Sunday, January 22, 2017
Week: 24
Songs to Remember: Cold Night, You Were Warm (차가운 밤, 따뜻했던 너) - Koh Nayoung (고나영), Reason (feat. 리차드파커스) (헤어져야 하는 이유) [SPACECOWBOY deep future remix] - SPACECOWBOY (스페이스카우보이), Maestro - CHANGMO (창모), Tell Me You Love Me (좋다고 말해) - Bolbbalgan4 (볼빨간사춘기), Again (자꾸) - Limzy (림지)
As expected, I woke up with a bunch of notifications from people who are able to wake up earlier than me after a hard night (hard as in, hard to keep up your breath).
So let's get right into it. 8:00 AM I had to wake up, last last night I looked at the updated Lunar Show schedule for day and uh, yep, says that people only have to get there before 9:00 AM. I'm like "Well, there goes some sleep." I had everything packed, all the things I needed, arrived there at 8:30 AM -ish. Doors were still not open (as in, Chinese club's club advisor was not here yet with access keys) until about 8:40 AM -ish. Inside, it was just about, 25 of us KDT members for now. We all sat in the top, upper-most corner quadrant (to compare to a graph, quadrant II, with the doors of the theater at the intersection of the bottom of quadrants III and IV and the stage being at the intersection of the top of quadrants II and I).
Again, Cc was seated a bit further from me so I didn't get to talk to as much at this time. Seated in front of me were some of the sophomores, more specifically the ones Atr hangs out with in KDT. Seated to the right of me was Jd and to the left of me were empty seats until Atr arrived. For the next couple hours, it was just stage-practice for the fashion show people (basically it is what it is, people have on Chinese formal attire or modern formal attire and they walk around) as well as stage-practice for some other acts.
It was just me and Jd and Atr for that time, more specifically Atr. I probably could've gotten myself some more sleep because the other acts' stage practices did not end until around 11:00 AM, and that was when we were finally allowed to go backstage and start doing makeup and prepping and shit (not get dressed yet but just, set up). From then on, it was just a lot of sitting, a lot of sitting, until our first full rehearsal run-through (which takes approximately an hour and a half or so, a little shorter than the regular show since about 1/4 acts were not present yet).
Of course, I conversed with a lot of people, interacted with a lot, more specifically uh, a couple freshmen like Kb (I just created these names up now since I never used 'em before), Rd, some of Cc's friends whose Lunar Show debuts were possible only because of Cc inviting them to KDT in the first place, Cc herself, Rh, Bp, Ln, DrewH and some of the sophomores like Jd, Atr and their friends. Those were a majority of the people I interacted with the most. In the show schedule (like, act order, act lineup, etc), KDT's performing as the 2nd act after intermission, which is halfway through the show. There's about 19 acts in total, some groups have 2 acts, all of which were about, 5-minutes, around there, long, that plus games and intros/jokes by the MC's, makes the real show about, 2 hours or so, give or take 10 minutes.
Meaning, even after we were allowed backstage to finally, do something instead of sit and wait or sit and eat or sit and talk or sit and do homework, or sit and a combination of the above, we (us KDT) still had to wait about an hour or so 'till we were able to do our first act run-through on-stage. After that was over, it was around 1:00 PM. The Chinese Club president rounded us all up in front of the stage to announce that break would be starting and would end at around 2:30 PM. We had an hour and thirty to do, whatever, until we had to come back for the 2nd full-show run-through. We were all pretty hungry, by we I mean Cc, Jd, me, one of Cc's friends (I'll call him Xd, snd not because of the emoticon), aaand, Atr and her group of buddies, as well as some of the freshmen like Kb. So we all decided to go to this plaza located like, right around the corner of the BACK of the school (keep that in mind). We didn't actually all go together, uhh, the freshmen went by themselves first, and uh, initially Rh would be going with us but he was busy helping Ln out with something so he decided not to tag along.
Atr and her buddies started off to the plaza first. It was Cc, Jd, Xd, and me in our own pack. Atr's group was already far ahead of uh, taking the route through the back of the school through the school's parking lot. We found out that they were taking that way because the gates that provided much faster routes through/to the back of the school, were locked. These gates included the one where I usually go through after school to go home, the other being the P.E locker gates. We checked the P.E gates but they were locked, as well as the my usual home-gate. However, they were not "locked" by like, a key, they weren't exactly "tight" gates.They were just chain-linked, with a chain and lock locking the opening gates together. And uh, with that, apparently Xd has done something like this before and managed to slip through the opening created by the chain lock between the P.E gate gates.
