2013 Girls' Generation World Tour "Girls & Peace" in Singapore

Highlight of the month.

ticket to see 9 beautiful girls

we are ready

let's go soshi!

Started around 6+. Crowd was hyped up and excited, and that in turn made the girls energetic and playful.

my SGD$181 view

Hyoyeon and maknae Seohyun were the most endearing because they made the effort to go to each and every corner of the stage to wave at the crowds. They took care to wave to the bodies in the mosh pits, on the second level and us, usually the forgotten ones, at the balcony level.

Seohyun was always hugging her unnies, while Sunny, was forever sexy. Sooyoung, at some point in time, went crazy and she was really funny! Jessica, after 'Oh' wanted to beat up Yuri. The crowd went wild for Taeyeon, Tiffany and Yoona.

Papparazzi was definitely better with black gloves instead of pink. The girls were like dolls inside those boxes.

Pink ocean was beautiful, and the girls appreciated the banners and all. Fan chants drowned out everything!

pink ocean

Sound system could be better though. At some point, some of the girls' microphone was either not transmitting sound or sometimes loud, sometimes soft.

And what's up with all those pyrotechnics? Gave us heart-attack. A little too excessive at times. Think they had pyro for at least 4 to 5 times. Gosh...

Ended pretty early, about 10 minutes before 9pm. The girls said they're going to have chili crabs after the concert. Haha.

it's over, see you again, SNSD and sones

sistic woes

Won't be able to see the 9 beauties. No tickets. Zero. Zilch.

High traffic since 950am? Ticket starts selling at 10am. Probably server clock was fast or something.

high traffic, so can't event get into booking system

Wonder who were the ones that got inside the system in the first min or so...like, are they real people?

try and try again, and apparently Sistic loves IE.. don't bother with Firefox nor Chrome nor Safari

Finally managed to get into the booking system at 1013am.. and this was what's available. Practically nothing! Absolutely amazing.

ALL category ALL seats unavailable, at 1013am.. 13 mins after sales start at 10am

And when the seats do become available (for those who didn't purchase within 10 minutes), and after choosing whatever that's available and letting system do all the assignment, this was what's left:

really?

Conclusion:
1. Maybe all the fibre users managed to blaze thru the rest of us who are still on ADSL broadband?
2. Maybe someone decided to give higher priority to mobile app users?
3. Maybe certain IP range 'suay suay' kanna blacklisted for no reason? (wonder how their 'queuing' algo works)

Girls' Generation 2013 World Tour - Singapore

It is time. They're coming again! WhOOoohHHhoOOo! October 12th. "2013 Girls' Generation World Tour - Girls & Peace", I'll be waiting.

But of course, that is assuming that one has a ticket to this event. So, August 24th...it's war! Hahaa, ticket sales for general public is on August 24th. Priority sales to Carlo Rino customers on August 23rd.

Read more here.

Meanwhile...

*preparing to part with the money... ticket (@$248+, concert stuffs like glowsticks + tee @$30+)

A-YO GG!

Girls' Generation latest Korean album launched Jan 2013, "I Got A Boy".




Quite infectious after a while. "Oh oh oh e-o oh~ Oh oh e-oOo~" "I got a boy meotjin! I got a boy chakhan! I got a boy handsome boy nae mam da kajyeogan~"

At first, I thought they were singing, "I got a boy watching, I got a boy checkout!" Hahahaha! Turns out, it's a mixture of language. Orhhh!

[snsd] time machine mv

New track from their 'The Boys' Japanese repackaged album. Everyone so pretty!

it was fantastic~

Got ticket to 2011 Girls' Generation Tour in Singapore concert? Yeap, you bet!

ticket, checked

What else? Oooh, how about a lightstick?

why not get the whole package, hahaha!

Ok ok, not the foamed heart though. Super paiseh to carry it and wave it around la... *shy*
And the tshirt, only wore it when was at Singapore Indoor Stadium. =P

Was at my seat at about 715pm and the show wasn't scheduled to start till 8pm. Another girl sat next to me on my right, and she was separated from her elder sis. Hard to buy the tickets, ya? A young chap sat two seats away on my left hand side, and he was also separated from his friends. But of course, with or without friends, everyone there that night, we were one big family of fans! YAY! And behind me, was a group from Soshified. WoOOhooO!

