Chun Li
12-13-2003, 08:40 AM
My classes finished at 2:20 on 12/12 and I was soooooo tired. But I had to get ready for Jay's concert. I had spent an ENTIRE lunch hour making the damn board to go see Jay!!!! It took me forever! Remind me to tell you guys the "BOARD STORY" when I get a chance.
So I'm ready to leave for the concert at 4:30 p.m. I get there by taxi with a student of mine by 5:00 or so. I meet Abra and Shanghaigirl there, and then we start looking for tickets for my student. Ki didn't have a ticket, so we were wandering around looking for tickets for her. People were selling everything, from glowsticks to binoculars, to posters to little shiny and flickering gadgets -- whatever. I didn't care. I was cold. So, around 6:00 or so, Ki runs off to go get tickets and Abra, me, and Shanghaigirl walk around looking at everything. I bought a glow stick, lost it, then bought another one. Shanghaigirl got two posters.
So around 7:15, we started to walk inside. We held on to our tickets like it was our life support and walked into it. I didn't really like the setup because it wasn't as good as the Taiwan concert. There were no motorcycles, no stage, no nothing in the middle, which sucked ass. I wanted motorcycles and a stage!! But we got to our seat, Abra sat in row 9 and I sat in row 12, the first seat next to the center passage way, which was pretty good HAD THERE BEEN A STAGE, THOSE @#)$*@)#$ers!! Anyhow, the crowd wasn't as upbeat as Taiwan, for sure. They screamed but no where near the love the Taiwanese crowd gives Jay. Maybe it was because it was FREAKING COLD.
Anyways, so it started, and he sang Nunchucks, Ban Dao Tie he, Ye Ye Pao De Cha, and then I forgot. It was so cold, and I got the feeling that the concert was going really fast. I took as many pictures as I could, since my camera dies of batteries real quick and I only brought two sets. The row behind abra was pretty empty, and I guessed that some scalpers bought those seats and were trying to sell them off more expensive. I thought, "Good, no one is there!" so I jumped over the rows and sat behind abra, bringing along my friend Ken, who had a seat next to mine. Abra made a sign as did I, and we held it up and swayed it, trying to get Jay's attention.
All I can say is that Jay looked COLD. He was singing, but for some reason, I didn't feel like it had all the excitement that it did in the past concerts. I really, really, think it was because it was freezing cold, damn the weather! So I'm standing on the chairs now, because EVERYONE ELSE IS, and I can't see crap. But it was nice to take pictures of him from three rows closer. At around 8:15-8:30 or so (one hour after the concert started!), when Jay started singing An Jing and playing the piano, the people who got tickets to row 10 started showing up, demanding their seats. Okay, I'm not an unreasonable person, but I can become one if they don't deserve their damn seats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Or maybe because I wanted to stay in row 10). So I jumped from Row 12 to row 10 to be near abra, and then the people showed up, (four young guys) and said,
"These are our seats."
"Yeah, and?"
"Well, they're our seats."
"Good for you."
"Well, move!"
"Then tell the people in our seats to move!"
"You tell them to move!"
"You're 60 minutes late to the concert, why don't you just go find a place to stand?"
"What!? These are our seats! MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Look, DUDE, these are your SEATS only because you paid around 80 freaking YUAN for it!!! You don't even deserve these seats, you're not even real fans, like US! I spent 880 on my ticket the FIRST DAY they started selling and you just stood out there TODAY and waited until the prices got cheap enough to get in! You don't even deserve these seats, a real fan would have SPENT the money and BEEN HERE ON TIME, so GO SIT SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"What, you little @#$#, what the hell are you saying!"
"I'm saying you'
re stupid!!!!!"
"I'm going to go get the police."
"Go then, you big tough guy."
"So, move!"
I was having fun screwing around with them (personally, I didn't care if I went back to my own seats, because they were next to the pathway and I had more room to see, but I wanted to mess around with the guys because one of them was pretty cute. I bet they were younger than me though, so no hope there). And I said, "Fine, I'll move, but you're not real fans."
