Taxonomy in Kpop (Part 2)

On previous post I already discussed about haters and it's classification and in this one I will classify Fandom (Fans) and Multi Fandom.

Fandom and Multi Fandom basically fans. The ones who admiring solo or group of artists. The difference between these two is fandom as a "place" where you "dedicate" yourself into one artist or one band only. On the other hand, multi fandom is the ones who likes more than one artist or group (mostly multi fandom is refer to group instead of solo artist). 

Now lets breakdown the fandom itself.

Shinhwa Changjo, Cassiopeia, ELF, ARMY, EXO-L, Sone, VIP, Blackjack, Shawol and many more. Those are part of kpop culture, fandom and considered as some of the biggest and strongest fandom. These are pretty similar with Beliebers, Directiones and else in western music. But as far as I remember, back then in early 2000s the biggest bands and artists did not have any name for the fans, CMIIW. I can safely say that kpop culture did it first and arond 2010s western adopt the culture to give a name to the fans.

In kpop culture, as a fan of a group, the ones who dedicated themselves to fandom tend to like all of the members. Although they do have bias (the most favorite members), usually the other member(s) become their bias-wrecker(s). They can accept the flaws of each members and love them (pretty) equally. Since fandom member mostly females, sometimes they consider the band members as their babies although some might be older than the fans themselves. The fandom also can be very "cruel", to put their favorite into meme. But after all, never underestimate fandom's love to the members. They can be the ones who protect the group from haters, like momma bear. They will do their best to show their appreciation towards their favorite artists (voting, celebrating birthdays, buying merchandise,  and else).

Unfortunately,  in fandom itself some of the fans decided to be a solo stan ( which only support one member). The fans in this category can be quite annoying since they want the best for their favorite only. Most of the problem with solo stan either line distribution or screen time. It's like a thorn within the fandom.

Now let's move to multi fandom, the ones who like more than one group. This group of fans mostly in dilemma when it time to vote for an award or to decide which one they like most. Another difficult time is when there's fanwar between their favorites. Some decide to stay neutral but some others can be very biased. 

The worst of all is the infamous sasaeng. This is what most artists and team avoid to deal with. This tipe of fans tend to be very extreme. They sometimes do something incomprehensible by most people. Somehow they are able to trespass idols dorm or house, able to get the artists' flight information and even manage to disturb artists' private life.

All in all, this is culture in kpop that might surprise the newbies. There might be some that I did not manage to discuss in this post, but by the time you jump into kpop you can experience it yourself. In the end it's your decision what do you want to be.

C

Taxonomy in Kpop

This is an edited from Negin Farsad at TED 2016

"A Highly Scientific Taxonomy of Haters"

Yeayyy, another thing related to kpop!! Bare with me ...

There are three things in Kpop that quite interesting for me recently; fandom, multi fandom and haters.The most troubling category here are the haters. They are minority, but they overcompensate by being extra loud.

•   First of all The Trolls

These are garden-variety digital haters. They are considered as people who quit real-life relationship so they can post malicious info, comments in social media all day (even all nite) long. This people will be a spotlight, they will wait for the cue to turn green and when it does, they yell (or type) " It's a charity award..!! Your oppas are visual holes, plagiarism, sajaegi ( google it if you don't know), and more..." and run away when it's getting worse or cowardly point finger on others.

Big Question: Why bothering other fandom when you can focus on your own?? 

• Swing Haters

They just can't decide. They're like ideological puppet who move from hating to not hating and they do it because they don't have enough information. (You do have internet access right, try to verify your info before share any malicious rumors because many said so.)

Dear haters, 

Your live is not only revolve around your precious idols and hate on others. live your life to the fullest.

Boybands, Fandom and Internet

So, I've been into boybands (music) since I was young. Back then MTV worked as its name MUSIC television, which is all about music. Even in Indonesia, we called ourselves "Anak nongkrong MTV" which means the ones who tune in religiously to MTV. It's totally different with MTV today even today music show in my home country. Smh!!

