Deported Minds

Millennial's Fossil

chocolate April 11, 2020

Izinkan Sandy memulai post ini dengan:

YA ALLAH, GUSTI NU AGUNG, GUSTI PANGERAN, INDAH SEKALI CIPTAANMU. AKU SAYANG BANGET SAMA DIA, dan abangnya😭

Bermula ketika gue mau merintis playlist dengan tembang kpop lawas di Spotify out of nowhere. Kayaknya lagi kangen aja sama jaman dulu, dan kalau ngikutin yang sekarang tuh udah nggak kejamah lagi aja. Memang sudah tua aja sih darisananya, kurang lebih sudah satu dekade menyelam di kubangan kampret ini. I'm getting older and the industry grows rapidly now.

Dimulai dari masih jadi fans kere yang harus ke warnet untuk download music video karena di rumah belum ada internet, beli majalah buat dapet poster dan ikutan giveaway album/tiket konser karena SEKERE ITU. Back then, the struggle is real.

Kpop hari ini sudah jauh berbeda dari 10 tahun yang lalu. Sekarang mana ada cuy orang yang mau fangirling harus ke warnet dulu, beli tabloid untuk baca berita, koleksi poster dari majalah, struggle nonton subbed video yang ber-part-part, kalau download video/liat fantaken aja harus level up di forum, ngakak kepayang nonton grup yang disuka bikin parodi drama-drama hits sambil cross-dressing, ngeliat interaksi boy-dan-girl-group yang lumrah pada masa itu, yadda yadda.

Dari jaman per Gayo-an liat orang-orang cheering masih pake balon, sekarang pakai lightstick. Terus dulu dapet tiket konser gratis dan bisa pegang pager depan panggung, sekarang udah bisa beli tiket konser tanpa mikir tapi ngonsernya harus duduk karena sudah jompo + recovery nya 3 hari.

Sekarang secara pribadi udah lebih establish, tapi kpop nya sudah tidak seperti dulu lagi. Aih, sedih banget. Reality hits some of us, and it’s inevitable.

Selama 10 tahun, berapa grup yang kehilangan membernya?

Berapa grup yang sudah disband?

Berapa grup yang hiatus?

Giliran diri sudah mapan, kok jadi kayak gini?

Nah, kembali lagi ke cerita bikin playlist kpop jadul di Spotify yang akhirnya gue beri nama “Ya Allah Aku Kpop Banget” (yang sampai saat ini sudah ada 700+ lagu). Gue kembali mendengarkan lagu-lagu lawas, masukin ke playlist, dan mencoba mengingat-ingat lebih keras apa saja yang mungkin gue lewatkan.

Kalau bicara tentang grup generasi kedua, nggak mungkin nggak ada TVXQ. Mau berlima kek, berdua kek, they’re still God of The East.

Setelah beberapa tahun ini hiatus dari dengerin mereka (karena mereka juga hiatus untuk mengabdi pada negara), gue akhirnya mendengarkan "Keep Your Head Down" lagi dengan seksama beberapa waktu lalu, and I cried instantly. Nggak nyadar aja itu aer mata udah ada di pipi, jatoh sendiri.

You guys… TVXQ was the memory, the snapshot of youth for a whole generation (my generation). Their songs are songs that bring you back to a certain time in your life (masa-masa putih abu gue). That’s incomparable to any award, or record, or sales achievement (yeah, you name it).

Teringat kembali rasa penyesalan kenapa pas di bangku SMA dulu baru tau TVXQ saat mereka sedang ada lawsuit dengan tiga membernya yang cabut, padahal baru pe-de-ka-te. Makin sedih pas ada berita katanya Changmin mau kuliah di luar negeri. Terus gimana kelanjutannya? Kelar aja nih?

Anjir.

Back then I was 14 or 15, I can’t even talk to boys, let alone got my heart broken. Dan baru pertamakali patah hati sama orang-orang yang tidak tahu menahu tentang keberadaan gue di semesta ini. Gue sedih pun sepertinya mereka juga tidak peduli, hehe.

