WICKED FEMALE VOCALISTS

There have been many female vocalists from many bands that I've been listening to throughout these years. But there are only three vocalists that attract me most. Not only by their queer and strong vocals, but also their style on stage. These are my favorite female band vocalists:

 1. Cerys Matthews

She is the vocalist of Catatonia. Her uniquely shrill and strong voice are her vocal characters. After the band split, She is now having her own albums. Some of her songs are in Welsh, where that's the unique part of her solo album. This video is one of her masterpieces on the band. 

2. Shirley Manson

Garbage is the band where she's been now. She has such glamorous, sexy, and strong vocal characters. She's really sexy as well, since she used to be a model for catwalk. The band was really rocked in 90's Era. Their last album was in 2007, which is The Greatest Hits itself. This is one of my favorite songs of garbage :)

3. Sarah Blackwood

She is the front woman of Indie Dance band, Dubstar. The band came from UK, introducing British dance music. She sings with thick British accent, which is the most interesting character of hers. The hit single 'I (Friday Night)' is beyond cheerful and addicted.

HOW I MET OPA RUDI

About 2 months ago, my college friends invited me to have lunch at Mang Engking UI. We had so much fun there (as usual) though i could only ate otak-otak and sayur kangkung (I'm allergic to seafood). After approximately 4 hours trashing eating, we decided to go karaoke-ing. We had to walk pass the bookstore first before arrive at NAV Karaoke. And there was a headline right in front of the bookstore, written: HABIBIE AINUN BOOK SIGNING 16.00 - 18.00 WIB. I was like, OMG is Habibie really here? If he is, i've gotta take a picture with him. He's one of my biggest inspirations. Take this chance, now or never!!

Fortunately, my friend Tuti accompanied me to meet Habibie :D. I never thought that she is a huge fan of Habibie too. Okay so we bought his book, and registered for a photo session. Actually the photo session would only be held until 6 pm but the book signing was still be continued until the registers got their books signed. And luckily, the committees put Tuti's and My books next to Habibie :D. Actually we wouldn't get the chance to take photos with him but Alhamdulillah, fortune was on our side. And then one of the committees mentioned Tuti's name and then she sat next to Habibie and i caught their pictures. Now's my turn to take the photos. I sat next to Habibie and Tuti caught the pictures :). Finally we got our books signed and our photographs together with our idol, Burhanuddin Jusuf Habibie.

Why do we adore him so much? He is one of the cleverest men on earth. His IQ score is still no.1 throughout Asia. Not only that, he's been loving her wife and family with all his heart. He has a high nationalism though many people doubt it ( i know he has it). He's not only good at technology, but also at his worship to God. He can balance his spiritual and and real life very well. My words just can't describe how adorable he is. I LOVE YOU OPA RUDI :).

WHO IS YOUR KARTINI?

Ladies, I'm sure you're all really thrilled with Kartini Day today. Yayy!! It's an appreciation for us, ladies, to be celebrated :). Actually, what's the meaning of Kartini Day? Is it all about emancipation? Or just a birth celebration of our Mother Kartini? Or maybe a day with Kebaya sightseeing all day? I guess you all have your own perceptions with this :D. I won't talk about Kartini's history now because you can google it yourself heheh :p. So who's your real Kartini in your personal life? :)

For me, my mom is the real Kartini for me in my daily life. She's been a very good mother all these times. She always wakes up at 4 am everyday cooking and serving breakfast for the whole family though she gotta go to work everyday as a civil service lecturer and gets home every night (and serves dinner as well). Oh not to mention she's also a well educated woman. Not only those routines, my mom's still active on Fatayat NU, continuing handed down family line tradition. She is also very good in driving car (i can't even park straightly :p) ever since she was in junior high school. Why do i adore her so much? Because mom still takes care her whole family, teaches her kids how to put religion norms in life and to be thankful to God all the time. Thanks a bunch, dear Mother :) :)

HAPPY KARTINI DAY LADIEEEESSSSS!!!! :D

APRIL COOL

This month, april, there are two people i adore who have birthdays. First, Cerys Matthews, former vocalist of CATATONIA which is also a songwriter and a guitar player. She is my most favorite female vocalist. Her birthday is on April 11th. And now She's 42 :D. And the second is, MY DAD wohooo XD. He was born on April 19th. He is now 51. Every Dad is the best Dad ever in everyone's life. And so is he. I wish i could be as smart and clever as him LOL. In this 51st birthday, i wish him all the best during his career and good health for now and beyond :). And to those of you who have birthdays in April, i'm going to say:

HAPPY APRIL BIRTHDAAAYYY!!!

