JDG 2008 Birthday Party - Part Two (Revised)

Then the big moment is here. We were ask to form a line to enter the auditorium. I was very lucky and had a great
seat where I was very close to the stage. On both side of the stage had 2 large posters with DG's pictures. There were 3 single white sofa, a table filled with some things, and two luggage bag on the stage. When everyone was seated the screen started with clips from the movies that DG had played starting from "The Promise" and ending with "TaeGuk-Ki". Then we see a silhouette behind a screen (made by a huge piece of cloth) , the crowd cheered loudly and everyone was very excited and we heard DG's beautiful voice saying "Hi" to us. Then silence, the silhouette was gone, the auditorium light was turn down, then the screen for released down, when all of us were thinking that we would see
him on the stage, we heard the sweet familiar voice from behind saying "actually I am here" and the spotlight was on
him. The fans were all excited and many ran to him. He was as gorgeous as usual. His hair is shorter, he looks
really refreshing, and very very young (I swear to you guys that he does not look like his age, and I am not bias) and had put on some healthy weight. He was in a white suite and pants and his shirt
was white but with many light blue prints on it. (Please don't ask me what shoes he wore because it was lucky
enough that I could look at his clothings as I cannot get over just gawking at his beautiful face all the time.)
He really have great complexion that I would kill for. He was walking towards the stage all the surrounded by the fans (of course he was guarded by the staff members). As
I was too busy and mesmerized just starring at his face all this time. After he was up at the stage, I heard some exciting lucky fans saying that they manage to shake his hands. There were simultanous English translation so we who does not speak Korean will be able to
understand what was going on. The MC of the day was not Goh Hyung Jin but Kim Jae-dong. After DG introducing
him to us , they set down on the sofa. The MC said that whenever he saw DG, DG reminded him of the true meaning of a good looking guy.

(NOTE: The sequence of my recap might not be the most accurate since all this are from my limited memory. So please forgive me if there are inaccuracy. Also I will not be able to write down all the conversation that took place, I
will only recap the highlight of the conversation aka those that I can remember.)

The first section was about DG travelling habits and his New Zealand trip. DG said that he had travel extensively
around the world but he had never been to Latin America and Africa. He had many luggage bag and most of them
are really huge. The one he brought on stage was the 2 smaller ones. And the smallest one he used for China and Japan trip. The MC ask him to demonstrate to us how he carries his luggage and he did. He was so adorable when he was doing that. He really look a like a school boy. He gently lift up the luggage handle and pulled the luggage (just like what all of us do though I got to say he got to be the most stylist person I have seen) and smoothly make a few steps, he even pushes the luggage bag back and forth a couple of times. He did that twice one with a black 26' inch bag and another with the 23' bag (that is my estimation of the bag size so I could be wrong). Then there was a home video made by DG (aka he is the cameraman and the commentator) from New Zealand. He said he spent about six months in NZ so he rented an apartment and try to make it feel like home. In the clips we got to see his room, kitchen, dining and living room, laundry room and even bathroom and his closet. His apartment had a great view of the sea and he said he likes to go to his balcony to look at the sea. He also said that he can travel freely in NZ as most people do not recognize who he is at all. He even showed us outside of his apartment that he lived with. His room has three portable heater in it and besides his bed are filled with books. He lives with one of his manager and there
was also like a study room where a laptop and printers were available. His closet was not very tidy when the clips
was shot so he apologize and said timidly maybe he should not have shown us that (how cute!!). He said shooting
usually starts at 5.30am on the weekdays and on the weekends he will have free time. He spends most of the time
in his apartment or around his apartment. He said while he was in NZ, he missed his fans. He also mentioned that the environment in NZ
is different from in Korea.

He also shared with us about the general plot of Laundry Warrior (I will not give out any spoilers here but it
seems like a very interesting, intriguing and different fantasy type of movie. And we will get to see DG as the Best Oriental warrior !!) and that the first part which is the shooting part of the movie had already completed and the second part which is the post production part of the movie
should be completed by October and we should be able to see the the movie either by the end of this year of
early next year. He does seems to think that it will be an interesting movie.

Then we played the first game. It is about how much you know about DG. All of us were given a circle and a cross. And the MC will say a statement about DG and we will have to indicate if that is correct by showing the circle and
wrong with the cross. Those who gave the wrong answer will be disqualified. While playing this game, I feel really ashame because when it came to the second questions
about his shoe size I was absolutely clueless. Other fans were fantastic and knew DG so well. The game intention was to end with 6 winners but even after all the questions they had prepared were asked, there were still quite a number of fans still in the game. And
the MC have to make up more questions spontaneously One of the questions that the MC made up was"Did DG had breakfast this morning ? ( The answer was No) .The final winner was a Japanese fan. My salute to her. Imagine, do you know when "Last
Match/Final Jump" was broadcast?, His waist size ?, what was the first thing that Cecilia Cheung said to him
when they first met?, who was his First Love? who was the actor that he acted with that has the biggest age gap?, is he taking any supplements for his health ?what was his nickname in elementary school?.....

His earnest , shy and at times playful look when he was showing his answer during the game was such a delight to watch. It was hilarious to see his cute curious expression when the audience showed disbelief that his waist size was 32inch. He said " all of you really don't believe that is my waist size?" He said when he first debut his waist size was 28inch, when he was the heaviest it was 34 inch, after he lost weight in typhoon it became 30inch and now he is 32 inch. (he is so cute, trying to explain to us and in a way convince us)

And also the answer about his nickname was a surprise to me. Everyone would think it might be "cow", "big eyes", or "gold fish". But wrong !! It is actually a girlfriend of a very popular Japanese character named Arumi. GIRLFRIEND? DG said that when he was in elementary school because he has very long eye lashes, many people mistaken him as a girl !!! In fact, many are not able to tell whether he is a male or female (no wonder I sometimes thought that he is more beautiful than his female co-star). His expression when he talked about that was priceless. They are no words I could use to describe it. The shyness, the innocence and the embarrassment. (sigh... so adorable)

Then they were greeting messages from other stars in video clips form. Those stars include Shin Mina, Won Bin, Jun Jin Mo, Ha Ji Won and Goh Hyung . In fact, Goh Hyung Jin, Hyung Bin, Han Jae Suk and Shin Mina were sitting in the front row during the first part of the program. With the request from the audiences, they were introduced and they stood up one by one to greet us (how sweet of them).

Finally, it was the Questions and Answers session. DG picked up 2 questions each from Adonis Korea, Japan and International. I cannot really recall all the questions so I will write down what I can remember from his answers.
He said that he has not picked up a new project but he is trying to focus on looking for a small scale movie so that we can see him
more often on screen (since the big scale movie usually take much longer time to prepare and shoot). He has never made any decision whether he will act in drama or movie particularly. He is considering both. He said in the past he always choose role
that are of very strong characters and he really wants to be in a character that he wants to show a softer side of him and maybe have some resemblence of himself.

Then we have a short break before the second part begin.

End of Part two of Four

PS: I really have a good time just starring at DG. As I do have a great seat and was able to have a great look
at him it was such a joy to see his gesture, expression and demeanor. He is really a very soft, gentle, well
mannered, shy and boyish person. There was one part when the MC and him was still talking and the video clips from NZ suddenly appeared on the screen, he was surprised and in a rather cute confuse look , sheepishly he said "why am
I there?" And I love the expression he gave when the cameraman capture Goh Hyun Jin from the crowd. The easiness, gratitude and adoration he has for his friends is so touching.

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