Do we even use the phrase fan-account for American celebrities? Well.. let's do this. While waiting for both FaceBook and YouTube to upload my video, which said they'll take 2.5 hrs and 84 minutes (respectively), I'll write about my entire afternoon.
You can choose not to read about it, because it's just a pure 'fangirl'/parawhore encounter.
I asked Shah and Sujun whether they wanted to go to the airport to see if we can get lucky and meet the band, or just the swellers, at least. Shah was on, Sujun was not sure because she has exams coming up.
Reached the airport at around 1pm, and we went from terminal to terminal, just sitting and staring. At this point there wasn't many fans, only a couple of groups of 3 or 2 with cameras and all. Christopher, Sujun, and two girls joined us. At about 2.30pm, we were at terminal 3, waiting for a flight to come in. Then we read on twitter that some girl just met the band and they just left Indonesia. So we were sure we wouldn't see them at the T3 flight arrival hall for now. And we had a late lunch. During the meal, we had a confirmed information from that girl, (thank you so much, sweet Indonesian parawhore!) and so we took our time.
We went to Terminal 2 after the meal to wait around, at about 4pm. The flight was scheduled to land at 4.45pm. I made the iChangi app give me a notification whenever something new happened. We chatted awhile.. and the crowd started coming in. Groups of girls, guys, mixed, indonesian-speaking kids, etc, etc.
All of a sudden my app popped up - SQ 959 has landed.
So i kinda freaked out a little. The belt 35 also showed the Jakarta sign. We waited and waited, luggage started pouring out of the belt..... and we saw some foreigners.
Taylor was the first to appear. He was in all black, with a black cap and black glasses. He didn't catch our attention because he was walking alone to the belt, but i noticed him because of his all black attire and cap. :> Nobody really screamed, but some squeals of "Omg Taylor!" here and there. More caucasians started walking to the belt, and we were all nervous to see whether our favuorite person was gonna pop out.
Then there she was. That flaming redhead, with all smiles and waving to the fans outside the baggage claim area. There were screams and cheers and we were all stoked to see Hayley! Taylor went to 'sit' at the belt (SO ADORABLE) and then awhile after, Jeremy appeared. He was also very nice and smiley, waving to us. After they hung around and got everything, the security came out to us and told us to hopefully be 'Respectful' and not do anything crazy.
Then they came out of the glass windows like angels descending on our soil. My phone-camera started rolling at this point.
The tall security dude protected Hayley, while Jeremy was on Hayley's other side, and they all smiled and waved at us. :) Taylor was right behind them. I was on the other side so i had to run all the way to the path where they were coming through to their transport. I was in front of them! I got like a few seconds of clear Jeremy video-shots. Jeremy led the way, smiling, with some security flanked on both sides. Behind him was Hayley and the tall security dude. Hayley put her hood up so her hair wasn't obvious, but I still managed to see her face :D She was so sweet. As they exited the airport, i was behind Taylor (you can see in the video later) and i saw his blonde curls at the bottom of his adorable hair x)
They climbed onto the van and then Jon Howard, Jason Pierce and Justin York went up too. Hayley was so adorable in the van :D The van was almost fully loaded with the crew so (i don't know what happened) I felt the urge to say "Bye!". And I did. And everyone followed me, shouting "BYE!!!!!!" "BYE HAYLEY!!!!" And i saw Hayley in the van, smiling and waving at us! :D I don't have that on the video though, but still. That face, smiling at me. My heart skipped a beat.. or many beats.
After the van's door closed Sujun noticed Lindsey Byrnes (their photographer) and Shah shouted LINDSEY!!! And she noticed us! She used her DSLR to take pictures of us, and she said "Would you like to say something?" And we were deciding to say "SINGAPORE LOVES YOU PARAMORE!" But she was in a hurry and she told us to say "bye!" and so.. we screamed BYEEEE into the video. Hopefully it gets edited in a videoblog of some sort! *crossing fingers*
That was the end of the paramore-airport experience. Sujun and I were the only 'free' souls and were deciding whether to get a cab and go to the hotel, but we were kinda late (they drove off for awhile by then) and decided not to.
Well, it was really fun though they couldn't stop for the fans because of the large crazy mob.. I can't wait for tomorrow's concert and hopefully I get to see them upclose! Maybe I can be lucky enough to get up on stage for Misery Business. Who knows? Anyway, whether i go up or not, i bet i'll have a blast.
But P.S. any Singaporeans want to send them off to Hawaii on monday?
PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Sending them off is more guaranteed some time to hangout because they aren't in a rush to get away from a crowd or get into the departure area. So.. "Ask" me or tweet me! @thejaynahop.
I bet nobody will read up to this point.. hahaha.