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?"
wwwwwwwwThen 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
