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FINALS IS OVERRRRRRRRRRRRR! IM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW :')

Some problems we encountered today, the blood tablet did NOT work. It failed on us at the very last minute and also they seemed pretty..... old. We decided to find a substitution for it but it was too late. I just had to go on and perform with "imaginary" blood.

"2 minutes till showtime". The nervousness was already kicking in! & me being ME. I kept jumping and hopping around to shake it off but it my energetic movies came to no avail. I could not stop peeking from the holes behind the black boards. The amount of people..... is just too many. I think Wandy over-invited too many people. I was really happy that both my close friends were there to support me as well :D

Everything went well until scene 2. I was too nervous that I actually cried on stage. Since it was a crying scene, i cried even harder to make it seem surreal. I could feel that I was May, instead of Sher Ryn throughout the whole scene. I kind of exaggerated a little on my crying because I was literally screaming but all I can say right now is that, I gave my all this evening. I really hoped everyone enjoyed the play. 

The cheers and woos from the audience definitely lifted my spirits which lead to bringing up a more energetic performance. I tried really hard to not break out of character even though all eyes was on the screaming granny at the end. Thankfully I was able to resist and succeeded. 

I am so glad that both our groups did really well today. This is one of the most memorable course I've ever taken throughout my experience in ADP. Although it is Mr Rey's last semester here, I am really glad to be taken under his wing. I have learned so much from this class and also got out of my comfort zone. Thank you Mr Rey. All the best to you in future. See you this thursday! :-)

twennnnnty4

First things first, apparently our matchmaking scene didn't get the approval because it was pretty confusing for the audience :-( BUT we came up with something even better. Huhuhu. An epic ritual :D Kudos to YanZhang who found a really suitable song for our dance. Couldn't have done it without him!

We went all the way to Sri Hartamas to rent the costumes for our fellow mates, the bomoh, the chinese leader and not forgetting THE GRANNY! when Azri put on the dress and slapped on a wig while trying it out at the costume shop, all of us burst into laughter because it a really hilarious sight. Thank goodness he was sporting enough to play the granny. Dumdeedum, we also headed to Sunway the next day to get our props for the ritual scene.

ANYWAYS, dress rehearsals is TODAY! Hope everything goes well as PRACTICED. We can't afford to screw one month's worth of hardwork to waste! FINALS IS TOMORROW AYAIYAIYAI. I still do not feel the nervousness yet..... it'll kick in soon.

23rd

I am really happy to say that we're halfway through the bomoh scene! The scene starts of with a villager whose daughter is having a hard time finding herself a man and thus, BOMOH TO THE RESCUE! - by making a love potion for her. 

It was really funny seeing Ain covering her face with her hair because she acting as the not-so-pretty-looking daughter and the bomoh suggested to put her up on a match making website LOL. As i'm typing this out, my task is to find a scary song for our dance ritual, but it is TOUGH!! everything which i YouTube was irrelevant to what we needed. Sigh. This is gonna be tough. :-( I'm all worn out from practice tonight. Goodnight.

twennnnnty second

So far we have completed two whole scenes! The first scene would be a group of friends entering a  haunted house and end up the Ouija board. One of their friend gets possessed by the disturbed spirit in the end. The second scene will be the ghost having a conversation with the victim. Her dad would find her lying mercilessly on the floor and rushes to call up the doctor.

With the help of Shahirah & Ain, we practiced the stage combat where the victim would be thrown on the group without the ghost laying a finger on her. I practically threw myself on the ground at the first try and ended up with a bruise on my right arm. We also helped Minkyoung with the way she would've walked as a ghost who was chopped up into 99 pieces. We were all walking around in the room like lifeless zombies instead. We could only work on this tonight as not everyone came. Without their presence, there was nothing much we could do :| oh well, one more last scene to go!

21st!

Stayed back after moral class for practice again today. Its a month to the date of performance & we've not come up with anything yet! Today we practiced screaming in one of the ADP classes while other students were busy studying for their finals. (SO HARDWORKING!)

With the help of minkyoung, i got to learn to develop my scream. Based on my last post, I could only scream whenever someone else does it first. This was BAD NEWS to my fellow group members. We also practiced the scene where the possessed girl was to be dragged out of the scene helplessly. I was sweeping the floor with my clothes and to be honest, I hated it. I know that it is all part of the show and that sometimes you will have to sacrifice some stuff. Sigh.
Note to self, bring a jacket along instead! OH! and guess what? Azri will be playing a female role. It'll be a surprise! ;) Stay tuned.

20th

Hmm, so basically our "Malaysian Ghost Stories" was a little too complicating. It was supposed to be a group of students sitting around the campfire sharing ghost stories but we didn't get to do it. Mr Rey suggested that we did a bomoh ritual based on the mime putri, and we thought, "hey, why not?" it would still be a horror play except that we needed a possession to take place.

guess who had to play the role of the possessed girl? ME :-(
I honestly did not like the idea of it in the first place because there was no way I could be able to channel the inner ghost girl in me but everyone thought it was a great idea. Worst of all, I was told that there would be lots of screaming when playing the role of a possessed girl. SCREAMING isnt my thing at all! I would feel terrified and I would only scream whenever someone else did or when I was at the peak during a roller coaster ride. AHH! I hope i would be able to pull this off. *fingers crossed*

19th

Staying back in college on a tuesday night. We had fun tonight anyways.

