Lugawan in the City: ERINSSI

DISCLAIMER: This is going to be a really looooooooooooooong post. My fangirl feels are currently overflowing even if it's been 3 days since the event. C'mon 3 days is actually not enough for me to come down from Cloud 9. I'd probably have a month of hang-over from this. I kid not.

I've been sooooo hyped about this event from the time they announced that it's actually going to happen. During that time the line up wasn't fixed and they keep changing it. I don't really mind if they change it a few times as long as I still see the names of the groups I'm really dying to see (the last phrase is true, go ask my friends if you need proof of my undying like). Then the final announcement came and my fan girl heart was about to burst. So I took to Twitter to start spazzing with fellow fangirls like me.


Confirmed!!

So the dates were set and I'm so hyped I forgot that you have to have money to be able to buy a ticket. Ha! And as I was never a fan of planning ahead, I've put up actually buying my ticket last minute. After we came back from our trip to Bangkok that was when I began to panic. I don't look it, but I was thinking of ways to actually acquire a ticket (selling my kidneys was one of the option ^.^) and I was thinking that it was meant for me, I'd be able to go regardless.

And thanks to my lifesaver, Hazel Belleza, I was able to get the ticket I wanted. VIP Platinum is the closest I can be to the stage without me actually going broke. It's a lucky ticket and I wouldn't trade it for the most expensive ticket at the concert. Read along so you'll find out why.

Proof Shot!

I wasn't kidding when I said that I was spazzing from the time that I got the ticket until the actual event. It just gotten a bit worst when it was a week before the event. I was on a high the whole week, regardless if I don't get any sleep, I'd still be hyper. and it felt like nothing can make me mad or sad or anything. I'm oozing with positive energy the whole week that upon recalling it I felt like I went crazy during those days. And I didn't care, I was excited!! Psyched to see my Baozi and my Pineapple.

A day before the actual concert there were a few mishaps that made me stay awake. Aside from the fact that January 18, 2013 is the first time that my biases stepped into Philippine Soil (11:30 MNL to be exact).

Kim Sung Gyu, Kim Myeong Soo & Lee Sung Jong arriving at NAIA


Kim Sung Gyu being escorted out... Haha! Ahjusshi there isn't any trouble anywhere. And LeaderGyu are you actually wearing a mesh shirt?!	.

Hello there you gorgeous Human Being you

Kim Myeong Soo, Lee Sung Jong & Lee Seung Yeol


I would be ogling them too if I was on the same line

Myeong Soo was asked by the Immigration people to take off his glasses for identification. I bet manong just wanted to verify if he really was human and not some walking mannequin. ^^

Infinite arrived with U-Kiss and Tahiti for the press conference that afternoon. EXO was also supposed to be boarding the same plane as them but there was trouble with immigrations. You see, 4 of the 12 EXO members are Chinese, 3 of them had a problem with their VISAS, apparently you have to have a VISA if you're Chinese and visiting the Philippines (a pretty little detail their management actually forgot and had to fix last minute). I was about to flip a table when I read this on Tumblr because the reason why I was excited to see EXO is rumored to not be coming anymore. And a few rumors about EXO-K being harassed at the ICN Airport by vapid fangirls and some netizens started blaming EXOPh fans to be the one doing the harassing when they haven't even stepped foot here. Anyway, enough of the ranting. They were able to board the plane first and the other half of EXO (EXO-M) arrived the following morning.


Kyung Soo-omma at the airport looking adorable

The following pictures are not mine credit to the original owners. Check the watermark. I'm spamming EXO airport pictures because there's just a lot of them. (Infinite's arrival was so guarded only a few people were able to see them *sobs*)

Kyung Soo being Kyung SO.O

Uri Leader Kim Joon Myeon with Omma and his giant son

Another Omma & Appa pic with their youngest, Oh Se Hun and Kim Jong In

Oh TheHun (It's actually Se Hun but since he has a lisp he says his name that way, it's an inside joke with EXOTICS)

Omma what did you see now?

Kamjjong, I mean Kim Jong In and a wild Chan Yeol

The next day at around 11:30am, EXO-M arrived, they were supposed to be with Girls' Generation but I believe they arrived later in the afternoon. Pic Spam Time!

