『LOVE;VIRUS』

008 • i aim stupidly high

2009-08-24T08:48:02Z

i was freezing at one am surrounded by lights and
we were shivering in thin shirts, shoulders brushing;
i'm going to miss the quiet laughs, car rides, idling
days, the ordinary skinship. i'm going to miss it.

LIVEJOURNAL. HOW DO YOU DO. I SHOULD TAKE BETTER CARE OF YOU.

I got a new cell and it's beautiful! Goodbye, free flip phone from eighth grade ~~that Eric Yam always made fun of bc of its ghetto graphics~~, hello Samsung Behold! ♥ Our fam switched to T-Mobile as a whole & I have free calls after nine, weekends + unlimited texts. Tbh, I've never cared to have a spiffy shiny new phone and was perfectly fine with my original one; I was so excited to get this phone when we initially switched over, so when my dad plopped this in front of me a couple weeks later I was flabbergasted. It's got a ~5megapixel camera, haptic feedback (hurhur DBSK commercial) and the screen graphic quality is absolutely beautiful. I got all of my photos, texts & contacts transferred over (though the texts are saved as drafts? wth tmobile staff :|) so now I still have my pre/during/post WG 500+ texts! Exciting days.

The case & screen protector hasn't arrived yet, so I kept the screen sticker on and put the phone in this plastic bag that the battery cord was in. Yes, I talk through a plastic bag.

I'm pretty cool.

Got distracted; left is milk, right is those spicy cheeto things. These were taken with my friend's camera btw (it was lying closest to me and I was lazy).

Got distracted again, look at what I did yesterday! Still have lots to do as I only had photos from certain events in hand, but it's a start. Taken with phone; I didn't realize the blurriness until post-upload, sorry! The wife is bringing me posters from Korea/China (2PM, DBSK etc), SO EXCITED.

I think I'm going to give up Sac Anime summer for ALA (Anime Los Angeles) this winter. Sometimes, cosplay seems like the antisocial-greasy-white-otaku-pretends-to-be-a-Pokemon-or-Sephiroth-&-is-in-self-denial thing to do in NorCal, whereas down south it's more pretty-Asian-teens-play-dress-up-and-be-fob-nerds-for-a-day-or-four. I dunno, it's much happier and I feel a lot more at home. xD Not to say I'm a pretty Asian teen but that's a whole different issue.

About SoCal~ I've been thinking about Los Angeles a lot and I think I want to move down there for the next few years. Of course, I have to actually get into a SoCal school first, but aside from the smog and flatness, I really love how exciting it is. Plus, Oliver (oldest bro) is in Pasadena for Art Center, and my parents would get a house in the area - I'm not really ready to be physically far from my fam just yet. Ed's in North Carolina (Duke University) but that can't be helped... supposedly it's gorgeous over there, but just, no. xD California love!!

SPEAKING OF WHICH. SCHOOL STARTS ON WEDNESDAY. MOTHER EFFING GOODNESS. EMOOOO. I DON'T CARE IF IT'S SENIOR YEAR.

Also, it's been nearly two weeks and I still can't stop watching this! MINZYISM. ♥

It seems like I'm unable to write short posts; my life isn't very interesting so I make up for it by putting all these little details into something that looks more worthwhile xD

007 • wonder girls, city of angels

2009-08-15T22:02:38Z

Written on BART home. Sorry in advance for incoherent fluffiness.

Soo, Alan & I were pretty WG-ed out after the San Jose concert (Mon Aug 3) & opted to fly out to Los Angeles for the three concerts later that week (Fri-Sun Aug 7-9) :) In San Jose, the manager had expressed interest in working with us in the future (well it was more directed at Cat/AKP), and I wanted to leave the better impression than the flustered fangirly side of me I'd expressed in San Jose. Unfortunately I wasn't very successful (Hana probably thinks I'm some obsessive fan now haha) but I had fun regardless xD

