happyhalibut

October 24, Taichung, 5:00 pm:

“ I’m sorry I can’t go to Taipei tonight. I am afraid I will be missing the concert, I’m sorry.”

“Will you be alright? We’ll miss you.”

“Yeah...” 

I was told that we have middle seated tickets near the stage. 

I then explained why I can’t attend. My right ankle was swollen. And l was limping badly. And with the concern of traveling and having to go back to Taichung early morning the next day was not a practical move for someone looking forward to the a good presentation. ( I was in Taichung for an asean conference as a participant and presenter.)

Bummer really. I was looking forward to the concerts. Sigh. I guess I just have to pull out another life principle, “Enjoy what is in the offing; you never know what treat it will be”. I instead attended a cultural presentation of Taiwan’s indigenous tribe, an altogether different high -definitely not in FRH's concert realm- and that was one wonderful and awesome experience!

October 25- Taipei  5:00 pm:

‘U better take ur things to venue than back & forth. Wait me at station I go with u. Sms u when I arr’… a sms from my friend who will pick me up at the train station. Right after my academic presentation, a friend dropped me off at the Taichung train station so I can take the speed train to Taipei. 45 minutes after, Rachel picked me up and we proceeded to the venue. There I met Yung, Cass, Sen, Nat and other HK friends.

“Hey, you missed a wonderful concert yesterday! You should have come!”… A comment I kept on hearing the whole time we were together. I arrived with my big black traveling bag, red bag full of conference goodies, my light board bag and my limping gait. I was there a little past 6 pm, lining up because we will be in the rock and roll section. They were worried if I will be fine standing up the whole concert and jestingly answered that wild horses can’t chase me away. They teased me if I will be cheering for Aaron, and in my confusion asked them why they have that thought. So I got out my light board and showed them what I will be holding in the entire concert, isn’t that a declaration enough?
             

First time in Malaysia and all I ever enjoyed seeing is the hotel rooms I stayed in for 2 nights, the Pavillion Mall where I had a late lunch and Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil. 

It was my album done live, my first time to watch Fahrenheit in a full concert. 

Been looking forward to it since my Shanghai plan last November didnt materialize.  Im just soo excited.

And my second time to watch a concert in HK colesium.  The renovation made me think that i am much closer to the stage, an intimacy that afforded a better vantage point wherever i was seated.

This time i made sure i had a good camera, i know i couldn't compete with the powerful cams, but what matter most is to capture the engaging performance of my fave artists.

And so, let me share this pics and videos.  I realized my cam has a CHUN shutter. Shot 238 pictures of the night's concert and more than half is CHUN.  Im not complaining, he is a captivating  subject. 

 

March 26, 320 am.

"Why do you have to post at 3 am Chun?"

- And why am I checking it anyway? I asked my self exasperately.

I can hear my heart pounding loud as i quickly scanned  the Fahrenciti album for Chuns' latest picture uploads.  Duty bound, i have to share this to my mother forum- which everybody fondly calls the hush hush forum; create the topic, share some pics and generally sum up on Chun's activity at Chun's Messages.

I was quickly doing this because my flight to HK was 540 am.  I dont want to be late.  I can't afford another plane ticket for this is my 2nd one because i decided to buy a morning ticket to attend the ticket signing in the evening.  My original flight was 6 pm, and i cannot rebook that.  Sigh.

Suddenly, the pics i was looking at turned. 
Man!  Chun was still online, uploading pictures!
Ahhgrrrhhhhh!  

Prancing around an empty restricted airport terminal is not my cup of tea.I realized i will be waiting at the restricted part of the airport for seven hours just to see and meet up my fave artist.  Crazy eh?  Nah, am just a loving lunatic. But frankly, it was 7 hours wait worth it!
After getting bored reading a pocketbook, writing a journal, planning my activities for the next three months and writing down my 'things to say" for the FRH  autograph signing  I decided to just walk around and discover every nook and cranny of Taoyuan airport,  keeping an eye at the at the tv monitor announcing the arrival of flights and counting the hours before I get to meet Wu Chun and my friends. My plane landed at 10 am and my friends were arriving at 5 pm. And Wu chun? We have no idea… that was not a good start for my Fahrenheit encounters…

At 1720H my friends arrived and I was so surprised to see Corona, another HK friend I haven’t seen for 2 years. We then proceeded immediately to terminal 2 and waiting for the Melbourne flight to arrive, still unsure if a certain valuable passenger was on board. When the last crew left the plane airport hatch, our  heart sank and thought it was a wasted wait. But alas, our tall man arrived, slowly pushing his bags, wearing a mask, sporting an eyeglass and casually attired in a gray and green windbreaker and blue pants. 

