Fin

FIN:

It's quite confused now. I'm feeling happy and sad together. I'm happy because I don't have to write anymore blog posts anymore but I'm sad too because it means is a ending for the class. I need to wrap up this as my last blog post for the class. The question asked is: What do you learn from MMC class?

Honestly, I still in confusing about what the MMC lecture is about even it's last class. Sometimes, I can understand what it means but sometimes I can't understand at all. What I can remember is all related to field trip. Is field trip impact? Yes, of course. As we are engaging into it. The first field trip to NAG is not the first art gallery I've visited. I've actually visited an art gallery during my trip to Taiwan. It's a Taiwan University Art Gallery but then that time I don't really understand ARTS. After MMC, I suddenly realized life is actually an ARTS.

I've learnt visual arts, films, and performing arts. All these three is acting our life. We just put it in a object forms to let people see it, touch it and feel it. I still remember the first lecture, Dr Carmen asked us to write down the questions we want to ask. I can still remember the question I asked : What is actually Malaysia culture? As I don't think Petronas Twin Tower is our work due to the work done by Japanese and Korean. However, I think I have answer now. Malaysia culture is what has happen in Malaysia and people practice it. No matter is from which origin nation, if we practice it and change it into our own style, it is Malaysia culture. As I'm a Malaysian.

This is the class I've watched so many films that I've never watched before. Or I can say I don't want to watch before. As what I thought is very boring films, why I need to watch it? But then, now I know the hidden meaning of the films. It widen my knowledge about culture. No longer just me myself but then other people in the world. I learnt a lots especially thoughts. After this subject, I felt to visit more and more arts festival. It's very engaging not like I watching films at home like the third person. And some details I can't notice from watching TV because I know it will review behind the scenes but then for theatre is different maybe it just only once and unique. You will catch every details as well as you can.

Thank you culture and my lecturers. This lecture fulfilled a part of my life.

Review: Project Eve

Review:

During festival, the most places I've visited is the Lobby. There are a lots of performances on the floor. At first, I just wants to watched Teenage Dream, a theatre about a group of secondary school students and LGBT issue. But after the show, I've no ideas where to watch and visit so I decided to stay in the same place and wait. I like theatre than the other music or film types of performances. Theatre can carry a lot of feelings from my heart. And around evening, I watched Project Eve.

There are 3 female play in the theatre. Project Eve is starting with an opening of Adam and Eva story. Project Eve is talking about the growing process of the little girl to adults with her mother. Her parent divorce when she was young. Her mother always take care about her but then she is feeling annoying her mother too care about her. Her mother died when she was 14. She starts to think about her mother. She wants freedom and escape from her mother but then there are no longer her mother waiting her to come back.

It's very touch story until I cried when the show on going. I've argued with my mother the day before the trip. When I watched the theatre, I can relate to myself. I questioned myself, am I really need freedom than love from family? I felt sorry at the end of the show. I'm embarrassing that I can't even say sorry to my mother. Is not as easy as what I've watched from the theatre. In the theatre, she wants to apologize but there is no more chance. It's a very good story that carried out a deepest meaning. Before this theatre I've decided to write about Teenage Dream, but I changed my mind right after I watched this theatre. What I can't easily say through mouth, I hope I can express with words. If there has one more chance to watch in a hall or theatre hall, I wish I will be there to watch it again.

A little mistake made by the actors, she too nervous until she will forget a little bit words. But overall very good because if think another way, it can carry out how regretful she is. I hope I have a chance to watch it in a complete set of stage. It will be more impact.

Ps: There is no photos as I so engaged into it until I forgot to take a photo.

Mana-Manalogues: Kenapa Tak Tukar Nama?

Review


"Mana-manalogues: Kenapa Tak Tukar Nama?" is a theatre I've watched from the Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Festival. It's located in KLPAC. The theatre is about a Chinese lady named Mei Ying who wants to marry with a Malay guy. She has booked a honey moon flight trip with her future husband but all the process need her IC to proceed. She went to JPN to register her new IC as Islam religion but then she doesn't want to change her Chinese name. JPN called her for interview few times to persuade her to change her name to Muslim's name but she refused. Her daddy and mummy are very open minded people because they don't stop her daughter marry with Malay guy just they concern about the differences between Islam and Buddhist culture like when she pass away, she cannot bury in Chinese cemetery. 

After watching the whole 30 mins theatre, I've realized this theatre is talking about a very common issue that always happened in Malaysia but we don't really care about it as we are not the one who faced it. After the theatre I starts to think about it. Ya, why we need to change our name? We are Chinese, not only Muslim name has meaning, our Chinese name also has a unique meaning that mean to our parent. Mei Ying respects Islam culture as I have noticed she wear tudung when she goes to JPN, official public government area. She does respect the culture. Just she wants to marry with Malay guy, she need to abandon her parent? Who teach like this? Which book? Which law? Allah? God? or just the people created it and practice it? I believed that even Allah won't teach people to abandon their parents. 

I quite shocked when I watched the theatre, because she plays for all role such as her parent, JPN officers, staff and etc. It's really a difficult for people to act all plays. A little bit sad for those who doesn't know all the language as she is using Cantonese and Chinese languages to express her role. It's very nice when you understand all the languages. I did not miss out anything. Just the space provided quite small. I can't even see when she is behind the bar. Honestly, I haven't reach the marriage age so I can't really understand the feeling and the experience of her. However, her dress code, languages, and the plays of JPN officer is bringing me engaged in the condition as this is what I saw from daily, from my life too. How the officers speaks, sit is very common in Malaysia. It makes me feel like I'm in the situation too.

