Friday, September 25, 2015

[SECRET 7 LINE] Shinji is NOT DEAD

Oh my, how to start this...



Kita mulai dari awal aja..

Saat itu masih tahun 2011, saat2 dimana gue masih berada dalam cengkraman zaman kegelapan, karena gue yang besar sebagai pecinta musik rock tengah dijajah oleh lagu2 K-pop. Suatu hal yang agak down fall buat sejarah gue dimata anak cucu gue nantinya (ya apalah.. bisa bayangin kalo anak Metal tiba2 meng-unyu jadi boibenan kan kira2 ya?)

Saat itu, walau gue dengerin banyak musik K-pop (ya walau kebanyakan R&Bnya dan tetep ga begitu mainstream.. karena siapalah saya ini), tapi gue pun tetep donlot lagu2 dr Jepang (ya.. karena ini biasanya starter pack sebagai fans jelata yang miskin papa-mama kan ya).

Bisa dibilang persentase lagu2 yang gue denger saat itu 75% koreya - 25% jepang. Dan gw emang ngerasa agak jadi anak hilang di belantika musik jepang, karena masih belum menemukan hal2 yang bikin gue bergairah macem duda umur 91 yg baru nikah lagi sama kembang desa umur 18 tahun.

Sampai suatu saat, gue tumplekin semua lagu2 yg udah gw donlot dengan gemilang. Gue dulu itu punya penyakit yg gw sebut sebagai 'blind download' .. pokoknya ya donlot aja berdasarkan feeling ngeliat dari nama sama jacket cover-nya.. ya, sungguh sesuatu yang ga begitu efektif karena tingkat kesuksesan hanya berkisar 70% buat dapet lagu2 yang gue suka.

Anyway, setelah numplekin lagu2 yang bersangkutan, kuping gue sumpel dengan gemilang.. gue inget banget kejadiannya itu pagi2 pas gue lagi menuju ke kantor, ditengah gemerlap sinar mentari pagi dan deruman angkot ... tiba2 gue tersentak... INI!! INI DIA MUSIK YANG GUE CARI-CARI SELAMA INI!!! INI DIA MUSIK YANG BISA MENYELAMATKAN GUE DARI LEMBAH K-POP DAN MULAI MELAJU LAGI KE RANAH LAGU-LAGU JEPANG!!!

Eyatapi pas itu gue masih ga tau sih itu lagunya siapa, sampe akhirnya gue intip mp3 player gw yg menyatakan satu nama.. SECRET 7 LINE.. and it's an instant love!

Ya akhirnya itu langkah awal gue untuk mulai mendengarkan lagu2 pop-punk, melodic punk dan temen2nya yang asalnya dari Jepang. Langkah gue akhirnya mantap untuk melangkah meninggalkan si lembah k-pop... dadah dedek2 boiben dan dedek2 hiphopers serta mbak2 r&b k-pop.. dadah2 juga sama lagu2 jepang yg saat itu rutin gw denger, macem lagunya K, Daichi Miura dan something pop-ish laennya yg jujur gw kok ngerasa agak malu punya histori macem gitu :v  *diarak kampung sama penggemar lagu2 pop-ish

Singkat cerita, akhirnya gue jadi fans Secret 7 Line.. akhirnya gue jadi kenal sama om2 ini


Dia ini orang yang beberapa kali iseng ngebales twit gue pake akun Secret 7 Line, dan setelah gue selikidi dengan talent stalker gue.. akhirnya gue paham kalo om yang satu ini ternyata.. pemilik labelnya Secret 7 Line. Kick-san... *melintir..

Gue sendiri sayangnya ga pernah sempet ketemuan sama Secret 7 Line secara pribadi, walau temenan sama mereka semua di fb (ya lantas?).

Tapi seenggaknya, saya si fans jelata ini akhirnya dimodalin dua album Secret 7 Line secara legal keluaran Kick Rock Music dengan bahagia..



A photo posted by Ria (@dare.darou) on
Dan somehow sejak itu, gue selalu beli album-single ori mereka. Ya pokoknya entah kenapa tiap mereka rilis CD, ada aja temen gue yang ke Jepang.

Sampai akhirnya pertengahan Agustus lalu, ada satu temen gue yang orang Jepang dan mau datang ke Jakarta, gue nitip lah single terakhir mereka.. YOUR SONG.

