+~PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN JAKARTA~+

PROS

• i don't have to do any chores (im really lazy like that)
• i can drive (well.. by december i can)
  
• i get to see my family anytime
• i get to hang out with my best friends
• everything's way cheaper

CONS

• my mom is always there
• my mom always checks what im doing
• my family is there
• i have a curfew
• i always have to worry how im going to get home and usually taxi is not an option
• im being watched 24/7
• most jakartan teenagers are annoying
• spoiled bastards
• theres not a lot of interesting places to hang out in
• meeting a nice person? hmm..
• oh sure you won't get judge #sarcasm
• asking my parents for... everything
• sleepover? hah not allowed
• traffic fucking traffic
• stuckups
• posers
• shitheads
• potheads
• i become extremely lazy
• i get judged by my family
• endless lectures from family members
• limitations
• pretentious fucks
• conservative fucks

H0LY F*CK LIVE AT AVALON

16 NOVEMBER 2011

I've seen Holy Fuck in early January and they killed it. I mean, they killed everyone in the audience and brought them back to life. The gig was that good. But yesterday's gig was even better. If you guys watched Yakitate! Japan!, that bread that is so good, you die for a couple of minutes after having a bite and go to heaven, yeah that was last night's gig.
Maybe I am over exaggerating it a bit, but then again if you weren't there how can you know?

Thanks to the amazing bandwagonapp my friends and I got the chance to meet the band in person where we mostly talked about laneway singapore 2011, the band's influence and other bands (special mention: they love making jokes about Metallica, I'm not quite sure if they're a fan or they're doing it ironically it's hard to tell)

I've heard of Avalon before, I mean Devendra Banhart, Nick Valensi and Digitalism have performed there before. My friends heard about it just before they opened and articles about it seems like Avalon is the 'new hip cool club' in town. I could be, especially judging from the architecture of the building. Weird triangle shaped made by glass, sure.
Which goes to my disappointment. Avalon well known place, and I assume the management there would be pretty good, but the way they managed the event was... well....
Apparently the place overbooked the place for one night. There were two very different events going on in one night which was, a bit chaotic. One was for Pioneer started roughly around 6 until 9, and Holy Fuck + Klaxons (DJ Set) was supposed to start from 9 until 4. The thing is, the people from the first event weren't even out of the place after 9 and the second event were supposed to start at 9. We had to wait for the guests of the Pioneer party to go out which took them 45 minutes? Roughly. So that was late, meaning the band came on late also. Originally they were supposed to perform from 9.15 until 11, but thanks to the delay they started at 10.30 and finishes at 11.30. I didn't order drinks either because apparently, the drinks were quite expensive (according to reviews I saw online), so it wasn't that hard to just shift away from the bar. The place, was nice and cozy. Cold, somewhat-intimate, have to admit it does have a better feel than St. James. The stage weren't quite as tall and the soundsystem was definitely better.
Having to wait for quite some time half of the people their were anxious to see Holy Fuck, while half of the people there I assume to either be regulars at Avalon or just went there to have a good time not knowing there was a band playing. At the start, there weren't many people in the crowd which I found was a shock. I would say roughly about 40 or 50? Then again I could be wrong. But the crowd number grew through out the set and the people starts to move more freely than before. Maybe it's the late night, or maybe it's the alcohol. Most likely the alcohol consumption.

Everyone stared in awe as Holy Fuck performed, personally it was hard for me to move around freely since I have a 12" vinyl in my right hand and a poster in my other hand. Still it was all good. They played unforgettable songs, some that they have played in Laneway earlier in the year too. From Frenchy's to Lovely Allen and to the famous Red Lights and Latin America. But the song that caught my attention from the set was SHT MTN, my favorite song of the album and quite honestly it was 220% better when they played it live.
The stacatto moves of the personnel were also engaging, they seem to be enjoying themselves no doubt. And from my memory it seems they were all moving more freely than they did in Laneway.
I remember in the middle of the set I heard someone said "What a cool beard" as they talked about Graham Walsh up on stage, it sure was my friend. He changed various instruments in between songs from melodica to some other stuff that seems to look like a toy.
Matt "Punchy" McQuaid stood behind right next to Matt Schulz as they keep each other's beats perfectly while Brian Borcherdt plays around with his..... Quite honestly I have no idea what it was called. For people who went there or have seen them live, what was those, stripey wiggly thing that somewhat looked like rolls of films?