SUEDE CONCERT

Inhale, exhale. inhale, exhale. this is what i had been felt during their show on march 19. I really shocked when first time i knew that this Live n Rockin Concert was promoted by BlackBerry. I had such an instinct telling me that this was gonna be tough for fans to see Suede Concert. And finally it turned out that the only way to get this ticket was trading in your phone into selected BlackBerry handsets. I was like, what the fuck #$%^% shame on you, marketing! Fans and I were mad. Absolutely. This was such a capitalist marketing for us. hey, music is for everybody, not only for new BlackBerry users. I was browsing and looking up onto Suede's official website everyday, posted in their forum, and tweeted as much as can be to the promoter and Blackberry itself. We, fans, felt like, how come we had to trade in new BlackBerry while there would be four different performers on the stage? We had been complaining all the time, in Suede's forum particularly. and then Vanessa, Suede's current manager, told us that there will be quizzes to fulfill fans' quota. OMG she was so kind to us. Yes, Suede love their fans and vice versa :). She said there will be 500 tix to be given away for fans only. Okay by the time she told us, I'd been stuck around the monitor to see the quizzes she'd mentioned :D

And the time has come. It wasn't useless that i refreshed the forum page all the time! XD. Vanessa shared the link of the quiz so we, fans could join and get the ticket for each, YIHAAA!!! Actually the quiz would start after Ismaya (the promoter) announced it on their twitter page. But yes Vanessa published it before the rest of the world knew :D. I was officially gonna Suede Instead!

And oh well, there will be no luck without odds. I had a duty trip for 4 days before concert from office to Palembang. Actually it was a chance for me to visit families there. The concert was held on Saturday and I'd be arrived on Saturday noon whoaaaa... Such a critical schedule. Lucky me, Annie had taken my ticket before so i wouldn't waste time on the venue. I made an appointment with Annie to come together to the show. By the time i hit the venue, i also met Wedhar, Fira, Erlin, Ditto, Ceper, bang Eci and Adit. The show began at 7pm starring 2PM, Shontelle, and Taio Cruz.

Okay i was like sneaking around when Taio performed :p and then i got into the very front row with other suedeheads!! yeayyyy!!! Then i waited patiently to see my 90's fave band to perform :D. Before the show began, VJ Daniel took me up to the stage to sing one of my fav Suede songs and i sang 'Superstar' in front of the crowd OMG hahaha i can't believe i was Suede's opening act at that moment haha. By the time i got back into the row, SUEDE was performing instead! Oh My God, i couldn't take my breath away. I would want to cry. I couldn't hold my feelings and screamed out all the time. 

They played 'This Hollywood Life' as first song. I can't believe that Brett's position was right in front of meee oh noooo!! Neil and Matt as well but they stayed at their place :D. And the crazy moment was when Suede played 'The Wild Ones'. Brett sit right in front of me, not in front of people next to me. Oh My, i could fly away reminiscing this. Not to mention they giggled seeing Adit's banner that written 'I'M ACHING TO SEE MY ANDERSON' whoaaaa... They were so powerful and androgynous on stage they could be driving me away :D. After signed out by everyone's song 'Beautiful Ones', they were back with encore songs 'Saturday Night' and 'Lazy'. Actually my very fave song on setlist was 'Killing of A Flashboy'. I scale this concert 9 out of 10 ha ha. Here are their full setlist:

1. This Hollywood Life
2. She
3. Trash
4. Filmstar
5. Animal Nitrate
6. We Are The Pigs
7. By The Sea
8. Electricity
9. The Drowners
10. Killing Of A Flashboy
11. Can't Get Enough
12. Everything Will Flow
13. So Young
14. Metal Mickey
15. The Wild Ones
16. New Generation
17. Beautiful Ones
18. Lazy
19. Saturday Night