Stalking Rain, Day 4.

We took a break from stalking today because his location shoot is out-of-town. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have anything to blog about.

Our interview with Ginger Conejero came out at TV Patrol today. The episode is already uploaded here:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/tvpatrolreplay

Our part is towards the last few minutes of the broadcast. But if you’re not interested in watching the rest of the program, please wait as I finish downloading the episode and cutting off the unwanted parts.

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Edit:

Here’s the video. Turn CC ‘on’ to view the ENG subs. And watch out as I grit my teeth when I came to the part about how one hello, one smile from Rain is enough to erase all ill-feelings towards him. The ‘Agent P’ in me is still there, after all.

Video credit: Cloud Philippines
Transcript by Lou; FIL-ENG translation, subbing and encoding by Agent P

Stalking Rain, Day 3

Did you ever think that me, Agent P, who has always criticized Rain and his management whenever something’s not right, would be defending him in a room full of pissed off media people who attended his last-minute-canceled press conference yesterday?

I did that yesterday, and I did that to save Rain’s face.

If not for us from Cloud Philippines frantically trying to explain things to the reporters who have decided to declare him as suplado at maarte (snobbish and demanding in diva-esque proportions), Rain would be at the receiving end of super-bad press from the Philippine media because of his quirks (eg., no one is allowed to go near him for whatever reason. In Philippine showbusiness, that is the exact equivalent of a first-class snob) and his management’s inability to come up with a believable reason as to why they had to cancel the press conference at the last minute, and making the press wait almost two hours for that official statement. Although I must say that I pity the Korean spokesperson and his translator who had no choice but to be grilled by the pissed off members of the press. I think the only time the Korean managed to smile was when we told him, “it’s all right” in Korean.

It’s funny because, Lou and I got interviewed by ABS CBN’s Ginger Conejero (I just don’t know if they will air it because I think she did that because she can’t come back to their office without a story, so she decided to interview us as there is no Rain) and one of her questions was if we feel a certain sort of resentment towards Rain for what happened at the (non) presscon. Our answer: no, because knowing the system in Korean showbiz, we kinda expected that something like this might happen. And we still love him no matter what. It was a mark of a true professional that I didn’t get a nosebleed from saying that because that is not the kind of thing you would normally hear from me. If that was ‘normal Agent P’, I would be ranting non-stop and formulating all sorts of bad headlines for tomorrow’s news along with the disgruntled reporters.

So presscon? FAIL. What did I do after that? Sat at the lobby of the hotel with my friends, ordered some overpriced food (I pigged out on hors d’oeuvres at the botched presscon but who gets full on hors d’oeuvres, especially one who hasn’t had breakfast and lunch and it’s already 4:00pm?) and waited for whoever Korean celebrity would pass by.

Commence: Play Mind Games with Rain.

While waiting for my food, Ji Hoon came in from the pool area and called out his stylists who were somewhere near the main doors. His eyes quickly roamed the immediate area (by the way, he does look at every fan on the face and memorizes it). When he saw my face, he suddenly darted behind a nearby pillar and hid there, with his crew blocking him out of my view. Ok, so I guess that confirms that he does know my face? I just don’t know if I looked familiar to him because he’s been seeing my big face for three days straight, or because he knows who Agent P is.

Yeah, Ji Hoon. That did not help appease my growing disappointment towards you at all.

Later on, him and his crew went out for dinner and you know what Ji Hoon did? He walked casually and leisurely instead of his usual brisk walk, chatting up and stealing glances towards our direction. At one time, he was already a few feet away from our spot, and he still looked back at us. Meanwhile, us, his loyal fans in the Philippines, just sat at the couches staring at him with me giving him this look: . Yes, we ignored Rain. He stayed at the lobby for quite a while waiting for his service vehicle and none of us ran towards him to get at least a closer look. We just stayed glued at our seats, giggling at what we have just done. I really don’t know what made us do that. The guy is probably totally bewildered by now because I’m dead sure he knows we are his fans (three days of seeing the same faces, I’m sure he got a clue by now, ‘no?) and that we were there to stalk him, and yet there he was, obviously trying to catch our attention, and we snubbed him. I don’t know if that was a stupid move on our part or what.

I don’t remember mentioning this but during the Cubao shoot, the Korean staff photographer took our photos. I don’t know why.