"What?!"
"BAHHHHHHH."
So we went back to our seats and I started taking pictures of Jay and everything, and you can tell that Jay was COLD. He started sniffing during some of the songs and during the breaks inbetween he started rubbing his nose. He said some funny things, he goes, "WHO BROUGHT THEIR GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS TO THE SHOW!" And there was like unintelligable murmurs through the crowd. Then he goes, "ARE THERE SINGLE PEOPLE THAT CAME?" And everyone goes, "YES!" And he goes, "Do you want to be with me, then?" And everyone screams, "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and he goes, "I'm joking, I'm joking!" (Kai wan xiao, Kai wan xiao). He's like making me go crazy just by him saying stuff like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dare he play with my heart. BWAHAHAHA.
Okay, so Jay continues to sing Xing Qing, and everyone sings along, and then pretty soon, it's almost over. The fireworks and stuff was nice, but it would have been so much better if there was a freakin RUNWAY down the middle. The stage was so compressed and seemed so far from everyone (even though I was in row 12) that I kind of got a little bored. I think perhaps it's also because this is the second time I saw the concert. (First time was at his rehearsal, heehee, which was like 5 rows in front of the front row seats!) At the end, he ran off the stage, but it was time for the encore. It didn't even seem like an encore though because the fans weren't even chanting. They kept going, "Jie Lun! Jie Lun!" but it would die down after around 30 seconds. Afterawhile, the drummer decided to help and he would beat his drums and people would chant "Jie Lun! Jie Lun!" to it. I was like, come on, mainland china, at least you can give him descent screams so he'd WANT to come out to the concert?! It was so annoying, I was like, "Even fans in the US and Taiwan, or any other country could do better!" But they were all so quiet. I was embarressed, kind of! So I start screaming "ZHOU JIE LUN!" (because the rhythm is better, and it'll kind of support the chanting to go on) and the people next to me start screaming ZHOU JIE LUN! and everyone starts going "Zhou Jie Lun, Zhou Jie Lun!" before, with them only screaming, "JIE LUN JIE LUN!" it was too fast, and it'd die down quickly, but after we started screaming his full name, he came back out. He sang Shanghai 1943, and Kai Bu Liao Ko, and then he really left. I dunno, I really, really liked the Taiwan concert a lot better. In the beginning of the concert, they showed clips of the Taiwan concert, Canada Concert, US concert, and he was HOT and screaming and jumping on stage... but he didn't really do any of that here. (I'll just blame it on the cold, and not on BORING CONSERVATIVE FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Even during one of his perfomances 2 years ago in beijing, he said, "This is my first time performing in front of such a huge and QUIET audience. Can I get some applause?" God it makes me mad. Loosen up and scream, you dead people!
Oh! My SIGN was FILMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHA! ON THE ENTIRE BIG SCREEN, for like 1 minute! (1 minute is a long time in front of around 50,000 people). My sign, on one side, said, "Americans love Jay too!" and on the other side, it said, "JAY CHAO DIAO!" (Jay is freaking Diao). And after the concert was over, people came over and ASKED to take pictures with my SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY SIGN!!!! They were all like, "excuse me, but can I take a picture with your sign?" And I'm like, "...yeah?" So I let them t
ake a picture of it. The reason why they do this is because "CHAO DIAO" is a very taiwanese phrase, and DIAO is a bad word in China. Some don't know that it's Jay's WORD, (NOT REAL FANS!!!) and they were all trippin over it. And I dunno, people came up to me and told me, "your sign is DIAO" so whatever, but in reality, it's old! hahaha. Diao is not even a bad word anymore in Taiwan, everyone uses it. But here, with the uptight, anal, and conservative, making a sign that said, "JAY CHAO DIAO" is like SOOOO rebellious. (if they thought I was rebellious, they should have seen abra and I the past two days).