Tepat tanggal 30 Agustus gue dikirimin foto ini sama temen gue itu


 Dia bilang, "Yay Ria-san, ketemu CD-nya!" dan gue sepanjang hari entah kenapa mengalami suatu kebahagiaan yang gue sendiri cukup heran kenapa gue bisa seseneng itu. Biasanya kalo temen gue beliin CD buat gue, ya udah sik.. deg2annya ya pas CD-nya udah ditangan. Tapi hari itu beda.

Sampe akhirnya tiba tanggal 31 Agustus, gue lagi dikantor, walau ga gitu giat bekerja, tapi gue tetep eksis ngecek sosmed. Sampe akhirnya gue tiba2 ngeliat postingan dari Kick Rock Music yang entah kenapa menarik hati gue..

Mohon pengertiannya, saya ini buta aksara Jepang, paham bahasa Jepang pun nggak, jadi nggak tau kenapa tiba2 gue tertarik buat translate satu entry Kick Rock Music yang ada tulisan 'SECRET 7 LINE' gede2...

Begitu gue kelar baca translate-an, gw langsung lebay... 

Saat itu gue cuma paham kalo ada kecelakaan, Ryo sama Takeshi cedera ringan, sementara Shinji.. jujur gue ga tau pasti apa yang terjadi sama Shinji, tp gue sama sekali ga nyangka kalo itu kabar buruk. Gue cuma ngira Shinji cedera yang paling parah. Sampe akhirnya beberapa belas menit kemudian gw dengan tololnya ngambil kesimpulan kalo Shinji sebenernya baek2 aja..

Tapi kelegaan sesaat gue buyar, pas gue ngeliat ada twit dari Gekirock.. yang begitu gue translate, menyatakan kalo Shinji.. meninggal dunia.

Tau kan efek2 di film dimana dunia tiba2 berenti ga bergerak? pernah baca kan kalimat macem ini di buku2 roman picisan?? GUE SAAT ITU BENER2 NGALAMIN LANGSUNG .. gue baru tau apa yang dinamakan waktu berhenti!

FYI, Shinji bukan anggota favorit gue di S7L. Gue sukanya Ryo. Tapi sebagai fans teladan, sudah pasti saya sering menghina2 dodol tiga orang penghuni S7L, karena ya kelakuan mereka emang sering dodol.

Shinji itu sering gue sebut as Shinji Sihombing, karena tarikan wajah dia yang lebih mirip orang Batak. Dan udah beberapa bulan terakhir, entah kenapa Takeshi semacem punya hobi buat ngambilin foto2 Shinji pas lagi tidur.



Dulu tiap gue nemuin foto Shinji lagi tidur, gue selalu ketawa2 dan 'protes' bilang.. "Ini gue perlu bikin folder khusus Shinji tidur apa gimana??" karena gw emang seringkali ngambilin foto2 aib para idola gue sebagai harta karun.

Sepanjang hari Senin itu gue bolak balik harus ngapus air mata, berusaha sok cool padahal lagi dikantor. Baru kali ini... catet ya.. baru kali ini gue nangis lama di publik.. di depan umum! Ya walau bukan nangis kejer.. tp gue ini tergabung dalam gerakan anti nangis didepan publik!

Oh, dan karena gue temenan sama Shinji di facebook.. dan kebetulan ulang tahun kita cuma selisih satu hari, tumben2an tahun ini dia ngucapin selamat ulang tahun buat gue..



ya.. simple banget, karena menurut om kik bahasa inggris anak2 S7L itu ugly, jadi ya gue mah udah seneng banget diucapin kayak begini.

Siapa yang sangka, tahun depan gue ga bisa ngucapin ulang tahun lagi ke Shinji?

Gue ngikutin semua proses gombrang gambrengnya Shinji, dari tanggal 31 Agustus sampe 3 atau 4 September *lupa tepatnya kapan pemakaman Shinji, karena dibagi dua ada yang buat keluarga, ada yang buat umum.. tapi seenggaknya gue bisa dapet gambar ini.


Hati gue anget ngeliat Takeshi sama Ryo malah keliatan santai dan ketawa2 di pemakaman Shinji. Karena emang selalu disebut untuk ngelepas Shinji dengan kegembiraan.

Tapi tetep aja, diminggu2 awal.. gue selalu bertanya2 kenapa ini harus kejadian sama ben yang gue sayang banget? S7L ini udah bolak balik bikin semangat hidup gue yang udah depresi jadi balik semangat lagi.. cheesy, tp ini kenyataan.

Gue ga tau jalan terbaik apa untuk S7L, udah pasti ga mungkin ngegantiin Shinji karena suaranya khas, tapi gue juga amat sangat ga mau keilangan S7L.

