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Part 1: http://soshified.com...-london-part-1/

Part 2 -Day 3 - hotel (again, if you are not interested in the others, skip to the SNSD bit )

Got there at 7.30am and waited with a few sones. It was freezing cold and we were worrying they will secretly ninja through the car park entrance. A few more sones came and joined us and we sat opposite a café with a good view on the hotel and enjoyed some warmth and breakfast xD. We kept seeing Korean people walking in and out with food and loads of water but no sight of any groups. Around 10/10.30am, 2PM Junsu and Junho were the first to get out and got into a taxi. Then U-kiss left to the airport. They were very friendly to fans and Eli almost walked into me LOL. Sistar was next. My friends chanted and sang for them lol and Dasom carried her luggage to the van herself and said bonjour to us xD. Coz it was my first time knowing Sistar, so after I saw the first sistar carried the luggage and then there were 2 more women with ginger-ish hair came out with luggages too and I knew two of the sistar had ginger-ish hair, so I filmed them coz I fort they were Hyorin and the other one….but turned out I have been filming the wrong sistar the whole time -___- think T-ara was next and they were very nice to fans as well especially the French fans nearer the entrance as soyeon and hyomin couldn’t stop waving to them. Hyomin even kinda stopped and talked to them lol. Eunjung looked at me 3 times as she was walking past and said hi and merci. LOL @ one of my fancam comment said that she would have been waved to me if her hands were free. Then the rest came out one by one and all of them said hi or waved and acknowledged us except SHINee and Beast. Chansung walked into a dog and almost tripped on the step when he came out LOL and pretended nothing has happened.

Now the SNSD bit: Hyoyeon was the first of SNSD who came out with 2 of her friends. I asked for an autograph but she said no sorry. She looked tired. Then sica was the second one. She just walked out the hotel on her own casually and went straight to a cab which is about 2 minutes away. She walked like a boss again lol. One of us tried to catch up with her but she went into the cab already lol. After a while, we finally saw Maknae went to the reception with her sunglasses on. Then we started to see TaeNy, Sooyoung, Sunny and Yuri came down to the lobby. Sunny was on the phone and Yuri gone back up again. Couldn’t see Yoona and apparently she only just woke up and was in a shower and that was about 12.30/1pm xD. Tae was nibbling the whole time and I tried to film her but she made a hand gesture as a big cross using both her arms to me as in no filming. We were spazzing like mad outside the hotel looking inside as 2 sones were talking to them (you would have probably heard what happened in there already). After that, Sooyoung and Fany stood up and looked at us. We sang happy b-day to SY in both Korean and English and she seems happy and touched. I got my “UK SONE <3 SNSD” board out and they were looking at it for a good 5 minute! Fany saw and she smiled and waved. Then I just shouted “COME TO LONDON PLEASE!” all of a sudden lol and O.M.G, Sooyoung shouted “YES!” back to me!!!! *0*I went mad that moment lol even missed Fany’s “yes” as well coz only after that, my friend told me Fany said yes as well. Hahaha. I just couldn’t believe she would actually answer me using that tone xD even though now I know she was just teasing me coz we all know SY didn’t come to London in the end, but I think she would mean in the future. Then they started to come out and it went blur to me…next thing I remember was everyone suddenly giving Sooyoung their presents. My first image of that was she already took their presents so I tried to give mine as well. Then manager tried to stop me before I can reach her, but she still took it from my hand. She looked so surprised and amazed how many fans were giving her presents xD. Yuri went back to the hotel, I think she missed something. My friend gave her her presents and she took it and said thank you. Then she was spazzing like mad saying “I BRUSHED YURI’S HAND! I BRUSHED HER HAND WHILE SHE WAS TAKING MY PRESENT!” XDDD. Then we waited for them to leave for a while coz we didn’t want to follow them. We decided to get summit to eat and as soon as we get to the main road, we saw them again LOL. They were looking for taxis haha. They split into 2 groups, Sunny + TaeNy and SY + Yul. Fany really has a loud voice coz she was talking to her manager and we could hear it from a distance lol. Me and my friend shouted “Soonkyu oppa!” and Sunny smiled and waved again!! Superb fanservice!! Never failed! Another friend went up to Fany for an autograph while she was waiting for taxi but she said “NO SORRY NO SORRY”, again, very loud xD. Then the 3 got into a cab while SY and Yuri having difficulties in finding one xD. But they got one in the end and we off to lunch.

