An Eventful Day to Remember: Korean Pop Music Wave 2017 Concert @ Setia Spice Arena Penang, Malaysia

A day after attending Ed Sheeran's concert in Malaysia, I went back to Penang and was actually trying to dream for another free concert to attend to, Kpop concert which has my superstar idol Oppa Rain-Bi Jung Ji Hoon in it too. Guess what, S.U.R.P.R.I.S.E!!! Gurney Plaza notified me on the 15 November 2017 evening via instagram related to a phototaking contest i joined for fun a couple of weeks earlier mentioning that I won myself the concert tickets for the next week concert! yayyyy~ I was so ecstatic and euphoria! It seemed unreal. My lil' dream I wished for in my heart came true!

Anyway, in the earlier October 2017, I heard from my friend that Rain-Bi will be coming to Penang for this concert. I was thinking of attending the concert but it won't be an all concert just by Rain-Bi. There will be other Kpop artists holding a concert together with him too. I don't really know the other artists well, apart from 2 of them who hosted Running Man tv series, Haha and Kim Jong Kook. Therefore, I was a lil' reluctant to purchase the concert ticket. I last attended Rain's concert was approximately a decade ago, which my Uncle purchased for me at around RM3XX/ ticket.

Since life is so hectic, it would be extremely great to attend another concert.  

This was my 2nd concert of the year! It will feature artists such as hot B.A.P (boyband- their songs were really hot and cool. My first time knowing them- no regrets. Love their Warrior song and they did the Opening concert with a bang), T-ARA, HaHa, Kim Jong Kook and lastly Rain-Bi :D 

Just went to collect my 2 tickets from Gurney Plaza information counter. Each ticket costed RM728 and it's for VVIP seats (very very important person)! Thank you so much, Gurney Plaza! ;)
Feeling contented. My own "cemerlang" award for myself. My concert buddy said this was my big haul. haha

On the concert day and from our seats: 24 November 2017 (Friday).

#TGIF after working day: Concert to end le tired day!
Best night to end the week as I had a freakin' 3 days inspection from the authority at workplace and took a couple of weeks of hardwork preparation. 

Not clear picture as I was swaying to the beat. hehe..
By right, it would super clear as he was just directly in front of my eyes standing tall and smart on stage. 

This was captured when I was sitting down quietly at my seat. LOL~
He sang around 5 to 6 songs: to name a few which were La Song (from Rain Effect album),  It's Raining (in Penang. haha...the song from his 3rd album), Hip Song (from Back to the Basic album), Instead of Saying Goodbye (for closing the concert with a bang).

 Instead of Saying Goodbye (for closing the concert with a bang). Confetti confetti confetti dropping!
Omo, still unbelievable that Rain came to me in Penangggggggg. :*

I'm truly thankful and grateful for what has been happening throughout this whole year round. Indeed, many many happy returns despite at times life is filled with many challenging and obstacles. The outcome was truly worthwhile and amazing! Very fruitful year. I will end this 2017 with a BANG! Ushering great success, health and love for 2018!

See y'all!

An Eventful Day to Remember: Ed Sheeran's Divide (÷ ) Concert 2017 at Axiata Stadium Bukit Jalil, Malaysia

In the early May 2017 this year, I learned from the social media and newspapers that Ed Sheeran will be holding a concert on the 14 November 2017 in Malaysia! *woot woot*  

My concert buddy and I decided to attend his concert as the last concert we attended was 2 years ago, The Script concert in Shah Alam, Malaysia. In order to make us happier with life and to celebrate the year, we decided to attend one this year. So, we waited for a couple of weeks for the concert tickets to start selling. On the first day of the selling of the concert tickets, we told ourselves that we would buy them later in the evening after returning home from workplace. However, after an hour or so, we learned that the tickets were all sold out within 30 minutes. Like seriously?! *jaw dropped*  

I love Ed's "Photograph" song so much and also it got featured as the movie soundtrack, "Me Before You" too. Ever since then, I am listening to it at almost every single day in the car while driving to work, even up to today. haha. *crazy me*

Well, I do not know much about Ed Sheeran, except that he is a British solo singer who is very talented. He could play several instruments and perform on his own using a loop pedal. 

