Now I can finally say without a doubt the best Cri Show I’ve ever been in is Shanghai. Although I can definitely say it was also the worst queuing experience in my life -_-;;; If I had thought queuing for 19 hours in a stuffy parking garage was bad, it doesn’t hold a candle to this one…
Okay, first things first… My first time seeing him was when we were waiting outside the fansign area and the guard was opening n closing door for the fans to go out the day before. Even though it’s only glimpses of him during the phototaking, I was so happy to see him again.
Then we were told that the fans should gather in this assigned room, that Sukkie would come n greet us for a moment. When I got there, though, the room was full of fans who were standing on chairs. There’s no way we could see what was going on, so we decided to take our chances n went to 2nd floor instead. Lucky! We saw Gunsama in front of the VIP room, so we knew he must be inside. We lined up like the good eels that we are (LOL) and reminding ourselves not to scream or do something he wouldn’t like. Then Jason came out and he and Gunsama talked a bit then walked away… to the sitting area nearby. They seemed to hold some kind of meeting, then a while later both came back to the room. When they’re in front of the room, the door suddenly opened and ta-da, Sukkie walked out, still wearing the white suit he was wearing for press conference. He seemed surprised to see fans waiting outside… and then Jason pushed him back inside. He seemed to be having some kind of interview because we saw some reporters n cameras going out from there. And there must be another way put of there because we didn’t see him go out from there to go to the assigned room. Only heard some scream from downstairs to know that he’s there already.
Anyway, later that night we got some information where he’s having dinner, so we went to that restaurant too. From the servers, we were told that all the patrons were his fans LOL After dinner, we lined up downstairs to wait for him. The restaurant staff were lining up too, acting as barricades. But since the line was long and not enough staff… the space in front of me was unguarded ^.^ And then he came down and we were like hushing each others not to scream. We only said bye cri to him while he walked past. I did my usual bye cri to him while waving like crazy, and thank God no one was in front of me. He smiled and waved back and all I could think about was how nice is his skin kkkkkk so luminous… And how sexy that his hair curled a bit near his smooth neck LOL
The chaos started not long after. The eels started screaming n ran to the exit door after him. He was waving to the fans n some started to reach their hands to him that the security had to push them back. And there was some pushing to get out from there as fast as possible, that the security starting to yell and trying to hold them back. Oh, one fan shouted for Kurt and Sukkie glanced back and pointed her to Kurt saying “yo gi, yo gi” soooo cute ^O^ After he went into the limo, the eels surrounded the car. It took them some time to clear the fans because they’re chasing the car even to the street! No safety first in their minds I guess ^^;;
When we’re back to the hotel, we decided to check out the Cri Show venue at 8 the next day. Which turns out to be 9.30 because we couldn’t wake up on time ;p
When we arrived, there were about 10-15 fans waiting in our zone, so we decided not to go back and just stay there. About 30 min later, the security chased us out n told us to queue downstairs. So we all ran downstairs n took our place. It wasn’t a good day for queuing because the rain n the heat/humidity took turns to torture us. And the line was too tightly packed that it was hard to sit down without bumping into anyone. And forgot sitting if the some people around you were already sitting. It would be static standing space only. Just when we thought it was bad, things took turns to the worse. They put the barricades in, which means it’s very very hard to go in and out from the queue (and by this time, there were 30 people in front of us. So much for queuing -_-;;; ) We’re still lucky that some Suk Baidu Bar people distributed water for us. But with the barricades in place and so many people around, it means to kiss lunch goodbye. All I had in my bag was the cookie I bought the day before (and thank God I had a mind to throw it into my bag just before we set off).
This pic was taken at 2:30pm. By 5pm, the queue was snaking out like chinese-style dragon ^^;;;;
Is that all? Nooooo. The organizer told us that we could get in at 5pm. At the end it was 6.30 before the gate was opened. 9 hours of mostly standing n with only water n cookie n only 4 hours sleep… I was so afraid I would faint (I saw some fans from zone D fainted already and the fans started to shout to the guards to let us in). And the moment the gate opened, it was like a flood gate. The fans from behind started pushing n all were running up those stairs into the hall. Some of them were really shameless n tried to pass some other ticket as Cri Show tickets. Luckily the staff used barcodes n scanner so these scammers were easily found out and sent away (and Sukkie’s aunt who were standing there were so shocked when she witnessed what happened).
BUT!! All those hardships were paid off when I entered the hall and see the empty spot at the corner, near the end of the T section of the stage. It’s exactly the spot that I wanted from the get-go (I even had a brief thought to exchange my ticket to C or D zone so I could get as close as possible to this spot). So I ran there and took my spot. Suddenly all the aches disappear, and somehow the my feet didn’t hurt anymore kkkkk. The girls around us started to get their cameras out, but if there’s one thing I noticed during his Cri Shows, it’s that Sukkie usually ignored those with cameras. And since it’s the last stage of his Asia Tour, and I know he would make a request not to take pics or vids during the show, I decided to just enjoy the show thoroughly and keep my cameras in my bag. The only things out from my bag were Fenny’s iPhone n my BB so I could tweet LOL
Some pics I took with my BB n Fenny’s iphone…
Will continue with the Cri Show later… ^^