Friday, November 09, 2007
(Wu Zun, Angela Zhang, Calvin Chen, Eric Lee, George Hu)
Schedule:
Friday Nov 2nd:
-Arriving on Jakarta Intl' Airport with Eva air (1.30pm), Wu Zun arrived with Singapore Airlines from Brunei
-Press Confrence at 5pm at Hotel Mulia
-Outing (dinner at local restaurant and visit to EX Plasa Indonesia)
Saturday Nov 3rd:
-Meet n Greet @ SariPan Pacific Hotel 3pm (scheduled at 1pm)
-RCTI LIVE taping to promote [Romantic Princess]
-Hotel Mulia's Cafe to celebrate Calvin and Eric's birthday (Nov 10th)
[DAY 1] FRIDAY 02112007: ARRIVING AT AIRPORT
I won the voucher to pick up the cast of Romantic Princess on November 2nd from PT Global. Basically they told us to meet up at Asianplus' office in ManggaDua area (thankfully it's right behind my office). We were scheduled to leave around 11am, but knowing how Indonesians are with their "punctuality", we ended up leaving at 12pm. We arrived at the airport around 1pm. According to my experience in the past, 1 PM was way too late! Anyhow, after confusion here and there (no need for details), we headed out to the arrival gate where there were already 20-30 fans crowding the gate itself (DAMN). But the people from PT Global directed us to walk near the Deliferance cafe (i hope the name is right?). They told us to form two lines, so we all lined up. After a while, the security from ALL ACCESS came out and briefed us. He told us, if we can restrain ourselves, they would bring out they artistes to stop in front of us and give time for us to snap some pictures. I guess that would be the sweetest deal we have since we won the silly vouchers. But while we were waiting, I kept thinking how are they going to walk from that gate to us (which was a bit far, but we can still see them coming out from the gate), without the other fans (who were already there) made an ambush on Zun etc? Good Question, rite?...
Around 1.45pm, all hell break loose (just like when Dean and Sam open the gates of hell- this OT OT OT). I could hear the scream, but I couldn't see anyone coming out from the gate. I just saw a (BIG) bunch of screaming fangirls. I thought: Ah forget the damn lines, this was not going to happen. I started to run toward the commotion, then I saw WuZun walking toward me, they were all protected by the human wall (meaning: bodyguards). I was recording him (and hordes of crazy fangirls) coming towards me and waving my pink buddle of letter (ahhh,,,,I am a very multitasking person). He came closer, then people were pushing and somebody fell down right beside me. That made Wu Zun kinda slowed down and stopped (with a worried look), then I started to shove that pink bundle to him. First he just saw it, but reluctant to take them, after a few seconds (with a resigned looks), he took my letters!!! (WHOO HOOO)-------Project Tegami was signed sealed and delivered-------------
After he took the letters, everyone kept shoving and pushing. Believe me, I hate this kind of situation. Since I was already in the human crowd, so I just followed the crowd, until WuZun (etc) stopped near the wall with the securities protecting them. I got pushed again, I told everyone behind me to stop pushing,but failed miserably. I couldn't see Zun clearly at this point, but I had a good vantage point toward Calvin. So I kept yelling his name (too bad he couldn't hear amid the commotion). After 2 minutes stopping, the bodyguards movem them again toward that little small door towards the exit! HEKS! I was too scared to keep pushing, so I kinda stopped behind Calvin while everyone was kept pushing. Calving was the last one to walk out, from the first, he was always at the back while Wu Zun was on the front. I think George and Eric in the middle protecting Angela (so cute ).
