Play: A Light in KL City
Produced by: Electric Minds Project
Staged: Pentas 2, KLPac
Runs: Refer here.
A young woman runs to the motel, banging on the door, begging to be let in. She clutches her used panties in her hand, screaming at her pursuer, defiant to the last. The two men sleeping in the lobby awakens. Darshan, the receptionist, sleepily opens the door. She comes in, an angry customer, no longer fearful of what chased her on the street.
A Feng Shui “master” and a young man with “visions” of Malaysia’s architectural future clash over the new decor. A Dato comes down the stairs with a scantily-clad beautiful woman, the euphoria of last night’s sex clinging to both visibly.
A beautiful songstress courts two men, unable to part with both. A cold woman who betrays her boss’ lover for money to feed her family.
It’s all about the money. Money to feed the children. Money to fuel development in Malaysia. Throwing away those who are idealistic, but cannot make the cold-hearted decisions to survive.
The light goes out. The machinery moves in. And within, at midnight, the residents who call Chahaya Inn home, huddle together, one last time.
A Light in KL City, the flyer says, tells us of things thrown away. Of the people, the history, the things we throw away or take for granted. Chahaya Inn, like many other buildings in KL, is full of history. The story of Anita, her Captain, and Aziz illustrates wonderfully Malaya’s ultimate choice to spurn the Communist ideology for the British “peaceful” transition.
Like many buildings in Kuala Lumpur, within such an old and historic building, are those whom society has forgotten. Whom we have “thrown away” because they don’t fit. From the old film star, to the runaway girl, to the mature sex worker, to illegal immigrant, to a “gweilo” singing on the streets. Their home is demolished to make way for a new hotel. One that promises to be chic, sophisticated and with a minimalist design.
I watched A Light in KL City with some friends. Each walked away with differing opinions of the show. One said that it was during the first half of the show that she could sympathise most with the characters, because they felt alive to her. Another found it interesting. My brother could understand it.
Me, I found it poignant. Devastating in some scenes. Heartbreaking in others. I keep referring to it as a film rather than as a play, because it felt that much real to me. In fact, it watches that much better than some movies I’ve watched. As Swing says, it’s better to shell out RM30 (normal price) for A Light in KL City than RM 10 for a movie you don’t want to watch.
Catch A Light in KL City. You won’t be disappointed.
Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.
Yeah, while everyone else is typing out their CF2009 reports, I shall spazz about how adorable Japanese kids can be >w< ♥
Graduation was today; lots of classmates received bouquets from their other friends, so I kinda felt a little sabishii - lonely(?) as I didn't get anything.
Until some Hippo Club members arrived~
**Hippo Club (http://www.lexhippo.gr.jp/english/) is a sort of language learning club that started in Japan, which has now taken root around the world like Hetalia LOL (I joined in 2004 for my homestay in Japan, totally forgot about it, then happened to rejoin a few months ago)**
They gave me a mini bouquet awawawawawawaaaaa ;A; *touched*
( See what they gave me! )
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Everything written here are all my own thoughts. Because I’m too lazy to do a coherent post (and am waiting for Ubuntu to update) here’s a rundown on thoughts about Comic Fiesta:
No one kicks ass like our attendees
Seriously, no one does. The community who bothers to show up on the Forum, IRC, blog, Twitter and so many others REALLY make the event worth dying for. Every time I read the comments, check out the updates and join the chat, I realise that the community is really something unique. Thanks guys. You make all the aches and pains of goodie bags, the drama of the weeks before and the headache of replying to some inane comments worth. Every. Single. Heartbreak.
Also, we had INTERNATIONAL visitors and booths. The Thai booth that was selling badges rocked so hard. I should have bought more badges from them. The Australian cosplayers were nothing short of epic. And the crazy Canadian and Aussie who walked from the KTM station all the way to Sunway Pyramid have my respect! Also, I was surprised when Narmi came looking for me to say thanks for showing him how to get to CF. That was nice. 
Then there’s also the crossing of Internet cultures. One of the most uplifting projects on the Net is Project “You Are Beautiful” where people randomly post notes in bathroom and other places reminding people that YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. We had attendees who took it a step further. They did this out of sheer boredom and turned it into one of the most uplifting themes of Comic Fiesta 2009. Did I also mention that our Busking slots were popular? Gan told me that people took his idea and ran away with it; we had buskers WITHIN and WITHOUT the hall.
Lack of cosplayers
I actually liked that there were less cosplayers but who were epic in their own way this year. There were a LOT of cosplayers on Day 1, and not too many on Day 2. However, the quality of cosplayers shot up. Man you guys were awesome! Special highlight goes out to Deidara: you may not have won, but damnit you were epic!
