One of my most coveted and totally unattainable wishes was that amazing jacket from Fanny & Jessy. However, having it in my small hands is next to impossible since it’s already sold out and it’s worth a hefty 24,000 pesos not including shipping. Why are the best things in life sooo expensive? More importantly, why am I poor? Echos.
Their design (according to their site) is based on the idea of losing your identity without the intention of creating a new one. Echos… may mga ganon silang drama. Basta I’m so in love with their I Hope You Die Soon collection. Beautiful. I love the shapes, the tassles and the smoky effect of the tie dye. iLovette.
So guess what I found at the ukay the other day… No it’s not F&J but something like it. Haha. The damage? 80 pesos. Taray no? Next week I'll buy them huge ass tassles and add it on the shoulders for the full effect. I recently went to Carolina's and I wasn't prepared that embelishments were expensive. After the New Year I'll scour Divisoria.
Here's the ToxicDiscoBoy version...
top: Kawaii (thrifted), liquid tights: Crossings, dirty boots: Nine West
Today’s the official Dong Bang Shin Ki (aka TVXQ) day in the Philippines, marking their first release here and it’s also the birthday of Junsu. So Cassies all over the country celebrated. Going to Glorietta for the event was a hassle since ang layo and I’m not an official member yet. So Yayo, Ena and I met at Megamall, bought the album and ate Jajangmyun to celebrate.
shirt: Zara, jeans: TwoPercent, accessories: Don Protasio
We ate in a Korean restaurant whose name I forgot. It was fun trying out foreign foods. I’m not really fond of Korean food. I dunno why.
Unnies: Yayo and Ena. ^^ 사랑해요!!!
Bibimbap!
It tastes really good. Kinda like Kimchi rice but with veggies and other stuff.
Jajangmyun! Finally I ate one! Haha.
Kimchi and pickled radish. Taray ng presentation.
Pajeon is kinda like pancake with lots of spices.
Yayo's Kpop loot this year.
2010 will be the start of Kpop domination in the Philippines. For the second half of 2009 Kpop ruled the charts (right now Suju-M is #1) and it’s expected to be the same next year. Plus more concerts! OMG. F.T. Island will be coming in February and SHINee confirmed that they’ll be back. Yes. So aside from my shopping addiction, I guess I’ll spend more money on Kpop next year. Oh no. Bitch gotta start working!
Look at me looking skinny. Well, it took about 15 shots just to get that perfect angle. Haha. I got myself a haircut today. Nothing fancy. Just a trim. Everybody has been telling me that got fat. Turns out it’s the awful hair that’s making me look 10 pounds heavier. Whatevs. In my hand is the TVXQ Mirotic Concert CD. It’s the first thing that got crossed out in my xmas wish list. Funny thing is that I don’t have a CD player and I stopped buying CDs for years now. After illegally downloading almost every imaginable digital media that has their names attached I think it’s about time that I buy something authentic. It’s always important to support the artists. Every day they make me happy so what is 500 pesos? So to all Pinoy Cassies (TVXQ fanclub) buy the album and let us make them #1 like they were #1 in Korea and Japan. Also vote for them on MYX. Just type MYX VOTE MIROTIC and send to 2366. Haha. Nag advertise? LMAO. The official release of the album will be tomorrow. I went to Odyssey today and the girl there let me buy one in advance. She kept asking me who they are. According to her there are already a lot of reservations and they’re expecting fans to come in droves (exage si ate) tomorrow. OMG. I really hope the album will go #1. Haha. I’m a shameless fanboy, I know.
What? You do not know who TVXQ is? They’re only the most popular band in all of Asia. They have #1 singles in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, China and more. They only hold the Guinness World Record of having the largest official fan club. 800,000 registered fans in Korea alone. And just this year they made it in the record books again as the world’s most photographed celebrity. According to Guinness all five of them were photographed 500 million times.
*sigh*
Tama na nga tong kabaliwan na ito. Here’s my wish list for xmas…
A quick update. I had a lot of things on my head lately that I’ve been neglecting blogging and even surfing. Shock! This is so not me. Haha. Anyway, last Sunday I was asked to be a godfather to my friend’s child. Another shock! But seriously, I’ll try to be the best godfather that I can.
