Dillema 101: So Many Concerts!

Breath in. Breath out. Breath in. Breath out. Okay my fangirl soul is on fire. I will talk about how much I want to go attending any concert. Because every fangirl wants to see their idols with their own eyes in real life. Pity much..............it's okay I never attend one either.

I'm a really big fan of Kpop, especially EXO. They have been here holding a concert TWICE. And I didn't attend any of those. That's because I don't have enough money and my parents probably won't let me. Plus, I live so far away from Jakarta. Why is every concert always being hold in the capital city? Do they know that they are so many fans out there living so far away from it? Tsk.

Kidding. I didn't attend EXO The Lost Planet concert back then in 2014 because I had national exam and I had to focus on university entrance test. I also didn't attend EXO'luXion concert this year, on February 2016, because I did an exchange student program. So damn it, why.

Now I'm 19 years old. I'm old enough to go to a concert. THERE ARE SO MANY CONCERTS ON 2016! I'm hyperventilating. Thank God.

Okay, so I will tell you some of them!

1. Korin Festival 2016
Yeay! Korea-Indonesia Festival is an annual occation held by Korean Literature major from Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University. This event will be held tomorrow, Saturday, May 28th 2016. This will be my second time attending this festival because I really like to go to this kind of events. There will be dance cover competition, singing cover competition, etc. And the most important one, Luminous is coming! Ajie will be there!

2. Duckside Showcase

There will be so many dance cover groups from Bandung like WTF, Luminous, Chili, Poison, etc! I'm so happy I will go to the fanmeet event. I will meet Ajie and kak Gema again for the second time HA-HA. I'm planning to stay at Yogya for 3 days with my sister and 3 friends of mine. This is going to be fun, can't wait for July 24th 2016!

3. Seventeen Shining Diamonds Tour 2016

Holycooooooow slap me now!!! Seventeen is going to come here! I'm! So! Happy! But! Why! The! Tickets! Are! Unreachable! I'm hating myself for this. I really love Seventeen, I've been stanning them since predebut. It's such a happy news for me to know that they hold a world tour concer for the first time. The most expensive ticket is like $300 but the venue is Balai Sarbini Jakarta and it's so nice people can see them clearly and closely :') Oh yeah it will be held on August 20th 2016 which is 3 months to go!

4. Korean Wave Festival 2016

This is really amazing, I was so shock back then when the first time the promotor (Garosugilco on IG) told us about the artists who will come. This event will be held at Yogyakarta, 3 hours from my city that's why I'm so happy, but I'm also worried because I think my parents won't let me to come :( There will be Microdot, Andup, 1Million's Park Bongyoung, and We are the Night. Wow, all of them are imported directly from South Korea! As a Show Me the Money fan, I really want to see Andup and Microdot. For real. And Park Bongyoung is a dancer from 1Million studio, and they are super cool. 'Cause all of me, hate all of you. 

5. iKONCERT 2016 Showtime Tour in Jakarta
This fucks me up so bad. I also like iKON, I love Yunhyeong. They just debuted and now they will hold a concert, I'm so proud. This' going to be a lit af because YG concert is always amazing, they say. The most expensive ticket is not that expensive like Seventeen's. So I have a little bit hope about this one. Can someone give me the VIP ticket like please? I hear someone just said no to me from afar. I hate y'all.

6. SH CUP 2016: FC Men vs Indonesian All Star
SH Ent as the promotor really makes a big surprise for us and for me, and also for you maybe. FC Men is going to come and competing againts Indonesian All Star football players! Going to be lit af! FC Men itself is a celebrity football club from South Korea that consists of Kpop artists and their friends. It consists of JYJ's Junsu, B2ST's Doojoon, Gikwang, and Yoseob, Infinite's Woohyun, 2AM's Seulong and Jinwoon, actor Kim Hyunjoong, and many more! So this is like a heaven, so many Kpop idols and actors. But I don't know the FC Men's line up who is going to play this time. I'm anticipating! The cheapest ticket is around $7,5 and it will be held in Bekasi, I'm sure I will come! Wish me luck.

I'm so happy and sad at the same time. I'm so glad they all want to make a concert in Indonesia, not every country has a promotor who is able and wants to invite Kpop artists to their country. When I was in Europe, some of my students love Kpop and they said that they are really jealous of Indonesia because there are so many Kpop concerts here. I'm so touched. Indonesia, you should be proud.

