30.1.10
observational study method.
yes, believe it or not, i actually practiced what i learnt in my psych mods today. so how did i do that, you think?it began with rach (or mcflurry girl, to cliffy haha) flying off today, so janna and i went to the airport. and, to cut a long story short, via mos, janna and i discovered that SHINee was arriving today as well (i think xt told me this. funny thing is, she's in canada and had to tell me who's arriving in singapore haha). so somehow, janna managed to convince me to go fangirl with her, and i ended up staying at the airport till about 10, because their flight got delayed. what possessed me to listen to janna, i will never know i think haha.anyway, it's amazing what fangirls will do. personally, i don't think i'll go to the extent of rushing to the airport to scream my welcome, firstly because i live super far away from changi, secondly because i think these stars have enough support from me listening to their tunes and watching and laughing about their youtubes, thirdly because i think it'd be nice to have one less screaming and grabbing fangirl. well, in the first place, screaming and grabbing is so not my style of showing support haha. but that's personal, so please don't flame me.but personally, i guess i got to see a little of something of singapore that i don't usually see. the fans screamed at just about every 180cm+ dude that walked past, even the poor ahjussi who looked thoroughly amused. people came with bling bling boards with those little lights that i've only seen on concerts on tv. every time some screaming carried over from the main crowd, 145432543 cammeras went up in sync. also, i rush with others towards the closing mrt door on a daily basis. today, i saw a different kind of rush, and i was thoroughly amused: when one of the members finally made it to the waiting van, zoooooom went the fans towards the glass doors. honestly, run like that during napfa, and you'll sure get an A for shuttle run. janna was more amused videoing them, while i was just busy laughing when not trying to take photos (in fact, we were more reporters than anything else haha). best part was, at least 99.9% of the people there probably are like me, with no or little understanding of korean. i mean, i spotted 2, out of 123454212 people, who actually were conversing in korean.another thing observed was that most of them were like 16, 17 year olds. janna and i actually felt old there (well, in the first place, it'd been weird for us to yell "OOPA", since SHINee was like younger than us, and even weirder to yell something like "HOOBAE" or "DONG SENG"). maybe it's just me, but i think it's a bit worrying to see 16, 17 year olds behaving in that manner. i mean, the possibility that you'll never meet these people in real life, much less know them personally, is really extremely high. i mean, there's got to be more to life than being a fangirl. call me traditional, but i was somewhat... alarmed, for lack of a better word, about the really young (and impressionable, these 2 words come together too naturally) age these fans were. even funnier was that, it wasn't only girls there, there were guys as well, with equally enthusiastic behavior o.Oso what conclusions are there? 1. fangirls around the world behave in the same way. 2. the possibility of me being a fangirl is extremely low. 3. the possibility of me being an epic fail fangirl is very high. haha oh well, but as janna would say, this was the experience of a lifetime (in that, i'll probably never do this again), and i think it was a good psych exercise. should suggest to profs to do this kind of thing haha. i was actually applying psych terms to all i observed, which is cool and freaky at the same time haha.okay, i'm done play psych investigator haha. to end it off, here's 5 seconds of screaming for you (notice the screaming girls running towards the glass door haha)! (:
the sample observed today.