When I ran outside, they were already nearing the car, so I leg it and managed to stand in front of the car. After the bodyguard yelling to stay clear out of the way, the car drove away while we were all waving and feeling excited *sigh*
comment: This was the 1st time I went to the airport, and there was a chaos. It was beyond my expecatation. I went to pick up Energy (twice!!), Ambrose Hui, Wallace Huo etc, the crowd was much smaller. In a way it's good since I never thought that Wu Zun and Fahrenheit is that famous here in Indonesia. Their albums are all still imported, and the drama is only on air via JakTV! So yeah, the so called" sambutan" was great. But with they typical Indonesia Mentality, I think the airport situation was handed pretty badly. Why can't for once the fans be a little bit more organized. If they can, I'll bet we all have a longer chance to take pictures etc and no one will get hurt!! At the end who suffers the most? *haiya*
[DAY 2] SATURDAY 03112007: MEET AND GREET @SARI PAN PACIFIC HOTEL, JAKARTA
The event was scheduled to start at 1pm (according to the tickets), but it was delayed until 3pm (no surprise there). I arrived there around 1045am, and there were already a crowd of 100 of girls sitting right in front of the elevator. I was confused where I was to stand or sit, since there wasn't any definite line (another thing I hate about Indonesias, no sense of "ANTRI", this was just another prove that the EO was a bit disorganized). So I finally stood just in front of the elevator while waiting my two other friends came. Finally around 12ish, they let us in to avoid any crowding in front of the ballroom (good thingking for once). I ran inside and took a spot in the center (a bit towards to the rightside). Everyone was sitting down, they split the room into 3 sections. The front one was for the people who won the "FOTO BERSAMA", the 2nd section was the one who didn't win, and the last section for invitations. They showed us the clips of Romantic Princess again and again. Can you imagine, I was watching the same clips from 12pm to 3pm. By 3pm, I was pretty much want to vomit *LOL*
OT: OH YEAH! MAN, THEY SHOWED US THE UPCOMING JAY CHOU'S MOVIE [KUNGFU DUNK/GONG GU LAN QIU], MUST SEE MOVIE for 2008!!!! GYAAAA!! I want to see that movie!! (and Jay's concert in Singapore in January, anyone want to sell their tickets, pls contact me asap--hehehe)
So around 1ish, I know that WuZun and the gank were already inside the hotel,since the bodguars were already filtering into the ballroom, then by 2pm the manager (a woman and a man) starting to take pictures, and see the situation. They discussed some things with the local EO ( a nice looking woman), it was probably about the taking pictures policy and how we all have to sit down!! So yeah because of the fans who was appearing more agitated by the minute, many were kneeling down obstructing the people who sat at the back, and suddenly some newcomers were trying to squeeze in to the front!! UHHH SO ANNOYING! (those women who went to salons first to just to style their hairs, FRACK U LAH< GO SITE BEHIND MEH!!)
OT: There was this one girl wearing a black shirt, who LITERALLY PISSED ME OFF!!! She was fracking sitting on the 2nd row!! (IT WAS GOB SMACKED IN FRONT YOO), But SHE JUST HAD TO STAND UP (KNEELING ON HER KNEES), AND BLOCKED OUR VIEWING!!!OMAIGUK, HOW INCONSIDERATE, YOU ALREADY SAT UP FRONT, DID U NEED TO STAND???I KEPT YELLING AT HER TO SIT DOWN, BUT NOOO! APPARENTLY SHE WAS SO STUBBORN OR MAYBE TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND!..She kept standing!!! MAIGUK! If you by any chance read this post, FRACK U!...for once be considerate, ur kind are the ones that I hate MOST!!!...unsophisticated girl! (i WON'T SAY WOMAN, SINCE THIS WAS A GIRL!!). And I was not the only one who pissed at her, but apparently I was the only who practically yell to tell her to sit down
