3rd time I left Seoul (not counting Gyeonggi-do), and yes its for A-JAX too... Daejoon is 2 hrs away from Seoul by direct bus and a common location for fansigns... they are usually held outdoors, but it being winter now, that is rather impossible, so they did it on a small stage in the underground shopping complex. Lighting is not too bad, and my friends (@kaoribon & @taotaokim, basically the foreigner A-JAX shooters' club, lol) and I got there early enough that we secured good seats on Jaehyung's side. I refused to move when they tried to ask us to sit in signing # order as mine is ridiculously far back and the seats I was occupying is slanted so unnumbered. And they gave up after a while, because we aren't the only one sitting out of order - basically all the webmasters who dragged their heavy gear in from Seoul were trying to be up front.

Anyway, for the first time, the fansign started late - the managers and boys arrived early but there wasnt that many fans so they tried to allow some time I think? This is A-JAX's first time in Daejoon, other than a couple of Wing Car school guerilla appearances, so I guess they are not very well-known... 120 CDs for the fansign but the boys were made to sign a pile of 20 or so CDs so that meant it wasnt sold out, despite each person being able to buy 2... A lot of the older fans who usually buy 2, and japanese fans, didn't come this time, so... it was kinda pitiful. But thanks to that, the fansign was extremely slow and we could talk to the boys for a pretty long time - I definitely don't regret traveling here, I just regret not getting 2 CDs and having my own signed here so that they have e time to write a P.S. for me. (I wanted to sign my own 1st and last but I initially thought last week Gimpo was the last one, and because I was one of the last and it being Seoul it was so hurried they could not write a P.S. for me.)

Anyway when they came walking through the mall I nearly whooped upon seeing their outfits - the same ones as the apology video for the cancelled Hug Day the day before that I was lamenting being not able to see!! Rock-inspired? ^^ Makes up for them not ever performing with the grunge-outfit in the MV that they wore in the warehouse setting... Daebak... And the boys were in a really good mood, Jaehyung kept fanservicing and was all smiles... me and Kaori were sitting together, she got a lot more fanservice from him than I did, but I can't begrudge her that as she's not around as often and have limited chances... and she's really cute. Like from her aegyo-full twits, right up his alley. ><'' Unlike me who scolds him like an elder sister or mother all the time. I can't/don't do cute!! But at least I got these...


Conversation-wise for once I just video-ed everything so I will replay and write in detail later, but deepest impression has to be for Yun Young - out of nowhere he suddenly told me: "Thank you for your photo! I saw your photos, I changed my profile pic to your photo!" My jaws literally dropped in shock, and I just went huh?!? What.. ? Then he explained further, he meant twitter, and he just changed it... I didn't check my twitter that morning, and even if I did I won't notice his changing unless he tweeted, so I just nodded dumbly, thanked him, then went off ... *heads desk* after that I tweeted him a proper thank you and explained that I was just too shocked... I hadn't noticed it earlier.

Hyo Jun ... I thanked him for looking often at my camera even though I'm not a HyoJun fan. ^^

Seungyeop laughed and commented that I'm signing the album for someone else yet "again"!? ^^;; He also remembered I told him at the last fansign that I might leave Korea before their comeback! He asked me when I'm leaving.... and I told him I'm not sure myself. ><"

Sungmin... I just commented on his very cool studded jacket and he made a motion to poke me with them. Haha... I exclaimed that it's dangerous - He's not supposed to bully his noona like that! The two of us were laughing madly throughout. Humor-in-charge indeed.... kekeke.

Seungjin... asked me if I saw what he wrote at the fancafe~! Whoops, I didn't, I explain that I left my home too early so I didn't see it yet... And told that I'll see him later at the Incheon fansign and asked him to eat first before that. And the boy told me to go Inkigayo for tomorrow's last broadcast. Of course! Haha.