Gimana ya, sejauh pengamatan gue, Secret 7 Line ini termasuk ben kesayangan si om Kik, gue selalu mikir kalo si Om Kik yang cinta Blink 182 menggantungkan semangat dia di S7L dan sebagai kepuasan pribadi dia.

Hidup gue ga akan tenang sebelum gue tau apa yang akan terjadi sama Secret 7 Line.

Semua jadwal show dibatalkan.. tapi untungnya semua temen2 band S7L yang juga ngerasa terpukul sama meninggalnya Shinji selalu ngajak Ryo/Takeshi untuk ikut manggung bareng.

Macem acara kemaren, acaranya HEY-SMITH .. harusnya ada Secret 7 Line, tapi akhirnya Ryo sama Takeshi diajak satu panggung sama kk Igari Shuhei..


Terlebih lagi, sejak Shinji ga ada.. kakaknya Shinji yang namanya Nobuaki dan aslinya berprofesi sebagai tukang kayu, kyknya ngerasa dia punya tanggung jawab untuk ngisi posisi kosong Shinji.


Munculnya Nobuaki buat gue bikin hati anget, jadi ga begitu kehilangan Shinji.. walau tetep Shinji tak tergantikan.

Dan semalem gue baru ngerasa kangen yang amat dahsyat sama Secret 7 Line, biasanya tiap hari ada aja foto salah satu dari mereka yg muncul. Tapi sekarang, cuma Takeshi yang lumayan hilir mudik, sementara Ryo masih ga mau untuk banyak2 ngomong di medsos.

Kehilangan, kangen..

Dan sepertinya alam semesta trolling hidup gue.

Setelah tanggal 30 Agustus gue dibeliin CD karya terakhir Shinji. (kecelakaannya terjadi tanggal 30 Agustus juga, tapi berita tersebar tanggal 31 siang).

Akhirnya gue nerima CD gue tanggal 23 September.

Tanggal 23 September itu HARUSNYA jadi tur pertama untuk single mereka ini...





Pupus udah mimpi gue untuk bisa nonton Secret 7 Line :(

Hidup gue ga akan lengkap sampai gue tau nasib Secret 7 Line dimasa yang akan datang..

Monday, April 20, 2015

Darth Maul collection

well.. since I don't have pretty much things to do right now, let me tried to resume my collection of Darth Maul. I don't have much since I start telling myself to be Darth Maul collector, but here we go..

My very first Darth Maul collection, which I bought quite cheap .. plus discount


My second one, which more expensive than my first collection, lol


Monopoly Star Wars, which I never played. And buy this just because there's Darth Maul XD
it's a gift from a friend of mine who went to Houston ^_^

Darth Maul Bobble Head, the only collection that I put in and out of the box

Darth Maul Lego Key Chains, a gift from my friend after his trip to Hong Kong ^_^

Darth Maul Chopstick. Been looking for this in ages. Finally found it at one shop at Odaiba, Japan

A friend of mine told me about these two been sold at Jakarta, I frantically said yes before knowing the prices XD



One of my fav collection, someone actually offered me to buy his collection

T-shirts!!! I need more Darth maul T-shirt


this tumbler cap just so big!!!!

another fav collection, it's DARTH MAUL BACKPACK!!

And this! I almost in tears when a friend of mine send this as a gift!! DARTH MAUL HOT WHEELS

Sunday, December 28, 2014

2014 - 2015

Let's be honest, this year is not my favorite year. Some bad things such as losing my favorite job happen and kinda broke my heart. I didn't know I can have a broken heart just because losing a job XD.. then goes to some kind of deep depression .. and back rising up. Well you know, this year just like the other normal people life XD.

BUT!!!

Other great things happen.. and here are little preview what happen with me in 2014 :

Me .. become Youtubers fans :

While I'm being sick back in March and have to spend the day at home unable to go anywhere for a week. I spent my time watching youtube. And since I set my 'country' as Japan. I stumbled into some popular Japanese youtubers, they are Hikakin, Seikin, Hajime Syacho, Leon Channel and some other fun channel.

I talked about Hikakin soo much, I made some of my friend finally recognize him .. thanks to me XDD

Me .. fall in love with this guy :

It all start when I said 'Happy New Year' and he said something like, to not forget our meeting before. Since then I can't stop thinking of him.. he even kinda saved me from my deep depression.

