hati melayu??

after finishing my high school, i was seriously sad to leave school. just imagine, i too part in sooo many things and i've never ever intend to forget any of 'em. but now, i'll just blab about one portion - of me ge'ing involved in traditional musics.

don't know why, not sure how, i started to be stucked with traditional musics. no matter what sorts of musics others tried to feed me, only traditional ones lasted longer. and i realized it, as i'm always looking for any clubs or company or watever u name it... who deal with traditional activities. Kelab Kesenian Taman Budaya Melaka pon mandom.. cmne ni??

Frankly speaking, it was hard to find one in malaysia. Fortunately, when i came to UK, i found Nusantara, a company doing malay traditional performance around UK and Europe. That's definitely what i'm waiting for! And i got such a big experience, unforgetable one...

25 Nov 2008, the most awaiting date since i came ere.. the performance day aka jalan2 UK day aka lari dr nottingham! I was told to leave at 5.30am but i woke up at 5.10am!!! (Well, i slept late that nite, sortin' out my dress for performance).. i took my 'cow bath', then get onto the minibus, then off to London!

Started the day with dance performance for Air Asia launching in County Hall. It was really cold. Can't imagine how the dancers, with sleeveless dress, barefoot and no coat at all, dancing to musics... OUTSIDE okey! pergh, luckily i'm not in the danciing team...

Caye tak?? Freezing cold outside... nampak je macho, tapi...

That event was soo cool. i met so many people from malaysian high comissioner. we talked and changed contact numbers (not really.. they give me their contact numbers, not me giving 'em mine..huhu).. bgus laa, tv least menambahkan kenalan from MHC, mane tau nak mintak tolong ape2 ke kan?? hehehe...

me (the backstage person) with the dancing team

Then, done with the dance performance for AirAsia, we went off (forgot to mention, we got 2 goody bags with t-shirt, bag lock and red AirAsia cap... cool!). Wished to get free tix to msia... hehe :P





We went straight to Royal Garden Hotel for the Gamelan Concert.. we passed Talfagar, ROYAL ALBERT HALL (tempat kak Siti nyanyi!!!), The Ritz (kalo x silaplaa... milik bf Princess Diana). So sad, we didn't have much time for jalan2 coz auntie told us to rest and get ready for performance that nite. huh, wat to do...

Frankly, i never had any idea of who the audience that nite. Really shocked.. when we, the gamelan team, went into the hall to get ready, we waited for audience to come in, there were all so in protocol i wud say.. so elegant, classy.. wat ever the words for the rich persons. the ladies were all beautiful despite their increasing age.. well, u know it at a glimpse of wat they wore - very expensive materials covering their bodies (i think)... I normally see the gagagoo ones in nottingham, but rarely found these kind of posh people..

Looking at the audience, my hands got really cold. i began to feel soo nervous.. i've never experience performing in front of such big people (plus this was my FIRST performance ABROAD)... they were really respectful. they listened to every second of the performance. they gave full attention to the gamelan music and singing for the whole 1 hour without making noise, or talking to each other or being rude... there were nothing but only silence and the gamelan music! even u can hear ur own kasut bergesel tau... pergh!! salute la sama orang2 cni... even back in my country, we hardly see such venerating people.

Performance went on and on smoothly for 1 hour...evrything went fine and perfect... i did my singing well i think coz i did no mistake as i always did in rehearsal... bravo wani!!! hehe...

We got chance to tal to couple of persons after the performance. They said:

"Fantastic."

"Great performance. You al have such a big talent!"

"Perfect."

"Thanks so much for the beautiful musics. I would be more lovely if i can see real malaysians playing insruments on stage."

haha.. yeah true!! i wish i can get msians to play the instruments.. u know, caucasians don't play those traditional instruments as gentle as malay people do.. ( i can say this from my experience playing caklempong in STJ)... i wish next ime auntie can get more malay people to play caklempong.

