WESTLIFE FAREWELL TOUR

WESTLIFE FAREWELL TOUR

8:26:00 PM Komentar

Throwing back of your childhood memories doesn’t mean you’re being kind of confusion, and this is what I’m carrying out right now, trying to bring back my childhood memories on my mind. For me, it is like watching the movie. There will be an invisible monitor in front of you that would show you up scene by scene of these memories. Sometimes it makes you laugh, but sometimes, opposite. But, just enjoying the show!

Couple days ago, when I got problem with my eyes, I couldn’t sleep though late night already -insomnia- I decided to watched TV, instead. I don’t know what makes me eventually decided for doing such thing I had never experienced before when I got problem with eyes. It was actually in Christmas eve for the Christians, -but I wasn’t celebrating Christmas-. Some private TV channel presented their best programs, but only one program I had captivated by, it shows reruns of WESTLIFE FAREWELL TOUR concert. Although the real concert has been actually done in 2012 and I watched it out already on youtube, but I still have the same feeling while watching on TV, it’s sad. 

That’s the reason why I am turning my mind back to my childhood memories. Couldn’t be denied, I bravely say that I am growing older concurrently with increasing of WESTLIFE’s career, I am grew up by their songs, I mean, I know WESTLIFE since I was a child, one of their songs “I have a dream” used to be the first English-song that I knew in my life, and I even knew it before I knew “are you sleeping – lullaby” that was usually become the first English-song known by other child. It’s about 13 years ago. I was still 3^th grade in elementary school at the time. My elder sister love WESTLIFE as well, she bought WESTLIFE album cassette and she always listened to it all the time, and it affects me indirectly, I knew the whole songs on that album very well, but I just sang by the sounds, I mean I didn’t know exactly any detail lyric of each songs –even if I knew it I wouldn’t understand and didn’t know its meaning– I spelled what they spelled, that’s it. But, as we know that time flies so fuckin fast, 13 years have passed unnoticeably, I am 21 years by now but I still love what I used to love when I was child, I still love WESTLIFE so much, for sure!, henceforward, no changes, I even have their entire albums on my laptop. But unfortunately, worst thing is facing that they have been splitting up, there’s no more WESTLIFE. WESTLIFE is now just a name, a legend name that will always be remembered by all of people.

For those who don’t know WESTLIFE, here I am telling you a little story of them. Let’s break it down!

The story begins a long time ago (well, not quite, actually) in a town named Sligo in the West of Ireland. Three guys named Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan had performed in the school musical Grease together, and after their success on stage, had decided to form a band, called 6 as 1, and later changing their name to IOYOU. The group released a single "Together Girl Forever" in Ireland, and after limited success, Shane's mother, Mae, contacted the manager of Boyzone, Louis Walsh, to try and persuade him to take a look at the guys and to possibly sign them up. Although Louis was impressed he felt he didn't have the time to manage yet another band. But, luckily for them, he contacted Ronan Keating of Boyzone, who agreed to co-manage the new band with Louis. And so 'Rolo Management' was formed.

Mark, Kian, and Shane in I.O.YOU also Derek, Graham and Michael

WESTLIFE with Louis Walsh

The lineup of IOYOU was changed - 3 members (Derek, Graham and Michael) being asked to leave, and auditions were then held in Dublin to find two new members for the group. Nicky Byrne and Bryan McFadden were eventually chosen, and WESTLIFE were born! 

The group (who were originally known as Westside - their name having been changed by Ronan who felt that I.O.YOU was too boyband-esque) first supported the Backstreet Boys in Dublin, and then toured the UK and Ireland with Boyzone in November 1998. They stunned audiences on the Smash Hits Tour around the UK, winning "Best New Tour Act" at the Smash Hits Awards in November 1998.

However, the group was obliged to change their name from WESTSIDE to WESTLIFE early in 1999 when it was discovered that a number of existing bands shared the same name. Undeterred, WESTLIFE went on to release their first single “Swear it again” in April 1999 which went straight to the top of the British and Irish charts, becoming the biggest-selling debut single ever in Ireland.