Anyhow, around 245pm, Rudy Xiao Wei (from Cakrawala Radio) and his partnert entered the stage. After a few words and a showing of (yet again) another clip from Romantic Princess, finally Xiao Wei called out Angela's name, and she came out singing "Yi Shi De Mei Hao" (OST DOLPHIN BAY). Oh Wow, I was practically blown away. I bought all her CDs, but I just never thought that her LIVE singing is as good as in the CD (not all taiwanese singing actresses can do thing, even JOLIN when singing LIVE was pretty much BAD, seriously!!). In the middle of her singing, suddenly the music stopped. Ah, playback singing was ruined >.< She was laughing, and kinda embaressed, but the fans were yellng "JIA YOU". She smiled and said "xie xie" and asked us to sing along with here without music at all. SHE REALLY DOES HAVE A NICE SINGING VOICE! *kudos to Angela*
After her song ended, Xiao Wei started to call Eric's name, then George, then Calvin *kyaa* then finally Wu Zun came out last. The room was chaos!!They posed for us to take pictures, then started to introduce themselves one by one. While they were posing pictures, I was waving my uchiwa like crazy, mainly to attract Calvin's attention (yelling: YI RU YI RU ). Twice he looked, and twice he waved at me and my friends, we were floored. Oh Yeah there was this funny incident, where there were two women carrying a Will U Marry Me? board, and it made Calvin laughed, and WuZun and finally the 5 of them looked and joked around!! >__<
There were the 20questions games regarding the drama. It was all easy questions if you already watch the whole 10 episodes (from the original VCDs), only one question was unanswerable, since the question about things that happened beyond the 10 vcds, but there was one girl who knew. The people who answered correctly were given pictures.
Some of the questions are:
1. Eric (Nan Feng Ying) character cannot stand to hear whose name?
2. the color of Nan Feng Cai's car
3. Nan Feng Lin always sit inside whose car
4. How do they address Ye Ye
5. The ending song..
6. The opening song...
7. George's character
8. Where did Cai and Xiao Mai went for their date (multiple answers)
9 What did Jin prepared for his date with xiao mai (this is the un-answeralble question)
etc. etc. etc
Easy questions, but somehow the MCs forgot to translate to Indonesian. Luck for me, I can now speak and understand mandarin (YAY, my first event, that I can actually 100% understand).
During this game, Chun several times spoke in Bahasa like: satu dua tiga and kado (present), it seemed so natural on this tounge.
After the 20questions game, they started to pull out numbers from the bowl to pick winners to play with each cast. Everyone was always read the number aloud in Bahasa. No problem here for Chun (the others needed help from Xiao Wei). The frist 5 lucky persons who came up to the stage were fed a piece of cake by each member!.. So When Calvin's turn to feed his cake for the fans he picked earlier, he started to shove the cake, then stopped and said to the audience: wo yao zhi dao hao chi bu hao chi ( I want to know whether this cake goor or not), then he took a bit of the cake and said: HAO CHI (good), then fed the cake (he just biten) to the lucky fan. (HAO XIAN MU!!!)
The next games were the haitaiquan, not everyone was familiar with this game. But Chun and Calvin demonstrated the how to, so were Eric and George. another 10 winners were picked by 5 of them. Everyone got the Romantic Princess' pictorial book with their signature, and some lucky fans got a hug from the stars. The hug was started by Chun's teasing!! That point, was Calvin's turn to play haitai with the lucky fan, after he was done, Chun said to him: ni bao yi xia la!!..Calvin was lauching, but finally hugged the girl, so after than everyone got a hug XDD
Throughout the events, I notice that Chun and Calvin always joked around with each other and also whispering together. Their friendship are very close indeed. Well, if you have been following Fahrenheit for quite a while, you know lah how these two always have a great chemistry hueheheh ^^