Long story short, tahun 2011 salah satu temen gue nelfon.

“Ndy, TVXQ comeback. Lo ke rumah gue sekarang!”

“HAH????? YANG BENER LU?????”

Saat itu juga gue ngibrit ke rumah temen gue itu yang punya akses internet. Terus dia muterin the infamous diss-track that no one talking about thesedays, no other than Keep Your Head Down, dengan formasi DUA MEMBER.

ANJIIIINGGGG DUA MEMBER DOANG.

Lalu gue cuman bisa kicep, melongo sambil lemes.

“Mi, ini…ini…beneran?”

Dan kita nangis banget berdua, hahaha. Good times~

Fast forward to 2019, akhirnya mereka menyambangi Indonesia dengan solo konser pertama di tanah air, tapi sialnya gue lebih memilih untuk datang ke ASS di hari yang sama. Sampai gue dipanas-panasin Ron, “Idih, artis hip-hop mah bisa kapan-kapan main ke WTF. TVXQ kan nggak mungkin ke WTF!” Which sadly true.

Total nyesel gue disini. Tapi yasudahlah, mungkin belum waktunya aja.

Setelah tahun lalu Yunho finally…finally solo debut, sekarang waktunya Cami alias kesayangannya si aku.

Remember how TVXQ restart their legacy as two young men filled with confusion and anxiety? Now they're finishing the decade as two grown, confident, humble men, proud of their achievements. Dan sekarang dua-duanya sudah punya aktivitas solo masing-masing. So, yay for it!

First thing that came to my mind after this was: CAN WE TALK ABOUT HIS HAIR? AND HOW HE LOOK GLORIOUS AND MAJESTIC WITH IT? As long as I can remember, seumur-umur gapernah liat dia rambutnya diwarnain kayak gitu, ya?

This is a solo act. And he got the voice of like multiple men here????! How is that even possible? He’s like a whole damn boy group on his own.

Selain title tracknya, lagu-lagu se-mini albumnya juga lumayan. I believe it's not the best that he can pull off di waktu sesempit ini, tapi gue cukup puas. Sebenernya kaget kenapa lagu-lagu disini nggak ada yang bergenre ballad atau apapun itu yang membuat vokalnya menonjol. Mengingat 'Chocolate' adalah genre pop-dance, itu bikin heran setengah mati, "Kok gini sih dia?" I kind of understand that he's challenging and trying something new instead of do something that people expect he would do. If in the end he pull off a ballad act on his debut then it won't be a surprise and show a new side of him, IMO.

Sampai sekarang masih nangisin track 4 yang judulnya Piano itu huhuhuhuh. Single handedly, in one fell swoop, my all time favorite track. Suka karena dari dulu emang agak kinky sama modelan solo track doi yang seperti Heaven’s Day dan Closer. Tau lah ya kenapa, masa perlu gue jelasin.

For me, TVXQ symbolize an era. They defined a path for the industry/culture. Ada yang masih belum tau kalau Mirotic tuh staple lagu kpop di awal perkembangan industri? Mungkin generasi sekarang kurang relate ya?

Their biggest obstacle now is touching the youth on a personal level. Sebenernya agak sedih generasi sekarang nggak familiar sama mereka because I used to know them and their music in a heartbeat karena mereka sempat segede itu.

But there's always a blessing in disguise:
There is a generation who became who they are now because they knew 동방신기 (and VIXX is proudly one of them)

Dimana generasi itu adalah generasi kedua injury time (yes, you don't read it wrong), dan generasi ketiga.

Your idols wish to age like them now, huh? They set the bar high. You sure?

Now I feel really old, tapi masih ada generasi yang lebih tahu mereka sebelum jaman lawsuit tuh. Gimana ya perasaannya? Gue aja sudah merasa seperti millennial’s fossil.