Airport

Waited in the airport for a few hours and finally saw the girls van arrived. They stood by the entrance waiting for their managers to get their luggage and we were watching them from a distance. Most of the girls got shades on and it is hard to tell whether they were looking at you or not. We were all looking at each other for a while and me and my friend got to a point that it was too shy and embarrassing to keep looking/staring at them so we had to look away xD. When their managers arrived, they started moving. Taeyeon, Fany, Hyoyeon, Sunny and Seohyun walked towards the check-in desks first and they have to go past us to get there. We stood by the side without blocking them and said hi to them. Then after a while, Sica, Yuri, Yoona and Sooyoung started moving as well. Sica got her shades on as usual and walked like a boss loool. We said hi again and she smiled. Then all of a sudden, I noticed SY was walking VERY SLOWLY at the back (she was the last one). So I just decided to go up to her and asked for an autograph since no-one tried to ask anyone yet. As soon as I went up to her, I remember I had to look up to see her face, that’s how tall she is xD ( I am 160cm). She looked tired without much makeup on but still beautiful. She signed first then said thank you in a very soft voice. Then she asked what my name is. I said Carol and she paused and looked at me xD I spelt it out to her immediately. Then as soon as she finished I said honey XDDD summit must be wrong with me by the time xD and LOL she wrote “ney” after “carol” which makes it “carolney” XDDD I swear SY knew what I meant and she was teasing me again XD hahaha. Then she said “ah noo thank you” and gave me back the pen. I was wondering why she said “ah noo” to me and I realized later on after I finished spazzing that it must be the post-it note I wrote to her on the page she signed which I wished her a happy bday and a very silly wish for her with a P.S of can I give her a bday hug? xD that explained why she said no then hahaha. Then the moment she finished signing, I saw the rest of the sones surrounding her waiting for sigs xD and she was very patient to sign for everyone. After they got to the check-in desks, some of the sones already got Yoona and Yuri’s sigs and I was like HOW DID U MANAGED TO GET THOSE?! LOL I didn’t even know what happened. They must have got it behind me while I was with SY XD


Then it was enjoyable to watch the girls waiting at the check-in desk. Maknae and Hyo were happy bunnies that they held hands and ran around the airport a couple of times like happy kids xD they were adorable xD Sica stood like a boss again while waiting. Tiffany was standing around for a bit before she sat on the luggage convey belt. So I got my board out again lol XD I showed the other side which says “taeny and yulsic for life” and pointed to taeny, she saw and looked, then waved like a little kid with her phone in hand and giggled and quickly turned around as if she was shy about it XDDDD she wasss sooo cute when she did that, so so cute. There was A LOT of YoonSun for the whole half an hour or so. They were playing THE WHOLE TIME. Dancing, whispering to each other, laughing out loud, looking into Yoona’s bag…..they were seriously having a good time xD it looked like Sunny was hitting on Yoona as well at some point lol. There were quite a few moments where Sunny was looking/peeking at me as well. She was like talking to Yoona one moment, then leaned on the desk and looked at me for 3 secs, then whispered to Yoona. (fancam: http://www.youtube.c...38;feature=plcp) I was paranoid whether she was talking about me or not (delusional fan haha) and felt embarrassed lol but she did it so often that I had to share half my camera screen to her which was gonna film yuri after that XD. Yuri and Fany then sat on the luggage convey belt. Yuri looked extremely tired that she had no facial expression with her shades on. Because of that, I got scared by looking at her coz I couldn’t tell whether she was staring at me or not, but I got reassured by other sones that she was only tired and that she wasn’t staring, she was probably closing her eyes behind those shades or just staring at space. Fany sat next to her and was playing with her phone with her scarf covering her face. She tried to play with yuri with a hand gun pointed to yuri’s head and yuri got a little bit woken up by that and they started talking. Taeyeon was wandering around YoonSun and YulTi lol. Taeyeon stayed around for a while then wandered around where YulTi sat. She sat between them and took her phone out and started talking. She lightened up the tiredness atmosphere over there. Yuri took her phone out too and put her headphone into Taeyeon’s ears. I was glad I witnessed the classic JummaTaeng laugh with my own eyes, it was hilarious XD The girls were chilling there for about half an hour. Taeteon then went to Yoonsun, took a piece of chocolate out from her bag with a classic ajumma pose (one leg up to support your bag in order for you to look for things in your bag XD you will see what I mean in my fancam http://www.youtube.c...38;feature=plcp, cutest thing ever XD) and took a bite, then put it into Sunny’s mouth xD SOOO CUTEEE she looked after her members XD then Sunny started dancing like a happy kid with her chocolate in mouth and Yoona followed hahaha. Such a happy view! SY was really tired that she was sitting behind the check-in counter but the staff chased her out…and she was squatting on the floor at one point…. It was really sad to see… then they started to leave in pairs and we left after they left too.