Anyhow, so Abra and I head directly to the room where Jay went the night before. People were already standing outside of it, and the dancers were there moving and cleaning stuff. This part gets interesting because last night, when I was waiting for Jay, one of the dancers came out. I was instantly attracted to him because he was one of Jay's better dancers, so I stared at him. Then I noticed that he was looking at me. So we stared at each other. I wanted to ask for his number so bad yesterday, but I couldn't. well, now, I went up and pushed through all the girls standing next to the bar, and I waited for the guy. There were lots of them around but not the one I liked. So, I waited for the guy and he finally came. I said, "Hey! Hey!" in English. they didn't notice, so I said, "Hey you! Excuse me, excuse me, dancing men, excuse me, look here please." They mumbled something like, "Oh, a foreigner." and I focused on the guy that I found attractive and I said, "Hey, can you come here, please?" then I switched to mandarin and I said, "How are you? Are you cold? Is Jay inside?" and he looks at me and recognizes me, and he goes, "Oh, it's you." So he finishes putting the stuff into a box and comes over to talk to me. He puts something in my hand, and he goes, "Here, this is a little plastic knife that Jay was playing with." The fans around me INSTANTLY SCREAM LIKE CRAZY MANIACS, and then go, "GIVE ME SOMETHING !! GIVE ME SOMETHING OF JAY'S!! ANYTHING!!!!" and I'm like, "nyah nyah!" I wanted to ask that guy for his phone number... but then a lot of people start coming out of the room. Two people come out and the fan girls automatically start screaming like crazy. I move so they can walk out, and one of them looks at me and goes, "oh, its you!" And then he grabs my hand. He goes, "come here, come here." and I'm like, "?" And he walks further down and gestures to me to go there. I go over there and I'm like, "Yeah?" And he goes, "You were here yesterday, right?" and I'm like, "Yeah." and he goes, "we're going to dinner soon." and I'm like, "DINNER? WITH WHO?" and he goes, "everyone. What's your number?" I'm suspiscious, but I give him my number anyway. He goes, "I'll call you." and I'm like, "all right."
So I leave and start to go back and look for the dancer man. I walk a few steps, and there he is. I say, "Thank you!!" and he goes, "No problem at all." and then I say, "You guys are taiwanese, right?" and he goes, "Yeah." and I said, "Taipei?" and he goes, "yeah." And I go, "My family is from Taiwan too." He goes, "REALLY?" and I'm like, "yeah. I miss it a lot. We live in XXX." and he smiles and he looks at me like, "what are you doing here?" and I'm go, "I'm working here! But I miss people with your fashion sense and style." And he laughs and kinda looks at me a little bit, and his friend that was with him starts talking to him and then I go, "Bye!" and he goes, "Bye!" and that was that. I wish his friend wasn't with him, then I'd ask for his number for sure........
BOOOOO BOOO BOOO ON HIS STUPID FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, so then the police push us out and one of the guards looks at me and laughs. (The guards have been looking at me and laughing all day already). and I say, "hey, you chased us yesterday, too, DIDNT YOU!!" and he just laughs. Then we walk by another guard and he looks at me and smirks. And I say, "how did the jog
ging go yesterday, not bad, not sore on the legs?" and he just chuckles.
So Abra and I go back and get something to eat. We're eating and drinking tea, and just talking about our experiences these past three days. I can't believe it. We not only crashed a fan meeting the first day, MET Jay the second day, and then gave him our gift the THIRD day, we also got chased by guards and ran commando style around the entire stadium!!
