BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...
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365 ways to piss off your bule lover/husband…

1. eat nasi padang using your fingers 

2. piss on the bathroom floor rather than into the toilet closet 

3. Have the aircon on all the bloody time 

4. keep durian in the fridge 

5. drive while texting - no problem lah 

6. invite your sister and her three wild kids over on Saturday evening 

7. leave the lights on all night long in the other rooms (to keep away the ghosts?) 

8. insist that smoking is good for you (or at least better for you than alcohol) - cos that’s what the guy at the local house of worship said and he must be right, naturally, God bless him 

 9. nag him cos the roof leaks (all roofs in Indonesia leak!) 

10. sex in carTell him sex in the kitchen is totally “out of the question” but initiate proceedings while you’re parked roadside at Ancol in a cramped Honda Jazz. 


11. refuse to go swimming during the day – it will turn you “black” 

12. refuse to park a 5 minute walk from the entrance to the mall, and instead spend the next 30 minutes trying to look for a closer parking spot 

13. buy him bright colored business shirts and expect him to wear them 

14. give him tea without milk 

15. insist that he “makes a donation” although he claims it’s another one of those typical bloody RT scams 

16. insist that he can eat his steak with a spoon and fork 

17. Give him a lie-in and wake him up at 5.30am. On a Saturday. 

18. Chuck out the newly bought bloody expensive stilton cos it wiffs a lot and you don’t want a bacterial orgy taking place in your refrigerator thank you very much (note #4 for the hypocrisy of this) 


19. expect him to be “best of mates” with your gay pal at the fitness center who is more camp than, er, David 

 20. walk around the house naked but tell him he’s a weirdo if he does the same thing too. 

 21. tell him Pink Floyd et al. are complete SHIT. 

 22. spray Baygon all over the bloody place to get rid of roaches. 

 23. make him sandwiches using Blue Band margarine 

 24. use the washing machine’s spinner function even though the wet clothes would drip dry under the scorching tropical sun in five minutes flat 

 25. okay, so I’m not up to 365 yet, but you get my drift…

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  1. Unknown8 March 2011 at 12:59

    Ah that all looks like my future..... can't wait

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  2. Anonymous8 March 2011 at 13:01

    Man! This is so true that I wonder if we didn't marry the same woman!?

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  3. Anonymous17 March 2011 at 13:52

    i don't know whether to feel sorry for you or the indonesian woman who serves as your inspiration. i met a bule guy who didn't hate the idea of eating padang food with hands, he on the contrary loved it!

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  4. Tempo Dulu18 March 2011 at 22:57

    Anon - why don't you comment using a pseudonym? Anonymous is so, er, anonymous.

    As for nasi padang, it's just a bit too messy to be eaten with hands in my opinion!

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  5. Anonymous21 March 2011 at 16:00

    well, at least not as messy as bakso, haha...

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  6. dewi5 April 2011 at 14:05

    LOL! A very funny tutorial-based-on-experience, eh?
    just blogwalking, but i can't leave your blog without saying a thing. :D

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  7. rima fauzi27 September 2011 at 15:10

    All points I can do except #21. Nobody trashes Pink Floyd!

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