my apologies for taking so long to share my experience with u all.
i was basically living a Joey fan's dream while in HK. i got to do all the things that normally only HK fans could do: grabbing ads with Joey's face on them, buying Joey-endorsed products, seeing her in real life, waiting for her outside the HKC, holding up light boards, taking a pic with her brother :p etc.
on the first night of the concert, i went to the god praying ceremony. she normally comes out at around 6:30. according to rsung who spied on Joey outside of his hotel, some fans were waiting there since 3pm. while waiting for her to come out, it felt hot in the crowd, so i took off my jacket ...and heard a fan behind me complain about the cold LOL. i felt awkward because i felt like everyone knew that i was a tourist. i saw Joey's mom and brother, sandy, wyman, mani, fei ma, her dancers and i forget who else lol.
Dec 22
i met up with rsung and hylim at a food court before the concert. while talking about it, we watched the news on the concert which was playing on the TV, which spoiled it for me and rsung =.= afterwards, we went to buy concert merchandise and of course rsung bought them all haha. i think he said there was a discount for buying everything.
I sat in the $380 yellow section. unfortunately, the band is front of the yellow section, so Joey didnt face us as much. it was the perfect section for the birthday/summer part though (Airport and Honey). it was cool to see what the lighting and stage looked like from a distance, but probably because of the distance, the concert didn't seem as "grand" as what u see on the DVD. just my opinion. the sound system was not optimal. overall it was too loud and drowned out Joey's voice. i dont know why this issue couldn't have been fixed after the first show or even the rehearsal?
Joey was very humorous that night. in response to the fans taking pics of her, she said "this is a concert, not a photo-taking session! look at me with ur naked eyes! am i not prettier in real life?" she also told fans to send the pics to her, so someone asked what's ur number? Joey: "pm me on weibo." during the encore, a fan said "ho ng seh dak ah" and she replied "too bad. come watch again." haha! some parts of the concert were awkward (transitions between songs) because she would disappear under the stage right as the song ended, and so there would be no cheering.
after the concert, i went to wait for her and i had a pretty good spot, but Tavia walked out and the crowd moved towards her so i did too LOL. i ended up crossing the street with tavia and the huge crowd because i didnt wanna block traffic. as a result i lost my good spot
celebrities seen: gillian, wyman, (and tavia who i only saw outside the hkc)
Dec 24
christmas eve was my favourite show out of the 3. it was so awesome and the atmosphere was also the highest of the 3! i learned that fan club seats changed every night, and i got the yellow section again =.= but we were pretty close to the stage. when we entered the coliseum, the fan club ppl passed out pieces of paper with bells on them to hold up after the countdown as a surprise for Joey. we got the glow sticks that could change color on joey's demand (instead of the cheap foam ones). at the beginning of the show, it wouldnt turn on for me....which i thought was weird because it was fine before, then it turned out it was being controlled. i think those glow sticks helped with the atmosphere. unfortunately the concert didnt start early enough for a countdown, which sort of ruined the fan club's plan. the fan club also handed out christmas tree lights and santa hats (we got to keep the hats). the fan in front of me (not FC) was a hardcore and held up an "i love u" sign that completely blocked my view. thankfully that happened only once. Joey said that her mom told her not to dance that much, because she would be wheelchair bound when she got older (this was mentioned in the news a few years ago), but Joey said "ok, then i'll just stand at my concert like siu fung jeh." i really do hope that this is only an exaggeration.
gill was at the concert and hugged joey again, but this time made joey scream in the middle of a song because her necklace caught on to something.
she sang a lot of songs for the encore, including Sequel! i watched a youtube vid of it and it's weird how i didn't hear the parts where she was off at the time. the dress is looks ridiculously silly lol. she pointed to one of the lips on her butt and said "kiss here" LOL. she also took off her heels for singing stronger and stronger.
