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[09.14.2013] The Dream That Stops and The Dream That ContinuesA very great experience from GGINA - Girls & Peace in Jakarta


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Posted 21 October 2013 - 09:55 AM

This is my first fanaccount since I made this account >.<. Please forgive me if my story is boring or there are mistakes. I just want to share my memorable experience, especially for those who had the same experience. Enjoy reading! :D

 

*WARNING :  The content here doesn’t describe the concert, it describes the experience of the whole process. Those    who aren’t interested don’t read, because it’s long and takes time to read  :)

 

 

 

A very big stage, around it was an ocean of people getting ready for what was about to come. Among those people, I was standing with my friends a bit far from the stage. I thought that day would become the greatest and the most memorable day of the year. That day was the day I had waited for three years. Three years since they first started their solo tour. Finally in September 2013, they held a concert in my beloved country, Indonesia.

 

About a month before their concert, a promoter company announced the Girls’ Generation World Tour ‘Girls & Peace’ In Jakarta. Only 30 days, yet it felt like time had stopped before the memorable day actually came. Every day since the announcement I felt very excited. Some of my friends thought I was crazy when I said I was willing to pay even twice the amount of the most expensive ticket only to get the best seat. In my country, 2.5 million rupiah (around 230 USD) is a large amount of money for a high school student. That’s why I had been saving money while waiting for them to came. The most expensive seat, the Premium Red, doesn’t even reach 100 seats, and some of them were already reserved for the VIPs. Imagine how hard to get one of those without any connection! That’s why I was so desperate to get one of those.

 

I was really happy when one friend of mine told me that his cousin knew a person who can book Premium Red tickets. I feel relieved after I had given him the money for the ticket. Guess what? Bad news came right after the online ticket selling had opened. It turned out that the person who claimed himself to have a connection to the promoter company didn’t really book it. He tried to buy it online like any other. As a result, he didn’t get the tickets. As an immediate response, my friends and I agreed to ask the person to buy the second best ticket, which is the Red seats.

 

Feeling disappointed, I finally calmed myself the next day and just be optimistic. I didn’t think about the tickets anymore for I was sure that I would definitely get the Red seat. A week before the concert, another bad news came. My friend told me that the day before, the person whom we trusted to buy our ticket only got one of the Red seats when there are six of us who wanted to have the ticket.  But right after, my friend calmed me and said that he had found a secondhand seller that sold Premium Red tickets. In a blink of an eye, I became happier than ever since the first day of the tickets sale. My friends and I thought that it was a definite ‘comeback’ from our failure to get the Premium Reds before. I trusted the reseller fully too because there were many testimonials from other buyers on their twitter page. They also said that they obtained the tickets through their connection to the promoter company. I trusted them, and I was very excited to know that they had reserved the very front seat for us. Until the day of the concert.

 

When September 14 came, we decided to go to the concert place around 1 or 2 p.m. for we were sure that we would get the Prem-Reds. Around 9 a.m., my friend got a call from the reseller. They said that the person from the promoter company who was in charge of giving them the Premium Red and Red tickets couldn’t be contacted. Therefore, they only received the tickets beside the Prem-Red  and Red and all of the Prem-Red and Red buyer’s ticket will be changed to Pink(Standing) or Yellow(seated, but a bit far from the stage). Of course they gave our money back, but at least they should told us the day before. If we had known about this, we would be sure to skip the seminar that day and went to the concert place earlier. We couldn’t get out until the seminar was over.

 

The seminar ended at 12.30. We quickly rushed to the concert stage and arrived there around 13.30. When we arrived there, an ocean of people had gathered there already, waiting for the open gate. To make it worse, the reseller was hard to contact so we didn’t know where to receive our ticket. We got the standing ticket and got in to the stage area around 15.30. I was in a really bad mood because half of the standing area was already packed with people. I look up, above us, in front of the stage, was around six to eight empty seats  on the very front of the Prem-Red area. When we saw those seats, we thought that would be our seats and it seemed that we might be right. Those seats remained empty for the whole concert.

 

Even though the concert I had been waiting for eternity had finally came, I couldn’t 100% enjoy it and couldn’t become one with the pink ocean fully. Sometimes I could jump and swing the fan light, but sometimes I lost my concentration and couldn’t fully enjoy the show. With a bit of luck, I finally managed to get over with it and right after, they sang my favorite song, “Forever”. I was very moved I almost cried when the encore had just started with their ITNW acapella. Thinking how foolish I was the past 2 hours thinking nothing but crap, I think I was quite lucky to have the best 15 minutes of this year at the late concert.