But in the other side, I feel so sad because concert tickets are not cheap. I'm still a student so it's difficult for me to save my money and I don't have a job yet. I can't produce money. I can't puke gold. I can't poop diamond.

It's okay, attending a concert is one of my biggest life resolutions, so I'm sure I'm going to attend a concert one day! <3

Bonus: Junsu and Yoseob from FC Men!

Happy Birthday, Jakub!

Wow, time flies so fast, you are officially 18 years old now! It's been 3 months since the last time I saw you (at the train station) and I miss your family already. It was so nice for me to be your school bus companion, I'm sorry if I always fell asleep on the bus and you have to wake me up. Wow, you are 18! Don't be a bad kid and stay healthy. Don't be a bad kid. Don't be a bad kid. Please drink a lot of milk. I hope you miss me and miss my camera :) Once again, happy birthday big bro Kuba! (Don't drink too much.)

I Feel So Scary

To the point I don't know who I am anymore. I'm becoming scarier day by day. I'm scared with my own thoughts, I'm scared of people. I'm scared of my behaviours. I'm scared of what I've become lately, my thoughts consume me; I'm scared. I believe this is the consequence I should face because not trying hard enough for you, God. I'm sorry. I promise I'm going to fix this. 

(P.S: in the middle of doing this Bretton Woods: emergence of a global economic regime review. I'm totally fucked up.) 

Ada Apa dengan Cinta 2: 100% Baper

Halo, semuanya. Kali ini saya akan menggunakan bahasa Indonesia saja karena topik yang akan saya tulis malam ini Indonesia banget. Jadi sulit untuk menggunakan bahasa Inggris, ya sekali-kali istirahat. Halah.

Oke, jadi hari ini, karena tidak ada mata kuliah karena dosen-dosen harus melaksanakan acara pengabdian masyarakat di Temanggung, alhasil saya merasa sangat bosan di rumah. Karena saya hobi tidur (Ibu: "Tidur kok dijadikan hobi!"), sungguh hal yang tak wajar bagi saya untuk tiba-tiba berinisiatif pergi ke salah satu mall di kota saya untuk pergi ke bioskop.

Ya. Saya pergi ke bioskop. Sendirian. Seorang diri. Alone.

Perlu didramatisasi supaya lebih super.

Saya mengajak teman per-Kpop-an saya, Amma, untuk menemani saya menonton film Ada Apa dengan Cinta 2 (AADC2) yang sudah tayang di bioskop-bioskop kesayangan Anda sejak 28 April 2016. Bioskop saja disayang, orang yang dari dulu mengagumi dari kejauhan tidak. #tsah

Sebenarnya saya ingin mengajak teman per-Kpop-an saya yang lain, kak Ciki, namun kak Ciki baru saja pergi ke bioskop yang sama dengan temannya sehari sebelumnya, namun dengan film yang berbeda. Teman sekelas saya juga tidak bisa, adik dan kakak saya juga menolak. 

Jadilah saya menghabiskan hari Selasa saya dengan Amma nonton AADC2.

Warning: spoiler! (Sedikit). Jadi, bagi yang belum menonton film ini, saya anjurkan untuk baca saja supaya ada kesibukan. Ciye yang harusnya membuat essay malah baca blog...

Perlu Anda tahu, saya tiba di mall pukul 13.00 WIB. Hari Selasa, salah satu hari sibuk, dan pukul 1 siang memang merupakan jam sibuk. Jadi, wajar saja jika saya heran ketika mendapati XXI penuh dengan orang-orang yang mengantri sampai tumpeh-tumpeh keluar area XXI itu sendiri. Luar biasa. Saya jauh-jauh datang ke XXI bukan untuk pulang dengan tangan kosong. Saya pun ikut antri dan mendapat tiket untuk 2 ekor sekitar 20 menit kemudian. 

Saya mendapat tiket pukul 13.40 WIB, dan jadwal tiket saya menunjukkan pukul 16.30 WIB. Harus menunggu 3 jam lagi demi film besutan Riri Riza ini. 

Jujur. Jujur sejujur-jujurnya orang jujur, saya belum pernah menonton seri pertama film ini. Hanya tahu plotnya saja dari teman-teman, itu pun juga setengah-setengah. Intinya: Rangga pergi ke New York meninggalkan Cinta dan mereka melakukan long distance relationship. 