We’re not a government organisation
The day before Comic Fiesta, Sunway Convention Hall had this. Now, on both Saturday and Sunday, we had random people coming up to the Ticketing counter asking us if we knew where that particular programme was being held. They all knew that the programme was on Friday, but decided to come on Saturday and Sunday for some weird reason. One pair decided to buy tickets to check us out on Day 2 (they came on Saturday) but the second pair was simply WTF. They asked us if we had any brochures/flyers regarding the programme which might have been “left behind.”
Um… no?
Our helpers kick ass and take no names
They’re far more dedicated than I ever thought anyone could be. Some came to Comic Fiesta in the middle of exams. Others came, helped out, then went into full costume mode. Yes, that Master Chief cosplayed AND did his helper duties. MMU kids had exams (ON A FREAKING SUNDAY AFTERNOON NO LESS) and yet managed to spare time to come and help us.
Seriously, you guys rock. I, for one, am humbled and really grateful you guys came to help.
Committee Woes
My legs died from standing too long at the Ticketing counter LOL! And from moving around like crazy for the assembly line. :p Kidding. I salute my fellow committee members for this insane endeavour. Some have been doing this for more than 3 years; I think it’s official to say that our lives revolve around this now.
Awesome friends are awesome
They make attending CF a joy, for keeping me company and preventing me from going insane and being understanding when I have to literally disappear to do CF stuff. This year also marks the last year Deidara and Deru will be joining Comic Fiesta for the next 2 years. If all goes as planned, it will be my last too. But I don’t have any regrets. Comic Fiesta brought me some of the best friends I’ll ever know, and gave me a home away from home.
Of course, I admit that I was evil to some (no I am not SORRY at all for making you drive like mad to Sunway Pyramid, Shoji, for the YUA group). But I am glad for friends who let me randomly drag them out for lunch, for looking after my food, for bearing with my madcap antics, for making the effort to attend CF, for random hugs, for being patient, for smacking me on the head, and most of all:
Thank you for being my friends and family. You guys know who you are.
To sign off
THANK YOU FOR MAKING COMIC FIESTA 2009 THE BEST! <333 LOOKING FORWARD TO 2010 WHERE MORE EPICNESS AWAITS!
Original entry as appearing at Reach Into Your Soul.
You can get them here at:
http://gallery.geminianeyes.com/Events/Comic Fiesta 2009/
Report incoming. Sorry for the blurry pics.
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Photos + random commentary regarding CF09 yoho
disclaimer: I shot these with my camphone and I have unsteady hands. SUMIMASSEENNNNNNN
But first...
I HAD HETALIA COOKIES
BUT I ATED THEM LOLOLOL
( Day 1... had me getting to the hall in a tizzy. But I got there and started to add the French invasion to the booth. )
( Day 2... had us selling the rest of the prints and bookmarks. )
So we sold out the doujin, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ryo_hakkai sold out her bookmarks and I sold off my Hetalia extra mascots :DDDD Made enuff for a nice dinner later. I enjoyed the event eventho I was stuck at the booth and had no idea what was going on-stage lol Our booth was like at the ennndddd of the hall lolol
This year had a 80% rise in Hetalia merchandise UHO ^3^)b Most of the doujins were USUK tho :T
Anyway, we had fun~! And already planning for our next doujin lolol There might be two books next year IDK lolol
I'll end this with a vid of the CHIBITALIAs XDDD
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Okay la the usuals... while I'm in the mood. I'll try not to typo... CF2009 is fun. Malas wanna touch on drama or that somehow my ears work wonders since it somehow tend to noise cancel itself so that I didn't hear any bad things or that ticketing side effects are doing their jobs so well. XDDDD Hahaha... I even mix up who's who in my flist and even took a long time recognising some faces... sorry to those I didn't manage to greet or meet. m(.__.)m Yeah... I got my brain reformatted. BRB I go restore backup data.
( So have you got your dose of Kerepek? I sure had mine~~~~~~~ )
^__^
( Slight rant on some NOT someone's cosplay. )
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Ahahhahaha....ahahahahaha.... damn I got the weirdest dream yet... must be the CF hangover.
Woke up early like around 6.30 (WTF despite how tired are youuuuuu???) cos morning cough bout acting up as usual... (yes... survival instinct kicks up eh?)
Later gonna upload pics like I see... sometime later. (Mostly pics of day one cos camera refuse to coop with me damn... I WANT A new DIGICAMERA for my bday~~~~~~~~-no I DON'T CARE HOW CIBAI CHEAPO it IS aaaaaaaaaaa- ) After I recharge myself with food YOU HWEAR MEH!!! Till then... i'll mushroom around recharging mah lasers..............
