Taipei Trip Part 2 (waiting for Arashi's arrival - arriving at our hostel)

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PART 1  PART 3

twas just a short trip from terminal 1 to terminal 2,,,  terminal 2 is much bigger than terminal 1
 

of course we had to have our pix taken... (viewable by family only)

we knew we were on the right location cuz we saw some fangirls holding uchiwas already har3 and this was just before 10am i wonder how early they got to the airport... or how many of them actually slept there haha.. twas a public holiday that day in taiwan (october 10 > double 10) so these fangirls didnt have skul *bletch*... we decided to try the 2nd floor waiting area...  since there were a number of fangirls already at the first floor,,, it would be difficult to squeeze in ourselves to get a glimpse of the boys... plus, that time there were only around 5 people on the 2nd floor,,, so we stayed there...

fans waiting at the 1st floor..

the PS (Philippine Stalkers har2) without me.. (again viewable by family only)

as the arrival time  draws near, more and more fangirls are arriving as well :)

this is how near (actually its kinda far, but, its near compared to how far we are in the concert venue from the stage har3) we'll see the boys when they arrive (left is actual view, right is zoomed... ive been practicing taking pix already haha)..

i swear i have never been this time conscious in my entire life har2... always checking the time and the arrival info board (is that what u call it? haha)

most of the fangirls have their uchiwas, some were in AAA 2, Time, DAL con tees... and we... have nothing ahaha we even discussed what to shout just so the boys would notice us... "pikachu", "hentai", etc... okei time to bring out the tarpaulin har3... and the sloppy arashi uchiwa we made hahaha... im surprised krissy has a philippine flag :) *clap clap* cathy and i thought about this before but.... we doubt arashi knew which flag it is so.. :)  (we were positioned from arashi's view, left to right, krissy, mandi, chrissy, me, cathy) we held our props in this order (again left to right in arashi's view) : philippine flag, arashi uchiwa, tarp with philippines written in katakana... so it would read... arashi philippines har3...

for a couple of times, we would hear fans from the 1st floor screaming,,, and we would be looking at the arrival area,, but no one came hahaha.... krissy held the flag, she was also to take a vid of arashi's arrival, mandi was to take a vid too, chrissy was to hold the tarpaulin together with cathy as well as the arashi uchiwa, i was in between chrissy and cathy and i will be taking pictures... but.... arashi is sure to walk ne? what do we do? ahahaha cathy was to get hold of the tarp and i was to be in charge of her luggage and my luggage and we were supposed to run to the direction arashi was walking...

you could feel tension was up in the whole arrival area when the arrival indicator light blinked for ANA 1081... arashi arrived!!!!!!!!!! and they were on time!!!!!! so imagine how focused people are on passengers going out of the arrival door... we could tell some were fangirls also (raki raki ne? they get to be on the same flight with arashi waaaahhh).. false alarm screams continued for a few more times... then chrissy suddenly screamed after these guys went out..

apparently these 6 boys are MAD members there are actually 11? or 10 of them... which means that the others went out without people noticing them hahaha... if cathy and i are addicts just imagine the addiction level of chrissy and krissy!! they even know the names of these boys hahaha...

and the moment we've all been waiting for!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gomen super blurry i sharpened it a couple of times already but still its blurred hahaha my hands were really shaking ya know hahahaha they got out before 1pm (dont mind the time in my pics, my time is advance ahahaha) first i saw was jun... then sho cuz sho's clothing colour is different from the others.. and i swear,,, jun pointed at us!!!!!!!!!!!!! waaahhh!! he probably read the tarpaulin clearly!!!!!!!!!!!! here's a vid of their arrival (credits to http://www.im.tv/vlog/personal.asp?FID=5127520)

the above video takes time to buffer with my net connection which is cable internet, it took about 3-5mins for the whole vid to buffer,, but the video is the clearest vid ive seen... but for those who have slow connections, u might wanna try this one,,,, (credits to pattywei @ youtube)

