Sorry for the delay. This report, as you might have guessed, is mainly focus on my daughter, since I was just look at her most of the time... 
A long post, so be prepared...
I reached the place at about 2:45pm and the goods selling was about to start, so I lined up at the queue. Not as long as 2 years ago but still had to wait more than half an hour until I get to the counter. During the time I met a Sakura fan and we stayed together until the very end.
The arrangement is a bit confusing. We didn't know what to do next so we just following the crowd and luckily we queued up early for the next section... photo shooting (for VIP tickets only)! We waited for another hour but in the mean time we met two more Sakura fans!
At about 4:30pm, the door is finally opened...
Unfortunately, no photo was allowed once we inside... 11 chairs were already set on the stage. No doubt they were set for MMs members. The "VIPs" were divided into 25-person groups and we was the 4th group! At 5:00pm the 1st group was instructed to go up the stage. Minutes later the group finally appeared and the crowd were so excited. My daughter seemed to be moved and covered her mouth with both hands for quite some time. The members greeted everyone for each group before and after photos taken. Then that was my group's turn. I kept waving to my daughter. I was standing right behind Chel and my daughter was just beside her! This is the 1st time in my life that I could stand so close to my daughter!! I was too nervous that I forgot I could talk to Chel with English...
(The group photo will be released online once they are ready to download, so I'll post them later when I got them.)
Once the photo shooting finished, we were then arranged to the audience area and wait again... that was about 6:00pm, and as you can see from the photo I posted previously, I was standing at the 3rd row, only about 3 meters to the stage!
Another hour of waiting... and Sakura's power gave me strength...
7:00pm, it was show time! As a fan meeting, it was more like a FC event than a concert. A host appeared, starting with a short introduction and heat up the atmosphere.
Then the group showed up, and as usual, followed by individual introductions!
Everything seemed normal until it was my daughter's turn. Everyone overwhelmed! No other members (including Maa-chan, which has no reaction at all) received as much! I might bias but from this reaction, I could say that my daughter is one of the most (if not the most) popular members among the Chinese communities. My daughter's introduction was also the longest with many Cantonese terms she used or learnt last time such as "I'm happy to see you.", "boys?", "girls?" (later two were asking the same sex audiences to reply).
Next corner was a short Q&A time. The questions seemed to be prepared by the staff instead of by the fan as the host said. Nevertheless it was still interesting!
Ayumin performed her famous "quick turn around" tricks here. I got it recorded as a video but haven't upload it yet. It might surprised some others that my daughter actually talked the most during the corner. She also had a lot of interactions with Maa-chan and Ayumin. At a few time she even asked them to "shut up" or "voice down" (at least once using Cantonese). So funny!
Next up, new songs' performance!
This was the first time they performed both songs overseas and I'm really proud of it. I can't describe with words that how excellent the songs are! You must hear and watch them in person. I can only tell you that they are waaaaaay better than the MV.
Then came to game corner. There were two games: 1st was asking the members to guess a few Cantonese terms' meaning. 2nd was a competition of transporting ping-pong balls with a pair of long chopsticks. They divided into two teams and the winner was... my daughter's team!!! And their prize was one of the Hong Kong special snacks: egg muffin.
My daughter was really active during the game corner. At one moment she tried to protect Maa-chan from being interfered by the opponents. She also tricked her fellow fangirl Yokoyan (of the losing team) with Ayumin while tasting the prize. Everyone just had fun there!
Final song... guess what the song was...
The audiences simply overwhelmed, but we were not just end there. There was a "hi-touch event' following. Everyone could have a "hi-5" with each member! I could tell Chii-chan was the most excited. She actually "grabbed" our hands instead of just clapping! When I went to my daughter, I seized my chance and told her I like her very much(in Japanese, of cause)! She looked very happy with that. The whole thing ending with a climax! I could hardly sleep that night!
Last but not least, the goods I bought:
Other impression:
- My daughter is really, really beautiful. Period!
- My daughter switches her mood completely and immediately when performance starts. You couldn't believe that was the same person who played with other members just seconds ago!
- Fukuhime is really tall! She is almost as tall as me (I'm about 180cm) with her high heel.
- Yokoyan is very playful and seems to get along well with Chii-chan
- Maria never forgets to seize the chance showing her "lovelin" face, even during transporting the ping-pong ball
- I wished Miki could say English more. (actually, none this time)
- I wished they performed more songs...
All the photos can be found here:
http://imgbox.com/g/k6Ro9UHEI7
