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. ;)