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» March 03, 2014 / -11:22 PM

Java Jazz Festival 2014

I should admit that this is my first Java Jazz Festival experience even though the event is already exist for 10 years. Thank God that I got Press ID card so I can enter the event free for 3 days!

No good face for ID card :(

I've made my list of must-watched performance while I'm in Bandung. But I forgot to bring the list when I go back to Jakarta. And since I'm a very spontaneous girl, so I decided to visit every hall and stay if I like the performance for the first 15 minutes.

Well, it's not a bad decision either. I watched some extraordinary performances for 3 days. The most surprising thing is I watched more local artist instead of international artist. Balawan, Adhitia Sofyan, Jamie Aditya (wait.. he's a local, right?), Bubugiri, Krakatau Reunion , Dewa Budjana until the mainstream one like Raisa and Maliq & D'Essentials. I also watched Snarky Puppy, Dave Koz, Allen Stone and my favorite...

Schroeder-Headz!!!!

This year, they brought lots of Brazilian musician. I really hope next year they will bring Korean musician since they have lots of talented jazz musician. Clazziquai Project, Urban Zakapa, Humming Urban Stereo, 10cm, Brown Eyed Soul or even Busker Busker will be nice!

Labels: event, jakarta

» December 30, 2013 / -8:58 PM

Understanding

"Ih, sombong banget deh nggak mau foto bareng..."

Terdengar bisikan gadis-gadis masa kini yang udah nggak kayak bisikan. Sebagai salah satu LO, aku cuma bisa tersenyum sinis menatap mereka.

Mereka nggak tau aja kalau si artis baru sampai dari Jakarta dan sebelumnya mereka manggung dulu.

Aku bersyukur artis yang aku LO-in itu gelo. Masih menerima ajakan buat foto bareng dan bikin voice note buat fansnya setelah manggung. Bahkan mereka yang minta foto bareng sama LOnya yang mukanya udah kucel...

Tadinya mau ikutan make-up kayak mereka biar kembaran

Yaaa, intinya sih, artis juga manusia. Kalau mereka bisa, mereka pasti nyempetin waktu buat ketemu fansnya kok. Tapi kalau nggak bisa, pasti ada alasannya kok...

Labels: bandung, event

» November 30, 2013 / -1:34 AM

One Ok Rock live in Jakarta

I actually wanna watch the second show of moumoon (read my report here for the first show!), but because I had to make sure I'm fit enough to watch One Ok Rock's concert, so I decided to go home after the meet and greet.

I got media pass for One Ok Rock's concert, along with my PD, Tubagus Akmal (who played OOR's song everyday during #LoveCinta hahaha). We waited for 4 hours for the media registration to open, but during that time, we heard the sound check! They did awesome during sound check and I believed it will be more awesome during the show!

The new couple: Media pass and ID card!

The gate opened at 6 PM and we ran to get a good position, but we still managed ourselves to bought OOR's merchandise like wrist band and t-shirt. Luckily, we got a very good position, right side of the stage and next to the barricade. Who would imagine that later Taka would jump down the stage and stand next to us while singing 'Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer'!!!

I don't know what happened to me but I cried again while they performed 'Be The Light', 'The Beginning' and 'Wherever You Are'. Hahahaha, just me being drama :')

Awesome lighting!!

Overall, I love the concert so much! They really rocked the night, and we love the promoter too since they kept on giving us water hahaha. Even though they didn't sing 'pierce' and 'the same as', but they really showed their best performance. The crowd was epic too, we sang together in all song (really remind me of Laruku concert last year) Can't wait to rock with them again!!!

Labels: event, jakarta

» / -12:50 AM

moumoon live in Jakarta

I'm really excited the moment I know moumoon will perform in Jakarta for J-Music Lab.

Even though the next day I should attend One Ok Rock's concert (and check the report here!), but I can't help myself to watch their performance.