Back in late 90s, Westlife was so booming in here along with others singers like Britney Spears, Nsync, and Backstreet Boys. I was following the bandwagon, been listening to Westlife until my mom bought me CD 4 Biggest Boybands; Westlife, Boyzone, Nsync and Backstreet Boys. Started from that I was falling in love with NSync and Backstreet Boys, I can't choose which side tho, but I can say I was JC's girl 😉

As 90s kid, I experienced the fans feud like whose the best boyband, BSB or Nsync. Back then, we didn't have name for the fandom. But still to take side was a big deal in music back then. Both were talented, their songs were so good (even up until now, I still put their songs on my playlist), their dance were incomparable to other boybands. People still comparing both group, even in interview the reporters would asked about each counterpart. Funny thing is that they got the same manager. Yadaaa!! Annnnnndddd when we're talking about fans, it was frenzy. Without any internet back then, the fans were still strong. They can gathered fans from all around the world. I even watched the video while BSB in Rio de Janeiro,  their fans surrounded their bus until it couldn't move and it's so dangerous and scary.

Turning to early 2000, another phenomenal boyband came to music industry. This time we had it from Asia, F4 (go check google if you don't know them). They're even bigger than life,hahahaha.. Anything related to them was sold out. But until then, I had never heard a word of fanwar.

2005 was my first year in touch with kpop. I do remember my first favorite kpop song was Miracle from Super Junior. Internet was not as easy as these days, so to listen to that song, I requested it from radio station, which thankfully had it and played that song. I even bought the cassette (I was so broke). On the other hand, my sister who was a fan of DBSK, bought DBSK Japanese Album: Heart, Mind and Soul, together we played it everyday until my mom remember the songs and hum along with it. At this stage I started to understand what is fandom and kpop itself. It's fun, although I didn't understand any of it, I did enjoy the songs.

As the brightest as it shown, kpop also has a darkside. Suju and DBSK were two biggest part of hallyu wave. Their fans are everywhere even up until now. They are very loyal to their idol, unfortunately there are some that take it too personal. Some started to stalk their idol, even until trespassing their personal space. It's ok if they want to come to every show, even, fan meeting or concert, or to buy every merchandise, but trespassing is a no no. Furthermore, as the rumors said that early years of the National girl band, Girl's Generation, were not easy. They used to get black ocean, where the audience mostly fans were turned off their light stick when the girls performed. One of the reasons was just because the girls were too close to those oppas (in fact, they are from the same agency, some maybe trained together). Rumors also mentioned that DBSK's Yunho even rushed to hospital due to drink poisoning( Again, limited access of internet impeded further information). Up until now, I have no idea why they did that.

Few years later, Big Bang became another kpop star that also became phenomenon.  This band was and is so different from their seniors in terms of music to style. They gained worldwide fame, but still anti-fans linger around them.

2016-2017, almost 20 years of BsB vs NSync, I feel kinda dejavu. This time BTS vs EXO. Both are very talented group, have very big, strong and loyal fanbases. But instead of BTS vs EXO it's more likely to be Army and Exo-l (respected fandom). Maybe because we're in millennial era, everything seems to be over the top. Too much!!

Lately with MAMA voting, everything become mess. The inconsistency of MAMA to provide a fair voting, turned everything to be too much drama. Both fanbases wanted their favorite idol to win, they tried their hardest to win the vote. And the business must go on. By an incomprehensible reason MAMA cut down several votes and cause fanwar between big fandoms, especially Army and Exo-l.

I'm an Army myself but trying to see everything from both sides. Exo is a big brand for few years lately in kpop industry for sure. Along with them, BTS also raising their popularity even to western music industry.  As I don't really follow EXO, I can't talk too much. On the other hand, I feel really connected to BTS and their songs. It was their music video that gave a strong impression on me. I don't want to calculate the cost of their mv production, too expensive. Starting from that I dig in for more. To know the lyrics and its meaning, the message of each song. Well yeah, I kinda that nerd, knowing the lyrics and what's behind the song will always a plus point from me. And it's like opening a pandora box. Once I opened it, there are lots of things BTS offers to me. Not only the bubbly side but also the struggling phase that shaped them as idols, musicians and what they are now. The fact that they're producing and writing their own songs is another thing that I appreciate from them. Not many idols are hands on on their music, but bts can do it.

Come up from small company, they have been defying gravity.. When many people think it's impossible for them to success,  they worked 100 times harder,. They chose another route to introduce their brand, BTS, and as wise man said "Teamwork makes the dreams work". They treasure their fans, Army. Treated them as human being, not because they have to but because they want to. When they can rely 100% with promotion in TV, they chose to use social media to engage with army. 