We didn't know which story to start of with......... so we went with Azri's story.

It was about a family who was on the Karak Highway back to their hometown when they came across a night market at 3 am in the morning. They bought the food from the street vendors and returned to their car to find out that the food which they bought had turned into worms.

Azri was playing the dad's role with Wandy as the mother. Yan Zhang & I were to play as the siblings. Minkyoung was the vendor (the ghost) who would be selling "pau suri" with the help of shahirah. Ain was to act as a child on the tricycle while Behnood were to flip burger patties. OH! and Mark was our narrator.

I could not stop controlling my laughter when Wandy started flirting with Azri while being in their roles. We also came up with a pet name for him to call Azri, that was "honey mustard". I have no idea how we came about but it was just frickin' hilarious :D 

we practiced a couple of times and we have to show at least 2 mins of our performance to mr rey. hope it all goes well!

Eighteen

For class this morning, we had the chance to act with the masks which Mr Rey brought. Different people channeled a different characters from those masks. I got to pair up with Minkyoung and Wandy as we were the last group to perform. We were to channel out a bunch of high school students, having fun on a friday night. We had such a wild night partying, drinking and smoking the night away. When Mr Rey mentioned "smoking", I pulled out a cigarette from my pocket and started to smoke away when all of a sudden, Wandy handed me another stick. I had no choice but to be puffing both sticks and getting really stoned for awhile there. There  was also excessive drinking and the three of us ended up vomiting on each other. It was really fun, being able to act foolishly with the masks on our faces.

Severnnn-teen

TODAY was the first meeting we had as a groupie. There was Wandy, Ain, Shahirah, Azri, Minkyeoung, Behnooh and yours truly :D

We did not know what we should come up with for our final performance so one of us suggested to share different stories of different genres to help us decide on what to do. The first topic we did was embarrassment, I definitely had a lot to say but what I experienced was a very personal thing but I did tell them about the incident where I got into a stranger's car by accident, which was written in the chagrin & embarrassment blog post. 

The next topic was romance. I LOVE ROMANCE NOVELS. Practically i loved anything that involves LOVE. It gives me this gooey feeling on the inside whenever I read a good story on love or accomplish a tough maths question. I personally had some encounters with love as well. It was a experience which I would never ever forget. I still felt sad when I told the story, it had a huge effect on me.

We hopped on to the next topic, which was horror. I personally never had any experiences because I refuse to acknowledge the existence of the supernatural. I do not know if they exist but I sure do not want to know as well. Wandy & Azri had a list of stories to tell us. Azri had some personal experiences himself and when they were talking about it, I could feel the goosebumps on my arm. 

Thus we concluded that we were going to do a horror themed play. :D Can't wait!

SIIIIIX-TEEN

For class today, we did our play for a couple of minutes. The title for our play is "Malaysian Ghost Stories". We came up with 3 stories the first one was about a family driving through the Karak Highway to find out that there was a "pasar malam" (night market) at 3AM in the morning. Feeling hungry and tired, they got down and bought food from the vendors. They began to open up the food boxes to find out that there were worms instead of food. When they turned around, the vendors had all vanished into thin air and they sped off to their destination feeling scared.
The second scene was about a man driving at midnight while passing by a school when he saw a little girl pushing her bike. He winded down the window and asked what was she doing so late at night, then he came to his senses. What was a little girl doing in the middle of the night at an empty street?
The third story was about a mother and her daughter who woke up to having the same dream. In the dream, the mother was a puppeteer controling her daughter ( the puppet). The next morning, the girl found bruises on her arm which she had encountered from her dream last night.
BUT in the end, this was not the story which we came up with. More details in the group journals :D

The other group was to do a high school romance play and I thought it was pretty cool since there was going to have a pregnancy scene and lots of mushy mushy love. I personally favour love stories. Love stories make me feel all gooey on the inside and to be honest, I can't wait to watch the outcome of their play!

After watching the performance, we did an exercise where we were to pull our muscles and bust out various energetic moves. We were dancing around, hopping and jumping from place to place and after all that hassle, Mr Rey gave instructions to lie on the floor in a sleeping position. He told us to empty our minds and I could feel my heart beating rapidly every second. We were to think of the people around us, our closest friends and the one we've drifted apart. We were to imagine that there was an imaginary camera zooming away and to us. I imagined my life as a movie which was being recorded. Haha. Anyways, it was a very calming and soothing exercise which nearly drifted me to sleep but i managed to control my eyelids. Thinking of the person who drifted away from me has made me realize how much I've missed them.