Departed from Bandung at 09:30 AM, I miscalculated the time since it's Saturday. I thought I will reached Senayan by 12 PM, but I arrived there 30 minutes later. Thanks God I still managed to get the ticket and watched it with my friends! :D

@moumoon_masaki is カッコいい and @moumoon726YUKA is かわいい

I really love the setlist! 'Sunshine Girl', 'Bon Apetit', 'Love is Everywhere', 'moonlight', 'DREAMER DREAMER' until the encore 'Chu Chu' was epic! I must admit that I cried during their performance hahaha. It's just, I can't believe that I finally can watch them live in Jakarta!! Even though they don't sing my favorite song, 'blue rain' and 'sweet heart', and I didn't watch their last encore where they sang 'good night'.

Yuka and Masaki were very communicative. They spoke English very well so we're happily replying what they said. And they were quite surprise that we spoke Japanese quite good (well, not me of course...) I can see they were really enjoy performing in Jakarta and had a really good time with the crowd...

Sign! Sign! My CD's got signed!!!!

And this lucky girl got her CD's signed!!! Had meet and greet session and see them reaaaalllyyy close made me speechless. I only told them that I work as a radio DJ and promised to tweet them when I play their song. So, expect me to play moumoon's song a lot during December HAHAHA! :D

I will wait their next performance someday. Hopefully it's going to be full band!

Labels: event, jakarta

» March 31, 2013 / -8:16 PM

Happy #TableTopDay

March 30th was Table Top Day!

Me and SegitigaNet team hold our private Table Top Day at our office. I bought snacks first and arrived around 12 PM. The others came around 1 PM. Total 8 of us played; Me, Enggar, Lio, Rio, Isza, Ubim, Archie, and Vicky.

First session, we played The Resistance and this game became our most-played game. I don't know why... But I became Spy 3 times out of 6 games. And since I'm not good at lying *wink wink*, they discovered me too fast.

I went to OZ at 3 PM since I had to on-air at 5-7 PM. While I'm away, they played Battlestar Galactica for 2 hours also Power Grid. And during my airing time, they kept on tweeting to me and my radio station's twitter. Happy but at the same time quite embarrass since I'm still not that good...

I met Enggar on my way back to office. She had to leave because she had an appointment. Rio left too when we ordered dinner, so 6 of us left. We played Munchkin for about 4 hours and played The Resistance again.

We all surrendered around 2 AM. So we played for 12 hours hahaha. But I'm quite satisfied with our session. I definitely need more game session ;p

All the boys for Munchkin session

Labels: bandung, event, friends

» May 21, 2012 / -11:03 PM

Flashmob and I

Bazaar SMAN 5 Bandung - Fivelive Battlefield Flashmob

I made the choreography for Raise Your Glass - Glee Version, Glow - Madcon, What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) - Kelly Clarkson and I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas (teamed up with my superb Hafidz :*). Practiced for about 2 months with some minor changes within few weeks before the D-day. Couldn't be there to see it live is really devastating. But saw the reaction on twitter and watched the video, I couldn't be more proud to all of them :) :)

Second Gleek Indonesia Flashmob at EX Plaza Jakarta

Excited yet super nervous. But since I danced with fellow gleeks, it turned out to be amazing and we asked for more *chuckles* Will be joining for the next Glee Flashmob for sure :D

For more story, check the post here

Labels: bandung, event, friends, jakarta, life, video

» May 15, 2012 / -9:27 PM

L'Arc~en~Ciel 20th Anniversary World Tour 2012: Jakarta

It felt like a dream come true.

Lapangan D Senayan - May 2nd, 2012

The concert was held on Wednesday. I supposed to have a lab exam and lecture on that day but there were none! So I went to Jakarta on Tuesday evening and planned on getting the ticket on D-Day.

First Gate

Met with friends from Bandung there and decided to queue with them. Entering the first gate, I separated with them since I had to give my friend's ticket to her driver. But I'm 30 minutes earlier arrived inside than the others. Since most of them got Regular Ticket, I decided to wait for Pandu-Senpai to queue along in Premium Ticket.

