back on my leg to continue taking photos of her. During that time that the banner was on my leg, I noticed that she kept looking down at it, probably trying to figure out what it was. At one point, I remember her calling the female emcee over to her and whispered something into the emcee’s ear. And then emcee flicked her eyes over to my leg’s direction and she squinted for a bit before turning back to Hyomin and whispering something back to her. Hyomin then nodded and went back to looking at my leg for a bit before flicking her eyes back up directly into my camera lens. She had this little grin on her face after that.

I swear that smirk will kill my heart one day.

So I’ll skip most of what happened since you guys have probably seen it on YouTube. BUT, I will however place this video of the famous moment of Hyomin versus a mango:

We’ll come to the group photo session first.

My row was indicated to go up to the stage to take the photos first, and me being seated in the middle would mean.. I WASN’T GOING TO STAND NEXT TO HYOMIN?! My brain was panicking as I took those steps up to the stage and true enough, I ended up behind Eunjung. I saw a couple of other people wanting to switch places but they weren’t allowed. I was about to resign to the fact that I wouldn’t be able to stand next to Hyomin but then I realized, I was being completely blocked by Jungie who’s pretty tall. Didn’t help that the chairs they were seated on were pretty tall as well. I looked to my left and right but we were packed in quite tight and I couldn’t even peer in between Eunjung and Jiyeon. The Queen’s to my left also couldn’t move because they would be cut out from the shot or something.

I had wanted to ask if I could switch places because of that but I wasn’t sure if the emcee would understand me. Thankfully, the Queen’s to my right was super helpful and as the female emcee walked towards us from the back to arrange us, the Queen’s asked the emcee if I could switch. Initially she had said no but before she could walk off, I stopped her and showed her my spot of being completely blocked by Eunjung. Then the emcee considered it for a moment and agreed.

I ran. I ran as soon as she nodded to go next to Hyomin.

When I slid into the spot next to Hyomin, I think Hyomin caught the movement and turned around to face this Hyomchin that had a heart that was about to burst. She looked surprised and pointed at me, exclaiming surprise but my ears were shot at that time. My brain too. I merely dumbly pointed at my tattooed portrait of her and her eyes immediately flicked to it. She looked impressed and held her fingers in a “okay” sign said something like “Jal hae-“

As you can guess, I have no idea what she said after. I understand little to no Korean and I had hearts in my eyes.

Then I did the only thing I knew how to do and I am going to sound like a total dummy for it. I held up my hands in hearts and told her, “Neomu Saranghae” which translates to “I really love you.” *facepalms myself*

I think she knew that I hadn’t understood a damn thing she said and she gave me a thumbs up and said something else and I just dumbly nodded to her. I think at that point in time, she was sure I wasn’t Korean (maybe she thought I had been Korean the last time since I called her “unnie” in Seoul and seemed to understand what she and Qri had said) and the most beautiful smile broke out on her face. 

Suddenly she held up her hand towards me and I thought that she had wanted to high five me, so I put out my hand and then-She grabbed my hand. 

Not like a bro handshake or something but she interlocked our fingers and I was out of my mind with surprise. She then squeezed my hand and wiggled it around a couple of times. I stood there, staring at her, shocked out of my mind. At the corner of my eye, I could see security approaching us a bit but Hyomin completely ignored him. I’m not sure how long she held my hand but she only let go when the photographer called out for us to get ready for the group shot. And that less than a minute interaction, my beautiful friends had grabbed these mindblowing photos of it without me knowing. To water_rid and chong602, YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!

After we had taken the group photos, I walked down off stage and I was functioning like a zombie. I was pretty shaken and it seemed like I had forgotten how to breathe. I sat back down on my seat, still shaken and the other groups went up to take photos. I got my brain back after a bit and continued taking photos of her. I took one of chong602 and Jiyeon unknowingly when I saw her on stage. Wanted to take a photo of my Hahmchin friend and Eunjung but I wasn’t fast enough and they left.

Then came the high touch session, and this time, it was my row that was the last ones. I put my camera to rest since they weren’t allowed on stage anyway and the thing is, the crowds of people were already in front of the girls. So when it came to my row’s turn, we walked to queue up on stage. I noticed that there was a foreigner (caucasian male) who was hanging back a bit before that and was holding a marker and some papers in his hand. 

The event people asked him to go up on stage as I reached the stairs and so he did. There were another 3 Thai Queen’s behind me and we were all that were left in the hall. So we went up and as we reached the girls, the guy in front of me asked for an autograph from Jiyeon. I think because there was no one left other than us, Jiyeon took the marker from him and had wanted to sign the papers. Then this female Korean manager came up and snatched it away from her, barking something angrily in Korean. The foreigner had said something to her and Jiyeon said something too. Pretty sure she was trying to ask the manager to just let her sign it. 

The woman barked something angrily and pointed her finger to the stage stairs. The poor guy didn’t even get to high five the rest and walked off the stage. The other girls who did not high five him had sad pouts and I looked at Jiyeon who had a look of extreme sadness on her face. Soyeon who was standing next to her looked mad at the female manager but before she could say anything, I felt a push on my back from the female manager, asking me to continue on to high five Eunjung.

Eunjung as usual had a bright smile, but tinted with a little sadness from what had just happened and the same went for Jiyeon. When I reach Soyeon however, something happened again.

Soyeon looked at me and exclaimed her surprise at seeing me covered in tattoos. Boram and Qri who was standing next to her had the same expression. And Soyeon pointed at my tattoo of Hyomin and said something to the others, who nodded their heads, mouths still hanging open. I turned to look at Hyomin.

There she stood, arms crossed and wearing the most smug grin I have ever seen on her and bobbing her head a little. My guess is that little monkey had shown the other girls my tweet and that’s how they recognised me. I high fived QBS, and then got to Hyomin. I was about to high five her when she grabbed my hand in the same manner that she had done on stage earlier. She was grinning widely at me and I was doing the same to her. She squeezed my hand for a bit and had wanted to say something but again, I felt a push on my back, asking me to get a move on. Before I let go of Hyomin’s hand, I could only say one thing to her.

“See you again.”

Now I dunno if she understood what I had said, but as our fingers slipped out of each other, she gave me some small nods before she turned back to the other Queen’s that had been behind me to high five them. I went down to collect my bags from my seat and saw the Jiyeon bag I still had on me.

I turned back to stage and saw the girls already walking off it. Lost, I turned to the Thai Queen’s who had been seated next to me. I asked them how would we be giving our gifts as I saw they had a couple of other things with them to give too. Bags of it from the looks of it. One of them told me they would ask the event people while one of the other girls called out to one of the guys on stage and said something in Thai to him.

I couldn’t understand him but he seemed to not want to take the gifts and I saw the Queen’s who was talking to him get a little mad. They continued saying something back and forth, until she took the Jiyeon bag from my hands and held it out to him and said something quite harshly. The guy then hesitantly took my bag and the Queen’s pointed to the other bags saying something, and then pointed her finger at the Jiyeon bag.

I may be wrong but I’m guessing they knew what was in my bag since I think some Thai Queen’s saw what was in it the night before and she had probably told the guy to get that bag to Jiyeon no matter what. If she did, I’m supremely grateful to you even though we don’t know each other. As I said before, THAI QUEEN’S ARE AWESOME!

Unfortunately, that’s the end to the excitement because most of us had been too tired to rush to the airport straight after and I missed seeing them leave the venue. But that night, I had found out Hyomin liked my Instagram post and I nearly died of happiness from it. 

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It was my third time meeting T-ARA and Hyomin in the flesh and I can tell you, the experience is nothing but PURE BLISS. I urge any Queen’s out there to try your level best to see them at least once in your life. Those girls are magical and were definitely a blessing to my tired soul. I aim to go to more of their events whenever I can, and the next one will be in Taipei! Until then, I thank you for reading my spazzing and apologize if I had said anything offensive. Peace out from this Queen’s and Hyomchin!

Second encounter (Part 1: Airport) - T-ARA Thailand Fanmeeting (March 31st, 2017)

Initially, after I bought the tickets, I realized that the handful of Malaysian Queen’s I knew at the time wouldn’t be going for it and this would mean it would have to be the first time for me to travel to a foreign country alone. But soon, a C-Queen’s I met on Twitter had added me into a T-ARA group chat and I found some other Malaysian Queen’s who were going as well. But I had already booked my flights and all and would still be travelling solo. But heck, it was for T-ARA, I’d stop at nothing for them.

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So, I’ll just skip to the night of the airport greeting. Firstly, I have to say this: Thai Queen’s are AWESOME! There are so many friendly Thai Queen’s that helped me along the way. They told me what time to meet at the airport, the flight times, where to go around in Bangkok and the gate location and all. When I arrived at the airport, I waited with some other international Queen’s and eventually, the Thai Queen’s told me to head to Gate 9. (Didn’t think of it until after, but 9 is such a lucky number for T-ARA related stuff) I had brought along a 5 month old Queen’s and Hahmchin who was new to this whole fandom thing and it was her first time chasing down idols like this.

A small crowd had gathered there already and I got in touch with the Thai Queen’s who was so helpful to me and handed her Qri’s present that she had offered to help me give to Qri. I had prepared presents for the girls. Each of them were getting a hand drawn portrait that I spent many sleepless nights over, custom made bracelets with their names and charms that included a crown in a heart and interlocking pinkies to symbolize promise because I believe in their words that this wasn’t the end. Also, each bag had a Queen’s fan letter that I had printed out on ivory cards, including my own for Hyomin. I had found the perfect bag which had a small crown on them and printed out pictures of each of the portraits I had used to draw and stuck it on the bag to catch their attention. These were the portraits I had drawn and the gifts:

The plan was to sit in a line and six Queen’s would hold a bag and wait in a line to catch their attention with the six purple bags. We then waited from 9pm till about 2am, for them to arrive. During that time, another Thai Queen’s was so beautiful to have gotten one of her friends to get me a Sunbyung banner the Thai Queen’s had made and gave it to me. I was supremely touched and took a picture of me holding up the banner and posted it on Instagram. There’s another story to that, that I will tell in Part 2. But here's the pic of me holding up the banner to promote Sunbyung, my all time favourite OTP:

*Yes, I tagged them both. LOL*

So here we were, waiting with our DSLRs and Thai Queen’s were taking photos of the group and everyone was chatting excitedly. The one thing I respected the Thai Queen’s for is that they gave instructions for everyone to sit behind a certain line and remain seated as T-ARA passed so that they would not feel overcrowded and we were just supposed to cheer from where we sat. And they held that part up. Mad respect for any Thai Queen’s reading this by the way.

T-ARA arrived around 2am-ish and the crowd went wild! There was already a mass of bodies surrounding T-ARA from inside and I quickly turned on my DSLR recording. The mass of people were quickly approaching us and I was nervous as hell as the crowd went wild. The of T-ARA that we spotted was Soyeon and Boram. The next few seconds was an utter blur.

The Thai Ramchin that I had given the bag to immediately stood up and screamed, “BORAMMM!” while the Songchin did the same for Soyeon. From the camera recording I had, I saw that Soyeon and Boram walk over to the two to take the bags from them. From what the Songchin told me, Soyeon had initially looked at her and was a little surprised at the bag with her face printed on it.

But then, I spotted Hyomin and the only thought in my head was literally nothing. I could only manage to scream out Hyomin’s name multiple times. There was someone blocking the way in front of me and I got on my knees, screaming her name continuously. Initially, she had just smiled at waved in my general direction, not showing that she wanted to take the bag. But as she walked past the dude blocking the way, she stopped and took a second look at me and the bag. And miraculously, she turned back a little and walked towards me, hand outstretched. 

Heart racing, I crawled as fast as I could on my knees to hand her the bag and her smile- God above! She’s gorgeous! I can’t remember clearly, but I muttered something like, “Thank you”, in the shakiest voice imaginable. Here's a recording of it:

My hands were shaking when I stopped the video recording. I looked around and the Hahmchin that was supposed to hand the bag to Eunjung was nowhere to be seen, But I spotted the Queen’s who was supposed to hand the bag to Qri, still holding it. I was about to ask her why she was still seated when she screamed for a guy in Thai and the guy immediately grabbed the bag from her and fought his way through the crowd at the van. I saw him disappear but never saw the bag again. My guess is, he managed to successfully get it through. 

I had initially tried peeking into the van to wave at them but the crowd around it was massive and I just watched from about two metres away, still shaky and not in the condition to pummel through the mass. But Queen’s are really well mannered. There was no fighting and yelling at each other like I’ve seen in other group fan cams. In fact, everyone obediently backed away from the van when it started to move a little, signalling that they wanted to leave.

Still shaking, I looked back down at my camera to rewatch the recording and I nearly cried watching how Hyomin had smiled at me. My Hahmchin friend came running up to me, clearly shaken as well for her first time meeting Eunjung in person and she had told me that Eunjung’s hands were full to the brim but had outstretched her pinkie finger just so my friend could hook the bag onto that finger. The only sad news for the night was that the Jingchin I had handed the bag to couldn’t manage to get it to Jiyeon and I don’t blame her. The maknae was surrounded by A LOT of Queen’s and my friend had a difficult time trying to even get near her. So, we had no choice but to see if we could get it to her at the fanmeet. 

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I’ll post up Part 2 soon since it’s 2am where I’m from and I’ve gotta be up in about 4 hours. I hope this wasn’t too draggy and thank you once more for reading. I’ll post up part 2 as soon as I can!

I'm a Queen's and Hyomchin from Malaysia.

I'm probably going to sound a little eccentric and embarrassing but that being said, I'll overcome all odds for T-ARA and Hyomin.

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Maybe a little intro as to how I found out about them is needed.

Back in 2007, Rain and some other groups were getting popular for Kpop and believe or not, I was one of those who found Kpop extremely annoying and a waste of time. I was into Western artists and even then, I was not a hardcore fan of anyone, except Lady Gaga for a short while in 2008. 

A friend of mine got me watching Hyuna's "Change" and I found the song pretty catchy. Then the same friend introduced me to Invincible Youth where I found out about G7. My first stan was Hyuna and slowly it moved to Narsha. I started listening to all the girls' music: T-ARA, SNSD, 4Minute, Secret, KARA and BEG. I quickly retracted my statement of being a Kpop hater and became a multistan for all the mentioned groups. My ultimate bias slowly changed to Narsha at one point and then it went haywire. I liked them all but Narsha a little more so. And believe it or not, my least favourite at that time was Hyomin. *beats myself stupid*

Then in 2011, I got into a serious relationship. I started paying a little less attention to Kpop and focused on that instead. I followed them all still but a little less closely. My friends were mostly Blackjacks, Sones or boy group stans but since I was leaving that world slowly, it didn't really matter to me.

Then one fine day, a Sone was telling me about T-ARA's latest bullying scandal in 2012. I frowned at the idea of bullying but I'm not the kind to believe what I hear instantaneously and did a little research. Back then, there were lots of articles trying to prove their guilt but I watched a few videos and they seemed edited to me. I told the other groups' stans about that and they didn't buy it. They stood by the notion that T-ARA were bullies and no amount of convincing would make them listen. I just shrugged it off and went my own way, even if it meant not speaking to them again. Didn't seem too much of a big deal to me then since I was focused on my girlfriend. Nevertheless, I followed T-ARA's music anyway but again, not in a hardcore way.

Then one day, things took a turn for the worst. 

I broke up with my girlfriend and things got from bad to worse until I had to completely let go in 2015. It was not a pretty time. I had thoughts of suicide constantly and life didn't seem to matter anymore. I had all but planned to end everything until one fateful evening. Sitting around and contemplating death, I opened Youtube and clicked on old favourited videos. I saw the first episode of Invincible Youth and lazily clicked it, thinking I'd just watch it for 5 minutes and go back to moping.

But I didn't.

I watched and watched, episode after episode. And this time, at the brink of death, I noticed Hyomin. This girl, an idol, newly debuted, working hard as hell to try and promote her group and do a good job at farming. We all know variety shows are sometimes faked but I observed Hyomin closely. This girl was working her arse off for real. She was sweating, pulling weeds, getting ignored and through it all, she still wore a smile that shone like the sun. This didn't seem right to me. Why would an idol, someone who was already gaining popularity, someone who didn't need this, work so hard just for a variety show? Even when the cameras weren't focused on her, she'd still be hard at work.