 

After the concert had ended, I was filled with regret. Regret overtook me, and for 2 days, I was very depressed and almost no sincere smile were made by my lips. Majority of the smiles I made was just formality in order to look normal in front of my friends. I didn’t want them to know that I didn’t fully enjoy the concert. After an experience like that, I think one would be unmotivated to tell other people. More bad news is, the next day after the concert I found out that 2 of my friends, one was a sone(friend A) and one wasn’t a sone(friend B ), got the Premium Red tickets because the father of friend B is the owner of the TV station that became the official media partner of the concert. I feel the pressure got stronger, and all sorts of regret made my depression became worse.

 

Somehow, after the 3rd day of the concert I started to get over my regret because I knew that being depressed wasn’t good for my productivity. Even though I learnt to get over it, by now, a month after the concert, some things still triggers me to look back and feel a little pressure about the past concert. Turns out that deep regret could really affect us greatly.

 

Nevertheless, I have already got over most of it and I made a promise with myself to value my great experience. September 14 wasn’t the best day of this year, but it was the most memorable day I will never forget. What about everyone? Does anyone ever have a similar experience? Share yours!! :thumbsup:

 

 

I dared myself to share this experience even though I know some people may dislike my story. Haters gonna hate, I don’t mind being hated because I know there will be those who will support me. But I’m still very sorry for anyone who dislike this story. :cry:

 

I still hope everyone would learn from my experience and would become better decision maker than I was, and I encourage anyone to share not just every of your beautiful experience. There will be good time and there will be sad time. But always,

Keep Fighting and Never Give Up!!  Thank You :D


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Posted 21 October 2013 - 04:49 PM

i support you.

But there's just one thing that i really can't understand...

You got depressed just only because you couldn't get a red seat?

I live in Brazil and would pay even more just to have a chance to see them at least on screen no matter where would i be sitting.

I do know you got sad but sometimes i think that you should be greatfull to have met them face-to-face, live and real while the majority of us still can't :(


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Posted 21 October 2013 - 06:30 PM

Well, the lesson there is that you should never trust resellers 100%. Most of the time some of them will just screw you over. Better get from more direct sources, which is of course easier said than done. I guess being bummed out too much because of the so many disappointments you encountered kind of like watered down the supposedly great experience that you had, and I feel sad for you for experiencing that. I'm sad for you because despite the difficulties, you were still able to get inside the stadium and experience a live Girls' Generation concert, and you sorta-kinda wasted it. Sorry...

 

I've seen Girls' Generation before (shameless plug: fan accounts are in my signature below, kekekeke) and I've promised myself that I'd treasure each and every minute of it, each and every second of the experience because I wouldn't have dreamed that I would be able to see them in the first place during this lifetime. Moshpits or rock pits for me isn't really very comfortable and enjoyable, based on my three experiences of being there. It's tiring, it's exhausting. But still, soaking up that atmosphere, all that energy can still compensate for all that hassle. So I also completely understand why you didn't feel that great either.

 

As for the Taipei stop, I queued up to get tickets at 7AM, whereas the ticket sales opened at 1PM. And then, through several system crashes and whatnot, I was able to get tickets. It was quite the hassle, I tell you.

 

Well, at least you realized that sooner or later, rather than no realizing it at all. At the very least you've learned a lot from this experience and hopefully, the next time you get a chance to see the Girls, you would have a happier experience, and you know where to go and what to do to get tickets.


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Posted 22 October 2013 - 07:39 AM

i support you.

But there's just one thing that i really can't understand...

You got depressed just only because you couldn't get a red seat?

I live in Brazil and would pay even more just to have a chance to see them at least on screen no matter where would i be sitting.

I do know you got sad but sometimes i think that you should be greatfull to have met them face-to-face, live and real while the majority of us still can't :(

No.. I didn't get depressed because I didn't get a red seat. I got disappointed to those whom I trusted in buying the tickets.

And exactly as you said, I should have been more grateful to have met them live. That the disappointed feelings filled my head and it made me didn't realize sooner that I was still lucky is the reason why I got depressed. So sorry that I was late to realize :( 

Thank you for the advice though, I pray that one day they will come to your country too :)

 

 

 

Well, the lesson there is that you should never trust resellers 100%. Most of the time some of them will just screw you over. Better get from more direct sources, which is of course easier said than done. I guess being bummed out too much because of the so many disappointments you encountered kind of like watered down the supposedly great experience that you had, and I feel sad for you for experiencing that. I'm sad for you because despite the difficulties, you were still able to get inside the stadium and experience a live Girls' Generation concert, and you sorta-kinda wasted it. Sorry...

 

I've seen Girls' Generation before (shameless plug: fan accounts are in my signature below, kekekeke) and I've promised myself that I'd treasure each and every minute of it, each and every second of the experience because I wouldn't have dreamed that I would be able to see them in the first place during this lifetime. Moshpits or rock pits for me isn't really very comfortable and enjoyable, based on my three experiences of being there. It's tiring, it's exhausting. But still, soaking up that atmosphere, all that energy can still compensate for all that hassle. So I also completely understand why you didn't feel that great either.

