That happening in Osaka Jou
Nope, it's not the continuation from the journey.. this is more of like a spin-off from that journey xDD. I was talking about this happening with my friend earlier.
Japan is a nation that never overlooks things. They appreciate every little things you do. My friend was grumbling on how we have to spend IDR 200k for a CD that only contains 4 songs, which two of them are backtrack. But that's simply what you have to pay to enjoy the music legally. And the moment I realize that they're really appreciate stuffs was when I visited Osaka Jou.
We've just went down from the top floor by stairs, so it's kinda exhausting and we decided to sit around at the park. In the middle of the park, a group of young adults (probably collage students or some sort) were busy stacking chairs to make a pyramid. Their name was.. uhm... Osaka performing arts street troupe or something like that. A number of people starts to sit around on the ground, waiting patiently for the performance.
One of the girls was acting as the MC, give the audience a heads up about the performance. So... This MC girl starts to climb up the chairs pyramid. Yea, of course the chairs rattled, she stopped midway, but continue to climb. As she reach the top chair, she sat on it, facing the audience, saying (she got that clip on mic) "Minna, I'm so scared, please keep on cheering on me so I can finish the performance," or something like that (the kind that the Takeshi castle' participants said "Teman-teman.. doakan saya ya.. semoga berhasil..). Then, she twits her body, doing handstand on the top chair, then a few second later, return to her previous position, bowing her head saying thank yous (the audience were in awed and clapped loudly in this part). She climbed down and bow some more on the ground. Some of the audience tossed money into a guitar case, and the crews unstack the chairs and clear the area. The girl was shaking hands with the audience, thanking them.
Me and my friends were jaw dropping to see the whole performance. All of us thought the same things. "That's it? That's the whole performance? Why people are clapping? What so good about that?! Seriously, that's it?!". Yea, we know, it's difficult to do the performance. But, what's with the heated reaction from the audience? It's not that spectacular, it just, normal.. But the audience reaction was very supportive!! Me and my friends said things like, "They're probably never seen debus! Damn! We're going to get rich if we can perform debus here! Tiwi (<-- my friend), go and eat some glass shards. Ebhi (my other friend) go slash your hand with a machete. Nova and Wanda (friends) go lit up some fire on the ground for us to walk through!" xDDD (debus is a traditional - rather mystic- martial art (is it martial art?) from Banten, West Java, Indonesia where the debus artist could endure being slashed, pierce, eating fire and glasses shards without any bleeding).
After getting used to see those brutal debus performances, the chair climbing was rather meh.. Oh wow.. I still can't comprehend the enthusiasm of the audience. And none of them sounds forced in giving compliment, they all sound sincere.. Oh, Japan.. I love you and your weird likeable people are just amazing..
Things I learn from this trip were:
1. Be nice to people. You don't know how grateful they are when you give them a hand, or at least shows a positive gesture.
2. Appreciate even the smallest things that people tends to overlook.
3. Vending machines are mean!
Japan is a nation that never overlooks things. They appreciate every little things you do. My friend was grumbling on how we have to spend IDR 200k for a CD that only contains 4 songs, which two of them are backtrack. But that's simply what you have to pay to enjoy the music legally. And the moment I realize that they're really appreciate stuffs was when I visited Osaka Jou.
We've just went down from the top floor by stairs, so it's kinda exhausting and we decided to sit around at the park. In the middle of the park, a group of young adults (probably collage students or some sort) were busy stacking chairs to make a pyramid. Their name was.. uhm... Osaka performing arts street troupe or something like that. A number of people starts to sit around on the ground, waiting patiently for the performance.
One of the girls was acting as the MC, give the audience a heads up about the performance. So... This MC girl starts to climb up the chairs pyramid. Yea, of course the chairs rattled, she stopped midway, but continue to climb. As she reach the top chair, she sat on it, facing the audience, saying (she got that clip on mic) "Minna, I'm so scared, please keep on cheering on me so I can finish the performance," or something like that (the kind that the Takeshi castle' participants said "Teman-teman.. doakan saya ya.. semoga berhasil..). Then, she twits her body, doing handstand on the top chair, then a few second later, return to her previous position, bowing her head saying thank yous (the audience were in awed and clapped loudly in this part). She climbed down and bow some more on the ground. Some of the audience tossed money into a guitar case, and the crews unstack the chairs and clear the area. The girl was shaking hands with the audience, thanking them.
Me and my friends were jaw dropping to see the whole performance. All of us thought the same things. "That's it? That's the whole performance? Why people are clapping? What so good about that?! Seriously, that's it?!". Yea, we know, it's difficult to do the performance. But, what's with the heated reaction from the audience? It's not that spectacular, it just, normal.. But the audience reaction was very supportive!! Me and my friends said things like, "They're probably never seen debus! Damn! We're going to get rich if we can perform debus here! Tiwi (<-- my friend), go and eat some glass shards. Ebhi (my other friend) go slash your hand with a machete. Nova and Wanda (friends) go lit up some fire on the ground for us to walk through!" xDDD (debus is a traditional - rather mystic- martial art (is it martial art?) from Banten, West Java, Indonesia where the debus artist could endure being slashed, pierce, eating fire and glasses shards without any bleeding).
After getting used to see those brutal debus performances, the chair climbing was rather meh.. Oh wow.. I still can't comprehend the enthusiasm of the audience. And none of them sounds forced in giving compliment, they all sound sincere.. Oh, Japan.. I love you and your weird likeable people are just amazing..
Things I learn from this trip were:
1. Be nice to people. You don't know how grateful they are when you give them a hand, or at least shows a positive gesture.
2. Appreciate even the smallest things that people tends to overlook.
3. Vending machines are mean!