After awhile, it got late and we decided to go home. I got home and instantly went on the internet to check out my Jay pictures and everything. At around 2:30, the guy called me again and said that they were done eating dinner. There was around 200 tables and Jay was eating in the VIP room with his entire family, and Landy was in there too! I wonder what goes on in the VIP room, I wonder what they talked about! HOW LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, so he told me they were leaving the next day at 3 p.m. He said if he's ever in shanghai again he'd give me a call. HOW LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO TRAVEL AROUND WITH JAY!!!!!!!!!!!1
So I'm ready to leave for the concert at 4:30 p.m. I get there by taxi with a student of mine by 5:00 or so. I meet Abra and Shanghaigirl there, and then we start looking for tickets for my student. Ki didn't have a ticket, so we were wandering around looking for tickets for her. People were selling everything, from glowsticks to binoculars, to posters to little shiny and flickering gadgets -- whatever. I didn't care. I was cold. So, around 6:00 or so, Ki runs off to go get tickets and Abra, me, and Shanghaigirl walk around looking at everything. I bought a glow stick, lost it, then bought another one. Shanghaigirl got two posters.
So around 7:15, we started to walk inside. We held on to our tickets like it was our life support and walked into it. I didn't really like the setup because it wasn't as good as the Taiwan concert. There were no motorcycles, no stage, no nothing in the middle, which sucked ass. I wanted motorcycles and a stage!! But we got to our seat, Abra sat in row 9 and I sat in row 12, the first seat next to the center passage way, which was pretty good HAD THERE BEEN A STAGE, THOSE @#)$*@)#$ers!! Anyhow, the crowd wasn't as upbeat as Taiwan, for sure. They screamed but no where near the love the Taiwanese crowd gives Jay. Maybe it was because it was FREAKING COLD.
Anyways, so it started, and he sang Nunchucks, Ban Dao Tie he, Ye Ye Pao De Cha, and then I forgot. It was so cold, and I got the feeling that the concert was going really fast. I took as many pictures as I could, since my camera dies of batteries real quick and I only brought two sets. The row behind abra was pretty empty, and I guessed that some scalpers bought those seats and were trying to sell them off more expensive. I thought, "Good, no one is there!" so I jumped over the rows and sat behind abra, bringing along my friend Ken, who had a seat next to mine. Abra made a sign as did I, and we held it up and swayed it, trying to get Jay's attention.
All I can say is that Jay looked COLD. He was singing, but for some reason, I didn't feel like it had all the excitement that it did in the past concerts. I really, really, think it was because it was freezing cold, damn the weather! So I'm standing on the chairs now, because EVERYONE ELSE IS, and I can't see crap. But it was nice to take pictures of him from three rows closer. At around 8:15-8:30 or so (one hour after the concert started!), when Jay started singing An Jing and playing the piano, the people who got tickets to row 10 started showing up, demanding their seats. Okay, I'm not an unreasonable person, but I can become one if they don't deserve their damn seats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Or maybe because I wanted to stay in row 10). So I jumped from Row 12 to row 10 to be near abra, and then the people showed up, (four young guys) and said,
"These are our seats."
"Yeah, and?"
"Well, they're our seats."
"Good for you."
"Well, move!"
"Then tell the people in our seats to move!"
"You tell them to move!"
"You're 60 minutes late to the concert, why don't you just go find a place to stand?"
"What!? These are our seats! MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Look, DUDE, these are your SEATS only because you paid around 80 freaking YUAN for it!!! You don't even deserve these seats, you're not even real fans, like US! I spent 880 on my ticket the FIRST DAY they started selling and you just stood out there TODAY and waited until the prices got cheap enough to get in! You don't even deserve these seats, a real fan would have SPENT the money and BEEN HERE ON TIME, so GO SIT SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"What, you little @#$#, what the hell are you saying!"
"I'm saying you'
re stupid!!!!!"
"I'm going to go get the police."
"Go then, you big tough guy."
"So, move!"
I was having fun screwing around with them (personally, I didn't care if I went back to my own seats, because they were next to the pathway and I had more room to see, but I wanted to mess around with the guys because one of them was pretty cute. I bet they were younger than me though, so no hope there). And I said, "Fine, I'll move, but you're not real fans."
"What?!"
"BAHHHHHHH."
