the eraserheads reunion concert pushed through on august 30, 8pm. but i didnt expect i would go there. why? because first, i didnt have a ticket. second, i didnt really have the time to go see the concert. or so i thought.
saturday morning of august 30, i knew its the long awaited day of august for many eheads fans. at this point, i wasnt even planning of going. although ive blogged a few days earlier that i wanted to go and see the eheads perform together, i also mentioned in that blog entry that i cant go due to the fact i have lots of stuff to do. the OLA class component for saturday afternoon may have been cancelled but my ADR class somehow nullified the class cancellation because of the assigned work that's due after one week. and assigned work that is due after a week really means that it will take a week to finish. so it meant that saturday night is the only time for me to rest. and going to a concert, although enjoyable, isnt really relaxing. so as of saturday morning, i had no plans of going to the eheads reunion concert.
during lunchtime, i texted two of my friends who were celebrating their birthdays. one of them was diana, who replied that i should go see the eheads reunion concert. i replied that i cant, i have lots of stuff to do.
for some reason, after diana's suggestion of "making time" to see the eheads reunion, i entertained the idea of going. so during IPL class (1pm), i asked jump if he has a ticket to the eheads concert. he said he doesnt have one but its possible to just stay outside the concert grounds. that didnt even cross my mind. so he started texting people who could possibly go with us. unfortunately, we're no longer college students who can just drop whatever we are doing to go some place else on such short notice. almost everyone was unavailable to go to the concert. so we decided to cancel our plan to go to the concert around 430 or 5pm.
unfortunately (or fortunately) for me, i told my siblings i was planning to go to the eheads concert even without a ticket. they thought the idea was stupid at first since whats the point of going there without seeing the eheads perform. although i could afford the ticket, i really dont want to spend money for it since i have lots of expenses for this semester (mostly because of OLA). i dont want to run out of funds. so as much as possible i dont want to buy a ticket. had i known the ticket price a week or two weeks before, i could have saved some money or allotted some of my allowance to buy the P1300 ticket (because i dont want the P800 ticket). thats impossible since the ticket price was announced within the week of the reunion concert. anyway, my siblings really wanted to go and they were willing to buy tickets too (so in effect, they just want a driver because i said im not going to buy a ticket or maybe they know i have enough money to buy a ticket and will force me to buy one once were there). so even if i said im no longer going, they tried to convince me to go to the concert by playing eheads songs and by talking about the eheads while telling me from time to time to go to the concert with them. my brother was always checking the music channels whether they were playing music videos of the eheads. and we were able to see a video of "alapaap" in MTV. and then i told them i dont know how to go to Bonifacio Global City. i need a navigator if im going to drive there. my brother has two words for me, "google earth". i said no but eventually, i decided to check anyway. since i reformatted my hard disk last May or June, google earth was no longer installed in our PC, so i used wikimapia. and when i saw that it wasnt that difficult to go to the concert area, i finally said we will go but in case we get lost (because im just relying on wikimapia and ive never driven there), we will head back home and just rent a DVD and eat fast food. they said ok. so off we went to the concert area. it was already 6pm.
we got there around 7pm. we didnt get lost. i guess i still have good navigation skills. and i make use of the Dirk Gently style of navigation. its simply following the car in front of you which appears to know where it is going. i followed a jeepney when i no longer have road signs to follow. when i saw what appeared to be concert lights, i just took the roads which will lead me to it. and then i followed a car which looked like it was going to park somewhere. luckily, it was indeed going to park somewhere and i ended up lining up for a car park. its not very near the concert grounds but its "reasonably near". and it was 7pm already. most likely its hard to park anywhere nearer. anyway, luckily again, when we got the parking ticket, the parking attendant started informing the guard to stop accepting cars since the parking lot is already full. whew! seems like luck is with me again. they accepted three more cars after us. we were able to park the "mystery machine" by 730pm. 30 minutes before showtime.
we then checked the ticket booth. the tickets are now priced at P844 and P1300 plus. there are still a lot of people buying tickets. i told my siblings we should wait and see whether its good to buy a ticket. it was almost 8pm. if we were going to buy a ticket, it might not be practical since first, there's a very long line which means that the concert might start and were still in line and second once we get in, it might be too crowded already. the only way the ticket will be worth it is if staying outside is totally worthless. so we loitered outside for a while. when the concert started, it wasnt that bad. you can hear the eheads perform. you can see the stage effects and the screen. you can see ely buendia but not the other eheads (it was like watching him perform on the opposite side of the sunken garden (educ building) from malcolm building or maybe nearer. thats the bad thing about being outside, you dont have the view of the Eraserheads. at least its not that crowded. there's a crowd outside too but there's space to move. and the crowd outside isnt fun to be with.
so thats how i ended up listening to the eheads reunion concert.
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