At first I was gonna keep mum about this until it's confirmed but... I can't. Moreover, I have mentioned below our plans and also posted on several sites asking questions. And also got a friend to help us on this so... might as well post it.

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The story goes like this. After BKK concert, we decided to save money with the promise that if Baby ever have a Birthday Party in Korea, we will try all means to go.

After endless waiting, we finally saw news that Baby is indeed gonna have a birthday party so we quickly wrote in to the organiser with the email given here to ask for information on how to participate. Namely what is the bank account information for us to send over the money. We were very very happy that the organiser wrote back almost immediately with the information and even said "Singapore! Welcome to Birthday Party (in korean of course)" to us. This is funny coz both sides were using an English-Korean online translator to understand each other.

So on that Monday, 12 July – which is the date that overseas fans can send money, we immediately sent money over via bank transfer (the bank charges is even higher than the actual money transferred over). After that it was downhill all the way. After we sent in the 'proof' of transfer etc, there was no reply. We thought that we should patiently wait. Maybe they have a lot of mails to read and a lot of things to settle so they could not write back to us. So we waited and waited. Then there came a announcement that since many overseas fans wrote in to say that there is not enough time for inter-bank transfer. They will allow another 150 overseas fans to apply. We quickly wrote in to say that we do not know if they still consider the first email as we had sent the money before this new announcement and would like to inform them again that we had already transferred the money. Again no reply.

On Friday, 16 July, 린다 received a phonecall from DBS to say that the account number is wrong and that the money had been stuck in DBS Korea from Monday. Why had they not called immediately we don't know!! So we quickly verified and found that we missed a number so we quickly called DBS with the correct number and the money was transfered without further delay. We wrote to the organiser again to tell them about it but again no reply...

Now we are getting worried. No announcement of the confirmed list and no reply from organiser saying they received the money or not. We were checking air ticket everyday and it is getting more and more expensive nearer the date!! What should we do!! So like any other kiasu person, we decided to have a tentative booking first and in case we cannot go, we must pay a forfeit for the ticket. And that is because we had thought that they would at least try to confirm overseas fans early considering that we need to arrange air tickets and stuff not like now with only a few days to the party. But... After endless waiting... No reply... No announcement... Nothing!! We wrote on a few other forums to ask if any overseas fans received a reply but nobody has any answer for us too...

In the end we had to trouble crazynoona to help us to register for a username and password for us to post questions on the party site. An hour after we posted asking about the overseas list, the question was deleted by someone!! OMG!! WTF!!! But we decided to be thick skinned and wrote another question a few days later which stayed on the site without getting deleted and in the end we also emailed the organiser again. No reply... Then there is an announcement that we would expect the answer by monday.

Which is today. With 6 more days to go to the party. We have tentative tickets but we don't know if we should go. We could go all the way to Korea for 3 days but have no ticket for the party OR we could give up the ticket and pay the forfeit but then at the last minute find out we got ticket for the party, then mad scramble for air ticket again and pay an even higher price for the ticket!! Either way it will be a huge amount of money spent!! Then what about hotel and where to stay?? To book hotel means to pay immediately and we will not get the money back!! Of course we understand that the organisers are also busy and need time to consolidate but we only have 6 more days to go. What should we do!! To go or not to go!!

PS: Really thanks to Hana for helping us translate from Korean to Japanese to English so that we can understand what is written on the party site and Crazynoona for helping us with registering online and the many advise and encouragement. Kamsahamnida!!