not so boring things about the boring, blur me

Few days after i deleted my post about MCO, i saw this article in The Star newspaper… Here’s a little of wad was written in the article, that I think the ppl of MCO shud read…

     When Pun KAi Loon decided tp play an active role in the DAMA orchestra over a decade ago, it was out of sympathy for it’s producer and music director Khor Seng Chew.

     "I found that he was surviving on roti canai and Maggi mee. It didn’t make sense to me that someone as talented as Seng Chew, who had already established himself as a national champion pipa player, had to live like this.

     " Many view Chinese music as second grade when in fact it is as good, if not better, than our western counterparts. So why are chinese musicians and instrumentalists not accorded the same respect? And why are they paid peanuts for their talent?

    " IT became my personal mission to use Dama as a platform to showcase these often overlooked talents," said Pun.

     Pun, who is the chief perating officer of SBF.com Sdn Bhd that runs cradit and information portal Creditassess.com, is also a director with PE Reserach, an economic and planning consultancy.

     "His love affair with Dama started in 1994 when he attended one of his shows. It was, according to him, love at first musical note.

     "My background is in English theatre and i studied acting with Mustafa Noor. So my knowledge of Chinese musicwas at that time rather limited. But with my fayjer’s influence, I became familiar with classical Chinese music. I didn’t know how beautiful it ws untill I attended the show."

     Because of his love for the arts, he started helping the then fledgling Dama by writing brief excerpts in English for its souvenir programmes, handling its English correspondence and playing jaga (security guard).

     Excerpt from The Star, ( Retelling of a classic, 18 august 2006, friday, The Star, Star Two, Music, page 6, By Li Ee Kee )

     As you can see, life as a Chinese orchestra member in a Western oriented school is hard… DAMN, FRIGGIN HARD!!! Be ready for it when you get a place in the exco board.

     BUT!!! like in the article… the ARE ppl out there who are English educated, YET, they strife for Chinese music… These are really ppl that i respect!! Besides Dama, PCC (profesional culture centre)  is also another GREAT organisation that is trying to promote Chinese music to the Western world… If you read The Star, there are like so many articles about Dama and PCCO ( CO of PCC). There’s a FAMOUS gu zheng teacher Based in Singapore that studied in MGS.. And she was as banana as us SMI guys… She can’t read chinese too.. and yet, she’s like soo sucessful now. ( She learned in Simson too.. see her picture framed on the wall.. she’s the girl in specs, receiving an award frm some Datin )

     Seriously… The fact that MCO missed the chance to go to PCCO’s concert yeaterday is such a waste… But, dun worry… They have concerts every year.. so just go to their website ( they have an English version ) http://www.pccorchestra.net/ They even have a forum in English.. Great news for us Banana SMI students… But.. Ahem.. the site has been revamped.. and it’s diff from how it was the last time i visited ( 2 years ago ).. so there’ no forum now.. sighz

     So, for those who want to read the "MCO blues" ( my post that i deleted), wait a while ar.. I will repost it again… and try to remember as much as i can about wad i wrote that time..

     So, i do guess there is still hope for MCO to steer towards sucess.. at least i can see that there’s more hope, albeit still small… BUT, with a good captain, the ship can seriously reach shore!!! ALL THE BEST!!!!

     I’ll still TRY to help in anyway that i can, although not as a player, or senior advisor, or a student advisor… In the mean time… Hopefully Choon Leong can carry on my role, with the help of Huoy Tyng.. Since I wun be in Ipoh…   

POOF!!! Just when i thought that drama was over, and that’s the most depressing phase of leaving school, comes the end of the Genting trip.. and the end of the Singaporean chinese drama series that i was watching (Bukit Ho Swee), and also the end of the comic that i was following, Death Note…

     It’s like… OMG!!! Wad is this.. is God trying to tell me sumthin here?? Is he really trying to tell me..( Imagine a big booming voice coming from nowhere, but everywhere ) "HARVEY… YOUR TIME HERE IN IPOH HATH ENDED… MOVE ON, AND ONWARDS TO YOUR NEXT DESTINATION….."

     It’s like… Hell crap lar… Bukit Ho Swee has such a nostalgic ending… cuz it was a flashback of the main character.. Death Note ended with the death of my favourite character, Mello… It’s like Ish… yea… enough la… Enough of sad endings la.. UGH… all these things added up to make my sadness of leaving worse.. WHY IS GOD DOING THIS TO ME!!!!

     Well… I really do believe that things happen for a reason.. that my moving away is all part of God’s plan… Well.. Our God does work in mysterious ways… For example… leaving Johore to come to Ipoh has made me a more quiet person, and humbled me.. cuz.. well, in Johore.. The english there is so friggin bad, that ppl there automatically assumes that a person who can speak English is from Singapore, or in my case, they’ll ask my mother.. " ta de pa pa shi wai guo ren ar? " meaning, "Is his father a foreigner?"….

     Well, to me, if i were to stay there, i’d probably be a *censored* snob being too proud of my English.. Cuz livin here in Ipoh really opened up my eyes.. and made me realize that my English is not dat good anywayz..

     And it is in Ipoh dat i found my passion for music, learned to swim, learned a new chinese dialect (cantonese)… All in which cannot be found or learned in Johore.. So, i guess dat leaving Ipoh would bring me even more experience guar…

     For now, i could juz hope and pray and wish dat life outside of Ipof does not suck… I’ll sure miss everyone in Ipoh… 2 more weeks left in Ipoh… sighz..

     KYRIE ELEISON!!!!!! ( God have mercy )….

Sunday, August 20th, the whole drama production crew sang the school rally for the last time at the end of the school drama with full of spirit, including me. To the others, it marked the end of the drama. To me, it marked the end of me being a student of SMI… The LAST time for me to sing the the school rally.

     I guess  it’s the best way to leave school.. finally redeemed myself through the drama after the failure of performing my best during the choral speaking when i was in form one… The guilt is still there even after 5 years since the incident.. That incident really broke me and made me into a different person..

     During the drama audition, part of me was hoping i would not get a role.. or even if i got one, i hoped for it to be a small role.. The fear of me blundering on stage again really made me feel stressed..

     Oh well, i got the part of a gargoyle, quite a big part, to me, at least.. Accepted it and… finally completed the task… well, did blunder a tiny bit, in which the audience din realize.. So… YEAH!!! Did make me feel a little better..

     It’ll be hard for me to leave school after knowing so many weird people from the drama… for example… my female gargoyle partner, Suksimaran Kaur… the only girl whom i know who throws expletives like it’s nothing and drives like a drunkard.. not to mention perverted as well… ahem… And of course the siren, Premitha, My make up and wardrobe assistant, Yow Jen and the twins, Mei Ling and Siew Ling..

     And hahahaha… got to know that Jessie and Hilyan thought my hair looked like dry grass… Ahem.. Din know that they were laughing at my hair in class untill the last day.. OK la.. so i dun comb my hair… you’ll laugh harder if i do comb it and probably suffocate to death due to laughing  if i "spike" my hair..

     SO, i’ll be leaving in..about 3 weeks time.. Hmm.. have to start buying stuffs to go to my new place… NOT Kelantan… Puh-lease… whoever said i was going to Kelantan is such an Idiot… It simply means he dun know me at all… CUZ… I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT CHAR SIEW AND SIEW YOKE…. and it soooo hard to get those in Kelantan… even if I get full scolarship to further my studies there, i’m sure to reject it man….