Notable people in the crowd: 2 girls standing right in front of Brian and was the first ones to be in front of the stage, you could tell they're big fans. Guy with White Lies shirt standing in front of Graham, jumped like a maniac total A+. Caucasian guy in white that was seemingly drunk who threw a beer bottle and went to the front of the crowd bumping everyone, then did some killer dance moves.

And in the end as I reunite with the other gig goers outside of the venue, everyone was smiling and said "THEY WERE SO GOOD, MINDBLOWN" or something along those lines.
It was better than their Laneway performance, or maybe we were all just tired after standing in the rain for hours, but if Holy Fuck comes to town again, I would without a doubt watch them again for a couple more times until I actually get bored.

overall: 8/10

LISTS

2 months holiday to do list:

• learn piano, again...
• learn violin, again...
• learn a new language fluently (spanish/japanese/german)
• learn to shoot (i dont really trust these things in indonesia though...)
  

television show to check out:

• battlestar galactica
• sherlock
• boardwalk empire
• parks and recreation
• the mentalist

MOVIE REFERENCES

Yes.. there are a couple of television show references.

when someone asked you a question you don't want to answer
"Sorry I don't speak English"

when your friends are talking over one another
"SHUT UP! .....Romeo's cryin'"

when you make a point
"Am I the only one zen around here? Good lord"

when someone asks something about what other people are doing
"Sacrifice virgins and stuff"

when someone asks "who are you?"
"I'M THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH"

when you see a fight starting
"shit just got real"

when someone asks you what you want to do for uni/when you grow up
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"

when someone asks you what you think of another person
"[name of person] is flawless, I hear her hair is insured for $10,000, I hear she does commercial... in Japan etc"

when someone asks you to do something you don't want to do
"DAMMIT [name of person] I'M A [what you are] NOT A [whatever they expect you to do]"

when you're on a boat/ship
"I'M KING OF THE WORLDDDDD!"

when someone asks you about plans (or something like that)
"Plans? where we're going, we don't need plans"

when you meet your favorite band/musician
"WE ARE/I AM NOT WORTHY"

when you see someone with a box
"WHAT'S IN DA BOXX?!?!"

when you just pawned someone
"yippie ki yay, motherfucker"

when you enter a room
"heee-eeee--eerrree's JOHNNY"

when someone asks for your last name
"MCLOVIN'"

when someone asks who are you going to call
"GHOSTBUSTERS"

when someone asks where we are going
"CAMELOT!"

when someone asks for your age
"i am sixteen going on seventeen i know that i'm naive"

when someone asks what did you do to persuade another person
"i made an offer he/she don't refuse"

when someone's going away
"may the force be with you"

when you try to flirt with someone
"SHWING!" or "how you doin'?"

when someone asks if you are trying to seduce them
"am i? *lift up skirt/shirt/pants/just be slutty*"

when you're introducing people to your short friend
"say hello to my little friend"

when someone says something
"that's what she said"

when you want to insult someone
"you son of a motherless goat!" or "you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!"

when someone asks you what you like/want from starbucks
"orange mocha frappuccino!"

when someone asks what you're going to do today
"whatever I feel like I want to do, gosh!"

that's all I could think of right now, go and give it a guess to where they came from. peace.

JΛKΛRTΛ

I flew back to Singapore last night and to be honest I miss Jakarta already. I'm missing so many things and I haven't done so many other things. Now all I can do is wait until November when I go back for probably a week.
I still haven't tried Treehouse, Tuna, Wolfy and I haven't had schit day, we still need to find Wolfy a bass guitar, I haven't slept over in Afifah's place, I still haven't tried ISMAYA cafe thingy, Batty and I haven't had a Doctor Who marathon, Barri, Nenet, Cindy, Gopher and I still havent hung out and the list just goes on. Endless.Moving on to music matter, these are my upcoming concert list:

• Klaxons DJ set // 16 Nov 2011
• Big Day Out // TBA [Cage the Elephant, Battles etc]
• Laneway Festival // 12 Feb 2012 [TBA]
• Probably that warehouse thing Ismayalive have been talking about, i don't know, it depends who's performing and who's going.

Peace oot.

DEAR MUSIC SNOBS,

TAKE THAT APPRECIATION POST.

