Know your culture. Love your country.

On Saturday, September 27^th 3 Junior High School held a kind of cultural festival called MATSWAPATI. It is held to celebrate Bandung’s 204^th anniversary. it was located in Lapangan Bali. In the ticket it was written “8 a.m until 7 p.m”, but in fact it was open gate at 10 a.m, then close gate at 4 p.m, and finished at 8.30 p.m.

The decoration is quite simple. From the ticketbox we can see the gate with the word “MATSWAPATI” with a kind of cultural icon called wayang. If we enter the gate, there will be 2 sections: boys side and girls side. It used for body and bag checking. We are prohibited to bring perfume, cosmetics, weapon, and also foods & drinks from the outside as written in the backside of ticket.

We got more closer, on the left side there was ‘Jajanan’ section and a view upon us was the stage. It was big with the face of Matswapati at the top of the stage. By the way, Matswapati was taken from the name of the king of all wayangs. Get back to the decoration, around the field there were some stands from every 10^th and 11^th grade. X IPA 1 and XI IPA 1 joined to make a stand together, and also another class. The stands were fill with mini games, photo booth (for you information there was a photobooth that allowed us to took a photo with our crush, anyone, senior for example wkwk), face painting, and many more. In the center of the field there was a tent for sound system.

At the Jajanan, there were some kind of foods such as kebab, cilor (aci telor), batagor, fried rice, cendol, brownies, and many more. They were quite expensive but some of them were worth to pay I guess.

 Let’s talk about the rundown.at 7 a.m., we (10^th grade) were gathering in front of Lapangan Bali with our own cultural clothes and properties to join the parade. Not only us who joined it. There were students from SDN Kartika, SMP Negeri 2 Bandung, and many more. After parade, we all enter the matswapati and saw the LSS’s performance. Then, there was a welcome speech from the mayor of Bandung, Ridwan Kamil, and from principal of SMA Negeri 3 Bandung, Mr. Encang. At his welcome speech, Mr. Ridwan Kamil gave total 6 tickets of Trans Studio Bandung. Sadly, I’m not one of them.

KV3

Then, there were a lot of performances. There were performances from MK3, T’ST, KV3, and many more that honestly I can’t mentione it hehe. So…. When the afternoon come, the stage was getting crowded. There was a perform from BARSENA!!! It was so cool! He sang Royals by Lorde, and the best was he sang Bang Bang by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj! There were another song he sang but clearly I only remember it hehe. Barsena was perfomed until Maghrib. Then we had a break for some minutes then he just continued the show!!!!!! He sang until about 7 p.m.......

THE CROWDS!!!

BARSENA!

Epic

the last one was…. GLENN FREDLY! THIS WAS THE CLIMAX OF MATSWAPATI! The crowds were epic!! Glenn sang a lot of songs such as Kisah Romantis, Terserah, You Are My Everything, and the time we all danced was when he sang Hikayat Cintaku! He also sang Bento by Iwan Fals which was expressed our (Glenn and us, the crowd) that we truly, madly, deeply DISAGREE with the decision from the parlemen that we can’t choose our next leader by ourself! There were a lot of song that sang by him but I can’t mentioned each of them.

WOohoooooo

No need more to explain, MATSWAPATI was great! Even if my legs were so tired hahah but all I needed to say was thank you. Thank you for all of you who was come to Matswapati, thank you for all of the comitte who have done a great work! And for all the people who were took a part in this event, thank you.