A fine Sunday for me would be this, the sexy sound of saxophone into my earholes. Who's up for my jazz baby? Jazz goes to campus is the most celebrated jazz festival in Indonesia held by the University of Indonesia, located in Depok. My dad had bought the ticket for my sister and i weeks ago, as soon as we knew about this festival. and i still can't believe it's happening. today. My sister and i went to the train station at 11.30ish and we didn't sit at all because it was so crowded, and i had to give up for old people who need it more than i do so yeah. Unexpected thing happened, how shitty, it suddenly rained. Like really hard. We arrived at the UI train station and had to wait for a while (which is 10-15 minutes) until the rain eased. When we were heading there, walking, it suddenly it rained again and luckily there's a man who's selling raincoats so we bought one. The rain was really hard, my wakai shoes was all wet. What a funny experience is this, i didn't felt disappointed, i laughed a bit with my sister instead, just enjoying every minute of it because unexpected experience like this won't happen twice in your life. Through the struggles fighting the rain and we finally arrived.
 |
| The struggle, but it's okay because i'd do anything for a jazz festival |
 |
the tiredness bc of the struggle literally disappear
when we arrived |
 |
| *excitement* |
 |
So happy i got to be in the front and he was so hyped! Literally, once you get
too see him live, your heart will melt bc he's just so good and he'll make
you feel like you just always want to dance! |
People don't really know his songs, i even find it hard to memorize the tune because it's pretty hard, his songs are so different than any other artists/musician and he combined his beautiful low voice with the sound of saxophone which i found incredibly sexy. Even though he's an Indonesian, he only wrote one song with our language on his album ("Satu Rasa"), and the reason is because he's not poetic. He also sang this mashup of Work and One Dance and i'm not lying but i felt like the craziest, literally dance and move my hip out of control that he even looked at me for 6-7 sec and my heart hurts because damn.
 |
| My favourite part was when he sang "Real Love". |
We weren't that exhausted after watching Teza, but we were starving. Took a break by went to the food court, I ate Hokben and my sister ate her all time fav which is Mujigae. Sadly, i have to pee. The worst thing that i hate the most during festival is 'when i gotta pee' time. Because the toilet is small and t uncomfortable, the line is as long as an anaconda probably and i have to wait up in the line. Raisa is going to perform at 7.15pm. It's still 4.45 right now, after i pee, my sis and i are planning to watch Raisa, but it's already crowded, how crazy is this, the people are waiting for her, standing and waiting until their legs sore (probably). I really wanna fight the crowd, and i thought i could handle it, but not for long i find it hard to breathe, even move. So we went to eat snacks this time, my sister bought some french fries and i bought hotdog and we shared our some chatime hazelnut latte. After that we visited the Jazz History Museum. It's so pretty. The museums tells us how it begun, how did this taste of music spread out and who did it, also shows us the jazz events from time to time chronologically.
 |
took this shot of a couple looking at some legendary jazz
musicians. |
 |
| pictures of some jazz musicians who came to jgtc in the past few years |
 |
| the festival night lights, walking through the crowd |
Since the 28th of October, i''ve waited to see another Kahitna performance again, and they are going to perform here, on JGTC. Not that my mom doesn't allow me to watch it, but the bad news is that they're starting at 11pm until 12 past and the last train that goes to Cikini station from the UI station is 9.45pm. I am beyond sad. Like really sad. But that's okay i still can see my babies on the 8th of December, they're going to perform at Ritz-Carlton for free. It's on Thursday and i know it's during school final exams but who cares. wkwk. I even checked out the stage where Kahitna is going to perform and it's already crowded. It's not even 10 or 11 yet it's literally 8pm-ish and the fans are waiting for them 4-5 hours before! The crowd's insane.
 |
| make it hard to breathe. and move |
 |
| but it was beautiful. |
My sis and I strolling around, watched some gigs and artist that we don't even know but just enjoying the sound of jazz and saxophone into our ear holes, literally. It's nice to enjoy, it's nice to have parents who let their kids goes to this kind of stuff, it's nice that jazz actually exist, the point is that, i'm so blessed. My sis and i sat down watched Grace Sahertian and Renata Tobing. When they were finished, which means 15 minutes before Dikta Project about to start, the girls were in a rush to move forward near the stage because every girl is crazyy about him. Luckily, i felt like i got the best spot, i'm sure i was as close as one meter to him. Pradikta Wicaksono you are crushing my heart.
 |
The night ends by seeing him,
playing the blues with so much love. |
My sister and i left 10 minutes before Dikta Project was about to end, ran to the train station, because we went out of the Univ pretty late and scared if we couldn't catch the train, So we ran and when we went inside the train, we realized that our body was full of sweat and we stink, like really stinks. Stand, holding the hanger, because the seat was full, after standing through 5 stops we finally took a seat. Arrived at the Cikini station at 10ish (as far as i remembered) and my dad picked us up there. When we arrived home, i took a shower and before i go to sleep i posted this shot of Teza on my instagram and 5 minutes later i realized that he actually liked the pic, and it made me scream. Sigh, today was good, full of bless, until next time, love.