For the sake of his promotion, let’s stop turning this into competition. Karena beda jaman dulu dengan jaman sekarang ya, adik-adik. Kesukaan kami masih mengudara aja sudah syukur Alhamdulillah. If you really want to support him, do it and be happy for him. That’s all. Semoga kalian paham kalau diatas Amerika masih ada Surga. Ok, ini jokes buat yang ngerti aja.

Dengan banyaknya idol generasi kedua yang sudah pada kelar duty nya, pasti banyak yang berharap kalau mereka bisa kembali ke grup nya masing-masing. Dan mulai berkarya lagi seperti sebelumnya to shake the balance. Well, no pressure sih sebenarnya. Tapi gue penasaran aja apa yang akan terjadi kalau masa wamil grup-grup lawas ini udah pada kelar, lalu gantian sama generasi yang sekarang lagi naik-naiknya.

I lowkey just want them to remember that they were a gem on an era. Karena apapun yang terjadi, mereka tetap punya tempat khusus di hati para penggemarnya. And those tunes are timeless.

Here's After 24 Years of Culmination

February 22, 2020

The thing you have to remember about Sandy is that she is the first daughter of Borneo and Javanese conservative family. She has always been a decent kid even though she's not that smartass-kid. "Orang yang suka baca biasanya bodoh di sekolah. Karena di sekolah orang yang pinter itu yang bisa ngapalin." Yes, that's her eternal defense. Also that has said on several occasions that nobody, including herself, ever thought that she'd become a writer for a living, much less a creative worker.

Whenever she is asked what she’d choose to be if she were reborn, she’s always without fail answered that she would be someone who work on the field that relates to her degree. "Kan mubazir bertahun tahun kuliah jurusan apa, kerjanya apa. Tau gitu dari dulu ngotot masuk ikom :("

Once she decided that 'this' life was something she wanted, she never looked back. I’m sure there were times while she feels pressured when she start to dive on this job, where she wished she’d chosen a different path. But I never thought she regretted her decision. It may not have been what she’d envisioned for herself, but being a writer and have a team on her own is something she genuinely loves now.

"Writing is an art, not a science. You can never do it right, you have to do it better"

An interesting thing about Sandy is the juxtaposition of her role as the eldest in the family with her role as the youngest in most of circle of friends. She has a younger sister, and so was undoubtedly raised to be extremely responsible and rather serious. But then she was placed into these groups who most of her friends are older than her, and all of a sudden her identity is gone. She’s never fit in with being the typical youngest. Not that she cared. There was a time when she was lost and didn’t know what role she was supposed to play within the group dynamics. Eventually she just gave up and learned to be more natural and not care so much about it.

Sandy is extremely ambitious, although not in the way others are. Sandy’s ambitions lie more in her wanting to prove to herself that she made the right decision in choosing this life.

Having grown up the way she did, she would have been extremely aware of the necessity of an education in our society. She knows that being a writer is not something 'big' if you compare it with another job like being an engineer or a doctor, "Emang jadi penulis ada duitnya?" So no wonder a big worry for her is that she won’t be able to support and provide her family and her future. And this is behind the reason she work so hard to ensure that she will be able to.

Sandy loves her own head-space so much, is kind of the most basic profile you could ever give her. It’s also extremely true. When she was younger, she wrote an entire page of her journal full of everything that she wants to achieve later on her 20s, and everything that she’d want to eat before she died, lmao.

She can also be extremely lazy about certain things. If she knows she can get away with it, like speaking her fair share in group or helping her friends out when they're drunk.

You know there's always a weird-odd-whimsical friend on every group, right? On this situation, Sandy can give that person a pretty good run for the title. Like I said before, Sandy lives in her head a lot. And when she deigns to speak to us lowly mortals, she doesn’t always realize that we can’t read her mind. So we have no idea what she’s talking about when she just throws out random phrases or jokes.

When it comes to other people, Sandy has come a long way. She used to be incredibly shy when she was younger, especially around guys to the point where you generally didn't notice her unless someone pointed her out. She doesn’t say anything unless it’s necessary, and even then she might not if she thinks someone else will say it first. Again, though, that’s where her laziness comes in.