Oh yeah, we also saw Lee Jung Jin at the lobby. Whoever said that he’s taller than Rain got it all wrong. He’s definitely smaller. And I think he looks cuter on TV than in person. Can’t wait to see Daniel Henney, and yay! I will definitely see him on Thursday at the press con. Unless “someone” decides to cancel it again.

Stalking Rain, Day 2.

It was announced to us last Saturday night that Rain will be guesting at TV5’s Party On 5 at noontime today. The CloudPH staff took our chances and went to KB Studios to watch the show. Long story short, he didn’t show up, but some of us ended up winning a pair of Gold tickets for the concert. And lots of friends and relatives texted me to say, “I saw you on TV!!!” Oh noes. I was seen on TV holding a big Full House poster. Wait, maybe that’s a good thing?

We were a bit let down by the no-show from Rain when we went straight to the CPH meeting at Gateway, Cubao. While the meeting was in full swing, I got a text alert: Fugitive, sorry, Runaway is filming right that minute and the location is… Cubao. Thank you, Lord! Who would’ve thought? That was one totally unexpected blessing.

So we hurried like crazy to the location of the shoot. It was one very strictly guarded set, and I’m sorry to say this, but I was close to all those “fans” who were screaming, trying to get Rain’s attention and begging the staff to let them take a photo with Ji Hoon. One of them even said, “sige ka, ipagkakalat kong suplado ka!” (if you won’t let me take a photo with you, I’ll spread around that you’re a snob). To which me and my CPH friends say, “as if he would care.” At one point, when those girls were really getting insistent, I wasn’t able to control myself and said, “please give it up. He’s really not friendly in person, and the more you scream and beg, the more he will run away from you.” They’re like… how did you know?? Uh, because we’ve been fans for five years and we know him so well? We even told the crowd control staff that they won’t have to worry about us (CPH) because we know Rain really well and we will keep our distance. In fact, we’d be willing to reprimand all those pasaway bystanders who would insist on getting their way.

PLEASE DO NOT HOTLINK!!!

Now here’s the thing… when he was about to leave, his service vehicle picked him up right in front of us. He suddenly appeared out of nowhere and said in a loud voice: “HELLO!” with matching wave before he hurriedly boarded the car. All other bystanders screamed; the people from Cloud PH? Were like this: “HUH???”

So I guess, overall, today is not a bad day at all, ‘no?

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8 Seconds. That’s all it took for Rain to walk from the exit gates of NAIA Terminal 2 to his service vehicle. In those 8 seconds, he only took one glance towards my direction - well, it’s my blog, so I’ll keep that delusion that he looked at me - and went straight to the black car, slid the door close and drove away, leaving his poor cameraman behind to take care of his luggage.

NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT HOTLINK!!!!

But hey, I gotta give a massive shoutout to Dong Joon (June aka @rainjtunecamp). I asked Kairu, who has been communicating with him on Twitter, to hand to him my small gift to Rain which was supposed to be given to him last February in Seoul if I were able to find the J Tune office.

credit: Kairu

He accepted it, put it on top of Rain’s luggage, and for one second we thought he might leave it at the luggage cart but the very kind lady who is part of the organizers handed it to him again and he never let go of it until they left. That was nice of him. I guess Dong Joon is now my official messenger, ‘no?

The excitement is just starting. Stay tuned.

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Cloud Philippines wins hands down as the most behaved fan club in airport welcoming situations. No one screamed, no one ran towards Rain to maul him, etc. I remember, a few minutes before Rain came out, Lou heard a staff member telling the security staff to add four more people to block us because Rain doesn’t like people to approach him. There were only 7 women who were not part of the welcoming committee in the vicinity, two of them Golden Girls. Do they think we’re gonna cause a lot of damage?? So I spoke in a really loud voice and said, “Hey, we know Rain very well, right? We know he doesn’t like to be touched. We know him better than they do. No need to tell us what to do, or bring in more security people to block us. We’re not gonna approach him. That’s what zoom lens are for.” I guess they heard me, because they let us do our thing when Rain came out. In silence. You’ll see on the fancams, it’s like… the sound was muted. See, Ji Hoon? Filipinos are not scary at all.

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Rain will be appearing at a local noontime variety show tomorrow. It’s going to be his first live appearance on Philippine TV. I’m scared and excited at the same time.

