I just got back from Show 羅志祥's 2nd concert of his world tour series, which includes a stop in Singapore sometime in December. It is held at the 台北小巨蛋 (literally translated as Taipei Little Giant Egg), officially called Taipei Arena. The first concert was held yesterday at the same place. I bought a mid-range seat, which is relatively near the stage, but at the side.



First things first. I didn't take any pictures because I wanted to enjoy the performance as much as possible and not looking at the camera screen. I also think that I wouldn't be able to get any nice shots anyway, given my distance from the stage and the lighting conditions, plus someone complained about the other autograph sessions pictures I took in broad daylight and at a shorter distance to be "not clear enough" (yes, I'm looking at you senpai). Well anyway, not photos. Before entering the Arena, I noticed a lot of enterprising businessman/women selling all kinds of glow-sticks, small hands(for a louder clapping sound), and mini-binoculars.

Well, on to the show! If you have ever watched any DVDs of concerts before, I can tell u this, the atmosphere and excitement of being there in person cannot be captured sufficiently in recordings. The interaction with the performer, the shouts and screams all around you, the singing along, and the highly charged atmosphere, is something that you have to experience for yourself.

The concert itself was very enjoyable. The entrance was dramatic(as all concerts are). He performed most of the songs from his new album, which was released on 16th November(2 days ago), and also a lot of the songs from previous albums, including classics like 小丑魚, 戀愛達人, 真命天子. But the main reason I went to the concert is not his songs, its the dance moves, and man does he know how to dance. There were a few songs that have strenuous dance routines that resulted in him panting and trying to catch his breath after finishing the songs, especially the chair dance part at the end of 精舞門. He also danced to Billie Jean by Micheal Jackson, and sang a canto song by Aaron Kwok.

The guest performers were great too. One of them was Rainie Yang (one of my favorite), and the other one was Elva Hsiao. Rainie performed a dance with 小豬 and also sang her own song, 帽子戲法. Elva did a duet with Show called 敗給你, which was a song in his new album, and also performed her own song, Honey Honey Honey.

羅志祥's mom appeared during the concert also. According to him, he never expected it because she was hospitalized a few days ago. The organizers did a similar thing during the first concert yesterday, but it was just a VCR recording of his mom cheering him on, and so he thought the same would happen today.  He was speechless and cried for a minute or so. The whole scene was very touching.

The encore song was Twinkle, in which he invited his friends who were in the audience seats to go up on stage and dance together with him. The gang was known as "Party Boys", but among them, I only know 小鬼.

After the concert ended, people were queuing up outside the Taipei Arena to buy the concert merchandise. There was a cap that I quite like, but it was sold out and I had to pre-order it if I wanted to buy, so I gave up. In the end, I just bought the album which comes with an autographed poster. I'll put up the photo of the poster if I feel like it. :p Other things on sale there include key chains, T-shirts, autographed cloth posters (which are bigger than the normal plastic-y type), and a Swarovski diamond necklace in the shape of an 'S' (which was the most expensive item at NT1500 which is about SGD 70).

Got my 卓文萱 CD autographed today!!! Just wanna share the joy. (Ok ok, I just wanna show off) And its personalized too.

Went to 西門町 for 楊丞琳任意門魔幻慶功改版簽唱會, since I didn't buy the 改版 version, this was supposed to be just a "look look see see" trip. The event starts at 4pm. But since I'm bored in my room anyway, I went at around 1pm. Which was a good/bad choice depending on how you see it. The good part is that 羅志祥 is having a 簽書會 at the place, and I just in time to see it. The not so good part is that they are also selling 羅志祥世界巡迴演唱會 tickets there, and I was unable to resist the urge to buy it :(
So now I'll be going to his concert, alone, at 台北小巨蛋 on 11-18.



There was an incident during the book signing event. A fight broke out between 2 middle aged (30 something I think) guys. Never knew what it was about. After that was the Rainie autograph session.