This is what I wore to the baptism. This is my pa-sweet look. I was inspired by Don Protasio S/S 2010.
shirt: Folded & Hung; jacket: Pas De Calais (thrifted); jeans: Uniqlo; shoes: thrifted; accessories: Don Protasio
Don’t you wish you can wear designer duds all the time? Well, you can break the bank or be a frugal fasheen boi. I found this quaint little place in the cesspit of Cubao that sells vintage and second hand designer pieces. It’s my secret place where I get my designer stuff. Their pieces are mostly for women so I didn’t hoard like crazy unlike this one old lady who practically bought all the YSL bags. Buti pa siya. So I got these:
A Bathing Ape! Gosh. I’ve always wanted one of these. They’re sooo hard to find and incredibly expensive for just a t-shirt. I bought three. The last one is by Bros Products which is a BAPE knock-off based in Hong Kong. Haha. I got that for only 100 a long time ago.
Vivienne Westwood and Miharayasuhiro. @_@
I also got a Marc Jacobs number that I will show in a future outfit post. Haha.
Note: This is a really long post and my personal fan account of meeting my idols: SHINee. This was such a fail. I did not edit this. I just kept on typing whatever came to me.
Rumors were flying last October about SHINee coming here in Manila. I did not believe it at first since rumors about Kpop artists coming here are common and most of them are not true. But this was different. When Raechul sent me a link to Pep.ph confirming SHINee’s appearance for the Philippines – Korea Friendship Festival, I almost had a heart attack. OMG. Raechul and I already planned everything. The concert was free and we were planning to camp out at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), wait for SHINee and spazz out till we die.
A week later, Arirang TV (organizer of the event) announced that there will be tickets (though it’s free) but it’ll be raffled off. That news broke me! Raffle? What the f*ck?! I always never win in contests that involve luck. Damn it. I passed my application of course and so did 8,000 other fans. But they only picked 360 people and I wasn’t one of them. Of course.
I was desperate for tickets! I’d do anything just to get in. Being me, I obsessively scoured forums, people’s Facebooks and everywhere for extra tickets. I was losing it. Then by some divine intervention a ticket just presented itself to me. I was so happy. Let us just say I got it the dirty way and it was ridiculously expensive. I wasn’t really thinking that time. Someone was auctioning her ticket so I immediately placed a bid and I won. I kept thinking: ‘anything for SHINee.’ And no money can replace my seeing Onew in the flesh.
This fanboy couldn’t sleep for days. Gawd. I was so excited to see them. Ya’ll know how big of a fan I am of them. If you click this you will see how often I blog about them. A day before the concert news broke out that the youngest SHINee Taemin got ill with swine flu. Everybody was just so sad and hoping for his speedy recovery. I personally think Taemin is vital in live performances (well, they all are) since he is the best dancer. In Korea right now most entertainers are getting swine flu. Tsk tsk. They should wash their hands!
On to the event! I woke up at about 6:30 and someone texted me that people were already at CCP. Gosh. I went online finding most fans spazzing and hella excited. The MRT was torture. I went against the rush hour and there were so many people. By the time I got to Taft hailing a cab was next to impossible. After about an hour of waiting and desperation I finally was able to get a cab to CCP. When I got there the queue was already long. Good thing I met up with some online friends and they let me break in the line. Gosh. Just look at how many kids came:
Photo by GoldenGutGirl @ Flickr; click image above for larger view
Some pics of us before the concert.
Noona nomeu yeppo!
SHINee Romeo CD
My ticket!
Getting our asses ready for SHINee
Raechul was able to score tickets thanks to a kind soul. There was this girl who just gave her extra tickets. That time I was so hyped. So happy that she’ll get to watch SHINee too. I mean how bad will it be if we talk SHINee and she wasn’t there? Hwaiting!
We got good seats! We were very near the stage. Thank gawd we were early.
The first half of the concert was blah. Teatro performed some Philippine folk dances, Brownman Revival sang a couple of songs, a Filipina girl sang Nobody, a Korean boy who looks like Shindong sang Anak and VJ Isak and VJ Luis were being funny as always.
Now on to the second half. By this time fans were freaking out. It’ll be only minutes before SHINee performs. First one was Mighty Mouth. They performed Smile and Energy. I was never really into them but after some listens and a few youtube videos I came to like them. They were so much fun and they really got the crowd going. While performing, their video for Smile was shown in the background. The video featured some popular personalities and idols. Every time an idol was flashed people went nuts. I went nuts when Jokwon appeared on screen. Haha. Isak asked ShorryJ (the cute one in the bolt shirt) what he thought of Filipinas and he answered that they’re his ideal type. Hmmm… Trying to please the ladies. Haha. Then they talked about food and Luis joked to Sang Choo (the one with the big guns) that he should definitely try isaw and adidas. That made everybody crack. Luis actually surprised me. He was a really great host. He made fun of almost anything.