Saya ini memilih AADC2 dibanding Civil War: Captain America karena; 1) Saya tidak pernah tahu jalan cerita Iron Man karena tidak pernah melihat filmnya, 2) Hanya ada 1 studio yang menayangkan Civil War dan saya yakin saya akan kehabisan tiket sebelum antri, 3) Alasan terpenting: Adanya Nicholas Saputra yang kembali memerankan Rangga dalam AADC2. Sungguh realistis sekali kau, Nuha. Sebagai wujud penyesalan saya karena saya baru sadar kalau Nicholas Saputra itu benar-benar tampan, alhasil saya memilih film ini.

AADC mulai tayang tahun 2002 dan seri kedua muncul tahun 2016. 14 tahun berlalu, Rangga apa kabar? Ini aku Cinta. Cinta Fitri.

Film ini dimulai dengan Cinta, yang diperankan oleh Dian Sastrowardoyo (bukan saya tentunya), sedang berbincang-bincang dengan teman-teman satu geng-nya, Maura, Karmen, Milly, bersama pasangannya masing-masing. Mereka bercanda ria dan membahas liburan mereka ke Jogjakarta. Saya suka film ini karena mereka seakan-akan melakukan acting secara natural dan tidak ada rasa canggung sama sekali. Penonton dapat merasakan atmosfer keseruan perbincangan mereka dan saya yakin Anda tiba-tiba akan merindukan teman-teman dan kolega Anda. Yang dulunya berantem karena sobat Anda hutang warteg, tiba-tiba rasanya mau mentraktir si sohib makan di warteg...



Jadi, saat di tengah-tengah film, layar bioskop tiba-tiba mati, air conditioner di dalam ruangan mati, dan semua lampu sorot menyala. Semua penonton yang ada di bioskop serentak kaget dan mulai terkikih. Saya ingat sekali ada Bapak-bapak yang berteriak di belakang saya, "Padahal saya bayarnya nggak nyicil, lho!"

Sejenak kemudian, tiba-tiba suara film kembali terdengar, namun layar masih tetap gelap. Lalu Amma yang duduk di samping saya mulai berceletuk sembari bercanda, "Lho kak ini bioskop apa radio kok suara doang,"

Saya dengan menahan tawa menjawab, "Wah iya ini Prambors ya?"

Amma kembali menimpali, "Eh enggak ya kak, ini tuh kita lagi ujian listening bahasa Inggris!"

Mungkin si operator tahu celotehan Amma, beberapa detik kemudian layar kembali berfungsi dan lampu sorot kembali padam. Kami pun lanjut menyimak adegan Rangga dan Cinta yang sedang meluruskan masalah mereka beberapa tahun silam.

Anda pasti tahu mini drama AADC2 Line tahun 2014 silam. Terdapat adegan dimana Rangga mengirim pesan Line kepada Cinta bahwa Rangga ingin bertemu dengan Cinta sekali lagi. Amma lagi-lagi berceletuk, "Wah harusnya Cinta bales Line Rangga pake sticker Tahilalats yang 'Anjaaaaay' terus Rangga bales pake sticker 'Tengkyu Bosqu'," BAGAIMANA SAYA TIDAK TERTAWA KERAS.

Apalagi Amma dengan lantangnya teriak, "Ah panas!" karena memang AC ruangan tidak berfungsi lagi sejak insiden layar mati beberapa menit lalu. Orang-orang yang duduk di samping dan di depan saya sontak menahan tawa dan sesekali melirik ke arah saya dan Amma.

Maafkan perilaku kami, kami memang selalu memberi komentar di setiap adegan yang muncul. Terutama tiap kali Rangga muncul di layar. Saya dan Amma tak henti-hentinya mengucapkan kata-kata pujian untuknya.

"Rangga kenapa bajunya dimasukin ke celana!"

"Rangga kenapa diem aja ganteng,"

"Rangga nggak mandi seharian aja tetep ganteng,"

"Rangga gagah banget sih!"

"Rangga kok gagah banget!" (Lagi)

"Rangga bales Line aku!"

"Rangga aku adik tiri mu!"

"Rangga alisnya badai gils,"

"Ya Allah kak nggak kuat ganteng banget,"

Jika dipikir-pikir, 99% saya dan Amma mengomentari Rangga dan perannya dalam film itu. Saya tekankan disini, Rangga benar-benar kelewatan.

Kelewatan ganteng. Eya.

Dan lagi, film ini memang benar-benar membuat penonton merasa baper, feeling so emotional, KARENA RANGGA DAN CI NTA KEBANYAKAN NGEGOMBAL DAN SAYANGNYA SAYA TIDAK MEMPUNYAI PACAR SEORANG RANGGA. Apakah saya perlu lari ke hutan? Ataukah saya harus pecahkan saja gelasnya biar ramai?