Feeve-teen

Today's exercise was about picking up random words while conversing with a partner. Mine was Ainan and we both came up with talking about the subject we both love and he was ranting something regarding molecules (i think?), while I was just yabbing away about my love for MATHS, about how much I L-L-LO-LOVVVV-LOVEDDD it. I began explaining to him that after solving a question each time, there would be  this feeling where it gives a huge relief and a sense of satisfation. It makes me feel like the world a better place. :D Anyways, it was hard to catch up with Ainan in the first place but i got the hang of it during the second round. He was talking about the experience he had when he was in Egypt while I was talking about how much I missed baking. I caught up with one of his words, which was a "RAT" and we just went about talking about a cake in a shape of a rat which exploded and that there was red goo everywhere. I got to pair up with Matt later and we were talking about unsatisfying problems/things in our lives. We sort of ran out of topic and ended up talking about disatisying things our mothers did for/to us, but it was all well!

Later, a couple of us went up on stage and debated about argumentative issues that we the nation are facing. Whether it was about the environment, taxes or dissatisfying political issues. I had an environment topic which I was going to talk about but someone came up earlier and talked about it before I did. :(((( It kinda brought up an imaginative and lively scene where a leader was advocating the public about all sorts of awareness.

BGR - a personal experience

George. He was ravishingly handsome. Every girl adored him and wanted him for themselves. In their eyes, he was the total package. Tanned, good looking, smart and charming as well. With a snap of a finger, he could have anyone in the palm of his hands.
Corrine, a feisty little character. T girl who would pick up a fight and an argument with just anyone. Her actions were rough and tomboy-like and people would be scared of her, BUT she wasn't like the rest of the girls. The both of them were the exact opposite.

Every time they meet, they would get into a physical fit like cats and dogs where she would be pinching him while he would be messing around with her hair. Everyone thought they were cute together but no one had expected anything to happen between the both of them. Their friendship blossomed into a beautiful but shy relationship. In the halls when they passed by, the both of them would smile shyly at each other but they had tons to tell each other when they got home. Their relationship was pretty much based on texting and chatting online. Technology played a huge part in this relationship.

The relationship went ON and OFF for a year, because she could not come out of her "shy" shell whenever she talked or met up with him. A couple of weeks later, he started hanging out with Andrea (one of the girls who were swooning over him), and news then spread that they were going out together. Corrine had to find out about the truth and texted him countless times but he barely replied. All she got was only one word replies. She finally gathered up her courage and asked him in the face about what was happening and whether the it was true, but he explained to her that it was a DARE which one of his friends had set him up with. She was left hurt and heartbroken from this boy who toyed with her feelings lied to her face. Andrea had something planned for Corrine, she gathered her group of friends and started to mess around with Corrine while trying to pass the message to back off and that George belonged to only her.

A couple of months later, Corrine found out that George had left Andrea for her best friend, Sonia. Corrine could not believe it. HER VERY OWN BESTFRIEND. She only found out about during a trip with her friends when both George and Sonia were acting so weird. It broke her heart when she found out that her best friend betrayed her. Being the friend that she was, there was nothing she could do but just watch them together. Due to this, it brought Corrine closer to Andy, one of George's mate. He was always there to comfort her, make her feel better about herself. He was there for her whenever she needed him.

Corrine had a really hard thing to deal with things. George was her very first boyfriend and he used her, just like that. This action brought her to plot a revenge against George. She wanted him to pay for what he did to her. For one last time, she managed to make him fall for her again, but this time she planned a really harsh ending to this relationship. She treated him the way he treated her. Love and affection at the very first stage, then avoidance and frustration at the end.

Its been years since this incident and Corrine is with someone who makes her happy, but whenever the name "George" pops along, she would still feel the heartbreak and betrayal. She did forgive him in the end, but the bitterness still lingered in her heart.

NADIRAH

The story of Nadirah is about a single mother who converted to a Muslim who finds love and companionship with an old friend who happens to be of a different race. As their relationship develops, they decided to get married and broke the news to Nadirah, her daughter. She was a devoted Muslim who could not accept the fact that the man who her mother is marrying to isn't converting to a Muslim and they were going to have a civil marriage. At the end of the play, she  begins to accept him as part of the family after seeing how happy her mother was again.

I was excited when i saw the name "Neo Swee Lin" in the list of the cast. I have been a fan of hers eversince I was young when they televised the Singapore comedy sitcom "Phua Chu Kang". During the play, she somehow channeled some of the "Ah Ma" character during some silly moments in the play. I was really excited to watch her perform. The story tugged at my heartstrings when Nadirah had an argument with her mother and also when she "manja-ed" with her. It reflected the relationship that I have with my mum. It was a really touchy scene that tears began to swell up in my eyes. Basically the story was about how much a single mother struggled to bring her daughter up alone by herself and facing racial issues when she was about to remarry. I enjoyed watching the play!





Thanks Mr Rey for reccomending it to us!

ROMANTIC FOOLS

It was a humorous play, a really good one. The storyline was about both women and men, what they expect from each other (in terms of love and relationship) and what usually happens when their expectations gets a little too high. It's basically what most people go through in the journey of life while finding for a potential candidate to be their "soulmate". During the play, the actors projected their voice loud and clear as well as their body movements. That was a tip which I picked up for our performance for finals. Overall, the actors did a really great job and I had a wonderful time bursting into laughter despite their string of dirty jokes. I'm really glad we went for the play.