Lu Han and Kim Min Seok aka Xiu Min (Sleepy Princess Lulu and His Baozi)

Kung Fu Panda Huang Zi Tao is not amused

Kris, EXO-M's Leader (Duizhang, the airport is not a runway... Please)

Kim Jong Dae, aka Chen aka Danshing Masheen, looks happy

My adorable Baozi

Zhang Yi Xing aka Lay aka the real Dancing Machine

Look how organized these kids are... Joon Myeon Appa really needs to learn from Duizhang on how to discipline his kids

Yeah I know you're cool Wu Yi Fan, go away!

The last one to arrive is Girls' Generation. I'm not a big fan of them. I mean I listen to all their songs but I'm just fond of Seo Hyun and Tiffany. Another Pic Spam!!

Jessica & Yoona

Tiffany, Seo Hyun and Soo Young(?)

Sunny & Hyo Yeon

Yoona

Seobaby!!

Sunny, Hyo Yeon & Jessica

Jessica

January 19, 2013. D-Day. Woke up at 7am to prepare. (No, I'm not posting a ridiculous picture of me wearing that canary yellow shirt so they'd know I'm an Inspirit). We were supposed to meet at around 7am but I decided to be fashionably late for the fanchant practice since I know I wouldn't be able to follow it anyway. I'd be so busy screaming my head off to actually remember which part we're supposed to sing and which part we'd have to recite their names (Kim Sung Gyu, Jang Dong Woo, Nam Woo Hyun, Lee How Won, Lee Seung Yeol, Kim Myeong Soo, Lee Sung Jong, INFINITE Nekkeo Haja!).

I arrived at the venue at around 10am (I didn't get lost! Yey! I rode a TAXI.) and was having a hard time finding my group, turns out they were just at the entrance for VIP and it was just right there were the taxi driver dropped me off, I was just stupid to walk further down and they saw me already (Who wouldn't, hello? Canary Yellow shirt, remember?). It was awkward at first because I've only been speaking to one of these people through Twitter and the rest are complete strangers. I'm not good with strangers, I tend to look stiff and a bit of a snob. But since we're all people with the same goals and aspirations (Meh! Lame, I know...), we bonded automatically. For the sake of seeing oppa (even if I'm older than OPPA) sing and dance and do fan service.

I haven't had breakfast yet and was so unprepared that I haven't even thought of buying food before going to the venue. Fortunately, I'm not the only one who's hungry. So three of us decided to go to McDonalds to buy food while we wait. While walking, that's when I realized that it was a really huge event. I mean a lot of us are closet KPop fans so I wasn't expecting a huge turn out. And the tickets are expensive. And these are kids, mostly teens but... Where the he*l did you get money to buy SVIP?!

This is just one side, the seaside entrance. That guy wearing a wife beater actually looks familiar. Cosplayer maybe...

Four hours later, after we've learned the fan chants and practiced a few dance steps (to impress oppa, of course), everybody started standing up from their seats. I thought they were asking us to line already, it turns out that EXO is doing rehearsals (They're the last group to do rehearsals because EXO-M has to rest a bit and eat and stuff). There were a lot of tall kids with me so I mainly listened to know who was practicing. But when they started playing EXO songs, everybody started singing along (Me included).

Park Chan Yeol, can you not...

Kai and a high Chan Yeol

Idiots during practice, Ooh there's my Baozi being squishy...

I hate you r/n... Stop being cute...

The chaos that is EXO

Chan Yeollie!!!

Another Chan Yeol-Is-Cute moment

Byun Baek Hyun

(More practice pics here if you're interested)

We were fangirling outside, and there was someone recording the practice session. They were so hyper and cute and squishy and I need to stop (Bantay Bata 163?). The practice didn't last for long and we were impatient to get into the venue already since they said they would let people in by 4pm. It's already past 4 and everyone's not in a good mood because there wasn't any line and those who were there early was pushed in the back of the line. I didn't want to add to the chaos so I just stood there patiently waiting for us to be ushered inside. At around 5:30pm we were asked to form a line. My newly acquired friends and I got separated and decided to just meet up inside the concert venue so we could find a decent spot. The line was chaotic (to put it MILDLY), there were people who were supposed to be the first to enter the grounds that got pushed too far back, we started to think they'll be entering the Gold section (that was a joke, haha.).