From there, I hunted down for any videos, movies, shows of her. And then the T-ARA scandal news resurfaced into my searches. I read every article I could find about them, looked for information, read their interviews, watched their tears. I cried out for them. The injustice of it all. One of the most painful videos was watching those were they were given a black ocean because of the scandal and yet, they performed with all their might and stood there smiling to a silent, judgemental crowd.

I was inspired.

If these 6 girls, could have gone through hell and still stand there smiling, why couldn't I? It was merely one bad relationship. I didn't have death threats, petitions against me, my pictures being thrown on the streets and contracts retracted because of it. But these girls did. And they stood against the test of time for their fans, their Queen's and they never stopped smiling. 

T-ARA and Hyomin saved a life then. I threw out all thoughts of losing my life and refocused my goals. If they taught me anything, it was determination. Hyomin's song "Overcome" had lyrics that spoke to my heart and they were written by the Queen of my heart herself. My career soared, life turned around and I decided to dedicate my everything to Hyomin and T-ARA. Hyomin, unknowingly, saved my life just from her efforts in a 6 year old variety show. 

And I never stopped loving her and T-ARA from then on. I am a Queen's for life, only for T-ARA. I guess I've rambled on long enough, sorry about that. Now I'll share my encounters with T-ARA and Hyomin and the magic they've brought into my life.

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First encounter - TIAMO Showcase (November 9th, 2016)

I was in Seoul for a holiday and I had my flights booked from 31st October 2016 - 9th November 2016. I had purchased the flights in May 2016 and only found out the comeback date later on. Broke my poor heart but then I found out only a week before flying that the tickets would be released on 1st November 2016. I had wanted to change my flight dates but we already checked into the flights so the charges to change them would be hefty. My friend suggested that I try to get the tickets while we were in Seoul before changing the flight dates. 

So on the 1st of November 2016, I sat down on a bench in Myeongdong with my friend at 7:30pm KST, waiting for 8pm, where the ticket sales would be opened. The minute the clocked turned 8pm, the online portal opened the sales and I quickly tried to buy a ticket. But sadly, my purchase didn't seem to work (I suspect it's cause I didn't have a Korean phone number) and by 8:11PM, every single ticket had been sold out. Heartbroken, I thought it wasn't in my cards to see them live for the first time and I went moping around.

Around this time, I had rejoined the online Twitter world for T-ARA but I was probably one of the egg accounts you see hanging around. Just retweeting T-ARA stuff with no tweets of my own. In my sadness, I curled up in my hotel room and looked through Twitter. Then one tweet caught my eye. A Queen's suggested that those that didn't get the tickets can try ticketbay or something like that. I quickly clicked on the link and saw that there were showcase tickets for sale, albeit 20 to 50 times the price since the tickets were initially sold at 1000won.

I didn't care. I wanted them.

But I don't speak nor read Korean for jack. I went back to being miserable for 5 minutes because I couldn't operate the site. But then I decided not to give up. I found a site called KoreaBuddy who could help you buy things from Korean sites for a small fee. I reached out for them for help and provided a couple of links I had found. The site replied to me a few hours later stating that sadly, the links I had sent had been sold out. But they offered to help me search for others though they were priced significantly higher. I gave them the okay and about half a day later, I paid 30,000 won for the ticket and received a PIN code.

Now, I dunno how tickets worked in Korea then and my friend was of no help, saying that I could've been ripped off. And until November 7th, 2016, I still had not changed my flight home, worried that the ticket would be fake. But then I was at Everland on that day and went to watch one of those hologram Kpop shows and saw that the ticket sellers was Interpark as well. The PIN code on the ticket was similar to the one I had for the showcase and that put me a little at ease. So, I rebooked my flights and prepared myself mentally to be rejected anyway.

On the 9th of November 2016, I showed up at Blue Square with that text message and an anxious heart. The ticket booth was supposed to open up at 5pm and I was there around 2pm. So I waited around with my friend until it was time for the ticket booth to open. With shaky hands as it reached my turn, I handed the phone over with my text message and the PIN number. The lady at the counter took a look at it and immediately ruffled through her stack of tickets to pull out mine. My hands shook taking it and I could finally breathe a sigh of relief that I was really going to attend their showcase.

An hour later, I saw some people walking around with these small coloured banners and I asked my friend who could read a little Korean, what those were. She told me that they were banners which each member and I remembered that Hyominidot had posted something like that, that they were going to be giving out free banners, so me and my friend headed out to check. 

We spotted the dots outside near the other entrance and headed to them. My friend asked one of them (I’m guessing the tall, thin lady was Amajing) and asked her for a Hyomin one. She grabbed onto my friend’s hand tightly and screamed, “YAH! Hyominiiiiii!”, shocking the both of us. Hyominidot’s admin came running and she handed me one of the banners. It was a pretty funny scene as we walked away a little shocked at what happened. LOL

So anyways, since my friend is a Sone and didn’t have a ticket, I made my way alone to the hall when the doors opened. My seat was B-7-79 and I’ll never forget that magical number. Was seated towards the end of the row and it was nice because it was on Hyomin’s side of the stage. We waited patiently and the girls came out and opened with their songs.

The rest of the showcase flew by like a blur of happiness because I was mostly just floating on cloud nine seeing my bias for the first time in real life. The songs continued to their encore and then we all clapped when the screen went dark. I had started picking up my bags and was about to leave when one of the managers came out on stage and said something in Korean. Suddenly, everyone around me sat back on their seats and started trying to peel the seat numbers of the back of their seats. Not knowing what was going on, I did the same.

Suddenly, Section A got up and they started making a line at the stage stairs. I was still confused as hell and when T-ARA walked back out on stage, I was still confused as to what was going on. Then I saw the fans start to walk up the stage to high five them. You can only imagine the way my brain was exploding at that moment.

So when it was my section’s turn to queue up for the high five, my hands were shaking. I had pasted that little number on my phone casing and my shaky fingers had a difficult time peeling it off to hand to that chubby female manager. I guess she got irritated by me and ripped it off quite quickly from my phone case and gestured me to go up impatiently. (More about her later) 

And then I saw her.

My ultimate bias, the woman that I had two tattoos dedicated for, had turned to smile at me and I swear, my knees nearly gave way at that moment. I walked up to her and Hyomin cracks her all famous bright smile and says, “Annyeong”, in such a demure manner. I smile stupidly and with shaky arms, I turn my arm over to show her the chili tattoos of seven of her stage outfits and I call out, “Hyomin-unnie..” (I pretty much have no Korean language skills at all)

Hyomin looks down at my arm and her eyes widen with shock and says, “Ah! Tattoo?” She flicks her eyes back up to mine and says, “Daebak!” I swear my heart was going to explode when she said that and I shakily high five her and move onto Qri, who’s seen everything that happened between us. Qri looks at me and she has a scarily powerful aura about her. (I think that’s what makes her such a good leader) and she asks me one question, “Jjinja?” She was referencing to my tattoos of Hyomin since she was still looking at them and I quickly nod my head, rubbing the tattoos furiously to show that they can’t come off. She looks at me with surprised eyes and high fives me as I feel someone push my back to move on. 

Here's a video of the tattoos I had during that time:

Boram was next and she too, had seen the whole thing. The poor girl nearly forgot to high five me in her surprise. It was super adorable how she was still shorter than short me, even in her heels. She suddenly remembered that she needed to high five me and she did so, still wearing a shocked look. Then Soyeon was next and she looked a little tired out in my opinion. Poor thing must have not got enough rest. 

Jiyeon is a shy thing, high fiving me with a meek smile and yes, I think she’s calling bluff on her height. She’s not as tall as Hyomin or Eunjung even though they all wore the same heels. Lmao, nevertheless, she was cute! Then Eunjung came next and I swear, the woman has one of the friendliest auras ever! She high fived me and said, “Annyeong!” in the friendliest tone I’ve ever heard. She definitely puts people at ease with that brightness.

The rest of my night with a ride back to the airport ended with me smiling like a complete buffoon, annoying the xxxx out of my Sone friend. But I didn’t care, I had met my bias, I had shown her the tattoos, she called them awesome. It was all worth it. And then a crazy idea formed in my head for the next crazy thing I was going to do once I got home to Malaysia.

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This is my first encounter with T-ARA and there will be another write up for the Thailand Fanmeeting 2017. I hope I haven't been too draggy in this post and if I said anything that sounds offensive, I'm sorry, that was definitely not my intention. I'm just an overexcited Queen's and Hyomchin. Thank you for taking time to read this! *bows*

I'll introduce myself quickly here before talking about the main thing, aye?

My name is Elienore and have been a T-ara fan for some 2½ years now, I have been in Japan twice now and both included a healthy dose of T-ara.

Last year I was at Budokan and very much enjoyed it, so it's no surprise that I was very delighted to hear T-ara was going to have fanmeetings while I was in Japan again this year.

It must be said that it was with rather shaky grounds I got into this with, I really didn't think I would have tickets since I wasn't able to find contacts who could help me with it, but I went to the second fanmeeting in Tokyo anyways just to see the other fans and take some pictures. Turns out they were selling tickets there, so let that be a lesson, never lose hope because it may just work out in a retarded last-minute way.

I began my little journey when I arrived at Tokyo Disneyland around 17:00 or so. Was the first time I went there, and only the second time I had used the nearby stations, so shenanigans went on with the tickets but it worked out overall.

It did take me a bit of time to find Maihama Amphitheater, the place the fanmeeting was going to take place. Disneyland is rather large and confusing at first, but I did get to see the end of a juggling show close to the entrance and also walk past a jazz group performing on a stage inside the area. Tons of stores and everything there, a large selection of restaurant and seemingly high quality stores as well, which felt a bit like an adventure since I had never been at a Disneyland before.

Of course the number of people there was also pretty big, and that was despite a very grey cloudy weather with a (pleasant) breeze, wasn't exactly the most convincing of summer days, but it's been cloudy almost every day since I got to Tokyo anyways. I eventually found the amphitheater, I was pretty sure I couldn't get into a further off corner in the park than that.

On to the fanmeet stuff we go.

I didn't exactly start off as super cheerful or anything, since as far as I knew at that point, I was going to look at people who were going to have tons of fun and then like, write notes about them and maybe take a few pictures.

However, initially it definitely didn't seem like there were 2000 people in front of the place (which is the max capacity, or so I hear) but it wasn't empty either.

I think the main difference between the fanmeeting and the concert I went to last year, is that the fanmeet was significantly more relaxed and chill. Budokan had people buying a ton of stuff and were full of energy while they waited to get in.

That is to say it's not a bad difference at all. The calm and relaxed atmosphere just made it feel more intimate, like you're just going to meet some friends you've known for years (I wager in case of some of the fans, that is the actual case) and have a good time with them.

There were also plenty of fans who were wearing outfits similar to those that T-ara had worn during their performances over the years. Gossip Girl school girl outfits were quite prevalent, but there were also throwbacks to older outfits like Hyomin's one-piece outfit from Roly Poly with white polka dots. There were also several people who wore the animal costume outfits T-ara wore in China in both their showcases there, the yellow one was the dominant one so I think it had something to do with Sweet Treasure and/or fangroups. The only other notable outfit was a girl who wore something similar to the outfit Jiyeon wore in the Dream Concert, I can't remember what her two friends wore though. There was also one particular fan who wore what must have been a couple of tons of T-ara badgets, he had badges all over his upper body in a pattern, shoulders and wore a fairly unusual hat (I never found out  whether or not it could glow) but he definitely stood out as the most visually dedicated Queen's there, I had to try hard to not laugh when I passed him because it just looked ridiculous (kudos for being so determined though).

There were lots of young people with a healthy mix of guys and girls, and even a few that brought children as well. The ahjussi fans were out in full force though, there were waaaaaay more uh... adult... mature, y'know what I mean, but anyways there were a lot more of them than their female counterparts.

I think Sweet Treasure was also active at the ramp leading up to the entrance, handing out small papers fans could show T-ara during the fanmeeting, but other than that I am not sure what they offered other fans. They were quite numerous though, and I'm sure they had hoarded the best seats during the pre-sale.

Those were the primary observations I made while walking around before I found out there were tickets available for sale on the venue, I feel like it wasn't too much really but it was after all not exactly a huge venue and lots of people arrived right up until the start.

I doodled around for a bit and eventually got curious about a table at an open door next to the main entrance. I asked one of the staff members outdoor what it was, and he told me it was tickets, I asked "selling?" to which he confirmed "tickets, shelling". Now, I am not sure if he just had an accent or if he meant I had to somehow run past an artillery practice field while being shelled, but the second option would certainly explain why no one had suggested I buy the tickets while I was asking around for how to get tickets.

Some had suggested it but it was mostly a big MAYBE since they weren't at the event themselves, so great thumb-ups for those for creative thinking. Thank you to all who spent some time replying to me or give me suggestions though, much appreciated.

I bought the ticket and suddenly, just like that, I embarked on a great adventure I had not expected would happen. It also meant I was totally ditching my travel mate, because we agreed to meet at 7PM for super, but I figured he'd be sure I hadn't gotten killed somewhere.

When I went in, I did notice there weren't any sales of stuff, I had seen some other fans outside lug around with bags with the Tower Records logo, presumably full of goodie T-ara stuff, but I have no idea where they got that stuff from.

Either way, you could pre-order the Fanmeeting Photobook for 3500 yen, so for the collectors out there, look forward to this (provided it's not pre-order only, in which case helloes expensive auctions).

Inside there were the usual rice donations and such, with the gift boxes for the girls being next to them. There weren't too many support wreaths, but there were at least one for each member, one for the whole group and then I think another one for a couple of the T-ara girls.

It was mostly Sweet Treasure (or whoever picked up the slab if/when ST gets dissolved) who had worked on that, but since it's just fanmeetings it's reasonable to expect that most international fangroups wouldn't dabble too much in it.

My seat was at the far right from the entrance, Gate 3 was where I entered but while it may have been a bad position in other, larger venues, this one was small and cozy enough for me to still be able to see the girls well on stage.

Of course first row seemed to be almost able to touch them, but overall I'd say as long as you weren't further away than the middle section, you were still decently close to the stage and could see reasonably well.

The theater was roughly speaking half-full at around 18:30, the time where the fanmeet was supposed to start. More people trickled in over the next 20 minutes though and it didn't start until approximately 18:50.

I'd say it's a pretty good choice for a fanmeeting, as far as the venue goes. The amphitheater felt small enough to make it intimate, while most people were able to see the girls well enough.

At this point I started to get excited, but it would still take a while before the event would start, however I did notice there were cameras recording the scene. Of course some of it was for the big screen behind the stage itself, but who knows, maybe the Fanmeeting Photobook will include some footage from the events.

Music was playing while the place slowly filled but, amusingly enough I think they were Korean versions since I had little trouble with following the songs as they played.

Eventually we reached a point where 2/3 of the venue was full (rough estimate, I was eyeballing it) and not much more happened for a while.

The intro was pretty awesome when it began, an image slide show with several pictures of each members started to appear in order with some upbeat music, while the lights died out.

Everyone started to get up and cheer, and the atmosphere became very excited. From the front part of the stage, the girls appeared from a platform and the music for Bunny Style started. We were pretty much starting hard with a kick-ass performance of Bunny Style with the girls, who were wearing the school girl outfits from Gossip Girl.

It's a great song to start with and Bo Peep Bo Peep followed suit. It was an awesome way to get everyone going pretty much immediately, the crowd cheered and enjoyed the performance and no one sat down again until the girls were done with BPBP.

They left for a bit again after having said some things to the crowd, but that was going to lead up to some of the main activities they would have in the fanmeeting.

Some more music and images appeared as we got a short break for the next thing to begin. A host lady (whom I got nada idea who is) appeared and started to present the setting of what was going to happen. The tables and chairs had been brought to the stage, and the T-ara girls were going to have their little drawing event.

Now, the host lady did talk a lot while the girls started on their drawings, but I understood none of that. The girls really looked sweet on stage, and they were all gorgeous. I must mention that the host lady did draw a lot of laughter from the crowd as she talked, so there must have been some jokes or amusing stories I missed out on there. A special mention goes to Sso there, because she was just incredibly pretty.

Eunjung was the first who presented her drawing, I wasn't sure what it was, but it did seem to be a dolphin or something like it.  However, after having shown it, she did the most adorable (somehow not ear shattering) screech I have ever heard, it was just so gawd damn cute. I really hope someone got that on camera. After that, the host lady asked Boram to do a high note and she fully damn well delivered, it was nice but sadly no more than that one note.