Idea taken from the sexually frustrated Halili and her post. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Take That.





oh and here is Mark Owen and his lovely haircut:

Safe x

RIP FORTCANNING OWL

Last week I went to Jakarta for Java Rockin' Land 2011. No regrets.
Friday: From school I went straight to the Changi airport and thankfully I was not late for my flight check in (like what happened in Nov '10) and I was on time for boarding, then from Soekarno-Hatta airport I went straight to the venue. Fuck yeah I was tired.

Jakarta traffic, I forgot how much I missed you. It's both annoying yet relaxing at the same time. One part of your head goes "FUCKING TRAFFIC WHY ARE YOU UGH STUPID DRIVERS IN FRONT FUCKING MOVE DAMMIT" and the other part goes "well, what else can you do? Might as well just, relax..... This is nice"
Due to traffic my friends could not pick me up from the airport like we have planned, bless their souls, thankfully my mom told my driver to standby so I get to see my driver again after several months (HE HAS A HIPSTER HAIRCUT CHYEAH). So after I met up with my friends and went in their car, again traffic was on our way. We were already so close to the venue and We Are Scientists was about to come on so what did we do?
We fucking ran that's what. Almost fell several of times, got some alays calling out "eh dek dek jangan lari2 nanti jatoh loh!" but whatevs totally worth it.

We got to the crowd and not even 10 seconds in the crowd I lost Nadia... I'm sorry Nadia... I spent 3 songs looking for her, I bumped into Omar and Kevin, then I went to look for her again, but instead of her I found Anchi. I decided to hang with her because she's probably one of the coolest person you want to hang out with in a concert. A couple of songs later I decided to look for my friends again, went around the crowd but found Naya instead of them. It's weird, it's like I met everyone EXCEPT for them. They hate me. Of course I found them in the end and after WAS finished their set we went straight over to Blood Red Shoes.
Both performances: AWE-SOME.
Next day we have AnCo lunch. Miss them all.

On the Tuesday, I went to see We Are Scientists again but this time in Singapore. I was lucky enough to meet them [minus Andy] and got Nadia to talk to them. Good times. Good times.
I should study for my exams now. What are you doing here? Such a waste of time tsk tsk.

{FORGET ABOUT IT}

Dear assholes and bitches in We Are Scientists' gig in Jakarta,

What the fuck are you doing? No don't explain, I'm pretty sure you are big fans of 30 seconds to mars I know they're playing in the same stage as We Are Scientists and you want to get a good spot to see 'almighty Leto' but please, it's really annoying for us WAS fans to enjoy a brilliant brilliant show they are putting and you guys either:

• Just standing there like a lifeless statue
• Taking photos the whole way through, oh right sorry of course you have a DSLR which makes you a legit photographer.
• Playing with your iphone app
• BBMing + twittering throughout the whole set
• SITTING DOWN

WHO THE FUCK, SITS DOWN, 4 ROWS FROM THE FRONT, WHEN A BAND IS PLAYING UP ON STAGE. DON'T YOU HAVE ANY RESPECT AT ALL? I get it ok you don't 'dig' WAS, you want to see 30 seconds to mars must be hardcore fans or whatever but didn't they teach you about manners in school? Oh right those 'alays' mocking WAS, yeah like you can make better music. I'm looking forward to hear your next 'newastuti-like' music. Twats.


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Dear assholes in Blood Red Shoes' gig in Jakarta (day one),

Yeah, you two. I know you like Blood Red Shoes, I mean you were singing along to 'It's Getting Boring By The Sea', I mean first time I saw you guys I thought "these guys are kewwwl." And when those two annoying photographers in front couldn't take our shrieking banshee-like screams and went out of the crowd, you guys fought for the front row. And pretty rough too, but then again at that time I did thought you guys were big fans and so I didn't really think of it that much. I switched places with my friend so she could get a better view since the guys were blocking her way, and fucking hell you guys are fucking tall. For fuck sakes bros what the fuck do you guys eat as kids? And then is that it? You guys got front row and just, stop singing along? Oh right you guys didn't know their songs after 'It's Getting Boring By the Sea', I mean I don't mind if you only like one song and all but, what kind of douchebags mocks the band while the band is playing? Fine you think their songs are repetitive, fine you guys only like a couple of their songs but, for fuck sakes who do you think you are? Front row + mocking the band whilst they're playing = fuck you muthafukka.
I respect that you guys were trying to enjoy the concert at least...

