(I had been following their long journey since 2011; U-16 AFC qualification in Laos, U-16 AFC Cup in Iran, and this U-17 World Cup in UAE, with so many players reshuffled, so I was very very sad, but it's OK now)
一番好きなスタメン、チュニジアとゲーム I love how Masaomi reacted when he failed in making a score in this match
Photo credit: fifa dot com
By the way, I couldn't get the scholarship from Osaka Gas Foundation, which granted two students a 45-day Japanese course in Japan Foundation in Osaka, with occasional visit to Nara, Kyoto, and Hiroshima My classmate, Daniel, got it, while the other student was my senpai. But I had asked him to bring me something from Nara instead of Osaka
Last semester I received a scholarship too from Japan Foundation in Indonesia, but in the form of payment aid for this semester. But still.. I want to get the scholarship to go to Japan
Oh last but not least, two days ago I went to karaoke with my classmates as a farewell party to Daniel, and they were startled when I said I could sing most of Lady Gaga's songs. LOL. (I just sang Applause btw XDD)
Sedikit panik juga karena kayaknya 2012 tuh cepeeet banget. Ingat-ingat lupa sama kejadian2 di bulan April, Mei, Juni, Juli, kecuali kelahiran keponakanku (22 Mei).
Tapi, masih bisa nginget momen-momen mencolok di taun lalu: - Ujian masuk S2 UI - Nonton Laruku sama adek - Keterima Kajian Wilayah Jepang UI - Dapat teman2 baru, orang Indonesia maupun Jepang - Kenalan sama dosen2 'ajaib' - Dikerjain pas ulang taun (setelah sekian lama) - Nraktir teman2 dan habis 500rb (itu masih dikit kayaknya) - Nonton Jrockevo dgn harga mahasiswa (200rb) tapi tetep aja beli kaosnya 200rb. Shou ternyata emang ikemen, tp tetep fals2 gitu suaranya (｡・ε・｡) Mucc ternyata keren ahahaha - Ke Dufan sama Nagisa yang April nanti udah di Jepang buat ikut kenkyuu (dan kemungkinan gak bakalan balik ke KWJ)
Intinya, aku membuka pikiran & hatiku (beh...) buat hal2 baru. Dan itu membuatku senang, daripada selalu bekerja sendirian di rumah. Emang rempong dan boros kalo kerja sambil kuliah, tapi itu membuatku lebih bahagia
Buat target 2013 (aku gak suka bikin resolusi, soalnya membebani): - Potong & smoothing rambut lagi - Kerja lebih rajin - Bikin paspor - Nyari tiket2 murah - Daftar beasiswa lain - Ikut JLPT N3 #nekat - Beli tablet PC
Hal-hal lain di tahun 2012: - Rumah barusan pasang Indovision. Enak deh bisa nonton NHK meski aku gak ngerti 95% yang diomongin. - Sumpah ya, ada apa sih sama angka 22. Kenapa akhir2 ini sering banget hidupku diisi sama angka ini? Ngingetin sama seseorang aja ah (ﾉ_･｡) - Si Rachma temen ESMOD udah sampe Aussie. Aku juga bisa dooooong
Random banget ya postinganku. Gak papa deh daripada gak ada bukti tertulis bahwa aku masih idup dan sehat. Terima kasih ya Tuhan
Terus terang, aku takut banget mau mulai kuliah S2 (September ini)
- Apa bisa aku bayar kuliah sendiri sampe selesai (in case gagal dapet beasiswa)? - Bukan cuma biaya kuliah. Biaya makan, kost, transportasi, bayar utang, karaoke, aku sendiri. Paling minta orang tua sesekali (udah ketuaan buat minta-minta). - Apa bisa aku ngatur waktu buat kuliah dan kerja buat biaya kuliah? - Gimana kalo fisikku gak kuat menanggung beban ini-itu, secara aku udah gak muda lagi? *beh* - Gimana kalo aku homesick (jarak ke rumah: 8 jam naik kereta)? - Apa bisa aku mengikuti mata kuliah yg bener2 baru buatku? - Gimana kalo tesisku molor dan harus memperpanjang masa kuliah (yg artinya tambah biaya lagi)?
Padahal ya aku sama sekali gak ada rencana habis kuliah mau apa.
Bisa dibilang, aku ambil S2 ini cuma modal nekat, penasaran, dan rasa gak mau kalah. Plus modal duit sendiri (yang pas-pasan).
Aduh, belum mulai kuliah aja udah pusing mak @____@
Dan semua itu kuungkapkan ke ibuku tadi pagi.