airport fancams : yuri http://www.youtube.c...38;feature=plcp
more yoonsun http://www.youtube.c...38;feature=plcp



We are leaving the next day and then the problem of our flight kicked in. Tried to check in online but system didn’t work, but status said we are confirmed… when we got to the airport, we were told our flight was changed and that the earliest one would be next morning. Airfrance admitted its their fault so they gave us new flight tickets but refused to compensate one night in the hotel so we spent our first night ever in the airport with the cold and hobos (and we felt like one as well). The staff were “extremely helpful and well mannered as well” which made the whole situation even better. It was such an epic ending to end my awesome experience in Paris. So my advice from this trip: Never ever take AirFrance if you have a chance.

London

My friend’s fan account basically summed up my experience when I was in London as I was with them. http://soshified.com...m-fashion-show/ it was a funny experience with Tiffany as I was surprised she had a little problem with my name xD. When she asked my name, I said Carol which pronounced as “Car-rol” in a UK accent. She looked at me and went “eh?” LOL I immediately realized my name pronounced differently in US as “Care-rol” as I am always aware that my name pronounced differently in US. So I told her again my name in a US accent and she was like “OHHHH….sorry I am not used to the English accent.” Then eye smiled XD so cute. And while she was signing for my friends, I kept saying to her “welcome to UK.” “Have a good time in the UK.” And she just kept saying “thank you, thank you” while signing XD such a multi task expert hahaha. I should have just try to hold a genuine convo with her, I even forgot to tell her her “hello stranger” was so funny and that my real name was “stranger” XD. But I think I have made progress that at least I still know how to talk when I see the hot hair Tiffany right in front of me.
It was a last minute decision whether I should go as it takes me nearly 4 hours to get down to London, and also I had to leave before the show that they were attending, so it was a test of luck and a time competition to see if I can bump into them in 2 days. But I am so glad I did go in the end.


the rest of the fancams including other groups can be found in my channel if you are interested. http://www.youtube.c...14?feature=mhee

Sones, if you ever have a chance, don’t let it slip. Hold on to every opportunity you might have to get to see SNSD if you are keen like me and my friends, as you never know what you will get. And without my sones friends, I won’t be able to achieve all these, I LOVE MY FANDOM^^

Paris Part 1

Warning: this is LONGGGGGGG, I cut down a lot of my personal experience non-soshi related but what happened during the 3 days in Paris and 2 days in London with soshi still take up this amount of writing. If you want to just jump to the snsd bit, go to “Day 1” now xD

Just a bit of background first to say how unlucky we were before this concert. I was originally gonna go to the 9^th one but it got cancelled (I went mad at KBS). Booked my flight already coz it’s cheap and since it’s non-refundable, so I had to go to the 8^th one. Flight scheduled to arrive in Paris on 8^th at 5:30pm and me and my sister were just going to rush to the venue as soon as we landed coz it will cost us 160GBP to change our flight (stupid airfrance!). Then when it was about 3 days before the concert, got an email from airfrance saying there will be air strike and that our flight might be delayed or cancelled!!!! We were like W-T-F!? Rang up and waited for 45 minutes and finally got it changed to arrive on the 8^th morning. Phew~ got told only the outward journey details are changed, return details remain unchanged… as soon as we arrived in Paris, I almost got robbed by 2 very inexperienced young girls at the metro. My UK sim card had decided not to accept any French network so I had to go to a mobile shop to get a new sim for 20euro with only 5euro credit in it (such a rip off =.=”), and my smartphone which is not so smart decided to mess up everything in it too. Got to the hotel, room is not ready till 2pm, so found a café to sit down to wait. (Ordered coffee and they gave me an expresso, now I know you have to order MILK coffee if you just want ordinary coffee lol)