WESTLIFE's eagerly-awaited debut album was released in the UK in November 1999, with double A-side single “I Have a dream” and “Seasons in the sun” becoming the UK Christmas number one of 1999. WESTLIFE won Record of the Year for “Flying without Wings” in 1999 and “My Love” in the following year.

Winning numerous awards left right and center, it is clear that WESTLIFE have achieved much acclaim and enjoyed a lot of success. Already in their brief career WESTLIFE have broken records as fast as they have set them - their second album, “Coast To Coast” went triple platinum in Ireland after only one day of release, and their seventh single release, “My Love”, gave them a place in chart history as they became the only band in UK chart history to have their first seven singles debut at number one.

March 2004 saw a new chapter begin for the group as Bryan McFadden announced his departure from the band, citing his desire to spend more time with his young family. Rumours suggested that this might be the beginning of the end for the group, however WESTLIFE have set the critics wrong once again.

WESTLIFE - now afour-piece in the tradition of all great pop acts -remain Ireland's most well-known and biggest selling pop export and undoubtedly one of the world's biggest pop groups. As of October 2007, WESTLIFE have released eight albums, and have achieved a massive fourteen number ones in the UK - the third-highest such total in UK history, behind Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and tied with Cliff Richard.

With soulful harmonies, angelic voices, drop-dead good looks, and the management of pop svengali Louis Walsh behind them, their much-anticipated world tour in 2008 means that WESTLIFE look set to enjoy chart success for many years to come!

In 2012, WESTLIFE announced that they will be splitting up following their last summer tour. They said “After 14 years, 26 top ten hits including 14 numbers one singles, 11 top 5 albums, 7 of which hit the top spot and have collectively sold over 44 million copies around the world, 10 sell-out tours and countless memories that we will forever cherish, we today announce our plan to go our separate ways after a greatest hits collection this Christmas and a farewell tour. The decision is entirely amicable and after spending all of our adult life together so far, we want to have a well-earned break and look at new ventures”. 

I searched for this story from the internet. It’s almost 2 years since their separating, each personnel have their own ways now. Hence, I don’t know any update of what they do after splitting, except Shane Filan, all I know is he’s continuing his solo music career, several months ago he came to Indonesia for carrying out his concert, but unlucky I am, I couldn’t attend his concert. 

The first Album Cassette my sister bought

For me, WESTLIFE is never die, WESTLIFE depicts of my childhood. By remembering WESTLIFE means remembering my childhood memories.  ARF

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Which World I live in?

Which World I live in?

4:25:00 PM Komentar

Well, it’s just like usual, I don’t know what to say and I don’t know where to start, but I’ll try, and always try

First of all, let’s name this “a story of my life”, or just say it “confusing life” -yeah that’s the correct one-. You might be wondering why the hell I always talking about life, over and over again? Yeah, I actually wondering as well, but it’s probably just because I still couldn’t figure out why I feel like “ NOT SATISFIED” with my own life up until this moment. I don’t know why, But please notice, it doesn’t meant I am not a grateful person, it just hmm,, yeah,, aaa,, *I can’t explain for more, it’s tough, could you understand me?  I’m lacking of words. Just Understand!! 

It feels like, I have so many world to live in, which are my real world, my pretend world, my illusion world, my insecure world, and what else? Sooo maannyy. I could be very happy in my real world, live my life like other normal people, laughing with  friends, gossiping, hanging out, yeah like other normal people does, I am totally happy. But what’s going on with my other worlds? In my pretend world I seems like a silly-stupid-fool person who always pretending to be others, I put smile on my face like an angle but in my heart I put the otherwise like a devil, and basically, that’s the hardest one for me to do. In my illusion world, hmm,, nothing special in this world, almost half of people across the globe have their illusion world. It’s easy to join in, all you need is just the internet and social media. So, you’re about to have your illusion world directly. I am being a part of this world just want to see what happened in other people’s worlds (update), that’s it. If there’s any problem popping up, who give the fuck? it’s not real, it just illusion, isn’t it? (Actually I don’t need to tell you how to have an illusion world, you know already, right? Everybody knows it). And how about my insecure world? This is one of the worst. In this world, I feel like a death man, no hope, hopeless, useless, confusing and complaining in whole time, no spirit, no passion, no ambition, no goal, no sedateness, and no future. And worst of the worst is I am often being in this world. It’s really freaking me out all the time. In a day, I spend 5 hours in my real time, 5 hours in my pretend world, 6 hours in my illusion world, and for the rest I spend about 8 in my insecure world. How bad it is

to be continued....