Banyak sekali ucapan Rangga dan Cinta yang dapat dijadikan quote, karena memang Rangga sendiri hobi sekali menulis puisi. Tampar aku, Mas Rangga!

Salah satu kalimat yang saya ingat sampai sekarang ialah,

Kau yang panas di kening, kau yang dingin di kenang.

Rangga memang puitis sekali. Tolong carikan calon pacar seperti Rangga dan kirim ke alamat saya segera. No tipu. Saya juga ingat perkataan Cinta saat Rangga meminta maaf kepadanya, "Yang kamu lakukan ke saya itu bukan unfair lagi Rangga, yang kamu lakukan ke saya itu jahat!" atau saat Rangga dengan desperate-nya berkata, "Cinta, coba katakan pada saya bahwa kejadian di Jogja tidak berarti apa-apa buat kamu!"

Oh iya, film ini berdurasi 127 menit, sekitar 2 jam. Ber-plot ringan dengan dibumbui permasalahan dan konflik yang membuat Anda tetap merasa baper. Tiap detik baper. Ketampanan Rangga tidak akan membuat Anda merasa bosan. Tatap saja matanya yang jernih, dan alisnya yang super duper badai membuat perawakannya terlihat sinis dan tak acuh. Hentikan saya sekarang juga sebelum saya mendeskripsikan Rangga lebih jauh...

Tonton lah film ini!

Meme yang terakhir bikin gimana gitu, jujur saya tertawa terbahak-bahak. Jujur, saya dulu penggemar Sm*sh. Tapi itu dulu...

Gambar dan meme saya dapat dari Google! Jadi pure bukan milik saya. 

Oke, sampai jumpa!

SAMA-SAMA NAMPOL MBAK

Wandering Thoughts on Sunday?

Today is such a chilly day; me sitting in front of my computer with headshets occupy my ears. We Don't Talk Anymore by Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez is on repeat since 20 minutes ago. I have a lot of things in mind to write, but I'm confused how to write. My brain capacity is degrading, I need vacation.

Okay, I want to tell you all. I like writing. Especially in this blog. 

Years ago, when I was around 15 years old, I have this thought; how to memorize all of the experiences I got and I can still remember all of those memories even when I'm getting old? The answer is only one. Start writing.

At first, I only write on a small book, I call it diary. Sounds cheesy, but I'm serious when I said I'm able to remember my old experiences. I can read my lame stories all over again and get so embarrassed with all the things I've done in my past. Like when I wrote in diary that I like a certain boy in my class and I felt like the boy was just playing with my heart.

Damn, I sounded so lame I want to bang my head on the wall.

You can read my lame posts about that same boy on this post, and the most embarrassing post of the year: this!!!!!!!!! Emo Nuha is now gone! Ha-ha!

Lame, indeed, but you will feel happy after that, because you know and you remember how stupid you were back then when you were just a kid.

I wrote a lot on my diary and it needs a lot of papers to spill all of the stories. After that I started to make a blog on 2010 and make it as my diary. It can also be my journal, whatever floats my boat. It can also be an information website, because sometimes I like to tell you about something I love to do. The most important one, I can make it as a tool that I can use to look back on my past experiences so that I can open it again and again and it will always be there (as long as blogspot isn't decided to delete itself). It's different from diary. The book can be broken and dirty, and you will lose it if you don't take a good care of it.

I write to taste life, twice. Thrice. Hundred times.

Not because I want to be arrogant and show off, but because I want to look back on the past me and learn from it.

Oh yeah I forget to tell you that I just changed my blog header because the old one is so lame (I edited it so much it looks horrible). The new one is better, I guess. And don't forget to follow my Instagram and also my Snapchat! ID: nuhapls :)

I decided to post all of my photography pictures to my Instagram because I don't like taking selfies and because I take a lot of pictures using my camera and in addition it's a good idea to share it somewhere on internet. Taadaa, here it is. Warning: food porn, just because.

Paris: Checked! #1

Truth to be told, I'm kinda feeling sad today because my harddisk is broken. I don't know what happened but I can't connect it to my computer. I'm super duper sad and furious, I have a lot of datas there. Now, I don't know what should I do. I will bring it to computer service or anything and fix it. I hope it's okay! /Adele's All I Ask as BG music

Okay, so after my München and Köln trips are out, my next destination is Paris!

