Osaka & BIGBANG

30,000 people!

ramen museum

So for a quick three day weekend Muqing and I went to osaka to chillax and see the Yg family concert at the Kyocera dome. We stayed at another awesome hostel, super clean and very helpful, called j-hoppers hostel. Really nice place. Day one we arrived in Osaka around 12:00ish and decided
that we were sleepy and not wanting to move around so we headed to the goods line. It was super easy to find but the train system here is crazy. It's well run but there are tons of lines you can choose from and moving from one line to another is interesting to say the least. Got in the goods and and lo-and-behold!!! It only took an hour and everything we wanted was there. Meaning NOT sold out!! I got a yg hoodie, anniversary light, 2NE1 pins, gd&top clear files, and a tablo pen. Good haul! We were starving and saw a poster for a collaboration between coco curry and bigbang. Yes and yes, we headed there and payed too much and enjoyed the best curry evah!! including getting a free bigbang spoon. Checked into the hostel and then headed out to find a cat cafe.

our seats weren't too bad

The lady at the hostel had given us directions to a cat cafe with a map. It took us TWO hours to find the damn thing. We wandered around in the cold deciding where this cafe was, only to take a taxi around a corner to a building we had already been to. Sadly in was in a building we had walked by at least 10 times. Oh well... We went in and chilled with cats for an hour and called in a night. The next day slept in and went to the ramen museum. Momofuku cup ramen museum and had a blast! You get a cup and decorate it for only 300yen. ($3) Then fill it with pre-frozen noodles. There is a plethora of delicious freeze dried things to put into the ramen including, asparagus, kimchi, and cheese. I choose curry flavor and have yet to eat it. I can only imagine mine will taste horrible. Then we headed to the concert. It was surprisingly easy to get in and we found our seats. We were pleasantly surprised that our seat were so close, right near the floor area. They were showing lots of music videos and other videos from the Korean family concert.

bigbang curry

The concert got going with GD&TOP's Oh yeah video, it was a bit strange, and everyone started singing to this video. It kicked off with 2NE1 singing a variety of songs and then we got a sampling of all of the artists songs in their groups. Bigbang, 2NE1, Psy, Se7en, Gummy, Tablo, and Jinsu & Sean all sang lots of songs in a variety of languages. Including English, Korean, and Japanese. Then they mixed in the collaborations. Sometimes they sang of Yg songs, other times they sang new songs, like se7en did. Gummy, Psy's and Jinsu & Sean's songs were new to me. Gummy sings alot of ballads and has an amazing voice. I don't like ballads but her singing was extremely powerful. Psy is Amazing!! I had seen him but never seen him perform. It was crazy, his stage presence was overwhelming and even though he could only speak Korean and his songs were new to us no one could sit down or not pay attention to him. How could you ignore a giant statue of him drinking and smoking, and then having its clothes ripped off? answer is---> you don't. Jinsu & Sean has this amazing old school American hip-hop vibe. I really liked it because it wasn't trashy sounding like contemporary hip-hop now adays. Bigbang came back at the end for another round and they sang the special ending song, but not before the most ridiculous ending songs ever. 2NE1 and Gummy sang bigbang's last farewell and Bigbang sang I am the best. Top and daesung in I am the best was hilarious. I wish they would break from their cool image to be goofy more often. Since the accident they've been more reserved. Again Psy stole the show parodying lady gaga and beyonce. He wore the EXACT same outfit as they did and danced like a beast on stage with the video playing behind him. A nice touch was his face glued onto the video. Awesomeness.

-FIRE (2NE1)
-CAN’T NOBODY (2NE1)
-GO AWAY (2NE1)  
-TONIGHT (BIGBANG) 
-HANDS UP (BIGBANG) 
-BIGBANG TALK TIME 
-KOE WO KIKASETE (BIGBANG) 
-GARA GARA GO (BIGBANG)
-I’M SORRY (GUMMY)
-DIGITAL BOUNCE (SE7EN FT TOP)  
-TALK TIME (se7en Jinu & GD(?)) 
-HIPHOP GENTLEMEN (GDRAGON, SE7EN, JINUSEAN)
-A-YO (JINUSEAN)
-TELL ME (JINUSEAN WITH DARA)
-LOVE IS BAD (TABLO FT BOM)
-TABLO AND GUMMY STAGE  
-TOMORROW (TABLO FT TAEYANG) 
-IT HURTS (DAESUNG) 
-LONELY (SE7EN SEUNGRI SE7EN DAESUNG) 
-OH YEAH (GTOP FT BOM)
-PSY STAGE
-SHAKE IT (PSY)
-SOMEBODY ELSE (SE7EN)
-I AM THE BEST (2NE1)
-I DON’T CARE (2NE1)
-UGLY (2NE1 FT GUMMY)
-HEARTBREAKER [BALLAD VER] (GUMMY)  
-HARU HARU [japanese VER] (BIGBANG) 
-LIES (BIGBANG)
-HEAVEN (BIGBANG)
-LAST FAREWELL (2NE1) with gummy (?)
-LADY GAGA PARODY (PSY)
-I AM THE BEST (BIG BANG)
-MALHAEJYO (sung by the whole family + GDYB dance)

FOUR hours later!!! The concert ended with the special ending song and then we headed out deliriously happy. Best concert ever. Monday was a holiday and we went to kiyomisu temple for coming of age day. We got to do giant omikuge and I got middle level so I am moderately lucky for the rest of the year.

swag

mini GD&TOP from Japan album