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Dear assholes and bitches in We Are Scientists' gig in Singapore,

When I first saw you guys, well I didn't really took a notice of you guys. I just assume the crowd was divided into two groups: the WAS fans, and the Neon Trees fans. I mean I bet people are looking forward to see one band more than the other right?
Oh look 2 guys meeting up with some British chicks, exciting for them right?

• "I know right! Their shows are like, a mixture of them playing and stand up comedy!"
• "I listen to their songs every morning!"
• "They're so big in England, we're from England!"

I was sitting down and looking at up at you guys (since you guys were standing up) and thought "wow, I would like to talk to these people and share my love to WAS with someone in the concert). The concert was about to start, my friend and I kept staring at this little peek-hole and you could a view of the backstage area. I yelled out "CHRISSSSS!!" when I saw well, Chris walking backstage. It caught you four off guard huh? Sorry I have the tendency to do that (aka laneway '11). Boy 1 turned around and said "haha wow you're obsessed than I am!"
I didn't think of much of that back then, I mean they were in the first row and I was in the second, since they're such big fans right?
WRONG. Are you guys really obsessed with this band? ARE YOU?! I don't care if you're not I mean it's not like in order to like a band you have to be obsessed with them, but don't fucking act like you're their #1 fan when YOU GUYS DID NOT DO SHIT THROUGH OUT THE GIG. DIDN'T DO SHIT. MUTHAFUKKA. Yo bitches and assholes didn't even sing along, didn't even jump! Didn't even look excited about it! The only thing I saw you guys did was clap and scream when the band came on. Oh and girls, what the fuck ok I guess you guys are fans I'm cool with that but, why were not singing along to any of their songs then? you don't remember the lyrics? Fine let's say you don't, then why weren't you jumping or at least try to have fun? One of the most annoying thing that you guys did was scream and viciously wave when Keith went to our side of the crowd.... Really? Really? Really?
Man with hat you are pretty funny, at first. But ohmyfuk stop requesting for "the great escape" or "after hours" EVERY-FUCKING-TIME WAS finish playing a song! I'm sure they will play it, but I mean come on, they already have a setlist, even if they don't play it then what? Ok you weren't really an asshole, just kind of annoying, I mean I saw you talking to them I guess you're cool. But still a bit annoying.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE

JULY TO DO LIST:

• Finish shooting Drama IP
• Finish shooting Art BOW
• Help Anthony with his editing
• Drama group assignment: practice and finish script.
  
• Decide a university and a course
• Dad's birthday
• Krovvy and Gopher coming
  
• Harry Potter 7 on the 16th
• Study for trial exams starting on the 1st of August
• Go to Jakarta for JRL
• We Are Scientists in sg
  
• Art and drama logbooks
• english assignment on Run Lola Run

Ok...... ok.

WHAT MAKES A CONCERT, A KICK-ASS CONCERT?

photo by Talia Craiu

What makes a concert memorable? The one that would leave the audience having post-gig depression for months. The one that would be a conversation starter, in a good way of course. These are a couple of elements that would make a concert good, in my opinion anyway.

1. FRIENDS
Don't get me wrong, going alone to a show could be pretty 'epic' (did I use that word correctly? No? ....appy polly logies y'all). But coming with your best friends, would be even more 'epic'. Your best friends would get you, would have fun with you, would accompany you to stalk the bands, or maybe accompany you to sneak in backstage. Going with friends would be fun, and memorable. "hey remember the time that-" yeah I remember.

2. NEW FRIENDS
For me, one of the best concerts I've been with I make new friends at. My mother always give me this weird look when I say I met a certain friend from a concert, but that's socializing right? Meeting new friends in concert would be the ultimate ice breaker. Obviously you both would have a fascination towards the band or musician you are currently watching, that's one thing in common, and after exchanging number/facebook/email/aim whatever you would realize you guys have more things in common and tada! a new friend.