Towards the end, the crowds were getting less and less disorganized. The head of PT Teguh Bakti Mandiri (parent company of PT Global), took a pictures together and gave BATIK for each one of the cast. Angela got a Batik scarf while the other 4 guys got Batik T-Shirts >.<. After that, the fans who won the "FOTO BERSAMA" got their chance to come to the stage. It was a group picture of 15 fans with 5 of them, it was kinda chaos, since there was (again) no definite line and it was just people pushing around trying to present their pink vouchers >__<
To close the event, Angela sang the ending song "Bu Xiang Dong De" and they finally bowed out saying" SAKSIKAN ROMANTIC PRINCESS DI RCTI" (in bahasa). All In all, it was the longest meet n greet I've attended so far. Many games and althought it was still luan qi ba zhao here and there, but by Indo standards it was okay lah!...I paid 300thousand IDR, it was well worth the money ^^
I won the voucher to pick up the cast of Romantic Princess on November 2nd from PT Global. Basically they told us to meet up at Asianplus' office in ManggaDua area (thankfully it's right behind my office). We were scheduled to leave around 11am, but knowing how Indonesians are with their "punctuality", we ended up leaving at 12pm. We arrived at the airport around 1pm. According to my experience in the past, 1 PM was way too late! Anyhow, after confusion here and there (no need for details), we headed out to the arrival gate where there were already 20-30 fans crowding the gate itself (DAMN). But the people from PT Global directed us to walk near the Deliferance cafe (i hope the name is right?). They told us to form two lines, so we all lined up. After a while, the security from ALL ACCESS came out and briefed us. He told us, if we can restrain ourselves, they would bring out they artistes to stop in front of us and give time for us to snap some pictures. I guess that would be the sweetest deal we have since we won the silly vouchers. But while we were waiting, I kept thinking how are they going to walk from that gate to us (which was a bit far, but we can still see them coming out from the gate), without the other fans (who were already there) made an ambush on Zun etc? Good Question, rite?...
Around 1.45pm, all hell break loose (just like when Dean and Sam open the gates of hell- this OT OT OT). I could hear the scream, but I couldn't see anyone coming out from the gate. I just saw a (BIG) bunch of screaming fangirls. I thought: Ah forget the damn lines, this was not going to happen. I started to run toward the commotion, then I saw WuZun walking toward me, they were all protected by the human wall (meaning: bodyguards). I was recording him (and hordes of crazy fangirls) coming towards me and waving my pink buddle of letter (ahhh,,,,I am a very multitasking person). He came closer, then people were pushing and somebody fell down right beside me. That made Wu Zun kinda slowed down and stopped (with a worried look), then I started to shove that pink bundle to him. First he just saw it, but reluctant to take them, after a few seconds (with a resigned looks), he took my letters!!! (WHOO HOOO)-------Project Tegami was signed sealed and delivered-------------
After he took the letters, everyone kept shoving and pushing. Believe me, I hate this kind of situation. Since I was already in the human crowd, so I just followed the crowd, until WuZun (etc) stopped near the wall with the securities protecting them. I got pushed again, I told everyone behind me to stop pushing,but failed miserably. I couldn't see Zun clearly at this point, but I had a good vantage point toward Calvin. So I kept yelling his name (too bad he couldn't hear amid the commotion). After 2 minutes stopping, the bodyguards movem them again toward that little small door towards the exit! HEKS! I was too scared to keep pushing, so I kinda stopped behind Calvin while everyone was kept pushing. Calving was the last one to walk out, from the first, he was always at the back while Wu Zun was on the front. I think George and Eric in the middle protecting Angela (so cute ).