Saturday, November 08, 2014

My Fave Halloween looks from some band members [10 pics]

Well, I don't celebrate Halloween here in Jakarta, but I'm strolling through social media and found some of band members that 'I know' wearing costume, on 31st of October or before.. these are my fave looks ^_^ [which picture I stole from many of their own account.. m(_ _)m]

Man With A Mission

Total Fat

Her Name In Blood [Ikepy]

Monday, May 26, 2014

Silhouette From The Skylit - Unsheathed MV



Yesterday there was an announcement that SFTS new MV will be up at 9 PM Japan time.. This song are from their 2nd full album The Reflection which will be released on 2nd July 2014.

Some weeks ago I already know that SFTS are shooting their new MV.


But honestly, I'm not really excited to see this new MV -which called Unsheathed btw-. Just say I don't really like their previous MV 'Never Save You'


Before we talked about their latest MV, let me tell you my opinion about this MV. I really love the song, I do. But to be honest, the models in this clip just kinda freak me out XDD -bro, gak semua bule itu keren, beneran deh- .. Just say, this clip will be much better if only contain SFTS members hahaha.

Second.. I think I still need some adjustment to see TetsuroW's yellow hair XD .. please understand, I already know TetsuroW since he still have his beautiful long black hair


 I really adore his hair until this minute (ཀ ∀ ཀ) so when he finally cut his hair I already feel sad and learn to accept his hair, but when he dyed it into YELLOW HAIR... I JUST.. ( ╥﹏╥) .. you just gone too far this time!!!!! XD

Just say I sit in the corner crying over TetsuroW hair hahahaha.. yeah, I'm that lame -_-

So yeah, Never Save You was not my favorite MV, sorry.. and makes me a little bit skeptical about this following MV.

* please click read more for the new MV*

Sunday, March 09, 2014

Fan sign for Iroiro at 90.2 Trax FM Semarang

Some times ago a friend of mine, one of Iroiro Trax FM Semarang DJ (a Japanese music program) talked to me. He told me that if possible to have fan sign from some Japanese Indies bands that I know.

Well, some of the band songs that I know were played at this iroiro, if it's been played for the first time they will have their own time spot called 'Iroiro spotlight' where their profile been introduced and also they played one or two of their songs like  this Silhouette From The Skylit - Parallel Lines for example.


So, I agree to help him. Then I'm asking the favor to make the fan sign from some bands, which all of them gradually agree, which really touch me ^^.. 

And since I didn't know too many bands, these all I can have. And I really really really appreciate this. Thank you so much guys! my appreciation can't be enough said by mere words

Silhouette From The Skylit

Nothing To Declare

Leoffel

Start of the Day

St. Clair

ElupiA
Thank you so much Silhouette From The Skylit, Nothing To Declare, Loffel, Start Of The Day, St. Clair and ElupiA (click the names to go to their sites)

Monday, January 27, 2014

Septaluck - Silhouette From The Skylit - JAWEYE

So, this week.. these three band been touring together.. and I'm in hype mood.

Why?? WELL OF COURSE! 
Fin-san the vocalist of Septaluck (also UnFinished Monster Machine) ex-STACK44 is my favorite person.. 

While Silhouette From The Skylit is my favorite band 

And JAWEYE .. they stunned me with their show back in 17th July 2013, which makes me want to see them again for sure.

Septaluck - SFTS - JAWEYE

The tour of three end up last night, and everybody looks happy..

l-r Seshirox (SFTS), Kouhei (JAWEYE), Fin (Septaluck)
And look at these three handsome vocalist ^_^ .. which I happen to meet them all back in 17th July 2013.. so yeah, this tour really feels surreal for me actually. Because back at that day, I introduced Seshirox to Fin-san. And I was asking SeshiroX to tell Kouhei-san that I was there and wants to talk to him ^_^.



And I feel grateful because both Septaluck and Silhouette From The Skylit are spazzing me with a lot of their pictures so even tho I'm not there, but I could feel the awesomeness around them ^_^

This all start at Takamatsu, when Silhouette From The Skylit having lunch and accidentally Septaluck also choose the very same restaurant for their lunch.. so, this is their very first encounter as a band ^_^ (and yes.. I almost jumping around when I know this XD)

Septaluck and Silhouette From The Skylit

Before this happen, one or two days before, TetsuroW (SFTS bassist) recognize Chu (Septaluck bassist) as ex-DDT's bassist.. I don't know what exactly happen, but it got something to do with Chu's old band with TetsuroW's old band which called Zoy.