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Before I start my fan account for Bangkok Fanmeet, there’s a few people I would like to thank for making my trip a wonderful one.
1. Peace. Thank you for helping me to book the tickets for fanmeet and giving me information of them in Bangkok. Thanks for helping me to get such a nice seat.
2. The 2 unnies who went Bangkok with me. Thank you for being such a nice unnie to me and also giving me the chance to go for the handshake session.
3. HL2412 who borrowed me her nice camera. All the nice photos and videos were taken by her camera
4. Last but not least, Young Saeng and Kyu Jong. Thank you for being so cute, nice, sweet and wonderful. Thank you for bringing us such a nice and memorable fanmeeting.
I must say I was lucky as I was sitting at the 3rd row and right in the middle of the stage, and also I successfully brought in my camera to the hall, I was able to take really nice photos and videos of them and also able to enjoy the fanmeet at the same time.
They started off the fanmeet with singing to “Cuz I’m stupid”. After the song, I think they did ask about the song that they just sang, but because I have very very little understanding of Korean and none for Thai, so I couldn’t understand what they were saying, I could only catch that the song they sang was the ending theme for the show, “Boys Over Flower.”
Next is the segment where both of them answer questions that fans asked.
When Kyu Jong pick a question that’s related to girls group and dance(II think). KyuJong answered T-ara’s Bo Beep Bo Beep, and seconds later, Bo Beep Bo Beep started playing and KyuJong stood up and dance to the music. (It’s a pity that during the dance, they started to create some smoke effect and the smoke blocked the view when KyuJong turn around to shake his butt!! I want to see KyuJong’s butt!!)
After he was done, emcee asked Young Saeng something and SNSD “Gee” started playing. Young Saeng shyly stood up and started dancing to it. (Now whenever I hear Gee, I will think of Young Saeng)
After “Gee”, the emcee said something and Kyu Jong started begging him to stop. But that didn’t stop the emcee, he continued and they started to play Kara’s “Lupin”. The boys looks lost when they heard the song. Then there was this part in the song which Kara will sing “Shhh”. Kyu Jong put his fingers to his lips to shush the screaming fans. He kept doing the “Shhhh” sound to get the fans to quiet down, But he still dance to a little part of it sitting down.
One of the question Young Saeng pick was asking him what is his favourite SS501 song, he answered “Love Like This” and they sang a small part of it.
Of course there’s also question about what they think about Thailand fans, but as I said, I couldn’t understand, so I have no idea what they replied.
After the Q&A segment, they left Young Saeng on stage to perform “I Love You, I’m sorry”. As usual, he gave his best performance and I’m sure everyone there enjoyed his singing.
After Young Saeng song, it’s Kyu Jong’s turn. He rose up from the back of the stage and perform the remix version of “Never Let You Go” Completed with his slick slow motion Michael Jackson dancestep, I’ll blush even when I think about it. But I have to say, KyuJong’s dancing really improved a lot! Or maybe it’s, now he seems to have more confidence in himself when he was dancing. He seems to be able to enjoy himself more when he was dancing.
After both their solo performance, it’s competition time. They were requested to make Thai Papaya Salad, which KyuJong call, “Papa Salad”. Both KyuJong and Young Saeng is very curious about all the stuff they brought out for them to prepare the dish. Cute Young Saeng tried all the condiments before he started to make the salad.
When KyuJong starts, he took a bite of the chili and he immediately down a few mouthful of water, just when we were thinking how can he be so silly to bite the chili like this, we saw Young Saeng doing the same thing. He spit the chili out immediately after taking a bite. No good to be curious of everything.
I think the emcee for the fanmeet did a very great job, he keep trying to involve the fans during the competition by asking the fans to tell the boys how many teaspoon of condiments should they add and stuff like that.
There’s one thing that keep distracting me is KyuJong who can’t stop his sweat. He keeps turning around to wipe his sweat and I highly believe that a few drops of sweat already went into the food. Halfway through, he even went backstage to take off his jacket. The emcee helped KyuJong to wipe his sweat a few times and trying to lure the fans to bid for the tissues.
After they were done, they draw lots for fans to go on stage to try the food. There was a fan who wore the “Kim KyuJong, our man” t-shirt. KyuJong can’t help but to boast about it. He even asked the fans to turn around to show everyone what was written on the shirt. Young Saeng expression is priceless. Maybe Young Saeng fans are more of those quietly supporting him kind, it somehow feels to me that there were more KyuJong fans present at the fanmeet, which I feel a little sad for Young Saeng. It’s like he’s being bullied by the presence of KyuJong’s fans.
When the fans try their cooking, each of them feed the fans personally. Fans tried KyuJong’s dish first, followed by Young Saeng. When they are all focused on Young Saeng, he tried his own cooking. You can tell from his expression that the salad is definitely too spicy.
But he still won the competition, which I think it’s not judge by the taste of the food, but rather the fans bias. You can tell from Young Saeng’s expression that he’s not convinced about the result.
But result has been decided and Young Saeng have to be punished. They bring out a table with 3 glasses of colour drink for Young Saeng to pick the one he wants to drink.
The 3 colour is, very light orange, Pinkish red and green. To which Kyu Jong commented that it was, Mango juice, Strawberry juice and lastly Watermelon juice. KyuJong-ah, since when watermelon juice is green in colour? I don’t believe Korea watermelon juice is green as well. Who are you trying to convince?
Young Saeng starting picking by putting all 3 glasses closer to measure which have lesser amount.
By which it turns out to be the green one. When he hold up the glass of green liquid, the fans screamed for him to change his choice.
