I know it is a bit too late to write this post already but I’d rather really create this one for remembrance’s sake. I forget things easily with all those school stuff.

So last Thursday, two friends and I, after our Bioinformatics class ended at 4pm, “rushed” to SM Cebu for the Boyce Avenue Concert. Don’t get us wrong. One of them rarely know Boyce Avenue and one doesn’t know them at all. We just have some complications with other people that’s why we’re rushing. Anyways, we reached SM Cebu’s North Atrium (Northwing) within 30 minutes and got to be in the front part of the standing group. There’s a seated group where you have to buy a CD just to get in. Well I don’t care about the CD. What do you think is Limewire’s use? And so the standing agony begins and lasted for almost two hours. That’s when Boyce Avenue came out to rock the crowd.

Surprisingly, people (most of which are students/teens) were so excited, hyped and fidgety with this event. Boyce Avenue’s first song, Apologize, brought the spirits up. The rest of the songs were very good and enjoyable. The crowd’s energy was contagious. The concert ended within an hour as I’ve expected except that when people started to clamber out, the band went out again and announced that there’ll be two more songs. This is because people were yelling ‘one more!’ when they ended. I didn’t get the chance to listen to the last two songs. We were rushing home as we’ve got a long essay exam the day after (which eventually was postponed).

So how do I feel after the concert? I felt deaf. That was my first concert of an international band. It was quite memorable. First times, you know. And I knew Boyce Avenue long time ago when Phoebe gave me a link to their YouTube video. I like their songs, revivals and originals altogether. That is why I did not hesitate to go this concert. Hell yeah.

Here is a picture taken before the concert. The picture is owned by Sinjin, a Plurkmate. I have a video on my cellphone but it is of the poorest of poor quality, so never mind. After the jump are two related sharings.

Anyways, there’s one more thing very interesting that happened to us (Darlene, Anne and I) while watching the concert. There’s the small but a bit chubby girl in black together with her companions bugging us from 4:30pm until the concert ended. She first tried to victimize me by touching my back, my belt, my shoulder, by leaning on my shoulder. And I heard that she’s trying to bug me so I would leave and they’d get my place. I did not budge. Insensitivity to strangers rocks! So they transferred their energies to Darlene. And Darlene is smaller than the girl so she scolded her many times. Apparently, the girl’s head is harder than a coconut’s. It’s like we’re playing tug-of-war without the ropes and instead of pulling is pushing. One strand of Darlene’s hair was also plucked. When we were about to leave, Darlene said to us, “Mga wa siguro’y grado (Maybe they are not educated)“. Maybe she heard, she hit Darlene on the back part. I was pushed when I was walking. I did not turn back. I could have shot that girl with my imaginary gun.

Another thing is that this blog received a traffic boost the days prior to the concert for the keywords “Boyce Avenue Cebu Concert SM”. And I am happy.

I hope another free concert of an international band will be sponsored by SM again. I’d love to go and experience a new adventure again.