This past weekend was nothing short of EPIC for me! I wish I could turn back time just to do it again instead of now waiting another year for B.A.P to come back for Live On Earth 2015. Any, let’s begin with my wonderful experience.
Getting to New York City: So Saturday night I got off work and went straight home to work on the shirts I was making me and my new friend and fellow baby Karen for the show. Was literally up all night finishing them and when I did I laid down for a half hour before getting up at 4 AM to get dressed and finish packing. I left home at 5:30 and made it to the bus stop. I took the Megabus up and now that I have friend in New York I will definitely be going more often. I mean seriously the tickets are usually between 16-20 dollars. I can afford that! So for the entire ride up, I slept and sometimes woke up to change to a different kpop song before going right back to sleep. Once there I met up with Karen and text another new friend Mai, who was already in line. Karen, being the wonderful woman she is, got the hotel room for us and even bought us some snack on the way to the line.
The wait and the concert itself: On the way to the line I had been texting Mai and she said it was long already around the building! At that point I told her to let the people behind her know that she had friend coming to wait in line with her so they would know we were not cutting the line. Once we got there, not only did we meet up Mai (Young Jae lover), but I also met Tay (Zelo lover to the max), and Trell (a fellow Yong Guk lover). They made waiting in line for 8 hours the funnest experience ever! Never did I ever think I would wait for any person or group, but they made it fun. We watched videos, sang songs, gawked at good looking people passing by, playfully plotted on obtaining the B.A.P items we saw other fans had, danced to 2ne1, and survived the naked cowboy and cowgirls together.
Then there was the flashmob! Mai danced in it and so did the girl Aivy who made the song mix and page for it on facebook and this really funny guy Brandon.
Watch that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIfYnPPzs4U
Then they let us in. By this time our group had grown to plus two and although I could write about all the bullshit that happened in the GA standing and merchandise lines and so forth, I won’t. Why not? Well that’s because I only want to give out positive vibes! So once we made it to a sensible standing area after the show began a little before all the things I heard positively about B.A.P were soooo true.
1. Young Jae and Him Chan look so much better live and in person than they do on any recording or photo.
2. Yong Guk…is Yong Guk, That man needs no words but his deep voice, hip thrusts, shirt lifting, skin exposing, wet hair flipping, kiss blowing self was just too much to handle from my ultimate bias that night.
3. Zelo and Jong Up were too cute and killed the dance floor even though they both slipped once because there was so much water on the stage.
(SIDENOTE! It was hot as hell in there! What performance venue doesn’t have air conditioning? Apparently Best Buy theater.)
4. Dae Hyun was just too too fine.
Now let me tell you guys about Young Jae and Him Chan! Those two gave me all types of life that night and while I used to think Him Chan was going through the motions when it came to dancing, he proved me wrong and I will never doubt him again. He was hitting those moves! Also Him Chan smiled and waved to me after I waved at him. Yes it happened, and no I wasn’t imagining anything. I was in a spot where I actually had a good amount of space around me and we locked eyes.
Same thing happened with Young Jae during a different song. I almost died but on the inside. On the outside I had to just smile back and keep waving and look cute doing it, instead of look like I’m dying from all the heat and heart pounding excitement. Now none of my friends got the hi-touch but it was still a great concert. B.A.P were everything I thought they would be and more. After it was all said and done me and Karen left after exchanging hugs, memories, and contact info with those in our group.
K-Town NYC: So the next day me and Karen went out around 10 am and went to find K-Town which was only like 3 blocks up from the hotel. We went and saw some yummy looking BBQ spots, the Asian market, a cafe where I got a delicious drink called Pineapple Paradise, not to mention a chance to look at the cute eye candy behind the counter.
Pineapple Paradise >~< Yummy!
Then we stopped in a book store where they had sooooo much kpop merchandise that I had to buy something. So I bought BTS’s Skool Luv Affair and a Got7 sticker set. Next time I go I’m getting something from Shinee and EXO. While there we met these other two awesome B.A.P fans, Yara and Taty, from the concert and had so much fun talking to them. Definitely exchanged Kakaos. They joined us in gawking at the attractive men that would walk past us. We struggled not to speak to some of them. We also went into this tattoo shop and the tattoo artist there had some really good work in his portfolio so definitely got his card.
^Where I got the Pineapple Paradise^
Can’t forget my very first bubble tea I got at Caffe Bene after we left K-town.
All in all New York was amazing and I’m definitely going back when I can. Me and Karen made a lot of decisions against what we first said we should and although they ended good, had we done what we wanted first it would have ended really really good. No more second guessing for us lol.
Shout out to JENN (http://westerngirleasternboy.com) for introducing us!
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