20 April 2012

One of the most memorable days of my life. It was the day I met the one and only..

♥  ZE:A ♥ 

I never thought that I'd ever be able to meet some of my favourite K-Pop groups. I thought that me meeting any of them would only be fantasies or dreams and that there was a very slim chance of me meeting any of them. I thought wrong.

A simple post on a Facebook group saying that there would be a ZE:A fanmeet and showcase here in my country. Friday would be the fanmeet and Saturday would be the showcase. That's where it all started. Me and my best friend would spazz every single day about it until that final day where we knew it was time to finallt meet ZE:A !!

I'll be completely honest with you, I'm not really a huge fan of ZE:A. I can't even tell some of them apart. But my bias was Minwoo and Heechul. They were the first two that caught my eye when I first watched some of their MVs and videos.

So, I wake up extra early on Friday and wake my mom up so that she could drop me off to the venue for the Fanmeet. It started at 2:30 but I went at 10:30 because of me being super excited! So we wait at the hotel's lobby until they arrive where we could go to the 4th floor where we would finally be able to meet them. Me and some of my friends start fangirling together and we even write some messages to ZE:A on a poster which we could give to them later. We had to buy a poster of ZE:A which would then by signed by the members later.

1 hour later and we see a small crowd around the entrance of the hotel. They had arrived! We rush to see them and Kevin even WAVED at us!! They were all so close to us and when Minwoo walked by me, he was so close I could faint! I started tearing up since I couldn't really hold in my emotions. They were all so tall and perfect! They went upstairs to rest or maybe prepare before the fanmeet began.

Our spazzing levels rose like 10x up when I saw them and I was hyperventilating even! 

We were waiting for a few more hourse until the staff told us it was time. Everyone started rushing to the elevator and when we reach the 4th floor, we were welcomed by two people wearing the traditional korean clothes. :))

We rush inside and see the stage along with 7 seats where Kevin, Minwoo, Siwan, Heechul, Taehun, Junyoung and Hyungsik would be seated. (Sadly, Kwanghee and Dongjun couldn't come because of busy schedules in Korea.. :[ They even made a video explaining this and it was shown to us.)

Me and my friend stood there for almost 2 hours but when they came out with smiles on their faces and Heechul kept doing the 'Saranghae' sign to us all, we knew it was worth the wait!! We were so lucky to get number 64 since there were about 300+ people I guess. When it was finally our turn to get our poster signed, I was shaking!! It was my turn to go to the members and when I saw them, I wanted to faint right there and then. I said "Annyeonghaseyo" and "Kamsahamnida" to every single one of the the members and even got a "Saranghae" from one of them~ Minwoo and Heechul were so cute I wanted to hug them so badly!! ><"

Even though I can't go for the showcase and see them perform, I was so happy I could talk to them for a while and just see them in person and be so close to them than I could ever think of!

I even made a lot of new friends. Especially in the elevator when me and my best friend were talking about SHINee and we met a girl who we have now turned friends with. And even a few others who I met. ^^ We still talk to twitter and I hope we can see each other again in future k-pop fanmeets or flashmobs. :))

When everything was done, I couldn't help but cry a bit out of pure joy! I had waited for this and it finally happened. A dream was turned into reality. If this could happen, then I knew there were chances of other groups like U-Kiss, SHINee, Super Junior, B1A4, EXO, etc. to come here in myy country and many more to meet in person instead of just on the computer screen at home.

If ZE:A , 9 Muses and Seo In Young came here, why can't others, right? From this day, I'll keep hoping and never stop dreaming!

~ Mi Young :)

Psst! Here's the poster I got which was HAND-SIGNED by the members~ ;)

Other pictures from the fanmeet:

 This was when they arrived in the morning :))