Cloud to Rain MV

A fan made video. It is so touching and beautiful. I like it very much so I'm sharing it here.
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Nikon CF

How I miss Bi Rain.

He's currently busy filming his Hollywood film in Berlin till end of August. Not to mention, the much needed break from media and fans after the unfortunate series of events in US.

Anyways here are some of his Nikon CF photos.

He looked so down to earth, sweet and happy. I hope he is at peace wherever he is.

I'm on Cloud 9, thanks to Rain

I was dreading the Friday morning meeting. Mainly bcos I wasn’t totally prepared to present my 3 months project. As usual, the meeting started wt the BOSS asking what we have been watching on tv lately. After 4 minutes on ‘Tribute to Diana Concert’ by the Princes which in my humble opinion wasn’t much to shout about in terms of the flow ‘maybe bcos it wasn’t meant for tv in the first place, when somebody brought up Rain Bangkok concert whereby that person thought would have my 100% approval compare to the British concert. At first I was quite embarrassed to be put in the spotlight (especially in a meeting attended by several serious looking people- who weren’t that close to me) and then another started telling bout Rain being sued by Rain Corp which I corrected them by saying the law suit has been dropped by the judge and Rain can continue using his name. I thought that was the end of it, then the BOSS started mentioning about an entry made by South Korea in one of the competition which he was one of the panel of judges where the subject was Rain concert in Madison Square which he praised was brilliantly done etc.

I couldn't believe my ears. Not bcos Rain doesn’t deserve the praise but the fact that there I was in my ‘week in progress meeting’ and several of my senior manager colleagues are discussing and praising Rain as early as 0945am!! That was too good to be true. I suddenly felt like a proud parent!! I’m like grinning from ear to ear and clapping quietly in delight. That gesture didn’t escape my BOSS which he exclaimed by saying well, I can see that somebody is very pleased and smiled at me. At that juncture, everybody else also looked at me and clapped their hands as well. I felt on top of the world. It’s AS IF I had to do with the success of Rain concert. Ha! Ha! Not only people associated wt Rain bcome famous, his fan like me also can have their moments of glory like this. So my gloomy Friday morning, turned out ‘rainbowly’ okay after all.

Finally it was 5:32pm. I was queuing to use the toilet. Everybody was rushing to use the toilet before their drive home. I still had quite a number of things to finish before I can hit home. I reckon maybe at quarter to seven I can hit home. Suddenly I heard a voice calling out to me. One of the Chinese Channel directors was walking towards me. I was about to ask when she suddenly handed me a namecard holder which has Rain pictures on it. I literally went aaaaaaaa!!!!!! in the ladies. That’s when she said ‘I heard you are into Rain, so I got this for you!’ (I know! I know! It sounds almost too good to be true right? But that was exactly what happened to me today). Then we were joined by a promo producer who reminded me to show her my shaky video of Rain concert in Bangkok which I promised her sometime ago. And she ended up telling my tale of being so lucky to see the concert in Bkk to the next girl in line when it was my turn to go into the vacant toilet.

So needless to say that today was a good Friday for me, thanks to Rain.

Heart breaking news

It was about 4pm when I learnt about the news. Doris from MJJH forward me the sms she received from Rain Vietnam.

Rain LA concert was cancelled 15 mins before door opening. He wasn't even given the opportunity to explain or see his fans regarding the cancellation.

My heart breaks...

Rain was very upset and cried

I heard and read about his explanation when he met some fans organized by Rain USA

It's very sad to hear his voice sounded so hurt

It has been a dreadful and long day for all Rain fans. I can only offer my sympathy to all his fans worldwide who flew across the globe to see him perform, only to know that the concert is cancelled at the very last minute. Many people are hurt by this turn of event, not to mention angry. Some words are thrown carelessly which in return hurt more people. Rain included.

Its not going to be an easy journey for him. But its a journey worth fighting for. And we as Rain's Cloud will stand by him through thick and thin.

As the saying goes, for every cloud there's a silver lining.
Aja, aja fightin.

Happy 25th Birthday Jihun-Bi Rain

Yesterday, June 25 was Rain's birthday

The message I'm sharing below was penned my the man himself. Some may label me as having a soft spot for this favourite artist of mine but I'm touched by his gesture in remembering us the fans on his meaningful occasion.

Source: Rain World

Chi translation by lovebi_rain@Baidu RAIN bar

Eng translation by jjbug@rain-malaysia

shown in Rain Msia -MJJH forum

Hi everyone, I'm Rain Now I'm already 25~ I thought I'm still a secondary school student but now, half of my 20s passed away... Even I look at those high school girls, I feel like they are sisters~ It's unbelievable that I'm mid 20s now~Thanks very much for the blessing words for my birthday Because of your words, I am very very happy in USA.... If I can spend this big day with all of you, it must be more meaningful and fun right? I feel regret for that But for the future of "RAIN"I've decided to scarify my birthday for work. I don't even drink the seaweed soup

Now I'm in USA, all the preparation for my album and movie are going on smoothly as planned. Next month I'm going to start the filming, guess it must be an interesting and wonderful assignment. And I believe it'll be a precious experience because I'm able to work with excellent people, so much more looking forward to it~~ At the same time, do look forward to my new album yaa~ Now have the chances to meet many great people, we're in the middle of a HUGE project My new album is estimated to release together with my movie.

