The first film we watch...

Hmm...  After Miss Raja takes over Miss Carmen, we have received a new assignment which is film review... It's sound interesting, but after doing it, I realize... it's quite though.

The first we watched is Perempuan isteri and Jalang. I think this is the first Malay film that I watched finish, but that's some parts I've  missed cause I fall asleep. For me, after watching this film... I feel like why we are watching this kind of film..... and is a bit "weird" (I dunno have to use which word), cause why the husband Amir wanted to sell Zaleha, and why after sell Zaleha he want to get her back and treat her like a dog, and why Amir has this powerful right to sell Zaleha as a prostitute.
Actually we can see that, in this film, that generation of Malay girls not everyone wearing tudung, but it's still in a quite feudal age. Besides, I feel that the acting is a bit exaggeration, and the video quality is not that good.

Here's our film review~ Please check it out!

The BIG durian

The first watching this "docudrama" in the tutorial class, to be honest, I've fallen a sleep~
I have no idea what are they talking about (but at least I know is something about operasi lalang), I just remember the uncle said Adam's brother have been killed by a Sultan and that's all.

But today I rewatch again on youtube, I still not really get it, due to my poor English and malay~
So... I google it what is operasi lalang in chinses which is "茅草行动", and slightly get what are they talking about, what is operasi lalang and what was happening during 1987.

Honestly, I have really no interest and dunno much about politics... But for some reason, I'll still do some research for it.

Back to the topic about Operasi lalang.... hmm... Actually, I really have no comment about it, because all of us haven't born yet and we can't feel the atmosphere of the environment... but we can know that time is one of the darkest period of democracy in Malaysia...  from then till now the Malaysian politics are always on the dark side, always spared the racial riots, cover the truth...

Just now interview my parents, "do you know what is operasi lalang?" my dad said: "oh... 茅草行动 lah...that time Mahathir indiscriminate catching people due to the chaos period..." I ask "you guys still when to work as usual on that period," my mom said: "of course, our boss said we didn't participate in this kind of things... blah blah blah..." and dad said due to the operasi lalang what Mahathir had done, and now is his retribution...

Is an interesting way in watching a "docudrama" to knowing our Malaysia history... and I know why is important to know our history... so we can know that what are those artists try to bring out the message   :D

week 3 class, What's in my mind~

Week 3 lecture class, we have talked about what is Art and introduced to us some Malaysian's artist, and Ms Carmen said in our generations many of us are only know kpop, jpop or others country artists, we are less knowing with our local artists... I admit that I only know a few of Malaysian's Chinese artists that often appear on TV and some famous director like Yasmin Ahmad and Chiu Keng Guan... I agree with it, it is a big problem and bad incident in knowing well others country artists rather than our own country.

But instead of talking our well knowing, why don't talk about the quality of our local artists and the media problem. Our local media such as Astro, they often broadcast others country drama, entertainment news or others country variety shows, and that also my family habit seldom watch the local content channel, therefore, we really have no idea with those Malay artists or others local unfamous artists. To compare the quality of our local artists and other country artists, apparently our local artist are slightly inferior, maybe they have no enough training or other problems. Of course, there are many of them like Fish Leong, Michelle Yeoh, Christopher Lee and etc. they are famous Malaysian artists but all of them are develop in overseas therefore they only have this achievement in nowadays.

It is really important to knowing our local artists in our broadcasting field...but sometimes I really think of why I'm not born in Korea or study overseas there so that I can only knowing their local artists instead of knowing those that I'm not interested with. However, I'll try my best to know some of them and... I'll still continue my k-popper life~~ >.<

But I'm still proud of being a Malaysian~ 

#TanahAirku @ KLCC

Yeah... so finally we have visited the gallery that we wont walk in by ourselves.

As you can see, Utarian has occupied the escalator =.=

For the first question, why the exhibition titled as #tanahairku, because the want to remind Malaysian that Malaysia is still our home, many memories we have left where the place we grown up, and also let the foreigners know this is how Malaysian grew up in 3 ethnics country. I think this is an appropriate title for the exhibition, as the exhibition has shown the kopitiam/mamak store, the classroom, the public phone and road sign board with those annoying stickers, all this things really demonstrated what is Malaysia, and YES! this is my home my country! 

Actually that's many objects that evoke my sense of Nostalgia, such as the congkak, the black & white chess, and the cabinet (inside the kopitiam), but I choose the classroom, I feel it's significant to me. Although the classroom design is quite old, the times table behind the exercise book, crayon, the louver window.... really recall my primary school memories, we have duty every week, doodled the black broad... I really wish there's a time machine can bring back to the past, meet someone I won't meet again, to experience again what am I thinking that time.

Because i'm from Chinese independent school, I've no chance to wear this SMK uniform. Thanks for this exhibition to let me experienced and now I know how I looked like when I wearing this uniform >.<

The Time Capsule

As a Malaysian, if I have the opportunity to propose contributing 1 item to this time capsule, i will choose a lantern that made by aluminum can, and this lantern was made by my grandma when I was a little girl.

As a 90's, which also a Chinese, we do celebrate lantern festival or a.k.a moon cake festival with friends and neighbors and we'll placing around the candles or bringing our lantern to walk around in our Taman (feel memorable ^_^ ).

The reason I choose the aluminum lantern is because when was a little kid, my grandma often made it and I was sitting beside her to observe that how she made it (Indeed my grandma is a very patient woman). While during the moon cake festival, our Taman have organised a DIY lantern competition, so we used the aluminum lantern in the competition, lastly we won the 1st prize (or 2nd... whatever...), we get a big prize which is a chinese tea set, I was so happy at that moment and this the very first big award in my entire life, it's really unforgettable.

Aluminum can Lantern made by my grandma 

The another reason I choose this is because it is aluminum, it won't get rusty, and it can still remain the shape. After 100 years when I opened it (if I can) it can helps me recall that this is made by my grandma (I proud to be her granddaughter) and this remind me that actually happiness can be very simple.