And as for Jaehyung, he suddenly told me he does read my tweets to him. O_o I was too surprised to even bring up that he had ignored me just the last week when I asked if he knew my twitter account - so from when did he know it? Was he just tricking me the other time? This boy... *haiz*  Anyway, I asked if he had a favourite sport - he hmm-ed and hawed for a long time, and said nop, and to my question on whether he can skate, he stated yes, (I was asking as skating is a very graceful activity and with his face/figure, I can so imagine the beautiful sight... *_*) ... and just as I was moving on to Hyojun he suddenly blurted out "Bicycle!" - I was so surprised, I just repeated after him, and maybe he thought I didn't understand, so he made the 'holding handle' pose which made me start laughing.

Hyeong Kon's wearing the leather-vest outfit, same as the one in the MV...... I told him that foreign fans were saying he looks very suitable for detective (police) drama in that, and he started laughing. (on hindsight... turns out that he's got a small cameo role in IRIS2... we're super-eeriely accurate! Lol.) Not knowing what else to ask Hyeong Kon, I wrote "tell me one interesting habit of Jaehyung", to which he wrote "he nods off to sleep a lot". Hahahaha I knew it! All the times his "scary face" is just him being stoned and drowsy when getting off car trips... haha. He managed to knock out in the mere 15 mins we were waiting at Gimpo airport to board the plane previously too...

P.S. Hyo Jun looks quite pissed as he was signing the stack of CDs at the end. ^^; For the 1st time, no Mr. Smiley... to be honest me and Kaori were O_o at how irritated he looked. ^^''



Photos are all up here:

Location: Gimpo Lotte Mall, Yoongpeung Stationary & Bookstore
Time: 7pm

I had planned to go earlier and 'chop' a good spot on Jaehyung's side, as I've been to a fansign here before and know that bystanders can stand really close at the side, but somehow my damn procrastinating personality came to the fore again and I got there at 640pm. ><" And I had to find my friends to pass them CDs (I converted 3 of them to partial A-Lights), a job which was complicated by the fact that I lost my cellphone on the way to the fansign, on the train (I eventually got it back after that but that's another story). So while I was still settling CD and $ matters, the boys came. T_T Didn't manage to take any photos/vids of their opening greetings. And after getting my CD signed, I tried to get a spot on Jaehyung's side for pictures but kept getting blocked by this annoying tall korean girl who kept blocking my view of Jaehyung WITH HER CELLPHONE CAMERA. If she was another fansite owner I understand, but come on, how good can a cellphone picture be? And she'll never be uploading it on the daum cafe or a fansite, so can she please be more considerate and move aside after a few shots? No, she stood there for the ENTIRE DAMN 2 HOURS. T_T I gave up and squeezed in behind her, but then was blocked on-and-off, by the line of people waiting for their signatures - finally I had to kneeled down to get a clear view of my Jaehyungie - to think of it, he knew where I was behind her, but suddenly I disappeared and he glanced down to see me kneeling in a weirdass position, and he looked kinda amused. ^^;;

One thing, Jaehyung kept refusing to pose properly for me - I was trying to tell him to do a full-hand heart, but he kept refusing - he mouthed something but my korean is so weak, I can barely understand when I hear it, lip-reading is out of the question - so your making kissy faces at me is no use! ><" He only gave me 1 tiny finger heart. T_T I was getting quite annoyed, but only after I returned and looked through my pictures, I did get lots of eye contact - and some really evil/teasing looks. SEO JAEHYUNG, JUST BECAUSE YOU KNOW I LIKE YOU LIKE CRAZY DOES THAT MEAN YOU CAN BULLY ME ANYTIME YOU LIKE!? *&$#*%&$*%$