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Edit:

Ok, why is my resident psychic giving me fan accounts of Rain from his hotel?? I never thought something like this could happen…

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Edit 2:

We were very visible at the 0:27-0:29 mark of this fancam, courtesy of Smart Communications:

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Edit 3:

Some silent movies…

All videos courtesy of Cloud Philippines.

I’m on leave of absence from work starting today until next week. We have an insane schedule ahead of us because of Rain’s PH visit and I think this demands full attention. The last thing I want now is more stress from work to add to my current stress from fangirling, so an LOA is in order. It’s a good thing that Rain decided to fly straight to Cebu instead of going to Manila; he’s supposed to arrive in the Philippines today as told by a local entertainment site’s Twitter account, which turned out to be false because he flew in to Cebu yesterday morning. Per my sources, this was not the original plan. If the original plan pushed through, you wouldn’t be reading this entry now because I’ll probably be at the airport waiting for his arrival, or has started with the stalking process.

Speaking of which… hey fellow Pinoy fans, I know this is finally our opportunity to be like the other fans from other countries and post our own personal fan accounts, but please bear in mind: RAIN’S PRIVACY SHOULD BE OUR NO. 1 PRIORITY. Please learn not to be too intrusive, and learn to filter those that need to be posted on the internet for the whole world to know. Although the publication of his exact whereabouts mainly should be blamed on his own staff who posted the pic of his location on Twitter (really, Dong Joon-ssi… it’s quite easy to use Google to know where that pic was taken from ), but to post stuff like, “he did this and that at this exact hour” is waayyy too intrusive. Don’t tell me stuff like, “but the Japan/China/etc etc fans did that, too!” Just because everyone does it, should you do it, too, even if it’s wrong? Just so you know, most of those fans also filter the stuff they post on the internet. Remember, his hotel is his temporary home. He’s supposed to enjoy his private time there. Sightings in public places is ok, I suppose, but hotel stuff? Na-ah.

Anyway… since Rain is several islands away from me and I have no plans of flying all the way there just to stalk (my wallet’s pretty dried up at this stage and the concert hasn’t even happened yet), I decided to use this unexpected free time to catch up on sleep. I think I slept a grand total of 8 hours in the past 2 weeks or so. When I woke up this noon, it’s busy, busy, busy time once again, replying to queries, planning and monitoring the activities, etc.

And you know what makes this crazier? On top of Fugitive filming and the Intensity concert, Polyeast Records has announced that they’re releasing Back To The Basic Asian Edition in the Philippines in time for the concert. We had a meeting with the record execs last night along with MBLAQ-PH and Infinity-PH and it was very productive. I think J Tune and Mnet made the right decision to entrust BTTB and MBLAQ’s Y to them. They’re very enthusiastic about the project and they’re very open to the fan clubs’ suggestions on how to market the CDs here. Please watch out for announcements on CloudPH’s website, Twitter and Facebook pages as regards the album release. Right now, we’re focusing more on the concert because of certain deadlines, but once we get things settled we will start mass promotions for BTTB. I assure you, it’s going to be really exciting for the Philippine fans and our overseas guests, too.

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I’d like to share a little story from last night. We were having dinner and Rizza received a phone call from an unknown number. She’s been receiving a lot of that lately so it’s not so surprising. The caller is a Filipino and she was inquiring about how she can avail of the CPH T-shirt. It wasn’t until after a few minutes when she revealed that she’s not in the Philippines; she is in London. And then she asked about our friend Dahly. She said that if Dahly does not win the contest, she is going to send money for Dahly’s concert ticket so that Dahly could watch. Rizza told her that there is no need for that because we entered Dahly to the contest only for the Meet and Greet. Dahly already has a concert ticket (and a moshpit one, at that). But I find it so endearing how Dahly’s story has touched so many people, even those who are not in our country. It’s really a very inspiring story and I really hope that even if she doesn’t win the M&G slot, it will send a positive message to all fans (not just of Rain’s) that fangirling may be just a hobby or a passion for most of us, but for some like Dahly, it’s something a lot more than that. For them, it’s a way to cope up with life’s struggles.

This is like asking for the moon and the stars, but I also hope that even if Dahly doesn’t win the contest, I hope that her story would reach Rain. (Then again, I once said that Rain going to the Philippines for a concert is only possible once pigs could fly. Last time I checked, pigs still don’t have wings.)