Got to the venue around 2.30pm and met up with my friends. They have been queuing since 9am in the morning and it was -5C that day. Big thanks for letting us queue jump ( you know who you are if you are reading ). So, waited, waited and waited in the freezing cold. Couldn’t feel our toes coz it was sooo damn cold. There were 3/4 camera men/woman who came to film us. I started to shout “SNSD saranghey!” the Korean guy asked me to shout again lol. Then he went on to ask me why do I like them and where I am from. Then a Korean woman came along and she saw my “UK SONE <3 SNSD!” board and started to zoom into it, (and my face as well, I had to cover it up with my board coz it was too embarrassing) she literally just wanna film my board, she didn’t even say anything LOL. Then another French camera crew came and asked us to shout SNSD but there was literally only me shouting lol. The Korean woman came back again and saw my other side of my board saying “TaeNy + Yulsic for life”. She looked at it and said “YulSic?” I was like “ya, TaeNy and YulSic” and she zoomed into the board again lol. She must have no idea what yulsic is. I was worrying that any of my solo chanting clips will be aired but I am glad only one got aired and for some reason I shouted “soshified” without me even remembered shouting it LOL. My sister got my Korean “sooyoung-ah, happy b-day” board upside down =.= K-sones must be laughing right now lol. So then queue started to move bit by bit by 6pm and it was already jam packed! Can’t even move your hand that’s how packed it is. My sister decided to take the seat coz we had one seated ticket and one standing ticket. It was a good decision for her coz the seated ticket we have got at almost last minute was actually the first row in P lol (without knowing it). It would have been a waste if she went standing with me. Also, the pit that night was absolutely horrendous!

the boards I brought with me to the concert.

Day 1 - The concert

I am not going to write much about the concert as there wasn’t much happened. All the good things happened in day 2 and 3! But, before we start, thanks to my friends again for holding up my boards coz I have too many things that I wanted to hold up but only got one pair of hands! Before the concert, I was at about row 5. Then as it goes on with intense and non-stop pushing by beauties and hottest (or maybe shawols as well), I was pushed to row 2, and almost passed out as well. If SNSD still don’t come out, I was about to get the security to get me out coz I couldn’t stand it anymore. KBS producers came to look at us during the break as if we were wild animals coz people wouldn’t stop pushing and the rails got pushed forward at least 2m to the stage. Loads of people were crying and fainting at
our side. It was 10 times worst than SMTown Paris… But anyway, as soon as SNSD came out, I got my little energy back and heck, I saw Taeyeon tapped Sooyoung’s butt 3 times after we sang happy b-day to her xD that sure woke me up xD and during the boys, sooyoung, the fanservice queen, looked at us and smile so happily!!! Even the kbs broadcast caught this moment of her looking at the left side which is where we were. During ending, tiffany and sooyoung came, and sooyoung smiled at us again. Sunny was leaning forward towards us and doing her double hands waving with her agyeo smile >< she’s soo cute. I couldn’t see much of the other girls tho which is a shame coz all the fangirls just gone mad when the males came out, hands are everywhere in front of me so I had a hard time filming or even just get a glimpse of the other girls! I was going to throw a toy sheep on the stage to them but my hand can’t even reach my bag! Oh well… But this is it for the night, short but still some cute moments. Just hope next time I will not be standing in the pit again…

the byun tae http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Qkj9pQb01rc
SY's fan service, too bad the light was too bright on their faces http://www.youtube.c...h?v=zOO4zgXIUvw

(P.S. 2PM was my 2^nd favorite but Taecyeon seem drunk during the concert lol and I was a little bit disappointed with his biceps ._. he must have been lazy lately… Jiyeon and Soyeon both made a mistake during Roly Poly. It’s funny I couldn’t really see them from my angle as they didn’t come to perform on the extended stage. But as soon as I stuck my head out to look, I saw them made the mistake lol.)


