Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. YELL FOR ONE!

Excitement Alert!

Tokyo 2020 Olimpyc Games, the international sport event has over, the closing ceremony was outstanding. We never thought this event will eventually be held at 2021 after delayed from 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic outbreak. All the players and winners of this Olimpyc games has returned to their home country.

The euforia starts to fade but it left me historical memory, a happy memory.

I was one of the lucky chosen volunteer of this event joined in the “Yell for One” project.

This project was organized by The Nippon Foundation Volunteer Support Center considering that almost all the games are held without spectators at all, this project makes possible for fans in all over the world who cannot be present onsite to send their encouragement to the athletes.

“Yell for One” project embraced 1.300 people volunteers from all over the world, childrens, parents, families, friends to sing together the national anthem of the participated national teams.

There were 204 national anthems created and recorded as an online concerts.

Me and my friends were the lucky volunteers chosen to cheer the athletes from Indonesia. We sang the “Indonesia Raya” National Anthem for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games!

My participation in this project was unexpected.

Initiated by one of my office colleague (the Japanese citizen who work in Indonesia), he told me that his wife in Japan was registering herself as a volunteer to this event and she was pre-required to submit the video recording of the national anthem song of the national team that participated in the Olimpyc games. Later on, the committe will pick the lucky one amongs hundred submissions.

She decided to sing Indonesia Raya National Anthem as she feel an attachment to Indonesia. Her husband (my Japanese colleague) has been working in Indonesia for almost 3 years, she had been visiting Indonesia oftenly before the pandemic and she loves Indonesia in every ways.

The only issue was that this national anthem must be sang by 6 people in one frame. So my colleague was wondering if i’d like to participate and also bring three other participants ^. ^; and i agreed then i called three other friends to join in.

So the total participants were two Japanese and four Indonesian. I heard and seen my colleague did the practice diligently. We were only had four days to practice till the Day had come.

When the day had come, i was thinking like “okay just bring it on, it needs more than fortune to be picked anyway”. So, i was only practice my sing without prepare my appearance T_T cry hard. We recorded the video, lots of fun during the recording, i was so happy and thought that even if we were not chosen at least we had the fun.

Then…a week later my colleague came to me with happy face said “Aya, we did it! They choose our video!” Then i was given him “blank face” while i was thinking and said to myself..”oh my God i should’ve went to beauty salon that day, do the hair and put on a good make up”💅👘💄

Well..My video now is on digital trace whole over the world. Even my local news media had cover it.

However, what’s done is done. Moral of the story: never thought never! Be 100% in to all opportunity coming. We never know which one’s gonna hit big as fate always has its unique ways in work.

Anyway, i am very happy to be participated in this big international event. I even can put it as another life’s achievement and i am very happy to share it with all of the Hivers here ^_^.

So good people, how’s your life’s goal today? I hope all of you may have the great opportunity coming your way and…Never THOught Never! 💪💪💪

P.S: You may take a look at the complete 204 national anthems here

P.P.S: Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Game is about to start on 24 August 2021 – 5 September 2021. Don’t forget to watch your favorite games Hivers. Cheers! 💃💃💃