Qri drew a very cute bunny, I think it had a magnifying glass too but it could have been a mirror. I also think it may have been a well known character from somewhere, but I can't say that definitely. Sso was very talkative during the whole thing, the host lady kept talking to the girls and they in turn replied, while Sso butted into several conversations she wasn't part of, good ol' Sso.

Jiyeon presented her classic trademark drawings next, I think it's a cat and I do suspect the cat may have been high, but it was still a sweet drawing.

Sso drew a bunny (or a dog, wasn't sure) with a rather funny detail, it had some long ears which was reflective of the hairstyle she had during her Bunny Style promotion. It's a pretty funny detail and made her drawing a bit more personal too.

Boram was the last one to present her drawing, turns out she had drawn an incredibly ultra mega kawaii animal (probably a bunny, but not sure). The most similar image I can think of, is when Puss-in-Boots from Shrek does his super cute routine to get what he wants, it's on that level of cuteness and can probably poison you with adorableness.

They did a lottery where the girls would draw a number from a box, and whoever had the corresponding seat would get it. Overall it kind of spread evenly, but some lucky guy on my row got Sso's bunny drawing and I am pretty damn jelly over that. What a lucky guy. There were several more drawings during the fanmeeting, but the one thing annoying me was, that the numbers and seats were called out in Japanese. It's understandable, but it also meant I had no clue if it was my seat or if it was close to my seat or anything, small frustration there.

There were some nice SsoRam moments there, at one point Sso pointed out some Boram fans in our direction and Boram waved at them, afterwards Sso and Boram gave each other a highfive. Good teamwork, eh?

After the drawing event, the girls got up and performed a really, really adorable song. It was both a cute song and a cute dance, and after having done it the first time, they took turns introducing the moves to the audience. Sso tried pretty hard to make the audience do the part she showed us in a sexy way, but I think she ultimately failed. It was a pretty nice way of having a moment where nothing too much was happening and there was more interaction between the girls and the crowd.

The food dessert event started after this. In Osaka, Hyomin had been in group with Sso and Boram but those two were left with each other this time. On the other group, Eunjung, Jiyeon and Qri got their stuff ready.

It was a competition to finish the dessert first and  make the best tasting dessert. Three lucky fans were drawn from another lottery to come up and be the taste-testers. Eunjung and Jiyeon both bowed to each of them as they on the stage, but I don't recall the others doing it.

SsoRam had to make a dessert out of ice, milk and watermelon pieces, sounds pretty straightforward and simple. On the other team, EunJiRi had to make dessert out of (shaven) ice, cream, cornflake-thingies, and fruit stuffs, which looked a tad more complicated.

At this point, Boram and Eunjung were both giving handshakes to the lucky fans who had gotten drawn, but Boram wanted to one-up Eunjung and started to hug them all. Eunjung herself did not want to be outmatched like that, she pushed Boram away from them and gave the whole lot back hugs. You'd think people would be jealous or something, but everyone had a good laugh over it and it was pretty funny. Boram also gave a ton of fan service to the crown while making the dessert.

As things would go, EunJiRi was the team that finished theirs first, but the real showdown was when they let the fans taste their desserts. Sso and Boram both gave them some of their watermelon-milk-ice dessert and fed them personally, it was really funny to see how the adult (and older than the girls) fans were slightly awkward about it, Eunjung (and Jiyeon I think) in turn fed the three fans afterwards and it was greatly enjoyed by the crowd.

Apparently SsoRam's dessert was way better, because all three agreed that theirs was best. Sso and Boram cheered very enthusiastically into the camera when they won, and Sso even threw rock handsigns for all to see.

It didn't stop Eunjung, Jiyeon and Qri to eat quite a bit of their own dessert, but a loss is a loss. They had to do a sexy gwiyomi (or as Sso said, sekshi) as a punishment, and they definitely weren't shy with the sexy part.

Qri started off but they took turns with it, the gwiyomi they did went up to six, so everyone had two turns each. It's best enjoyed in video, so I hope someone will have a fancam of that and people get to see it, because it was pretty hawt and funny at the same time. Of special note is Eunjung's finale, the way she kissed her thumb at the end was something that made the entire crowd cheer.

They did another seat drawing, but as of yet I still haven't figured out what it was about. It's kind of hard t keep track of what's going on in this situation.

The longest break yet happened but the hostess managed to keep everyone in good spirits. I don't really know what she asked them about, but I believe it was about where people came from and there were some quite energetic answers.

While this was going on, there was also a clip from the fanmeetings in Osaka, which gave a boiled down short view from start to finish on the stuff there. More T-ara songs were played on top of the video as well.

They ended the break with personal video messages from the each girl and they are pretty well appreciated.

When the girls got back on the stage, they were wearing the No 9 stage outfits, which was a very pleasant surprise for me, I very much liked those outfits.

The first song they performed was Roly Poly, and while it's a great song, I did get very distracted by Qri's bare midriff. It was pretty close to being hypnotic, that girl is well-built in more ways than we normally see, I tell ya.

They performed Target after RP. I recall back when they performed it the first time, that the dance was actually very sexy, a fact I definitely did not mind now that I was much closer as far as the stage went.

Everyone were standing up again, and the song that followed Roly Poly was Lovey Dovey, another good old stable of their repertoire. Qri got Hwa's old part in it, something I definitely have no issue with since it has always been a pretty neat part. Everyone also did the fanchants at the right time, something I myself have never figured out and sadly didn't do.

After Lovey Dovey the girls went off for a bit, the crowd chanted "ENCORE!" over and over and the girls came back.  They started it off with Sexy Love, which just made the crowd cheer very loudly when it began. It's a pretty nice song to watch live, as the live dance is pretty good and the song is pretty decent too. Boram was the one who got Ahreum's old part there, and she did get lots of cheers whenever she had any solo parts.

No 9 was the last song they performed, it was the first time I had the pleasure of seeing it performed live, and I completely enjoyed it. Jiyeon did Hyomin's choreo around the time where Hyomin would normally do her "I'm Addict" rap part, but I am not sure if they just had playback of Hyomin or if Jiyeon actually rapped her part. I also have to admit that when Sso's solo part started right after Hyomin/Jiyeon rap (whoever did it), I almost got tears because I am a straight up sucker for ballads, and seeing Sso sing it live so close to me was very, very powerful.

This marked the end of the stage performance of the fanmeeting, It had lasted roughly two hours or so and ended at 20:40. I am fairly confident when I say that everyone had a good time in there and enjoyed the more relaxed and intimate setting of the fanmeeting, it was definitely a different way of spending time with T-ara from what I had experienced before.

The queue leading to the highfive event was really long, so I'll just elegantly skip over that part and go straight to the meat. There have been tales of Sso stans whose minds have failed them when they stood in front of her, and there may be something about it because I experienced something similar as well.

The order of the highfive event was Eunjung, Jiyeon, Sso, Boram and Qri. You got to highfive them all and maybe exchange one sentence with each other before you moved either to the exit or the next T-ara member.

Adrenaline started to surge through me when it was almost my turn, I figured I'd give them a highfive and a humble "thank you" for the good entertainment. I should also note that as far as I saw, I was the only white dude around in the entire place, everyone else were either Japanese or from other Asian countries.

Things went immediately wrong when I got to Eunjung, she was incredibly pretty up close and as we did the highfive, she said "thank you" in English to me without any hesitation. I muttered thank you back to her, but now my genius plan of saying thank you to each girl was ruined. I couldn't say thank you after Eunjung thanked me, that'd just be odd.

Before I knew of it though, I was suddenly in front of Jiyeon. She too was really pretty, but it's also here I noticed two things. I was quite a bit taller than her, which in my vision made her look smaller. That sparked the realization that I was actually standing really, really, really close to T-ara. Much closer than I had ever thought I'd be. It meant that as far as I remember, I saw her for what felt like 0.3 seconds before my mind was swamped with all these thoughts. Like Eunjung, Jiyeon said something to me as well but I don't remember what it was and whether or not in was in English, sadly the storm of thoughts in my mind drowned out her words.

It definitely didn't improve when I got to Sso. There were many issues in my mind as I got to her. I am not aware if she said anything to me, but her beauty was so immense, that I actually couldn't decide on where to look at her on her face. Eye contact? Take a short peek at her lips? Her nose maybe? In the end, I only clearly remember her eyes and the rest of her face is a bit more fuzzy. It felt like if I dared to look at her, my eyes would burst in flames, for such beauty cannot be gazed upon by a mere mortal.

Amusingly enough, my mind had ditched the whole "close to T-ara" and "what to say", but that was mainly because I almost froze when I got to Sso. It felt like I wasn't breathing, that my heart was just about to stop beating, that I couldn't think a single thought and that the only thing that really mattered was her. Luckily my body pretty much went autopilot, I got my highfive with her while I had forgotten I had hands, pretty silly looking back at it but standing in front of Sso had a very strong effect on me.

The next girl I was going to have a highfive with was Boram, she was having a (very short) conversation with the fan ahead of me and almost ended up skipping me, but Sso said something to Boram as I was moving past Sso, and may even have poked her (my memory is very hazy on that). Boram immediately turned to me, gave me a big smile, small bow and said HELLO while giving me the highfive. To that, I can only say that she's very cute and it made me happy.

Qri was the last, and maybe also the simplest. My mind had cleared after the highfive with Sso, and Qri was very smooth about it. She stood at the end, had a very pretty smile and otherwise just looked absolutely dazzling. As expected of Qri, she said nothing but neither did I, so it evens out.

My biggest gripe with the highfive event is, that I am not aware if I was smiling at them or if I was looking like a brain dead retard. I like to think they saw a decent looking guy with a very happy smile, and not a guy whose consciousness was breaking apart piece by piece. I know I smiled at Qri, but as for the four others, I can only hope.

That ends my really long tale, a surprising twist of fate that enabled me to go to the fanmeeting. I hadn't eaten at all since I woke up that day, but hadn't given it a single thought because I was so occupied with T-ara. When I got out of the building, my hands were shaking very hard, not because of hunger but out of sheer excitement of having seen T-ara so close and even touched them. I do wish I had worn my July 2013 Budokan t-shirt, but hard to plan for the unexpected.

They really are very beautiful girls, and they cheerfully highfived me (and the people close to me in the queue), it must have been a very long work day for them but I really appreciate their work and had a great time.

EDIT 1: Fixed title.

EDIT 2: Added minor detail I forgot.

EDIT 3: This Youtube account recorded the entire fanmeet I was at, All credits to uploader and recorder and such yadda.

Hello , this is Jawad , I'm an admin at T-ARA ARAB FANs blog . it's my first time to post anything at Diadem .

the following Fan Account was translated by me from Arabic to English. My friend Tami who knows a lot of K-Queen's

shared with me some of the stories they told her .

let's start

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I've got in to the hotel before 9am, and I was waiting for trancis to come, cos he's the only one I knew who's coming, and I'm so thankful that he's with me, cos it would have be a lot of pressure to me updating the whole world about what was happening on the event, we were both excited, and we got in around 10am, there weren't enough people inside cos we were super early, and we we're wandering a bit, then when we saw the stage we secured our place(at the front), cos were just the two of us, and we could cheer our girls if we are closer to them and notice our presence to support them. We were there waiting for nothing then this group of unknown guys came up and checked the stage, then we recognize that it was Damuer and his staff we talked to him and said we are from diadems(we used TD's name cos I know they knew about our fan site and hoping that he will help us) he gave his contact to us and told us to call him or something, I really didn't talk to him but trancis did.

They said the event will start like12-12:30. But it was already like 1:15 and nothing was happening, we were under the sun with no shades(gahd! I'm toasted right now XD) but all of it were worth it! Updating you guys from twitter and being appreciated for what we're doing, its totally worth it, but its doubled when around 3pm the girl showed up, and they we're just lining up on the VIP area, and I was so excited to see them, I told trancis that i'm going to try to take a picture with them.

So I first saw the jiyeon, and I was like “jiyeon~” not too loud but she heard me and I was giving her my phone to take a selca, but she pulled me near her, and bent down a bit (cos i'm short) I took a snap, and

then she said thank you to me and she was still looking at me and smiling, then I saw hyomin in front of her and called her I was like just whispering or something, but I wasn't shouting at their names, but still they can hear me, she look to me and advances my step to get to her, we snap a photo too..

when, I got off to their line hyomin and jiyeon was still looking at me and we are both saying thank you to each other and they were giggling so cute, and I don't know why but they were looking at me XD, I was shaking so hard, and I was looking for eunjung, (while looking for her, I bumped to this huge guy) then he said back off. Then I notice aruem was in front of me, but I cant get selca together with her so I just took a solo pic of her. Then I was back in our position in front of the stage, we wait for about 30mins or more we can see t-ara also joining the party with us but they were too far.there were some people who's taking a picture of them.

all of the audience were focusing to the DJ and the three of us were waving to eunjung who capturing us on her cell phone. She always waves her hand to us whenever we caught her attention(she was really really nice).

(I'm skipping chris brown performance)

So its time for their performance, they were passing by on our back and we didn't notice it cos the crowd was really crazy (dancing, screaming, they are even grinding their body to us >.<) so when we noticed that they are line up to get up on the stage, I told trancis again that I will take some picture of them, and he was always saving our front stage spot. I was approaching eunjung cos she's the only one, I still dont have a picture, so I was calling her, but she couldn't hear me cos she was in front of the speakers T_T I poke her gently to get her attention and she was not looking at me and I was like almost shouting “eunjung unnie” then she turn to look at me and smile, I ask her if I can take a selca, but she said “sorry, I can't” then she hold my hand, and she was smiling at me, I was smiling back at her and she really look sorry cos she cant give me a selca, I didn't let go of her hand, I was enjoying rubbing it a bit savoring the time that I can hold her XD when we are not saying anything i'm about to go back at my place but she suddenly near her head to me and ask me what was my name, at first I told her “pipam” cos I was really nervous I dont know what to tell her, and its snap me off

when she said “what pampam?” then I was like what did she say(?), then I told her my real name, then she look at me again and ask me another question.

“where you from?” her head was so near, and my lips was touching her hair *dies*

then I said “philippines.”

then she look fascinated and look at me again. “oh~ really? Thank you.” and my hand were still holding her hand, I was about to go again she pulled me gently and she was bending to me and she hug me like 5 seconds.

My head was like “asdfghjkl!!!!!!!!!!!!” then I said thank you and smile before I leave. Then I was quivering I cant hold up the video cam and phone properly, then they were backing off again behind us, its like that they are not still gonna perform, they pass by me and jiyeon, eunjung and hyomin were smiling at me.

So after like 5 mins they were up on the stage, and start the performance (first performance) this is the thing I was saying on twitter while ago, so the girls were already singing like more than 1min, and the DJ was like “stop..stop..stop..” but the girls still performing, cos the music was still on, the people around us were “cheering for them” not just the three of us, you can hear in our fancams that people around us were getting into the music already, but it was abruptly stop and eunjung was like “what?” and the other girls was like “what is happening?” they were all confuse.

DJ: “sorry guys, this song is new song, we don't want to leaked it.”

after like a minute he speak again saying “cos we love u we are giving it to you.” then our girls start singing again, but it haven't reach a minute and it was stop again. The crowd was like disappointed and were like “whooooh!!” base on my view it wasn't cos of the girls but because of the DJ who keep stopping the music, then our girls were awkwardly saying thank you and sorry even I feel they were embarrassed about it, (who wont right? Performing live audience and the music were on and off.) eunjung still give us fan service and thats the best about her.

So we thought they were already finish performing, and we are planning to follow them, and we saw them seated of a VIP something that wasn't that restricted to anyone, so they were surrounded by a lot of managers and their huge body guards. I had fancams on that, we ask jiyeon to sign our t-shirts, and the managers let us.

Then after a while they were going somewhere again, they were performing again! And we were back at our spot, (cos chris brown isn't around that time, so the crowd were a bit calm not like when the party was starting) and there still audience though, t-ara start performing, and the crowd aren't really that enthusiastic, cos hearing the music being played and perform twice, people really ain't gonna give you some interest, but yet, there's still some of them stood there and watch them perform. About the awkwardness of the performance especially on the rapping part that I think CB should appear, but no one came and eunjung was trying to cover up for it. She was dancing and keep on just shouting “yow” then went to the ding-a-ding part.