Day 2 - Le grand journal

My friends saved me 2 tickets for me and my sister for this show (again if you are reading this, you know who you are! BIGGGGG THANKSSSS! For don’t know how many times I have said this already xD) but the dress code was strict, no black, white and grey. No hoodies, no labels, no t-shirts…. We had to go buy new clothes especially for the show. Got a text from my friend saying they are on their way and be there asap. So we finished off and rushed there. Everyone meant to meet at a metro station at 4.30pm and we got there at about 3.45pm. There was no one and we couldn’t reach our friends. So we went back and forth to other exits trying to find them but saw no one. By the time it was about 4.20pm and we started to panick that we won’t be able to go coz we didn’t know where the venue is!! >< and the show starts recording at 5pm. Then we ran back to the 1^st exit we got out of the metro and thank god, we saw a bunch of people and they are going to the show too…when we got in, we weren’t allowed any mobiles, coats, hats, cameras, etc. We had to go in with empty pockets and we got allocated where we sit. Me and my sister were sitting right behind the guests on the floor and we were like “oh ****, then we only get to see their backs “but we didn’t know the best is yet to come Before SNSD performed, apparently some movie stars were being interviewed and we were told at one point that we could at least laugh or to give some reactions. Then, I laughed. After the interview, SNSD were revealed through the doors that opened sideways and everyone started screaming! The cheers were brilliant! Taeyeon was smriking at our screams and Sooyoung was trying to hold it in that she had to look away lol! Taeyeon ALWAYS laughs at us cheering for her! Haha. The performance was brilliant and our fanchants were excellent as you can see from the broadcast. We were so proud of ourselves too xD it was actually much louder than the broadcast. The girls seem happy too that they had so many Sones cheering for them. Then as they walked towards us, I didn’t even know how the hand shaking started! Fany started to shake hands and I only knew from watching back at the broadcast that I shook her hands! I remembered seeing her walking towards me but I didn’t recall shaking her hands! My memory started from Sooyoung though. I remembered I shook Sooyoung, Sunny, Yoona and Seohyun’s hands according to the order. Out of all the hands I shook, I can ONLY remember how Yoona’s hands felt like! It was SO SOFT AND SMALL!!!!!!! I can still remember what it felt like even now which is almost 3 weeks after this happened. The hand shake was so firm and strong that I can only remember hers! One of my friend told me she smelt her own hand after shaking with Yoona and it smelt like hand cream xD LOL at her XD (I should have done so too hahaha). Then another thing I remembered was when it gets to maknae, no one was sticking their hands out anymore but I still stuck mine out and surprisingly she shook my hand!!!! I wasn’t expecting she will shake it coz not everyone shook hands with fans but she still shook my hand!!!! I was well impressed by then but sadly, I don’t remember what her hand felt like… haha *shame* and Taeyeon was the last one she even just turned around before anyone has a chance xD and then we sat back down on the floor and WOAH….. ” you would have imagine what our view was if you have watched the broadcast… XD B-U-T-T-S!!! hahaha *I do not sound like a perv* but….ya…. wasn’t intended to look, but…..where else can you look? Haha I don’t think anyone could resist to look as well if you have given such a chance lol (I feel so blessed) OMG you wouldn’t believe how SMALL Taeyeon’s butt is! She literally has a kiddy’s butt! It is TINY! She was standing next to maknae and if you compare her butt with maknae’s butt, it’s almost half the size!!! It is amazing!!! Hahahaaha me and my sister can’t get over the fact that how small her butt is! Yuri’s had her costume covering it but you can still see a nice and firm shape………Yoona’s was nice and average and nice too look at too…..xD OKAY enough butt talk I should move on before I turned this into a controversy topic xD

so….ya they were doing their interview then and a girl behind me kept shouting “yuri-ah!” for god knows how many times. Then yuri finally turned around and smiled at her and just after that, she looked at us! we were sitting on the floor and the girl was on the steps. We were surprised why she looked at us after she saw her but whatever reason that might be, she looked at us! XDDD someone then shouted “stressed!” to sica and she turned around and gave us that look that’s exactly the same when she saw sunny’s electrostatic hair lol! Her expression was so funny xD there were a few yoonyul moments too that yuri was talking to yoona and there was a little incident with yoona but I will keep that to myself then nearer the end, me and sis kept shouting “Soonkyu oppa!” “Soonkyu oppa saranghey!” and I swear she waved and smiled at us for a good whole minute! We had direct eye contact for so long that her face that time has imprinted into my brain now. She used her double hands waving she did in the concert to wave at us again and then she kept smiling using her aegyo and nodding telling us she knows xD sunny has eye smiles too and they are killers as well! Her hair was so smooth and silky! After the interview, the girls are going back and sunny shook my hand AGAIN!!!!!!! She’s soo soo soo cuteee >< Everything went so fast that I can’t function properly then yuri shook my hand!!!*0* I didn’t even remember whether she stuck her hand out first or I did, probably I left it out there after sunny but man just she missed me on the first time and she shook it this time!!!!!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHH!!! It was so surreal! It was the greatest moment! Then sooyoung went last and she used her finger tips to kinda move along to high 5 us, and this time I got to look at her hand properly and her hands are small too!! I seriously cannot stop spazzing after this whole thing and my sister had to tell me to calm down coz I was about to cry lol I would have never expected being so intimate with them, making long direct eye contacts with them smiling and nodding at you and even handshakes!!! It’s.The. Best. Thing. Ever and I seriously thank the Sones who help me to achieve this

