New bunny socks and a new blue hair bow! :)
Today we were headed to Gayang, to attend Inkigayo with Haeri! Haeri was a former girl group celebrity, and thus has lots of connections with the groups, their managers, and the broadcasting systems. At the young age of 20, she is also running a company called Kompany93 that sells albums and other merchandise!
Inkigayo is one of the major 5 broadcasting stations in Seoul. It is also the most difficult to get into, due to the small studio space. To get tickets you have to win them via lottery, which I think I talked about in my earlier post on M!Countdown. Haeri got us those magic tickets without the lottery, because she is awesome. When we arrived, we went straight to front amidst hordes of lined up people (WITH tickets, I couldn't believe how many people there were just filling up the entire side of the street waiting to get in). We got our tickets straight from 2AM's manager O.o We waited in our appropriate line for our seat numbers for awhile, then we headed in!
Inkigayo stage at the very beginning and at the end! Also a random shot of another rare skateboard sighting in Seoul :D
THE LIVE SHOW WAS INCREDIBLE!! 2AM, SHINee, Nu'est, BAP, U-Kiss, Speed, Girl's Day, Rainbow, Lee Hi, Nine Muses, G.NA, Rania, Peppertones, VerbalJint, D-Unit, Lady's Choice, & more made for a great line-up. It's really fun getting to see all that goes on behind filming these live shows, with all the cameras, television screens doing replays or zoom-ins, cameramen, make-up people, the MC's pacing around practicing their lines, light and sound checks, clean-up crews after each performance, etc. I just feel like I'm in wonderland haha.
Afterwards we all went for chicken with Haeri's friend Dayeon (Diane)! It was freezing outside so we while we ate we all had a good laugh at the crazy fangirls lining the streets in the cold wind waiting for a glimpse of oppa...in a car...with TINTED WINDOWS...for like 0.5 seconds. Seriously people? YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE THEM. They would occasionally all run from side to side like chickens with their heads cut off whenever people started screaming- which was basically everytime a car came out of the parking lot for the studio. Aish.
But anyways, back to the good part. The chicken was bomb, we got three kinds. We got baked garlic bone-in and a chili sauce & regular crispy boneless chicken! SO YUMMYLICIOUS NOMNOMNOM. I struggled for a bit in the beginning, because opposite to the American way of eating chicken wings, grabbing a wing and stuffing it into your mouth (which was my first impulse until I realized it'd be perceived as vulgar), I had to learn "chicken couture" as Haeri cutely put it ^.^ There were pairs of tiny tongs and a fork for each person, and you use those to hold and pull off pieces of chicken to eat. So your hands don't get dirty of course. While I deeply appreciate the sentiment behind this (since I am one of those OCD people who hates eating messy foods in public, like ribs), the chicken smelled and tasted SO GOOD all I really wanted to do was grab one with my hand and yank off a huge bite. Instead, I daintily placed delicate bite after delicate bite into my mouth like a proper Korean girl and washed it down with Chilsung. No wonder they're all so thin here T.T
But anyways, back to the good part. The chicken was bomb, we got three kinds. We got baked garlic bone-in and a chili sauce & regular crispy boneless chicken! SO YUMMYLICIOUS NOMNOMNOM. I struggled for a bit in the beginning, because opposite to the American way of eating chicken wings, grabbing a wing and stuffing it into your mouth (which was my first impulse until I realized it'd be perceived as vulgar), I had to learn "chicken couture" as Haeri cutely put it ^.^ There were pairs of tiny tongs and a fork for each person, and you use those to hold and pull off pieces of chicken to eat. So your hands don't get dirty of course. While I deeply appreciate the sentiment behind this (since I am one of those OCD people who hates eating messy foods in public, like ribs), the chicken smelled and tasted SO GOOD all I really wanted to do was grab one with my hand and yank off a huge bite. Instead, I daintily placed delicate bite after delicate bite into my mouth like a proper Korean girl and washed it down with Chilsung. No wonder they're all so thin here T.T
After chicken Jess, Haeri, & I trekked it back via subway (Haeri lives in Seulleong, which is the subway stop RIGHT next to Yeoksam). JEss & I got back to the room but didn't feel like staying in. We were both craving something sweet, so we headed out in search of a coffeeshop that was still open (coffeeshops here seem to vary in terms of hours- some are open super early but close early and some open late but close late. And some both open early and stay open late, and one in particular I've noticed opens SUPER late and closes SUPER early. I know this because I have been attempting to try this damn coffee place for a total of 8 weeks now and am STILL UNSUCCESSFUL. Tragic). Since it was pretty late, we ended up at my usual Pascucci's. We hemmed and hawed but we were both eyeing their new drink, a Strawberry Gelato Latte. It's a smoothie-like drink, and was pretty much the tastiest thing I've ever had the good fortune to sip on. No, seriously. Jess and I were just silent as we were sipping them, so as to put all our attention towards fully enjoying the drink and savoring it's taste as it deserved to be savored *.* It was cool and sweet and with the scoop of strawberry gelato, it was so creamy! Ugh. The price tag it comes with has prevented me from buying it again (7,000 or 7,500 won, I can't remember). But I may have to sneak another one before I leave...ugh. Just writing about it is making me want another one. What the hell did they PUT in that thing, I'm like a crack fiend...
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