FRIDAY

We booked the tickets the night before (haha Alan @ 1AM?) & on Friday morning, I woke up around eight, ate half an egg & had a hectic morning of running around & getting stuff done. I BART'd to the San Fran airport with my dad to check in etc. We found Alan in the check-in line but I ended up checking in because it was like ffing $20 :| lol then my dad left, & we headed off to Gate 74 for our 2PM (!!) flight. We ended up boarding a bit late, and then the plane started making weird noises and we had to get off and take a different flight around 3:30PM. OMG, so Alan & I got our tickets separately (my dad flipped out when he found out I was flying with a guy?...) and we were thinking about asking his seat neighbor if we could switch, but the neighbor-dude was totally making eyes at Alan on the first plane so I let them have their lovey-dovey moments. LOL Not really, but I like to see it that way :D

We FINALLY got on the plane ~3:30PM & I mostly did some AP Eng homework when I should've been sleeping, haha. When we arrived, I was all excited since this was my first time in LA since fourth grade. I never realized how much smog there was.. Anyway, we picked up baggage & took a shuttle to the Radisson hotel. We were kind of stranded there for a bit because Sarah (the girl who got the room) was already at the concert & she had the keys, but we put her on the line & the counter person gave us a card :D Then we dropped our stuff off, goofed off a bit and took a veeery expensive taxi ride to Staples Center. The driver was this dark-skinned guy in his early twenties who insisted on giving me his number to pick us up later. It was so obv he had a major crush on Alan. LOOOL.

Rosie said that the promo meet-up was sometime between 8 & 9 and I couldn't remember the specific time, so I was stupid and wanted to go get dinner. Right as the chef-guy started cooking our meals at Denny's, I got a text ~8:39 from Rosie telling us to go to the Target signs?... at 8:45. We grabbed our dinner to go and ran around with this big white fat bag of food, and finally found the FAN*TASTICs with Rosie. After a reunion etc, ~~we cut in line~~ Hana gave everyone some instructions and we went downstairs into this huge back garage for the meet & greet. When the girls came out everyone started screaming (ex “YOOBIN YOU'RE SO HOT!”), yaddy-yah; they didn't have time to give autographs or CDs & shirts at the time, so some people were a bit bummed out... then Alan & I moved to the end of the line, and when the girls saw us they totally flipped out! Yeeun was like “dkjfghOMG, Jenny?! Alan?!!” and dkjfh I don't even KNOW. I literally shot back a few steps in shock that they remembered our names; then we chatted a bit and took fail photos (I had left my camera on manual & the last photos I had taken were during the day, so the photos came out nearly black. sigh.), and went back upstairs to begin promos. That night we were handing out WG cards, which was a lot of fun; I went through two stacks that night :D When we were given directions and all that though, Rosie, Alan & I ended up sitting on the steps in front of the theatre beasting our dinner though. xDDD; ST leader priide, we're such great role models..

Later on, Rosie went off somewhere and Alan & I saw other promo people off as their rides came. I called my mom, we had a fail conversation (“you're at a concert? What concert?”), then Alan gave me a tour of where AX takes place, since the LA Convention center is literally next door to Staples Center. It was surreal to see areas I've only seen in photos; plus, it was at night and there weren't many people there. Aaaaaah 2010 someone take me innnnn ;A; I realized that I barely know SoCal cosplayers... AX looks like SO much fun!

At one point, we started running because hella tweens (aka EVERYONE surrounding us, like actually. EVERYONE.) started running & screaming – it was actually like the apocalypse and undeniably one of the weirdest things I have ever experienced in my seventeen years of living. It turned out that the JoBros were leaving and we were like “okay whatever” and went back harhar :D We ended up walking around with some last FAN*TASTICs past midnight and were going to grab dinner but our ride was coming & we eventually didn't do it. I find it hilarious that people thought I was some random Korean in early twenties, like actually LMAO. T_____T I don't even understand... plus I was the youngest & shortest one there HAHA. life is cruel.

Then we met Sarah & Kasey <3 around 1AM & drove back to the Radisson, plugged in (yes, all of us sitting around with laptops. 21^st cent generation, sigh) til 4AM.