And this is the turning point of social media in kpop. BTS as the one who actively use their social media, is able to connect to their fans from all over the world. The members are happily share anything to their fan through Twitter. And also the works of Army, the main PR for BTS :D. Twitter (or internet) is the main reason why this group was able to sell their brands (we're not talking about their music here but the use of internet). This is what other artists (again, IN MY OPINION) lack of. Although they have their social media, mostly they only post things without build any conversation with the fans, while BTS try to communicate with Army in any kind of social media they have, namely twitter, vlive, fancafe, youtube and else. They don't really active in instagram tho T.T). As a result, BTS become one powerhouse artist in social media ( whether you agree or not, in fact they awarded as Top Social Artist in BBMA 2017) and you can check their followers on Twitter and Vapp.

There are thousands reasons how can they become what they are now. Hopefully other idol groups (especially from small companies) able to learn from BTS but most importantly they are able to be true to themselves and true to their music.

This is based on my personal point of view. Feel free to add and give your opinion but don't force anyone to agree with yours. Peace. 

What is AMBIVERT

Jadi di beberapa postingan gw kapan lalu, gw sempat nulis atau mendeskripsikan diri gw sebagai ambivert. Nah ambivert itu sendiri apa??

Kalo katanya mbah google sih ambivert itu a person whose personality has a balance of extrovert and introvert features. Yang artinya adalah seseorang yang punya ciri-ciri extrovert dan introvert.

Kalo berdasarkan bacaan-bacaan yang ada dan kalo diliat dari gw sendiri sih ya, ambivert itu cenderung fleksibel karna gak terlalu introvert, yang keseringannya digambarkan sebagai orang yang pendiam, atau terlalu extrovert, orang yang rame pokoknya.

Gw sebenernya kalo nemu temen yang cocok, seneng banget ngumpul-ngumpul gitu kalo bisa sampe pagi, sampe pagi deh. (Tapi sayang upik abu tetep harus balik ke rumah). Nyerocos gak berhenti. Tapi kalo udah di tempat atau lingkungan baru gw cenderung observant, mengamati dulu sebelum nimbrung. Kadang mikir gimana caranya untuk memulai suatu obrolan. Tapi kalo udah enak kadang gak terlalu seneng sama omongan yang cenderung mehhh..

Kadang juga bisa cukup ektrem, jadi kalo gak penting-penting banget atau kalo lagi gak mood, ogah banget keluar. Pengennya cuma di kamar atau di rumah, baca lah, dengerin lagu lah, nonton lah, sendiri pokoknya. Kalo sudah gini susah banget di ajak keluar, apalagi kalo belom mandi beeeeehhhhh,tambah susah.

Kalo masalah temenan sebenarnya bukan orang yang susah buat temenan, cuma belakangan cukup selective kalo milih temen. Ini aja udah berapa kali unfriend temen di fb, yah karna ngerasa gak cocok aja. Gitu juga sama maintain relationship sama temen. Kaco banget pokoknya.

Jaman sekarang kan gampang tuh kalo mau kontak temen. Udah ada what's app, line, fb tapi serinnya susah banget buat maintain itu.

Ini ada beberapa tambaha dari lapak sebelah



Jalan-jalan ke museum Siola, Surabaya (Throwback)

Selama beberapa tahun tinggal di Surabaya gw mah jarang banget kesana sini. Tanya deh lokasi mana pun mesti gw gak bisa jawab, hehehe..
Dan suatu hari gw di ajak ke Siola ini. Yah sekali-sekali ya upik abu keluar jalan-jalan..
And here are the pictures.

Me, Kharisma and Dhomas

Absurd 1

Absurd 2

Absurd 3

Lumayan lah yaaa

Foto ini uji nyali, karena gw takut

See, Dhomas aja berani deket.. Lah gw?? Not today

Waktu itu cuma ada kita bertiga doang

Absurd 4

Jalan Tunjungan, Surabaya

Kelaparan, makan indomie solusinya

Setelah hujan-hujanan

Isi museum sendiri sih mulai dari kendaraan, furniture,  baju, peralatan medis jadul sampe foto-foto. Cuma karna skill moto gw jeblok jadi fotonya terbatas banget. Selain muter museum, kita juga ngider disekitar jalan Tunjungan, makan indomie di pinggir jalan, sampe berteduh nungguin hujan reda. We did have fun that day. Yah sekali-sekali lah upik abu jalan-jalan di Surabaya.

C

An Ambivert

Mungkin banyak yang bingung sama judul postingan ini, jadi gw bakal jelasin dulu artinya apa.

