Meeting Tuan Thailand - Part Three

Meeting Tuan Thailand

March 29th, 2019

This is the Part Three of 'Meeting Tuan Thailand'. If you haven't read Part One  or Part Two I encourage that you read it before reading this part! If you would rather read the whole 3-4k worded entry you're welcome to do so by clicking here. 

(I'm sad that I'm blurry in this picture but I don't care.

Win is too funny!)

  The emcee then told me that I could only ask one more question and I went with, “Why did you start playing music?” And again he made this expression that said that’s a good question. Then he replied with, “Because…” He couldn’t exactly say it. But I understood it. He gestured at himself and said, “This… It’s…” Then he closed his in front of his chest and I said, “Because you can get lost in it?” And he was so happy that I understood what he was trying to say.

  I told him. “I understand! I feel the same way with music.” I was able to get another picture with him and when he got behind me to take the picture, he asked, “Do you play music?” And I said, “Wen” (Because it was automatically but his name is similar). He stopped and I realized that I had said ‘Wen’ instead of ‘Yes’ so I had to translate myself.

  “Yes. I played trombone.” When I said that he made another inquisitive look. Throughout our conversation he had made expressions that indicated that he was intrigued by me and my interest in him. When I had pointed at him he had said something in Thai (I don’t want to say Thai because I don’t know because I know there are many languages but ‘Thai’ will have to be the word since I’m not sure) to the other band members, then he grabbed the mic.

  It was as if he thought ‘why me’? I chose him because of his voice and his performance during the concert. I fell in love with how he sung in English. He could scream, sound like Mayday Parade, or 3OH!3, but we sung Ed Sheeran together and based on the different styles that I heard from him I simply felt the need to get to know him.

  The experience was worthwhile but what I loved the most about interacting with him was the fact that we were both able to communicate on a higher level than our verbal communication throughout the interview. The expressions he made and what I saw as I tried to read him was that he was doing the same to me. As the interview went on it we hit a mutual understand between each other than is rare especially during first impressions.

  Personally, I felt like we synced and there are only a few people in this world that I’ve ever synced with in that way. Especially through the fact that we didn’t speak the same language. Yes, he spoke English. Which, the emcee was able to portray that Filipinos are highly adequate when speaking English.  But, when he heard me I didn’t meet his image of a Filipino.

  It always confuses people since I am Filipino by race so I look like the people around me but once I speak, there’s something different. There’s something that doesn’t match with the public. If I had chance to get to know Win on a personal level I’d be super stoked.

  After the interview I got off stage and the emcee announced how the band members wanted to interact with the audience. They wanted to spend twenty minutes or so giving autographs or taking pictures. I went back up and took a picture with Win for my friend. Then, I went to get autographs from all the band members. When I returned to Win later, I asked him to sign my cellphone case (which he was like are you sure???) Right now I have a plane back to my cellphone case which is white because I layered in in nail polish (which isn’t evenly layer and I suck at painting but anyways). I told him yea, and then I told them I liked his voice. It’s very common for me to hone in on introverts or people who are shy.

  People who are introverts or shy usually are more observant than extroverts. I find the story of an introvert more interesting than an extrovert. This may seem amusing to hear but I’m an introvert. An introvert likes to keep to themselves. And I do. But I do know that I have to socially interact with people especially in the situation that I’m in. I can’t learn without socializing which is difficult on my anxiety but it helps it too.

  Extraverts tend to be very charismatic. They pay attention to themselves rather than to others which is why I rather be around an introvert than an extrovert but people aren’t limited to one type of personality. When two introverts come together. One of them can be nervous about something and the other can step up because they understand the feelings of being nervous but if it means that their friend is more comfortable not doing whatever it is, they will take action.

  Overall, the experience with the band and the concert was fantastic. I asked the lead singer, who do I contact to get information of getting you to perform somewhere? And He gave me a name but now I have to figure out who that is because I don’t know them but I wanted to get their information so that I could take it with me back home and see if I can get them to perform back home.

  I want to post this all at once but I also know that I don’t want to intimidate my readers by posting all of this at once. So, if you are interested in reading the whole thing I will link it to the parts of the post but I post it all at once because I don’t like writing more than a thousand words per post on this blog. This is meant to keep my readers in touch with me but I do know that I have a habit of going into detail when it comes to what I write about and to prevent boredom or disinterest I like to cut up what I’ve written in the end. The concert lasted from 6pm-10pm. At 8:30 Tuan Thailand played.

  This experience was worth it and I forgot about how sick I felt until after the concert was over. I enjoyed my time and I have to say that this concert will be one of my favorite memories of this semester. I hope I can get this band to perform in the U.S but I don’t know what regulations need to be met in order to do that so I’ll need to look into it.

Thank you for either reading this full entry through the link or reading this through the parts.Either way, I appreciate you.  Now that you've read about my experience, I hope that you are interested in the band yourself. I'll be posting a follow up post so stay tuned tomorrow as well! There's so much that I want to share with you all. This week as been so eventful and enlightening. 

Thanks for reading! Hope you tune in next week!

DJ/Nar/Cho

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