3. ONE HELL OF A CROWD
I've realized that if the majority of the crowd is unresponsive, or just plain rude, it would bring your mood down. It doesn't have to be the whole crowd, but the more the merrier. Even if you were standing at the right spot with a bunch of seemingly hardcore fans (but sometimes they're not, they just want to have fun) would be one of the key element of a good concert. So if you go to a concert to a band you don't really like, then a) what are you doing there? and b) just have fun and don't bring other people's mood down. Because trust me, if you just stand there being unresponsive or have the case of ACASP (Angry Cross-Armed Statue Phenomena*), it will bring others' mood down. [especially you Indonesian chick in the vampire weekend concert who spent the entire concert looking down at her blackberry, tweeting and bbm-ing... bitch]

4. CONFETTI
Because confetti is awesome. Especially when you weren't expecting it and then BAM! hundreds and thousands of tiny little colorful papers.

5. NO CELL PHONES
In this day and age, highly unlikely.

6. A GOOD BAND THAT YOU ACTUALLY ENJOY EVEN IF YOU ONLY LIKE A COUPLE OF THEIR SONGS
It would be more fun for your experience if you can sing along to the songs the band/musician is playing. And then you find yourself singing along with hundreds of other strangers and think "wow, this is a beautiful moment right here"

7. A BAND/MUSICIAN THAT ACTUALLY INTERACTS WITH AUDIENCE ENOUGH, NOT THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT COME ON STAGE, PLAY AND LEAVE.
the subtitle says it all, right?

Don't get me wrong here, this is just my opinion. You can also have a good time going to a concert alone, these are just some points that I have found in a good concert. Sometimes it doesn't matter what band/musician you're watching either, even if it's your all time favorite musician. I don't know, what do you think are the elements to a good concert?

I JUST WANT TO MAKE MUSIC VIDEOS-

..i really do, or:

XTACTIC TRUTH

POST-GIG DEPRESSION(S)?

You just don't know when it's going away, you're not sure if you have it or not, you just know that you really really miss whatever that band you have watched in the past and their gig still haunts you.
My worst post-gig depression would without a doubt be laneway festival. Mostly Foals, but I miss the other bands too, but not as much as Foals and that's the truth. To have wait somewhat patiently since the rumor in October, and the actual press release in November, and buying the tickets on the day of my birthday was just so...... yeah.. Still have that depression, their gig still haunts me. Haunting.
Next are the Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne is an amazing man. Flaming Lips is an amazing bang. AND THE CROWD IN SINGAPORE was spectacular, best crowd i've ever encountered. People were singing 'Do You Realize?' outside the venue and oh that was so touching. Wayne Coyne meeting some fans afterwards oh dear. I just literally sigh after looking back. It was a good night.

I guess those two are the main source of my depression, but pretty sure another one is coming. Or has already come. The Drums were amazing last night. Got to be honest, at first I thought they were assholes (I dunno judging from pictures and videos and such) but nope.. I was wrong. Nice guys they were. And unlike Two Door Cinema Club's meet and greet, this was not awkward at all and they communicated back like we are actually having a decent conversation. Communicated, that's a real word right? Did I use that right? Oh well.

I miss Foals///

BLACK WEEKEND

all pictures by kindergarchy

Friday there was the Thread on Frame show by Them.sg and blackmarket. Not my kind of event since I particularly did not know anyone there except for Tom and my art teacher Ms. Huynh who left early. And the people I came with of course. Amanda got me into Teen Illionaires so that was fun, I feel like I still need to try to eat in The Rabbit Hole.
Saturday was the Nikicio's Mixte vol. 6 launch in blackmarket, as my friend predicted not a lot of people showed up due to the other event last night. Not my place to judge since that is my, hmm, second blackmarket event and so I don't know what usually goes down at those things. People were nice, Amanda got a bit 'loopy' and that was entertaining.

As we walk inside cineleisure, Amanda looked around the place and whined "WHY ARE WE HERREE EVERYONE HERE LOOKS LIKE BROCCOLI" and she proceeded to explain how they all look like broccoli with straighten hair and the fact that humans are not green

Today Amanda, Omar and I will be watching The Drums. Planning to meet some people there, haven't seen Shermaine since Laneway. OH Chugg Entertainment is developing a contest where you ask the band questions on twitter to win meet & greet. Best question wins. Hmmm......... I got some questions in mind:
"Jacob when did you lost your virginity?"
"How many girls have you fucked in this tour?"
"Liking Singapore bros? I'll show you a good time if you know what I mean (i mean playing sudoku together)"
"How do you like your Singaporean chicks?"
"Like them asians?
Ok i'm done..... not really.