Sones from Thailand, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia were also present that night. Parents accompanying their teenage kids were also seen, and they bought the most expensive tickets, yo!

still waiting...

At approximately 8.20pm, the stage has some hidden movement. The crowd screams! The covers on central stage was lifted and we saw this:

crowd is excited and the Girls are in there!

When the girls are finally revealed, the concert begins!

concert begins! sowoneul marhaebwa~

The energy level from the crowd was super good! Anytime any of the girls start singing, we'll scream. Camera zoom in on one member, we scream! All the fanchants, we scream! Anytime any member does an expression, we scream! 

On my right, her bias was Hyoyeon. So anytime dancing queen comes within eye sight, my neighbour screams! Behind me, Taeyeon fans, so same thing, they scream whenever Taeyeon comes into view! Sunshiners everywhere as well!

Happy to cheer for all members and they know it because we saw them smile when we were loud! Buahahaha!

Tiffany need not worry about muffled response from audience. During Lady Marmalade, when she and Taengoo pointed the mic to the audience and said, "Scream Singapore!~" We ROARED~ WOooOOO!

For the intro part, Sooyoungie sounded really good speaking in English, so does Seohyun. Hyoyeon, Taeng, Yoona can't really converse in English though. Yuri charmed the audience with her Mandarin~ Tiffany was the groups' spokeswoman for the night. ^_^

The concert format should be mostly the same throughout the tour. Seen the Japan tour concert footages before, so roughly know what to expect.

Girls dancing

YulSic did their pinky promises. So sweet. Maknae was cute and came to our section many times and waved, so did Yoona! Hyoyeon also! *cue screams* I think the crowd dieded and went to soshi heaven everytime pretty Hyo points to the audience as if she can see them, and smiled ever so brightly! Yuri did her kkab arm flapping dance (but with a straight face) when she stood near our section. Hahaha, kutes!

Taeng was super cool with "Devil's Cry". Lots of pyrotechnics during the concert as well. 


(not from SG concert, but just to show Devil's Cry)

One incident happened though. Tiffany nearly tripped because there was a pink carebear lying carelessly on the stage floor (thrown from audience) but she didn't see it till too late. Kinda dangerous! Perhaps crew can assist to remove potential hazard from the stage when necessary? But yeah, Taeyeon did pick up a Dookong. Hahaa! And Hyoyeon picked up a big toy flower. Saw one of the girls threw a rilakkuma back to the audience in mosh pit, wonder why is that?

Lots of concert filler videos; sweet ones, fantasy ones, suspense thriller ones, uplifting ones and one realistic one. The one featuring Key from Shinee was a hoot! He plays an everyday guy who's delusional and thinks that the Girls are with him everywhere. Perhaps, the Girls' had become an integral part of each SONEs life.


Happy Day 


Jessica looks like a Barbie doll during her 'Almost' segment. Kwon Yuri performed her 'If' dance stylishly, Hyo grooved to Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music", Yoona did the pole thingy, Sooyoung classy in 'Sway' and Sunny danced the disturbingly suggestive choreo (to Britney's 3) while thankfully, maknae Seohyun was innocently charming and sweet doing tap-dancing while TaeNy powerful vocals were heard in Lady Marmalade.

Very soon (almost too soon!), the concert came to an end but not without a fight. Tiffany (naughty Pani!) tried to trick us by saying that Forever is really the last song. Seriously? NoooOOOooo! But we fans knew better. We stayed. We chanted. We screamed again and again. So the Girls came back out for final encore. wOoHoOO!

They did 3 more songs for encore, and we did the epic fail of a pink Kallang wave... =_=''' Hehehe, but still thanks to the hardworking Soshified members. You guys did great!

Sunny's shocked reaction, Jessie laughs and Sooyoung pretty, Yuri's cute and the chodings behind

Girls lining up to bow and saying goodbyes~

crowd waving our goodbyes~ saranghaeo~ kamsa hamida~

The concert ended on a Fantastic note (literally, because the end song is really seriously called "Fantastic").

Overheard on my way back in the MRT, a conversation snippet between a mom and her teenage daughter.