In recent years she’s gotten a lot better about it. I think she’s begin to be comfortable with herself, and that has a big part in how she allows people to perceive her. She still doesn’t speak very much, and spend most of the group conversation just laughing, nodding, or staring off into space, but at least she has a definite presence now.

Sandy once told us that she don't have a lot of friends. On this case, a friend that she can talk about everything she wanted. But she actually open up to new people lately. And she starts give us updates whenever she's hanging out with her friends...after 100 years not doing it. Am I the one who find it weird? Since she’s usually the type of person who doesn’t see why people need to know who her friends are?

If you know anything about astrology, then it may help to say that Sandy is a pretty typical Aquarian.

These days she rumbled how her life maybe gone wrong. Thinking that there’s a universe where that she get the life that she want. Where she don’t second guess everything and not afraid of commitment and future. Maybe there’s a universe without all the noise in her head and the pride that makes her so fiercely independent.

Maybe there’s a universe where she's the right person. Where she adore every nice thing people did without starting to resent them. Where both can shed the baggage, curiosity and issues. A universe where she were happy without wondering if that happiness is some messed-up jenga game ready to topple at the slightest quiver. A universe where both comfortable and sure, and have cats, two son, with clumsiness that she refuse to work on.

Where Sandy, a juvenile delinquent, ended up with someone who can inherit his powerful mind, kindness, intelligence and his ability for being present emotionally to their offsprings.

Maybe there’s a universe where she don’t covet so much all the time and where she don’t wonder about picking up and moving places.

If you read this, maybe you just found her in the wrong universe. This is, as they say, the darkest timeline. If this theory holds, well, by the law of averages, there had to be one universe —just this one...where you two don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it. If you think of it this way, it's no one's fault.

Maybe in another universe...you know, she'd let you.

I didn’t realize how much there was I could say about her. I could type up much more than this, actually, but I think this has rambled on long enough, lol.

WINNER Cross Tour: NASI GOREEEEEEENG!

concert December 31, 2019

FL1P Tour in Jakarta: Getting Baptized

concert November 29, 2019

Asian Sound Syndicate Vol.1: Naturalisasi HIPHOPPLAYA

aomg September 01, 2019

"Agustus pokoknya gue harus cabut!" Cabut disini dalam arti ambil cuti dan refreshing.

Have you ever watched too many insta stories and you feel physically ill? That's your body asking you to get a life. Dan itulah yang terjadi di bulan Agustus, bulan yang buat mentally and physically draining banget. Ya Allah. I have lots of thing to do but that's just too many for the one who only has one body. Makin banyak yang harus dikerjain kok rasanya malah makin males dan berujung nggak produktif :(

August was intense, baik secara emosional maupun finansial. Tapi apalah, buat gue bahagia itu tidak sederhana. Hal-hal yang gue suka perlu duit. Harus mengeluarkan sekian peser uang. For me its hard to be happy when I financially struggle. Love and smiles don't pay them bills yooo. Jadi akhirnya gue putuskan untuk spend duit yang nggak seberapa banyak itu jumlahnya untuk dipake main.

Saat Asian Sound Syndicate (ASS) Vol.1 lineup phase pertamanya diumumkan, I was kinda intrigued. Gue yang sudah mengikuti K-HH dari jaman jebot (halah), awalnya merasa tertarik karena konsep festivalnya gue rasa mirip sama Hiphopplaya yang ada di negara aslinya sono. Dimana artis pengisi acaranya mayoritas adalah musisi K-Hip Hop. Seperti Music Bank for Hip Hop artist, but so much cooler.

Iya. Sandy emang suka nonton konser musik yang berbau Korea. Tapi tolong, cuma itu hiburan yang sekarang buat dia bisa lupa dengan hal-hal yang bikin stres. Orang-orang tau nya Sandy 24/7 koreaan terus, dan bilang kayak nggak ada manfaatnya, buang-buang waktu aja. Well, itu kesenangan dia. Hargai.