Hermit itu sendiri artinya a person living in solitude as a religious discipline. Tapi di sini pengertian gw lebih ke a person living in solitude alias penyendiri.
Ambivert sendiri lebih ke tipe personality. Kalo pada umumnya orang taunya introvert dan extrovert, ambivert ini adalah gabungan dari keduanya itu. Yang artinya seseorang itu bisa aja gampang bergaul, happy di tengah orang banyak, but at some point sangan menghargai solitude itu tadi.

Gw pribadi sih ngerasa kalo gw itu tipe ambivert. Tapi belakangan lebih ke hermit, hehhehe..
Jadi begini, tahun 2007 gw akhirnya ninggalin rumah, merantau ke pulau lain demi pendidikan. Seumur2 ini baru pertama kalinya gw tinggal sendiri jauh dari orang tua. Untungnya gw punya beberapa temen sesama perantau juga yang nantinya jadi teman seatap, saat sakit, sehat, suka, duka, temen berantem juga. Selama gw kuliah, gw cukup aktif di kegiatan mahasiswa. Tahun pertama gw ikut ukm (unit kegiatan mahasiswa) yang berujung gw masuk ke jajaran senat fakultas gw. Tahun kedua udah mulai sibuk jadi panitia sana-sini, ikut grup vocal fakultas, sampe ikutan annual drama fakultas. Intinya kalo yang lain pada jadi kupu-kupu (kuliah pulang), gw masuk jajaran kura-kura (kuliah rapat). Well, selama gw gak ngelakuin hal yang negatif jadi jalan terus aja. Emang sih waktu di kost itu sangat minim banget tapi biasanya hari minggu atau pas malam-malam yang gak ada jadwal latihan atau rapat gw coba habisin buat nongkrong sama anak-anak kost gw. Gw bisa dibilang gak punya masalah dalam hal berhubungan dengan orang banyak, mungkin karena kegiatan-kegiatan itu kali ya. Kenal sama temen berbagai fakultas, berbagai angkatan. Intinya selama kuliah gw sangat-sangat extrovert.

Tapi semua rada berubah setelah gw lulus kuliah dan pindah ke kota lain untuk kerja. Gw ninggalin kota ke dua gw demi mencari sesuap nasi dan segenggam berlian (yang sampe sekarang belom dapet juga). Selama di kota baru ini gw gak bisa dibilang sendiri sih. Gw masih ada temen cuma emang gak sebanyak kayak jaman kuliah. Kegiatan pun berkurang drastis, cuma ngantor dan ngekost. Sekarang gw lebih sering ngabisin waktu buat baca atau denger lagu atau nonton via hp atau laptop. Pergi ke mall pun sangat jarang, selain berhemat gw juga males nongkrong di mall apalagi pas rame-ramenya mall, berasa insecure aja. Sekarang lebih sering di kost kalo lagi gak ngantor. Dan gw sangat nyaman dengan kondisi sekarang, enjoying my solitary.

Selama ini, kadang kalo ngemall pas lagi rame banget biasanya gw bakal sangat efisien, gw nyari yang gw perlu aja. Jarang banget yang namanya window shopping, males. Apalagi kalo rame penuh sesak, duhh mending buruan pulang aja lah. Tapi kapan hari gw masih sanggup aja desak-desakan demi nonton konser.

Yah begitulah.. Semoga aja cukup menjelaskan ambivert hermit itu apa..

An ambivert hermit,

C

Norak di Malaysia

Bulan april itu emang jadi bulan penuh berkat deh. Hasil cek darah bagus, dosis obat semakin diturunin (mungkin lain kali gw ceritain deh), nonton BTS dan LIBURAN KE MALAYSIA!!!

 Yepp, norak kan?? Maklum upik abu mah biasanya kerja dan kost doang, jarang banget bisa halan-halan sampe luar negri.

Jadi gini, gw dan beberapa temen Kantor diajak buat LIBURAN ke Malaysia. Dari akhir tahun kemaren gw udah disuruh mamah buat bikin passport soalnya beliau baru aja jalan - jalan ke Israel, yah kali-kali aja kecipratan rejeki juga.. Ehh, emang rejeki gak kemana bulan april ini gw ke Malaysia. Tanggal 22-24 april 2017 kita pada di Malaysia.

Sesampainya di sana jujur gw udah punya ekspektasi yang tinggi sih. Kita nginapnya di Hotel Furama daerah Bukit Bintang (coba Tanya google map aja biar lebih jelas)  dan cukup dekat dengan Berjaya Town Square yang sepertinya salah satu mall yg gede di Kuala Lumpur.