I loved this part where she imitated guys doing the 斜嘴 expression


Here are the rest of the photos

As I was leaving the place after the event, I ran into some Hong Kong celebrities recording a game show. I can only recognize 錢家樂(the guy in white) and 洪天明(The guy on the right in the first pic). The girls look familiar but I can't put a name to the face. And I think 衛詩 was there too, but I can't get a good picture of her. If anyone knows who they are, tell me please.

卓文萱幸福氧氣預購簽唱會was held today at K-mall. She was signing the posters from the pre-order version. As the poster was so big, and I have already hung in up on my wall, I just went empty handed to watch. Below are the photos from the event and a partial clip of her performing a new song 小脾氣 from the upcoming album.





































And the clip:

Was a little bored today, so I went to SOGO pacific for some window shopping. But turns out that I did some "real" shopping after all. I was unable to resist buying Girls' Generation's debut single - Into the New World, although I have already downloaded the songs quite awhile ago. This is the first korean CD and the first single that I have bought. I hope I won't regret it when their full album comes out.

This new Korean girl group is great!! They are called So Nyuh Shi Dae, SNSD for short, which means girls' generation. They currently have 1 single called Into The New World and a remix of that song.

Quote from Wikipedia:
The members were professionally trained primarily in singing and dancing, while a select few were also trained in acting and modeling. Many of the members already made names for themselves through their participation in magazine ads, television commercials, and small television appearances. For nearly two years, Korean websites speculated about which of the female SM Entertainment trainees would be placed into the group.

Their style is a kind of upbeat mainstream pop. So for those who think themselves "above" mainstream music, now is a good time to stop reading. It just so happens that I like commercial mainstream pop music.

I like their leader TaeYeon because she has nice vocals, plus shes also cute ^^


Their main dancer, Hyoyeon, is really good. This is a clip of her dancing with Jaewon of BlackBeat


And here's a Youtube link of the MV for their song "Into The New World"

If you are interested, you can find out more about them on AMBITION .
The full album should be available at z-degrees.net or bww2 forums

There was an autograph session for Rainie at 西門町 today. The event starts at 4pm, but I went at 1030am to get an early queue number. Apart from that, Shin and 小豬 also had autograph sessions in the area.




And finally, a few pics from the rainie event. More pics can be found at rainieday.com

Wow. Today can only be described as amazing.....

As I mention in my previous post, Rainie Yang is coming to Singapore today(29/5/07) to promote her new movie - Spider Lilies. As the meeting time of the fan club is 10am at Changi Airport, I had to leave NTU at 8am. The situation at the airport was not much.. we just saw her walk past and into the waiting limo. But this is where this started to get interesting.

We had already booked a maxicab beforehand, and as soon as Rainie was in her car, we started running towards our car to chase her. We followed her all the way to Fullerton hotel and waited there for her. After she rested and finished her conference and interview stuff, our fan club "big shots" actually managed to get us to have a group photo!!! <10person + Rainie!!!! OMG!!!! And after that, we get to shake hands with her. Too bad i never brought anything for her to autograph. After tt we followed her to bugis for the tatoo competition. There was a crazy guy at Bugis who keep disturbing one of our female members, but we were able to chase him away. One of my friend from the club managed to get 3rd prize.

After that was the gala at the Cathay. But unknown to Rainie, we had already arranged a surprise bdae party for her. The fan club gave her a club tee, a cake, and a big dog doll that looks like her dog Yumi. After that, we had another group photo!! Although there was more people this time, I was able to stand directly behind her. I never went to watch the premier, instead, me, We followed her to the interview at mediacorp radio, and back to her hotel. Haiz, ended up having to take a cab back to NTU from Chinatown.

Most of the pictures I have in my cameraphone sucks. Need a few days to tidy up before posting

She's sooo cute when she's serious

This is a birthday shout-out to Achel 小小瑜:

生日快樂!!

希望妳的演藝生涯能更上一層樓

要加油丫~

^^

Best epik high MV of all time - Fan

The dark tones of the MV suits the song like a glove.

You have to watch it yourself to understand.

Epik High MVs are so cool!!!

Apart from that, their main actress for the MVs are always so cute.. ^^

Here are some screenshots from the MV "Love Love Love" from their 4th album - Remapping the human soul.

Wish i knew who the girl was.....