Met KBS music bank producer

After the show, I met up with my sister ‘s friends and waited in their hotel lobby. Then 2 Korean women came and sat opposite my table. I heard them talking Korean and waited till they finished and asked if they are music bank staff. They said yes and we starting talking. One of them fully understands my English and can communicate using broken English. They both seem very interested in talking to me and asked where I came from, who did I come to the concert for, why I like them, etc. Then a Korean man came along and they introduced me to him and said he is the concert producer. I say hi to him in Korean and told him the concert was great. They told him where I am from and a few more in Korean which I didn’t understand lol and he told them to tell me he got a meeting now, he will be back down in 10 minutes. But after only like 2 minutes, he came back down again and gave me a 2PM signed CD ” I was so surprised and shocked that I wasn’t expecting anything like this! Apparently it is the promotional copy as well. but of course, I would have been 100000 times happier if it was "The boys" xD(so greedy). All I said to him that moment was “kamsahamida” for god knows how many times lol and he looked at me, pause, and said “you are welcome!” and smiled LOL. Then they moved to the reception desk and they were complaining that the producer’s room wasn’t cleaned. They had difficulties communicating so I went forward trying to help. I explained their situation to the receptionist and she explained back to me then I kinda explained to them again xD they were happy that I helped and that they were going to go back up. So I asked them whether I can visit them again tomorrow morning and they told me when they are leaving tomorrow and were happy that I can visit them again. However, the same night with the help of another sone, we found out where SNSD are staying and after an overnight explore of their hotel (that was WELL fun!) with a random drunkard who came to us outside the hotel saying "sushi" (note its sushi, not soshi) to us, I have decided to go visit SNSD instead xD coz after all, I am a sone.




Part 2: http://soshified.com...-london-part-2/

So I will jus keep this short and simple as most of my frds already posted a fan acc and we were together most of the time. So we saw similar things. But anyway heres my side of story.

Day 1 090611

Got a call from a frd suddenly after we were wandering around paris trying to bump into snsd but turns out we got all the timings wrong. They did go the places we go but jus different times. So we rush bk to le zenith n the girls were still rehearsing *phew* after a few hrs they finished and we managed to see them coming out and waved at us so happily!! Jess and yoona was first to come out and as soon as taeyeon came out, she looked up and waved at us immediately! (since we were the only Chinese SONES waving our foam hearts like mad at them and we were at the very top looking down at them for a better view so we were quite easy to spot) then sooyoung saw us too and waved then yuri waved too. We suddenly decided to run to the exit where their cars get pass. We waited there and here they are! First car has tinted windows but we can see clearly 2 of the girls (either yuri, sooyoung, Jessica or hyoyeon) use their phones to wave at us! We were spazzing like mad!!! Then second car came and sunny was like a crazy excited kid waving to us so happily!!! I can never forget her expression when she was waving crazily to us! *0* my frds said they saw yoona smiled and taeyeon pointed to her head (indicating my frds 309 caps of her) but I looked back at my frds fancam, yoona did actually waved to us, its just we were all distracted by the michim Sunny’s wave xD then later tiffany’s van came and seohyun and f(x) but I didn’t remember much after SNSD so I will just skip this.

Day 2 100611

I went to the first concert, skip the part how we were queuing (but there was actually no queue, just a massive crowd of fans here and there) and became how embarrassed by the pouring rain (we were all cold and wet smuggled up under an umbrella camp looking like refugees) so, we were on the left side at 3rd row in the pit coz apparently ssf said most SONES should get to the left? But we saw no fellow SONES near us except only us (if u imagine a big circle and a little dot in the middle of the circle, we were the little dot and we have like 8-10 of us) and this is really frustrating coz everytime we cheer for SNSD, we can only hear ourselves. One ridiculous thing that happened as well is when maknae was performing with kyunhyun, a fan asked who the girl is =.=” speechless. Also, we decided to do the infamous sooyoung fangirl scream to show our support and all the surrounding fangirls were covering up their ears and looked at us as if we were psychos =3=” speechless x2 anyway I got a black out about what I have seen in the concert maybe coz I was too busy recording and taking pics of them (and they are rubbish compared to the professional ssf ones too…) but there were a few moments that stuck to my heart and will never go away.

