M A S K A R A

- Rumah Pena, 29 September 2012.

"Usaikan semua sendu, usaikan semua itu... Karna waktu tak menunggumu..." Friska, Bali. 

Ramai-ramai berbantai, isi perut, jenguk-jenguk buku jualan. Aloy Paradoks ada depan meja promote filemnya. 2 rakan seperjuangan tolong promote skali. KONTRADIKSI, menarik. Dah pun beli dan tengok. Seni & mesej bercampur kasar & halus. 

Org ramai sibuk berborak, gelak ketawa mungkin lama xjumpa. Banyak muka2 berpengalaman. Dah lama x jenguk sisi sastera diri aku sendiri. Last ke Istana Budaya pun tengok Nora. Malam tu aku excited, teringat zaman menari kebudayaan, zaman tunas budaya, darah seni tiba2 naik. I'm sure ramai tetamu lain pun rasa. Apatah lagi kumpulan ahli seni yg berkumpul ni.

Aku minta permission jenguk ke dalam rumah agam, teringin tengok 'behind the scene'. Persiapan sederhana tp terasa mesra. Satu kain putih dilukis jadi backdrop acara Maskara, tukang anjur ke sana ke sini cuba selesai apa belum selesai. Semuanya nampak teratur dan santai. Penyajak dari Bali dah sampai, sound check dengan guitarist. Kat luar makin ramai. Macam kenduri yang happening. Ada dengar gurauan antara pengkarya, tapi xfaham. Inside jokes, "untuk kita2 aja" = ) .

Emcee berbaju putih kasual. Beri mesej santai. Umumkan semua sila masuk, duduk mana2 yang boleh duduk. Aku cepat2 cari plugpoint. Lumrah pemilik iPhone sedunia.
Tetamu jauh dulu, Friska mulakan acara. Puisi dia tenang, taking her own sweet time, penonton semua tengah fresh lagi. Semua dengar khusyuk. Ada yg record, ada yg tulis nota di buku, di smartphone. Friska banyak pengalaman, bak kata emcee sampai ke France. No wonder she steals the whole thunder. Cantik, pakai skirt, lagi la sedap mata memandang kan. ; ) . Sampai ke hujung puisi dia, ada yg dah hilang tumpu.

Aloy Paradoks pula masuk curi tumpuan dengan lawak casual tp menyindir. Berjaya dia 'break the ice' dgn semua. Ada je bahan usikan dia. Semua ketawa, dari formal Friska tadi jadi santai kembali. "Terbuai", "Rindu Yang Sakit". Puisi dia berani & sekejap2 buat lawak dia. Sempat juga selit puisi "Angin" berbunyi --> shhhhhhhhhh*bunyi angin*... memang seronok tapi mungkin kadang2 meleret. Hati seni, memang subjektif.

Sampai ke Sharifah Munira, pelajar Aswara, puisi jadi berat. Sarat dengan maksud2 tajam & dalam. Berpakaian formal shiffon warna terang, macam nak ke Istana Budaya. Imej terjaga, Alhamdulillah.
"Puisi Hati Seorang Wanita", "Tanah Emas", kandungan puisi typical pengkarya selalu cari. Tapi sbg wanita, mmg tersentuh dgn puisi dia. Kena tepat & rasa dekat. Audience lain pon khusyuk mendengar, walaupun berat tapi bersemangat. Masuk pula rakan se-Aswara, Sara Sam. Kali ini relaks, puisi tentang Facebook, BFF dan frienemy. Harap2 ada yang sentap. Bagus, buat kita tak lupa. Puisi solo Sara lebih intimate, "Joget kita pada bisikan kalbu
Seandainya alam telah setuju". Nice!

Masuk ajamiha. Feat Riz. Dibaca cerpen dari buku nya, aku dan lain2 dah mula sengal2 badan, tukar posisi duduk. Bukan salah sesiapa, fitrah alam. Tapi makin ramai bertumpu. Sampai jengah2 dari tingkap. Bila aku kembali fokus, tau2 aku da bergenang air mata. Kenapa? Sila beli buku CerpenTwitter by Ajamiha. Mungkin terbayang kalau monolog2 yang dia baca tu, terbit dari diri sendiri. Tambah pula iringan guitar sayu. Cover2. Malu kalau aku sorang menangis. Tengok org lain steady je. Ada jugak yang mata da tembus dinding. "pada akhirnya semua yg perlu dikatakan dah dikatakan. Yang diingati hanya Hello dan Goodbye" agreed. Tiba2 dia tukar mood misteri. Nasib baik. Kalau dia teruskan conform air mata jatuh punya. Lantaran, beli sahaja buku dia. RM15, sewaktu intermission. Last copy! Nasib baik. Riz pula nyanyi lagu ciptaan dia yg baru siap dalam kereta tadi. "Twitter". Suara sedap, good looking, pandai main guitar pulak, maka jadila dia Mr.Twitter aku dan kawan2. = ) ~

