Since we were asked to blog about our own Araby moment, I have decided to choose one of the most significant Araby moments in my life .
The latter parts of this blog post would make me and my friend look like total losers but who cares, nobody is probably going to read this anyway.
March 2009- my friend and I went to our very first “the bloomfields” gig which was held in Mall of Asia. After that first gig, we just fell in love with the band and their music. This is why after watching that gig, we decided to watch their other gigs as well. A few weeks later, we were already watching their weekly regular gigs at eastwood on school days. Yes, you heard it right, we were just a few months from graduating in high school but we were at eastwood every wednesday from 9pm to 1am.Since my friend and I were blinded by the wonderful sound of the band and their good looking bassist, we didn’t notice that it was sort of affecting our lives already. I mean, we spent at least 250 each everytime we went to their gigs (oh yes, I used my savings), it was the first time where both of us got introduced to semi-regular drinking (not, anymore though) and most of all, it confused our focus on our academic life during our last days in high school. I know it sound bad and all but then again, we were blinded remember? hahaha.
I think that our situation wouldn’t be like that if it wasn’t for The bloomfield’s lead singer, who is also a lasallian, Jay Jay. During me and my friend’s visist during the second time we watched the regular gig, for some odd reason, JJ asked us if we could accompany him for dinner. Being our bilnd fangirl selves, we said yes with big smiles on our faces. So we went to KFC to accompany him and since maybe he wanted to gain more fans, he even treated us for dinner. Ok, so during that time, because he did that, we though that we were “close” already. HAHAHA how obnoxious. So that was the first “close moment”. After that, they started saying hi to us on stage and all. You know, typical band strategies to get more fans. But we fell for it-BIG TIME. After a few weeks of gig-ing we also started to beome close with the other members. It was funny since my friend and I planned what we were supposed to say and not to say to them, where we would sit during the gig, what songs we should request and other things like that. Our regular gig-ing really took a lot of our time.
My araby moment only came a few months later. This is when my friend and I started to see the bloomfields treat their other fans just like how they treated us. Just when we thought that we were friends, not fans with them, we started to realize that the way they treat us is also the same way on how they treat their other fans as well. And then during those days, we also heard the news that the band member who treated us at KFC, was only a few weeks away from fatherhood. I mean, we wanted to be like a “barkada” with them but then the truth is, in reality, they are just treating us the way they do because we are their fans. I bet they don’t give a shit about us and I bet that now, after 6 months has passed, the would have probably forgotten our names already. Even though that’s reality, it was really fun while it lasted.