Franzi is kind enough to help me and Vista buying the ticket from Köln to Paris. As always, we bought FlixBus tickets and they are a little bit expensive because we bought them 3 hours before the schedule. Soooooo yeah our schedule is: Tuesday, March 8th 2016 23:30 PM from Leverkusen Mitte (Köln) to Porte Maillot (Paris)!

It took 10 hours for us to get to Paris because it's quite far. We passed Belgium again if I'm not mistaken. The time we arrived there, it's raining and we stood near the locket while Vista contacting her friend because we will stay at her friend's apartment for two days.

I told you. It's so hard to find the apartment because we don't know where is the Metro station. I asked one of the passerbies and she said she doesn't know either because she is a tourist too. What. Okay, so we were trying to find the station by walking about 700 meters with our huge luggages and it was so difficult because it rained a lot. 

And then, finally we found the metro station undeground AND WE HAVE TO CARRY OUR LUGGAGES DOWNSTAIRS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ESCALATOR OR LIFTS. Sorry I was mad at that time because, man, why there's no lift in the metro station? I have two luggages and all of them are about 30 kgs. So I have to carry one luggage first, and then back uptairs to carry the other luggage. Vista was struggling too because her luggage is so heavy.

What's worst? There are stairs again in every corner. Slap me. This is new version of American Horror Story.

There are so many stairs in the metro station. So many. We were struggling. MUCH. But it's okay, people are so kind, they helped us to bring our luggages. Most of them are men. They just stopped, and they were like can I help you with these bricks or they just brought our luggages without saying anything. Thank you, people. God blesses you.

After we bought the tickets and all, we went to the apartment near Lamarck Caulaincourt metro station and arrived there at around 2 PM because we get lost in the way (with heavy rain), took a rest and took a bath, ah heaven. 

And after that, we decided to go out and spent our first day to visit some places in Paris and the first one was Sacré-Cœur.

Going to Sacré-Cœur is such a good idea because it's located in a hill or something, I don't know but when you get there, you can see Paris from above and that was amazing!

We walked for awhile, there are so many souvenir shops along the street. We decided to go to Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile. Paris is such a big and busy city. A lot of people walk by and I like the atmosphere a lot. Different with Germany and Czech Republic, cars and motorcycles are everywhere! It was the first time for me to see a motorcycle in Europe.

I sat in the bench near the park around this wall, and just staring at the birds. Again. It feels nice just sit there and doing nothing and scrutinize the cars. I really remember Vista said, "Is this Jakarta or Paris? Why is it so crowded," Well, yeah, public transportation everywhere and sometimes there's a traffic jam. Horns blaring.

Enough with this site, we went to Concorde metro station, transit in Franklin D. Roosevelt, and get off in Trocadero metro station. You have to read map carefully so you can get to your destination without getting lost. 

We walked for awhile and finally we arrived at Paris Tower!

The sky was so dark and it was so cloudy because like I've told you before, it rained heavily in Paris at that time. But it's okay as long as it's not as hot as frying pan.

After taking a lot of pictures from up here, me and Vista walked a little bit along the fountain. Paris Tower is located strategically, surrounded by streets and parks. We decided to get closer to the tower even though it's a little bit far by walking.  

Paris tower is soooo huge from up close! Vista said it looks like TV tower, bunch of metals. I didn't get to the peak of the tower because I have to pay 23 Euros for God's sake. I better buy banana milk again, I'm truly sorry...

The weather was cold as always, I'm freezing. 

We walked a little through the park near the tower. The name of the wide green park is Champ de Mars. It's nice, people walked by, they even bring their pets for a walk, so many snack shops, so many Indonesians. I repeat, so many Indonesians. 

Vista went to the building in the end of the the park, but because I was too tired and so hungry, I decided to buy snack by myself and sat in one of the benches available all over the park.

I bought chocolate banana crepe! It's such a huge portion for 9 Euros. I sat near the shop while staring at the crowd. After 5 minutes scrutinizing the situation (and the crowd), I just realized that they were filming something there. Such an interesting sight to see.

The weather was becoming so cold I always wanted to go back home everytime. Right after spending a lot of time staring at people, me and Vista decided to go home because we were tired, very. We just spent our night at our apartment, and Vista's friend's boyfriend cooked us a lot of foods and I was so thankful. There are so many kind people in the world.

See you in Paris part #2! (Because it's too long for two days in one post)