Overall acara Maskara berjalan lancar, santai tapi penuh simbolik seni. Intipati dan material persembahan menepati audience. Bahasa & lenggok bicara sesuai dengan penerima. Yang berat juga masih dalam lingkungan relevant, dan yang casual semestinya kenal benar bakal penonton. Suasana meriah & mesra, makanan pun sedap, air sirap merah dari jauh dah diidamkan. Aku pulang dengan 1 movie, 1 buku & beribu rasa. Malam itu malam yang baik. Tak sia2 malam minggu aku sekali sekala 'jumpa' hati seni diri sendiri.

Kepada pengkarya, TERUSKAN. 

By : Diyana Mohd Amin
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Aaaahhh now i think i'll be having more time for this. Well hello again dearies! Muahhxxsss!

English Drama_TKC visit 2010

It wus 2 weeks back already! haha...but somehow I only managed to write this down now.. on 27th March 2010, there goes the English Drama a.k.a ED held annualy at the very same legendary hall, Dewan Budiman...

we arrived rather late, tak sempat form 1's play...(being said wus quite a cool play)...the hall was super full, as always all students merata2, some were still getting ready kat house lounges...with their costumes & props...parked @ padang (tanah tumpah peluhku, ^_^) then shoot straight to d'hall..titans0004 ramai da smpai, ada illinani,pyko,natq,ayie,iedadie,syaru',matun,elly,k.yat,dydo,chem and myself...

THE PLAYs were all in all had been modernized ! we used to have lavish dresses, victorian/egyptian props & all sorts!! But nowadays they all just patch things to clothes and add some tail~~ it sure affected by those modern storylines and such a simple concepts…well not to say we’re super great last tyme but there were some values missing already…*sigh* but I guess that’s a good change? I dunt knw~

But the side effects, props & the ever-awesome smoke machine effect’s more or less still there, tho… and those dances?? Haha they’re in PCD-Gaga era after all~~btw, the winners are as follows;

• Best Overall play : 5th Formers
  
• Best Senior play : 5th formers


• Best Junior play : 2nd formers (wut happened 3rd formers??)
  

These were the few I managed to snap2 during the show…kinda more excited on getting back to college & meeting teachers actually!! Huhu~

And guess wut, kitorang overnyte kat Sickbay!! weEeeEee~~~ huhu…after 6 years!! Well, that’s gonna be a whole new post!! Wonder if 1 page is enough to write about
“A walk in the memory lane”!!

till then~

#d.i.y.a.n.a property#

Titans 0004 : 5th formers "THE TRUTH"

[courtesy of Illinani]

*Martian Child*

After came back from murni discovery last nyte, I watched this movie Martian Child.

It is a story about a widowed guy (John Cusack) who adopted this 7 y.o boy, and decide to be a parent all by himself. (which of kors a young lady come to the rescue sometime in the story).
David (the widowed guy) works as a sci-fi scriptwriter and has a view of his own on sci-fi stories...

The interesting fact is that the child he adopted actually think he's from Mars...huhu...and he lives in a box all day long, come out only at nyte...read this, he actually think he's from Mars...and speak Martian language, do weird Martian stuff and well, this is what makes David adopt this weird child, cuz he loves space n sci-fi too..and so he thot he cud slowly change the boy...

Due to his weirdness, the school once again drop him off, and he makes almost everybody uncomfortable with such behavior...everybody but David...so it's basically one of those stories about father-son struggle to stay connected to each other...and the adopt agency wants to set them apart n bla..bla..bla...and later the boy admits that he's just pretending to be different for the sake of attention and doesn't feel belong...to anybody...

The thing I like about this movie is that how children interprets situation very imaginatively and how far they can reach...this boy is actually really thot he's from Mars at 1 point, because he doesn't want to be human (due to being abandoned by biological parents)...and he really feels that he's belong to nobody...till David steps in & believe in his qualities to grow up n become great man, and loved him and said that he's belong to David n family...

throughout the story it's actually very ease flow and hilarious moments between those boys, and cute scenes too..but then 1 emotional ending makes me feels like posting this view...it's a really touching scene where David reveals how much he loves the 'martian child' and that he does not care of the boy's weirdness, and he believes that it's actually extra intelligence this boy have...so beautiful moment that was...

"sometimes we forget that children have just arrived
on the earth...
they are a little like aliens coming into being,
as bundles of energy and pure potential,
here on some kind of exploratory mission...
and they're just trying to learn
what it means to be human..."