Here's the video of NIKICIO's mixte vol. 6.

ten hairy hunters//

this post will consist more photos than texts because I have to do some research for my in class essay tomorrow that I have not studied at all. Need to write four pages long, in less than 50 minutes and make judgments and constructing a well structured response with case laws and legislation to back it all up. Yeah *raise white flag*

Today our grade got partner up with some pre-schoolers. Lucky me, I got two buddies and I want to take both of them home as their cuteness level is just KABOOSH. I asked the teacher, she won't let me take them.... uhm. One of them kept repeating my name, hugged me and said "i love you" GAAHHH. Then we talked about how amazing tom and jerry is, and made the school's largest necklace (true story) that in our theory would fit '10 hairy hunters' (referencing the book I read to them), and they put necklaces on me and we all pretended that we are princesses. I mean... we are.. duh.

i hate that shit feeling when you feel like shit

I watched Deadmau5 with Amanda N yesterday and I got to say he was better than I expected, next week I shall be watching The Drums so they better be good. Heard mix reviews about their live shows and I'm curious.

In school we had Japan week last week, from making origamis and raising money for charity, we also had some performances from the senior and middle school-ers. We raised more than $12,000 for this, go school. Now here are some photos:
In other news (meaning my personal life that no one really cares about), I got a new laptop. Loving it. Went home to find out my baby (aka camera) died.
Yay /bangmyheadonthewall

VENUES\

Inspired by NICHE magazine's 'LA's Concert Venues Reviewed' post I decided to make my own venues review, at least the ones I've been in and most of them are in Jakarta.

Tennis Indoor Senayan
The atmosphere:

• definitely not intimate
• the tribune seats makes it feel like you're about to watch a sports game
• the sound coming from the amps are generally well

The food:

• there are always unhealthy little snacks from outdoors sellers
• not much of choices really, depending on the event and organizers itself e.g. ismayalive on PASSIONaLIVE that brought restaurants to a tiny little tents (sushigroove etc)
• Plenty of other places to eat around the venues such as Plaza Senayan and Senayan City.

Extra notes:

• A place for concerts therefore has that 'i shall be attending a concert' feel every time you step foot in it
• Depending on the events, but generally all ages.
• Every time there is an event, the streets surrounding the place are always jammed.
• If you come early or very lucky, you might find a good parking spots other than that it would take you at least 30 minutes to find decent one.
• Some shows I've seen in the venue: The Used, The Click 5, Temper Trap, James Yuill, Panic at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy.

Bengkel Night Park
The atmosphere:

• Nice atmosphere for shows.
• Well vented and can always find a comfortable spot.
• The stage are quite high up so even if you're at the back you can still the acts performing.
• Lightening and sound quality are top class.
• There's a high up balcony (not for public I believe, but there's always a way in)

The food:

• Warung outside the venue.
• Bars inside that [in my experience] charges the drink way too high.
• Quite honestly never eaten around or at the venue.

Extra notes:

• Usually 18+
• Parking's a bit hard, but the street are usually pretty smooth for drops and pick-ups
• I've seen Phoenix and Vampire Weekend there.

Esplanade
The atmosphere:

• Spectacular, air-conditioned and very well vented. Feels like being in a staged cinema when entering the Concert and Theater Hall.
• Lightening are adequate, sound quality are always spectacular.
• Acts are always on time, very rarely late.
• The outdoor stage has Marina Bay Sands and the small Merlion statue in its background. With usual lasers coming out from the Marina Bay Sands area sometimes your focus can be shifted from the performers to the spectacular scenery.
• The Concert and Theater Hall are seated for acts that sometimes does not match the atmosphere.

The food:

• A bar right outside the halls, and various restaurants (outdoor and indoor) in the venue from ice cream, local, chocolate delight, pubs, seafood, western etc. If not, it is very near Marina Bay Square and City Link.
• You can find $5 meals to a high class gourmet restaurants around the area.