Back to the story.

Lineup pertama yang diumumkan adalah: DPR Live, Crush, Gray. Menarik.

Tapi pas pre-sale kok masih agak ragu gitu belinya. Entah kenapa.

Sampai beberapa minggu sebelum hari H tambahan lineup nya ternyata Simon Dominic. WHoa, sebagai AOMG stan gue akan merasa bersalah kalau melewatkan kesempatan ini untuk nonton dua artis AOMG sekaligus di negara sendiri.

But then again, I was hesitated. Entah apa alasannya.

Lalu announcement lineup selanjutnya adalah Bobby.

Oh, jelas. Masih nggak beranjak beli juga.

Long story short entah kesambet apa kok "Yaudah lah jadiin nonton aja, biar nggak gila." I don't know, but that time gue sudah sampai titik dimana gue muak sama apa yang dihadapi sehari-hari, lalu dengan impulsif memutuskan untuk beli tiket H-7.

Sebenarnya salah satu alasan kenapa ogah-ogahan secure tiket dari awal dengan lineup yang se-daebaq itu karena nggak ada teman nonton. I never attend a concert alone on my whole life, fyi. Takut garing sendiri.

Big shout out to my concert-mate, Dea. Dua tahun terakhir udah nonton tiga konser sama doi. Dan semuanya gue tulis di blog ini sampai bosan mention namanya terus hahahahahaha. Pingin deh kali-kali nonton sama pacar, atau lebih ekstrimnya pingin sama suami.

Kebetulan Dea di hari itu nonton VLIVE HEARTBEAT yang lokasinya di Istora, dimana masih satu satu tempat sama Helipad Parking Ground, yang jadi venue nya ASS di komplek Gelora Bung Karno, Senayan. Jadi daripada dia balik sendiri (dan ngga bisa pulang juga, lmao), gue suruh beli tiket di calo biar udah kelar acara di Istora, bisa nyusul. So in the end I wasn't alone at all. And for the record semua foto yang ditampilkan disini gue minta dari smartphone yang bersangkutan, karena gue sibuk jumpalitan mengikuti insting untuk sedekat mungkin dengan panggung, in contrary ybs santai aja kongkow di belakang dekat FOH.

Kalau gue mau egois and being a dick, post ini akan gue tulis dengan judul, "Asian Sound Syndicate Vol.1: AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE AOMG PARTY." But hey, I tried not to.

Tanpa men-discredit-kan artis lainnya yang tampil, gue rasa malam itu adalah konser AOMG.

Here's why based on my biased personal opinion:

Memang suka AOMG
Rela berdiri di festival dari jam 7 sampai 12 malam for the sake of their performances
Gue lebih banyak nyanyi karena hafal lagunya
Ada DJ WEGUN!
Sudah pernah nonton Crush
Punya personal 'beef' sama Bobby. I don't hold grudge, I remember facts, darlin'
DPR Live bawa mantan gue ke panggung (his fellow DPR crew member, Ian) "SENGAJA BIKIN AKU GOYAH YA?" Nyebelin
Mereka tetap membawakan lagu yang biasa mereka bawakan bareng Hoody, Loco, Wonjae and Lord Jay Park, walau suara mereka ada di MR nya doang tapi gue happy
Kelihatan paling prepare dari semua performer. Ada collab stage (mungkin advantage manggung sama satu label), saat tampil selalu ada backdrop nama performer atau label, dan mereka satu-satunya yang pake translator biar penontonnya pada ngerti apa yang mereka omongin. Artis lain kalo ngga pake bahasa ibunya, ya pake bahasa inggris yang terbatas
Kembali lagi ke poin pertama

Disagree? Well, why get angry or feel attacked over someone's PERSONAL opinion. I mean, it's personal opinion *winks*

DPR LIVE

(7 PM - 8 PM)

Nggak banyak tau lagunya sih. Ada beberapa yang belum pernah gue denger juga, jadi nggak bisa sing along gitu. My favorite performances are Jasmine, Martini Blue, Laputa and Action, sebelum mantan gue akhirnya muncul HAHAHA. Ditutup dengan To My Self a.k.a "DPR WE GANG GANG," Live menutup sebuah pembuka yang cukup ciamik. Sayang banget nggak bawain Know Me, huhu. But anyway, his stage was stunning.