Dia bilang, aku di rumah kurang tertantang. Apa-apa ada, apa-apa aman, apa-apa nyaman. Makanya, aku disuruh cari 'masalah'. Maksudnya cari tantangan dan situasi yang berpotensi menekanku, biar bakat terpendamku (beh...) bisa tergali maksimal.
Gitu sih katanya.
Bener juga sih kalo dipikir-pikir.
Katanya lagi, takut itu wajar. Kalo gak takut, orang bisa kebablasan, seenaknya sendiri, gak waspada.
Bener lagi sih.
Orang tua yang aneh, eh? Ortu lain bukannya posesif kalo sama anak perempuannya? XD Mereka malah 'ngusir' kami dari rumah. Semua anak mereka, habis SMA harus keluar dari rumah. Bahkan abang sejak lulus SMP. Yah, meskipun cuma di Jogja, dia sempet homesick abis.
Aku bener-bener pasrah dah. Demi cita-cita, harus berkorban. Harus ada yang dikorbankan. Jer basuki mawa beya. Gak ada yg gratis di dunia ini. Cita-citaku sederhana, tapi jalan ke sana bikin merana.
Hadeeeeeeeeh *a la Songong Belagu (digital clip trans tv)*
Btw, aku barusan beli eyeshadow kit gara2 diracunin blog seseorang yang suka ngereview tentang make up gitu.
Fanbo no.02
Murah meriah, cuma Rp 32.500 XDD Tapi warnanya langsung keluar dan lumayan cantik.
Next target: Fanbo eyeshadow kit no.01 (yang ada oranye, kuning, dan biru), eyeliner cair yang murah (belum bisa soalnya!) dan make up lain yang juga murah (dari rekomendasi blog tadi tentunya)!
I want to write this entry in English and Bahasa Indonesia. It's OK, ne? v(^-^)v
Okay, so I managed to buy 2 tickets for me and my younger sister (who was also a fan of Laruku). I bought the cheapest ones because I also needed money for the transportation cost to Jakarta Fortunately, we didn't have to book a room in hostel because we stayed in my sister-in-law's family's house at West Jakarta.
But it didn't matter.
BECAUSE WE HAD A REALLY UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT!!!
*coughs* Please let me tell the story of the day.
We arrived at Lapangan D Senayan at around 2 pm. It was not too crowded yet, and the first gate would open at 4 pm, so we just took a walk around to see people there.
When taking pictures, suddenly we heard Laruku did the sound checking. OMG, only a sound checking and the crowds were like "UWAAAAAAA!!!!!!" and it got louder when Hyde sang a part of LINK
Me? Speechless. LOL. Seriously, I still couldn't believe I could watch their live concert
Gate 1 opened right at 4 pm and I entered it at around 4.10.
Gate1:
Gate 2 opened at 5.45.
My sister and I were lucky because we got a good spot (in the middle of the front row)! Thanks sister for running fast while holding my hand wwww
This was where we were standing:
And also thank God we were quite tall (I was 165 cm and she was 167 cm) wwww
SETLIST: 1. Ibara no Namida 2. Chase 3. Good Luck My Way MC: Hyde 4. Honey 5. Drink it Down 6. Revelation 7. Hitomi no Jyuunin 8. X X X 9. Fate 10. Forbidden Lover 11. My Heart Draws a Dream (they gave us many chances to sing 'yume o egaku yo') MC: Ken 12. Seventh Heaven 13. Driver's High 14. Stay Away 15. READY STEADY GO (there were fireworks!)
Encore: 16. Anata (it was drizzling, creating romantic moment) 17. The Fourth Avenue Cafe 18. LINK part 1 MC: Tetsuya LINK part 2 (continued) MC: Hyde 19. Niji
Most songs had special moments. I think I just can tell here about what I remember well wwww
The audiences' 'clash!!' and 'flash!!' in Driver's High with raising right hand or 'sarawarete' and 'kono hitomi ni' in The Fourth Avenue Cafe were the best!
Hyde cried while singing Forbidden Lover. It was said it was not in the scenario, he just did in spontaneously (＞＜;) (oh, even his tears were beautiful) (〃∇〃)
The best part of this concert, besides the wonderful audiences, was the members' (except Yukihiro) attempts to greet us and tell jokes in Bahasa Indonesia!
During the first MC (before Honey), to our surprise, Hyde spoke in Bahasa Indonesia: "Selamat malam, kami L'arc-en-Ciel. Kalian senang bertemu aku? Aku? Aku juga. Aku...juga" "Good evening, we are L'arc-en-Ciel. Are you happy to meet us? Me? Me too. Me...too" (OMG, I can't tell his sexiness when he said this wwww) "Jakarta, oooh Jakarta... selamat menikmati. Selamat menikmati." "Jakarta, enjoy our show" (Where did he learn Bahasa Indonesia? He said it very clearly!)
