Tuesday, July 03, 2007
dutchmill in bkk... i was drinking it... it was too sweet...
made it during open house...
one of the rainsingapore fanclub members... same dance class. met her in bkk. brings back good memories... i really loved bkk concert =)
rain is everywhere...
track camp. left to right: hemin, rebecca and me...i smile darn funny... i cannot smile.. cannot take pics one...
cr: baidu
sr:rain hk
V2B Global Inc., 801 N. Brand Blvd, Suite 850 Glendale, CA 91203 T: (818) 291-9909 F: (818) 291-9921 Official Statement for the Cancellation of the Los Angeles concert at Staples Center on June 30th, 2007. As the local promoter for Los Angeles, V2B Global would like to apologize to all the sponsors, fans, concert goers, and media that were affected by the last minute cancellation of the Los Angeles concert at the Staples Center. V2B Global exercised all possible options to continue with this concert; however, STAR M (Korean Production Team) from Korea unknowingly to V2B Global cancelled the show without our consent. With a strong group of sponsors, fans, media to support us and nearly 80% [7,318 tickets sold out of 9,429 seats available (per Ticketmaster on 06/30/07)] of the venue filled we were in a perfect position to commence with this concert. As the local promoter and the company in charge of arranging all local production requirements, we hired a production manager by the name of Mark Russo who has over 35 years of experience in putting on world class productions for some of America’s top artists from various genres. V2B Global stands by its word that all the local production companies handling staging, video, audio and lighting requirements were paid a deposit to begin the work and the remainder paid in full (by cash) at load-in time (beginning 2:00AM on June 30th, 2007) in accordance with our agreement with each production company. With this understanding each production company showed up on schedule with all the necessary tools and equipment to complete their portion of the agreement and provide production services in order to allow the local promoter to complete the show. V2B global began production work on lights, sound, and stage from 2:00AM and was brought to a halt at approximately 12:45PM due to a LED screen provided by STAR M. Upon further review into the reason for the halt, V2B found out that Staples Center (which requires that all electrical components be U/L certified) had refused to allow the installation of the LED Screen to continue because of safety issues arising from using non U/L listed certified equipment. To get final judgment on whether the LED screen could be used or not, a local city building and safety inspector was called to make the final determination. Against the advice of the local promoter and Staples Center, STAR M continued to halt production on their portion of the production until the inspector arrived. At 3:45PM the inspector arrived and within 20 minutes explained that this is a “non U/L certified equipment and therefore, he could not authorize this equipment or any other equipment without the U/L certification to be energized with power for safety reasons.” This resulted in the LED Screen, chain lift motors and conveyor belts from being used during the show due to non conformity with U/L certification. From 4:00PM to 4:45PM, STAR M production managers had an internal meeting (excluding the local promoter) on how to resolve this situation. During this time Staples Center had advised STAR M to remove the non-approved LED Screen, chain lift motors, and conveyor belts from the stage and commence production because of a constrained time schedule. STAR M requested from Staples Center more time to meet amongst each other therefore causing further delays with the production schedule. During this time the local union and other companies hired by the local promoter were commencing with their duties as if the show would continue. By 5:00PM the local production team and the local union had successfully removed the LED screen, conveyor belts, and chain motors from the main stage, completed the construction of the main stage, begin the construction of the 2nd stage, finished all lighting installations, finished all sound installations and began working on the remainder of the video screens (provided by local production) and stage. At 5:30PM a Staples center representative contacted me (V2B) for an approval on a press release draft stating the cancellation of the concert. A cancellation I was not aware of nor consulted about by STAR M or Rain’s Management. Upon communication directly with Staples Center, it was told to me that STAR M had instructed Staples Center of their withdrawal of this concert due to production issues.V2B feels that STAR M’s incompetence to commence with an alternative show plan without the use of the approved LED screens, chain motors, conveyor belts and consistent halting of production for useless meetings resulted in the failure to complete the production requirements. Despite numerous interruptions by STAR M to our local production team we (V2B, local union and production) were still able to complete the installation of lights, video (Local Production provided), sound, pyrotechnics (with permits by LAFD) and over 80% of the stage excluding the non approved production equipments. As the local promoter I know we have done everything in our power to work and complete the production requirements and were ready to proceed with the concert as planned (even at a financial loss to the promoter) for the fans, media, and sponsors who have shown their dedication to support this show. On behalf of V2B Global, I sincerely apologize to all the fans, media and sponsors for the unfortunate circumstances that led to the cancellation of this concert. We have instructed all of the authorized ticket venue locations to allow for processing of refunds, so please contact the location where you purchased your tickets to request a refund.
if you can bother reading all those up there...
in short, V2B is pushing the blame to StarM...
if it is only starM i heck care but indirectly they are pushing the blame to ji hoon too...
WTH... i cant stand them lol...
they seriously need to get to the bottom of this!!!
they cant let him bei hei guo!!! XD
to summarise today,
WeiYing's back,
He's there.
I'm back
You're there.
Berlin, a nice place to stay
With G.O.D
and speed
2 koreans acting in the same film
1 is world star
the other a legend.
of course 1 is more well known.
a confirmed blockbuster hit will be
as Matrix is behind the scene
with christina and rain and him,
a sure harry potter beater it will be.
but sad. sad. sad.
Now isnt the time for movie
esp for singer Rain.
but he cant seperate with ji hoon can he?
but i believe
and i truly believe
that he will
and he will
try his best
do the best
and be the best
for taejo the speed racer.
Put away all unwanted worries,
focus on the speed
of how things are going.
treasure every moment
and things will go as well as it can be.
Put away the past and start afresh
with jung ji hoon and the rest.
though it has been rainy for singer rain,
the sun will shine the road to sucess and drive it away
for him and only him.
as he is not only singer rain but actor jung ji hoon.
he's everything that you're not. =)
he's a world star
you're a lonely star
he's got fame
while you are lame
he's got fans
while you have electrical fans
he's got personality
while you get too personal with things up at hand
he's world star rain
while you are just a speck of dust reigning
<3 trisha, 3 july 07
recently, i really love conveying messages through poems as it really gives me different POV of things happening. it differs from every person who reads it so no one can say that i'm wrong...
nglkt @ 6:04 AM