With this sold out tickets news that we found out, we decided to let it go. T_T

So one day (about 2 months plus before the concert day), when I was reading the newspapers, I came across that a property developer put up an advertisement related to his concert and stated that they were organising a contest. This has caught my attention and I decided to take a snapshot on it and save it to read it clearer at night. That week itself, I decided to tell and suggested to this concert buddy to just simply join and give this contest a try. All we need to do was to make a short video clip related to Ed. We actually danced unprofessionally for a couple of hours after our morning exercise at the Botanical Gardens (including the planning and practising) and made a fool of ourselves in that clip since we are not professionals to begin with. ;) The clip was hilarious though. She stitched up the clips and added in funny texts based on our shared ideas. Then I submitted in the clip to complete it immediately without further delay as we needed to get friends to help out in the votings (50% based on votings and 50% based on judges decision). You may watch our so called winning clip here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFIWOHDXRps&index=40&list=FLUShP9W6jqR0yee62qfA2hw

We were quite confident that we would win a pair of his concert tickets cause we were in the top 25! :* But there was a bonus prize, since we submitted the clip early to join, the first week itself, we won ourselves his latest 2017 Divide (%) album too. *woot woot* It was happiness when I received the call from the organiser and that the lady, representative of the organiser was indeed very happy to hear my voice of happiness while speaking to her.

Anyway, the rest is history! :D

Us with our epic prizes, an original album and 2 concert tickets (costed RM358/each)! We went to collect the prizes on the same day of the concert at the organiser's booth,just at outside the concert stadium after flying from Penang to Kuala Lumpur!
Thank you, Citizen Setia! We are very contented! Our hearts are full and feel so lucky!

After picking up our prizes and had our dinner with my Uncle, we went back for like a while to wash up before going for the concert.
Us wefie more with our concert tickets! :* But Mickey Mouse didn't look so pleased at some point. LOL

Me selfie before the concert starting.
There was an early opening by Lauv, a new American singer. But we just reached the inner stadium when he was about to finish singing. The queue was long outside.

Thanks Ed Sheeran for the awesome performances! The much anticipated concert (after waiting for 6 freakin' months and 10 days) just ended with a bang!
Loved his live "Photograph" song...I can still remember the repetitive lyrics he sang towards the end of it..."Hearing your whispers through the phone...X2 ...Wait for me to come home" <3 br="">

Guess what, I also love love love his "Happier" song so much and then when we went back home to dig in the album, my buddy found that this song was written by Ed Sheeran himself, Benjamin (not sure whom is it) and Ryan Tedder (OMGGGGGG, my favourite One Republic lead musician). No wonder, we found something in common with our love for this song.

I also love his live "Sing" cause he made us "Tarzan-ing" with him during the concert, which went like this....."Ohhh... ohh..oh...ohh.....oh oh...oh oh...Sing! *Repeat*" hahaha~ It was truly fun!

There were many more songs that I loved too, "Bloodstream", "Shape of You" and etc.

We sprinted all the way to catch our LRT train at the end of the concert which was gonna close in 15 min time before 11pm. hahaha

Truly an eventful day to remember! Yeahhh~

Recently, last Saturday (09 December 2017), a friend of mine living in Sarawak (East Malaysia) messaged me to notify that she saw me in the Chinese local newspaper, Sin Chew Daily, this news is just published (almost a month after the concert). It was sort of a throwback to the newspaper and to me too! This got me really excited and feeling so cool on that weekend! :D
Below is the column of my mini moment and achievement which got featured in the newspaper feeling as a mini celebrity of the day. *hehehe*

I'm in the news today! *woot woot*
The source: Sin Chew Daily newspaper (dated 09.12.2017)
My dear friend translated a small section that quoted me about winning this contest which went something like this, "One of the lucky winner jacquline thanks to SP Setia for bringing such an amazing and wonderful concert." 

Thanks to my dear friend for the notification! It somehow reminded me of 13 years ago as I also won an entrance ticket to a 5-star hotel (JW Marriot Hotel- if I remember correctly) to dine and watch Jerry Yen (Taiwanese flower boy heartthrobe) during that time from a Chinese newspaper for Oral B Braun Contest in which she was the one who helped to translate my contest slogan. ;)