im a yuri bias and among our group of frds, theres only another one whos a yuri bias too (the rest are taeyeon bias) so we wrote YURI on back of our foam hearts and wanted to show our support to her. We were waving our foam hearts with the YURI side like mad whenever she was close to us but it seems like we didn’t catch her attention she didn’t even look at our direction. (foam heart changes back to ssf side when yuri is miles away to show support for all girls) At the end of concert, yuri and amber came to our side. Again, we waved like mad to get her attention. Amber was pointing to our direction and whispering to yuri, my frd said she was pointing at us but I wasn’t sure. But then I saw yuri looked at our direction, then……she looked away……her expression……my heart sinked……I was very disappointed and this is when I think the concert has something missing , the girls heart was not on us as they cant find a pink ocean. Pink pieces were everywhere. And its not just yuri, I find yoona and taeyeon the same too. (they don’t have much smiles on them during the concert) The cheers on 10th mostly went to shinee and suju. No matter how loud we tried to do the fanchant, it doesn’t seem to be effective. (after I heard about the fanservice she did on 11th and how the concert was way more better, I was even upset and disappointed as I couldn’t go again and how cud there be such a HUGE difference in atmosphere? but im kinda gotten over it now, I mean maybe I have expected too much from her….she shows her love to ALL SONES, not just us)

SO!....the greatest thing that happened to me that nite was sooyoung!!! most of the night sooyoung, sunny and hyoyeon were close to our side and they kept looking at our direction. Sooyoung gave the BEST fanservice all nite, not just to us but to all SONES and fans. I seriously cant remember how much eye contact I had with her. And this great thing happened that I cant even believe my own eyes. It was so surreal. Sooyoung was rite in front of us at the end, she spent so much time looking down to our area, again I waved like crazy. I suddenly realized I made eye contact with her AGAIN! I swear we were looking at each other for at least 10 secs! Coz neither of us looked away we just kept staring! Haha (sounds creepy) then all I had in my mind was to make a heart over my head n kept shouting “SARAHEYO” to her and woah! She pointed at me, blew a kiss, made a heart over her head and was mouthing “sarahey” back to me!!!!!!!!!! ((*0*)) I think I melted that moment; she totally made up for it. I became a Soori fan since xD (still a YulSic fan though) maybe afterall I was just being imaginative about her amazing fanservice to me, maybe she was doing it to another fans but oh well I would still like to think it that way xD but it is true that she had the most amazing fanservice all night long. We have all agreed on that.

Day 3 110611

The night we returned back to hotel, got sources about their hotel so we decided to pay a visit to test our luck. Got there but the lobby is empty. Asked the receptionist but he didn’t admit nor in denial. Then we saw an asian girl sitting and looking at us. I asked her did she went to the concert and found out that she was here for stalking as well. She already stayed for 2 and a half day in the hotel but has seen no one. Then suddenly she got a text from her frds saying they saw snsd’s managers at another hotel so we got a taxi to teleport us there immediately. When we got there, there were only a few f-fans who were shawols. They said they saw a few snsd went out for a photoshoot and a few came back already so we waited.

Not long until sunny and seohyun came out. Sunny is short with high heels on but god wana pinch her on her chubby cheeks! Shes so cute >< She was waiting outside their car with seohyun and was on the phone. God I so wanted to shout “sunny saraheyo!” but didn’t want to interrupt lol and the fans told us managers said no camera so I didn’t record nor take pics. And that was the first time I saw snsd so close with my own eyes. While waiting, I rang my frds immediately for this amazing moment but they didn’t pick up the phone and that was when they got pick pocketed which was mentioned in another fan account. Not long, yuri and Jessica came back from a photoshoot, everything happened so quickly they just got off the car and went straight inside the hotel, couldn’t even see their faces but only their hair, but I did manage to get some snecky shots xD *evil grin*not long again, sooyoung, hyoyeon and yoona came out for their photoshoot. OMG! Yoona is REALLY tall! For the first impression, I actually thought yoona is taller than sooyoung! Again snecky shots *evil grin x2* Then not long again, we suddenly spotted taeyeon went out of the hotel and walked the other way with a manager and a girl, she crossed over the street and shes soooo small!!!! Her yellow highlights are so recongisable too xD

