MY FIRST CONCERT

Yes, I admit it. I'm a 17 year old girl who had never been to a concert ever, until last month.

On the 16th March 2015, I attended one of the most amazing artists' concert with my cousin at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and that is the one and only Ed Sheeran. The young, British pop singer finally came to this tiny country called Malaysia. This is a very rare event as not many artists come to Malaysia. When I found out Ed Sheeran was coming to Malaysia, I freaked! I just had to go because I mean c'mon it's Ed Sheeran we're talking about here. I talked about it with my friends in school the next day, we were all so psyched about it! Until we saw the cost of the ticket, RM290++.

We were bummed. How could we afford such ticket? And the surprising part was, despite the price it was sold out within days! That ruined our day even more, well for me of course. Soon we just accepted the fact that we weren't going to see the very famous British pop singer.

As days went by, all the Malaysians could talk about was Ed Sheeran coming to town. Not to mention my family as well. However, everything changed at a family gathering.

My aunt worked for Maxis and she has received free concert tickets to see Maroon 5, Taylor Swift and Tae Yang. So the moment she mentioned Ed Sheeran I was hoping she had tickets. Well she did! But life decided to make things hard for me. I couldn't get the tickets for free but I had to work for it. She suggested my cousin and I to enter an internal competition to win two Ed Sheeran tickets. All we had to do was perform an Ed Sheeran song in PUBLIC! That was it. A part of me wanted to do it but at the same time I didn't want to. I was never a person who liked being the center of attention and now I had to perform in public?! But I knew if I wanted to see Ed Sheeran perform live, I had to do it. For my own sake.

In the end, I did it! And to cut the story short, two weeks later I found out that we had won! I screamed so loudly, my schoolmates were looking at me funnily. And that's how I managed to go to Ed Sheeran's concert - for free but with hard work of course.

My cousin and I went to KL Convention Centre at 10am. By the time we got there, the line was pretty long so we decided to start waiting in line. We waited for 11 hours to see Ed but of course we did make some new friends from the Philippines.

Soon it was 8.30pm and it was time to enter the concert hall. The moment I stepped into the hall my heart started beating. Was this true? Was I really going to see Ed Sheeran right in front of my eyes? Or could all this be a dream? We stood at the fourth row from the front - it was really up close to the stage. The crowd started shouting and screaming and the vibe was getting intense. Tick tock tick tock. Time was slow waiting for Ed to come out.

The next thing I knew Ed Sheeran was RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES! He started to sing and the crowd went wild. We screamed and sang along to all his songs at the top of our lungs with sweat running down our face. We had the time of our lives. The concert lasted for an hour and a half. And every moment of it was AMAZING. The way he sang, played his guitar, rapped and beatboxed were all on point. Definitely worth waiting in line for 11 hours.

  

 We even managed to end up on Ed Sheeran's instagram!