So basically this performance was really awkward, and I think the girls were really being embarrassed, on how CB didn't appear on his part. And He didn't even introduce our girls, I mean, he was promoting them in US he should have just said something about like “hey, this is my girls please support and love them..blah..blah..blah..” but nothing! After he perform, he was gone. He didn't give any support to the girls while they were performing, fudge right? I mean, we are just three people who really knows them and the others were like, who are they, why are they here? Some stuff like that.

All details and stuff will be read on @trancis7 fan accounts..

all of these photos were captured after the first performance, see how happy they are? do they look like they were crying? and if you can see in this vid they were all head down, cos they just have been finish performing, they were tired.

Jiyeon and the Corn Story Day 1 030611

We started off going to the airport, preparing for their arrival and stuff. Plus we have a van that was stalking them.
So when they arrived, our van was ready to go and we set off along with them.
Showing the girls the boards we made for them. Purely showing our support for them.
Naturally, they waved back and as usual we spazzed~
Then we lost them but still nevertheless we have shown our support
Back at the hotel, there were still remnants of fans after T-ara has entered the hotel.
So we waited outside the Hotel for a chance to see them again

At around 4pm plus. T-ara came out with just casual makeup but still as pure awesome as they are
As they board their black van , off we go as well!
Soon we realise that they were heading towards Sentosa, one of the best tourist attractions in Singapore.
They soon stopped at Siloso Beach Station in Sentosa.
We got off our van too and went with them.
It was then we realise that Boram didn't come along.
Our guess was as she was feeling abit under the weather.

Continuing my fanaccount,
as soon as Jiyeon saw the beach, she shouted out: 바닷가!!!!
Overflowing Aegyoo TTM (((((:
It was at this time Jiyeon did an awesome fanservice for me and my friend.


Then we began to walk with them on the beach. And of course, we kept our distance.
Afterall, walking 3-4m besides T-ara on the Beach is already a dream.
Hyomin started taking loads of Selfca.Qri was strolling on the beach.
Eunjung and Soyeon took out their phone and start taking loads of scenary shots too
Hwayoung was having some problems with her slippers so she kept adjusting and kept falling behind.
Jiyeon ,being her perky self, was smiling as she walk on the beach.

They stopped near by a Cafe/Bar called Cafe Del Mar.
It was this time, we decided to ask for signatures as they were checking for seats in the Cafe/Bar.
I called out for Jiyeon and showed her my board.
She smiled and i flipped my board.

(Oh for those who do not what it means, it means Let's get married )
This time round, she laughed and i asked for her signature (:

She was really really nice and sparkling as she signed (:
Most of the fans there got their signatures signed there.
Awesome fanservice ((((((: and then they went into the cafe.
And so as to get another chance to walk with them on the beach again, we decided to wait outside the cafe.


And of course, when things get bored, people start doing funny things (: LOL
That's me FYI ((((:

A few of my friends came down and brought a cake with them.
This cake was to celebrate Hyomin's bdae (30th May) and Jiyeon's Bdae ( 7th June)
We asked one of the waitresses whether she could bring the cake in for them.
She said she can't do anything but will try to ask the manager on our behalf.
So in she went and out came the manager.
He brought in the cake and 10 minutes later,
they were singing the birthday song. ((((:
I have awesome friends as awesome fans. ((((((:
My friends were really happy as they felt their effort was appreciated
Dammit i should have taken a picture of their cake ):

At around 630pm, they came out of the Cafe and began walking back to the Beach Station.
Soyeon saw these kids playing at the beach and started taking pictures of them.
As we were walking back, seeing that they are leaving the beach,
Hyomin begins to sulk started to whine abit. I guess they didn't have a nice vacation for a long time.

----> Jiyeon walking by herself
They walked past one of the attractions in Sentosa called the Luge and seem really interested in the ride.
But for some reason, they didn't take the ride and move on to other shops in the area.

They went in a souvenir shop and started shopping around.
Some fans were very nice to the girls and bought them Slurpee-Like drinks.

Jiyeon, Hyomin, Soyeon and Qri shared their drinks , tasting which is the best.
That's when Eunjung was left out.
Because she was busy buying stuff from the souvenir shop and didn't managed to get any drinks from fans.
And when she came out from the shop, she was saying to the manager, pointing to Soyeon and Hyomin's drink, :
Nadooo Nadoooo~
Aegyooooo TTM (((((: How could you say no to her?
I shouted out: Eunjung-sshi, wait wait
And i ran to the drink shop to ask what's the best flavour in the house.
IIRC, the cashier said Totti-fruit so i got her that and my friend paid on my behalf.
I ran back to her and said : Eunjung-sshi~
She turned around, but the manager saw me too.
So when i was passing the drink to her, the manager intercepted, took the drink and pass it to her.
I didn't really get the logic why the manager must be the middle man but ohh welll , at least she got her drink (:

In a way i didn't betray my bias either, cause Jiyeon did have her drink already (:

They then walked into another souvenir shop with toys from another attraction in Sentosa , Song of the Sea.
So Hyomin and Qri were being a dear, giving fans signature .
Hwayoung and Jiyeon were looking around the shop afterall both of them are still teenagers that love toys ((:
Eunjung was drinking and shopping along with Soyeon. ( FYI that picture is taken when she was in the toy/souvenir shop)
I had a really really really really short moment to talk to Jiyeon.
She was looking at this toy and was trying to get her Unnies to come look at the toy too.
So i asked her: Jiyeon-sshi, chuwa?
( Sorry for my fail korean, but i havent learn how to use honorifics and linking the sentences together)
Jiyeon quickly shook her head and continue looking at other toys.
I guess she didn't want me to buy her those toys?

Then they move out from the shop, leaving Siloso Beach Station.
Our van came and we left with them too.
As it was night time already, i used my LED board to get more attention from Jiyeon



They were on their way back to the hotel, so SIC,
i told the rest of the fans there that were waiting for them since the m&g to get themselves ready.
In the end, they took a small detour to the Convenience shop 7-11 at Marina Square.
Just opposite their hotel to buy some snacks and drinks.
I thought this would be a good time to give Jiyeon her birthday present.





Back in the Convenience shop, lots of fans were in there, and so was I.
Jiyeon was looking for her manager to ask him to buy Pocari Sweat for her .
And just then she was right in front of me!
So i said: Jiyeon-sshi~
She turned around and i passed her the present.
I said: SaengGil ChuKahabnida
She said: Kamsahamnida. And then she went out for the convenience store.
I went out along with her.
She was showing off the present to the rest of her Unnies.
The black bag Jiyeon is holding is my present to her (: )
As i stand down there with my other friends.
( Reallllllyyyy Happy!!! that i managed to pass her the first present! and she was actually showing it off to the rest of the members )


Then soon after, they boarded the van back to the Hotel. and finally went back in to have a good rest (:

And that was all for day 1.

My dad's friend has connections to MBC, so I got free tickets to Music Core! (Yay!) And because my sister and I were running late, we arrived way after 2:50 (which was the time they asked us to arrive) so our seats were in the back (yet not all the way in the back). Since EXO is promoting, it was almost impossible to sit up anywhere up close. When I arrived they were pre-recording an ending? and saw EXO and Fly to the Sky. Being one of the old-timers here on Diadem, it was nostalgic for me to see FTTS! I grew up listening to their music, but I wasn't going to go fangirling as I was searching for seats.

Anyways, I was reallyyyyyyyyyyy disappointed when I discovered Jiyeon's performance was pre-recorded. When she first walked on stage, the audience was LOUD. So we all know about Korea's anti-T-Ara phase, but I swear it's dying down. The audience, and not just the crazy Jiyeon fans that chanted, all screamed when she walked on stage. Honestly, I thought that there would be no applause for our girl, but the reactions were way better than any of the artists that had come on stage prior to her. (INCLUDING GNA! The poor girl...there was literally NO reaction from the audience. It was uncomfortable watching).

When Jiyeon first entered the stage, she started with a 90-degree bow to fans, staff, etc. (In your faces to those who called Jiyeon cold and stuck-up.) And though she was cut off while performing, she finished off with another 90-degree bow to fans, staff, etc. And the camera really does not do justice for the girl. She is THIN.

AND I'm going to skip to the ending because this is a Jiyeon fan-account...

As the winners were being announced, Jiyeon was in the back kind of alone, almost like a loner. She greeted her seniors, juniors all with respect by bowing 90-degrees and it was good to see. She was quietly backed in almost the corner of the huge crowd before Gna grabbed her arm and kinda of pulled her towards her. They stood together and talked and giggled. It was good to see because I have always wondered whether T-Ara has become outcasts after the whole situtation (it's been like two years, but publicity is scary).

_{Oh and please ignore my cousin's hands! lol. My hands shake like no other, so I let her do the honor of taking this picture.}

I feel like I kinda cheated on this post, but I just wanted to reassure all Queens that I stronly believe T-Ara will climb back up!

Lemme start off with introducing myself, I'm a lil' lad from Greenland which is about as far away from kpop you can get, so this was a huge opportunity for me to see T-ara perform for real.

I normally frequent the SB very often, and if you've peeked there a few times over a 48hr interval, chances are you've seen me. I don't post often but here's a thread.

I arrived to Budokan at about 16:30, after the fellas in SB had nagged me about not getting any of the swag (pardon me, I'm a gamer and "swag" would be the stuff you can get in cons and stuff) or missing the train and such, so forward I went and braved the incredibly safe Tokyo Metro system.

Before I start though, I'm gonna say that they showed Areum's solo debut explanation video about 10 minutes before the main thing started, and the girls themselves talked about it at the end.

Sso was the one who started off and it sounded like she struggled to keep her composure, but since I understood nada of what was being said (they spoke Korean and there was a Japanese translator, of which I understood neither) I can't be too sure if she really was trying to not cry, but it did sound like it.

After that it was Hyomin and she did end up crying at least, she mentioned Areum as well and spent most of her time talking there on not crying, although she did crack at the end and had to turn around to get back in control.

Jiyeon, Boram, Eunjung and Qri all had a say about it as well, but theirs were significantly shorter than Sso and Hyomin, who both seemed to have the long and emotional parts. All in all, it sounded more supportive than anything else, so there's that for those who are interested.

Back to me arriving to Budokan, people had been gathering there for hours already although it wouldn't open until 18:00, which in my case meant I went there 1½ hour earlier than strictly necessary. As some would know, I am very bad with heat so I spent my first 10-15 minutes looking around the different stalls/shops with T-ara merchandise and music, while doing my best to not look like someone who was about to faint from dehydration.

I walked around a bit first and looked at people, it seemed that I was the only foreigner around, at least from what I could see. I initially went past the merchandise shops and saw the T-ara's Free Time in Europe Photobook & Music & Making in Sweet Treasure's shop, I promptly bought it and looked around some more.

I then went to check out the stuff in the Tower Records shop (it was separate from the merch / Sweet Treasure shops) and was pretty curious about the banner with Target and Treasure Box. It took me a while to realize that the Treasure Box part was about pre-ordering , rather than it being available early for the occasion (sadly), it did list three different versions but I couldn't read the poster so no idea what the differences are.

I looked a bit around the stuff they had and it was a collection of their Japanese albums, you could get the Budokan Blu-Ray/DVD, their Japanese singles, Target, QBS and so on, there was also T-ara Cry Cry and Lovey Dovey MV Collection which I got for Blu-Ray, from what I remember it cost a fortune online but was available in the shop for 5300 yen (like.. 40 bucks or something?), so I couldn't resist it. That marked my item number two and I proceeded with walking around a bit.

It was pretty funny, because there were all sorts of people and what struck me was, that occasionally you'd see a girl walked around in a T-ara outfit. I assume they had made the outfits themselves, but they were basically wearing stage outfits. At the end of the wait time I had before I could enter Budokan, I saw a girl wearing the see-through belly/shoulder outfit Jiyeon wore in the N4 CSD dance MV, one outfit Eunjung wore in one of their CSD performances (it was a guy who was wearing it though, and he could also dance parts of their choreographies! Was pretty fun to watch him do the chest rotation part of CSD). A girl was wearing the colourful dress from Sexy Love and another girl I walked past was wearing the black suit outfit from SL too.

The last outfit I saw was the one-piece body suit that Hyomin have worn several times, it was red with white dots on it, I think it was Roly Poly, or something? Anyone remember?

I did a final round at the stores and bought a Soyeon fan, a Soyeon keyring, the Target fan towel thing and the Target t-shirt as well (I sure hope I got it in the right size).

Anyways, after that I had finished all my shopping and went to a nearby café to eat a bit of food and drink some water. I hadn't really eaten because I only left my hotel room when I felt I couldn't idle no more (turns out I came way early ).

There isn't much to say about the café though, place was full of fans and all were pretty much speaking Japanese, so no interesting eavesdropping from me.

I saw down outside on the curb (road/pedestrian separation thing, what you call it?) after I had eaten and spent the remaining time sitting there, it's at that point I realized that alone there by yourself was a bit boring, especially for so long. So if any of you guys end up doing the same thing as me, either bring a smartphone so you can live tweet/chat with I-Queen's and keep you and them entertained that way, or end up doing a half-assed participant observation just like you learned it in the Ethnography Method course (which I did... it made time go and I made notes, yay!).

At this, I should note that the people I saw were kind of mixed. Among the males there was a wide age group from young male (say... +16? A bit hard to judge with the Japanese people sometimes) and middle aged people. The young males were more numerous than the middle-aged men, but there is definitely something about T-ara attracting ahjussi fans, because boy there was still many of them. A small handful were also elderly men, mostly with elderly women but I'm not sure if they were attending or just walking past, was a bit hard to see properly sometimes.

The women were a tad different, the vast majority were young females and although middle aged women were also present, they were far less frequent than their male counterparts. More often than not, you could also see the middle-aged women be there with either daughters or sons, although many were there as couples as well. Funny think was that small girls were also present (children, that is), while there were no small boys around at all.

A lot of different fan groups in Japan and from other Asian countries had helped send stuff to decorate the entrance with, each of the a tribute to either a certain member or T-ara as a whole, they were big and looked nice and well done. I sadly didn't find Diadem among them but that's no surprise, we do after all have just about zero presence in Japan

Budokan finally opened at 18:00 and after maybe 10 minutes of wait time, I went to the entrance I had to go through (2nd floor). I got to say, they employ many, many, many ticket controller people like seriously... they formed a human wall across the stairs with like, double layer of staff! It was pretty funny but there weren't any issues and I got in smoothly. I was really surprised at how big Budokan actually was, and you guys have to remember I lived most of my life in a frozen ice cube, there were rows upon rows of seats in an almost full circle around stage, I found it almost intimidating. I did have trouble finding my seat in there, but the staff helped me get there very fast and overall they'll basically help you with anything if you need anything.

I went in as soon as Budokan opened, so there was still about an hour of close to nothing happening, but it was nice to sit down in a proper chair after having sat on the curb for so long (it became rather unpleasant for my legs) and I basically looked at the seats slowly get filled up.

My seat was actually pretty decent, sure I didn't sit in the front row on the ground floor and all but I was facing the stage directly, and with my position on 3rd level, it meant I had a good overview over the girls and their dancing. I couldn't see facial expressions, winking or such thing, but I could see their choreography and body movements very well, it was a sort of trade off if you want, the big screen behind the girls would provide plenty of close ups and so it wasn't really that bad overall (sitting on the far edge gotta be the worst place).

Staff was walking around for an hour helping people with finding their places and carrying big signs with "cameras/smartphones are forbiden" icons on them, as you should have found out by now people weren't entirely following that rule. I was pretty lucky that I sat at the edge of the row, because that meant I had extra leg space since there was no chair in front of me, and the stairs next to me served excellently as a table for all my staff.

The lights were turned off and I got to say, at that point I was really, really, really excited. I had maybe expected a quiet entry with a "hello" and stuff like that (in Japanese of course), but the girls had chosen a different way to start off the concert. The first song was Bunny Style and they appeared from an platform on the stage, and just as the music started all the lights on stage switched on and it was so awesome.From one second to another it went from being all quiet and excited to all-out party over-the-top mood! I really can't explain it too well, it was an explosion of sound and colour at the same time and the girls themselves looked so great.

At this point my notes basically become all-caps ramblings filled with "OMG", pretty sure my brain shut off at that point. Seeing the Bunny Style song performed for real with all that lighting was really great, and it was a joy to see them all dance it.