Kamar di Furama Hotel

Pemandangan malam dari kamar hotel

Setelah check in dan istirahat sebentar gw sama beberapa temen akhirnya mutusin ke Berjaya Town Square a.k.a BTS (BTS maneeeh, hehehehe). Sesampainya disana entah kenapa tu mall rame banget kayaknya ada kompetisi nyanyi apa dance gitu tapi yasudahlah, perut terlalu lapar untuk cari tau hal itu. Jadilah kita keliling-keliling, muter-muter nyari foodcourt.

Foodcourt nya cukup beda sama yg di Indonesia. Biasanya kalo mau bayar ya udah tinggal bayar pake duit aja nah kalo disini rada beda, kita jadi kayak deposit RM 20 (ringgit Malaysia lho ya, bukan Rap Monster, wkwkwkwk) duit gitu dan di kasi kartu. Kalo makan kita kurang dari itu nanti kartunya bisa diduitkan lagi, begitu lah ya..

Selesai makan liat-liat lah kita ke toko deket foodcourt, isinya macem-macem, mulai dari aksesoris sampe dompet, peralatan make up sampe peralatan dapur yah kayak daisonya sini lah. Diluar suara teriakan makin kenceng, entah deh apa emang segitu gregetnya dance competition apa gimana, kan beda negara beda penghayatan lah(sumpah ini ngelindur berat).

Waktu gw naik ke lantai 1 baru ngeh kalo ada Red Velvet lagi entah ngapain, ada performance nya juga kok tapi bukan konser yang pasti. Gak tau deh istilahnya apa. Cuma karna RV gak masuk dalam bias list gw (maaf ya para fans nya RV, bukan bermaksud mendeskreditkan para bias kalian) jadi gak kepikiran mau foto segala macem. Tapi patut gw akui sambutannya luar biasa, mulai dari fangirls dan fanboys sampe ada ibu bapak juga yg ngerekam mereka, salut dehh... Gak ada foto, gak beli apa-apa cuma menikmati momentnya aja.

Hari ke 2 kita bangun pagi, pada mau makan mie babi. Yaudah jalan kaki lah diseputaran hotel soalnya deket. Cuma sayang banget, daerah belakang hotel itu kotor, cenderung kumuh dan kotor. Beda banget sama ekspektasi gw. Well, pasti adalah yang kayak ginian dimanapun jadi yah gitu deh.. Aniway, itu hari judulnya aja yang sarapan, porsinya alamakkk jumboo gw aja sampe gak sanggup ngabisin yang ukuran kecil. Enak kok tapi.

See, mangkoknya gede banget

Setelah sarapan jalan-jalan lah kita ke KLCC. Apesnya driver grab nya gak tau arah dan kita pun nyasari di Kuala Lumpur Museum Galery. Untungnya tempatnya fotoable gitu jadi foto-fotolah kita.

Love this place lho

Setelah puas kali ini kita pesen taksi online lagi menuju Aquaria. Untungnya driver kali ini tau, dan here we go...

Setelah berurusandengan antrian tiket dimulailah petualangan bawah air,  seru!!!

Geng Aquaria

Tabungnya kayak tabung Gordon di Power Rangers

Anemon laut

Handsome fish, pharell

Lost

Banyak banget hewan laut yang biasanya cuma diliat lewat tv atau hp bisa diliat didepan mata. I took lots of pictures here, hehehe...dan lagi-lagi gw cuma beli beberapa pernak pernik doang.

Setelahnya ya kita ke foodcourt untuk makan. Hmmm, untuk jenis makanan gak jauh lah Dari makanan Indonesia, hampir mirip jadi sebenarnya gw gak ada masalah sama makanan di Sini. Kita juga nyempetin buat foto disekitaran landmark KL, The Twin Towers, Petronas. Yah biar keliatan aja kalo kita beneran ke KL, bisa buat pamer dikit lah, hehehe..

