Let's Sing!

Nothing could make me more delightful than going to a local music event. This is where myself to be. Realease myself from the so-so routinity. I love the time when I could sing loudly and no one would care of my bad voice. I love it when the beat of drum made my heart beats faster. I love it when I could sing with many strangers there. Such a good distraction from a mountain of assignments which await at home. And I'm so thankful for having such a good companion to accompany me to go there. Ian. Here we are at Langit Musik birthday party in Epicentrum.









Me and Ian both love and support local indie bands, especially Efek Rumah Kaca. We started admiring them since the first time I entered college. ERK has a very ideological lyric. They see things in different ways and then pour it into a song. They prefer to choose their song's theme in politic and humanity besides other mainstream bands which tend to always talk about love, love, and love. Here they are, Adrian, Akbar, and Cholil.



This week, we have watched ERK performance two times. First, we went to a friend's college, UNSADA, to watch them and second, to an event from Speedy. Here is the documentation.


at UNSADA


Yeaaah, with the vocalist, Cholil Mahmud!


Speedy's event at Balai Kartini


oh Cholil, I'm a fan!


from left, Ian, me, and Ghita


behind us, Seringai was performing








and this is my favourite of all, Akbaaar!

How lovely I met Akbar ERK when we wanted to pray Maghrib. We had some chit-chat, intruduced each others, and had a chance to pray Maghrib together. What a wonderful time! I will never forget it for sure! :D He's very kindhearted and handsome of course. Don't you know that he's Indra Bekti's brother? Thing I learned at that time is, It feels very different when Akbar is on the stage, we both different in case of a fan and a star. But then I realized, we are all equal in front of our Lord, Allah SWT. Only faith and good deeds which distinguish us. I noticed it when we both had a time to pray Maghrib together.




Salaam,
Niken

Ruang Rupa Fest

Ruang Rupa Fest is a the 10th anniversary of Ruang Rupa and also as the premiere launch of Ruru Records. This fest was held at Galeri Nasional. I went there to see my fave band, Efek Rumah Kaca. Efek Rumah Kaca was performing at this event. Unfortunatelly I didn't take any pict with my pocket camera. I only took it with my phone. So maybe the quality isn't good at all. Here it is, Cholil Mahmud and friends.

I also watched Sir Dandy's performance at that event. He is sooo funny I almost die laughing because of him haha. I don't know why I love his words that he said in front of the audience. He just simply said it but strictly went to the point. He said that,

"Jangan takut kalo mau buat band. Karna ga semua orang suka musik bagus" -- Sir Dandy

Hahaha. Very sarcastic for those stereotypes daily music in the morning. You got the style, Sir! Love it :)

Salaam,
Niken

Carla Bruni

My super woman wanna be.

terusik traxkustik

here I am, with one of my fave singer, Adhitia Sofyan ♥♡

turquoise Monroe ♥

"Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling."
-Zooey Deschanel

Blissful Night

On last Wednesday, I went to Jakarta Fair at Kemayoran. It's been years (too excessive feeling :P) for me not to watch a great performance from my fave band, Efek Rumah Kaca. Some friends of mine already knew that I often had dreams of Cholil Mahmud. Yes, the vocalist. Haha but I enjoyed it. Yet it made my man a lil' bit upset. I told him many times not to take this problem seriously. You know, it's just only a dream. And I'm not living in a dream. Hehe.
Well umm, the bottom line of this posting is just to share some happiness to you. That was a blissful night. Here are some photos of the show, actually the photos of me mostly :P
Hope you like it :)


him


and his friend


curing boredom


taken by him


the vocalist, Cholil ERK

Yes, I'm obviously happy. Yes, this is a wreaking pain. Thank God for sharing me some smiles. Love you as I always be.



much love,
Niken