Anyway, yes. When it came to my turn to get my CD signed (I went 2 times, 1st to sign for another person's name, 2nd was my own), I marched up to Jaehyung and demanded my hot chocolate (I wrote in the letter that I shoved him after the performance on Sat that he owed me one after I travelled all the way to Yongpyeong and braved the freaking cold for him!), he was like ? and after I reminded him about the letter, he went "ahhh!" and put his hand over mine, looked at me very sincerely in the eyes and told me "Thank you, you worked hard." *mentally weeped, died and went to heaven* I just dumbly nodded and asked him to answer the questions on the post-its I had wrote... As for the other members, I think I asked Hyojun what time they got back (after midnight), and Sungmin if they had gone to Inkigayo live today (Yes, they did for a while, though the fancafe hadn't announced anything so there were no A-Lights there at all. T_T) and he went to sign and write my name without even looking at the post-it and I was like "OMG IT'S FOR SOMEONE ELSE!!" and he's like O_o "Oetteoke??" then crossed out my name and wrote the correct one above. (Sorry Cheese-san...) Seungjin just mentioned seeing me at Arirang... and that it was cold... Yunyoung I didn't speak much with but I was very amused by his cheese drawing on the album (it was for a person nicknamed chi-zu), Hyeong Kon remembered the fan very well though, he went AHHHH!! and underlined that name. Oh and Seungyeop! I immediately pointed to the post-it, for fear that he would do the same that Sungmin did, and Seungyeop was like "Why not Kimberly?" and I immediately quipped "Kimberly coming later!" Lol! And as mentioned in the earlier post I asked him about how happy and relaxed he seemed on stage when his hyungs looks like they were about to start sniffing and shivering, he said he liked the cold.... O_o

For the 2nd round... Jaehyung... T_T This boy took me to heaven and back down to hell in the space of seconds. He's been signing my name in hangul as 킹바리 (King-ba-ri) when every single other member sign it as 킴벌리 (Kim-beol-ri)! In fact I've been quite puzzled as to where along the way did they all learn my name, as I've only written to Hyeong Kon once, and I don't think the rest remembered from the two pre-2MYX fansigns - in fact I think I had wrote in English... so I thought they must have asked him, but if they asked him how come theirs is right and his is wrong - does he purposely know but want to be different/unique or what - so I asked him if he knew my name was actually supposed to be 킴벌리. And this boy? Insisted that in korean pronounciation it's 킹바리. *head hits desk*. So I was like no-no, "It's actually pronounced as KIM-BER-LI and in korean the nearest official equivalent is 킴벌리, even my korean teacher hanguli-fied it like that and your bandmates too but you're the only one writing it strangely, 킹바리 is the japanese pronounciation actually..." so he huffiedly and grumply corrected what he wrote. And then I hammered the nail in the coffin by asking him if he knew my twitter (I suppose he doesn't, but this chap refuses to admit to me when he doesn't know something - "manly pride", maybe?) - he ignored me and looked elsewhere at the ceiling/other fans. I was like "hey!!" *poke/whack his hand* and he IGNORED ME RESOLUTELY. THIS BRAT!! Grrrrhhhhhh!! So I didn't manage to get him to answer any of my post-it questions. And wasted our valuable talk-time. URGHHHH!!! *tears out hair*

To all the other members, not knowing if this was the last fansign for 2MYX, I just informed them that if they don't see me around the next comeback, it'll be because I might be leaving Korea to go back to Singapore from March. And that they should take care. And asked Hyeong Kon to take care of that pabo especially.

(To make my mood worse, on my way back I slipped and fell cause I was wearing heels - to try and look pretty for him, damn it - and hurt my right knee... stupid Jaehyung, how dare you ignore me. I don't care if you were just teasing me or throwing a tantrum, you little....&6@76$*#&$*#!!)

But looking back at the photos... all my anger vaporised. Only left with depression. T_T Stupid, silly, childish man but I still... *sigh*

The location of this fansign was really strange...or I should say, BAD..... the edge of a cafe behind Gangnam  Synnara ... literally the edge, as the boys sat inside, separated from us fans outside by a sliding glass wall. T_T. Combined with the fact that winter 730pm means pitch-black darkness... all of us DSLR-totting shooters were bemoaning the near impossible-lighting to shoot... reflections off the glass totally messed up our photos, and we weren't even using any flash... so the only chance where we had, to take anything resembling acceptable photos, was at the opening greetings (before they moved in the glass walls), and at the closing where they had a REALLY MINI celebration for Hyeong Kon's birthday (and I still had to use flash for both. Sorry boys. ><")

Location: Jongro YP Books
Time: 2pm