五月天 Mayday Queue Survival Guide

So I figured I should contribute my experience on how I get my Mayday Concert VIP ticket for fans to have better chance in getting future concert tickets

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December 2017

There were a lot of ticket kiosk, but the one I went to was Singapore Indoor Stadium. You could get the tickets from Singapore Post too, but during the queue I overheard from "Experienced Queuers" that their system is quite bad, and sometimes it will jam and by the time it's back online there won't be any tickets left.

It was my first time queuing for any concert ticket, and being worried of not getting a ticket, I went to check the queue 1 day before opening of VIP ticket.

VIP sales starts : 10am (Friday)
Check                : 9.30am (Thursday)
Queue                : None

Only during my second check at night that I found there are already 22 people queue-ing.

Check : 8.00pm (Thursday)
Queue : 22 People

The thing I would like to compliment is the ingenious method the fans used during the Queue to ensure order and prevent anybody from cutting the queue. Listing down the names and contact numbers on a piece of paper based on first come first serve basis. As simple as it sounds, I was really impressed. For my case, the 2nd person in the line is the one in-charge of getting everyone in the list.

One thing to take note is that overnighting is not allowed. We were chased away by security around 9.30pm (Thursday) and we ended up overnighting in a sheltered pathway in between Kallang Mall and Indoor Stadium. This is where the Name List came in handy, we know who is supposed to be where and behind who. I went to ask about the allowed queuing time and it's around daybreak, which is quite vague. Do remember to bring your Umbrella and insect repellents, sleeping bag too if you want.

The queue just got longer the next morning (Maybe 3.00am) with an approximate number of 50.

So when are we allowed to start queuing at the booth? For me, I asked the officer if we can start queuing (that is around 7am), and that's when they gave us the green light. We moved to queue near the booth and the Name List yet again came in handy.

So the queue reached around 100 at around 9:30am Friday, just 30 minutes before open sales.

By 9:58am all of us started refreshing online booking page just to try our luck in getting the tickets online. The ticket was set at $288 per ticket, so do ensure your purchase doesn't exceed the credit card limit.

IF you were to get online booking, don't worry if they indicate that there are no more seat of your choosing, as It's most probably the system being overloaded by the page request. Instead, keep trying on the number of seats you want. For me, the booking was quite a breeze as I was the few who managed to get in the system early, and I managed to temporarily book 7 seats, but as time goes by, booking large amount of seats would be a problem.

In the end, I managed to individually booked 2 tickets online and 5 from the booth.

Well, Sunday's "Valentine's Day" Surprise was kind of a failure i think.

I realized anything that I do will turn out comical, so there goes future touching surprises.

So I'm doing this Freelance Wedding Animation Projects.

Can't seem to find the most efficient venue to do it.

At home is definitely a no go, with so many distractions(Computer Games) and all.

Tried my Girlfriend's house, did some animation, not too bad.

Tried SMU, but apparently my Wifi's Username is no longer accepted.

The search continues...

Things just suddenly pop out one by one lately.
Suddenly find myself in need of more time.
I actually impressed myself for being able to remain calm amidst all these chaos.

Valentine's Day is coming early this year I guess.
We decided to celebrate it on the 12th.
I'm thinking if I should move the baking over to the 12th as well.
Then we'll never ran out of things to do.

She pointed out to me of things that I said unintentionally which hurts her feelings.
I didn't think much about it until she mentioned about how it affected her.
I will be more careful of what I said in the future.

So, I got sexually harassed at my office. Yep, apparently it happens to guys too. I kind of guessed that he is into guys, not that I have anything against it, whatever you do with other guys is your business, but come on, you already know i'm not that kind of guy. I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND FOR GOODNESS SAKE!

On a side note, I'm currently working on a SUPER SECRET Project for my girlfriend (Yeah, i know you are reading this). Initially thought it could be finished by Valentine's Day, but turns out it took longer than I thought. Well, I guess I'll just have to keep you on suspense then.

Okay, my application for DigiPen did not work out. Realising that it might be due to my drawings I took up drawing classes.

Perhaps I should apply for a part-time study basis, just like my parents wanted. Trouble is DigiPen doesn't practice part-time studying. Maybe I'll go for Lassale or NAFA?

Studies aside, I've grown tired of my job. Chasing debts, the petty pay. Some customers are just so unreasonable and illogical, it took a toll on my mental state. Like a dementor sucking the happiness out of you.

But I just got myself 2 wedding animations projects to keep me going though, which is nice. I really hope my brand will get known and grow.