Mom: Who was the one dancing to "Sway"?
Teenage daughter: Sooyoung, mom. Sooyoung...
Mom: Who was that one, Taegon? (imagine some mangled pronunciation of poor Taengoo's name)
Teenage daughter: It's Taeyeon, mom. TAEYEON! Hyoyeon was the one who is good in dancing, and Jessica was the one that sings very high...(daughter sounded kind of exasperated but still wanted to let her mom knows who is who in the group). And Tiffany is the one that speaks the most tonight.

Actually, not bad for parents and kids to bond over midst of spazzing over their idols. ;)

On a side note: The lightstick was pretty cool, especially when the entire stadium was waving it.

pretty, right?

missing the tip after all those vigorous waving...

Girls, we'll meet again at the next concert in Singapore! Meanwhile,

Jigeumeun So Nyuh Shi Dae! 
Appurodo So Nyuh Shi Dae! 
Yeongwonhi So Nyuh Shi Dae!

woot~

Congratulations to Girls' Generation (SNSD) for winning the Best Female Group and Artist of the Year for 2011 MAMA (MNET Asian Music Awards)!

WOooHoo!

SNSD Girls' Generation Concert Update

Ooh, 5500 tickets really sold out within 4 hours of sale on 29th Oct. Cool! RITS (Running Into The Sun, yeap that's Beatrice Chia's company), planned a second night concert on 10 Dec. Read it here.

Good luck to those to haven't gotten their tickets yet!

SNSD/Girls' Generation Singapore Tour - Sistic Booking

SNSD (소녀시대) or Girls' Generation Singapore Concert ticket sales starts today for OCBC cardholders. Here's the Sistic link. Not a good experience though. Internet sales started at 10am but had blank page loading... the system seemed not able to handle such a load. Hehehe, many many SNSDs supporters in SG? SONEs (소원) unite!

Up till 10.16am, then only managed to get into online booking. But, all tickets are in red! Means "seats unavailable"! Serious? So many managed to book during the first 20 mins? Really? Or maybe they're releasing tickets in batches? Not sure how the online ticketing algorithm is for STIX. But interesting to know though ;)

Anyway, as the page was reloaded a couple of times (before the system kicks the user out periodically), noticed that some of the tickets for different different categories are available for single seats every now and then (depends on luck also!)

So first few tries, don't know what happened but managed to secure Cat 6 tickets (balcony I think, but I was selecting other categories...), so was considering whether to just get this one instead cannot get any. But can't even proceed to next step (though timer says user has remaining 5+ mins to consider) as suddenly, the system kicked me back to selection page. Bummer.

no more seats on first day of priority sale?

Something was not quite right with the system too. Sometimes will see the captcha portion, sometimes don't. If it doesn't appear, most likely will be kicked back to the same page again and again and again till timeout or bandwidth exceeded etc. So be patient and load the page till the captcha appears.

Probably depends on luck too, as the tickets may seem unavailable due to people who are holding them and making decisions. For example if a user managed to secure say the tickets in two different browsers and he/she only intends to purchase say 6 tickets, then it means the total tickets being held up could be 6 x (number of browsers opened when user wanted to try his/her luck). So this will deprive others of having a chance to select their tickets.

So be patient, and no worries because sales to public starts on 1 Nov 2011. Still have chance #2 to watch the girls perform on 9 December in Singapore Indoor Stadium!

소녀시대 comeback album - The Boys

The Boys (English version)

After one year of absence, SNSD (少女时代, 소녀시대, Girls' Generation) attempts international market via their third album, The Boys, released on 19th October 2011.

Out of all songs in this album, I like "The Boys", "How Great Is Your Love" (봄날 ), "Sunflower", "OSCAR" and "Lazy Girl". The title song "The Boys" sounds very americanised but that's understandable since it is produced by Teddy Riley. At times, this song felt as though it can be a cheerleading song. "How Great Is Your Love" is a ballad and the girls sound best in this. "Sunflower" feels very 80ish, quite Bee-Gees like.. in other words; retro. "Lazy Girl" has a playful feel to it.

"How Great Is Your Love" lyrics was written by Sooyoung and Taeyeon wrote the lyrics for "Lazy Girl". Taeyeon is leader of the group while Sooyoung is better known as one the shikshins (食神) =P