AND most important, to all the fans who make the Asian world tour went smooth, I would like to thank you all again here. World Tour was planned 3 years ago, we really spent efforts to make it realise With your supports, that's why all the shows can be done. Again, thank you very very much. My USA world tour only begins now, but I never expect the name "RAIN" and the producer brought so many troubles to the shows. It's not my intention to break my promise with my fans I'm really sorry and sad for all these. The shows that I gave up a lot to make them come true...Yet because of the organisers, rumours spreading around I don't want to see anymore trouble in the shows for my fans, just because of some people's greed. Well~ Maybe from next concert, let me plan and build the stage myself~ So nothing bad will happen right? Hehe ¤»¤» No matter how, please don't be worry

I've said this yaa? If I can't perform 100%, nothing begins For the 100%, I'm doing my best always I will be everyone's RAIN that you all are proud of

Please always support and encourage ^______^

June 25, 25th Birthday, by Jihun

Here's wishing you a meaningful and wonderful 25th birthday, wherever you are & May all your wishes come true.

I had a dream

I had a dream 2 nites ago. I know its no big deal bcos as the Malay saying goes ‘mimpi hanya mainan tidur’ (dream is a sleeper’s fool) I’m not good in translating it but the dream sure makes me felt like a fool alright. I hardly dream. I use to sleep walk when I was 8-10 years old but that was a long, long time ago. But nowadays, I hardly dream so that’s why when it happened, I cannot help but felt a bit peculiar.

Anyways the fact that this entry is written here obviously bcos my dream involved Rain. Althou I don’t think the dream has any significant meaning whatsoever but I think I do know the contributing factors. A bit of history before I say more about this trivial but somehow intriguing dream of mine. Somewhere along this week, I read in the local forum about Rain going to Berlin right after his LA concert to act in his new movie. He will be there for about 2 months till end of Aug. I did see a few photos of Rain taken in Berlin when he was there for the press conference. He looked so laid back maybe bcos there weren’t too many fans following him around and most people don’t know him.

So when I read about him spending two months there I was thinking that maybe if I go to Berlin I have a chance of bumping into him. Ha!Ha! What a thot or dream for that matter. Nevertheless sub continuously that thot didn’t go away hence the said dream.

So I was in Berlin (or what I believed was a Berlin city bcos I never been there before). Even I marveled in the dream on why the town looked so much like Bangkok?!? There I was looking for a Korean restaurant bcos I figured Rain would probably go to one of them to eat. I went into one and chose a sit next to the glass wall so I can see people going in and out of the place. The place was buzzing wt people, not eating but like me waiting. Are they waiting for something to happen, or are they waiting for Rain too? I was midway of eating I presume kimchi when I heard him. I heard Rain’s voice. I looked up and there outside the glass wall, walking slowly along the corridor, talking to a male TV show host with a portable single camera crew following and recording, was Rain. I only saw him sideway. But there I was standing and staring until he was out from my vision. When I was out from my trance I realized almost half of the restaurant’s patrons were already down the corridor following Rain. I saw somebody I know from the office. Not one but two of them!! He was signaling to me did you see him? I nodded my head profusely, I did, I did! Why are you not following him? he asked. It’s okay I signaled back. I don’t want to disturb him. I think I said something like that.

So that’s it. End of dream.

For the record, I’m now actually wondering how much is the airfare to German and what’s the temperature like there in August.

Rain WTBkk June 2 -Pt2

I’m in the concert hall. I had purchased the 5000baht ticket which was for the Standing A pit zone. And it was sooo worth it. I was actually very close to the stage. There were fans from Taiwan, Japan, Korea and of cos Thais all around me. Luckily before I went into the stadium, met a Msian girl whom was also on her own so we partnered ourselves. She became my Mandarin translator when we chit chat with the Taiwanese fans. I took pix of some of their lightboards.

Lights out and the sub marine emerged. The scream around me was deafening. I can’t believe that I was about to witness a concert that I’ve been anticipating for the past 6 months. Then he appeared…I tried to capture his image on my W800i but it’s quite difficult to get a clear and clean image. Only after I came back to KL that I realized I’ve been pressing on the wrong button for the video. Instead of zooming in, I’m actually zooming out. No wonder I can’t get a close up. Duhh!! All in all, I took about 33 videos altogether. Most of it was shaky bcos I was enjoying myself too much swaying left and right and sometimes head banging without realizing that the video is on. The feeling is indescribable. Surreal. Especially when Bi sang the songs that you really like… but come to think of it, I like all his songs anyway. Kah! Kah!

He is SOOO cute and adorable. The dance…and the body, who can argue? But I do wish he give up the scripted English when he spoke to his audiences. I prefer Korean language anytime even if I don’t understand a word. Other than that, everything else about the concert spells perfection. I love every minute of it. Two hours were just too short. By the time Bi Rain appeared in his trademark red jump suit I knew it was nearly the end of the concert. When it ended I hugged the gal I just met aka my translator and felt like crying.

To me, I finally able to place a real figure to the person whom I always just see on MVs, dramas, video clips and CFs.

It was an experience like no other.