Extra notes:

• [Usually] all ages shows.
• Taxi queuing after events can take up to 45 minutes.
• I've seen Andrew Bird, Vampire Weekend, Dinosaur Jr., Belle & Sebastian, Handsome Furs and Echo & The Bunnymen there.
  

|MONEY DON'T GROW ON TREES|

As graduation and exams are coming near, so are the "what would you want to be when you grow up?" questions actually matters. When you were a child, about 7 maybe? Remember your parents or teachers or aunts or uncles or grandparents would ask "sonny, what do YOU want to be when you grow up?" I remembered I wanted to be a singer like Hilary Duff and Britney Spears. You know center of the stage, sing in front of audiences and fame, and the adults would just say "aww that's cute you WILL be a singer when you grow up"
.....no you won't.

I realized when you were young they won't tell you that your dreams aren't unachievable, maybe some would but no one ever taught me that me, a now sixteen year old indonesian with a broken accent, no 'tv face' nor personality nor a gift of singing, that my dreams were nearly impossible. Possible, be open minded now nothing is 'impossible' but no it won't happen.
I'm rethinking what my interests are now, what do I want to spend my young life learning about, what career path should I choose? And with that I have to also think: would my parents be okay of me choosing this path? Am I disappointing them? (yeah probably). Would I be good at this? Would it help me in the future, financially?
So far I have a list of majors/paths/area that I have thought about, yet of course being the pessimist teenage girl I am I debate with myself:

• Filmmaking, yes I want to be the next Sofia Coppola or Steven Spielberg: erm yeaah I could be a filmmaker, an unsuccessful independent filmmaker that would never (just ever) make it in Hollywood.
• Illustrator, I like making randoms posters and broaden my mind in the art area using new technology: okay I can do a degree in that but... then what?
• Event Organizing, developing the next Glastonbury-like music festival: For one I don't have a very good personality with people, two I don't know anything about business and three what if instead of developing 'the next Glastonbury-like music festival' I create a 'annual suburban park picnic'?
• Media, maybe journalism or tv reporter: ...you've been reading my blog, I have a gazzilion grammatical errors. Hell I'm failing my English Standard course right now how the fuck am I supposed to be a journalist? And a TV reporter? Maybe as a camera crew yeah, I don't exactly have the television look.
• Radio Broadcaster: I went to a radio office a couple of weeks ago and it did interests me, working around the music area, entertaining etc. But let's be frank, who still listens to the radio? People in the car, and sometimes they don't have the choice to. I personally don't listen to the radio because I don't like most of the 'mainstream music' they play, would I be a hypocrite? A major one yes. Also, my accent fucking sucks.
  
• Photography, something I actually enjoy and do in my spare time: Again let's be frank, anyone can be a photographer. Question is, can I be a great photographer like Annie Leibovitz? but how? The profession would be a gamble really, and with new camera equipments that costs a lot of kaching how would I afford food when I start to become an amateur photographer? And make it to be the next Leibovitz? I tell myself "it ain't 1967 anymore kid, everyone's a 'photographer' these days"

One of Spears' song got me thinking, two kinds of people in this world (well obviously there are more but the song doesn't go like that), the observer and the entertainer. I can't even choose between that. Technically everyone is an observer, but you got to have some balls to an entertainer. You got to have even more balls too be a great entertainer and frankly I don't have any damn balls.
In the wise word of an American television character from 'Supernatural' often say:
"balls!"

C0ACHELL-WUT?

I am 90% sure that no one reads my blog, well this blog anyway. School starts tomorrow, last semester of my high school days, I'm going to miss school, but right now I'm going to uphold my own 'first day of school' tradition. That is to not sleep.

Spent my weekend streaming the supposedly live webcast of Coachella. Had the time to catch acts by Foals, Cage The Elephant, Two Door Cinema Club, Tame Impala, Interpol, Raphael Saadiq, Empire of The Sun and a very tiny bit of Scissor Sisters. As much as I love to just wake up early and stay in bed until the afternoon to stream the last day of Coachella on Monday, I have to go to school. Having to lose my organizer on the first day of holiday wasn't help either.
I don't think I have ever tweeted so much in the period of 50 minutes when Foals had their 'live stream', which turned out to be a hoax and their 'live stream' (as in their actual show) happened 2 hours before the webcast was broadcast. That came to a disappointment to me, my friends, and some random twitter fellows I have encountered on this 'Foals on Coachella' period. As people (mostly who attended laneway festival in singapore) say, it was like watching laneway again except that it's early in the morning, we were all still in our PJs, alone and in our bedroom not wanting to come out from our beds.

