DHL vs FedEx on Coldplay 6-days Concert in Singapore (NOT INDONESIA)

5.27am London / 11.27am Jakarta / 12.27pm Singapore / 11.27pm June 10th) Memphis FedEx HQ

(Update: 6 days Coldplay concert between 7 days in Singapore; plus concert in Taylor Swift in Singapore. TayTay not scheduling Indonesia, just 1 day concert Coldplay, but get Morrisey. Morrisey not choose Singapore)

Imagine in the last 3 weeks, a lot of (intense) news in social media and (Indonesia) mainstream media about fraud, “calo nipu”, scam about ticketing Coldplay in Indonesia (also “much, but not high like in Indonesia”) in Malaysia. So far reaches (scam) IDR / 40 Billion Rupiah (around US$3 million), and so far around 50k Ringgit Malaysia. Yes, after several bombs (thanks Jamaah Islamiyah, peak performance JI from 2000 - 2009, and now just a very small terror organization —- JI is branch Southeast of Al Qaeda), finally Coldplay concert in Indonesia (also Malaysia) for part of their world tour. 

But in the last 3 hours, hundred thousand “Indonesian netizens' 'of Indonesia felt upset, angry, after read “bombastic news” posted by LIVENATION SG that in 5 days, Coldplay will have concerts 4x times / 4 days (23 and 24 January 2024, also 26 & 27 January 2024). The longest day(s) concert of Coldplay (without googling) as I know (maybe wrong) was in Barcelona (3 days).

(“Calo” in Singapore greedier than in Indonesia. 6 days sold out before official day lol. With very strict regulations in local, no chance “calo” in Singapore is Indonesian, 100000% is Singaporean too)

This is the failure of the DUO (candidate) VP (Vice President), Erick Thohir and Sandiaga Uno, to bring Coldplay for a more than 1 day concert in Indonesia (& to bring their electability - political purpose)? If Erick - Sandiaga can bring Messi to Indonesia (*although the latest info maybe Messi “not included”), why Indonesia cannot bring Coldplay to a concert 2-days? Last time, I wrote about the tier-3 staff of BUMN (Sovereign of Enterprise) Indonesia, with lavish (Pamer. riya) can buy tickets for blackpink when her companies are near bankruptcy if President Jokowi does not intervene to save this BUMN. 

The simple thing …… just because of competition between DHL (as endorser of Coldplay World Tour) vs FedEx.

FedEx since months ago, quietly moved HQ Asia Pacific from HK to Singapore, “thanks” for the worrisome situation in Hong Kong and Taiwan straits, “decoupling” blah blah blah rivalries U.S. vs China. So, to make sure (and lure) the ASEAN market, especially Singapore, today DHL - Coldplay (and LIVENATION) announced that Coldplay will play 4 days.

Singapore was a hub for oil (for) logistic (Vietnam) war. It's very impossible for Indonesia until judgment day to replace Singapore because the U.S. really owed to the Singapore government about several refineries in Singapore. But FedEx in the 80s-90s was already planning to set up Hong Kong (Asia Pacific), not Singapore, eve not Tokyo (between HANEDA or NARITA or YOKOTA or IWAKUNI airport) as a HUB or ASPAC HQ because it anticipated (and really happens) China - UK relations about Hong Kong. In 1997, HK returned to China, no longer under UK administration. Yes, the movie explaining “complicated” China - Hong Kong - UK, of course James Bond “Tomorrow Never Dies.”

But 2023, FedEx decided to move to Singapore, no longer Hong Kong. And to make sure (keep) competing with FedEx, so DHL set 4-days concert of Coldplay in Singapore. If a Singaporean is not enough with 4-days, can buy a ticket for the Coldplay concert in Kuala Lumpur, just 40-50 km from Singapore. Or (even) still not enough, buy a concert ticket in Indonesia.

Of course, the real situation is the contrary: Indonesian fans of Coldplay are not enough with ONE DAY concert (in JAKARTA), so Indonesians buy 9-day tickets: 1 Jakarta, 4 Singapore, 1 KL, 1 Pert, 1 Manila, 1 Bangkok. I’m not amazed, in same time Indonesian students or Gen Z can buy 9-day Coldplay ticket but in Yogya a lot of students asking Free Meals, how poorest, or how gargantuan unfair of economic situation. Last time 2-days Blackpink concert in GBK (biggest stadium in Southeast Asia), and not far from GBK Stadium a lot of people very hard to buy meals.

No, this is not bombastic. I can say names (Indonesian citizens) who buy multiple Coldplay’s ticket. 

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(INDONESIA VERSION)

Kenapa DHL tiba2 (via LIVENATION) mengabarkan konser 4 hari dalam 5 hari tuk coldplay (HANYA TUK SINGAPORE, bukan NKRI harga mati), karena FedEx, pesaing DHL, ubah kantor pusat Asia Pasifik dari awalnya Hong Kong ke Spore. 

Agar DHL bisa jualan dikit, makanya Spore dapet 4 hari konser.

Gabisa dadakan NKRI jadi hub paket / shipping: butuh 37 tahun Spore nunggu agar FedEx pindahin kantor asia dari HK ke Spore. Soetta digedein segede Bandara Saudi (*terbesar di dunia karena campur area kilang minyak, 15 ribu hektar), ga kemudian tiba2 FedEx pilih NKRI jadi hub. Bahkan saat Singapore jadi hub tentara Merika dalam hal pasokan minyak tuk berperang di Vietnam, FedEx tidak serta-merta jadikan Singapor sebagai hub pula untuk bisnis Asia PAsifik. FedEx sejak lama menjadikan Hong Kong (& benar-benar direalisasikan) sebagai hub (sebagai) optimalisasi pasca Hong Kong menjadi bagian China dan tidak lagi dibawah administrasi Inggris. Film “Tomorrow Never Dies” nya James Bond (Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh) bisa sedikit menjelaskan kerumitan China - UK - Hong Kong.

Tiap kali ngeliat logo DHL, selalu sesek karena......harusnya saya bisa ngirim kado lain yg crafted dan nitip ke temen di yurop, hampir setahun lalu, andai keturunan kraton - Minang ga ignore pesan saya terkait pertanyaan gimana caranya bikin suatu souvenir. Most likely 'gelar kraton saya lebih rendah dibanding dia dan keluarganya, sehingga pesan pun ga dibalas. Walaupun (toh) tetep kekirim....via DHL, saya berusaha banget mati2an agar keturunan saya ga diignored orang lain..apalagi kalau beneran "Jew". Andai Mrs Prada beneran Jew yang saat ini intense, dan jelas marga Yahudi dia amat raksasa-legendaris, saya ga mau Prada junior dipermalukan dengan “pesan tidak dijawab”, meski Tuhan jauh lebih tahu siapa Mrs Prada yang Tuhan (Dia) siapkan. 

Padahal saya sendiri orang Minang dan Kraton (juga)

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