BOBBY

(8 PM - 9 PM)

Ada pembeda dari stage Bobby dengan stage artis lainnya. See what I mean?

Nah, ini nih. Fans nya buanyak banget dan pada bawa Konbat. Kebanyakan dari mereka gue percaya adalah anak-anak yang menyumbang banyak kepala di kategori VIP dan Early Entry. Kenapa kok yakin? Karena pas Bobby kelar, dari depan banyak banget yang mundur ke belakang. Mungkin gue cuman tau dua-tiga lagu yang dia bawain hari itu. Performance nya sangat fuego, meledak-ledak, mungkin karena faktor fansnya banyak yang datang, that's just obvious, right? Nggak mau nulis banyak, takut salah ngomong ah ntar di bash.

CRUSH

(9 PM - 10 PM)

"Hi kak, ketemu lagi kita!" ingin menyapa Aa Hyoseob seperti itu tapi apa daya. Setelah PDKT di LALALA Fest di awal tahun 2019, gue sudah kurang lebih tau set list dia apa aja. Cuman untuk adjust sama festival K-HH gini ya di awal doi nambahin satu rap verse dia di Mommae Remix dan Fanxy Child, plus dia perdana bawain Nappa di konser luar sejak rilis baru-baru ini. Selebihnya, yaaaaaa setlistnya beti sama pas di Cikole kemarin. Stage nya seru, syahdu dan lucu. Sumpah lucu banget anaknya menggemaskan!

GRAY

(10 PM - 11 PM)

Dari Crush ke Gray jeda nunggunya agak lama. Sebelumnya hanya 5-10 menit tapi ini hampir 20 menit gitu deh kenapa yak?

Terus pas stage masih gelap gue teriak "DJ WEGUNNNNNNNNNN!!!" dan bener dong dia lagi siap-siap di DJ set nya. Ini sih bentar lagi. And yes, Gray on stage not long after! I love all of his setlist (biased as fuck). Kasep sekali yorobun nggak nahan. Mukanya adem kayak ubin mushola. Geter aseliq. Lagu yang bikin gue mampus adalah pas dia cover Shape of You nya Ed Sheeran. Terus dia banyak interaksi sama audience gitu loh, mana pas AOMG pake translator gitu ya like I mention above, jadi penonton pada ngeh dia ngomong apa. His visual, stage and setlist are flawless. Fight me.

SIMON DOMINIC

ft. Gray

(11 PM - til drop)

NGGAK BISA.

NGGAK BISA POKOKNYA.

Pusing.

Sudah di awang-awang, rasanya nggak ada langit lagi.

Ya bayangin aja chanting "SIMON, SIMON DOMINIC. SIMON D-O-M-I-N-I-C, O, O!" bisa bikin puyeng. Sampe tiga kali tuh selama stage dia penonton chanting begitu. Kayak doi tuh kemari buat bikin agama baru.

Transisi Gray ke Simon muluuuus banget tanpa ada idle di panggung. Di lagu terakhir, 199, Gray udah liat-liat ke kanan panggung, dan di lagu tersebut pas verse nya Simon, BELIAU LANGSUNG MUNCUL DONG.

WAH NGGA BISA NGGAAAAAK BISA ANJEEENG. Munculnya tanpa rem gini. Gabisa.

"Ini pertamakalinya saya ke Jakarta, I heard Jakarta is hot," entah secara harafiah atau secara kiasan. "Udah pada capek ya? Kok nggak se-seru crowd pas artis sebelum saya tampil, sih?"

BACOT.
Bohong.
Jelas-jelas semua jadi binal gara-gara dia. Terus dilanjutin, "Kalau disini responnya bagus, kami akan datang lagi. Karena itu buktikan ya kalau kalian gacor!!"

