What's on Me: I'm a Heartbeat

I’m a Heartbeat

            Heartbeats, that’s how Jessie J calls her fans. Yes, I’m a heartbeat. I love Jessie J. I love her personality and of course her music. It’s been 2 years since the first time I felt in love with her. It’s 2015. On June 2015, I tried a karaoke application on my phone. It’s called Smule. It gave a suggestion to sing duet with Jessie J. Ok, game! I tried it. It’s so funny and awkward sing along with a singer, side by side. We’re singing Flashlight. Flashlight is the newest song of Jessie J, and it’s also an original soundtrack of Pitch Perfect 2 movie. That was so fun singing with her! (Even though it’s not real, but still I’m so proud of myself LOL). I could see she’s cute, pretty, funny, and has a good heart. She stole my heart!

After recording the karaoke, then I upload it to my Instagram. I tagged Jessie J on my caption. Then I click her username. It is my first time I saw her Instagram profile. I followed her and started to scroll her posts. That day, she just posted some posts about her illness. She’s on hospital, operation room. I watched her video and read the caption, and suddenly in love with her! All I can say is, “God, please let her be healthy, we’re so sad see her in that condition. She’s a nice person, she has a good heart, and I love her.” Yes, I said it. By only seeing her posts, I felt in love with her. Believe it or not, some years back, I don’t like her, because of her appearance. Her make up’s so sharp; her fashion’s so bad (for me). I don’t like her look when Price Tag era came. But, now? I don’t know why. It makes me believe, love needs no reasons! J

            After seeing her posts, I started to watch her videos on Youtube. I watched everything about her; music videos, interviews, talk shows, radio tours, song covers, gigs, concerts, and so on. And those videos made me fall in love deeper with her! I just can’t help myself and can’t stop blaming and asking “Why I just know her this time? Why??!!” I knew it’s too too too late! But, it’s better late than never, right? I wish I could meet her in person!J

            I started make a video about how I felt in love with Jessie J and became a Heartbeat. It takes about three days to finish it. I uploaded on my Youtube channel and asked for my friends (Heartbeats) to watch my video. Unexpectedly, I got positive feedbacks from them. They loved it, and welcomed me. It continued until someone commented on my post. She’s Indonesian! Yes, Indonesian Heartbeat! I was so happy she noticed me; we started to contact each other. In short, we decided to make a fan account on Instagram. Taadaaaa~ on July 5th 2015 we launched @indo_heartbeats. We post everything, photos and videos about Jessie J. We met so many Heartbeats around the world. We’re united to support our favorite, Jessica Ellen Cornish!

            The happiest year of me is 2016. Guess what happened last year? Yeaah! Jessie J came to Indonesia for the third times! Dream came true, wish granted! I got a chance to meet her for the first time! She came to Indonesia because of NET TV. NET invited Jessie J as one of it guest stars for NET anniversary (NET 3.0, May 29^th 2015). On that night, one of my besties sent to our WhatsApp group a poster of NET 3.0, and there was Jessie J (along with Omi and Dawin) on it! OH GOD! I was shaking! “We must watch her live!” I said to them. FYI, the only way to go to NET 3.0 is by joining their quizzes to get the tickets. Then, I kept watching @netmediatama twitter account to know about the quizzes. They held the quizzes for about a month. The first day of quiz, I joined it. I answered the questions with random feelings; hopeful, panicked, cold sweating, etc. It would be announced on the next day at 4 pm. I JUST CAN’T WAIT!! Keep looking on my watch, LOL!

That evening, with one of my best friends at the café, waited for the meeting. The clock was pointing at 4. I grabbed my phone to see the tweets of @netmediatama. I found nothing… Okay, I know, I’m in Indonesia, rubber time hehehe. Just keep waiting, patiently waiting, heart’s beating fast. The clock showed me 5. Still, got nothing and hopeless feeling was coming. I chit-chated with my bestie to calm my mind, kept away my phone. Then suddenly the new tweet notification’s beeping. I grabbed my phone, and………… it said:

 

YEAAAH!! I WON!