- Martian Child

it's just one of the way to make some people understand the presence of children, and the reason of their behavior...

so think before u react in front, or to any children...cuz it might affect them deeper n longer than we thot...

historical m.e.l.a.k.a~~

last time during our double bday celebration, managed to have some tour on the beautiful beautiful melaka!


waaaaa.....sgt cantik !! i mean, i left melaka like 10 years ago for boarding school @ seremban,
but of kors balik during choti, yet everytime i came back, there must've been some new stuff n changes n improvements in melaka...weee!~~*berbangga*


surely it's due to the fact that melaka is a small state, which makes it easier to manage..haha...
but that's the beauty of it kan?


so this time around, year 2010, there's already quite a bunch of interesting places to go to!
can't expect it to be like europe tour or sumthin, but sure, it's a whole comfort n entertainment of its own...

melaka for me sudah jadi negeri maju, as per the motto "MELAKA MAJU 2010", yet it's not as hectic and as tension as key-elle...KL surely where u wanna go when u r in need of fun, technology and high profile career, but it's always good to have a place like melaka to call home, where i can get back to all the time...wouldn't say it's THAT peaceful la, but still, a very harmony and soothing environment as soon as u passed the ayer keroh toll!


"terbersih,terindah"..."melawat melaka bererti melawat malaysia"...those are quite true, u know...:)


the famous red stadhuys building, A'Famosa, istana melaka, pengisytiharan merdeka tanah melayu,river cruise, menara taming sari, the legendary jonker street of peranakan baba nyonya heritage, the eye on melaka, masjid terapung, masjid tertua, and all sorts of taman buaya,taman rama2,ostrich park, A'Famosa Water World, museum org asli, MITC(melaka international trade centre)...


more to come! there'll soon said to be monorail, train to kl, water theme park like sunway lagoon, snow place n all sorts...not to mention the famous Ikan Bakar Melaka n asam pedas n cendol! huhu...


all in all...i thank God for the bless and kesejahteraan terbela...
love melaka so much!!!

yoga!

this goes to those who knew yoga, but never really had the time or effort to go n do it, not to those who already used to it & expert in it, cuz it's a beginner's note! huhu~~


went to my 1st yoga class this morning, and wow how my body had changed so much! i can't even do bridge properly neymore, let alone leg split or other bent like i used too! it's true what they say, body will not be loyal forever when we dunt treat it right?? haha....


wow...this frightens me,peeps!
i'm only 23! and yet this body? like 30's!! haha...nways, still got time as i will continue my exercise right from now on! well, i will not leave choc n candies, u know, but i surely will work out...


btw, back to the yoga, the steps are actually quite simple n easy to remember, but not really easy to do ok! i think maybe bcuz of the 1st tyme, will get better i'm sure...the bent, stretch, the balance, today quite sakit lagi...will do better!


and really, yoga's really good for mind n soul!
just when u thot u dunt have tyme for urself, for such thinking n relaxation, those 1 hour cud be the most comfort n relax time u've ever had! lots of good effects, for nasal probs, back ache, even prostate n womb health for that matter~~ haha...

well it's good to know that i'm not in a good shape n where i should improve,
i mean at least...better than not do neything at all yup??
so i suggest everybody , do yoga at any point of ur life, u hafta try n practice yoga..n pilates..
it's good even to help u to think straight...
this is of course, besides the wajib 5 waktu n solat sunat we're doing for faith n hopes n strength..

love yoga!

lov|n' the guts,effort, courage & talent!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Ky02oqjQU

super cool considering he's doing it all on his own!! quite a david archuletta look! would like to have my own acapella version too someday...the matter of time...:)

anniversary...

well as much as it's clearly not clear, it's actually the countdown for my anniversary! ngeee....check it out on FB! peace out

OMG Wisdom @ Twitter

Maya Angelou: "Never stop smiling, because you never know who is going to fall in love with your smile."

Wikiquote: "Dream the impossible dream and wake up and make it to the reality."


Watchmen: "If people are trying to pull you down, be proud about it, because it only confirms that you are above them."


Deepak Chopra: "Everyone wants to hear the truth until it hurts."


Kierkegaard: "There are 2 ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isnt true, the other is to refuse to believe what is."


"Never never and never lie to your self, cos it could become the TRUTH that you will regret."


Deepak Chopra: "The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."

...piece of mind...

for the beautiful bodies we were born with, dun't use them for all wrong reasons...

for the beautiful love we received everyday by God, family & friends, dun't run from them...

for the beautiful bless that we still got tomorrow to spare, dun't give up hope & faith...

for the beautiful lil brothers & sisters, nephews, lil cousins we had peace of looking at, dun't be a bad examples...

for the beautiful opportunities that come our way, dun't let any single one slip away...

for the beautiful days like we had, dun't fill them with hatred and revenge...

for this beautiful chance to live, dun't live to regret...