It was bright and sunny when we left our hotel in Ximending. Its was 7:45 am, the earliest we can all be awake for our van ride to Taichung. After traveling for more than 4 hours, we arrived at Taichung train station and waited for the guys to alight from the train.  Our three handsome men arrived sans Aaron. Apparently, he stayed in Tainan for the CNY and was to just meet up with guys. Later a friend, who answered a bladder call saw Aaron leaving the toilet and was just waiting at the van for his 3 brothers. 
 

I decreed January 31 as hearts day. 
 

More like a valentines day in advance.

The Taoyuan hearts

Since I don’t think I can join the guys on the 14^th, I decided to just go and enjoy this last day of signing and make it memorable and fun. My eyelashes were still tangled from sleeping late- I was so enraptured watching MIT I didn’t realize it was already 430 am. I was up and about 8 am to prepare and boarded our van midmorning to pick up friends who went to the salon where the guys would normally have their hair fix. It was almost 2 hours travel to the only venue held inside a mall. 

Fahrenheit sang the momo song and they even have to borrow the lyric books from the fans. 

I’m still writing my journal, uploading pictures and videos. Please come back soon and share my awesome encounters with these four gorgeous and charming men.

I’m still writing my journal, uploading pictures and videos. Please come back soon and share my awesome encounters with these four gorgeous and charming men.

I dunno if halibuts swim  thousands of miles just to look for the perfect holiday water,  but this pinay halibut “flew” thousand miles to Chinese shores just to see – and meet- beautiful “fishes” in the entertainment industry. 

You see, Happy halibut loves taiwanese stars. Im a fan.  And when the opportunity arose  to see and meet my favorite artists, i made sure my work for the year was over and im on for one happy long vacation.

I like Wu Chun and Ella of FRH and S.H.E.  Who wouldnt like them after watching Hanakimi?  Their sizzling chemistry has driven my innate curiousity to know them and spend some precious sleeping time to search news on them at the net.

I arrived in cold Hong Kong Dec 24 and  amidst the flurry of family hello’s and whats up I made my first call to Ella friends. Oh, ohhh, I sensed a problem.., they were having a hard time understanding my english. I can’t speak Cantonese and it’s with difficulty that they told me to call again so they can process our conversation. I called again and I was told to go to Beijing Road in Tsim Tsa Tsui. I want to attend the Christmas Coundown with S.H.E.

It was an hour trip to Kowloon even with the MTR and I didn’t mind leaving earlier because I was so excited with the thought of seeing ELLA again. What was bothering me was the fact that my ELLA friends’ phone was in a voicemail.. Didn’t know where to go after alighting at Kowloon.. I tried calling six times, I scanned all the magazines in 7-11, almost memorized the Cantonese voice mail message, but to no avail. It was quite odd, but then again, I wasn’t surprised with the fact that was I WAS STOOD UP !!!   

Midmorning rush was to the train station to meet other Wu Chun friends. We were there to meet Taiwan friends and learned that we were also waiting for FRH because they were boarding the same train as we were en route to Kaoshung. After 20 minutes, we started running, I dunno why until I saw Jiro ( or was it Calvin?!?!) . The rush was also because the train was leaving in a few minutes and we met up in the non reserved end coach  of the train. After 2 hours of Wu Chun chatting, breakfast and a short nap, we alighted and there I was told to wait for FRH. And so armed with my cellphone to video this event, I saw for the time this four guys and MY GOODNESS, forgive me the pun but they are like Gods, immortal beings, beautiful men, with awesome presence… In a slow motion, I stepped near Wu Chun and continued filming, oblivious to the fact that Aaron was just beside me and I was hustling him to get a good shot of Wu Chun. Yung, my friend kept on prodding and tugging me, to “talk to Chun!, talk to Chun!” It dawned to me, yeah why not? But for some unfathomable reason I felt… shy. Boink! I said “later”…, im shy”…

After attending the Sunday mass, I was running back to the hotel because it was almost 11am when we need to hurry up and be in the site. No worries though, because the signing was held 10 minutes away from our hotel. 

The line was as usual humongous; there were light boards everywhere, including the restaurants and Rainbow Hotel in front. So we decided to have a leisurely lunch first then position ourselves near the stage. The host was very witty, and he asked us to move back to accommodate the media people near the stage. And so this time, we made sure we were in front and slowly wiggled to be near the stage. By 2:15, the guys arrived and Ximending was in pandemonium! Everybody was screaming and the guys were hot and their performance level was high!!! And as usual, they looked DASHING!!!!