SATURDAY

We rose at the wee hours of noon & got ready for our first event of the day, the grand opening of Koreatown's Verizon store. There was an Honor Society meet & greet at noon (which we missed; sorry Rosie & Jade ;A;) & the Wonder Girls event was at 2PM (!!). Rosie & Jade went off to some event (Honor Society Pinkberry?) while Alan & I went in for the grand opening. Before the Wonder Girls came out, there was an event outside of the store which included a dance battle etc. We got press access to go inside for a quick press conference of sorts while that was going on; it was cool to hang out with broadcasting teams from US & Korea, though I kind of felt out of place since we brought a Powershot for videos instead of a legit video camera, haha. (Oh well, twin D80s ftw?) We took a ton of photos & the girls recognized & waved at me again (kjdfhgd), and I got a quick video of them giving a quick message; then the store's manager (?) wanted a video too so those things will be on AKP soon. :) After that, they started opening the line for the signing event; we went outside & saw a HUGEHUGE line and freaked out.

Also, Caroline (new friend, fellow writer at AKP!) was at the event too & I got to meet her, she's such a sweetheart; hope to see her in the future, I love the AKP fam already :) I also got to meet Alan's LA friends (soo nice! <3 we have to hang out in the future, okay?) and hung out. Apparently the signing was limited so a lot of people didn't get autographs, but we got a bunch from the Verizon manager woman yayy <3 Then we saw the Verizon staff people begin to pull in & pop the balloon decorations, so we stole them instead and ran around Koreatown with them tied to us LOL. We tried to find the Korean BBQ Festival that AKP was sponsoring; that resulted in lots of walking (good exercise!), getting distracted at an arcade & doing purikuraaa (SPEAKING OF WHICH I LOST MY STRIP ;A; NOW I ONLY HAVE ONE TINY ONE DKJFHG can someone send me a scan so I can print them out again? QQ I'm actually going to cry). Finally got to the festival, which was on the roof of a garage (but first floor on the other side of the street bc we were on an incline? I don't even know) but the lines were super long so we left haha. We found this new shopping center (still in ktown) which looks JUST like Asia, it made me so nostalgic. Then we grabbed dinner(?...) at this food court downstairs and yeah.

Thennnnn Priscilla got picked up by her grandparents. Jen, Alan & I took this subway-thing that had granite seat-things and looked like a Roman hall/Matrix scene, and Alan & I got off at Staple Center and jaywalked the tracks in front of a police car ahahaha. We still had some time to kill so we hung out around Nokia Theatre etc, got ice creaaaaaaaaaaam<3 & I had another fail phone call with the mother, but this time it was due to Alan. I'm just going to say that he's a really weird guy. LOL :) In a good way. Poster noises...

Met up with the FAN*TASTICs, advertised the street team, and then I decided to voluntarily (yes. WTF IS WRONG WITH ME) turn down the meet & greet and promote outside for that extra half hour. Yeah, I gave up my chance to chill the girls again that night out of the blue. Lack of sleep results in I-don't-even-know. Sorry Alan ;A; Apparently lots of Korean press that day so pity we couldn't be on TV, but I went through ~seven stacks of cards that night! A lot of people thought I was in twenties again, and I was QQing and it was sad. Yuh.

We also saw Ayumi (the WG hairstylist), and then Alan & I went to Famima!! (!!!) to get cards, gift bags & food. Then we walked around/hung out Nokia theatre more; I was still wearing my day clothes and nearly froze to death huhuu ;; Then I spilled Pringles onto the ground and some cleaner guy cleaned up for me and I felt bad. But yeah, hung out there until 1:30AM ish when Rosie's Honor Society meet & greet was over. Went back to room, slept around 4AM etc.

