Hesitant dreams: Flashback : Sri Sanggar Wirama

our official t-shirt design. SSW means ppl who gather at a place to entertain. i think.

you all know i love dancing right?
like, LOVE dancing.
going to matrix meant that i couldn't go to any dance class, boohoo.
so i decided to join the Kebudayaan team for KAKOM.

KAKOM is this competition between all the matrix colleges.
it's damn cool cause there is only 1 college per state.
so i'm automatically state representative, hoho.

i feel i was mis-led.
the flier regarding the kebudayaan audition said that they were looking for CONTEMPORARY and TRADITIONAL dancers. so i thought ok, can try.

i went and was the first one there. even though it was already 5.10pm.
it was suppose the start at 5.00pm.

you see, ppl there have a different time concept.
if an event is suppose to start at 5, ppl will start arriving at 5.20
so if you want an event to start at 5, you have to tell ppl that it starts at 4.30

anyway, when everyone arrived, En. Syam played this Malay/Arabian sounding music, and told us we had to dance to it on stage.

i was thinking : "what about the contemporary?"

3 ppl auditioned at a time.
some dance their Malay dance.
some just swung their hands and walk about.
some stoned cause they were so embarrassed.

i was still thinking : "what about my contemporary?"

oh yeah i forgot to mention.
initially there were 3 or 4 Chinese girls there.
when En. Syam announced that we would dance on stage, i turned around to talk to one of them.

but they were all gone.

wah liaw, cabut so fast.

i was still wondering what I'm going to do on stage.
should i shake my ass?
but that's like clubbing.
maybe it's considered lucah for them.

then when my name was called, my brain was going

"shit shit shit shit"
"howhowhowhowhow"

don't care la.
i went up there and shook like Shakira.
did body rolls summore.
the other 2 girls stared at me like i have 3 heads.

that audition was only the beginning though. maybe everyone danced like shit so there was a 2nd audition for those still interested. this one even worse. called 1 by 1 into a room with 3 teachers.

m****.

i was the 1st one called. shooot. they played the Malay/Arabian song again. then halfway through En. Syam stopped the music and said that i was more a contept dancer than traditional dancer.

so he played some Siti Nurhaliza song for me.
then i danced like MTV hip-hop.
ahahahaha.
not what they expected.

when the list of successful candidates came out, i was not in it.
but they put me in anyway cause he said i have potential.

but it wasn't over yet.
after a few weeks there was another audition.
so for a few weeks i was always worrying that i would be kicked out.
cause i know zilch about traditional dance.

then i made the team.

SSW in the dewan serbaguna.

we were trying to do sexy pouty lips. but my lips 'cau gan' cause the cameraman took so long

we were obviously very bored

practicing gambus

we practiced was hell.my day was like this.

8.00am : class

4.00pm : class finish

5.00pm : go to Ipoh for practice
11.00pm : back at college
12.30am : finished bathing and washing clothes, attempting to complete homework
1.00am : faint on the bed in exhaustion

everyday.

naturally i didn't finish my homework.
i think i didn't do chem tutorial for 2 months.
which explains my horrible results.

come August 2006, it was off to KMPh!

The Walk. i don't know what it's called so i call it The Walk. like the parade of each nations athletes during Olympics.

cafe in KMPh. they have like a zillion cafes there. AND a mini market. AND a starbucks kind of cafe.

ppl who join KAKOM get a lot of free stuff.

jacket
3 kakom shirts, plus 2 kebudayaan shirts
cap
bag
pants
towel (in a blinding hi-lighter yellow colour)
free camp in Lumut

I'm still waiting for my KAKOM panties.

yup, your mama and papa's income tax is used to buy useless clothes in the wrong sizes so no one wears them anymore.

no wonder the government always says 'No money, no money" when the ppl complain.

cause your mama's tax was used to buy me trackpants that make my legs look exactly 5 inches long.

My favourite part of kebudayaan : The Makeup

make up treasure box

Abang Fendi applying make up. i heard the college paid him RM 50 per face. there were 22 faces. don't you wish you were a make up artist?

the guys in action. this part was cool. like silat.

before the 1st performace. can you spot me?

there were 2 performances. first performance we tied with KMPh at 1st place. 2nd night they got higher marks so we got 2nd place. but some still say it's not fair, cause their the host. and the host almost always gets 1st.