I was incredibly surprised at just how pretty the girls are, you see them a lot on pictures and videos and all and think they're beautiful and all but then you see them for real and you just like... realize how much is lost in transition to media and stuff, they truly are incredibly beautiful and no cameras can portray their beauty for real.

Particularly I was fangirling (I'm a guy though, no mistake) so much over Sso and had to try real hard to not squeal on my seat, she was such a wonder to look at and I have never ever seen anyone as beautiful as her.

The next song was Target and I actually hadn't heard it before, I was in Nepal for 6 weeks when the song/teaser were released and the internet is atrocious there, and I never got around to do it in Japan so this was really my very first time hearing Target. And it was such a great song, the choreo was really awesome and felt like an up-tempo fast dance and song you couldn't help but enjoy, the music itself was pretty nice too. One part that really got me crazy was when Boram had her part, the way everyone lined up behind her and she stood there and sang was so cool, it's not often you get to see Boram be real cool and all so I loved every moment of it

I got to say that initially, I was incredibly impressed by how good Sso, Boram and Hyomin looked. They're the ones I paid the most attention to at first, and Boram looked great on stage. Nothing like the girl we saw months ago and stuff, she's still thin and all but it looks so much better now. She really looked great and I'm very happy she has improved ^^

The audience in the ground floor were all dancing and sometimes singing along some parts and the second level seemed to be pretty into it as well, sadly the third level was half empty so it was considerably more chill where I was. Me and the guy next to me (whoever that was) did scream a bit and stuff, but I didn't want to be too loud because so few were being active on our level.

Sso's solo performance was so amazing to watch, she was incredibly beautiful and the song was amazing. It soundsso good to hear her sing for real, and the audience was calmly listening to it, no screaming or such thing, just relaxed waving along the song.

Next song up was RiRam's duet, it was such a cute and adorable performance and it was a lot better than I had expected or thought it would be. They did the choreography so well and they really looked sweet, and they also sounded marvelous.

EunJiMin's Dangerous Love was mindblowing, absolutely incredibly badass and sexy. Their dance was so fierce and the way they went on with the backup dancers just made them appear so much more badass, Hyomin with Aviator glasses got to be one of the absolutely hands-down awesomest and coolest moments ever in T-ara. All the girls were really cool and the way they just walked into the stage before getting into their starting pose was so cool, they appeared from the back of the stage with slide-doors or something opening and then they just strode into the middle of the stage. The song itself was great, it actually wasn't one I liked particularly much when I heard it the first time, but now it's stuck in my head and it was such an awesome song live.

QBS also sang their single, I hadn't seen the MV before or anything to do with the choreo and I really liked it. The song is basically 80% Sso so it's very hard for me to not like it a lot. The choreo was nice because it was such a nice simple dance, nothing fancy but something that suited the slow and lovely pace of In The Wind, and each girl looked stunning too.

Of particular note, I'd say that I loved Qri's outfit because it was a short dress with a long see-through fabric that went all the way down to her feet, I think it gave it a really nice effect and to be frank, was also a bit of a teaser to her wonderful legs.

They sang an assorted number of songs, pretty much close to all their Japanese songs really. I can't remember the order it went in (I have bad memory), but they sang so many songs.

Of particular favourites got to be Sexy Love, Why Are You Being Like This, YaYaYa and Lovey Dovey.

Sexy Love was great because I downloaded almost every single performances of it back during their SL promo, and even did my best to watch them perform them via streams and such things. After having seen it so much, seeing the choreo for real was a great experience and it's really a nice dance too. Jiyeon had taken over Areum's part and it was pretty great to hear it, I think she did it very well ^^

One of the main reasons why YaYaYa was great is partly because I like the song in teh first place, and it's one of the few ones I didn't have problems with singing/mumbling along to, since half the song is nonsense anyway. It really was an issue throughout the concert, because I mainly listen to the Korean versions and not the Japanese versions. All the girls also tend to be incredibly cute with tons of cutesy expressions in that song, so it was so exciting to see them do that, it really is something else when it happens in front of ya for real.

Lovey Dovey was my very first T-ara song and it really was one that got the crowd going. I absolutely love the choreo of it and it was just so mind bogglingly good. Especially since it's such an easy song to listen to and Sso was sooooo incredibly cute there, when I watched the performance for the first time in late 2011 I immediately fell in love with Sso when I saw her there, so this was sort of a trip down memory lane and it didn't disappoint! Qri was also the one who did Hwa/Areum's part there, and it worked really well for some reason xD

Why Are You Being Like This is one of my absolute top favourite songs from T-ara, and with the easy-to-sing-along to it offers in its chorus, it really was great to (try to) sing it at the same time! I know I'm basically repeating myself because in the end, I'm just gonna say "omg dey r so beautifulz" but I can't help it. They were stunning in each performance and it really was great, this was one of the songs where the crowd was more active as well so it was double-bonus.

They sang songs like Cry Cry, Like The First Time, Apple is A (Jiyeon was retardedly cute there) and of course such hits like Bo Peep Bo Peep and Roly Poly. A special mention is deserved for the TTL remix they performed, the remix itself was really good and I hadn't heard it before, it actually took me a while to realize it was TTL (whatnot with remix AND it being in Japanese), but I got to hear Boram's TTL rap! BORAM'S TTL RAP PEOPLE, IT WAS AWESME. Eunjung's rap was also really good and really, everyone did that song so well and Sso had a godly voice as usual.

I would like to note that Sweaty Ram is sweaty and incredibly cute when sweaty, she's just so huggable when she's like that, it was sad to sit so far away when she looked that damn sweet but at least it means I didn't charge onto the stage and try to hug her before being kicked out xD

Hyomin's smile, which I personally consider to be one of the best in kpop overall, was also amazing to see for real. Normally in photos she's already smiling and stuff and videos don't have the same HD-ness as real life has, so seeing her go from not smiling to smiling was an amazing process, really. You can see how it slowly lights up her entire face and make her so innocently charming, that smile can lead to great things I tell you. Hyomin smile best kpop smile, definitely.

There were plenty of stage banter between songs and stuff, but since they did that in Japanese I don't remember them too well nor did I understand anything (DVD soon pl0x, I need subs so I can find out what I laughed at), so forgive me for not mentioning them very much. The girls were a bit stiff during those but hey, there were lots of people looking at them and all but they were still great and made people laugh, certainly made me laugh.

They also sang a birthday song , I don't know whose song it was or anything but it was a nice song and I haven't figured out whether or not it was about Jiyeon or 4th anniversary, because they mentioned Jiyeon and birthday and I have no clue when her birthday is so uh, you guys can figure that out. It was a great song though and it was basically a great fanservice song, because they walked around on stage and did cute stuff (hand signs and expressions) while generally just goofing around on stage. It was great to watch and was very entertaining.

The very last song of the day was Bye Bye, a fitting one and it was also pure fanservice like the birthday song. They walked around on stage, waved to everyone and even sat down at the edge of the stage to get a bit closer to fans and all. That was mostly to the benefit of the front row people of course, so if you can make a deal with the devil and get seats there, do it. Totally worth it man. It was a great exit song and they were all lovely and looked really happy. I can't imagine how hard it must be to perform for two hours with so many songs and things happening on stage, and in front of so many people too.

That ended it, the girls walked out of stage and people were all happy. The lights got turned out and we all left. I have to say though, I decided I would go for the next day as well. The experience had simply been too awesome and it was really great.

Second concert:

It's mostly pretty similar to the first day one, so I won't really write much in detail about it. However there were a lot more people there than the first concert, which was noticeable when I got there. The area in front of Budokan was absolutely crowded, and almost all available seats had been taken, hell even 3rd level was almost full!

The crowd in the second concert was also much more engaged and active, me and EJJ sat next to each other and we spent a lot of time screaming and singing along, it was really great and good to see that the crowd was so much more alive than the day before. All levels were really active and lots of people were standing up, it was a great show.

Another difference is that the girls had a lot more jokes in their stage banter this time, and the Areum stuff were not shown or mentioned either. Second concert was all fun and games and the girls came off more natural and joking this time. Sso's nasal voice imitation (I still have no idea who or what she's imitating) was so fun to hear for real, and it really cracked the crowd up.

Final note on this, I bought a pair of binoculars so I didn't rely on the screen for more detailed vision. If you guys go to a T-ara concert and you sit in the back and binoculars are available, use them. They are far better than using the large screen as you can see the girls and the colours so much more clearly.

Also I suffered from T-ara withdrawals when I got home, sad feels for like 2 days or something and didn't really do anything, that stuff is real apparently xD

Hope the read was enjoyable and that it wasn't too boring. I realize that the fancams have already been released by the time I post this, and that there won't be the same surprise factor about the concerts, but I really hope this will give a bigger image of what went down and how it felt to be there, more than fancams or pictures can say.

PS: If this looks like crap, tell me and I'll try to make it more readable and stuff like that ._.

EDIT: Herpa derp.

I forgot to mention that I hanged around Budokan for nearly two hours after the second concert to try and see T-ara when they left, basically I think all their dancers and staff were crammed into a bus which then very undramatically drove off.

According to the Budokan staff, T-ara was in it and that was it. It bummed out the Japanese fans but since I was only doing it out of curiosity rather than some sort of hope for final fanservice and all, I didn't really mind (benefit of being a tourist, everything is interesting).

I can't say anyone saw them enter though, but hey... either the girls ninja'd their way into the bus without anyone seeing them or they used the bus as a decoy and entered the suspiciously anonymous black van parked next to the bus that no one seemed to care about, who knows. Dem sneaky girls.

I should also add to this, that a bunch of fans spent something like an hour in there. I personally assume they were Sweet Treasure VIPs who had gotten some sort of speshul treatment or perks, gotta say... if that's true, it's some helluva perks they have in Sweet Treasure. I went home after that.

Sorry for forgetting this kind of important detail

EDIT 2: Another herpa derp.

After the second concert I wrote three notes to Sso, Boram and Hyomin. The ones to Sso and Boram are basically just fanboying and stuff like that, so they're not really important here.

My note to Hyomin however was about how happy people had been in Diadem, when we found out that the cap she wore in the first concert was one the Diadem guys in LA gave her in their N4 trip to the US. I really hope she read that note, because it'd be pretty great if she knew how happy we had been

There were gift boxes you could put gifts in and stuff, I had been busy with getting a ticket so I didn't get them anything but I quickly wrote those three notes and I really hope they read them ^^

It was tomomiazhari in SB who reminded me of it, thanks yo!

EDIT 3: Should probably include teh stuff I bought in the first concert.

http://i6.minus.com/ibhqifuc6LhX01.JPG

Hi guys, (sorry this took a week to write),

It's that time again, doing a fanaccount for Guangzhou for those who are interested.
You can check out my other fanaccounts on Diadem too.

First up, i like to say that I don't mind people translating my story or using my pictures without crediting me.
(Cause i believe that the girls are for all of us to share, so it doesnt really matter who has the best story or the best picture, plus i have sucky photos but *ehhh*)
But if one use my picture and place on one's own logo or saying that it's one's own story, then it comes to one's integrity now, which shows that ONE is a douche!

Moving on~

We arrived in Guangzhou at 10am with gifts (mostly snacks so they can eat on the go) for the girls.
I noticed this Hong Kong Hyomin fan ( She was the one in my thailand fanaccount) and waited along with her
The dots took an earlier flight and reach at 1130, while the girls arrived later that afternoon.

Boram and Hyomin came down from the escalator first. The other sg fans, pass them their gifts , while i waited for Jiyeon
Jiyeon came down next.. all by herself (in her mask and sunglasses) with the manager following her from behind.
She recognizes me and waved~ I waved back and pass her the bag of gifts.
(Think Sso came down with Eunjung when i was being distracted by Jiyeon

Jiyeon said to us : "Merry Christmas" (with her mask still on) so it was a bit muffled but still cute of her uh.
(Some fans were kidding around, saying that Jiyeon put up her mask because she was eating samgyupsal)
I then passed her another fanmade card

Then she went back to the group, and Eunjung asked if anyone wants to go to the toilet.
Jiyeon and Boram went along with her.

Qri was the last to come down, but when she saw Jiyeon and Eunjung heading to the toilet, she went along with them.
( I don't wish to be those kind of creepy stalkers waiting for them outside the toilet so i just hang around at the baggage area)

Jiyeon came back with Boram and on their way back, they saw some Japanese fans.
They gave the Japanese fans a thumbs up (But because i was beside them, that's how i got this picture)



Jiyeon recognises the dots (who was standing on my left), and said hi to them as well.
The girls then went back to where the staff were. ( I didnt managed to see Eunjung but i assume she was behind Boram)
Qri was the last to be back from the washroom.

Qri was walking and walking towards us.... (the fans)
We were a little bit surprised but the dots just keep taking pictures of her... and finally one of the dots said in Korean : Qri-unnie, the rest are over there.
Qri: "Oh!!" and she went back to her group.

Then after the staff collected the luggage and etc, the girls walked with the staff out...

And that's when i had a cold hard stare from Eunjung....
I greeted her and she look at me... ( I really didn't know what I did wrong )

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So i decided to go with the oldie but goodie : "Jiyeon-sshi, sign juseyo" *Passes her my iPad*
You may then think, why did i use sshi?
Well, it's a personal habit of mine to be respectful towards them. But most fans go, Jiyeon unnie~, Jiyeon noona, or Jiyeon-ah~ etc.

Moving on with the story, she turned around and took my iPad.
Just when i was preparing the marker, i dropped the cap. Jiyeon said : "Oh~"
I replied : "Gwenchanayo" (It's okay)

But she went ahead and pick up the cap for me.

(Credits to yoyoburi for helping me take the picture, the panda bags contain gifts for the girls by Singapore fans )

She then go on, signing my iPad and goes: "Oh, iPad deu"

https://soundcloud.com/cornoppa/jiyeon-oh-ipad-deu?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter

After signing, i said: Gomawayo (Thank you)
She said: "Aniyo~" and continue walking towards the exit with the rest of the girls.
For the record, Hyomin was beside her.

As they walked, a Japanese fan/random uncle said that he was their fan. *Reason why i said random , because he appeared from nowhere and that i didn't see him around earlier *

So Jiyeon said: Thank you. The Japanese fan then asked to take photo with Jiyeon and Hyomin.
Which they both agreed, but the manager saw so he came over...
When he came over, the Japanese fan asked him to help take the picture. *what a turn of events*

He then help to take the photo. Jiyeon and Hyomin were really nice to take down their mask to take a nice picture for the Japanese fan. After which, the Japanese fan shook their hands and thank them.

They put on their mask and went back to the group with their manager ,who was way in front of them

The fans outside started cheering; "T-ara! T-ara! T-ara! T-ara!"

The girls waited inside, so we had a few more glimpse of the girls.

I took this opportunity to sing the T-ara Teletubbies song...

(Apparently one of the Japanese fans laughed at the same time Boram was laughing, so his voice got overlapped with her laughter, it seems almost as though she has a manly laughter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Gu8APHj9o&feature=youtu.be

A little more description about the video. Boram laughed at me singing the song everytime, because of the part "Boram-unnie", Qri turn before I sang her part and Jiyeon notices that it was me that sang the song,

Soyeon wave goodbye to me at the end of the song

The girls then waited a while more before they went out... not knowing the horror that they will face later...

As soon as they step out, the crowd went crazy and start surrounding them ... It's a pity only the managers were there to protect the girls.

It's a little rude to talk about other fans, but I have to say this here to prevent future accidents.

During the frenzy, there was a fan that was waving her hands about to get the attention of the girls up ahead.
The fan didn't notice this but, Qri was right in front of her... So in the end, Qri was hit in the head by her.

Queens, please leave some personal space between the girls next time if they come to your country.
If there arent any security, do step up and take control of the crowd on your country's behalf.
Do you really wish to embarrass your country this way?
(I've learn this lesson, so next time i maybe bring police tape/caution tape to where the girls may enter/exit.)

Apparently one of the Singapore fans, was pushed along with the crowd to the extent she ended up being beside Soyeon.

The managers was busy blocking the fans, so he didn't have any hands to open the door for the girls, so the Singaporean fan help to open the door for Soyeon. (It was a really scary situation)

Also, please take care of yourself. Apparently some of the fans jumped over the railing and on to the road, to catch a better glimpse of the girls... Well needless to say, it's dangerous and i'm pretty sure the girls don't want you to be injured because of them either...