SUNDAY

Woke up around noon to prep for the Teen Choice awards at Universal City. Apparently it was hosted by the Jonas Brothers & had a bunch of huge celebs (Twilight stars, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus); Alan & I were just there to catch some photos though. The celeb search was total fail because we didn't feel like paying for tickets, and the girls weren't taking the red carpet so we were like whatever and went off to get food. We had brulinner (first meal of the day at 4PM) at this cowboyish (Candy Mannn) diner place (The Saddle Ranch I think?), then hung out at Universal Citywalk with Sophia, Stella, Tony & Nicole whom we met the night before! Super cool kids from New York <3 We shopped for gifts for Yoobin & Sohee (we already had gifts for the other girls; will go more into this later), took this “love bullet” photo with Alan that changes when you tilt the photo for the girls, yeah. We went outside near that famous rotating globe and frantically began to write our cards for the girls (one general card letter + summaries of gifts for each girl, bday card/letter for Sunye). It was the first time I refused to watch a supercool dance circle (there was this bboy performing like twenty feet away with a huge crowd), sigh. Anyway, Rosie, Kasey & Sarah picked us up and we continued writing on the car kjdfg.

We finally finished writing at the FAN*TASTICs meet up (instead of greeting & introducing myself to everyone, I ran off and started writing in the corner). I think it's because we were dressed pseudo-formally (black & white), but apparently there were people who thought we were famous? HAHA. We like walked across the street with these huge gift bags & I hugged Rosie and stuff. Apparently WOW the Group (up & coming band) came by & Rosie's really good friends with them; they look like the American version of SHINee with their loud pants etc lmao. Once Alan & I were done with the letter, I went over & a crowd of pseudo fangirls had already formed? And then I went to Rosie & she introduced me to them; I was like, “hii nice to meet you, I don't know any of your music but I'll be sure to check it out~” HAHA. I think they're touring Japan soon so I'm excited for them! :]

We went down (last in line to get more time to sort gifts :X) to meet the girls again and when we greeted them, they were all awwww-ing and being adorable. Sunye had this shocked/nearly pained expression when she saw our gifts as if she didn't deserve them or something; the girls were just so so grateful. For Sunye (“I got the biggest baggg!” -little dance-), a huge NY photo book & happy bday card (she loves NY fashion & NYC = her favorite I think?); for Yeeun a book on food (in a cupcake bag no less :] we didn't forget her recommendations in SJ); for Sohee, a LA bag & sunglasses (she's super chic); for Sunmi, a DBSK bracelet (Yunho's bracelet; she's a huge fan + it was Alan's) & Genie-esque hat (she loooves Genie, & I found this sailor newsboy cap on my bday in Urban Outfitters); for Yoobin a Muse shirt (she's a huuge fan of them); in the “general” bag, a book with quotes on sister friendships, a “Where's Waldo?” travel book, the “love bullets” pic, the long card thing & a 4-action (four shots) lomo camera!

Supposedly the meet & greet is supposed to be a quick photo-and-go, but we ended up chatting with them; I'm going to miss the girls so much because I don't know when I'll see them next. Sohee was like “allkpop right??” and I started telling them how we were fans before all that, and we chatted about the street team, got a video etc. WAH I'M GOING TO MISS THEMMM ;A;

Ughhh. So eventually they had to go and we took a photo together then went up to talk to the FAN*TASTICS. We got some new street team members & met some soompiers; apparently some of the people there were already on the street team which is awesome! :] Then some people asked for our autographs (Alan I guess I understand, but me? ...SO absurd) which was really interesting, and took photos with us etc. Throughout the weekend, I was getting a kick out of advertising Alan but it was more of a joke for personal amusement; actually seeing people react and spaz out was weird. Then we were kind of put in charge of managing the cards etc; we went to the entrance and started working again. Half a box that dayy :)) & Made friends with the security guards haha.