And his shy smile after that (maybe he found it funny to spoke in Bahasa Indonesia) was TOO PRECIOUS. OMG
Ken was also so funny in his part! He brought two or three pieces of paper, and started to joke.
"MANTAP!!!" wwwwwww (I don't know the English for this!)
"man man?" audiences: "tap tap!!"
"man man man?" audiences: "tap tap tap!!!"
"man man man man man man?" audiences: *laughed*
"very good" audiences: *laughed harder*
HAHAHAHAHA
"Kemaren gua makan mi goreng, sate, nasi goreng. Nasi gorengnya...gokil." "Yesterday I ate fried noodle, satay, fried rice. The fried rice was...very delicious." LOL
He searched for ladies wearing bikini LOL (of course you wouldn't find them in public areas in Indonesia, Ken wwww)
He did the MC quite long, and we were all laughing by all that he said
How about Tetsuya?
First he said "gua suju dari Korea"/"I am suju from Korea" to which the audiences shouted "BOOOOOOOOOO" and he said "ooops" while stroking his head XDD
(For your information, in April 27-29 Super Junior held a 3-day live concert in Jakarta wwww)
And as usual, he talked about banana...and lollipop wwww "Apakah kamu mau pisang gua? Apakah kamu mau jilat lolipop gua???" *while bringing some real bananas and lollipops* www "Do you want my banana? Do you want to lick my lollipop?" wwwwwwww
Then he shouted "suarana maraaa? Suarana maraaaa?" very confidently. And wrong. wwwww It was supposed to be "suaranya manaaa??"/"gimme your voice!!"
God, I died of laughing.
Yukihiro didn't talk at all, but he made the jokes more hilarious by playing his drum set XDD
And another part that made us proud of being Indonesian was the omiyage that Ken bought: suling bambu, mini gamelan, and wayang
During his MC, Ken gave the omiyage from Pasaraya (still in the 'Pasaraya' white plastic bag! XD) to Hyde, who played the suling incorrectly LOL (Hyde's facial expression when he realized that he was wrong in playing the suling was precious wwww)
Ah, finally he played it in a correct way. But it still didn't work wwww (credit: @MrGood_Official)
We also laughed when Ken finished giving Hyde his omiyage. Ken did something while his back faced Hyde, and Hyde said to him, "terima kasih"/"thank you". And then Ken turned around to face the audiences and said "sama-sama"/"you're welcome" with his own microphone XDD
In the last MC before Niji, Hyde's last words were "kami datang ke Indonesia lagi. Ini lagu terakhir"/"we will come to Indonesia again, this is the last song" and we shouted "nooooooo!!" 。・ﾟﾟ･(≧д≦)･ﾟﾟ･｡
The audiences were wonderful and full of fun. We sang along Laruku almost all the time, and they looked surprised we knew all the lyrics
It was a week ago, but it seems all of us still feel the euphoria and can't move on from the sweet moments wwww
Unfortunately, they didn't play my favorite songs: Metropolis Pretty Girl My Dear Promised Land Hoshizora Joujoushi
Anyway, thank you for the unforgetable night, your hilarious jokes, our laughters, and your radiant smiles
Our hunger, thirst, tiredness because we had been queueing since around 3 pm, all were worth by your wonderful performance. (I couldn't believe they were 43 years old! They looked so young and powerful!)
Thank you too for not playing "Sayounara" as the last song or else I might have cried for sure wwwww
Also, thanks to the cielers surrounding me and my sister, for spending the time together while waiting until 8 pm wwww
Please come again, adorable men. またね！
P.S.: according to information on the internet, there were some interesting facts in their concert in Indonesia: 1. Indonesia was the only country whose audiences sang along them most of the time （‐＾▽＾‐） (I was very proud of it!) 2. There were 10.000 people who got the tickets (it was sold out besides London! The official site confirmed it) and 7.000 people who waited outside the concert venue. 3. Ken forgot to zip his pants LOL and he zipped it right before the audience without turning back XDD 4. Tetsuya tried not to cry before throwing some last bananas and saying "mata neee!" (T_T) 5. They said that Indonesian audiences were the craziest. 6. There was a heart-shaped cloud before the show
Lady Gaga - Fashion
Jennifer Lopez - Papi
to which the audiences shouted "BOOOOOOOOOO" and he said "ooops" while stroking his head XDD
wwwwwwww