So we went back to our seats and I started taking pictures of Jay and everything, and you can tell that Jay was COLD. He started sniffing during some of the songs and during the breaks inbetween he started rubbing his nose. He said some funny things, he goes, "WHO BROUGHT THEIR GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS TO THE SHOW!" And there was like unintelligable murmurs through the crowd. Then he goes, "ARE THERE SINGLE PEOPLE THAT CAME?" And everyone goes, "YES!" And he goes, "Do you want to be with me, then?" And everyone screams, "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and he goes, "I'm joking, I'm joking!" (Kai wan xiao, Kai wan xiao). He's like making me go crazy just by him saying stuff like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dare he play with my heart. BWAHAHAHA.
Okay, so Jay continues to sing Xing Qing, and everyone sings along, and then pretty soon, it's almost over. The fireworks and stuff was nice, but it would have been so much better if there was a freakin RUNWAY down the middle. The stage was so compressed and seemed so far from everyone (even though I was in row 12) that I kind of got a little bored. I think perhaps it's also because this is the second time I saw the concert. (First time was at his rehearsal, heehee, which was like 5 rows in front of the front row seats!) At the end, he ran off the stage, but it was time for the encore. It didn't even seem like an encore though because the fans weren't even chanting. They kept going, "Jie Lun! Jie Lun!" but it would die down after around 30 seconds. Afterawhile, the drummer decided to help and he would beat his drums and people would chant "Jie Lun! Jie Lun!" to it. I was like, come on, mainland china, at least you can give him descent screams so he'd WANT to come out to the concert?! It was so annoying, I was like, "Even fans in the US and Taiwan, or any other country could do better!" But they were all so quiet. I was embarressed, kind of! So I start screaming "ZHOU JIE LUN!" (because the rhythm is better, and it'll kind of support the chanting to go on) and the people next to me start screaming ZHOU JIE LUN! and everyone starts going "Zhou Jie Lun, Zhou Jie Lun!" before, with them only screaming, "JIE LUN JIE LUN!" it was too fast, and it'd die down quickly, but after we started screaming his full name, he came back out. He sang Shanghai 1943, and Kai Bu Liao Ko, and then he really left. I dunno, I really, really liked the Taiwan concert a lot better. In the beginning of the concert, they showed clips of the Taiwan concert, Canada Concert, US concert, and he was HOT and screaming and jumping on stage... but he didn't really do any of that here. (I'll just blame it on the cold, and not on BORING CONSERVATIVE FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Even during one of his perfomances 2 years ago in beijing, he said, "This is my first time performing in front of such a huge and QUIET audience. Can I get some applause?" God it makes me mad. Loosen up and scream, you dead people!
Oh! My SIGN was FILMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHA! ON THE ENTIRE BIG SCREEN, for like 1 minute! (1 minute is a long time in front of around 50,000 people). My sign, on one side, said, "Americans love Jay too!" and on the other side, it said, "JAY CHAO DIAO!" (Jay is freaking Diao). And after the concert was over, people came over and ASKED to take pictures with my SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY SIGN!!!! They were all like, "excuse me, but can I take a picture with your sign?" And I'm like, "...yeah?" So I let them t
ake a picture of it. The reason why they do this is because "CHAO DIAO" is a very taiwanese phrase, and DIAO is a bad word in China. Some don't know that it's Jay's WORD, (NOT REAL FANS!!!) and they were all trippin over it. And I dunno, people came up to me and told me, "your sign is DIAO" so whatever, but in reality, it's old! hahaha. Diao is not even a bad word anymore in Taiwan, everyone uses it. But here, with the uptight, anal, and conservative, making a sign that said, "JAY CHAO DIAO" is like SOOOO rebellious. (if they thought I was rebellious, they should have seen abra and I the past two days).