After the crowds had thinned, we ran into Jason & Jeremiah from Friday promos! They had gotten VIP from picking up trash during the Verizon event LOL. Hung out a bit, discussed kpop (that's really all we did all weekend with everyone; it was awesome to be around people who understand what you're saying) OMG, so I was planning to take home a box of the cards for the street team... We were right next to Clifford (Honor Society's big red bus) & the Wonder Girl's bus. They were putting cargo into the bus before it could leave, and Jeremiah thought it'd be hilarious to pretend to be a mover guy with my box... so Alan put up Jeremiah's hood and he walked around with the box, and the mover people told him to put it in the bus, and he was like “uhh...” and put it in, and crawled inside dfkjghfdgLOL And the guy was like, “...okay you can get out now,” and Jeremiah was like, “oh no, don't worry about it, this is good :D” kjfdkAHAHAHAHA

Thennnnn Sarah & Kasey came to pick me us up; we went back to the room, packed, used comps til 5AM.

MONDAY

Alan & I woke up three hours later to catch a shuttle to the airport. We missed our check-in time (usu I would put an 'orz' here but I can't use that emoticon anymore :|) so we caught the next flight. Then we grabbed lunch from the airport & took the BART back, and here I am, on the BART, typing this recap. I'm gonna go home and upload photos, then post this after I finish/post San Jose stuff. LOL. It'll probably take me a few days since I'm like that, but I'm glad I'm typing this out while the memories are still fresh.

Thank you for reading! And thank you so, so much to everyone involved that made this experience possible & amazing. I know this post is a bit dry & really glazes over the details & misses other stuff entirely, but I'm exhausted right now and I'm sure you don't want me to explain every little thing... and if you do want me to do go into those kinds of details, then maybe you shouldn't know the details after all. o_o; haha kidding. This really is a flat summary that makes me sound like some obsessive fangirl with no life, but this is one of the most legit experiences I've had in a while; to work professionally for a group of celebrities & be treated as such really opens your eyes. I hope I can be more professional & less flustered at future events, but this was an amazing trip nonetheless. I cannot express the experience in words; there are just so many details, and being in the atmosphere, and just all these little things that you cannot replicate or take out of your mind. This was supposed to be a working trip, but at the same time, it became the vacation that I really needed <3

Again, thanks so so much to my fam for letting me go & supporting me, AKP for starting this, Rosie for helping me so much & being god (as Yeeun says), Alan for accompanying me and being my secretary/coat-rack_/the victim of my teasing (LOL jkjk), Sarah & Kasey for the room & rides & being amazing hostesses in general, Hana for making this all possible my GOSH, all the new people who I met, because you are ALL seriously really, really awesome & incredibly cool people & I REALLY hope we get to hang out in the near future (aka this week. SF, you guys know you are!); everyone else that I'm forgetting to mention! I hope to see you all soon; you guys have made this week a BLAST. <3 (Sorry for making this sound all dramatic – but I can't thank you all enough!!)

Ummm miscellaneous that doesn't really go anywhere:
- weekend in four words: YA READY?... LET'S GO!!
- Rosie: the fifth Brown Eyed Girl, aka beatboxer who will be trained by JYP himself bc he's her dad... like actually. Rosie, I'm going to kill you for befriending <i>everyone</i>.
- Kasey: OMG YOU'RE THE THUMBS UP GIRL !!
- I felt like I was the most uncool person present in everything I went to – even on the car. Kasey, Sarah, Rosie & Alan are like famous... kjhdfg why are you all so amazing?! x)
- unnnnnnnnnnnnnn. unnnnnnnnnnnnnn. DUKUDUKUDUKU
- what was I doing? Wait Alan, what was I doing? What? I think I lost my phone.
- Sunmi looks like a puppy with her short hair. and she likes acting like a snake. She's also going to have an affair with Alan but she just doesn't realize it yet. obviously.
- nightcrackers.
- JY Park has this weird zombie habit. like when people want to take photos with them, he beckons them by shooting his arm out straight with a limp wrist? It's hard to explain, but yeah. evokes major lol. xD
- Alan eats ridiculously fast. I can't wrap my head around it & I'm kind of jealous :( I think it's bc I talk too much...
- “shaking hands is so 90s...”

