Event: Asia Style Collection Part 1

Last Saturday, Pickat / SK Planet / SK Telecom very, very generously invited me to attend the StyleXStyle Asia Style Collection. Isn’t that a major mouthful of words? In essence, StyleXStyle (pronounced as “style by style”, and not my uncool way of “style ex style”) is a fashion portal by Mediacorp, while Asia Style Collection is the name of the event.

I basically didn’t know what the hell was going on until I got there – holy moly, it’s a full day of events! I was supposed to have gone for the Girls Generation and 2NE1 rehearsals, but my head was way, way too smogged out, so I spent the morning recuperating from my migraine. I figured I’d rather attend the night event for the concerts, the atmosphere, and get this – AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE PHOTOS WITH GIRLS GENERATION AND 2NE1! -squeals in delight-

Note that I used the word “with” and not “of” – thanks to Pickat, I actually had the chance to have physical contact with SNSD! Thankoooooos Pickat! If you’re not sure what this is – I’ll do the run-through later.

Meanwhile, since this will be a majorly photo-intensive blog entry, I’m splitting it up into several parts. I can’t edit a few hundred photos at one shot, right? Once all my parts are up, I’ll do a link

Big hall of empty chairs – we got to enter early cos of media perks. phew. In front of us, important peoplez from SBS :O I wonder if I got talent spotted? lol

The sole performer on stage at the moment: A DJ who was playing pretty rockin’ music, and who also conveniently became my test shoot subject. heh.

Testing out the Panasonic FZ200 which has frigging amazing zoom and stable images even from far away. loves.

The only proof that I was even present at the event heh. Not a big camwhore. Taken with the boys DK, Joe and Justin

AKB48 kicks off the event!

They were amazingly shrill and high-pitched, kinda like The Chipmunks.

And then another sub group comes out – I’m too confused by this time as to who is who, and which sub group is which. But the boys sitting about 2 rows behind me were clearly not confused – they were such huge fans that they were bellowing in enthusiasm.

The two sub-groups merging…

… and by now, I’ve more or less figured out the angles that I can take photos from

Too bad I was dwarfed by the various heads popping out in front of me, and thus, I hereby insert a disclaimer that I did not manage to take photos of all outfits / performances. Sigh. sad face.