Hi, it was my first time going to
Jak Japan Matsuri. I went there with one of my good college friend, Ika. She works
in Lingga, Riau Archipelago, but she has been in Jakarta to comply diklat prajab for
weeks. It was about 5pm, I waited for her while watching Tulus performance outside
of the gate (finally, I made it! Tulus!!!!).
Thank God, the stage was big and close enough from where I stood waiting for Ika
who got the another wrong gate. Gomennasai, Ika, I didn’t know there’re two
gates.
It was great to see her again after
about six months. We greeted each other, hugged, then went in to the venue. Luckily,
we could hear Tulus last song in front of the main stage yey. After that, we walked
around, enjoyed the parade, played games in many booths but we lose all of it,
wore yukata in Japan National Tourism booth (economically it's free ahaha). And the
most exciting thing we did was we did tie dye art on a piece of fabric in
Wewocraft booth. I always wanna buy some tie dye thing and yesterday I did my
own tie dye! Out of my expectation, my tie dye thing was not really good. It’s
difficult to fold symmetrically and its color was awkward. But it’s ok no one’s
good at their first try, kemon.
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| wearing Yukata for freeee |
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| my tie dye art my expectation is like...-check on wewo's IG- |
Guess who we met along the event! We met Mrs.
Yenny Wahid visiting Wewo booth when we did coloring our thing. We didn’t take
any photo with her. And I also met Azka in her Japan company booth before. She told
me about this event held on this Saturday-Sunday. Arigattou Azka-chan, finally I
made my day with Ika here, not to the mall (again).
After visiting all booths, we ate
takoyaki and okonomiyaki. We sit on the paving because there’s no chair to
enjoy the meals. Suddenly, rain fell. We moved to take a shelter while waiting
last performance, JKT48! We’re not fans, anyway. It’s strange because there’s
no any sound from main stage until the event was closed. And still raining. I thought
they canceled the performance because of raining. So, we went home by commuter
train. We said goodbye in St. Tebet where I got down. It was a great day meeting
Ika and sharing our stories about life, love, work. See ya, Ika!