Sunday, July 17, 2011

David Archuleta Concert: He Finally Came to Indonesia :)

Hey guys!
I'm pretty excited writing this post, so I'm gonna write this in English if you don't mind.. :D
So, I just had another best day ever in my life. According to the title, I know you know what happened. Yes, I was attending David Archuleta concert in Jakarta. So here's my story..

I've been waiting for David to come to Indonesia since I was on the first grade in senior high school, which means it's been 3 years I'm waiting for David and finally my wish, no, our wish (Indonesians Archie fans) is granted.

To see a live concert, especially international artists, will cost a lot amount of money for a ticket. When I heard that David's going come here, I was very happy but I also very sad, thinking that I'm not gonna see him if the ticket was so highly priced. And then, I know that David was going to be in Pond's Teen Concert. Then I searched how can I get the ticket, and then I felt that my heart was stop beating. It's only cost 2 bottle of 100gr regular Pond's facial foam, or 3 bottle of 100gr regular Pond's for the PTC mania, which have access to be nearer to the stage. And I was like "kyaaaaa I'm so gonna see his concert no matter what! First row!"

So, I asked my friends if they want to go with me, and my friends, Bella and Sawi, which also like David want to see it too. To get the ticket, we have to exchange the strock of our purchase of  3 bottle of Ponds (because we want to be PTC mania) to the nearest radio station. And that would be Oz radio station which is in Kemang. And then that's it, first we only exchange the stroke for a voucher, and the other day we went there again to exchange the voucher to the real ticket! The concert was held on Saturday, 16th July 2011 at Lapangan D Senayan, Jakarta, from 15.00 until end. I know It's gonna end very late, so I planned to stay for a night in Bella's house and she said it's fine.

Before the day, I planned on giving David a gift. Me and Bella think that Batik clothes would be a nice gift, so we look for batik together, but then we encounter a problem. We don't know David's body size. Oh my, I never think about it. Me and Bella really had no clue about his size. And the size of Indonesians and Westerns are completely different, so it's hard to estimate his size. So we canceled this plan and decided to prepared a different gift on our own. On the day minus one, I prepared a little gift for David, which is two batik-animal-keychain which I bought in Jogja couple years ago (pst, I collect keychains, so that keychains were never used). I put them on a small blue box and wrap it with a ribbon. I also include a note, humble note for him. Ah David, my love is a lot bigger than this gift.
The next afternoon, my junior high school friend text me if i would go to David's concert the the next day. Knowing that she would go too, we decided to go together with a TransJakarta. Bella herself will go straight to Kuningan because it's faster from her house in Pamulang.

On The Day, I prepared my stuff for my sleepover at Bella's. Then, I have this strange  feeling that David would wear pink clothes, so, although i don't have pink clothes, i do have pink veil, and wore it with a purple-pink clothes that day. I promised my junior high school friend, Ella, to be on the SMK 57 Busway Shelter at 3pm. She was actually with my another junior highschool friend, Rista. We were waiting for the bus, and it was so late, we're like waiting for almost an hour. Then we arived at Kuningan and it started raining, heavily, but we managed to be at Lapangan D. We were a little wet. I met Bella there. Me and Bella have to exchange the PTC Mania ticket to a PTC mania paper bracelet. Ella and Rista actually going to meet Yuki, my JHS also SHS friend, but i didn't met her, because Ella, Rista and Yuki were on the regular. So we were separated.

The rain was not last for long, but it successfully make the ground very muddy and slippery, especially on he PTC mania section near the stage. But Me and Bella still survived and keep standing because it is very very effortful to walk without getting slipped. We managed to be on the second row, because the stage is very high, so if we're on the first row we have to have a girrafe neck to see what's on the stage.

We didn't see the show from the beginning because it's started at 15 pm. It was 17pm, the first performance we saw was boyband Smash. I don't remember the sequence of the performers, and the performers, because it was a really big show. But we saw the performance from Indonesian artists like Afgan, Kotak, The Changchuters, J-Rocks, and many more which i can't remember. And there's also my favorite band from Indonesia, Nidji! Aah it's been a while since the last I saw their concert. I'm proud of them because they're still shinning on the Indonesian music industry, you know, not like other artists who only have one two songs hits and then, pooff, gone. No mention. Ok, we're not gonna discuss about Nidji, I have my other love coming out. Maybe later i'm gonna post about my experience with Nidji hehe.
David, from my phone camera

There HE is. David. At midnight he finally show up. For the first time in my life, i saw him, the real him, wearing PINK. He is so cute i just want to hug him but still he's too far. I forgot how many song he sang, but it was a long concert and i guess it's about 10 songs which were songs from his first album "David Archuleta", his new album "The Other Side of Down", and some legend singers song.

I feel like dying. I sceam a lot.You know, he's charming as always. He was so energetic, he even jumped a lot when he was singing. At almost the end of the show, i threw my gift to the stage, and then there's this guy on the stage that picked the gifts from the fan. I really hope that David really took my gift and read my notes. Oh and i'm very dissapointed that i forgot to bring my digital camera, and i have to use my phone. Lots of my photo were blur. I only depend on Bella's digital camera, there was a lot of goog photos in Bella's cam. The photo above is like the best photo i had with no blur, so pity.

The show over at maybe at 1 or 2 in the morning. Me and Bella was very dirty because all the dirt were on the shoes and pants. We were so tired but we're so happy. I'm so sad i don't have the chance to be at David meet and greet, or see him at backstage, take photo of him. But seeing him this close, watch his sweats run over his face, i'm just so happy.

Oh i just don't know how to write my cheerfulness seeing David. Sorry for my bad, bad English. I just feel a lot easier to write my thought in English, because i'm too excited. I hope you understand what I write above, hehe.
To POND'S, thank you for helding this amazing show!
And for David, thank you for coming and please come again. We love you :)

Actually I want it to be all David Archie's song, but here's is the latest hits of him which title is also the title of his newest album. Check it out :)

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