So I'm stepping back to school this September... Hopefully, if my admittance got approved.

So which unlucky Institution am I applying? It's non other than DigiPen, which I supposed is under SIT? I don't know.

I had to admit, Games Design & Programming was really attractive, but I rooted for Digital Arts & Animation in the end. I was satisfied with my choices till I read one of the enrollment pre-requisite, which is to submit a portfolio, which of a few "Drawings from Direct Observation". To put it simply, hand-drawn arts. Something inside me died a little, I CAN'T DRAW. So now it's either give up the course, or I have to learn drawing in a short period of time. I chose the latter.

Let's hope my inborn-drawing-talent surfaced in these short period of time. Gonna starts drawing like mad.

My life is currently inseparable from my laptop, and my smartphones. Work with my laptop, travel with my smartphone, and video editing with my personal laptop. I feel my eyesight totally went from bad to worse. And this will continue till the end of October. Heaven give me strength to pull through. I have more important things to worry about than these!

Back to my hometown, Jakarta.

Had a short catch up with my cousins from my mom's side, and man have time flies.

All of them, ALL, are married and have kids!

And I'm just standing there like a forever alone.

All of them are friendly though, just like the old times.

Between my relatives, my family has always been closer to my mom's side.

Call me old fashioned, but I still think that it's important to continue family bloodline/surname. Especially my mom's side.

I've been putting my attention on this cousin of mine.

He is the only son, so I figured he has a very big responsibility to continue the blood of 吴 family.

And I just knew that he also has a son, so now my attention has moved to his son, "Jofan".

It seems to be the curse of the family or smth to have only a son in the family.

I bet everyone went through this phase somewhere in their life before. Suddenly remembering the things and bad decisions you made as a kid, and now as an adult you totally went "why the heck did I do that?" or "things would have been different if I were to...". Especially so for words. Of all the things that can hurt you, in my belief, words are the most infamous of all. Physical pain will go, but mental scar lingers. I always wished that I knew this sooner, so many friendships could have been salvaged.

Back to my hometown Indonesia.

It's been quite a long time since I went back, and the first thing that I noticed is that the grass has turned green. The last I remembered was that the grass in Indonesia is yellow, which made me believe that grass is by default yellow in colour, which made me look like an idiot when I first came to Singapore and was really surprised that the grass in Singapore is green.

Anyway, along the way to make my KTP(Indonesia's term for IC Card, this is one of the reason why I have to go back) I bump into somethings which reminded of why I don't feel like coming back.

- The kampong feeling near my house (probably stayed in Singapore for too long)

- The trash clogged sewer and river, and the markets just beside it.

- The uneven road which gave me motion sickness.

Nevertheless, I'm also thrilled that I get to visit my childhood home. Although we rented it out and has been converted into a warehouse, but I just have to see it again!

In Indonesia we have another taxi category, and we call them "Bajai". it's just like taxi, but cheaper, and IT IS EVERYWHERE! I swear most of the country's air pollution and traffic congestion are caused by them. I remembered I was waiting for my parents to fetch me after school one day, but they haven't arrive yet, and I got so scared that I cried, and this "Kind" bajai-man "offered" to send me home but turned out that he still charged my parents. Took a scolding from my mom after that.

This is the train station just outside of my district, whenever I saw this station, I would know that I'm almost to my house.

This is is the front view of my home, It looks so much bigger in my memory. Just at the opposite of my home used to live a little boy, I used to play together with him and my sister, together with another little girl living just a few block away, she was the daughter of our district's chief(Yeah, we have a chief. Talk about kampong life). The four of us would come together after school and hangout at our treehouse (Yeah~ Treehouse, how cool is that!)

This used to be our kitchen, and at the ceiling, you can see a hole that leads all the way to level 5. My grandmother and parents used to shout through the hole to call use down for dinner.

And this used to be where our maid wash our clothes, and also where we water our plants. At night, this is where we would hangout to gaze the stars, although there weren't much, but it was still beautiful. This is probably the only thing I really miss.

This is the top floor of my house. Before they installed the satellite thingy there, me and my brothers and sisters would fly kite here. There is this once where the wind was so strong that it pulled my string handler away together with the kite, and we were chasing it before it flew completely.

This is the first floor and also the office, where my mom and dad work. It looks so different now.

And this is taken when I went for checkup in the hospital. It's another one of the reason why I came back. My sister was worried about my sleepiness during work hour so she had me go for a check up in Indonesia since I'm going back to do the KTP anyway.