I learnt from this theatre. Even is a common issue or matter happened everyday, if you think in different perspectives, you will realize you are facing too. For this case, it's seems to be a Chinese girl married to Malay guy and changing name but then in another perspective, it's reflected differences in Chinese culture and Islam culture? Is it a situation very familiar in Malaysia like religion problem, races problem that unsolved? 

Disobedience of Rakyat

After read the article, three keywords I have gotten from the article which are conformity, compliance and obedient. In simple words, conformity is in accordance with something such as regulations. Besides, compliance from what I knew as well as agreement whereas obedient is to follow the rules and regulations addressed by a legitimate authority like Parliament. These three keywords usually are seen on Malaysian.

Structural change is a change in nation or society. For example, the new government leads by Pakatan Harapan totally overthrown the rule of Barisan Nasional for 61 years. Malaysian seems to be more disobedient nowadays as they decide to own their power as citizen to make social structural change.

The article discussed on disobedient of Malaysians due to shift in policy, Pusat KOMAS which is defence for human rights organized Malaysia’s first human rights film festival called Freedom Film Festival. This festival is provides a stage for Malaysian to express and share information. The festival is a hub for freedom of information and let other to tell what they want to say.

Malaysia youthquake are seen to rise especially Generation Y which is range between 1980s and 1990s. This can to be seen from the 14^th General Election. Most of the voters are from Gen Y. From what I’ve have concluded from the article, the reason why Gen Y seems to be more actively in toppling the Barisan Nasional is because the generation starts from Gen Y are aware of what is happens around them. We tend to favour opposite site of current situation. I think this is because rebellious of youngster.

I think it is necessary to be a disobedient rakyat when rakyat have noticed the harm brings to us. Rakyat should be always alert what has happened instead of obedient what the rule even when rakyat starts to notice the harmfulness of the actions taken by the government. We need to fight for our own rights. Not just only follow the rules.

Meanwhile, I think disobedience is necessary as we need to let the leader or previous PM know citizen’s minds no matter what is it, when is it and how is it. For example, when a company remains the same rules in managing the company and the rest of the employees do not have disobedience, hence the company would not develop as well as other big company. They can’t compete with other company. However, if there are some employees repercussion the weakness of the company, then the company might have a chance to change it. It is also useful for other conditions too. The quote ‘learn from mistake’ is one of the quotes I usually used to say. As I think disobedience is not to offence but to suggest to change. I can conclude that disobedience is necessary as human rights and also citizen’s mindset are important for a nation to move forward. (Word count: 491)

Blog Post No.1

Actually I was born in year 1996 which meet the end of Mahathir era and followed by Badawi and Najib era. I 'm a Mahathir baby where actually I don't have much impression on Tun Mahathir. Since kinder garden, I have been taught by kinder garden teacher the picture that hung on the wall was the current Prime Minister.  

The very first impression that I had towards Tun. Mahathir was actually where I have started to learn history, civic and moral in the primary school. That time I'm still studying in SJKC. Our first lesson for these three subjects was learn to recognize our previous and current prime minister. Tun Mahathir was the forth Prime Minister whose also referred as Father of Modernisation (Bapa Pemodernan). KLCC that popular all around the world was proposed by Tun Mahathir. I believed that all citizens could still recognize him. 

I don't know whether I myself have affected by Mahathir in shaping own thinking and attitudes or not, but actually he shaped how I felt towards bahasa or language. This is because he introduces that English actually is an important language just followed by bahasa and own mother tongue. He stressed us to improve our English. I think this is the one I still practice until now. 

On the other hand, I have less impression towards Abdullah Badawi, the fifth of Prime Minister whose referred as Father of Human Capital Development compared to Najib Razak. Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister who just currently ended his appointment of Prime Minister actually shaped my thinking and attitudes. He totally changing the way I think of the Malaysian citizens and Malaysia politics. I never care about our country but I changed my mind when Najib Razak appointed as our Prime Minister last time. He makes me changing the impression towards Malaysians. I will follow our nation's politics and economy. From the news I have followed, I knew a lot of politicians and minister. I knew barely about our condition before. My attitudes towards our nation changed from doesn't matter to I care about our nation. "I need to fight for our country!" I have think of this.

I think what I have did before was the colour run that organized by DAP, which was Parti Tindakan Demokratik. If not mistaken, this events was held in my hometown, Teluk Intan where the focus point of this recently election. The purpose of this colour run event actually was fundraising to support the party. I was involved and I paid. How much I don't really remember but I remembered was just a little. I was invited by my friends. They were aggressive to join this kind of events. Actually I was quite lazy person who not really like to participate any events but it sounds fun when they invite. It worth what I have expected from the events. It was really fun even though I didn't get any prizes. [laugh]

I was a little bit regret that I didn't participate for Bersih events last time. However, I saw how unity was our citizens. The most deep impression that I felt touch was when a team of Malays protects other races. Such a touch moment I can remember all the time especially the "yellow colour wave". It will be the memory that I will tell my next next generation. 

This was the picture I took when 2015 the events ended.