006 • wonder girls, san jose

2009-08-12T01:55:45Z

Djkhfdkjg finally done with my ~~epic saga~~ leg of the JB/WG concerts! Here is my recap of the San Jose concert on August 3; I know it was a while back, but I was so busy in the days following that I only have time to write a personal recap now! This really isn't a very good summary bc my notes (with details of the trip) are on my little laptop, and I forgot the power cord in the hotel so I can't access my files on there... :< Sorry! Also, because I'm selfish, there are some minor events, details & little things that I want to keep inside my head & within the group of people involved instead of disclosing them to the world; I hope you don't mind. The “official” recap will be on allkpop soon & Alan's recap is here. Photos to come later on AKP & Facebook. If you want to repost my fan account, pleast post the official allkpop one, not this one; thanks.

I woke up pretty early in the morning & went to Ivana's; Alan came over and sat around while we prepped. Alan wanted me to make “WONDER” & “GIRLS” shirts, so the night before, I went out to Long's & got white T-shirts & spraypaint... but there was only one M & I had to wear the XL dfkjh LOL. I hacked off parts of it, but Ivana took one look at it the next day and decided to do some stuff to it, sigh. xD At least I didn't look like a total whale.

We were planning to meet Cat at the airport, but we took a really long time & Cat eventually came to pick us up instead in Piedmont >___<; I feel really bad for the delay! This was my first time meeting Cat as well, she's so pretty & kind. Without her know-how I suspect the trip would have failed. ♥ We drove from Piedmont to Santa Clara to pick up this totally pro video camera at Avista, then arrived in San Jose at 2PM (!!) to check into Clarion where we would've had the glorious view of the pool/central plaza, except for the fact that blocked by a wall-pillar-thing. Yeah. We drove to the HP Pavilion & went to the loading dock where we met Hana, the JYP Ent marketing manager; she's so young and beautiful ;~; She took us through this huge gate (this sounds obnoxious, but it's so satisfying to walk through the crowds of fangirls and go through that gate) and got these star-shaped press stickers :D

We weren't allowed to take photos until we arrived in the dressing room, but Hana led us through this maze of tunnels & hallways until we got to this little hallway of rooms. We were told to wait a bit, so I expected to have like fifteen minutes to set up etc before we met the girls. The room right in front of us had the wardrobe of dresses; it was so surreal to see all these different dresses that I had seen in different performances all on one rack. Suddenly, the door to the room right beside that one opens and Sohee comes out and I'm in total shock. Tbh I don't remember much after this so glazing over the details (& taking them from Alan), but I think she smiled at us and entered the wardrobe room to get on the computer (pink laptop). The rest of the girls' appearances happened to fast; Yoobin walked in and so did Yeeun, and Sunmi walked out of the dressing room, blinked at us and walked by. Yeeun was the first to introduce herself, and the other girls followed soon after. We shook hands & introduced ourselves; it was kind of weird, because I never expected to be introducing myself to the girls for the first time as a professional instead of a fan. At one point, the dressing room opened and I caught a glimpse of Sunye; she's our favorite member and I kind of turned, gripped Alan's arm and killed it slowly (sorry ;O;).

Yeeun kind of chilled with us and made small talk, and Yoobin & Sunmi were with us as well. Sunmi kept making adorable expressions at us & was really affectionate with Hana, aw :) I don't even remember much of what we talked about – we talked about food (Yeeun asked us if we had eaten, then recommended the caterers. apparently they had excellent brownies, cobblers etc xD), favorite girl groups (Sunmi's a huge fan of SNSD), DBSK (Sunmi was like, “omg do you know Tohoshinki?” -blink- and Alan was stupid and didn't grab topic and continue it! sigh :P), celeb friends, Yeeun running into Seungyeon (KARA) in the bathroom at school, umm... Yeeun asked us if we were Korean as Sunye was walking out, and then when we were talking about languages, I was like, “hey, you guys are learning some Chinese right?” and had a brief conversation in Mandarin with mostly Sunye! Her accent is surprisingly good; she didn't say much, but I could understand her better than people at my school who are learning the language. Her accent was very subtle~