When they sang Energy that was when they caught my heart. LOL. Such a catchy song and they were really into it running around the stage jumping. They even jumped down to the orchestra causing people to scream even more. Sang Choo showed off his crazy biceps and I almost died.
Look at those guns!
I like Mighty Mouth now.
Next was Winterplay. By this time I was losing it. I felt nervous, excited and anxious all at the same time. After them will be SHINee! Yayo and I were spazzing like crazy counting the minutes. Gosh. Anyway, I’m a fan of Winterplay. They are really really really good. I saw videos of them performing and I was mesmerized. I especially like their duet with Horan of Clazziquai and I thought that performance was classic. Hae-won, the lead vocals, was extremely pretty. She looks like a model and she sings really well. In all of K-Pop I think she’s the most beautiful. Well, next to Goo Hara of course. Haha.
They performed the Michael Jackson classic Billie Jean and killed it. There was a slight technical problem but all in all their performance was great. And Hae-won was so pretty. Gawd, I couldn’t stop raving about her beauty. Haha. Lastly, they did Gypsy Girl which was their popular single. The guy playing the contrabass was amazing. So good. They said they’ll be releasing their debut album here in the Philippines early next year and I will definitely be buying.
Ok. This time my heart was pounding like hell. Yayo already lost it screaming her lungs out. And the rest of the hundred girls started spazzing. Banners were up, penlights ready and balloons held high. It was time. A brief video of Ring Ding Dong was shown. Everybody was screaming. Then everything went black. OMG OMG OMG OMG I can see them! Four boys in the shadow came to the stage and then boom! I died. I was having a mild heart attack and I don’t know if I was gonna cry or scream. Gosh. My eyes were wet and the girl at my back patted my shoulder smiling as if telling me ‘be happy they’re here.’ Then I went nuts.
SHINee started with Stand by Me which was the theme song for Boys Over Flowers. They looked exactly like in my dreams. Haha. They all looked beautifully waif like and fashionable. I say heroin chic! Onew is just too cute. Deep breaths bitch! Deep breaths. I was dying. He wore a red jacket (very MJ) with a studded bracelet on his biceps, graphic shirt and shiny boots. Cool! I will totally copy that. I’m biased so my eyes were only on him. Minho was so tall and anorexic looking. He looks like a model that came straight from Hedi Slimane’s photo book. He was the most fasyon, I think. He wore this red and black scarf over a leather jacket and paired it with drop crotch jeans and boots. Very now. Key was the dapper one in his asymmetrical bowl cut hair, red scarf, red dress shirt under a leather vest and pants with shiny PVC cut outs. He looks dashing and a far cry from his feminine looks last spring. Jonghyun on the other hand was the odd one out in a black and white ensemble. His vest had fur trimmings and he wore an oversized shirt and pants. Not my favorite look but he was still handsome of course. I just thought his attire would look better on the taller Minho.
Onew. Tokwa! Ang wafu!
Minho. Fasheeen!
Hit it Jong
Key, the diva!
After Stand By Me, they mumbled something in Korean which of course I didn’t understand. Then they started Juliette. OMG. I’ve watched them perform this on many shows and I can’t believe they’re doing it in front of me!
Singing Stand by Me
Juliette
Key rapping to Get Down
Ummmm...
On the interview portion Isak asked them to do something interesting. Minho did his modeling walk. Fierce boy right there. Onew copied Minho and also did a walk but this time adding his own charm by doing a funny pose in the end. OMG. That’ll be the tenth time I died that night. Onew! Sarang! Haha. Key rapped a part of Get Down and the talented Jonghyun showed off his amazing vocals.
Werq
Argh! Namatay ako
Sexy beast
<3
The last song they did was Ring Ding Dong. Everybody went crazy while shouting the lyrics. And Jong dropped the mic. LOL. This was the first concert I’ve been in that the crowd was so loud. I was both elated and sad when the song was over. Still I could not believe I saw them perform live. I’ve been a big fan of them since they debuted and seeing them in person was so surreal. Up to now I still can’t get over it. Yesterday I was having a SHINee withdrawal symptom. Watching fancams kept me company.
Bye! We'll wait for you again. T_T
So surreal. I wish they’ll be back. But next time I hope they’ll bring DBSK or Big Bang. Haha.
This is such a long post! Gosh. My fingers are tired of typing already.
Over and out. ToxicDiscoBoy loves K-pop! Saranghae!