They got him to pick the one that is orange in colour. Young Saeng down the whole glass and his expression doesn’t look good. (I have no idea what drink is that, if anyone know can you let me know??)
After he finished, the translator told him it’s very good for complexion, KyuJong immediately hold up the glass and wanted to drink some. But Young Saeng finished everything already.
Next segment, they showed videos they took during their trip to Las Vegas. I didn’t take fancam of the videos shown because, hey! They might come to Singapore and all you who will be going will get to watch it, I don’t want to spoil it for everyone.
After their videos, Young Saeng performed “Find” rock version. He appeared from the platform on the stage. He surprised us by jumping down from the platform. But there was a little glitch in the performance, think there’s something wrong with the earpiece Young Saeng is wearing, he couldn’t hear the music properly and he missed a sentence or two. But still, he did a great job for performing the song. He also went down the stage and walk past the audience, I think some fans managed to shake his hands, even though I’m near the aisle, but was too slow to go over to try to grab him.
After Young Saeng’s performance, they showed his solo video, some short parts on him playing baseball, and there was also a part showing him practicing dance for Rain’s “Love Song” that he performed at Seoul Fanmeet. What’s cute about the video is KyuJong dancing along behind and he dances very well.
For KyuJong’s video, they show the video of him at Lotte World. They have a part of him playing with a group of small kids. So fatherly and sweet.
After the video, it’s KyuJong’s solo performance, he came out from the back of the hall, walking through the audience and sang “Wuss Up” I think his bracelet was being pulled off by fans during the process, but the fans returned it to him after he finish his performance. “Wuss Up” is my personal favourite song. I’m so happy to be able to hear it live again, and unlike the one in Seoul, this time he didn’t adjust his cap so many times. When I watch the Seoul fancam, I was so distracted by his actions when he adjust his cap. I’m glad he didn’t do it so often this time.
After the performance, they went to change into suits. Young Saeng wearing dark grey and KyuJong wearing white. They look so gorgeous in suit! It’s like, the perfect guy.
As Young Saeng did not perform Rain’s “Love Song” during the fanmeeting, he was requested to dance a small part of the song. When the music plays, he was very determine to only perform that certain part and insisted that they fast forward the song to his desire part before he is willing to dance. But, his dance was oh-so-sexy. It’s a pity we didn’t get to see him perform the whole song. But oh well, I like “Find” rock version too. I sincerely hope that if they were to come Singapore, Young Saeng can perform “Love Song” and maybe pull up his shirt an inch or two. *Cover eyes*
After showing their videos, it’s time to show them videos done by fan. The fan who did the video even received present from them. A signed photobook and t-shirt. Plus 2 big hug from each boy.
They each also prepared special present for 2 lucky fans. It’s handcream and the boys even personally help to apply it on the lucky fans hand.
Before the last segment of the night, is to get them to say some things to the fans. But I couldn’t understand, so no comment on it, but when Young Saeng was saying his thoughts, Kyu Jong look like he was about to cry. He keep looking up at the ceiling.
The last segment is both of them singing “Wings of The World”. Thailand fans have a special project for this segment. They prepared a green banner that says we support you forever (as below) for all the fans sitting at first and second segment of the hall and when they were singing, all fans hold up the banner and sing along during the chorus. During this part, KyuJong really cried. I saw him wiping his tears a little.
For all these, I really need to give thumbs up for Thailand fans. They really did a very great job. Although there’s a few individual fanclub there, but the coordinate very well, and working together to make the event a success. I always believe that for an event like this to succeed, audience reaction is very important, and the fans present there proof me right once again. The crowd is really very good at getting involved in the whole event. Be it trying to help with their cooking, or answering emcee question.
At the end of the whole event, there’s a handshake event for 100 lucky winners. I was lucky enough to be one of the 100 fans to go on stage to shake their hands. Although a small incident happen, but the staff was very kind and helpful to a foreigner, which is me, they really helped me a lot.
When I went on stage, the first person is Young Saeng. I don’t know if I’m hallucinating or if it’s real, but Young Saeng expression looks like he knows I’m not from Thailand. Maybe I act differently from how a normal Thailand fans does. I must say, Young Saeng looks really good when looking at him from such near distance. As soon as I was in front of him, I told him I’m their fan from Singapore and ask them to faster come to Singapore in Korean. Because I was speaking in Korean, which I’m not good at, I took longer to finish my sentence. I hold on to Young Saeng’s hand throughout till I completed the sentence. By then, I was actually already almost standing infront of KyuJong. But Young Saeng was being very nice, he look at me throughout the whole 5 seconds and even replied “Ok Ok” when I ask him to come Singapore. His hands really feel…. Very meaty… ooops…
When I was infront of Kyu Jong, I think he heard me talking to Young Saeng, so the first thing when I turn to look at him, he said “Singapore!” with his very mesmerizing smile. My heart really skipped a beat when he said that. He successfully captured my heart with his smile. His smile looks so much sweeter when looking at him at such near distance. I composed myself to shake his hand and repeated “Faster come to Singapore” and he nod his head still with that smile plastered on his face. Then, I went off the stage.
With that, I end my wonderful KyuSaeng Bangkok fanmeet.
Actually, everything still feels so surreal to me right now. It’s like I have never expect myself to see them in such near distance.
I really wish that more people will also be able to have this chance to attend one of their fanmeet. I think it’s really an event you must attend for once if you are SS501 fans. Not only to see how our 2 boys have grown but also to show them your support. We have to show them they are not alone. Even though they are now in different company, they still have many fans with them.
For now, I will look forward to my Hong Kong trip in Jan 2011. Till then….
Thank you very reading my looooong fan account. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I typed it.
With love,
Rina
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