I kept saying “OMG! Really? It’s really happening!” My bestie saw the real me! She witnessed my excitement and happiness! Hhahaha! Lucky you, sis! “Alhamdulillah… Thank God! You granted my wish!” So glad! Speechless! Such the happiest day of my life! I told everyone, my parents, my group, about this! hahaha. They’re happy for me, I knew they’re envy, sorry for that hehehe.

@netmediatama team asked for me to send my identity for the term of the tickets. Yeah, ‘tickets’. A winner would get two tickets! Fiuuuhhh… finally, the ticket’s saved! Just wait until it’s on my hand and see you Jessie J! But the sacrifices not just stop there. I kept watch the tweets and quizzes, and inform my group to answered them, hand in hand, right? Finger crossed! Well, the last day of competition’s arrived; it’s also the announcement day for quizzes this past a month. And luckily…. Two of my friends got the tickets too! They won! The one is my heartbeat friend (another admin of @indo_heartbeats) and another one is my bestie. Yeaahh! Party’s about to come!!

Three days before NET 3.0 ceremony, the four of us went to The East, NET.’s office, to get the tickets. After waiting in a long line, we finally got these! Two festival tickets and two tribune tickets!

NET. 3.0 tickets

            Sunday, May 29^th 2016 we finally reached SICC (Sentul International Convention Center) for NET. 3.0 and of course to see Jessie J and sing along! We arrived there about at 4pm. We queued on the separated row. Me and DU on festival row, meanwhile EI and CDS on tribune row. We have to show our tickets to the committees and they wore us a bracelet. Unfortunately they took our tickets L (I thought to save it before haha). This is the look of our bracelets!

 

The official bracelet of NET. 3.0

The ceremony started at 7pm. At 6pm we allowed to enter the venue. So crowd! Push here and there. We’re excited to see our favorites. Finally the host came on the stage and opened the ceremony. Guess what??? Jessie J had the opening number!! She came with Bang Bang song! I was extremely happy! Woohooo!!! We’re on the same place, ground, and roof! We breathed the same air! We sang along, enjoying the night. Jessie J sang 5 songs that night. Her performance was so amazing! Especially when she sang Flashlight, all of the audience turned their flashlights on. Goosebumps! Another dream came true was when Jessie J sang Price Tag in reggae version! Whoaaaaa my night was completely beautiful! Thank you NET. for bringing Jessie J back to Indonesia. She seemed so happy to be here. I could see that by seeing her posts on Instagram and Snapchat. She posted so many photos and videos! These ones made me happy overload!

Well, these are Jessie J pics while on NET. 3.0 (credit to the owners):

Jessie J on the red carpet of NET 3.0

Jessie J's performing Bang Bang

Jessie J's performing Flashlight

Jessie J's performing Domino

Jessie J's performing Masterpiece and Price Tag

The event’s finished at about 11pm. Then we were out the venue and met so many artists. Unfortunately, we didn’t meet Jessie J L. But no problem, at least I just saw her closely. The human who’s beautiful inside and out! Thank you for the amazing performances that night!

The happiness still continues until the following day! On the afternoon, I got a mention from three of my classmates! The tweets’ points were the same, Jessie J answered my question! She did it on Sarah Sechan show! I turn the TV on to see it. But, it’s wrapped… So sad. No, I wasn't disappointed, I knew it would be uploaded on Sarah Sechan show Youtube channel. And YES! A few hours later, they uploaded the interview. I watched it! And IT’S TRUE! Oh God! Thank you again! Double blessings! Yes, few days back Sarah Sechan show tweeted that they’d interview Jessie J and they wanted us to give some questions for Jessie J. Of course I didn’t want to miss this chance! Then, I tweeted about 5 questions haha! Luckily one of them was picked by Sarah Sechan! I asked about Jessie J’s hidden talents (I already knew it actually, just to make sure hehee). She answered it exactly as what I know. She can speak with a mouth closed! You go girl! Haha.

Well, I admit everything leads me to Jessie J. I feel so lucky. Only in a year become a fan of Jessie J and got a chance to meet her in person! So blessed! 2016 was the best year in my life (for now). I can’t thank enough to Allah for giving me those chances! I hope I will meet her again, watch her live concert in the near future. Aamiin.