The queuing line was insane. No crew that supposed to arrange the line. So we had to arranged and told the others about the line. But they gave us some kind of flashlight to put on our finger. Cool! The gate was supposed to open at 6:30 PM but they opened in at 5:00 PM. Maybe to make everyone inside by the time the concert start. It took in total 2:30 hours just to queue in gate 1 and 2. When entering the venue, I asked the guy who gave me wristband, "Is it really L'arc~en~Ciel concert in Jakarta???" and he said "Sure it is! Please enjoy the show.". It brought me to tears just to enter the venue, saw my wristband and heard the instrumental song of XXX and Link in the venue. Pandu-Senpai even screamed happily when entering the venue. Then I had to wait another one hour since the show starts at 8:00 PM. Waiting is not really a problem since all the Cielers are really friendly and we joked about things that may happen on the show (like the show is late just because Tetsuya needs to finish his Pisang Goreng or Ken is trying Rokok Kretek and asking for more for the show).

The Stage

It's almost 8:00 PM when the rain started to pour lightly. There's an announcement stated that if thunder rain happens, the show must be stopped immediately. But then the rain stopped. And the VCR started to play. Everyone's cheering. Me, who's just 160 and coming to her very first concert, struggled just to see what happened on the stage. And suddenly the intro of "Ibara no Namida" played. I'm still looking around to see where the guitar sound came from when I heard Hyde's voice. Then I saw little silhouettes of Hyde and Yukkie on stage. Also Ken and Tetsuya from the big screen. And my tears won't stop coming. I thought it's from a CD or something before I saw them. I raised my lightstick with my right hand while my left hand kept wiping my tears and I still sang along.

And all the songs just flow smoothly with all the chants from Cielers. We're pointing to the members in "CHASE" (I'm chasing you). Had a little mistake when singing "GOOD LUCK MY WAY" (shinjiru michi he). Jumped crazily in "HONEY" (I want to fly, waiting for sunrise). Never end chant in "DRINK IT DOWN" (let down, you feel, trust falls, break down). Cheered on Yukkie for "REVELATION" (revelaaatiooon~). Made a wave of lightstick in "Hitomi no Juunin" (miagereba kagayaki wa iroasezu afurete itai). Made X sign using our lightstick in "XXX" (step into fascination, trap of infatuation, kiss).

When it came to "fate", I was pushed to the front. Sang "fate" and "forbidden lover" alone while others just waved their lightstick. I felt like an old fangirl (well, I am!) and I cried even more during these 2 songs. Then we had another energetic moment in "MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM" (yume wo egaku yo, our hearts draw a dream) and also SEVENTH HEAVEN (stairs to the seventh, running up to heaven, yeah).

The best part when Hyde gave his mic to Cielers for "Driver's High" verse. I know he didn't do it in any other live (except in Premium Night) so I believe Hyde and the rest of the members really appreciate Indonesian Cielers that night. Then goes "STAY AWAY" with the cool dance VCR (cause it's stain, stay away) and "READY STEADY GO" (are you fucking ready?).

Before Encore, we were asked to do a body wave according to the VCR. But then another raindrop falls. We started to sing "Anata" reff and suddenly the lyrics appeared. The members then appeared and sing "Anata" while we sang along and wave our lightstick and I cried again during the song (anata ga iru kara). Magically, the rain stopped after "Anata" finished. The next song which made them really popular in Indonesia, "The Fourth Avenue Cafe" and all the fanboy sang it loudly (kisetsu wa odayaka ni owari o tsugeta ne). "Link" was next with everyone joined the rhythmic clapping before the last reff (tatoe haruka tooku hanarebanareni nattemo tsunagariau omoi).

As usual, last song was "Niji". But, everyone started to chanting "Blurry Eyes" right after "Link". All the members look confused. I knew most of the fan here in Indonesia fell in love with them because of "Blurry Eyes" so that's why we chanted for it. But then Hyde said that "Niji" is their last song and we started to sang along (soredemo omou anata anata no koto o).

Everything seemed surreal. Tetsuya started to throw all the banana he had in the basket. Yukkie and Ken disappeared from the stage. Tetsuya and Hyde promised they will be come back to Jakarta. I still couldn't believe that I just watched their concert. And then they gone. People started to walk out of the venue while me sat on the ground, looked to the stage and made myself believe that I just watched them (hey, Yukkie's awesome drum's still there!)

Still didn't believe (LOL)

Even though there was "No Camera" rule and they posted it everywhere, people still recorded with their phone. For me, who came to enjoy the show, it really bothered me since I couldn't see them clearly because those phone blocked them (or maybe it's just me who's short). And everyone seemed to put it in internet. Since Indonesia concert will be put in a DVD, so I think everyone should save up their money to buy the DVD to watch the concert instead hoping others to upload the video in internet.