I was like "Okay what the fuck how is that possible." Our bodies are more malleable than I thought, cause you could barely fit through, but still, ya know, fit through. Felt almost as if you were like slime, slipping through a crevice, heh. So we all got through with our little shortcut that Xd found. We walked my usual route to the back of the school, in the path beside the football field, until we came across another problem, another locked gate. It was chain locked, yeah, and uh, this time the crevice between the gates was not big enough for us to fit through. Only way over, was by climbing. Xd showed us his adept travel skills aaand climbed over the fence. It was about, 10 feet tall of so, but he got over it. In the spur of the momen, I was filled with adrenaline (and having done stupid/not so safe stuff before such as traveling to a different city at night with my buddies to investigate a drainage pipe) and just said "Fuck it" and climbed over too. My left toe was somehow hurt in the process, it kinda hurt for the whole day but, whatever.
Cc followed along too, having, not done this before in her life either (me included probably). Jd wasn't so fine with the situation, there were cars passing by (I agree, but when I did it, I just thought ("what the fuck are these people gonna do, are they really gonna go out of their way to report some kids climbing a school fence"), she tried but it was pretty difficult for her. We (some of the freshmen ran into us as we were climbing this shit) were thinking of just going back to meet up with Jd, until me and Xd started fidgeting with the chain lock and found that you could pull this bar up and there'd be enough space to slip under and through. With that, we were able to get to our plaza for milk tea in a uh, a reasonable time I guess, heh.
The milk tea wait took about, 30 minutes or so. Our urban hiking took about, 30 minutes too or so, maybe less. Rh had told Cc about a little KDT sub-group that him, Bp, Ln, and Mt would be starting and would hopefully be performing with at the KASA show in the March (with the auditions being at the end of January). I was like (to Cc and Jd), "Hey, we should make our own sub-group too, perform at the KASA show too." Cc was like "Wait are you serious." And of course she and Jd were interested in it, because who wouldn't like having the audience's focus mainly be on you for an act, ya know, the exclusivity of it. And also you get some creative control/manageability with having less people.
Me, Cc, and Jd thought about while we were waiting for our milk tea orders. Having three people for a dance act would be a bit too small (unless we did some crazy acrobatic shit but that ain't happening), so we included Xd in it too. There's another act comprising of Bp, Rh, Jb, and a few other KDT members and the Chinese club president, who are doing/did a water-sleeve act for the show, with their group name being "Dawn," I was like "Hmm what about 'Dusk?' Or how about we all wear shades of gray and call ourselves '4 Shades of Gray?'" 'Course I was joking about the gray thing but Cc liked it, along with the Dusk thing. It's all hypothetical right now, and there's no pressure really to work fast, I mean, the audition's only in like, 10 days.
We also gotta work on learning some old K-Pop song dances for our KDT throwback set for the KASA show. Anyways, we got our milk tea, we walked back to the school, and as we were slipping through our little shortcut at the back, Ad passed by (ya know, from the last series), with like, a KDT member in his car (gave 'em a ride to their house). I was pretty surprised to see him again, along with Cc. Haven't seen this dude with my own eyes in a while, heh. And yes, he is around to watch us perform at the show.
We were back in the color-guard room, backstage. This time, the full-show rehearsal would be a "costume" rehearsal, meaning we had to rehearse in our outfits. I already explained my outfit but I'ma explain it again: it was a black longline t-shirt with a slanted-striped hem, a purple-black patchworked Jeansian dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, on top, black jeans, black CS1 NMD's, and a black FW14 Supreme headband. It was really like a sea of purple. We had our rehearsal, people were then just, just waiting for the show to start. I had my makeup done, people had their makeup done, outfits perfected, hair, etc. People were playing games, card games, eating, sleeping, taking pictures, the like. We had our KDT group picture taken, uhh, I went around, switching from interacting with Cc to interacting with Jd, Atr, others.
And it was true what Cc said "I'm probably not gonna remember what I'm saying to you tomorrow." I really do not remember much of what we talked about, the banter, and all. Maybe like tidbits of it and meme-sharing but that's it. It's not a bad thing, it's good 'cause, there was so much interaction you can't possibly remember it all. Oh yeah, Snapchat. Snapchat played a significant part in bringing the social interaction to another level. This time it didn't deter actual social interaction, it, actually shared and captured a lot of it. I was also informed of who would be attending the show through Snapchat stories, including special guests from other series like Ad, Tu, Th, other KDT alumni, and even Ct. Did not expect that many guests.
It was pretty stressful towards our time to go on stage. As expected, there were people running around, people out of breath, etc. After intermission, it was KDT's time to go behind the curtains and on the side of the stage to be on-deck. After this music act is over, it was a game, and then us. During the game (like, a little minigame/show game that the MC's play with the audience), I was like "Holy fucking hell, how long is this game" 'cause I was ready to get it over with, heh. My heart was racing as much, I was keeping it calm. It wasn't until the MC's started on the "Do any of ya'll like K-Pop" intro that I was like "oh." And then, it was time to hit the stage..