The amount of time I spend on music and concerts and mostly Foals on blogs is pretty ridiculous so I'm going to write this paragraph writing something more personal. Have you ever had the urge to just punch a person? Not a random person, a person that you actually know and you have grown close with but you've realized along that short friendship journey that the person you thought was your 'friend' was absolutely everything that you hate about a person? I have, several times. I haven't punch anyone, and I'm not planning to unless I'm in bar fight. But what else can you do except to ignore this person's texts and phone calls and invites? Sounds pretty bitchy especially in my teenage years right now. Psft, azn teen girl problems.

Moving back to Coachella-related post, I spent my experience with my best friends, cyberly of course since all of my best friends all reside 855km away from me. Krovvy has successfully made me to have two new band crushes, and with that also the members of those band. Her lo-fi boy band spam has indeed fill my dashboard with pretty pictures of skinny not-so-suburban american boys.
"We're called Foals or The Foals. Or some of you pronounce as The Fools or Fouls and um... Long live America" and you can tell after Yannis have said this that he did sound high.

+HOTEL SHAMPOO

Thinking of making this blog an actual blog, maybe. I'm not a very good writer. People would hate me if I spill my opinions on the internet. I'm not that interesting. I wouldn't blog everyday. So... yes? Hm. I might just. Amanda and Bening's blogs kind of inspired me, and plus we were talking about it today. They also said I should probably make a blog based on "Yannis supir pribadiku", let's just see where that idea goes by the end of the week.

BOB DYLAN SOON, six days to be exact. I don't know what to say or think I can't even function right, you know how people always say "I can't believe I'm going to watch [insert musician here]!!" that's how I feel. Bob Dylan...... Just, wow. Two Door Cinema Club's coming to Singapore, finally. I don't if I should watch them or not. For personal reasons, I would like to hate them now. I am kind of tired of their songs but, I don't know. They weren't very engaging in Jakarta either, total band turnoff. MONO's going to play in Zouk, I would go if Amanda's going because if she isn't then I wouldn't have a friend to go with (sadly). Gruff Rhys is also coming down to Singapore check it.



Then there's deadmau5, Justin Bieber, Switchfoot, Caribou DJ set, The Chariot, Avril Lavigne, HURTS, Sara Bareilles and The Drums. Honestly the one I am actually excited, and will definitely go to, are: Bob Dylan and We Are Scientists in Jakarta.

I suddenly have this tiny cut on my wrist.... I have no idea how I got it, it's still super red but the blood has dried. Weird

IT AIN'T ME BABE

PEACE x

YOUTHLESS

Casper Butterflip

02. The Beasts

Strawberry Fields (The Beatles Cover)

Good Hunters

This alternative duo from Lisbon is certainly a must heard. Check their soundcloud, facebook and bandcamp. No one ever goes on myspace anymore anyway... right?

v-v-v-v-vitriol

emotionally dead

AAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH
I am.... Emotionally dead, thank you school. The teachers have been giving us so much pressure since it's 'the last year' while some other teachers + recent alumni kept saying "chill you'll realized later that final exams don't even matter."
I had English today, it wasn't as bad. I don't want to talk about it, but what I do want to talk about is this guy in my grade that started to have a mini seizure in the middle of the exam. Honestly some people (including me) couldn't stop staring at him as the teachers tried to help him. At one point he fell down on the floor and just lied there for a couple of seconds not moving. Made a couple of people worried I swear. You know how usually when you're walking out of the exam room with your friends you constantly hear the question "so how did you go [on your exam]?", not today. All I heard was "did you see what happen to [name of guy here]?!"

I got two exams tomorrow and it's killing me because I've been studying for hours and it seems that my brain does not absorb the 'beautiful' knowledge that we're supposed to learn. My mind is filled with legislation and cases to back up my thesis, and very minimal statistics and a little bit of basic knowledge of Australian law. I completely forgot about Art until now.How can you be smiling like that? Wait I know because you're just posing oh duck my head hurts why am I writing a blog I'd rather be emotionally dead for the next week than feel the pain of knowing that I will fail when receiving the marks back. For a little stress relief, here's a gif of the lovely ladies of Warpaint:

A little side note, I am right now missing a one hell of a gig. MGMT + Whitest Boy Alive, and then on Saturday I will miss the exact same gig, except it's in Jakarta. I guess I'll just have to get used to missing gigs from now on. Stupid final year.