Anyhow, so Abra and I head directly to the room where Jay went the night before. People were already standing outside of it, and the dancers were there moving and cleaning stuff. This part gets interesting because last night, when I was waiting for Jay, one of the dancers came out. I was instantly attracted to him because he was one of Jay's better dancers, so I stared at him. Then I noticed that he was looking at me. So we stared at each other. I wanted to ask for his number so bad yesterday, but I couldn't. well, now, I went up and pushed through all the girls standing next to the bar, and I waited for the guy. There were lots of them around but not the one I liked. So, I waited for the guy and he finally came. I said, "Hey! Hey!" in English. they didn't notice, so I said, "Hey you! Excuse me, excuse me, dancing men, excuse me, look here please." They mumbled something like, "Oh, a foreigner." and I focused on the guy that I found attractive and I said, "Hey, can you come here, please?" then I switched to mandarin and I said, "How are you? Are you cold? Is Jay inside?" and he looks at me and recognizes me, and he goes, "Oh, it's you." So he finishes putting the stuff into a box and comes over to talk to me. He puts something in my hand, and he goes, "Here, this is a little plastic knife that Jay was playing with." The fans around me INSTANTLY SCREAM LIKE CRAZY MANIACS, and then go, "GIVE ME SOMETHING !! GIVE ME SOMETHING OF JAY'S!! ANYTHING!!!!" and I'm like, "nyah nyah!" I wanted to ask that guy for his phone number... but then a lot of people start coming out of the room. Two people come out and the fan girls automatically start screaming like crazy. I move so they can walk out, and one of them looks at me and goes, "oh, its you!" And then he grabs my hand. He goes, "come here, come here." and I'm like, "?" And he walks further down and gestures to me to go there. I go over there and I'm like, "Yeah?" And he goes, "You were here yesterday, right?" and I'm like, "Yeah." and he goes, "we're going to dinner soon." and I'm like, "DINNER? WITH WHO?" and he goes, "everyone. What's your number?" I'm suspiscious, but I give him my number anyway. He goes, "I'll call you." and I'm like, "all right."
So I leave and start to go back and look for the dancer man. I walk a few steps, and there he is. I say, "Thank you!!" and he goes, "No problem at all." and then I say, "You guys are taiwanese, right?" and he goes, "Yeah." and I said, "Taipei?" and he goes, "yeah." And I go, "My family is from Taiwan too." He goes, "REALLY?" and I'm like, "yeah. I miss it a lot. We live in XXX." and he smiles and he looks at me like, "what are you doing here?" and I'm go, "I'm working here! But I miss people with your fashion sense and style." And he laughs and kinda looks at me a little bit, and his friend that was with him starts talking to him and then I go, "Bye!" and he goes, "Bye!" and that was that. I wish his friend wasn't with him, then I'd ask for his number for sure........
BOOOOO BOOO BOOO ON HIS STUPID FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, so then the police push us out and one of the guards looks at me and laughs. (The guards have been looking at me and laughing all day already). and I say, "hey, you chased us yesterday, too, DIDNT YOU!!" and he just laughs. Then we walk by another guard and he looks at me and smirks. And I say, "how did the jog
ging go yesterday, not bad, not sore on the legs?" and he just chuckles.
So Abra and I go back and get something to eat. We're eating and drinking tea, and just talking about our experiences these past three days. I can't believe it. We not only crashed a fan meeting the first day, MET Jay the second day, and then gave him our gift the THIRD day, we also got chased by guards and ran commando style around the entire stadium!!
After awhile, it got late and we decided to go home. I got home and instantly went on the internet to check out my Jay pictures and everything. At around 2:30, the guy called me again and said that they were done eating dinner. There was around 200 tables and Jay was eating in the VIP room with his entire family, and Landy was in there too! I wonder what goes on in the VIP room, I wonder what they talked about! HOW LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, so he told me they were leaving the next day at 3 p.m. He said if he's ever in shanghai again he'd give me a call. HOW LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO TRAVEL AROUND WITH JAY!!!!!!!!!!!1