It started off with TWICE's "Cheer Up," I was ready, I was ready, boom, I'm out running from the curtains to my spot for ASTRO's "Hide and Seek." Alright, alright, going pretty well. I ran back to the left of the stage (I start on the left side by the way) and stubbed my right toe into the fucking wheeled structures on the side (the right side of the stage, behind the curtains, is like perfectly spacious, whereas the left side, that side had little to not space for standing behind. I had to get ready to hand Jd her jacket for the light-to-dark transition. It was then Red Velvet's "Ice Cream Cake," and then the first half of EXID's "Lie." I'm still behind the curtain, the transition goes, I hand Jd her jacket, she gets it on on time, then it was the second-half of EXID's "Lie," and then finally my turn again to go on for BTS's "Fire."
Okay, not bad, not bad. I had to run from the left-middle to the right side of the stage curtains now. At this point I was, basically out of breath. Even though I'm only in half the songs, 3 of which are in the latter half of our set, combined with the adrenaline and heart-racing, it was easy to run out of breath so quick. After BTS' "Fire" was Sistar's "I Like That," and then it was my turn to end the show with VIXX's "Chained Up," and EXO's "Monster." The one part I did mess up on with VIXX's "Chained Up," where I did a part a bit too early, but I did slow the next move down so as for me to get back in the pace. Other than that, it was flawless pretty much from there.
Finally, it was EXO's "Monster," and for me, there was almost a really, really bad accident on stage. Towards the end of it, after the "creeping" part of the song/dance, I guess the abrupt movements downward, combined with a pacing heart-rate, barely having ate anything in the day besides a banana milk tea, a can of Snapple, a tiny bag of chips, and being out of breath, I was ready to throw up. To vomit. I was fortunate enough to be able to suppress it, to hold it in, for the end pose. The lights went out, and we all headed backstage, and boy, was I relieved.
My headband actually proved its use by not only being fashionable and fitting, but also holding back my hair and uh, absorbing my sweat, heh. I thought everything was swell, I had the feeling of "We did it." Not everybody had the same feeling though. I didn't notice it at first but Ln was crying. I was like "Oh fuck, what happened." People asked around and apparently after the light-to-dark transition, she wasn't able to get her white skirt off in-time and so I guess had to perform with that for the dark set instead of whatever she had planned.
In my mind or others' minds, it was probably like "It ain't that bad, the audience doesn't know that, it ain't a biggie," but in her mind, it's probably huge considering she's the vice-president of the team, that this show was supposed to be perfect, at least according to how she sees it. People were there to comfort her, she went outside for a bit, got changed for her next act, and things ended up just fine. About half of the KDT team was missing, I'm not sure where most could've went. We were all doing our own things or cooperating, or, getting ready for the next act that we were in for some.
We stayed behind until curtain call, and then it was meet-and-greet time. Jk and the cast were the first to greet me. We took pictures with them, along with Ek and Lw who were working the lights and sound for the show. I even got to say hi to Ct who was there as well. Tu, hugged him, Ad, hugged him, took pictures for and with a few, uhhh, it was just a sea of people and cameras.
I'm guessing a lot of people either left or something because it looked disperse afterwards, I couldn't find much else of people I knew. I headed backstage with Cc, Xd, and our mutual friend Ax. The room was, pretty empty. I was like "Holy shit, everybody left, REAL QUICK. I picked up my bag, we headed out to Xd's car, where he drove us to iHop for the after-dinner. It was around, 10:00 PM or so when we got there. iHop doesn't take reservations and another act from the show had already taken the large table. We waited for the rest of us members to show up before we got our tables (which were in like a cozy, large but close cubicle). We had around, 25 people.
It took about an hour, maybe less, but, it took a while for our food to arrive. I was, in fact, dying. I was ready to pass out, although banter and random shit kept me up. I was, super, super hungry. It wasn't until 11:00 PM or so that we got our food. I had actually told my dad to pick me up at 11:00 PM, and so I extended that until 12:00 AM. We ordered about 5 dishes to share for our table, which consisted of Cc, me, Ax, Xd, and two KDT freshmen who interact with Cc.
And boy, when our food finally arrived, I went to town on that bacon omelette, pancake, and hash-brown. Lesson learned: iHop has a lot of fatty, filling foods. But it was good, it was fucking good. After a last bit of Snapchat story-telling, it was time to head home. I was full, tired, stayed awake while expending energy from 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM, made a lot of progress for a day, made a lot of memories for a day, I shed that tiredness image of myself off with a nice plop into my bed.
Has it been the most explosive episode/special/movie yet for "Precisely Refined?" Yes, but is gonna be the height of the series? I hope not actually, because there is a lot more to come in these last 19 seasons of "Precisely Refined." Not only am I refining those who I interact with, but I'm also refining myself, shaping, myself. Anyways, I got lots of work to do/ that is due, tomorrow, and I'm probably gonna wait a bit before actually starting 'em. It's 2:38 PM right now, see ya.
