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The Best of 2011 Asia Tour Concert

By: huhuhuhu @rain-cloud English Talk Board, 6/8/11

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PART 1

This fan account is dedicated to our prince – life is so beautiful because of you!

In order to keep it short, I skipped most of the performance parts – there were many fan cams anyway. These were my personal feelings and impressions of the various concerts.

Beijing: 26 March
Thailand: 8 May
Macau: 14 May
Taiwan: 15 May
Singapore: 22 May
Shanghai: 25 May
Guangzhou: 28 May

Thailand: 8 May

Our prince was super, super, happy and sweet and lovely and cute…You could FEEL his happiness coming from inside. The peace of mind, the tenderness, the sweetness, the cuteness and the charisma – all these reflected on him when he performed and when he talked to us. He radiated happiness and confidence. That was the strongest impression I had for the Thailand concert. I could not describe properly the sensation, but his dance moves were like space dance to me, so light, so soft and effortless – even though they were powerful and he sweated heavily.

Our prince was very confident with his English too. He talked mostly in English. But quite suddenly he told us he learned some new Thai words, and as he said “Rak na joob joob” he gave us blowing kisses. He was so pleased with himself and with our response that he couldn’t help laughing, and asked us to say the words (which meant love kiss, kiss) together.

He had many, many such lovely, cute and sweet little acts throughout the show. You couldn’t plan these before hand. His mood, the atmosphere brought out the most beautiful, tender, humorous, playful and the MAN out of him.

When he asked “everybody stand up”, he actually stopped the music and said “I’m not going to dance” as he saw some people not obeying him. Everyone fell under his awe and stood up and followed him. You just had to listen to this man!

Yet he could also be very considerate. He threw a towel to someone, probably something happened or someone said something. Our prince looked at her, walked to the stage to get another towel and water, and handed them to her. He even shook hands with her. I found out afterwards it was a senior fan who couldn’t fight against the younger ones for the towel, so our prince gave her a personal treat!

And when “his girl” was sitting on the chair, our prince probably thought the position was not very good. Without a word, he carried “his girl” together with the chair, and carried “them” to a better position. He so reminded me of what he said before – when he dated his girl friend, he carried her on his back! He was so wonderfully gentle.

We all fell under his magic the night of 8 May in Thailand.

My friend told me that when the concert was over our prince went to a club after dinner with Baegka. He stood in the DJ booth and danced as if he was a DJ himself. He had his hat and sunglasses on and he seemed to have a good time. That was a bonus to the fans who had the energy to follow our prince late at night.

Macau: 14 May

We all knew how casinos worked in order to look after their VIP customers. For non gamblers like us, we had to use all resources in order to be near to our prince to cheer for him. We were disappointed to see that an artificial block was created to keep us further away, but there was nothing we could do.

To me personally, compared to the Thailand concert, this concert lacked luster, and it was not because of our prince. How absurd could it be when you were lucky enough to be picked as our prince’s “girl”, all you could say was that he was fat? We didn’t hear that as the woman touched his side, but our prince told us aloud “she said I am fat”. If it was meant to be a joke, then it was a very bad joke and it reflected a lack of taste. I noticed that our prince didn’t see his girl off and did not pass her the tape. Dear prince, I would have done exactly the same! And dear prince, we couldn’t care less if you were fat or not, we love you just the way you are!

The run down was the same as the Thailand concert, the passion of our prince in his performance never changed, and fans cheered as loudly as they always did. He and us would not let what happened spoiled the night, and at the end of the encore before he left the stage, our prince treated us with his bunny hip hip dance. But I thought I saw a different mood of our prince that night.

I was therefore amused to read our prince recent tweets when he included Germany but almost forgot to mention Macau .. Dear prince, got ya!

Taiwan: 15 May

My friends and I took an earlier flight from Macau to Taipei, so we were able to wait for our prince at his arrival gate together with the many media reporters. It was like a mini war when our prince appeared – reporters’ cameras flashing, fans cheering and his entourage making way for his royal highness as we all fought for the best spot. The only person who remained calm and cool was our prince, with his cap and sunglasses on. As I ran after him, his jeans caught my eyes – the hip pocket was very stylish with many silver studs. (Actually it might be his nice hip shape which caught my eyes first – and I remembered he said at one TV program before that he was very confident about and proud of his hip – I agreed 200%.)