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Gue bukan Gue

Gue bukan Gue

9:51:00 AM Komentar

Hadeh -,- kayaknya udah lama banget gue gak ngalay dan gak ngeksis di blog. ~it feels like a century, and even more~ Saking lamanya, blog gue udah lumutan, tools-tools di blog gue udah banyak debunya, Home gue udah kaya kapal pecah. Tapi yasudahlah nggak perlu dibahas, toh di dunia nyata kamar gue, hari-hari gue, bahkan hati gue juga kaya gitu kok –udah lumutuan, udah kaya kapal pecah- Xoxo :D  *sedih amat T,T

Nah, sekarang yang mau gue bahas dan yang mau gue curahin di blog ini adalah tentang gue yang dulu, sama gue yang sekarang (FYI, ini perbandingannya saat gue di semester 1,2, dan 3 sama gue yang di semester 4, dan 5). Beda nya apa sih? Nama lo tetep Arif kan? kelamin lo tetep laki-laki kan? lo kuliah tetep di IPB kan? Asal lo dari Sumanik kan? Lo tetep anak laki satu-satu nya di keluarga lo kan?. Iyaa bener, kalo yang itu nggak berubah SAMA SEKALI!!!. Tapi *ada tapinya nih* ada beberapa perubahan yang terjadi dan yang gue rasain sejak gue masuk semester 4 sampai sekarang semester 5, dan sampai detik ini –kalo dalam grammer bahasa inggris, itu namanya “present perfect continuous tense”, kejadian yang sudah terjadi sejak (titiktitik) sampai sekarang dan masih ada efek nya. Jadi kalo kejadian yang gue alamin sekarang di translate in ke bahasa inggris jadinya seperti ini “I’ve been changing since I was in the beginning of the 4^th semester and up until right now”-. 

Sebener nya gue sendiri pun juga bingung, kenapa gue berubah, kenapa gue nggak sama kaya gue yang dulu, kenapa GUE BUKAN GUE (???). Satu-satu nya alesan yang gue temuin, yaa mungkin gara-gara efek dari “semester”, kenapa begitu? Karna setiap semester pasti kita dapet mata kuliah yang beda, it’s mean tingkat kesulitan setiap mata kuliah itu beda-beda juga, dan dosen pengajar nya pun beda-beda, and it’s mean lagi, tugas nya pun beda-beda, dan yang terakhir itu berarti kesibukan tiap semester beda-beda. Menurut gue semester sama kesibukan itu berbanding lurus, semakin tinggi semesternya semakin tinggi juga tingkat kesibukannya. *tapi ngga tau bener apa ngga juga sih, soalnya gue belom ngerasain hidup di semester 6, 7, dan 8. Well, let’s see!!!

Opps, tapi gue belom ngasih tau apa aja perubahan yang gue alamin. Okay, let’s break it down *ini dilihat dari beberapa segi* --->

1.     Segi IBADAH

Perubahan mendasar yang gue alamin yaitu dari segi Ibadah, gue ngerasa peningkatan ibadah gue di semester ini menurun (maksudnya apa sih? Udah ningkat, nurun lg, ngaco!!). Yaa maksudnya, di semester ini ibadah gue menurun, seperti : dulu gue yang rajin sholat, sekarang sholat banyak bolong nya. Dulu gue yang abis sholat maghrib baca qur’an, sekarang jarang bet. Bahkan yang lebih parah sense of belonging gue berkurang, dan awareness gue akan betapa butuhnya dan pentingnya gue mengahadap Allah SWT juga berkurang. Ini yang paling gue takutin sebenernya, it’s really freak me out, dude. dunia yang udah semakin panas, tanda-tanda kiamat udah mulai muncul tapi gue malah makin jauh dari Allah gara-gara kesibukan semester dan hal-hal lain. Tapi kalau dipikir-pikir itu tergantung gue nya sih, beberapa temen gue di semester ini kuliahnya lancar ibadahnya juga lancar, well, berarti gue nya yang belom bener. Gue yang mau berubah ke arah yang baik, otherwise ke arah yang buruk, itu tergantung gue. Okesip     

