An evening with a rainbow

As a Nidjiholic, it was just natural that I was at the front row of their showcase recently in Ruums. Nidji or rainbow in Japanese is one of the many indo bands I dig. With my head still spinning from winning these tixx, I was all set to rock to Breakthru'. A few good buddies tagged along, which made the evening very exciting. As the showcase was sponsored by Channel V and Astro, the emcees for the night was Joey G (gorgeous!) and Nana (from Brreak Astro Ria). We saw Maya Karin as well who did an enclosed interview earlier. Everybody packed in at 745pm. The show only started at about 830pm. The band members look so shy but sweet. Giring came out last, with his trademark scarf and jacket appearance gave an awesome performance. They only rocked 7 songs, a few which were mixed differently, including a fast version of Hapus Aku and a beautiful accoustic version of Bila Aku Jatuh Cinta. For one, Giring's showmanship is one that I have never seen. He sings with his heart, intensely moving his whole body in synch with the meaning of the lyrics. Totally intense. Rama and RunD glanced shyly to the audience, but did an awesome job on their guitar and keyboard. Ariel (he wants it pronounced Arial), looked cute like a schoolboy, played his lead guitarist role with similar intensity but mostly controlling his poise. It was hard, to sing along and to record a video at the same time. So I had to sacrifice one. I chose to rock and sang of course! After they had sang a few, Giring intro the band members, which I think is good..RunD seems to be most comical. As usual, the show ended way to fast. This was not the end of the night. We got hungry, had a hard time deciding where to hang. While debating below the escalator of Ruums, Ariel walked down. We stopped and got pics with him in a sec. Then we decided to walk out to grab a bite. None of us were ready to head home. We chatted, mostly again debating where to go next, as the joint were getting boring. Ok, here starts the story of a stalker (again). We decided to bet our luck, and walk to Concorde, where we know Nidji's staying in. Maybe check out HRC if anything's good. The lounge were loud with some 80's music played by the house band (I think). Real cheesy and doesn't look good. All outta ideas, we walked in the coffee house. Sat and still clueless of what to do, we ordered coffee. Hoping something interesting would happen, true enuff, Giring walked in the cafe! He looked different with his curly hair tied back. He was having the supper buffet, walked pass our table, realize that a few stalkers were there, he looked at us. I said Hi, and he came by to our table. How cool is that?! He started chatting......modestly and very friendlily..heh. And..surprisingly..in awesome American english accent. I SO can relate! So admirable..never knew this! Before, I had to brush up on my Indo vocabs just to make sure the chats with the rockstars were smooth, but this time, it went on naturally. Giring seems to be very open and easygoing. We joked, he joked, and even after we left him to eat and stalked him back for autographs before we leave, he was still all smileys and warm. He was with Warner Music marketing lady, whom surprisingly was cool about us too. Well,we don't know if they were discussing serious business deals, but it seems that our existence didn't distract anything. The cafe was OURS. The few patrons there didn't care about Giring as much as we did. Haha. So after the fruitful chat, we said our goodbyes with heavy feet. Arghh. another idol to love..! Pics are also courtesy of Lyn..thanx banget for partying wif me y'all!

More pics here! (I have to apologise for the poor quality of the vid snippets, I was standing near the speaker..wooh)

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