A BITCH IN ME IS CRYING AS I SCREAM LOUDER. Berarti bisa ya mulai sekarang gue memupuk harapan untuk AOMG TOUR di Jakarta tahun depan? I'm bawling.

Ya pokoknya sempat ada ment dari beliau kira-kira begitu bunyinya, deh.

Lagu-lagu baru di album barunya seperti DA4x, Make Her Dance, dan Pose dibawain. Dari semua setlistnya, unexpected sekali untuk bawain Won And Only my one of the greatest future husband anthem. Cirambay dong gue. Terus pas encore sempet bercanda pake bahasa Indonesia sama Gray. Caur. Kelihaian interaksi sama penonton terlihat jauh lebih 'niat', dan lagu hits mereka nyaris dibawain semua. I'm atrociously blown away.

In conclusion, stage nya pecah banget (then we saw Gray feeling himself on stage, lol). Gue berharap suara teriakan dan hura-hura kami malam itu setidaknya bisa mengobati ya, walau sedikit. Semoga bisa jadi pengingat kalau yang suka sama dia banyak, yang cinta sama musiknya juga banyak. I wish I can let him know that he's bigger than life and deserve the world.

I hope he can see us clearly enjoying his stage walau dengan pengelihatan yang nggak sempurna. I know we deal with totally different thing, but we definitely on the same war. Atuhlah mau nangis nulisnya juga :''")

Glad to finally see him live, looking dazzling and glowing, being goof-ass and a king as he is. Thank you for being strong and alive, Jung Kiseok. ADUH SAYANG BANGET POKOKNYA <3

PS: Masih rencana sih, tapi gue mungkin akan mengulas No Open Flames kalau albumnya sudah FULLY released. Wait for it.

Overall ASS Vol. 1 ini sukses. BANGET.

Dengan harga tiket yang cukup terjangkau dibandingkan harga tiket konser K-POP biasanya, segini udah memuaskan banget. Jadi, nggak ada tuh kalo acara yang tiketnya murah, acarnaya gagal dan tidak memuaskan. Dan promotor yang buat acara ini bisa membuktikan kalau opini tersebut tidak valid.

Kelihatan dari kesiapan panitia dari ticketing yang nggak ribet, security di venue yang friendly dan sangat membantu, ketersediaan ticket box, foodtruck, toilet, bahkan mushola loh guys musholaaaaa!! Ada mushola dalam venue. Dan mereka juga ngasih Prayer Break untuk yang mau ibadah. Keren banget nggak sih bisa memaksimalkan ibadah di festival seperti ini? I'm in awe. Terus harga makanan dan minuman di dalem juga masih masuk akal. Dompetku tidak menjerit, perut kenyang, tenggorokan tidak kering.

Kudos to all the staffs yang sudah nyiapin acara sampai menjaga acara ini sukses sampai kelar...lar...larrrrrrr.

Gray dan Simon D memang paling membekas buat gue secara personal. Tapi secara komprehensif all of the artist gave an absolute fantastic show. This event was beyond my expectation. Harapannya sih ya berlanjut ke Vol. 2, 3 dan seterusnya dong!

Sepertinya yang paling seneng di Jakarta kemarin ya si double trouble AOMG ini, semoga akan kembali dengan triple threat nya (+Jay Park) tahun depan.

AOMG가 빠지면 PARTY가 아니지

The biggest flex I can pull off this year: satu frame sama GGA (ganteng-ganteng ajussi)

Demikian pembahasan mengenai pengalaman konser Sandy yang tercapek, terlama, terpegel, terjompo, dan sekaligus yang terbaik di Asian Sound Syndicate Vol.1. Marvelous and surreal experience. Masih nggak percaya ada yang bisa bikin festival K-HH di Jakarta semeledak ini sampe gue jadi bego jalan kaki dari GBK sampai Sency buat makan taichan saat gue bisa bisa order ojol.