The girls managed to get in the car, without any major injuries of any sort. And off they went to their hotel.

*Skips to hotel*

It wasn't known what time they went out of their hotel for their rehearsals.
But when we got there, there wasn't any sign of fans, so we assumed that the girls were already out.
There wasn't any press conference for this concert.
So we hanged around in our room, and waited for more information, only to find out that the girls just finished their rehearsals and they are going for supper.
Unclear of where they were having supper, we decided to wait at the hotel lobby instead.
There were a couple of fans waiting along side with us, but it was about 20 peeps (Including two fans that was wearing dinosaur costumes), as compared to the 700 (KKS proclaimed) earlier in the afternoon.

We didn't want to have any more interaction with the girls, so we stayed away from the majority of the fans. just looking them from afar.
The girls came and the crowd gathered on them...Managers were protecting them as per usual.
They were really tired, so not much fanservice from them this time round...

We headed back up to our room once the girls had entered their lifts.

Now i would like to point out one more thing, Queens, if you know where they are staying at, doesn't mean you can go and disturb them. Just like how the NSA have the power to gain intelligence by tapping our phones, doesn't give them the authority to.

As we went back up to our room, our lift opened up at the 19th floor (for a different customer) and we were greeted by cameras.
I think there were almost 40 of them. (Apparently the girls havent reach their floor yet, ours were faster )

I'm really shocked by how ... persistent some fans are... We're already staying in their hotel, and to disturb them at their own level... is really too much.

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Moving on to day 2 now

Not much activities in the morning till 1130am.

Based on past experience, the girls usually leave during lunch time to get the concert venue, so we waited along with the other fans.

The girls came out in twos, first was Eunjung and Jiyeon, they entered the first van.

Hyomin and Qri next, and they board the second van. Then the two vans left.
Soyeon and Boram came down next and they took the last van over to the venue.
Needless to say, there were fans crowding around them again

Afterwards, we made our way to concert venue.
Fans from different websites have prepared fan goodies for those heading to the concert, like towels and stickers etc.

*I will include the fancams later on. So there isn’t a need for me to say what happen at the concert*
But I must say, the highlight of the concert for me would be Jiyeon doing “Bba Bba Bba”
*Jumping! Jumping!*

The girls then went back to the hotel for their celebration dinner.
This time round, there wasn't much fans surround the girls, so again, we were sitting at a distance away from the girls as they walked past us into the room, where they did the toast.
Only a few fans were “lucky” enough to be in the room with the girls

*I say lucky because… the fans were restricted to the extent that they are not allowed to do anything except to sit inside* (So you can think however you want the situation is inside)

Soon the dinner ended but by then, fans got hold on news of the girls’ location, so the fans were crowding to where we were.

Apparently there were 2 exits to the banquet room. Most of the fans waited on the wrong side, and in the end, the girls came out without much issues again.

*As to how we get to know where the girls were, we chanced upon the organizer walking into a banquet room and speculated… Pure luck*

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Moving on to Day 3

Last day!!!!

We did a process of elimination on what time the girls will leave.
Since their earliest flight would be at 925, we waited at the lobby for them to leave.. since 8am.. About 20 fans (including Japanese and Vietnamese fans) waited outside the lobby as well.

The girls came out at around 830am, with Soyeon, Boram , Jiyeon and Eunjung first.
They took the first van, while Hyomin and Qri came down later and took the second van.

We quickly took off too, since we decided to wait at the airport for our flight back to Singapore, knowing that this is our last chance to see the girls.

*I will skip all the dramatic part on where the girls were going to enter the arrival hall*

The girls then exit from their vans, there wasn't much fans (since most of the fans were waiting at the wrong side of the airport).Luckily, the dots were there, taking their photos and etc.

Hyomin was walking in front, followed by Jiyeon, Boram Eunjung, Qri and lastly Soyeon.

Jiyeon was hugging Boram tightly, because according to one fan, Boram almost got lost in the sea of people on the first day. (Maknae protecting Eldest)

Fans continue to crowd them, but it was heart-warming when I saw some fans actually trying to protect the girls, giving them space to walk and move.

I took this opportunity to sing the T-ara Teletubbies song one last time before they flew over.
It was really awesome because some of the chinese fans were singing along with me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkQ8FoE2eGw

In the video, you can hear and see that Eunjung was actually singing the song with us (Mission success!)

They then walked into the departure gate, but not before Hyomin started doing some dorky actions. (Which I will upload later)

I will upload the rest of the fancams concert later on.
So be sure to stay tune here uh.

That’s all for my fanaccount. Hope you guys will have the chance to see them at the concert everwhere you guys are.
Last request, if the girls ever come to your country to perform, please sing the Teletubbies song instead of shouting encore. I believe it will be a stronger impact than “encore”, and remember to give them personal space~

Bbyung~

I've been contemplating on writing this fanaccount as this is one of the grayest spot in terms of moral for fandom.
But in terms of fanservice, this would be the best.
So I would like to share this with everyone.

So the girls arrived at 10pm at C12 gate in KLIA.
They came out after some other groups had.
A few members from f(x) greeted them.

I couldnt make out who was it as their back were facing us.
They greeted back and went to take a seat.
Jiyeon was touching Sulli's hair
Sitting order: Jiyeon most right, Soyeon, Hyomin, then empty space (where Areum will sit later on ), Boram , Eunjung and Qri. (Back facing us)

Areum was standing up probably cause she want to stretch after 6/7 hour flight?
But she sat down in between occasionally.
So when she was standing, we waved frantically, she noticed us and she waved back
Qri saw her waving and look out. She saw and i greeted her. She greeted back

Two Managers came with them for this trip.
Luna came and sat in between Sulli and Jiyeon.
Jiyeon start chatting with three f(x) members. I think the last was Krystal?
Jiyeon's still touching Sulli's hair

Then it was time for them to leave the waiting room.
I called out for Jiyeon and passed her the Big Blue lollipop that caused a ruckus on Twitter saying how Jiyeon's lollipop grew in size on the plane.



The rest of the girls were surprised that I've passed her such a big lollipop because some fans passed them lollipops at Incheon airport too.
(This is purely coincidental, because I know Jiyeon like lollipops but i didn't know that someone had already passed her one blue Lollipop at incheon airport at all)

After passing to her, i wanted to pass my fanletter too, but Eunjung was kinda between us by then.
So the helpful Eunjung took my fanletter and pass it to Jiyeon

Afterwards, i passed to Areum her Red lollipop ( Which she passes to her manager afterwards) and another gift bag from us.
Then i had to make a big round to pass Eunjung her gift bag as well as a fanletter from a Singaporean fan.
Then i said: "Manager-nim, Eodiyaeyo?"

Eunjung tapped on the manager's shoulder and he turned around.
I passed him a drink(Orange juice from Starbucks) for all the hardwork he may have to endure
I swear Eunjung is like the best idol with her great intentions to help fans out uh.

So i ended up at the side with Eunjung.
Another Singaporean Soyeon fan managed to get Soyeon's fanservice such that Soyeon said to her Ohlaemaniyaeyo~
(Because this Soyeon fan has seen her a couple of times too)
I hit a smaller pillar which caused a bit of a ruckus.
T-ara being worried and all started "Ohh-ing~" and look around to see if anyone was injured. I quickly reassured them that it's fine.

Now begins the most worthwhile of my trip (With my fail korean)
After all the gifts passing and etc, i ended up at the back where Areum was.
So i started commenting on how cute Areum was to which she replied : "Kamsamhamnida~"

Apparently there wasn't any fans beside Jiyeon so i quickly ran by herside and called out for her again.
She turned and i asked if she remembers my iPad saying Kiyeokei Arayo, using my fail Korean.

(It's supposed to be Kiyeokei Anayo? not Arayo)

She turned to her unnies .

Boram and Qri (Who was behind Jiyeon ) started commenting on my iPad saying how the debut picture looks so pretty. Jiyeon held her head up high for a while, being proud until Boram say something else which i cant make out but Jiyeon turned her head and around and say Mou?! (Meaning: What?!)
So i said: Jiguemen neomu yeppoyo~ ( I wanted to say that she's pretty now too)
Rest of the girls giggled and Boram exclaimed: Jigumen Yeppoyo!?!?
Turns out that it might have meant that Jiyeon's only pretty now.
She used the lollipop to point back at my iPad and said : How about then? (Referring to the debut Picture)
I didnt managed to reply her but, i answered Approrodo Yeppoyo. ( Which means that she will be beautiful tomorrow too!)
Now this time round all the girls (INCLUDING THE MANAGER) laughed!
Boram emphasied on my approrodo~ and laughed harder.
Turns out that it might have meant that she will be only beautiful tomorrow.... Fail much~
But Jiyeon keep smiling at my fail~
I quickly corrected and said Yongwonil Yeppoyo~
The girls giggled and Boram mimicked me and said yongwonil~
Jiyeon: Gomawayo~ and wave the lollipop at me
Boram: *turned and look at me* (I'm guessing she's saying this) You could've say that neomu yeppoyo~
I: "naeeeee"
Ahhh fail much~
(And in case you didnt noticed, i've used the SNSD fanchant. Because of my limited Korean :/)

After walking side by side with them for one whole minute, they were going to take the Aerotrain to the main arrival hall. Eunjung was the first to say goodbye to me. I replied annyeong~
I said bye bye to Jiyeon and she waved back too along with Eunjung )

Took the cabin behind them.
After reaching the arrival hall, me and my friends went to look for them, turns out that they've walked up front already.

So by the time I got there, they were about to cross to VIP checkout counter (Which we have no access too)
I sang the T-ara Teletubbies song as per all my experiences ( it's kinda like my thing now)

The girls turned their head according to how i called out, especially the eunjung jiyeon part. Both of them turn their heads consecutively. In case you guys dunno what the song is.

I changed the last Eunjung Jiyeon was edited to Lee Areum instead>
So I wave them goodbye and we had to went out of the customs.

By the time we cleared customs and etc, the girls were still waiting inside. Turns out that there was a huge crowd waiting for all the idols. This is where MyT-ara did a great job in controlling their own fans ( I applaud your efforts)

All of the MyT-ara Queens had to sit down as part of an agreement with the staffs not to create a ruckus. I sat down with them for a while to share whatever information that I have as most of them are unsure if they are out or not. Then i went to find my friends that had a pretty good spot for seeing the girls.

Finally they went out along with SISTAR. Apparently, some of the gift boxes that we had for the girls have been all passed to the manager...

However there was one gift... that one girl... was still holding... My blue lollipop by Jiyeonnniieeee~

They waited awhile for everyone to come out of the escalator and then out they went. One of the MyT-ara fans successfully managed to pass a green bag filled with their gifts.

This point in time, i didnt managed to get very close. Just cheering them and recording them from a distance.

Decided to ran out to the exit and wait for them there instead.
The girls were about to board the van. But then the first van was full. with Qri, Soyeon, Boram and Jiyeon in it.
Waved to Jiyeon goodbye.

So Eunjung and Hyomin came towards me, since i was standing beside the second van.
So i greeted them immediately * dun ask me why i did that * Wave goodbye to Areum that was just behind Eunjung.
I went back to the first van where Boram and Jiyeon were. * did something embarrassing to which Boram laughed at* Then i waved goodbye to Boram and Jiyeon and finally they left for the hotel in KL.

Once again, great job MyT-ara



Credits: CornOppa/ tiaradiadem

PS: fancams of the waiting room, and other misc videos which i deem fit will be uploaded soon.

Btw, the blue lollipop is for Eunjung, because giving Jiyeon the same gifts twice is kinda cliche.
(For those that didn't know, the lollipop Jiyeon was holding at the arrival hall at Malaysia's GDA was given by me)

Another fan managed to pass her a gift as well but she dropped it, the fan picked it up and passes her to again.
Jiyeon was uberly nice enough to wait for her to pick it up uh.

She move on afterwards, and we were following behind her, decided to ask her about the journey over to Hongkong, and ask: "Jiyeon-sshi, Bab Mogoyo?" (It means have you eaten yet?)
She turned around and *cues CF*
Her reply was : "Bap-eul?" (Cause you're supposed to add a eul after every consonant)
I corrected myself and said: "Bap-eul mogoyo?"
This time she said: "Bap-eul mogoyo "
I apologise for my fail korean, and she said "Aniyo~"

I walked faster to catch up with her.
She was playing with the gifts that she just got.
I commented that the toys/gifts are really cute. "Neomu Kwiyowoyeo."
And again, she corrected me and said "Kiyowoyeo."
(Kids, this would be a good time to go pick up Korean, else you'll be suffering embarrassing moments like this)

I decided to pull up an experience i had in Malaysia.
"Jiyeon-sshi, (She turns around, *cues CF*)
Jigumen yeppoyo, apporodo yeppoyo, yongwonil yeppoyo."
( Btw, this is a total ripoff from SNSD's fanchant, but hey, nobody place a copyright issue over it eh? )
Jiyeon's reply : "HAHAHA, gamsahamnida"

So as we move closer and closer to the arrival hall.
It was time to use the last trick out of my bag of goodies.
The T-ara Teletubbies song. For those who doesn't know,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbRFDv6cjFk

Also, my comrades managed to pass the girls bags filled with gifts and snacks.
Look out for those bags with Panda faces on it uh.

Credits: On photos.


They exit the arrival hall via the VIP exit where many fans were waiting for them. (Yes, it's the same VIP exit that Running Man took)

And so that was the last I saw of T-ara for that day.
I passed my Jiyeon board to Hinces since he doesnt have anything to wave at the concert so you guys will see that i don't have this anymore.
But will see it in the concert videos/pictures uh.

In case, anyone asked how we managed to get details on where the girls was staying,first up, we had no idea where the girls will be staying. The only information given to all of us, was that they will be performing at the World Asia Expo, so for the sake of convenience, we decided to stay at SkyCity Marriot which is 2mins away from the concert area.

Before heading to the hotel, we met up with another Hongkong fan , Gel I met him before during Thailand's concert when we were gathering all the international fans together. We got lunch at popeyes together before we had to leave for the check-in of the hotel while he has to entertain japanese fans.

On the way to the hotel, i officially met @Yoyoburi and her friend @KocBo211 .
For those who doesnt know them, both of them are awesome jiyeon vietnamese fan that takes awesome photos of the girls
Check out their photos on her twitter uh.

After the check in at the hotel, we decided to wait at the hotel lobby for the girls.
We heard from other fans that T-ara left the hotel through the crew/staff exits as well, so it was almost impossible for any fans to gain any contact. *except a few*
So our wait was pointless.

Yoyoburi then informed us that she was going to the press conference and got great shots of the girls at the press con uh. *Jealoouuuusssss*

According to some fans that were following them, they went to a seafood restaurant after their press conference.
But you can check out their fancams here and there are more on youtube, just search uh
Credit: Preen310

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VIrPDiWPqA

Me and the other Singapore fans decided to wait at the hotel while watching our Singapore National Day Parade on TV!

But again, the girls entered the staff entrance, so there wasn't any point for us to receive them at the lobby.

To my knowledge, we did not receive information regarding the girls practicing at night.
We decided to rest up for the day and keep our energy up for the next.

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Day 2 D-day 130810

Woke up at 6 to see if we can get to see them during breakfast, but again to no avail.
Then we heard that the girls will be at the concert venue (which is just 2 mins away) rehearsing.

Decided to just wait around the venue for the main event to happen.
It's around this time, we saw another legendary fan. I'm not sure anybody noticed this before.
But there's always this japanese samchon fan that was following Jiyeon around in Korea and his face is literally on every single Jiyeon airport picture. Yupps, he was waiting at the venue as well, We had met before in Korea, so I went up to talk to him for a while before going back to where the other fans were.

Then I heard from other fans that we are able to collect cards and banners for the event later on.
Those banners can be seen from the pictures and videos from the concert.
We (Hinces, Gel, Shu and Cong) went on to collect those freebies.
I have no idea, who made all these, but Kudos! (Done mostly by TCN, TaraHK and other individual stans website)


I collected Jiyeon's card while giving the rest of my cards to the other fans uh.

While waiting, I decided to do funny poses and get ready our LED boards.

New idea that i had, LED headbands, but was a horrible fail idea with the exception of Jiyeon's.
It was the only LED headband that works even after the concert.

Walked around the concert arena and noticed a cameraman. My best guess is that this is for Princess T-ara?

