The Amateur Writer

So this literally happened about 3 hours ago. I rushed home right after the event+dinner to edit and write this post! Ahem. Let's start.

The spring air was cool and the flowers are looking more fabulous than ever. It had been really cold these past few days despite the sun. But the evening was just...perfect.

The Golds Awards is this highly prestigious event where the University honour students and clubs that have contributed to the arts and culture in Otago. OMSA got to be the finalist of this year's Society of the Year award for the third time running. We won the title last year so we were stoked to become a finalist again.

SO yeah....beautiful spring evening.

Cherry blossoms everywhereeeeeeee and what's waiting under the tree?

TWO CUTE GUYS! Haha!

Imran and Mark won the individual award due to their contribution to arts and culture scene here. They 100% deserved it! I'm so happy for you guys! :'D

From left: Imran and Mark all schnazzy in their suits to receive their award!

Me and Imran

The whole OMSA executives were there at the formal event. Not just to support these two but we just want to know who wins the club title!

The event was held in the council's chamber at the Clocktower. Pretty schmancy event, pretty much all the important people were there. God. One thing you should know about me is that I.ABSOLUTELY.HATE.FORMAL.EVENTS like this. Take me to a formal dinner...um yeah, I rather stay at home. Seriously.

Me and Mark!!

Ms Chua Yee Min - OMSA's Secretary II

Shaz! One of my good friends. I'm sure you've seen her around this blog!

ARGHHH JIN LIN!!! *fangirl scream* I don't know what but I love working with him!! He's OMSA's treasurer so he advices me on money stuff. SO yeah. Anybody who gives me worthwhile advices are good in my book.

*SIGH* I know. I need to have a close up picture of myself because I am that vain. Well...I maybe vain as a person but I do not like being in front of the camera! Video-wise yes but I HATE TAKING PICTURES!

Yes, Yang. We totally believed you...after how many pictures of yourself plastered in this post!

In front of the entrance of the Clocktower

So we finally part our ways and my god, I was hungry. I didn't exactly had lunch and I thought it was going to be a dinner thingy but no, they put us in a room (which we have to stand btw!) for two hours without proper dinner! LOL. I sound like one of those cheapskate people BUT I have a complaint that I need to make!

The finger food in that room was AMAZING but how come the waiters never come to me?! I ASK YOU WHY?!! (And don't you dare say because I'm fat and they're trying to help me lose weight because I will murder you...)

But um...yeah. Enjoy my night spring collection photos.

PS: The 2nd picture is my favourite! I wanted to make it my FB display picture but I think that will scare off any potential suitors so...I chose the last one instead. =_=

We had the Mahsuri and Intenational Cultural Night after/appreciation party roughly about two weeks after the show. My whole concept for the night was to just sit back and relax while watching the show (edited by our Mahsuri's official media officers) together. I love to see the cast's reaction from watching something that we have worked on for the past 6 months together.

And yeah, we had an abundance of good Malaysian food on hand so that was amazing!

The thing was, I went through a period of post-Mahsuri depression and I missed seeing my actors' faces. I missed having a reason to see them and just hang out although it is kind of hard to shed off the director role after all of this. (I try being more like a friend now. I really do. :'D ) I guess that's why I love doing theatre because you get to work with a group of people (with and without problems) and work towards this common goal. I like this concept very much. In a way, it's a very family-like situation and out of all the groups I worked with on this project, the actors are the closest to me. I see them every week for the past 6 months so to stop seeing them suddenly was...a shock for me.

That's part of the reason why I wanted to have this party because I was turning into such a corn ball. I missed them! :(

Me and Eric. Ignore Jie Ning. =_=

Chris! Don't be surprised if this guy starts speaking in Malay to you because he CAN! Awesome actor!

Danny (lighting guy) was um...having fun by himself with the pillows. Haha!

My Diva No.2 - Zariq. My very own bruno mars! He's one of the lead singers for Mahsuri.

Hafiz and Khairah (dancer)

From left: Eric, Me, Kaidi and Loh!

Some cast love. This is the type of naughtiness I had to deal with every rehearsal with the actors. The majority of my actors are guys and my god, they can be children sometimes. They would literally play tag and run around the studio. They caused me to pull my hair numerous times but never fail to make me smile. :)

Jane and Diva No. 1 - Fadzrel. He's one of my divas for Mahsuri. His deep soulful voice made Anuar Zain's Lelaki Ini his own.

Me and Sarah (Mahsuri!). She surprises me with her retardness constantly but her professionalism is...amazing.

Michelle Vincent. Beautiful girl with a beautiful voice! She's one of my lead singers as well.

Aaron!!

The OMSA committee was supportive as always. I get the feeling they knew it was kinda my night so they ended up organizing the whole thing! So NICE! Imran Fauzi and Jin Lin Wong, you guys are awesome! Despite all the shit I say/give you guys sometimes. :P

Mahsuri on big screen

Exactly how I imagined it to be :)

Much later after the book sale, I was hanging out with Secret Club at Meridian Mall when we were lucky enough to catch a flash Haka that's been taking NZ lately. IT WAS FREAKIN AMAZING!!!! I LOVE HAKA!! I LOVE FLASH MOBS!!! HAKAAAAAAA!!!

For a girl, you just go weak in the knees from watching the Haka. I personally believe (what the heck, all of the female population in NZ think the same too!) that Haka is freaking sexy. It's just hot. Besides, it's amazing how much respect people have for Haka here. People can do haka and the traffic will stop. Dont believe me, youtube it. It's everywhere!!

I woke up with HOPE that the dendengs this year will be a success. I've never cooked it while fasting so I'm a bit worried. Hence, I'm relying on apek and amoi to taste it for me.

Dunedin has been awesome lately. I think we've finally gotten out of our winter so spring is coming and my god, the days are so sunny! And surprisingly hot sometimes. I LOVE SUNSHINE! This is a view from my balcony.

We burned our tongues. Turned out that I cant trust apek and amoi in tasting because my god, the dendeng is H.O.T!! Of course the finger pointing turned to me because I was the head chef but this blog post is my space so I'm telling this story in my own interpretation!! >_> I was a bit generous with the blended cili kering....but generous is good! I want more flava!

I blame JIE NING for saying it's already nice and TIM for saying it's already sweet! Hence, I put more chili coz I need to balance the flavour wat!

Anyways, this is the least bit of raya stuff I'm involved with this year because the next day we're off to Queenstown!

I ski-ed on pagi raya. Like a total badass.

But that's another story. ;)