When I ran outside, they were already nearing the car, so I leg it and managed to stand in front of the car. After the bodyguard yelling to stay clear out of the way, the car drove away while we were all waving and feeling excited *sigh*
comment: This was the 1st time I went to the airport, and there was a chaos. It was beyond my expecatation. I went to pick up Energy (twice!!), Ambrose Hui, Wallace Huo etc, the crowd was much smaller. In a way it's good since I never thought that Wu Zun and Fahrenheit is that famous here in Indonesia. Their albums are all still imported, and the drama is only on air via JakTV! So yeah, the so called" sambutan" was great. But with they typical Indonesia Mentality, I think the airport situation was handed pretty badly. Why can't for once the fans be a little bit more organized. If they can, I'll bet we all have a longer chance to take pictures etc and no one will get hurt!! At the end who suffers the most? *haiya*
[DAY 2] SATURDAY 03112007: MEET AND GREET @SARI PAN PACIFIC HOTEL, JAKARTA
The event was scheduled to start at 1pm (according to the tickets), but it was delayed until 3pm (no surprise there). I arrived there around 1045am, and there were already a crowd of 100 of girls sitting right in front of the elevator. I was confused where I was to stand or sit, since there wasn't any definite line (another thing I hate about Indonesias, no sense of "ANTRI", this was just another prove that the EO was a bit disorganized). So I finally stood just in front of the elevator while waiting my two other friends came. Finally around 12ish, they let us in to avoid any crowding in front of the ballroom (good thingking for once). I ran inside and took a spot in the center (a bit towards to the rightside). Everyone was sitting down, they split the room into 3 sections. The front one was for the people who won the "FOTO BERSAMA", the 2nd section was the one who didn't win, and the last section for invitations. They showed us the clips of Romantic Princess again and again. Can you imagine, I was watching the same clips from 12pm to 3pm. By 3pm, I was pretty much want to vomit *LOL*
OT: OH YEAH! MAN, THEY SHOWED US THE UPCOMING JAY CHOU'S MOVIE [KUNGFU DUNK/GONG GU LAN QIU], MUST SEE MOVIE for 2008!!!! GYAAAA!! I want to see that movie!! (and Jay's concert in Singapore in January, anyone want to sell their tickets, pls contact me asap--hehehe)
So around 1ish, I know that WuZun and the gank were already inside the hotel,since the bodguars were already filtering into the ballroom, then by 2pm the manager (a woman and a man) starting to take pictures, and see the situation. They discussed some things with the local EO ( a nice looking woman), it was probably about the taking pictures policy and how we all have to sit down!! So yeah because of the fans who was appearing more agitated by the minute, many were kneeling down obstructing the people who sat at the back, and suddenly some newcomers were trying to squeeze in to the front!! UHHH SO ANNOYING! (those women who went to salons first to just to style their hairs, FRACK U LAH< GO SITE BEHIND MEH!!)
OT: There was this one girl wearing a black shirt, who LITERALLY PISSED ME OFF!!! She was fracking sitting on the 2nd row!! (IT WAS GOB SMACKED IN FRONT YOO), But SHE JUST HAD TO STAND UP (KNEELING ON HER KNEES), AND BLOCKED OUR VIEWING!!!OMAIGUK, HOW INCONSIDERATE, YOU ALREADY SAT UP FRONT, DID U NEED TO STAND???I KEPT YELLING AT HER TO SIT DOWN, BUT NOOO! APPARENTLY SHE WAS SO STUBBORN OR MAYBE TOO STUPID TO UNDERSTAND!..She kept standing!!! MAIGUK! If you by any chance read this post, FRACK U!...for once be considerate, ur kind are the ones that I hate MOST!!!...unsophisticated girl! (i WON'T SAY WOMAN, SINCE THIS WAS A GIRL!!). And I was not the only one who pissed at her, but apparently I was the only who practically yell to tell her to sit down
Anyhow, around 245pm, Rudy Xiao Wei (from Cakrawala Radio) and his partnert entered the stage. After a few words and a showing of (yet again) another clip from Romantic Princess, finally Xiao Wei called out Angela's name, and she came out singing "Yi Shi De Mei Hao" (OST DOLPHIN BAY). Oh Wow, I was practically blown away. I bought all her CDs, but I just never thought that her LIVE singing is as good as in the CD (not all taiwanese singing actresses can do thing, even JOLIN when singing LIVE was pretty much BAD, seriously!!). In the middle of her singing, suddenly the music stopped. Ah, playback singing was ruined >.< She was laughing, and kinda embaressed, but the fans were yellng "JIA YOU". She smiled and said "xie xie" and asked us to sing along with here without music at all. SHE REALLY DOES HAVE A NICE SINGING VOICE! *kudos to Angela*
After her song ended, Xiao Wei started to call Eric's name, then George, then Calvin *kyaa* then finally Wu Zun came out last. The room was chaos!!They posed for us to take pictures, then started to introduce themselves one by one. While they were posing pictures, I was waving my uchiwa like crazy, mainly to attract Calvin's attention (yelling: YI RU YI RU ). Twice he looked, and twice he waved at me and my friends, we were floored. Oh Yeah there was this funny incident, where there were two women carrying a Will U Marry Me? board, and it made Calvin laughed, and WuZun and finally the 5 of them looked and joked around!! >__<
There were the 20questions games regarding the drama. It was all easy questions if you already watch the whole 10 episodes (from the original VCDs), only one question was unanswerable, since the question about things that happened beyond the 10 vcds, but there was one girl who knew. The people who answered correctly were given pictures.