Seputaran petronas, cuma gak sempet moto semuanya, keburu di jemput grab

Foto alakadarnya yang penting ada penampakan petronas

Malamnya kita ke Centra Market, kayak Krisna di Bali gitu jualan pelbagai macam barang unik deh mulai dari baju sampe makanan. Again, kita bermasalah dengan driver. Dengan alesan besoknya public holiday jadi banyak jalan yang ditutup. Dia juga pake alesan salah arah segala macem. Udah gitu sok seru pula, gw jadi pasang muka sengak aja. Males banget. Yang harusnya cuma bayar RM 7 jadi RM 14, masa bodo gw bayar cuma RM 10 doang. Emang dia pikir bisa ngibulin gw. Padahal waktu kita pulang itu deket banget dan cuma bayar RM 7 doang. Yah apes lah.. Di Central Market kita gak lama-lama soalnya sudah malam, dan kabarnya kalo malam daerah itu bisa rawan banget. Setelah beli kaos ala-ala I love KL gitu kita balik hotel dan makan di kedai depan hotel. Makanyannya rumahan banget, sangat yummy. Puaslah makannya.

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Unfortunately,  perjalannya cuma sampe tanggal 24 dan kita kudu pagian ke airport soalnya harus ke imigrasi segala macem. Yang gak disangka gw dan beberapa temen itu beda jam penerbangam soalnya waktu beli tiket kita gak bareng. Jadilah buru-buru ke gate nya pake drama lari-lari segala. Sampai dengan selamat ke dalam pesawat dan langsung tidoooorrr.. Bangun-bangun udah taunya nyampe Surabaya ajah.

It was a nice trip. Although I didn't buy many things, I did enjoy the trip itself. Next time kemana lagi yah??

Till next time,

C

BTS - Strong Power Thank You (Part 2)

Yeayyy!!!
Hari yang ditunggu Army seindonesia tiba, 29 April 2017.
Awalnya gw takut kalo gak bisa bangun secara  kemarennya badan gw rontok abis tapi untunglah bisa bangun pagi dengan bantuan alarm walopun habis itu sempat tidur lagi sejam. Jam 5 bangun dan langsung mandi trus siap-siap. Sambil nunggu Neng Vitha siap2 gw molor lagi dah sampe sekitar jam setengah 6 lewat kita sudah siap untuk ke tkp (baca: ICE) dan pesenlah taksi online. Unfortunately, taksi onlinenya lama banget dan gak tau lokasi kita dimana, bapaknya juga bolak-balik nelpon. The thing is, gw dan Vitha juga have no idea gimana ngasih arahnya, padahal sebelumnya udah dijelasin sama Dessy, yang punya kamar tempat kita nginap,tapi entah kenapa malah lama gitu. Terpaksa dengan berat harti kita batalin dan pesan yang lain. Untungnya kali ini bapaknya tau posisi kita dan cus lah kita ke ICE. Disana kita udah ditunggu sama Tio, Vitha's bestfriend, jam 6.30 pagi rupanya yang ngantri udah bejibun. Di hall 3 udah banyak orang dan kita kudu jalan sampe hall 8 untuk ngantri. We have no clue itu antrian buat apa aja. Mulai dari yg pegang tiket fisik, sampe yang belom nukerin tiketnya, yang dapet benefit kayak soundcheck sampe fasttrack, semua jadi uler di antrian itu. Menurut gw ini yang kurang dari persiapan promotor nya, gak ada kejelasan tentang antrian.

Lucunya, waktu ngantri itu kita betiga yang hitungannya wanita karir, karna udah pada kerja, barengan sama anak abege yang ceriwis jadilah kita ketawa ketiwi denger celotehan pada army remaja itu. Mungkin emang udah habitnya penonton di Indonesia kali ya, kurang tertib trus kalo ada heboh dikit aja langsung rame. Dan kejadian, selama ngantri itu ada beberapa kali antrian didepan itu rame banget bikin yang ngantri dibelakang penasaran dan maju semua. Berhubung gw malas ke depan, gw persilahkan Vitha deh kalo emang mau liat ada apaan, sedangkan gw tetep ngantri dan melenggang kedepan soalnya pada bubar gitu antrian. Sampe sekarang gw gak tau deh ada apa waktu rame-rame gitu.

Me, Tio and Vitha

Setelah ngantri beberapa jam, barulah ada tanda2 kudu ngantri gimana. Berhubung kita udah pegang tiket fisik jadilah kita desak-desakan di antrian yang baru, lari sana sini. Hari itu gw udah pasrah berserah aja. Mungkin karna capek, hari sebelumnya gw gak begitu doyan makan.Hari itupun gw gak sarapan, cuma berbekal roti hero dari Breadlife dan sebotol air mineral. Waktu mau masuk hall 1 rupanya dilarang bawa minuman dan makanan kedalam. Apesssss, lagi gak niat makan jadi kepaksa makan separo roti sambil ngantri. Udah gitu kita juga beli 4 botol air minum tambahan buat jaga-jaga. Untungnya semua masih bisa di titipin ke kru nya jadi gak dibuang sia-sia. Masuk kedalam kita diminta duduk jejer gitu, kali ini giliran section Red A yang dikumpulin dikasi wristband. Woaaa, we're so excited.

