Pearl Sapphire Blue at Asia Song Festival

I want to explain something slightly cryptic and oddly teenybopperish that I posted on Twitter awhile ago. Here’s the post:

Azn Song Fest. so fun~ i was one of SuJu’s E.L.Fs. XD crazy, but SJ balloon + SJ glowstick + SJ binoculars = me. http://twitpic.com/ibru7

Did you see this? Do you understand? No? Well, I’m a bit sorry for being incomprehensible, but Twitter encourages seriously brief posts. I could only use 140 characters.

Generally speaking, I type my “tweets” in standard American English, but then I get these threats saying that I’ve used too many characters and that if I don’t get rid of some of them, my message won’t be posted. So I go back, delete vowels, and turn seemingly random words into abbreviations and acronyms. How do you deal with text messages and Twitter?

Anyway—on a Saturday awhile ago, I went to a concert called Asia Song Festival. A bunch of pop artists from all over Asia came to Seoul and performed. The concert was great. It was a lot of fun.

I hardly know how things work where you are, but in Korea, the big concerts are segregated. Normal people sit in one area. Everyone else sits according to the fan club they’re in. Thus, CRAZY enthusiastic female fans of a specific group sit in their special section all by themselves. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think that sitting with normal people is nearly as fun as sitting with screaming girls. Screaming girls = awesome. Screaming boys = fun too, but sometimes they’re a little scary.

Unfortunately, my friend and I arrived at the venue late. Whoops. We weren’t tragically late, though. The concert had yet to begin, but we wanted to get inside quickly because something had started. What had started, exactly? Well, we didn’t know because we weren’t inside. T_T

Sadly, we also could not just run into the venue, because there was a gate, and there were lines, and we had to show our tickets, and …

While we were trying to figure out which line we were supposed to be in, I saw the largest, loudest, and most enthusiastic fan club, Super Junior’s Everlasting Friends (SuJu’s ELFs), quickly moving through everything and going in. By the way, Super Junior is a 13-member boy band.

They’re pretty cute, right? Anyway, this was our opportunity, our chance! I decided that we were going to become ELFs. Screaming girls > normal people, remember? So I told my friend to get out her SuJu concert paraphernalia. I did the same thing, decking myself in pearl sapphire blue, and we just went along with them.

Why oh why did we have SuJu concert gear? While we were waiting in a line to get the tickets we reserved, we bought some random stuff. Two Super Junior glow sticks were among the items purchased. What can I say? I have a soft spot for some boy bands and pop music, because it’s deliciously at odds with my “serious” and “mature” personality.

Even though we weren’t real fan club members, once the decision to attach ourselves to the ELFs was made, we committed ourselves 100% to the Super Junior cause. Yeah~ We really really did not want to get kicked out of their area, because that would mean that we wouldn’t get free stuff, and we’d have to go sit with the lame balloon-less people who probably don’t understand screaming, chanting, and proper concert decorum. We tried very hard to fit in. We bought SuJu ELF balloons and binoculars.

Luckily, we did not have any male friends with us, blowing our cover. 99.99 percent of those around us were female. A great deal of them were high school students. The only male I saw was someone’s little brother. I guess guys just aren’t fans of boy bands. You’d think that they’d consider it, though—they’d meet more girls that way.

At any rate, even though we looked suspicious (Hello, I’m in Korea, but I speak English!), everyone was super nice. We did not get kicked out. Instead, we played our role quite well and screamed our love for Super Junior. ♥ XD