Taiwan fans gave our prince a big welcome at the airport, and we all gave him an even bigger response at the concert. It was full house, even though the concert hall may not be the best one in Taipei. I was very pleased to see many young male fans – their screams and cheers were as passionate as their female counterparts. Our prince clearly felt our love and responded to us. After he taught us the dance moves for “With You”, he complimented us by saying “You are very good students.” We all felt so proud!

And then out of the blue our prince told us he loved “xiao long bao” (a small juicy savory dumpling). May be he missed his lunch and was a bit hungry? And then he suddenly held out his hands and declared in Chinese “I love you all xiao long bao”. He smiled so sweetly we could all have melted like messy dumplings under such smile. Knowing food was the most important thing to our prince, I took this as his highest compliment to us too! Yeah, we all wanted to be your xiao long bao, dear prince!

Our prince had a different way to choose his girl this time. He said he wanted fans who danced well. Some men put up their hands too, but he scoffed and said females only. At the end he picked 4 (or 5?) girls. They all danced really well and our prince was very impressed. He even asked his cameraman not to film him but to focus on the fans. It turned out the winner was a dance teacher herself – good job prince!

There were lots of interactions at the Taiwan concert. Our prince was so happy and relaxed that when he saw fans filming him, he took their cameras and offered to film himself for them!

But towards the end of the concert our prince said something that made me cry. I believed he was very touched to see our love, our gratitude, and our support, so he told us in Korean that he was very grateful, and that it would have to be two years later before he could return to Taiwan. But he pledged to come back then, to this same place and to have his concert with us again. And he asked us if we understood why we had to wait for 2 years. It was the first time that our prince talked about the subject in front of us. I could see and feel his sincerity, his love and his gratitude and it broke my heart.

And we all cried our hearts out at the end of the concert when the screen showed a very touching video clip produced by “Bi with Rain”, telling our prince that we will wait for him. We had not expected our prince to talk to us about his sabbatical, but the video clip responded so well to what he said to us. My eyes were swollen as I left the concert hall.

Dear prince, 7000 xiao long bao in Taipei on the night of 15 May, plus many more elsewhere, should be able to see you through the next 2 years without being starved. Your xiao long bao will be waiting for you!

PART 2

Singapore: 22 May

It was sheer luck and chance that my friends and I saw our prince enjoying his sun bath at the hotel roof top swimming pool. He was easily recognizable even though he covered his head with a straw hat and towel on top – he wore the same swim shorts he had worn many, many times before. May be we should get him a new pair of swim suit as his birthday present!

Food was indeed important to our prince, as he told us during the concert that he loved Singapore and he loved chili crab and butter crab. He also proved himself to be a “daughter’s fool” again when he chose his girl. He stopped his camera at a little girl in pink, moved away but couldn’t help getting back to her again. He gestured her to go up on stage, the girl’s mother helping too, but the little girl was too shy and probably a bit frightened and shook her head. Seeing this, our prince bent his head, knelt down on the stage, feigning defeat.

But our prince was not going to give up easily. He pointed to the little girl and said “I will be waiting for you”. During the encore, he went down the stage to the girl. This time we saw the little girl smiling, nodding her head and waving to our prince. Our prince was pleased and satisfied. Still, before he disappeared behind the stage at the end of the concert, he pointed to the girl again and said “I will be waiting for you”.

It was all fun but it also said a lot to me about our prince. It’s not that he must have the little girl’s affection. In fact he had subsequently chosen a very lovely girl and they made a very sweet pair on stage. But this “I will win you over” attitude was always there throughout his career path. And he always succeeded, like he did with this little girl!

It was therefore not surprising when he asked “Everybody stand up” and then stopped the music, like he did at the Thailand concert. But this time he was very serious and even asked the lights to be out. Only when he’s satisfied with the response then he resumed his performance. He dared to challenge, because he had the confidence. My heart missed a beat when he asked the lights to be out, but I felt so proud of him afterwards. The reward was his super sweet and cute smiles as he taught us the dance moves for “With You”.

I felt strongly that our prince was indeed a superstar with charisma and charm.