I met up with Shu again, he told me that he got interviewed by the camera, guess that you guys might see him on Princess T-ara?
He then introduced me to a couple of Japanese fans.
Did you know that Japanese fans have something quite interesting to present themselves in front of other fans?

ok unconfirm news were out in feb regarding the hong kong concert..after checking out the dates, it seems perfect for a weekend getaway to hong kong. So next i contacted fellow SG fan @cornoppa for directions as he has more experience in this.(Thanks so much) And it seems he will be going with 3 other fans.

We bought the tickets thru HK fanclub with no assurance that the concert with go thru. Until the official news came out..

Bought the air tickets, and lastly the hotel and off we go on a 6am morning flight on 090813 to HK. Checking in at 4am....not enough sleep not enough sleep..but still excited. No not because of the concert.. concert is on the 10th.

Ok arrive at HK at 10+ and waited waited..confuse but still waited. spotted several fans from china/malaysia loitering around the arrival like us..we did our calculations and waited at the gate where asiana from korea would arrive..

time passes so slowly.

Then as it got closer to 12noon more fans approach the same exit..so i guess im on the right track. then i saw them..

I tried my best to have a unshaky video as i myself always watches the fancam on youtube. So they came walking towards me...Everyone look FABULOUS..and much slimmer.

Fans started approaching the girls handing out presents and asking for signs..i wanted very much to say hi but i was too focus on my handphone...regrets.. They waited at a corner and i check out before them. Now we have another chance which is the baggage area..here was really good as fans chatted with the girls...more presents.

Then Boram really caught me..she look so much like a manga character.

Did not follow after this..check in my hotel around mongkok.

The concert was awesome and i got good seats..sorry did not take as much video/pics at the concert as i wanted to enjoy and cheer more than looking at them through my phone screen....now i know why japan have such loud chants...you caught videoing taking you might be ask to leave..thats why all of them can focus and have such nice loud fanchants.. HK was more easy on the video/pic part as you can see its all over on youtube now.

Some banners pic and short video during the concert can be found on instagram.com/tarasgfan. Thats all i've got.

And now i think the LA fan meeting is the BEST among the meetings with fans..you get to actually talk to them..

Ok given the perfect timing, i defintely will want to attend the next T-ara concert/event. Its really an experience to see the girls in real and i hope each fan has their chance.

We rushed into the van and took out cameras and phones. I heard a lot of people shouting Eunjung (I was one of them haha) and Jiyeon. We were just so excited. Then we waited for like another 20mins before they start the event coz they had to choose some shoes and picture taking inside the vlado building. The line was so long but it's all worth waiting.

So Eunjung was the first one in the table and she signed my Sexy Love album and a picture of hers. I forgot to let her sign my phone coz I was so nervous and excited, so Hyomin signed my phone. When Eunjung said "What's your name?" I said it. Then she wrote 'C' at first but then I said it's K. She said 'Oh. I'm Sorry." And I was smiling like yeah.

haha That was the best part of the fan meeting. She kept on smiling and I was stunned and wasn't able to take a pic of hers looking at my cam. Then I got some selcas of Jiyeon, Areum, and Hyomin. They were so kind and nice at all. I think they feel kinda sorry coz they were late but it was all good. I know they are too busy wandering around and maybe rehearsing new songs.

Here are the pics:

*I died when Areum did a heart to me. T^T

Here are pics where they are signing my album ^____^

*Eunjung giving back the photo where she signed.

I really like Areum now. A lot were taking her pics but she particularly pointed at me and stared at my camera and make sure that I got her pics. Dani was so friendly to all. She's so funny and talking all the time. I really love her. She's so pretty too.

So yeah, all in all I really had a great time. I waited til they left the venue and I met new friend there. Jiyeon was sitting in the middle and wave at us coz I kept on staring at her in the van and I was so happy. I got home before 9pm coz I stayed until like 8 there. I wanna meet them again. Hoping for showcase or concert here. Thanks for reading! Click here for more pics that I took http://imgur.com/a/cUvmp/all

Prologue:

“Another thing off the bucket list.”

Two weeks ago, on a late Tuesday evening, I drove home from LA. Life was pretty darn good. A handful of dreams were fulfilled, and it only took four hours. Four hours on a day where I was pressed for time… But it was worth it. Definitely worth it. Oh man, they were prettier in person. All of them: Areum, Eunjung, Hyomin, and Jiyeon — Dani too, though she was more kid-sister-adorable than stunningly gorgeous. It’s a shame that Boram, Soyeon, and Qri weren’t there, but whatever. I was happy enough with being able to look T-ara N4 + Dani straight into the eyes . Of course, I did get my copy of JWD signed, and even cooler was that I got my Queen’s Official Membership card signed (front: back: . No kidding though, I always did wonder why I wanted that card so bad; I didn’t really care for it until I got it signed LOL).

And so, that was that. My moment of glory was over, and everyday struggles were calling for me again. Time to shelf my T-ara affection until next time. However, next time turned out to be a week and a half later.

I didn’t plan on going to Vegas to see the girls. Nope. There was no way, especially not when the schedule was starting to get pretty real. But everything changed when I received the call. The crew was going to Vegas. Just like that, a weekend vacation in Vegas was booked and, after some serious lobbying, Chris Brown’s pool party snuck onto the to-do list.

The Main Event:

My friends and I got to the Palms around 11:30AM and got into the pool shortly after noon. While in line to enter the pool area, I spotted one of T-ara’s managers so I at least knew they were around. Once inside, the environment was pretty nice. It was just another typical pool party. My friends and I settled down and had a decent time, and I was really stoked for T-ara N4 later on. Not that my friends knew that, though. They had no idea why I was so set on seeing Chris Brown. I keep my love for T-ara a secret matter. To keep it clean and family-appropriate, my friends and I enjoyed ourselves. After a while, one of my friends (also a T-ara fan) noticed Jiyeon standing off in a VIP area, so we shuffled over towards that side of the pool.

Once we got there, we spotted the rest of the members and Dani sitting outside one of the cabanas. Jiyeon was standing alone a bit away from them, staring off into the crowd. She kept looking directly at my friend and me. No idea why, but hopefully she recognized us from the fan meet..? Or maybe it’s because we were the only Asians in that corner, who knows? I gave her a smile and a wave, and she returned the favor.

A few moments later, I happened to be checking stuff on my phone when I looked up and realized Areum (my favorite!) was looking in my direction. I waved, and she smiled and started waving back. She also started posing, which caught me off guard LOL. She probably thought I was camping around to snap a photo. It wasn’t the plan, but there was no way I’d be wasting that opportunity!

Low quality because I rushed the snaps and wasn’t thinking, but they’re better than nothing:

I took no other photos of the girls. I just didn’t feel right about taking pictures of them while they were unaware. Felt like I had to respect their privacies, you know?

Anyways, after I took those photos, my friend and I went over to the window to buy some… er.. big boy juice (LOL). It was then that the girls were being escorted, in pairs, to the bathroom. While passing by, Areum spotted me sipping my juice and gave me a smile and slight bow (ohhhhhhhh BABY ).

After they were done with the bathroom, they began to move towards the stage. With that, my friend and I moved upstairs onto the upper story pool deck and waited for T-ara to hit the stage.

My fancam, taken from the second story because I knew there’d probably be Queen’s near the front of the stage so I wanted to capture the audience’s reaction too. Pardon the low quality; I was too lazy to fix it up:

Also, a pair of panoramas taken before they performed:

Not gonna lie, I thought the performance was awkward. It’s okay though, unconditional love for T-ara . I did think their reception from the crowd was acceptable, all things considered. I didn’t hear any booing, and I heard and saw cheers so no complaints from me! Regarding the interruption? I thought it was rude and unprofessional, but as to an interpretation of it, I’ll keep quiet on that and leave it up to you .

I had to take off with my friends shortly after the first performance due to prior arrangements, so we missed the second one. I can’t say whether T-ara N4 actually cried or not, but I can definitely vouch that the girls looked perky shortly after their first performance when I checked up on them.

All in all, I thought the event was fun. It’s not everyone’s scene though, and T-ara certainly seemed out of place there. But it’s okay! Baby steps! And besides, I liked the remix more than the original . I mean, I’m not big on hip hop, but most of the songs played at the pool were remixed with pop and dance elements anyways so JWD wasn’t completely out of place. Psy’s Gentleman and Gangnam Style were even played there (to my dismay, uuuuuugggh).

Epilogue:

Got home from Vegas late the next night and cringed at the thought of the costs of the trip, but no regrets, whatsoever! Areum made it all worth it ^________^.

Even fell asleep during my exam the morning after getting home, but remembering Areum’s radiance awakened the beast within, rofl…..

So today I decided to take off from work a bit just to see what my odds were in catching T-ara as they arrived at the airport.

Anyway, met up with the usual suspects, Mark, eXceed, QDC, Erika. Total maybe... 9-10~ people? And waiting waiting... They arrived a bit early but we were still like hmm where can they be?

And Mark had to go to other area to see if perhaps they might come out from there since they MIGHT take a connecting flight to Vegas. (No that didn't happen).

So we waited maybe an hour or so after their arrival time, and soon and behold we see their Manager? I forget, but she's the lady that was with them from the last time we saw them, so we were familiar with her face. So we could only assume that T-ara N4 were to come out soon after.

We were wrong, waited another 30 minutes or so before our team sorta split up to see where the girls may show up from. A little time passes and then Erika and I are called over to another area where confirmed Eunjung/Areum appear.

So off to recording, BUT have to admit, Erika and I didn't have the guts to approach for autographs so after a few minutes of seeing them, they take off. Hmmm were are Hyomin/Jiyeon? No were in sight and like all the staff are gone too. We continue to wait another maybe 30-40 minutes and then sighting!!! They appear and this time around Erika and I got up our strength and approached them separately. I approached Hyomin to get her to sign my sister's bag and Erika approached Jiyeon to sign her Day by Day book. Which all worked out since we delayed each other to get both their signatures.

It was a quick meeting but exciting. ALSO random note, there was another guy taking pictures/footage of this but when the girls left, he asked who they were. So this guy works for Wow Celebrity TV. He may provide/upload his work to the site on them. But he also gave us a tip off that if we stayed another hour or so, Kim Kardashian would be here. No thank you.

And that's how that day ended. I just went back to work from there.

I will upload the little footage that I got later when I get off work.

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Here's the video!

Also sorry for the "drop" again like in my first encounter, but... Yeah have to get their autograph so might as well drop the camera than to stop recording =P

This one is credited to eXceed for the video but great angle he got:

Here's the video that the guy from Wow Celebrity TV did:

International terminal at LAX

We didn't have very much notice of their trip to the US so I literally had to lie to delay/get out of a few shifts at work so I could come. I arrived to LAX and met up with the other Diadem staff about a half hour before the girls' plane was supposed to land. The staff were organizing the gift bags they'd prepared for the girls which looked super cute. We moved closed to the exit when the time came and because we had a limited pair of hands, I was to give Hyomin her gift bag.

T-ara N4 became delayed at customs then for a very long time. But we still scanned every single person that came around the corner carefully. After about an hour of standing there our project manager had to leave to pick up his family from another terminal as their flight came in. It was totally a bummer but only a few minutes after leaving he texted u to let us know Dani was outside (Needless to say he came back after that lol.)

Dani interacting with fans.

For a long time I was super curious about Dani as I'm sure most of you have been. I kind of sat of the fence about her until I saw her in person. The first thing that struck me about her was that she wasn't nearly as tall as I thought she was. I'm about 5'4", i'd have to say she's probably only about 5'6"-5-7". In pictures before he seemed so much taller than T-ara. It made me think that the rest of T-ara must be TINY.

Dani signing an autograph for Diadem.

This kid is so full of energy and seems so happy. She came in with her huge bodyguards and greeted us brightly when she saw us waiting. She stood beside us waiting for her unnies for a while and after people gathered up some courage they began asking for autographs. She signed everything anyone asked for, took pictures for/with them, took selca videos, answered questions. She was so incredibly sweet and well spoken, I was pleasantly surprised with her.

Dani signed my cell phone.

After a while of waiting, Dani and her mother went to the little cafe that was located behind us. She disappeared behind a booth but every so often she would poke her head up and on multiple occasions I caught her looking at us. It was adorable, as though she was as interested in us as we were in her. Everyone there gave her plenty of space so it was a very good atmosphere and her body guards were extremely cool with us.

THE WAIT CONTINUED THOUGH! And as time went on my legs were beginning to hurt lol. After a while, even Dani got tired and we saw her squatting to keep her legs fresh.

It was so late that I was now endangered of being late to work. I literally said 'Ok, if they aren't here in 15 minutes I have to leave', which would have sucked, but not more than 5 minutes later they appeared. And all hell broke loose.

What I saw.

Imagine waiting 4 hours for something that probably took 4 minutes altogether. This is the video I filmed.

My first and only real priority was to get Hyomin her gift. She came out dead last so it was easy to become distracted as Areum came in to get hers directly in front of me which was a bit of a shock. Seeing T-ara in person was like seeing HD tv for the first time. It took your eyes to adjust a little before you realize 'Wow, I'm not actually sitting at home watching this on youtube, this is real life.' No matter how HD a video is, you can spend hours downloading a huge .ts file of a performance but it will never do them justice. They are all so incredibly beautiful in person.

I was extremely surprised when I turned in search of Hyomin to find her coming right at me. I tried to tell her very clearly that these gifts were from Diadem. She replied her thanks in English and overall provided the best fan interaction for the day. Hyomin was not very high up on my bias list before today but now I consider her one of my top 3. She is really extremely sweet and SO FREAKING BEAUTIFUL.

You know, if this whole T-ara thing doesn't work out in the long run, I think Eunjung and Jiyeon could be accomplished track stars because in the short time I had a interaction with Hyomin everyone else was already out of the door. I headed outside ahead of Hyomin to try and catch them and couldn't see them anywhere. I met up with eXceed and we turned and saw Hyomin signing autographs so we both tried to get one from her.

The albums she's signing on vid are eXceed's and my own.

We finally caught up to the van where Eunjung, Jiyeon, and Areum were seated looking absolutely stunning. I made eye contact with Areum who looked justifiably tired. The door opened and closed a few more times and fans screamed accordingly. At one point T-ara screamed back at us cutely.

By this time I was borderline late for work and I really had to get going.

I ended up being 5 minute late.

It was totally worth it.

When I have some more time I'll write out my fan account of the fan meet.

Here is a fancam I got of their arrival coming out of the giant black vans. I was in a perfect spot in line to get such close videos since they pretty much pulled up right next to me.

Then after they arrived there was a bit more waiting before they would come out and do the fan meet/greet and sign autographs and take pictures. I had a sticky note with my named spelled out attached to my N4 Album so that they wouldn't have trouble spelling. First went up to Eunjung and she would pronounce the names of the people in front of me who did the same sticky note, but when she saw my name she didn't even try to pronounce "Warren" which was funny.

Next was Jiyeon (my bias) and when I approached her she gave me a hesitant look at first and asked me if I spoke Korean in Korean and I said "No, chungu (chinese)" and then she was like "Ooooohhhh" and then said "Xie Xie (Chinese for thank you)" to me and then after she signed my album I said "kamnsahamnida!" and I asked her to pose with a heart which she did and it was the best picture ever.

Next was Hyomin and I was still caught up in the moment with my short encounter with Jiyeon, but not much was exchanged with Hyomin other than greeting and thank you. I also had time to get Hyomin to pose with a heart as well!

Ahreum was next and she was funny. She first looked at me and my hair (faux hawk) and then she proceeded to make a triangle shape with her hand mimicking the same of my hair and she laugh and smiled. One thing I noticed with Ahreum is that she had tiny arms! But she was still adorable anyway.

And last was Dani and I felt bad because I only had the N4 album for her to sign, but she happily signed it! Also got a heart picture!