When were finally able to get inside the venue, our bags were inspected. They don't allow professional cameras since they have hired people to do the pretty pictures you only see on professional blogs. But a few fans (those who took super HD pictures you'll see later on Part 2) were able to hide their cameras in I don't know where and was able to bring them inside. We weren't allowed to have pens in our bags as well, mine got confiscated and they were newly bought pens *sobs* but well, not going to make a scene just because of a bunch of pens.

They stamped our arms with basically nothing, it's actually a glow in the dark ink which I didn't have time to take a picture of because 'feeeels'. When we entered the venue all three of us (Chin and her cousin, I forgot to ask her name) went fan girl crazy, literally. It was so surreal being there and thinking that any moment you'll see them perform.

Here are the pictures I took of the venue.

This is how close we are to the stage, see the cute oppas over there? they were cheering for INFINITE ^.~

A landscape view of the Platinum Section

The GOLD Ticket section

The LuMin/XiuHan Banner that luminous.net prepared for Xiumin. Oh and that part of the venue is SVIP sitting. Only a few people bought tickets for that. Why should I be sitting when I can run around and follow oppa instead.. ^__________^

A fellow Xiu Min fan. I wanted that towel but wasn't able to find one.

End of Part 1 (told you it's going to be long). Part 2 Would be the spazzing part, don't read if you can't stand keyboard smashing 'asdfghjkl' type of fangirling. I'm currently writing all of these on feeeeels so don't say you haven't been warned.

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of its original title "All Hallows' Evening"), also known as All Hallows' Eve is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows. According to some scholars, All Hallows' Eve was originally influenced by western European harvest festivals and festivals of the dead with possible pagan roots, particularly the Celtic Samhain. Others maintain that it originated independently of Samhain, and has Christian roots.

It's that time of the year again where most of the shows on TV would have something to do with things that you really don't want to watch when you're alone in the house. Most of the time I love watching scary movies, documentaries relating to haunting and the like. But actually being alone in an apartment building with the familiar sound of the Twilight Zone being played on a loud volume would scare anyone away.

And since we at the office love scaring ourselves, a Dress-Your-Floor-Scary event was held. I haven't actually looked around to see the other floors Halloween theme, but ours was so grand, I can't stop taking pictures of it.

The classic Dracula theme : Trivia!!!! Count Dracula is a centuries-old vampire, sorcerer, and Transylvanian nobleman, who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. Unlike the vampires of Eastern European folklore, which are portrayed as repulsive, corpse-like creatures, Dracula exudes a veneer of aristocratic charm. In his conversations with Jonathan Harker, he reveals himself as deeply proud of his boyar heritage and nostalgic for the past times, which he admits have become only a memory of heroism, honor and valor in modern times.

The Haunted House Theme : As per Wiki Trivia : A haunted house is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property. Parapsychologists attribute haunting to the spirits of the dead and the effect of violent or tragic events in the building's past such as murder, accidental death, or suicide. More parsimonious explanations for the perception that a house is haunted include misinterpreting noises naturally present in structures, waking dreams, suggestibility, and the effect of toxic substances in environments that can cause hallucinations.

The Cemetery. As per Wiki: A cemetery is a spatially defined area where the remains of deceased people are buried or are otherwise interred. The term "cemetery" (from Greek κοιμητήριον: sleeping place) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground.

Ghost hunting is more fun in the cemetery (I'm saying this first-hand, my cousins and I love scaring ourselves and going to cemeteries at random just to ghost hunt.) Since it's a place where the dead lies, tales of spirits lurking around is rampant.

Other than the pretty(spooky) floor decors, we also have our Managers dressing the part of zombies, Sadako and Frankenstein. And a few office mates as ghost, ghouls and goblins to complete the whole ensemble of the haunted floor.

It's just too bad I wasn't able to witness the entire scare-me-to-death presentation, But the decorations scared me, more of fascinated me enough so I think I'm good.