Sundown festival Seoul'd Out Concert 12.12.09 (part 1)

SEOUL'D OUT CONCERT WAS A BLAST AT FORT CANNING PARK ON 12.12.09!!! it was a celebration of all things korean and a great experience! i left the place with aching shoulders, tired leg, sticky bodies but feeling absolutely great. >.<

okay, as promised, i'm gg to write my full account of the event here. (be prepared for a VERY LONG post)

woke up in the morning feeling better than the day before but still popped a pill in case. (thank you for inventing panadol!!) den left to eat breakfast with dad before gg to plaza sing to meet chinee to pass him money for my AADBSK! hee.

me and sis wanted to go into Etude house to take a look but ended up buying enough to get member ship and a free lee min ho poster (dang! why not JGS!). and we TOTALLY regretted it later. imagine having to carry our heavy bag and standing for 4 hours THROUGHOUT. shagged.

we reached fort canning park at about 1.30pm and joined the queue. i think there were already about 500 ppl in front of us? heard these ppl reached at abt 7pm on fri to catch FT island's rehearsal when they came down from Korea Plaza fan meet and just stayed on till saturday. whoa. talk abt perseverance.

while queuing, we went to the toilet, shifted when security asked us to, talked about You're Beautiful, watched the episodes and more importantly, took photos. haha.

the queue only started moving at about 4.50pm and ppl were being slowly let into the venue. i think me and my sis only reached the gates at about 5.30pm. then there were security checks and also they checked our bags to ensure that we din bring any outside food and drinks in. i think its to the benefit of the vendors but it was really causing quite alot of litter outside the area.

once inside, me and sis quickly grabbed a spot to sit in the middle. we were not very near the stage yet but at least we got a good view. =] we saw some ppl setting up tripod for their viewcam. wrong move! haha, think these ppl prob dun have much experience for this kind of concerts cuz once it starts, everyone will just stand up and squeeze to the front that u cant see a thing if you're seated.

the stage:

oh, while we were waiting for the rest of the ppl to stream in, our viewcam DIED on us. it kept asking us to eject the tape and we could not record. so in the end, we depended back on our digital cam. quality not as good but still not bad la. =]

in the meantime, they were playing some promotional vids for Sparkling Korea on the big screen at the side. in one of the vid, it was about Hallyu and super junior came up! people screamed but later when DBSK came up, almost EVERYONE screamed. haha. so we're all there to watch FTI but deep within we're rly a DBSK fan. LOL. that vid appeared three times and we screamed 3 times. ROFL.

also, when they were not showing vids, they played korean songs. when shinee's ring ding dong came up, it was so cool to see that all the ppl around you could sing the lyrics or just hum to the tune! then taeyang's wedding dress was being played and ppl went screaming agn. haha. the atmosphere was just great. =]

the concert started at about 7.35pm. when liyi and charlene (the two hosts) came up, as expected, EVERYONE stood up and just CHIONG to the front. guess i was too excited, i just grabbed my sis hand and RAN and squeezed into any hole i can find. practically everyone just abandoned their mats to rush forward. pity to those who had to keep their tripods though.

the show started with the MISO musical. i wasn't really expecting much but they were GOOD. they really showed what DYNAMIC KOREA meant. the girls were so elegant and smooth in their actions and the guys were so enthusiaitic in their performance. it was like the energy of the korean culture in one performance!


(i'm sorry for the lack of photos on other groups cuz one cam was down so i wanted to save some memory to video FT Island's performance. hee.)

after which it was the drawing show. they were really good! they drew up the singapore skyline and their performance incorporated painting, dance and humour altogether.

den one guy painted this korean landscape and voila! there was like water flowing from the pic! damn cool! he also drew a masterpiece of napolean in 6min! but i din manage to catch that.

after them,it was the JinJo BBoys crew. i dun really noe much about them but it seems like they have quite a fanbase for themselves here cuz alot of people were like chanting their names as they came up. they incorporated dance with acrobatics and it was definitely an eye opener. so many stunts that i have never seen before in any other dance performances!

we were quite lucky to get a place like 12 rows in front of the stage? everybody there were really into the korean culture and though everyone was there for the more famous pop acts, we cheered and screamed for the rest of the performers too. hail the KOREAN CULTURE! haha. but i was rather pissed with the girl beside me though. she was wearing the Primadonna Singapore show so it was obvious who she was there for but she kept complaining on and on and like so irritated that ft island never come up.

i mean, this IS a KOREAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL, not a FT ISLAND CONCERT. so she should show some respect to the other performers and its not like they were doing a bad job at their performance. they were great! so we should support them too. haiz, but the grp of them beside us are like secondary school ba, haiz, how can some ppl be so young and so b****y at the same time? they should show the due respect they deserve to be considered a real korean culture fan or even call themselves kpop fans cuz i'm sure FT island will want their fans to be appreciative of their culture and be respectful to others while loving them all at the same time.

anyway, i'm splitting this post into 2 cuz its seriously getting very long and blogger keeps giving me problems.

to be continued....