Some of the questions are:
1. Eric (Nan Feng Ying) character cannot stand to hear whose name?
2. the color of Nan Feng Cai's car
3. Nan Feng Lin always sit inside whose car
4. How do they address Ye Ye
5. The ending song..
6. The opening song...
7. George's character
8. Where did Cai and Xiao Mai went for their date (multiple answers)
9 What did Jin prepared for his date with xiao mai (this is the un-answeralble question)
etc. etc. etc
Easy questions, but somehow the MCs forgot to translate to Indonesian. Luck for me, I can now speak and understand mandarin (YAY, my first event, that I can actually 100% understand).
During this game, Chun several times spoke in Bahasa like: satu dua tiga and kado (present), it seemed so natural on this tounge.
After the 20questions game, they started to pull out numbers from the bowl to pick winners to play with each cast. Everyone was always read the number aloud in Bahasa. No problem here for Chun (the others needed help from Xiao Wei). The frist 5 lucky persons who came up to the stage were fed a piece of cake by each member!.. So When Calvin's turn to feed his cake for the fans he picked earlier, he started to shove the cake, then stopped and said to the audience: wo yao zhi dao hao chi bu hao chi ( I want to know whether this cake goor or not), then he took a bit of the cake and said: HAO CHI (good), then fed the cake (he just biten) to the lucky fan. (HAO XIAN MU!!!)
The next games were the haitaiquan, not everyone was familiar with this game. But Chun and Calvin demonstrated the how to, so were Eric and George. another 10 winners were picked by 5 of them. Everyone got the Romantic Princess' pictorial book with their signature, and some lucky fans got a hug from the stars. The hug was started by Chun's teasing!! That point, was Calvin's turn to play haitai with the lucky fan, after he was done, Chun said to him: ni bao yi xia la!!..Calvin was lauching, but finally hugged the girl, so after than everyone got a hug XDD
Throughout the events, I notice that Chun and Calvin always joked around with each other and also whispering together. Their friendship are very close indeed. Well, if you have been following Fahrenheit for quite a while, you know lah how these two always have a great chemistry hueheheh ^^
Towards the end, the crowds were getting less and less disorganized. The head of PT Teguh Bakti Mandiri (parent company of PT Global), took a pictures together and gave BATIK for each one of the cast. Angela got a Batik scarf while the other 4 guys got Batik T-Shirts >.<. After that, the fans who won the "FOTO BERSAMA" got their chance to come to the stage. It was a group picture of 15 fans with 5 of them, it was kinda chaos, since there was (again) no definite line and it was just people pushing around trying to present their pink vouchers >__<
To close the event, Angela sang the ending song "Bu Xiang Dong De" and they finally bowed out saying" SAKSIKAN ROMANTIC PRINCESS DI RCTI" (in bahasa). All In all, it was the longest meet n greet I've attended so far. Many games and althought it was still luan qi ba zhao here and there, but by Indo standards it was okay lah!...I paid 300thousand IDR, it was well worth the money ^^
to be continued for RCTI taping and Saying Goodbyes
repost from totoro79@LJ
toro dazed & confused 13:23
upcoming: Toro's wacky adventure with Romantic Princess's Cast in Jakarta, Indonesia
toro dazed & confused 12:26