Then we were introduced to a bunch of managers & JYP himself, and more stuff happened that I can't remember, and we went into the dressing room to start our coverage. The girls started goofing off and Cat did a bunch of taping, and Alan & I took photos. Yoobin & Sunmi were being total dorks & Yeeun sang a lot; she kept going “Ma-dooooooooooooona!” from that 'Four Minute' song LOL... and they sang some other songs, some of which we got on tape. After a while it was time to go to the Verizon event outside ~4PM (that's where they teach their fans the Nobody dance) & we got ready to go out. While we were leaving the dressing room, Sunmi was like, “YA READY?!” (4Minute's “Hot Issue”) and Alan & I totally lol'd; to be completely honest, she does it much better than Hyunah.

We followed them through a maze (& went through the stadium; I can't believe it houses <20,000, I've never been in anything so big! I can't even imagine what the Dallas stadium looked like @_@) and up these stairs out into the open. There was this huge crowd that swarmed us when we all came out of the door, I felt like a bodyguard or something.. We went to the Verizon bus which was parked 100ft away where Nobody was playing on these big speakers, and the girls went to the front, introduced themselves & taught the Nobody dance. Then, when each girl was supposed to choose someone from the crowd to join them in the front, the crowd totally surged forward; Cat & I were squatting in front of the chain barriers, but people were inching forward and finally spilled through (tipping over one of the barriers -.-) when they girls were choosing members. I felt so bad for invading their personal space (we were like a foot or two away) & kept apologizing to Yeeun ;_; Eventually they picked people, yaddy yah, then we went back inside with some difficulty. There were so many people who'd run up to a WG member, say a few quick words and snap a MySpace style photo with shocking agility, it was so weird... xD The bodyguard people kept ushering us on but every time a fan came up the girls were really sweet & took a photo/gave an autograph whenever asked. Finally we went back through the doors & back into the dressing for the interview.

All I'm going to say about the interview is that I was totally frazzled, didn't check myself in the mirror and it was just all bad. I messed up a lot but Sunmi kept rubbing my back & the girls would encourage me throughout the entire thing. Sometimes I'd pause to read over my questions and make a noise, and Sunmi & the others would imitate it ;O; Ummm & I know I screwed up at one point in one question bc Yoobin answered it, then Yeeun added on, then I was like “Sunye, Sohee, Sunmi, how about your favorites?” or something & totally disregarding the fact that Yeeun hadn't actually replied yet T_T A small detail, but I keep kicking myself over it. Then we did the Nobody dance (kdjfdgIFAILATLIFE) and chatted a bit, took photos, got an autograph & yeah. kjgdfkd why can't I be more professional...

Then Alan, Cat & I went outside to take some clips of the scene as well as some Wonderfuls we came across. There were these two parents wearing shirts that said “PARENTS OF JOBRO HOES”, which was just awful :| That says a lot about that family. Um, more stuff happened and eventually we went off to this diner-ish restaurant & grabbed dinner (first legit meal of the day!). Then we took this expensive cab back to the hotel (left the car there bc we were going to taxi back later that night for the post-concert meet & greet then drive back), hung out/worked in the room.. and after 11PM we went back to the stadium only to find out the concert had ended an hour before. LOOOOOOL wow we're good.

Drove back to hotel, webcammed with Juliamywiiiife & processed photos, went to bed around 4AM... woke up the next morning, checked out of room, returned car & saw Cat off at the airport, took the Cal-something (Baytrain? Sanbus? don't remember..) to downtown SF, found the SF Avista office with the help of Alan's GPS (yes we walked around with it in hand xD) & Athena the Human GPS, found a bus to go to downtown SF to get to the BART station. We had decided earlier that day to go to the LA concerts & consequently wanted to get gifts for the girls, so we dropped off our luggage in Bloomingdale's concierge thing, went to a few places (Forever 21, Westfield mall, Urban Outfitters, um... other places I can't remember) & finally took the BART back to Piedmont. My brother picked us up, dropped us off to pick up stuff at Ivana's (Alan forgot his sunglasses & we both needed to return stuff) & Alan got his car & I went home. THE ENDDD. :)