Since most of the songs in the playlist were from "Butterfly" album, I didn't really remember the lyrics. I really hope if one day they hold a concert again, they will play songs from each of their album. If I can make the setlist, it will be (based on album):

Dune

Shutting from the sky / Flood of Tears

Tierra

Blurry Eyes

Heavenly

C'est La Vie /Vivid Color

True

Flower / The Fourth Avenue Cafe / Caress of Venus

Heart

Anata / Niji / fate

Ark

Forbidden lover / Driver's High / Heaven's Drive / Dive to Blue / Pieces

Ray

Honey / Kasou / Trick

Real

Stay Away / Love Flies / Finale

Smile

Ready Steady Go / Feeling Fine / Hitomi no Juunin / Spirit Dreams Inside

Awake

New World / Jojoushi / Killing Me / Jiyuu e no Shoutai

Kiss

My Heart Draws A Dream / Seventh Heaven

Butterfly

Chase / Good Luck My Way

No matter what the setlist will be, I will watch their next concert in Jakarta! Definitely!

Labels: event, jakarta, life, story

» February 24, 2012 / -1:59 PM

Gleek Indonesia Flashmob

After having my first time volunteering, I finally had my another "first-time-moment"

By it's very definition, Gleek Bandung is about opening yourself up to joy.

Flashmob is something that pretty popular in Indonesia. For promoting brands, supporting artist to come to Indonesia or just for fun. And what I did was for inviting Glee Cast to hold their Glee Tour in Indonesia (which apparently they won't do it in 2012).

I found out about this flashmob through twitter. They were opening registration so I asked 2 of my friends to join along (which later just one of them still continue). Since the venue is in Jakarta, we had to go Bandung-Jakarta for the big practice day and the D-Day.

I'm not a great dancer. Just an ordinary person who like to try to do some dance movements like those Japanese or Korean. I remember when I was in kindergarten, I joined dance routine for an event but I dance the boys part (since my teacher back then said my body feature's like boys LOL). Like I mentioned in my previous post, Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" always intrigued me to dance along. So I'm not that stiff to do some movements.

As for that reasons, I was chosen as one of the trainer along with 2 other boys (YES! I'm the only girl!). We were also the representative from Bandung to do the opening act with other trainers from Jakarta, Bekasi and Depok. Which for me it's something amazing yet making me nervous.

Those who registered for Bandung area are about 100 people. But, as Darwin said, natural selection does exist. It came down until no more than 15 people. We always making it as a joke and an excuse, "At least we can making it to Sectionals ! :D". As for practice venue, we did it in an open space since it's free and spacious.

Lots of things happen during the few days of D-Days. Thinking about choreography for dance break on opening act, a person who can replace one of the trainer since he can't skips work as well as the accommodation and transportation. Thanks God we can making it successfully.

Here's the video of the flashmob (if you curious hahaha). Not the official one but it's quite good.

Thank you Gleeks Bandung and Gleek Indonesia! For fellow trainers for the amazing opening act.
Can't wait for another session! :D

Labels: bandung, event, friends, jakarta, life

» January 24, 2012 / -3:57 PM

Happy Day at #HappyPlay

Last thursday (January 19th), friends from Indonesia Bermain's volunteers and I came to Rumah Sakit Hasan Sadikin (RSHS) for #HappyPlay session. Arrived at 9 AM, I was lost at RSHS for few minutes since this is my first time visiting the hospital. At the Pediatric Clinic, I saw some children are already joining with us. Others are still looking shyly from outside the playground. But then we tried to interact with them and they finally interested in playing with us while waiting for the doctors.

parents also excited to play along

I got the chance to play with some of the children who mostly around 2-4 years old. I forgot the name of the boardgames (since most of them are in German) but we played stitching, teddy bear puzzle, and more animals involved like crow and monkeys! It's very colorful and kids definitely loved it.