Gamelan team.. sorry, could'nt get the pic of real performance.. this is during rehearsal, just before the performance

gedik sisters

my days are soo damn bored without them ere

There were days;
we argued each other,
we begin to hate each other,
we start talking bad about her,
we fought like in WWF,
we were jealous of her for having more attention from mama n ayah,
we envied her cause she got hotties,
we angry of her for being sooo lazy, letin' us to do house chores.

But those days can't be compared to longer lists of all lovely days we had;
we share stories & gossip,
we hold her secret,
we know her probs with her bf and how she hates her bf doing this and that,
we went shopping together,
we watch movies,
we karaoke,
we go ronggeng2 when mama ayah not home (kantoi!!),
we dress her up,
we did her make up, she did mine,
we talk about girls' stuff,
we talk about how bad guys can be,
we ate 3 maggis in 1 big bowl,
we took her chocolate and never bought her a new one,
we wear her shoes, her tops, her dress, hoer selendang, and everything named hers,
we keep her secrets from mama ayah,
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sooo many thing we did together. cannot list everything ere..

Now, i'm ere far away from 'em. cannot wait for summer, nak balik rumah!!

Loooong weekend

had been quite a long time since i haven't really5xx enjoy my weekend. nak cakap busy tu xdelaa.. but i had been trying to not spending more than GBP 5.00 for 10 days.. and i did it! can u imagine it?? heheh.. btw, saving for some1 like me may be be possible, but still, retail therapy is wat i need the most now, though i know i won't go for it..

Watever! and now mamayah and seluruh keluargaku sekalian and whoever reading my blog, now, the story of dis weekend. I had a gamelan performance preview at Nottingham Trent Uni in front of Datuk Aziz, the Malaysian embassador.. it went very well. i had a very nice chitchatting wiv people from Malaysian embassy, people from around nottingham and some other local Brits who appreciate Malaysian traditional music. ALL THE BEST WANI FOR THE REAL PERFORMANCE ON TUESDAY!! CHAIYYOKK!!

Before make-up applied

After Rita 'make-up'kan.. i maself don't recognize my own face

Then, that saturday nite, i cooked ayam masak merah which was reaaaalllly hot n spicy (ili and chaq suke gile my sambal ayam tu sbb dorg dah lame gile x mkn makanan pedas. Kate mereka kat manchester xde mknnn pedas :P)

My hot and spicy ayam masak merah.. weeee!!!

We went out to city centre once again after having our dinner.. just to see how nite in nottingham looks like. it was good, but actually it can be a horrible one. There's one crazy guy, drunk i think, started to make fun of us. stupid3xxx!! With his pants nearly dropped, showing off his cheap-looking boxer.. "gilak itu brit guy!" i cursed him more then that, obviously. Off my saturday.

Sunday came.. i tido mcm nak mati mlm td coz of my really tiring saturday. unfortunately, chaq woke me up at 5.ooam, EARLY IN THE MORNING! "What?? we promised to meet at 7am and now why the heck r u calling me pagi2 buta ini?!!" "Wani, bangun! Salji2!!" MasyaAllah, best woooo... snow!! after having sunny days for the whole week, all of a sudden.. SNOW!! So excited. Rizal brought us to Wollaton Park. Soooo pretty.. i don even know its existence though i live ere. Loads of piccas, but can't get 'em uploaded now coz everything's in chaq's hand.

Haaa sape kate Nottingham xde snow.. this's the proof! eheh

listen to palaver;

I got this video during raya, quite a loooong way ago.. still remember, i burst into tears strait after i watched it.. this is the best gift i had for my raya. so sweeeeet... don't u think so?

I Will Be

I will be strong on my own

I will see through the rain

I will find my way

I will keep on travelling this road

'Til I finally reach my dream

'Til I'm living and I'm breathing my destiny

I Wil Be, Christina Aguilera

Persuaded by someone (more than one actually) to have a blog, finally i have this one for real (never ever expect it.. btw, song above (pasted on the wall in my room too) gives me the right title of this site. Think it should be a good introductory post.. i hope. Hmm u can expect nothing but only words cuming from my thoughts, feelings and watsoever related to my own self.. i hope.