notice that jun waves with his left hand,,, and then there's a part he uses his right to point at something ,,, waaah that was the time he pointed at us ne.... 9th second on the vid har3 its too fast but the excitement  of it could still be felt up to now har3... watching the vid, i saw that aiba was  actually looking our way too... but i didnt see him right away since i saw jun first, i was focused on him..so when they were walking, a lot of people were surrounding them, taking pix, vids, or probably even interviewing them... we ran towards the right side of the 2nd floor so we can see them again, and that they can see the tarp again... (my sincerest apologies to those people whose feet were ran over by our luggages hahaha...)  waaahhh jun saw it again!!!!!!  it was him i was after since he was the one i saw who noticed the tarp.... then i checked out the other members before twas too late.... sho looked real hot... hairstyle's so kakkoi argh i said this before and il say it again... he's the kind of guy u wanna bring home to mama ahaha so i shouted real loud "sho! sho! SHO!!!!" then i was taken aback.... i was forgetting aiba was my ichiban lols... so i quickly searched for aiba, who was just in front of sho ahahha "aiba! aiba! AIBA!!!!" they were nearing the corner already... the moment they turn i wont see them anymore until the concert... so i checked out ohno and nino... i saw ohno walking just behind sho.... waah ohno doesnt seem to be that small hahaha.... "uh-oh where the hell is nino? cathy where is nino???!!!".... then the moment aiba turned to walk on the corner of the hall... "cathy,,, is that nino? beside aiba?" cathy confirmed twas nino waaaaahhhh twas too late huhuhu i didnt get to see his face huhuhuhu... seeing 4 out of 5 members isnt bad its good actually... but still...... it aint complete huhuhuhu

as per cathy,, she saw ohno looking our way also... she was the only one who saw this... and she really felt that it was her that riida was waving at... and whaddya expect? she became an instant ohno fan ahahaha she even bought uchiwa the following day which wasnt part of her original list of con goods to buy ahahaa

fans were still screaming even as arashi left the airport already, some of them hailed taxis and followed arashi all the way to taipei arena (or did they go eat xiao long bao at din tai fung first?)...

we went down already... to the area where arashi was (1st floor) still there were sooo many people.. the girls look contented and satisfied ne? waiting for arashi while standing for almost 4 hours......................!!!!!!! all of us can say... twas worth all the wait and the varicose veins we'll probably have ahahaha

this was jun's view (as well as the rest of the group's view) of us when they went out of the door.. (date is different cuz i took this pic when we went back to the airport on monday, 13 oct, for arashi's departure)

this was their view the 2nd time they saw us (we still believe they really saw us ne ahaha)

here are some pix i took at the arrival area of terminal 2

we realized that we were really tired... so we checked where to buy our tbus tickets going to hostel actually twas only chrissy and khrissy checking it since we trust them so much... we just let them check where to go, where to buy, which bus to take ahahaha

 

 

this is where we bought bus tickets... from the airport going to our hostel we had to pay ntd 125,,, travel time was 50minutes...

when we got off the bus we could see the taipei railway station already and we knew our hostel was just nearby...

before walking any further, we had to say gbye to mandi since she's staying in a different hostel....

following the directions we have,, we saw that our hostel was on the other side of the street...eeekkk!!!!!!!! how on earth are we gonna cross? we didnt see any pedestrian lane... argh!!! since we couldnt think of any other way,,, i suggested a "longer way" (u know the exact opposite of shortcut hahaha) going to the hostel... we need to go down the mrt station and go up on the other side of the street... after successfully going down one flight of stairs, there was another one waaaahhhh we were really dead tired and we still had our luggages to mind... so i checked... i think there were 3-4 flights of stairs all in all before we got to the ground... from there,,, we had no idea where to go... we had to ask some people who werent really english-speaking and we were like deaf and mute that we had to point at the map and they had to explain to us with sign language ahahaha i swear twas really difficult ahahaha

 

while krissy was asking a chinese woman for directions i took this pic of the mrt station.. hahahaha

 

 

 

 

 

i swear we looked stupid carrying our luggages... and as if going down the flight of stairs carrying our luggages wasnt tiring enuf.... we have yet to go up waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!?!?!?!?! and twas around 2pm already i think?!?!?! and we've only eaten bfast huhuhu right there and then i had this feeling im gonna lose weight in taipei ahahaha..

 

 

 

i lost track of how many flights of stairs we had to go up and down but i took a pic of one flight of stairs... this was the last one before walking to the hostel... going up is much tiring compared to going down since ure against gravity and imagine doing so with our our heavy luggages waaaahhhh

 

 

 

 

alas! checking-in at our hostel...Taipei Key Traveler's Hostel...

our room...

its my first time staying in a hostel... but our hostel was good enough for budgeted travellers,,, and the rooms are also big :) we had no tv in the room but there was a fridge and as if we can still watch tv hahaha

oh and yeah tehre was a filipina staff at the hostel we explained how we got there...so we asked her if there was an easier, less-tiring way to cross the street... and ... she pointed at a pedestrian lane thru the window waaaahhhh!!!! and from where we got down to mrt station... twas just a minute or two walking distance !#$"^&*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats all i can say ahahaha

 

~ end of part 2 hahaha will be posting again for the other parts... ~