Wristband Red A

Sebenarnya didalam itu ada beberapa food stall yang jual makanan yah demi menambah tenaga akhirnya beli dah martabak sama air putih yang harganya gak usah disebut yah, kita semua berkorban buat dedek-dedek itu. Hari itu penuh dengan ngantri deh pokoknya, sampe mau pipis pun ngantri dulu.
Entah kenapa waktu berasa lamaaaaa banget, nunggu sampe jam 6 itu berasa bertahun-tahun. Sambil nunggu waktu, gw coba curi-curi waktu buat tidur di antrian. Lumayan 5-10 menit, paling gak sempet tidur. Trus kita juga sempat iseng-iseng foto bareng fotonya dedek-dedek itu.

Bosen nunggu, foto solusinya

Jam 6 akhirnya gate buka, tapi dasar kebiasaan orang Indonesia susah banget yang namanya antri jadi pada rebutan deh, gw aja sampe kayak ikan asin dipepet segala arah. Untungnya buat masuk ke venue kudu kasi liat wristband dan yang didahulukan yang red. Udah deh lari kedalam, nyari posisi lah. Dikarnakan gw lagi gak selera makan dan tidur berasa kurang, gw mutusin untuk diri deket pager pembatas jadi kalo kenapa-kenapa bisa segera manggil medic. Sebenernya sih udah agak di depan tuh dirinya, deket pagar pula. Tapi giliran konsernya dimulai dan dedek-dedek itu manyengnyong dorong-dorongan lagi deh. Gw cuma mikir pokoknya gimana caranya gw gak kebawa arus. 5 menit sebelum dimulai gw ngomong sama temen-temen gw kalo gw udah gak kuat gw bakal kebelakang. Mereka cuma mempertanyakan keyakinan gw untuk mundur aja soalnya posisi udah ok nih. Untung aja gw gak jadi mundur soalnya setelah beberapa lagu awal gw mulai meringsek kedepan. Lucky me, dengan badan irit gw bisa maju beberapa baris kedepan dan bisa ngeliat muka dedek-dedek yang biasa gw pantengin via layar hp doang dengan jelas. Alamaaaaakkk, cuakep-cakep dah pokoknya. Mulai dari Jin, Rap Monster, Suga, JHope, sampe maknae line, Jimin yang 'kijil', Tae yang muka kayak lain dunia saking cakepnya, sampe Jungkook yg cakepnya imut.

Cr. To owner
Dedek Jungkook

Cr. To owner
My fave, Dedek Taehyung

Cr. To owner
Dedek Jimin

Cr. To owner
The troublemakers duo ❤

Gw cuma sempat ngerekam sedikir doang, capek bro, badan irit gini nahan kamera diatas kepala biar keliatan para dedeks gitu, sampe jinjit juga ya gak bakal sebanding sama ebijih yang badannya pada bongsor semua. But I did enjoy the show, mulai dari nyanyi sampe joget sampe lompat sampe nyoba nyelip kedepan. It's worth the effort lah. I had a blast night.

Purna konser, lelah tapi puas

Di venue yang namanya sinyal jelek banget. Secara kita betiga mengandalkan taksi online jadilah lama banget nunggunya. Konser sendiri kelar jam 9 dan kita baru dapet taksi nya jam 11an. Belom lagi kita lanjut ke Jakarta Pusat, rontok deh ni badan. Tapi kalo diinget lagi seneng kok, baper malah kadang.

Thank you untuk BTS yang udah konser di Indonesia, i did enjoy your show. Keep doing what you like and keep being the adorkable you are, guys. From noona fan.

Makasih buat Vitha yang sudah bersama saya dalam susah, senang, nekat dan baper.. Let's aim for Seoul concert,live band bok. Duhhhh

Tio, we just met that day but thanks for treating me like your friend. Thanks for being bolduser diantrian yang sangat tidak jelas itu.

Makasih juga untuk Dessy dan roommatenya yang gak keberatan kita ganggu (entahlah kalo dalam hati gmn, hehehehe...)..