we were already spazzing all over the place and didn’t even realize jess was walking rite pass us!!! I could literally just grab her arm! (now that sounds creepy but cant help it) I suddenly noticed her but couldn’t recognize her at first, I was just whispering to my frds whether that’s jesscia and she looked at me but just kept walking. I couldn’t believe that was Jessica as she was just walking causally like that, with no hat, no sunglasses no head down no bodyguard. Then my frd shouted “Jessica!” and I was like even if that’s her, she wouldn’t turn around coz she walked away already. But like 2 secs later, she TURNED BACK AND WAVED!!!!!!!!! ((*0*)) we were all frozen and first thing I had in mind was to record her ( GOD wt was I thinking!? I shud have just run up and ask for an autograph since she turned back when she didn’t have to) but….ya I didn’t in the end T.T and I thought the ajuma who was with her was her hair stylist or staff but turns out it was her mum and was super nice. T.T would u say I am lucky or unlucky?

Anyway now its when my frds arrived (side note, shinee went out the hotel too and f-fans stalked them to the restaurant) taeyeon was the first who came back, with 2 hand full of milks and cereals in carrier bags. She looks so white and small and doesn’t seem happy at all, we called her name while she was approaching but she looked VERY pale and tired and unhappy. My frds were taeyeon bias and they were very surprised by that. One of them tried her best to give her presents to taeyeon. At first the manager didn’t take it but her effort paid off. But we were all surprised by what we have just seen. Then I think its time for shinee return back to hotel? Then later, sooyoung, yoona, sunny seohyun and hyoyeon returned from their photoshoot. They got out of their car and just stood there for at least a few minutes!!!!!( don’t know wt they were waiting for but sooyoung was holding a bag of popcorn and can of sprite. Sunny were drinking pepsi lol) We were all stunned by their beauties and all just watched quietly lol. (we must be the calmest SONES ever!)Then suddenly one of my frd shouted “sooyoung!” and we all shouted haha and she looked and smiled! *spazzzz* now we think back, if we did shouted other members names as well, they would have been responded too but we were just overwhelmed by sooyoungs fanservice last night that we can only remember to shout her name xD

After a while waiting, its already near time for them to set off for soundcheck but we still havnt seen Jessica came back. We thought she might have been to le zenith already so we were just expecting the other girls coming out from the hotel. But a bunch of press came out instead lol. While looking at them leaving, we saw Jessica walking back from distance and we had our cameras ready xD jessi stopped and greeted the press then she quickly ran towards her mum and back to the hotel. OMG it was so close! Again, I can just grab her xD she smiled while running back but she seem shy, maybe there were too many of us? Haha but that’s it! I wanted to wait for them to get out for soundcheck but I really had to catch my eurostar so I had to leave. But later I heard they went the backdoor and only 2 of my lucky frds spotted them again when they left the same time as me to catch the metro (pure luck xD)

(side note: one of my frd stayed at their hotel till 3/4am on 12th after their 2nd concert and she saw shinee and suju and Victoria were really drunk when they get back. Yuri and some1 actually had to carry Taemin back to the hotel xD LOL just thought I’d share it coz I find this extremely funny that why does it have to be yuri?!wheres the men gone? xD shame that her video isn’t clear enough to see )

So…I tried to keep this short but still ended up writing an essay, if ever I cud use this skill on my uni dissertation….but smtown paris has given me the best experience in my life, both meeting SONES and fans from all over the country like a big family (we greeted each other whenever we see a foam heart or ssf t-shirt. Also made frds with fans from other fandoms) or seeing SNSD in person UP CLOSE so easily for the first time! Although I might have brought regret with me back to the UK due to various things, but really I cudnt ask for more. C.C


*heres one of my videos, the rest can be found in my channel and also many other clear fancams of SNSD performaces from smtown paris.*
SY, HYO, YOONA went for photoshoot

*a pic of our foam hearts and my frds homemade LED board for taeyeon*


*taeyeon doesnt look happy at all*


*the sergent SICAs walk that will always reminds me how i missed the chance T.T*


*the flawless SICA that made me wana grab her (creepy)*



*various moments of eye contacts with sooyoung ((*0*)) spzzing again everytime i look at it*