Thank you to halfkissed|paperbucket for the HQ photos of the concert. Each of her photos are properly tagged and please do not hot link since you can download all HQ photos here. The rest of the photos are by Raechul. I do not own any of the photos. I just left my camera in my SHINee bag. LOL
Last Friday I was able to unleash the inner fanboy in me to catastrophic proportions. Ya’ll know that I’m a big fan and obsessive follower of K-pop and all my years of spazzing (and being a total idiot watching hundreds of Korean media without even understanding Korean) culminated in one day. Gosh. It was so surreal especially when SHINee came on stage. Ya’ll should’ve seen me spazz like a rabid dog. I was crying. I was jumping. I was screaming. I was experiencing different emotions simultaneously that my heart could explode any moment. Yeah. SHINee was awesome.
A detailed fan account I will write once all the pictures are in. I purposely did not use my camera on the show since it would just distract me. I wanted all my attention to Onew. Haha. So I’ll just copy paste some pics from other fans who came.
Anywhoo, I also met some cool people there. It was awesome that all of us were strangers but when we were there it was as if we’ve known each other for years. That’s the beauty of fandom.
There were so many kids. Some hundreds who don't have tickets fell in line with the hope of getting in
I am so bad with names. This is Mayi(?) and she's wearing the famous Taemin shirt. She DIYed it.
Unnie Yayo and Unnie Enna. I awe a lot to them. They were there since 8am and they let me break in to the queue. People were staring at me angrily. Haha. Thanks to them I got a REALLY good seat. *spazz*
This is Len and she's half Pinoy. I immediately noticed her gyaru look. Cool sneaks.
The fashionable Sheika with ShorryJ of Mighty Mouth. OMG. She got to the backstage! I'm so jealous. I should have texted her after the show. Shix, I can't wait for your exclusive pictures of SHINee! Oppa loves yah.
Raechul, my longest online buddy! She was the one who told me the news about SHINee coming here in Manila. We were both desperate for tickets. I got mine the dirty way and she got hers the clean way. Lucky!
And of course ME!!! I know. I should stop wearing that shoes.
And OMG that's them! From left to right: Brownman Revival, SHINee, VJ Isak, and Mighty Mouth. Image is taken from Kimchisoju.
OMG. I can't believe that they're finally here! SHINee!!! OMG OMG OMG. I will see them na mamaya! I'm so excited for the concert! Mamamatay ako when Onew starts being tokwa. LOL. Is it normal that this early in the morning I'm screaming like crazy??? Argh!
Yekky and Missastronaut tagged me with a Beautiful Blogger Award. To be honest I don’t like memes but these two are so fasyon I couldn’t say no. Haha. And I’m kinda flattered. So I also made seven looks out of one single item. I was bored! Haha.
Here goes:
1.) I was a comic geek when I was a boy. I did not miss a single issue of Uncanny X-Men from 1996 – 1999. Not a lot of people know that about me. I was more into Marvel and I loathed DC. Well, except for Batman.
2.) I wore a shiny pleather pants at my prom. This was during the new punk years. You know, that age before the emos came out. Just recently someone from my high school uploaded my ugly pictures on Facebook. Thank gawd I was quick to un-tag everything.
3.) My first fashion epiphany was when I watched Clueless. OMG. My true age is showing! Haha.
4.) Doing laundry is my favorite chore. When my sister and I moved to an apartment I’ve been doing the laundry ever since. I think it’s fun. I enjoy the fresh smell of detergent and looking at clothes swirling inside the machine. It’s hypnotic.
5.) I’m generally anal expulsive but I really really really enjoy going to the grocery. I like looking at all the cans and boxes neatly stacked on the shelves. Haha. It relaxes me.
6.) Back in high school I was a science geek. I even joined the Intel Science Fair and my research got me to nationals. In my category, I was in top 8 all over the country. That was crazy. I don’t even know how I did that.
7.) I haven’t seen my natural hair color since 2004.
Nothing new here. I’ve seen these in every K-pop blog I know already but I just couldn’t resist. For those of you not in the know, here is my fashion crush G-Dragon. He’s a rapper, a musician, and a fashion terrorist. I almost had a jaw lock when I saw this ed. Fasyon kung fasyon. Itambak na lahat! Bongga talaga si kuya. Here he wears everything from the usual LV, Chanel, and Burberry to Yohji Yamamoto, Rick Owens, Comme des Garcons to Damir Doma and fucking Gareth Pugh! Enjoy having a visual masturbation!