It happened again, suddenly all the thoughts that I was going to put into the blog is forgotten once again.
Should I really start bringing around notepad just to jot down the things I'm going to put into the blog?

Can't concentrate, I should find something to distract myself, at least till I get some answers.

Mayday Made History... AGAIN!
Being the First Chinese to perform in the World's Most Prestigious Arena in New York.

果然不负我所望

15 Years of Friendships,
15 Years of Music,
15 Years of Dreams.

Their story of perseverance never fail to touch me,
it always gave me the goosebumps.

20 more days to Daren & Celia's Wedding Animation Deadline.

Time Time Time.

If there's anything I learn from this movie, it's :
1) What goes around, comes around. You will never know in what way will the world returns what you give. Sometimes it might even return you tenfold of what you gave.

2) Today you have everything, but it might all be gone tomorrow.

3) While you still have time, do what you must, even if you fail, at least you have confirmed the outcome.

I really don't know whether to laugh or cry.

This morning while walking towards my office, a group of people was passing some pamphlet.

It was crowded right, so they could might as well spam everyone with the pamphlet.

But this lady, lol, so many people walked pass and she gave them none, and yet she passed it to me.

I was curious about the pamphlet and realised it's to promote the PinkDot event.

I chuckled a little, till I see what she did there.

I didn't think of going, until someone told me SOMETHING that blew my mind.

So I guess I'm going to show my support then.

And I wonder if I should ask my friend along.

I'm qualified to enter the Talent Competition Finals!
Well, most importantly, I get my 5 extra free tickets.

Just went for an audition for a talent competition, and I think overall went well, hope we can get to the finals, then we can get 5 extra free tickets. And i was quite surprised that my colleagues actually willing to come to support  me for the competition WITHOUT me asking them, I never thought that our relationships was in such a level where we can hang out outside office hours. This is actually the first time, it's quite... pleasant actually.

In any way, I am currently binned to a web design job that I regretted taking. There are so many more better things to do than to earn this puny little money. $50 for a logo, and I spent 10 hours amending and amending for him, and in the end he already get someone to do it for him, and in the end i wasted my efforts and time. now he wants me to design him a website? I don't think so. I'll tell him to engage other designers.

Busy busy busy. Busy with dance, busy with Centre events, busy with work, so many backlogs to dispatch. Detox camp is in another 14 days, I hope it will give me the rest I need from all these. Too bad some people can't go though.

Oh! Something happened yesterday that actually made my day. How often do you hear people compliment you? Especially from your supervisor? I used to tell her that I learn nutrition, and that I can cook and I do housework, and upon knowing that I participated in a talent competition, and that I dance, she remarked "怎么你好像什么都会啊？". I guess I accidentally portray myself as a multi-talented person, which I'm far from it. But it still feels good that someone actually think highly of me though.

Well, it's a lengthy post, but I heard expressing my thoughts helps in brain activities, and that's what I think I need, reviving my never-think-things-through brain.

Today, I woke up with a very unpleasant feeling.
Most probably because of the dream I had.
Basically there was a mini nuclear going off in this building, and I as an oracle, somehow predicted it and managed to escape. On the way, I saw this woman and I was compelled to convince her to get away from the building, and she just smiled like I was crazy and continued walking into the building. And BOOM! the nuclear went off. Most of the victim died, and those who survived, was turned into a ghoul due to the radiation. And I saw that same woman again, part of me felt that I caused her to be the way she is now. I have no idea how the guilt got carried over from my dream.

God, that feeling sucks!

Well, the year is ending, and although it might be too early I'm still gonna do an early new year review anyway.

Comparing to earlier this year, things didn't really improve financially for me. I even lost the low paying job that last only for 9 months, so now I'm doing graphic freelance. Everything went quite smoothly at first, but it isn't enough, if this goes on for another month I'm afraid I'll have to go back to employee mode. But I can't go back, not when I already built the momentum. I'll have to find another way.

There are moments during my period of unemployment that wasn't particularly pleasant, it was really awful and stressful. But I'm really glad my sister doesn't give up on me, and I managed to break through my psychological barriers, even if it might just be a minor one.

But out of all the things mentioned above, 1 particular event stood out from the rest. Thinking back there are so many things that I could have done better that could otherwise prevented all of this from happening. We could have spent Christmas, New Year, and even her Birthday together. Heck, I even thought that maybe if I hasn't dragged her into the centre we could have been together now. No matter how much I tried to suppress it, I still boiled up whenever I think about the stupid restriction and rules.

I miss you, like a hell lot.