A boy named Zaki was shy at first. But as he played with Anchi and I, he started to grow a smile on his and our face. He's so adorable and tried every game that we offered to him. He still wanted to play with us after visiting the doctor and remained until our #HappyPlay session's over.

the super adorable Zaki

Riri, 3 years old, had a back support because of scoliosis from fractures. She needs to go to the doctor once a week to control her scoliosis. She's afraid with doctors but she forgot about it when she played with us. She cried so hard when she had to leave for control session but then she smile again when we greeted her after it.

Nofal and Petra met at this hospital and became friends. They have the same disease, Leukemia. But they share the same happiness that day. They spent their time here, from playing most of the games until coloring session.

coloring session

Besides, there are 2 kids from children's development center of the hospital who joined us. Fatih and Clarissa. Even though they joined on the last hour of the session, but they seemed really enjoy playing with us.

Its 12:30 PM and we finished our session that day. Until the last minute, kids are still playing with us and their parents. When we started to pack up our stuffs, the playground felt so quiet. No more sounds of laughs from the kids or talks between us and them.

we might feel tired but nothing beats the happiness!

Happiness is very simple to find. A single happiness can really bright up a whole day. Can't wait for another session of #HappyPlay. If you are interested in joining this program, please visit Happy Play's website.

"My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives." - Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

Labels: bandung, event, friends, life

» December 23, 2011 / -9:56 AM

soft launching "demi ucok" film

I suppose to go back to Jakarta at 21st of December. But then, I win this...

soft launching "demi ucok" film

This soft launching event marks the first time they play the film, but invitation only. Public release will be around April or May 2012. So I'm pretty lucky, right? :D

The theme of this soft launching is "Layar Tancep". The last time I did this is when I was in primary school. So this kinda bring good memories of mine. The location is near Kebun Binatang Bandung and was the location for "cin(T)a" and this movie as well.

the big screen

On my way to the location, there are lots of mural painting. It's just awesome. At the location, there were tent with lanterns and balloons hanging. I wish I can bring home the balloon hihihi. Lots of artsy stuffs there, like the trash bin, stage props and photo booth!

photo booth

While waiting for bus from Jakarta, they played the "behind-the-scene" of the movie. We also allowed to eat there from many stalls available. Batagor, Siomay, Mie Ayam Bakso, Bubur Ayam, Wedang until Arum Manis! I had 2 portion of Siomay, 1 portion of Bubur Ayam, 2 Arum Manis and Hot Sweet Tea from Ibu-ibu PKK there who's really energetic (and even talking in Sundanese to me hahaha)

Arum Manis!

When Jakarta groups arrived, the place were finally full. Front seats are provided for those who wants to lesehan. I met other winners and have a little talk with them. When the movie starts, we didn't allow to go to the food stalls so I had another pack of Arum Manis during the movie :P

Before the movie starts, the director and the casts (minus Saira Jihan who's in Singapore) talked about their feeling about the movie. I can see that how passions can really drive you to give your best. The cast of A Cun (Sunny Soon) said that he finally realized that his passion is in film industry and the director (Sammaria Simanjuntak) said that always do what you love for those who loves you especially your parent.

front seat and tumbling "demi ucok"

After the movie screening, I got the chance to talk with mbak @ainsianturi, who played as Gloria Sinaga. She's so kind and very funny. She even encouraged us to be one of the co-pro for this movie. So I signed up myself as one of 10.000 co-pro for the movie. It's very interesting because by donating Rp 100.000, your name will be on their poster and you will get customize merchandise. For more info, please visit Demi Ucok's Website and twitter.

the co-pro receipt with mbak @ainsianturi's fierce eyes

I won't provide any spoiler but it's really worth-to-watch movie! If it's possible, I will watch it with my mom. Especially if you have the same condition with Glo, having mother who asked you to get married soon. It's a humble, simple yet interesting story added with lots of laughter. The 4 main characters (Mak Gondut, Glo, A Cun, Niki) are definitely astonishing. Mak Gondut definitely my favorite character with all the unpredictable words from her mouth (on and off screen!).

It's a very interesting and exciting experience. Can't say how much I feel gratitude for this. Don't forget to watch this movie on cinema in 2012! IMADAAAAA~!!

"Don't live following your fear" - Sammaria Simanjuntak

Labels: bandung, event, life