Overall I had a great time and even though the wait was long, it was completely worth it. Here are the pics I took of the three with the hearts:

And bonus cutie Jiyeon while I was in line:

@Whsiao / Warren

then they stayed inside the store for a long time most likely just taking pix inside..the actually fansign didnt't start until aroun 6:30..? such a longggg wait but good thing that the security people weren't that strict..when they walked out..Dani lead them..i got pix of jiyeon and eunjung looking at me i dieeeddd xD when they sat down i decided to go where they were i was able to get some fancams and pix of them as they got ready...the staff was chill..i actually liked it since no one was being aggressive..so it theren't any problems as some of us stood in front of them taking pix the line was moving slow i just decided to stay where they were i was so hyper i didn't think i would be since i didn't really keep up with the group xD ahreum was really nice she kept on looking at my cam and posing haha i never knew her until this fansign she was cute and dani too

so as i got closer to them jiyeon started messing around..lol she turned towards us with her hands around her mouth shouting "HELLLOOOO" xD she was so cute!

so when i got to eunjung it was such a blur lmao she signed i said HELLOOO! haha she asked for my name so i had to spell it for her xD good thing she didn't struggle because there was one guy...she was seriously stuggling in spelling his name haha Jiyeon had to help her but in the end jiyeon gave up xD after she signed my pic...we had such an awkward handshake..it wasn't even funny xD i was like uh..uh..uh handshake..then uh..lol jiyeon was cute haha i was able to take a pic with her!!! xD liked her since God of Study so seeing her so close was so unreal xD i shook her hand too! xD then hyomin was so cuteee! haha i told her i liked her from IY haha shook her hand too!

oki..so when i got to Ahreum..lmao i literally stood in front her..for such a long time cuz she was observing my name..after she signed xD it was so cute haha i think bcuz even before i got to go to her i was already taking pix and interacting with her so when we officially got face to face haha she was like hmm who is this chiccckkkk xD

when i got to dani i was talking to her for a little bit since the line was somewhat backed up xD she was so adorbs..she seriously..needs to debut already xD the first time i saw her i thought wth she looks like a JUNG! xD

after the line we were able to stand in front of em xD it was so nice because i was able to take more pix and cams xD most memorable was when Hyomin posing behind me when i took a selca w/ my phone i didn't think she would notice but she did a peace sign then...when i did it again with my camera she did peace sign again then a heart sign gaaah! i dieeedd and Dani also smiled in the back when i took a selca xD sooo cute!! Hyomin was messing around with the guys in front of her..lol she shouted "WHATS YOUR NAME?!" the guy responded with his name then she screamed out his name haha everyone was like waaahh! xD i was standing right infront of jiyeon and i was just taking pic of her but then she suddenly just started shooting at me xD

when there were little girls that came..all of the girls were saying so loud "gwiyooo!" im guessing cute in korean xD when they got to Dani..she couldnt resist she had to hug one of them xD

i think i became Ahreum biased because she gave me so many fanservice gaaaah

this was after hyomin signed for me ^^

i stayed until the end i was able to take more pic with them waaahh

well okies that was it..lol it was fun...i forgot how long the wait was...after taking pix with them xD

last pic! Ahreum approves!

here are the link for all of the pix i took yesterday

http://happyires.minus.com/mP9HHK7MAiJYQ

fancam links

EDIT

lmao gave in xD

after she gave a peace sign..she did a heart xD

Dani too!

the one with areum..not gonna post xD

selca with jiyeon..is my dp on twitter if you guys wanna see xD

I drove over right after my morning classes ended and got the Vlado pretty early, ended up being at the very front of the line. Waited about 6 hours for the members to show up, met and talked to Chad Future during the wait, got his auto, plus got interviewed twice by various people. I got to watch the staff set up the booth/sitting area, including lots of things falling over or blowing away. Listening to the same two songs on repeat for 5 hours straight was a little bit annoying, unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to listen to them for a while. When the vans got there, it was pretty crazy, with everyone waiting for the doors to open.

Fancam preview

All the members walked right past me since I was the the very front of the line next to the path to the door. We then wait for another 45ish minutes while the girls shopped a bit and did some interviews. The line was moved around the tent and we eagerly waited for the girls to come out. At first they told us a number and only let us get 1 auto then made us leave. I got my auto from Hyomin, gave her my gift, and she said it was really cute. I asked for a handshake and got one

I moved to the side and got my camera ready. We were told to stay back and not get too close. I proceed to take a few hundred pictures, with lots of eye contact with Areum. I'll have to upload to a gallery, might have to do a rar.

I noticed that people were taking pictures with the girls, and they were also going down the line and getting autos from everyone so I asked one of the security guys if I could go to the back of the line since I only had Hyomin. I took a few hundred more pics and decided to go to the back to try my luck again. This time I tried to take a fancam while getting autos but I wasn't really watching where the camera was pointing, sorry

My phone died while I was trying to take some preview pics off my dslr, so I entertained myself by going through the pictures I did get. After I got my autos it was pretty much over so they told us to start getting in our cars. Since I got there at noon there were 3-4 layers of cars behind the people that got there early. Eventually I got home and started going through pics.

She noticed me again

Hyomin with my gift

Hyomin saw me

and hello again ^^

I get to meet Eunjung, my bias, so at least I'm happy with that. I also had a post-it on my shirt saying "Can I take a picture with you Eunjung? ^_^" and when I came up to Eunjung, she literally reads it off perfectly and said "Yes!" with a smile. I was thanking her and getting my signature. Now onto the sad part. It was really bad timing for me on top of the one security guard that was being really mean about taking picture with the members. Eunjung was signing my picture and the guy already rushed me to go to the next member...I ended up not being able to take a picture OF Eunjung up close. But I guess the fact that she read my post-it and happily accepted it is good enough for me, forever in my memories ^^

My only picture "with" Eunjung from faraway haha: http://i42.tinypic.com/6ps3g3.jpg

On to Jiyeon, I seriously fell for her charm. She was sooooooooo pretty & cute in person. Jiyeon & Areum were actually the two that were playing around the most with the fans. I actually took a picture of Jiyeon when I was getting the signature, I'll be posting that up soon when I get back to my apartment. All I can say it's so dam cuteeeeeeeee.

Here's the picture: I'll leave all pictures/vids as a link so that the post doesn't get too long. I do apologizes for the blurriness/shakiness because frankly I was overly-excited.

Jiyeon: http://i39.tinypic.com/2w6xzld.jpg

Hyomin is just cool in general lol. I came up to her and said like "I really loved you in Invincible Youth" and she was like "Yea?". I had to say Invincible Youth again (come to think of it I should've said the Korean name of it hahaha, fail on me) but wasn't sure if she understood it. She gladly lets me take a picture of her though. Again I couldn't take any picture with any member because one of the security guard was really just cracking down on us fans. He meant good, but kinda bias toward some people.

Hyomin: http://i40.tinypic.com/a43dqd.jpg

Areum was pretty much just enjoying herself the whole time, when I was getting sign or taking fancam of them. I think she did a lot of cute poses for the fans, but I was at the wrong place at the wrong time so I hardly got any picture lol.

Areum: http://i44.tinypic.com/30ix46g.jpg

And then our soon-to-be debut member Dani, she is seriously so cool lol. After she signed it for me she also asked for my name to she can included it in the "for" part ^^ I think she asks everyone but whatever, I'm happy enough lol. The funny part is Eunjung and Dani both have the hardest spelling my 4 characters name, Toan, with Eunjung having trouble with the N and Dani with my A.

Dani: http://i42.tinypic.com/9vbmeh.jpg

The minute standing in front of them is one of the memorable memories that I'll be dam sure to treasure xD I have no regrets coming to this event. At the end when the event is supposedly over, they still came out to take a picture with some of the diadem's staff. I saw and have pictures of it where Mark is next to Eunjung (I'm so jealous lol). It was a short hour and a half or so getting to see them, but it was worth it. Right now I'm still going through an emotion craze that my thoughts might not be expressed properly. I'll be sure to add more pictures, fancams, updates in general later when I get back to my apartment with my better computer & internet.

Final picture moments with the members & diadem staff(s) (not sure if everybody in the picture are diadem staff xD): http://i41.tinypic.com/viih52.jpg

P.S.: Here are my fancams:

arrival:

Eunjung:

Areum:

Jiyeon:

EJ & Jiyeon with little fan:

general fancam:

general fancam2:

general fancam3:

Signatures that I got:

Eunjung picture (most treasured xD): http://i43.tinypic.com/1e7zo4.jpg

my T-Ara N4 album (with the other 3 members & Dani, EJ sign was on the photo): http://i40.tinypic.com/rt0ol3.jpg

another T-Ara N4 album that I got for my friend (only Areum, EJ, and Dani sign because the friend who helped me gets them took the Jiyeon & Hyomin sign): http://i40.tinypic.com/rt0ol3.jpg

That's it folks. Those are what I was able to collect & record from yesterday. Most of my pictures are too blurry so I won't even be bother to upload them.

-Toan Nguyen

But at around 11:10AM, Dani arrived at the terminal! She was there with Chris Browns entourage as well as her mom later.

At 11:20AM, Chris Browns entourage allowed us to take pictures with Dani and almost EVERYBODY endulged in the opportunity.

She signed everything we gave her: pieces of paper, albums that she wasnt a part of, bags, cell phones. She even remarked how shes started to sign even more weirder things as time went on. Dani was really cute and sweet! Its not a surprise now why Kim Kwang Soo liked her.

I asked Dani if she knew about Diadem and she said she did! She thanked us and said she hoped well continue to support her and T-ara! She gave Diadem an autograph and accidentally wrote Thank you so much for supporting Diadem! as well as a video shoutout to us!

I told her we had a lot of Sprinkles cupcakes for the girls and that she and T-ara N4 should eat them when theyre craving sweets I also gave Dani a box of Bottega Louie macarons!

At one point, Dani disappeared to buy a drink and Chris Browns entourage were scrambling to look for her ahaha. She and her mom were getting tired so they ended up sitting at a table in the restaurant area. She occasionally peeked her head up to look at the gate.

At 12:59PM (about 2 and a half hours after the flight arrival), Eunjung first, then Jiyeon, then Areum, and then Hyomin emerged from the gate entrance and everyone SCREAMED. Eunjung accepted gifts from fans and each Diadem staff gave out our project gifts to each member. I gave one to Areum, eXceed gave one to Eunjung (as well as ALL the Sprinkles cupcakes), qridoesntcare gave one to Hyomin and SacredCultivator gave one to Jiyeon.

I talked to Hyomin and said Diadem! and her eyes brightened up and she said back Diadem! Wow! Hyomin gave the most fan service as she walked really slowly to make sure she could sign our merchandise.

Eunjung and Jiyeon booked it to the vans because they were probably really tired from the long flight as well as waiting in customs for over 2 hours. I ran over to Areum as she was walking towards their van and she signed my T-ara N4 album. By the time I got to the van, Eunjung and Jiyeon were already inside waiting to leave but didnt hesitate to continue signing merchandise for us. Hyomin entered the van last but still kept signing merchandise. They left at about 1:03PM but only after leaving all of us Queens happy and thankful for them.

Here's the gang, Minus 3 (A tall guy Peter, and two girls from China?) but all in all, that's pretty much all the fans that showed up... not 300 =P

(Mark edit: There were about 30-40 fans)

Okay this is both my sister and my experience. If not specifically stated, it's my sister's experience. Okay here we go.

Hey~

So, I am not a member of Diadem, however, I was fortunate enough to have an awesome brother, SacredCultivator, who told me about it and decided to take me along with him (Thanks bro!). I heard Diadem was bringing them gifts, so I didnt want to come with nothing prepared for them so, I got them super cute stuffed animals (aww, yeah!). We waited there for 2 hours or so, and no one came! So sad. My arms were aching from carrying the stuffed animals; my knees and back were sore as well. I was thinking, oh noes. I shouldve stayed home and studied since I have finals coming up!

However, it was a good thing we waited coming from the outside entrance came DANI! =) with a whole bunch of bodyguards lol. Everyone from Diadem started snapping pictures of her and everything. Me, being without a camera or a good fancy phone, stood behind in awe at how cute she is. I wasnt really a fan of her before, since she hasnt debuted yet. Found out she was like 14(?). My gosh, such a cute baby! =) I asked her if it was possible to take a picture with her, or was it not allowed? And she was like yeah sorry, I dont think so I just got turned down by Dani!!! But, she was nice about it and looked like she felt bad, so I was fine with it. But then a few minutes later, her bodyguard came up to me and said alright, you can take a picture with her =) YAYUH! *WIN* So, I got a pic with her, and so did everyone else who wanted to The staff and Dani were so nice! I dont own anything T-ara related (I know, I am horrible! Need to start collecting!), so I was looking around Dani, can you sign my bag? and she said wow, thats something awkward to sign! and I was like yes, but you like it still, no? and she was like yes! but she spelled my name wrong twice. Lol sadness, but its okay! She liked my hello kitty bag and she signed it for me, so I am happy!

Afterwards waited for another hour or so and the girls finally came out! They were wearing like the N4 outfits. I was kind of hoping for airport fashion (large sweaters and sweats and sunglasses or something), but its okay, they were all super pretty !

I think I saw Jiyeon first! She was walking super fast though lol. Like she was hungry and just wanted to eat! So, I was waving to her and stuff, but no eye contact or nothing!

(SC: I wanted to hand Jiyeon her stuffed animal (Elephant) and the Diadem goody-bag, but she completely ignored me and I just couldn't get her to notice me so I was like I'll try again later.)

Areum was pretty cool though. I was like HI AREUM! And she smiled and waved back ! I think she was eyeing my stuffed animals (but, my brother had her stuffed animals! Sorry Areum!)

(SC: I was like hm not too many people crowding Areum, so I approached here and was like, "This is for you~", and she replied (Excuse me, I don't know Korean/ how to type it out) "Aww~ {emphasis on that ~} it's so cute".) (Lame joke: We gave her a white tiger cause she's.... wait for it... pale white.) Then after I gave it to her, tried running/shouting out to Jiyeon again to give her the gifts but she just kept on walking and ignored. To wear I ended up just having to give the gifts to one of the bodyguards. I was like "Damn, Jiyeon is so bada**. Ignoring me. That's... bada**." She stays at same ranking for me because of it.

So, I gave a stuffed leopard to Eunjung when she got near and she accepted it and said thank you

But my favorite member is Hyomin, so I was like eh? Wheres Hyomin?! And then I look to the back HYOMIN!!! Coming in fashionably later than the rest lol. She saw me and I gave it to her and made eye contact and said thanks with a smile yay! But she was rushed out by the rest of the staff! I saw other people getting signatures from her outside So, I tried to get one on my bag again! She was looking at my bag too and my pen, but the staff totally shooed her into the van Boooo but I saw that she felt sorry, so I am not that butt hurt about it. The van drove away after and we just waved bye!

PS:

Soyeon: We and I think Meg / Mark / Wil? can agree to this. We actually saw Soyeon coming out by herself. I should have snapped a picture because if you saw it, I'm sure you'd all agree that this girl definitely looked like her, same fashion sense.

Overall, I thought this was an awesome experience! This was my first time going out and like meeting a famous group/person in person. I have only met Danielle Fish (Topanga from Boy Meets World) at my school since she is also a student there. So, to actually meet T-ara, my favorite Kpop band, was amazing! I was shaking after I met all of them and my bro and I talked to each other the whole ride back home about it! Was it worth the hours of waiting and aching muscles?

Absolutely! I got to converse with, get a pic with, and signature from Dani (who has just skyrocketed onto my list), got give away stuffed animals to my favorite member Hyomin who (I want to believe) wanted to sign my awesome hello kitty bag as well, and I got to meet a great group of people who share the same interest in T-ara as I do!

SC:

My overall opinion, it was a great experience to meet some fellow Diadem Staffers / but Diadem members as well and we all got along/connected really well. Not any weird awkwardness or like "Stay away from me" feeling. Just an instant connection. And despite the girls having arrived ON TIME they had a huge delay due to customs, so assumption is Hyomin's name, but jokingly, someone snuck food (It's funnier that way... looks at Areum). But all that wait plus the $17 parking and soar back from waiting/standing, all well worth it.

PPS:

I don't know who the guy in Blue was but Fan Manager? he did notice our small group and I guess he did feel bad for having us wait so long that he did mention that he wanted the girls to possibly do something for us, like a group picture. Sadly, due to circumstances/delay they were rushed, and we weren't fortunate enough for that picture =(

TLDR: IT WAS AWESOME~!!!!

Pictures:

Not many but ehh a few can be found on my Facebook

Videos:

Here's footage of Mark using his famous line of... "You want to?" when it comes to giving Diadem a shoutout.

This is Mark apologizing that we didn't have gifts specifically for her.

Asking if Dani got Diadem's gifts:

Uhh they finally arrive... WARNING!!! Extreme shakiness + moments of... wtf footage {the floor}