Lantai T. Pinkie April 30, 2006

Lantai T. Pinkie ( Istana Budaya )-

Bahasa Melayu 29/4/2006

My boyfriend decided to treat me and my parent to watch a play. At first, we chose The Suzana @ 60 because this theatre was a musical of 60’s era and my parent love music so much. Unfortunately, my grandfather fell sick, so my parent had to balik kampung .

 

Several weeks later, we booked the Lantai T. Pinkie. The tickets was quite expensive to me but we have to since the view for the cheaper seat will make all of us ‘sakit tengkuk’ after the play end. It was on 29th of April, and it was also a hectic and tiring day because my parent help me to move to my new rented home.

Later in the evening we have had to get ready for the show. My parent, especially my mom was so delighted as this is her first time to go to theatre, and to make it more special, it was a treat by her menantu-to-be (son-in-law).

 

The Lantai T. Pinkie was based on karya of Datuk A.Samad Said starring by Nasha Aziz (T.Pinkie), Azizah Mahzan (Nyai Sunarti), Jalaludin Hassan (Wak Merdeka), Vanida Imran (Siti Udaya), Abby Abadi (Musalmah Jiing), Safura Yaakob(club singer) and Soong Ai Ling (Puteh Su Abdullah).

 

The plot of this play is about T.Pinkie who was the most beautiful, a sexpot and most popular dancer at Bunga Joget Moden Club, Singapore in 1952 . She also dated Muhairi who was an accordion player also at the club.

Her real name is Tengku Siindahkuno binti Tengku Afraruddin. Whilst the “T” in T. Pinkie is actually referred to “Tonggek” and the”Pinkie” referred to her favourite to wear pink kebaya.

 

One day she was kidnapped and raped by a gangster named Si Gonjuloh. No one in the club know where she had been including Muhairi. Si Gonjuloh forced T.Pinkie to marry her and they had daughter Anirah. T. Pinkie had been living in misery.

Until one day, Si Gonjuloh said the talaq and T.Pinkie escaped to Muhairi. Si Gonjuloh and his gangs search for her with intention to kill her. While T.Pinkie was so afraid and asked Muhairi to take her far away from Singapore. They ran to Telok Melano Sarawak. But later T. Pinkie died because of the Confrontation War.

 

I think in this play, Vanida is sexier than Nasha in term of wearing kebaya. While Nasha is sweet enough to be Pinkie and she sang well too. The play was for a charity brought by Persatuan Penulis Wanita Malaysia (PPWM) as a tribute to our late Datin Paduka Seri Endon Mahmood wife of our Prime Minister. Since the producing budget is limited so the song was only a miming and there is no orchestra. Oh, how I wish to see they sing with orchestra. Well, to put it in a nutshell, all of us really enjoy the play.

 

Quotes: “Nyanyian begitu bukan kerana mabuk arak. Mereka mabuk lain. Aku tak bohong, Pinkie. Mereka terpesona kerana punggungmu. Punggung..punggung tonggekmu itu masa depanmu, Pinkie”- Muhairi Tirus

Oh kalkulator… April 12, 2006

Yesterday was my last paper of my final exam for this term. Gabra pun ade, happy pun ade. Ye la gabra memkirkan boleh ke aku jawab exam ni, dan whoaa…seronoknya menjelang pukul 5 petang nanti I will be merdeka, yeayyy!!!

The exam will start at 2.30pm. Since my boyfriend will be busy on that day he decided to send me to the venue in the morning so that I can meet up my friends and had final group studies. As same as two exam I sat before, it was at Uniten.

I arrived there at 10.30am and I realized that the was not as crowded as before but I did not care. All I had in my head was, the exam itself. Suddenly I realized that I left my calculator at home. How should I answer the Financial Management exam without calculator?

Then I called one of my classmate to bring an extra calculator because I already arrived at Uniten.”Linda,ko buat ape kat Uniten?”said my friend.Confindently I replied, “Eh, kan kita exam hari ni. Linda sampai awal sbb nak study lagi sket..”.And he said “Wei, exam bukan kat Uniten lagi dah la. Final paper ni kat UIA Gombak…”.”Alamak, biar betul. Mati la Linda…”, I screamed.

Ha dengan langkah yang panjang, aku menapaklah ke jalan besar nak tunggu teksi punya pasal. Dekat setengah jam tunggu takdok jugak teksi. Sambil tuh dok call kawan tuh, dok ngadu kat kawan nih  sana, nangis sini…yelah ati dah risau takut tak sampai ke UIA. Yelah dari Serdang ke Gombak tak ke dari nun hujung sana ke nun hujung sini. Public transport kat KL ni bukannya efficient sangat.

Nak dijadikan cerita, at that moment I just call my boyfriend once to tell him my problems. After that I did not dare to cry over phone to him I know it was my fault for being careless. I just let him call me and that would be better. Kalo dok ngadu mesti kena marah balik nanti.

At last I selamat sampai ke library my campus and some of my friends had been waiting there and we together went to the UIA gombak. It was quite embarassing and almost all my coursemate made joke that one of their friend went to Uniten to sit for the exam ALONE! Who else..the one and only Chix at Six….