celebrities seen: gill, nancy wu, corrina (so easy to spot when ur the only blonde in a sea of black hair ppl haha)
Dec 25
this time i sat in the blue section, but quite few rows back compared to the night before. at least she faced us more this time. tonight was not as high as christmas eve. there were a few technical difficulties, like the stage not going up during 山口百惠 so joey had to go up stage a different way. she couldn't hear the music at certain parts and asked us if she went off key. of course if she didnt say anything, we'd have no idea she couldn't hear the music. nevertheless it was still a great show! near the end, two DJs from Metro came to hand out awards since joey wasn't gonna attend the ceremony the next day. how nice of them to do that (cuz they didnt give awards to other absentees like charlene) even though she delayed her concert just to attend 903 but didnt do that for metro. the row of ppl in front of us were a bunch of aunties (50 y.o. and up) lol. i wonder if they got free tickets or if they bought with their own money? one of them started dancing during singing stronger and stronger! haha
i didnt see any celebrities tonight. i looked in the front row of the panel but didn't recognize anyone.
Overall
i feel that this concert was not as good as starlight and number 6. my ranking would be number 6, starlight, then 1314. however, i have no regrets as it was still an awesome concert! honey was a great choice for the rundown! it fit very well with Airport. 蟲之家 and chocolate forever were great choices too. the overall rundown, however, was on the weak side. i would've taken out Yellow Door, Wallpaper, and My Pride (remix). if they really wanted her to sing my pride i think they shouldn't have remixed it, just keep it as it is. i'm slightly disappointed that they didnt dance with the canes for On the treadmill. i hope one day she'll include memories of the hill as part of the regular rundown. since she didnt sing 山口百惠 as the last song, that probably means it's not her last concert yet... yay! but i have a feeling that her next concert might be her last one (before retiring or semi-retiring). she will most likely have kids one day (mentioned during the Mother's day part of the concert) and these next few years will be the ideal time. the news said that she wanted kids before age 36 so going by that there's less than 3 years left. (after that there was another piece of news that quoted her saying that she's ok with having kids at 40.)
in terms of viewing the concert up close, sitting with the fan club is not necessarily better than the regular $680 tickets. it depends on what EEG gives them. that said, i do recommend getting fc tickets if u want to sit with more passionate fans, and meet other international fans (eg. Wing, the singapore fc leader. she's awesome!
) they put all the overseas fans together, so i got to talk to a malaysian fan + hylim on one night, and then a singaporean fan the next.
this part isn't 1314-related.
i got quite mixed up with my languages, because ppl around me spoke different languages. on the first night with the fc, i talked to hylim in english (obviously) and the fan sitting between us in canto, and a few times i accidentallly spoke to her in english after saying sth to hylim LOL (she does know english though). the singaporean fans on my other side spoke english but i didnt really talk to them. a fan behind me was holding the canton sign but said sth to me in mandarin... on the second night the ppl on my left were mandarin, and the ppl to my right were singaporean. the girl sitting right beside me didnt speak canto so i started speaking mando to her... that didn't go so well for me due to lack of recent practice with mando so i changed it to english. i dont know why i didnt speak english right from the start. :S i guess i was stuck in cantonese mode after being in hk for more than a week. and then after the concert ended she said sth to me in mando lol. wing and i also kept changing between canto + english haha. i changed it to english whenever i didnt really know how to say it in canto. the bonus for all of this....is hearing their awesome accents in english!
i regret not being able to meet l0v3j03y and joey172.
we need better planning next time! i saw lingling but didnt know it was her until i got back...sorry i didnt say hi!
Dec 26
i didnt have tickets but went to the hkc anyway to see the fans at least one more time before i left. i tried to look for l0v3j03y but she wasnt even there =.= haha. i saw Joey's brother and got a pic with him. the person who took the pic for us is joey's friend, i believe he was in the perfect 10 documentary. samuel asked me arent u cold? (i was wearing a t shirt while he, like everyone else, was wearing a jacket) and i'm like i'm from canada.
pics/comments on praying ceremony/waiting for Joey after the concert:
http://www.joeygalaxy.com/showthread.php...he-concert