I had a blast, grateful

C

P.s: photo taken from many sources, credit to all of the owner of those pictures.

BTS - Strong Power Thank You

28-29 April 2017
Bisa dibilang tanggal keramat yang bikin gagal move on atau PCD (Post Concert Depression).

Jadi ceritanya begini,
Jaman sma sampe kuliah itu gw bisa dibilang pecinta kpop gitu entah kenapa semenjak ngurus skripsi dan masuk dunia kerja intensitas ngikutin kpopnya rada berkurang. Menjelang akhir tahun 2016 gw kenalan sama yg namanya BTS a.k.a Bangtan Sonyeondan atau Bangtan Boys.

Dedek-dedek kesayangan gw sama Vitha

Awalnya karna ada temen gw yang nyodorin BTS mulu (it's you Vit 😂) trus ada juga murid gw yang nganjurin buat nonton MV (music video) BTS yang Blood, Sweat and Tears dan setelah bertahan buat gak ngeklik videonya nyerah lah gw dan nonton tu video. And I realized afterwards that I should have not watch the video, bukan karna jelek but it's a beautiful video, lagunya juga asik rada-rada reggaetone gitu. Dan dari situ lah dimulai semua ini. Seperti biasa karena penasaran gw cari tau lah semua background dari musik sampe videonya. Menariknya ni mv rada beda dari kpop yang pernah gw tonton, menurut beberapa artikel dan tons of ARMY (BTS fandom) point of view, behind of this mv itu berdasarkan literatur, Demian by Herman Hesse, ntar deh gw coba tulis tentang mv sekalian sama bukunya. Intinya I was impressed, jarang banget ada yang bikin mv berdasarkan literatur gini, tambah kesengsem deh gw. Trus gw bergurulah sama Vitha, minta petunjuk tentang ni 7 brondong dan dijelasin deh sama dia kalo beberapa mv nya BTS itu emang intertwined gitu, thanks Vith.

Daaaaan, lanjut ke tanggal keramat tadi..
Setelah berbulan-bulan ngikutin BTS datanglah kabar kalo mereka mau ngadain world tour  2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III:  The Wings Tour. Seumur hidup gw gak pernah nonton konser kayak gituan mau artis Indonesia atau artis luar. Mimpi atau kepengen itu ada cuma mesti kecentok di dana dan lain-lain, ribet pokoknya. Lagian waktu itu Indonesia belom masuk di daftarnya. Berangan-angan lah gw sama Vitha, kalo mereka ke Indonesia kita nonton yuk?! Eventually, Jakarta masuk dalam list mereka. Dari situ dimulailah geriliya Vitha untuk nyari tau tentang konser. Susah, senang, galau, bingung kita lewati bersama sampe ada countdown segala. Dari nyari tiket, hotel, sampe flight, campur deh

Sampe tanggal 28 kita janjian bakal ketemu di Soetta airport. Apesnya kita bedua beda terminal. Dimulai lah petualangan gw naik shuttle bus ke gate nya Vitha. Dan perjalanan berlanjut sampe kita ke Dormitory Scientia 2. Berhubung kita bukan anak borjuis dan duit habis buat beli tiket konser dan pesawat, kita pun mutusin buat stay di asramanya Vitha punya ponakan. Sudah sksd (sok kenal sok dekat) dan tksd (tak kenal sok dekat) aja lah pokoknya demi banget 😂😂😂

Hari itu juga kita janjian sama Nindy, Bila dan Fia (Army kenalan Vitha via dunia maya, see segitunya kita) buat nukerin email ke tiket fisik. Jam 1.30 kita ke ICE BSD venue konsernya. Waktu itu panas terik banget dan kita bela-belain ngantri demi tu tiket. Berhubung gw sama Vitha buta apa-apa jadi kita ngikut aja deh. Ngantri panas-panasan, kena angin sepoi-sepoi sampe dengerin bapak-bapak calo jualan (masih ada aja calo ya).

Ngantri panas-panasan

 Jujur badan cuapek banget soalnya semalam itu gw dan Vitha kurang tidur takut ketinggalan flight pagi, tapi excited juga. Daaannn tadaaaaaa 1 tiket ditangan malam itu. 2 lagi menyusul besoknya.



The ticket, yeay!!!!

Seneng banget dah, mungkin banyak yang kelewat, nanti deh gw coba melengkapi semuanya.

Grateful

C