Shanghai: 25 May

I had a front seat facing the center of the stage, so I was hoping to enjoy a close, good view of our prince’s performance. However as soon as the concert started, many fans rushed to the front of the stage and I suddenly became quite far back. Worse still, fans in front of me started to stand on the chairs in order to have a better view, blocking my sight (and many others) totally. I was forced to take off my shoes to stand on my chair as well, but was tapped on the shoulder by people behind me asking me to get down.

I promptly obliged, put my shoes back on (wasting much more time doing so) and I tried to tap the fans in front of me asking them to get down from their chairs. They ignored me. So we went another round and I heard shouts from fans behind to those in front, and retorts back and forth. Meanwhile we all tried our best to keep our eyes and ears focused on our prince.

It became too distracting. Finally I decided to stay put and watch our prince and those fans who invaded to the front of the stage as ONE party performing. And I noticed how our prince was trying to embrace as many of the fans as possible. He often walked close to the edges of the stage, bent down and touched hands with the fans. He probably shook the most hands in the Shanghai concert than any others. Of course what he did caused more fans to rush to the front. The Rainism had indeed taken over our souls and got our bodies lose control. Crowds moved as our prince moved – you had to be deft in your maneuver to stay close to him.

It was a happy concert, especially for the crowd in front. Our prince was in good mood too, so much so when we all thought the concert was over, as the stage door was closing, our prince suddenly kicked the door open. The party continued. Then the stage door was closing and there he was, kicking it open again. So we had another round of jump, jump. For the last round, his foot stayed on the door to keep it open for a last while, but we knew the party had to come to an end.

Seeing the happy crowd and seeing how our prince responded to them I forgave those fans who rushed to the front. For some or many of them, this might be their last chance to get close to our prince before a gap of two years or even more. Our prince clearly understood and responded to this.

I felt slightly sad after the concert because I knew there were many more fans further away who were waiting for a chance to get close to our prince too. To many of them, it might be a very long wait indeed. I knew our prince knew that and would want to be close to them too.

Guangzhou: 28 May

I could not forget they way our prince moved his head slowly across the stadium, and I knew he was happy and impressed by what he saw. A full house audience, all flashing their colourful light sticks. It was magnificent. He responded to our loud and passionate cheers and together we brought his Asia tour to a grand finale.

The security staff were very fierce and strict. Whenever we stood up we were being ordered to sit down again by loads of staff. So we were like having a continuous wave all the time – one block of fans stood up as soon as the security staff ran over to the other block ordering fans to sit down and vice versa. And we all shot up triumphantly when our prince said “everybody, stand up” – I felt like our prince was helping us! Thank you, prince!

I had to mention that our prince had a fleeting visit to Hong Kong the day before the Guangzhou concert. Raincloudhk organized banner and special support cards for their members to welcome our prince. They missed him at the airport, but gave him the loudest cheer and support when he was at the MCM flag ship store grand opening ceremony. We were sad there would not be a concert in Hong Kong, but fans decided to use this opportunity to tell our prince how much we loved him and we would wait for him.

So it was very touching during the concert in Guangzhou that our prince acknowledged the sign boards and said out loud “Hong Kong”. He even asked us how to say “I love you” in Cantonese (the dialect most commonly used in Hong Kong). And while we expected him to say the words he said “thank you” in Cantonese instead, showing off his Cantonese dialect skill! He mentioned Hong Kong a couple of times and we knew this was his way to show his appreciation and his gratitude. Thank you, prince! We appreciated this and were very grateful too.

Towards the end of the concert our prince gave a very short speech about the importance of environmental protection, and asked that we all do our part. I remembered his lecture before and I saw Professor Rain and Ambassador Rain and Superstar Rain all blended beautifully in him.

The encore was long and happy. He pulled out the stage staff to jump, he took pictures of us and of his dancers, he walked down the stage and had to quickly go up again when fans all abandoned their seats and rushed to the fence trying to get close to him. He showed off his street dance moves but had to rub his back afterwards. He and us could go on all night, but his dancers held him and threw him up hip hip hurray in the air, and we knew the party had to end.

Before he disappeared he gave us one last special treat – his sexy and cute bunny hip dance.

Instead of saying goodbye, we would be counting the days when we would meet you again, dear prince!

BY: huhuhuhu 

~ by Cloud USA on June 8, 2011.

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