Taylor Swift! Taylor Swift! Taylor Swift! It's all over my head right now.. Taylor Swift! Taylor Swift! Okay right I shall finish this post first before I get all crazy again. Ow Taylor Swift! Taylor Swift..
Yup I've been a Taylor Swift's fan since secondary school but I would never in my wildest dreams, picture myself seeing her live performance. Although she would be having a concert here in Malaysia but the fact that the tickets to her concert was sold out so quickly diminished all my hopes of attending it. The fact that I would be missing her Red Tour in Malaysia seems to be turning into a reality.. until the day before her concert.
It was a Tuesday and I was in my car taking a breather after my table tennis co-curriculum. Suddenly, a notification popped-out from my phone and it was from the Hotlink Red App regarding the contest to win Taylor Swift's concert tickets. It wasn't my first time seeing this notification and I've been trying my luck winning it for the past few weeks but apparently my claim icon always shows a 0 whenever I clicked in. I was about to ignore it but I told myself 'why not?' and so I clicked in and scrolled down to the bottom. I was expecting to see a 0 again but to my amaze, it shows 4! I quickly pressed the claim button and then there was this question that I would need to answer. It was asking about some awards which Taylor Swift did not received and I really had no idea which was the correct answer. I hesitated for a while and eventually chose the last option. Immediately the screen shows 'Congratulations!'. I've just won a pair of Red Zone tickets to Taylor Swift's Concert worth RM728 each!
So now I have a pair of tickets, who should I ask? I logged on to my Facebook and looked at my friend list and I thought 'Hey, why not ask TJ? Maybe she likes Taylor Swift too?'. I was afraid that since it was so last minute she might have other things to do but luckily she says okay. Great! So now I'm all set to go for the concert the next day.
Concert day! I was so excited that I wasn't even paying attention in class. We went early to avoid the traffic jams and arrived at Bukit Jalil at about 6.30pm. The crowd was already building up outside the stadium by the time we arrived. Everywhere we went it was all red in color and there were many vendors selling Taylor Swift's merchandise. We went to claimed our tickets at the Hotlink booth and then took a walk around the area taking some pics. I had the worst chicken rice ever at one of the restaurants there before entering the stadium at about 8pm. I was kinda disappointed as our seats were quite far from the stage but well, I can't complained much right since the tickets were free? Haha.. Not long after we found out seats, a local singer, which I have no idea who she was, performed a few songs before Taylor Swift finally went on stage at about 9pm. It's hard to describe the atmosphere when she appeared on stage but I'd say that it's totally mind blowing!
She started of with a few quick songs and it got everyone on their feet. I really did not expect her to be doing so many dancing and hot moves but eventually she did. She even spoke a few lines of BM like 'terima kasih' which made the crowd go crazy. After the opening, she went down to the opposite side of the stage and that's where I got to see her in close distance. I wanted to take pics of her but my phone's camera just doesn't do well in low lighting. She sang a few songs including 'You Belong With Me' and 'Enchanted' with her guitar before going back on stage. The rest of her performance was equally awesome but the one song that really stood up was really 'Love Story' which I bet the whole stadium would know how to sing. Oh and boy she looks pretty when she wore the white dress while singing 'Love Story'. She ended her performance with 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' at about 10.30pm. I really felt that it ended too early but it was still worth it no matter what.
After the concert, we waited for the traffic to ease off a bit before going back. Tsk.. I really wished that it would not have ended so fast. We love you Taylor Swift and make sure to come to Malaysia again!!
Ow and thanks TJ for going to the concert with me :)