 

As for the Taipei stop, I queued up to get tickets at 7AM, whereas the ticket sales opened at 1PM. And then, through several system crashes and whatnot, I was able to get tickets. It was quite the hassle, I tell you.

 

Well, at least you realized that sooner or later, rather than no realizing it at all. At the very least you've learned a lot from this experience and hopefully, the next time you get a chance to see the Girls, you would have a happier experience, and you know where to go and what to do to get tickets.

Yea, first I thought that this might be a once in a lifetime chance for them to have a solo concert in my country, that's why I was so eager to sit on the very front in a hope to make it the greatest day I could never forget. Turned out that it was really a day I could and I would never forget because it may be a once in a lifetime experience too.

 

I feel sorry for myself too because I wasn't thankful enough to the point that I kinda wasted about half of the concert. But maybe, this experience is what I should get and learn from in order not to make the same mistake in the future. Because of this experience, I have decided that next time(if there is or there are), even if I got the backseat, and even if I stand on the very back, I'll still swing my hands in the air and live the atmosphere. Thanks for the encouragement :)


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Posted 23 October 2013 - 06:53 AM

i understand the regret you felt.. honestly, when the girls went to SG for the first time in 2011, i bought the 1st night's standing tickets from a friend of mine because he had a connection within RITS (but in my case i actually got the tickets).. but when the girls announced there was a 2nd night and i didnt get to go, i felt the exact feelings (maybe a bit less, but still similar) that you did.. and in some cases where the girls were close to me and i didnt get a chance to buy the tickets, one of my friends would've gotten them and would tell me that they had it AFTER the concert. 

 

when the girls came to beijing for the korea-china music festival, a korean girl called me (my friend) and said her tutor had tickets, while i didnt know where to buy it.. so i immediately asked for them if the tutor was okay with it but he already gave it away.. so i guess it's kinda similar to urs..

 

its like, ur heart sank and u just become incredibly moody and stuff.. u start craving for soshi even more than u have usually and whenever someone talked to u, u get agitated right?

 

im not sure how to help u with this.. even tho i faced this so many times already. the one thing i can give advice about is just try to think about something else.. if ur feeling that regret about soshi, do something non-related to soshi.. like homework or something.. but whatever u do, make sure u dont involve what ur trying to avoid.. otherwise u'll just try to link it to that issue


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Posted 23 October 2013 - 07:56 AM

i understand the regret you felt.. honestly, when the girls went to SG for the first time in 2011, i bought the 1st night's standing tickets from a friend of mine because he had a connection within RITS (but in my case i actually got the tickets).. but when the girls announced there was a 2nd night and i didnt get to go, i felt the exact feelings (maybe a bit less, but still similar) that you did.. and in some cases where the girls were close to me and i didnt get a chance to buy the tickets, one of my friends would've gotten them and would tell me that they had it AFTER the concert. 

 

when the girls came to beijing for the korea-china music festival, a korean girl called me (my friend) and said her tutor had tickets, while i didnt know where to buy it.. so i immediately asked for them if the tutor was okay with it but he already gave it away.. so i guess it's kinda similar to urs..

 

its like, ur heart sank and u just become incredibly moody and stuff.. u start craving for soshi even more than u have usually and whenever someone talked to u, u get agitated right?

 

im not sure how to help u with this.. even tho i faced this so many times already. the one thing i can give advice about is just try to think about something else.. if ur feeling that regret about soshi, do something non-related to soshi.. like homework or something.. but whatever u do, make sure u dont involve what ur trying to avoid.. otherwise u'll just try to link it to that issue

Wow, so sorry that your friend kinda "stabbed" you. Yeah, those disappointed feelings kinda piled up and made you can't concentrate well, then in the end you find yourself guilty for over thinking it. Maybe you felt a quite similar feelings as me..

 

But have a strong hard haha. They said let bygone be bygone right? From the hard feelings we get from these events, there are also lessons to take, and someday those lessons are gonna take part in our life. Letting go is also an important thing to do, and I will learn to let go of hard feelings from this :)


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Posted 23 October 2013 - 04:37 PM

Wow, so sorry that your friend kinda "stabbed" you. Yeah, those disappointed feelings kinda piled up and made you can't concentrate well, then in the end you find yourself guilty for over thinking it. Maybe you felt a quite similar feelings as me..

 

But have a strong hard haha. They said let bygone be bygone right? From the hard feelings we get from these events, there are also lessons to take, and someday those lessons are gonna take part in our life. Letting go is also an important thing to do, and I will learn to let go of hard feelings from this :)

 

 

its not really her fault since i didnt know that she had it until like, a day before the event.. but yeah i felt a bit disappointed, probably not as much as u did for ur case at the time.. but no doubt i've felt, whole-heartedly what u've felt. just try to be a sponge and soak it in, then when u can, just squeeze it out.. 

 

.. or u can just cry ur heart out, thats always a faster way and less 'painful' one


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