2.    Segi KEBIASAAN

Perubahan yang kedua yang gue rasain itu perubahan kebiasaan gue. Contohnya, yaa ini, gue yang dulu sering banget nyampah di blog, sejak semester 4 dan 5 ini, buka blog pun gue jarang, artinya gue jarang nulis, gue jarang punya waktu untuk ngungkapin isi otak gue kebentuk tulisan. Dan juga, sejak SMA gue suka baca novel, apalagi novel-novel magic-magic, Harry Potter 1-7, twilight, new moon, eclipse, breaking dawn, dan novel-novel motivasi lainya, negeri 5 menara, dan blah blah blah. TAPI, lagi-lagi sejak gue di semester 4 dan 5 gue ngga punya waktu sedetikpun untuk baca novel, dan beberapa minggu yang lalu gue dipinjemin novel trilogy “the Bartimaeus”, buku ke-1 pun sampai hari ini belom gue tamatin, gue baru baca 60 halaman doang. Segitu parahnya -,-. Dan lagi-lagi-lagi-lagi it’s just because kesibukan di semester ini.

3.     Segi SEMANGAT DAN IMPIAN

Perubahan terakhir yang gue rasain yaitu dari segi SEMANGAT DAN IMPIAN gue. Semangat gue memudar, dan gue juga ngga ada ambisi dan passion lagi untuk mengejar impian gue (impian disini maksudnya impian yang mau gue capai saat kuliah, bukan impian untuk masa depan gue). Salah satu contoh memudarnya semangat gue yaitu Semangat ber-Organisasi. Dulu gue yakin banget dengan ikut nya gue dalam suatu organisasi I’ll get ton thousands of experiences that will be able to lead me to the success future. Tapi sekarang semangat gue itu fades away, ilang ntah kemana :3, dan juga semangat gue untuk ngelakuin hal-hal yang gue suka juga ilang L

Impian gue yang ingin gue capai pas kuliah adalah Keluar Negri (go abroad), banyak yang bilang kesempatan emas buat keluar negri itu ya pas kuliah. Karena beasiswa-beasiswa yang menawaran untuk keluar negri banyak ditawarkan di jenjang perkuliahan. Tapi gue punya pengecualian juga, gue ngga mau keluar negri nya ke ASIA, nggak tau kenapa gue ngga minat aj, gue minatnya ke Eropa *terserah ke Negara apa* dan ke Amerika. hehe (sok sok an, ke Negara tetangga aja lo belom pernah, udah sok sok an ke Eropa dan Amerika). Sayangnya, ambisi gue masih kurang buat ngecapai itu semua, dan sekarang gue merasa udah telat banget untuk mencapainya, sekarang udah semester 5 dan sebentar lagi gue sibuk PL dan udah mulai mikirin skripsi juga (yowes, siap-siap kecewa aja impian lo ngga kecapai rif T,T)

Nah, tiga segi perubahan itulah yang gue rasain sejak semester 4 sampai sekarang semester 5. Kalau dipikir-pikir mungkin itu ada benernya juga, perubahan yang gue alamin ini wajar, udah saat nya gue fokus kuliah, tapiii, gue ngga siap aja sama perubahan yang gue rasain ini, itu doang “GUE belom SIAP”, dan gue merasa GUE BUKAN GUE dengan perubahan ini. Yausadahlah, apapun itu gue harus terima,  intinya perubahan itu pasti akan terjadi, ngga mungkin lo bakalan gitu-gitu aja, dan semakin tinggi SEMESTER kuliah lo, semakin tinggi juga tingkat KESIBUKAN lo. So, lo harus siap!!!

Mungkin ini doang coretan sampah yang bisa gue curahin ke blog ini, terlalu panjang juga ngga enak. Semoga lo guys, yang ngga sengaja nyasar ke blog gue ini bisa ngambil hikmahnya. Yaudah itu aja, makasih JJJJJJ

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