Post CF mode... where most of the crew and the pipol go BRB DYING~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| User: | yuhi_homura |
| Date: | 2009-12-21 10:57 |
| Subject: | Hi guys.. |
| Security: | Public |
| Music: | MintJam : A Rude Performance |
Comic Fiesta was a blast, though this being my first time actually being in charge of the DJ console, I inadvertently made a few mistakes here and there, some more glaring than others. I felt really bad about messing up a couple of things, like one of the cosplay prelim contestant's music and one of the performance slots, and the fact that I let songs like Caramelldansen, Cirno's Perfect Math and Love and Joy be played more than once.
That and I got burned out at the end of Day 2 so I just let edo and Tokiya run the console (which explains the sudden boom of korean songs) and I ran off for a bit to play a couple of rounds of Weiss Schwarz.
But oh well, it's all part of the learning process I guess, and hopefully I'll be able to be a bit more organized next year. Again I apologize for my mistake, and hope to do this again next year.
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WAS GREAT. 8D
ithronluin : THANK YOU for staying back and taking that pic with me T__T;
a_songfor_xx : THANK YOU for introducing me to Dan awawawawawawawawawa ;____; she is veryveryvery epic weiiiii ;w; and Nii-nii~ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so cute got panda ;w; ♥♥♥
piratelicker : YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YOUR DOUJIN ♥♥♥ and I got to meet ryo_hakkai and limbebe aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa happy~ >w< ♥♥♥ see you guys again tmr maybe this time I will sit on her lap lol
firnheledien : Thank you(?) for giving me a heart attack? XDXDXD LOL Igiko XD;; (we haven't met in YEARS and that's what I first see you as? XD)
ryuraijin and James : THANK YOU so much so helping me jaga my stuff! And sorry for all the inconvenience! ^^;
Pics sometime later when I can think coherently
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The World Chaos World Dancing doujin sold out in the first day LOLOLOLOL Thanks for buying our stories ^q^
Btw, there is a page missing from my comic; 1526. Part 3, page 6.
Sorry for weird skip in the story. It was unintentional.
I think we're already talking about making another crack Hetalia doujin for next year ^q^ Terrible fangirls are terrible. Look out for it. I think we got big plans for next year lol Provided we manage to finish on time.
Oh, yeah. We were so totally the ONLY NON-USUK doujin/booth this year. SO MUCH THAT IT HURTS PFFFTT
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XDXDXDXDDXDXDXDD
End of day 1~~~~
Somehow my voice came back stable despite I still have my coughing bouts once a while. So yeah... IXACISE was a success. The Body Rhythm version was flawed a bit... but that's partially because I was a bit tired so I missed a few steps. (We had done the normal version of IXACISE and the Body Rhythm version, and earlier before that, we had like practiced the routine was 4 times. XDDDD So no wonder I almost died on that second routine) Hopefully those few times when I had wavered a bit cos of fatigue wasn't so noticable. ^___^ I tried my best to keep up the same performance. Glad people like it.
Later I'll go look up if there's anyone recorded that performance. ^___^
So happy we done it~~~ ^____^
And I got 753 T-shirt thanks to Aki~ So glad to have such sporting group members. To zymz, nelson, Aki, Kyon, Kazu and the other 3 peeps that I didn't manage to know more about you guys~ Despite that aside from zymz, the rest of you would probably not able to read this post unless you look into this LJ~ THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THIS IXACISE PLAN THAT AKI AND I RANDOMLY COOK UP OUT OF RANDOM.
SANKYU~~~ ♪(*^ ・^)ノ⌒☆ (Aiyo zymz-son~~~ I'm not that strong to heret you around... GOMEN YOWAI OTOUSAN~~~~~~~~ OTL )
LOL... AKI DID NAMED THE GROUP IXANATORZ~~~~~~ XDDDD
Greatest thanks also for Yuhi and Gan and whoever that made it possible that we managed to get to perform on the very first performance slot muahahahahahahahahahaha~ (^з^)-☆Chu!!
OKAY THAT'S IT! TOMORROW I'LL REALLY GO MAKAN KEREPEK AND GO CHO RANDOM!!!!!!
ｷﾀｰ Y⌒Y⌒Y⌒Y⌒Y⌒Y⌒(｡Ａ｡)!!!
(Hahaha... I changed to Shinsuke during my ticketing shift and I went OOC into a hyper Shinsuke due to the super speed the customers keep popping in this afterneoon. XDDDDDD Not that I feel utterly bad about it, for some reason I find this bit of insanity FUN. XDXDXDXDXDXD)
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It's TODAY. Pray I don't lose my voice or I may need Aki to speak for start of part 2. Yes... I still has this sore throat + cough. Hope I don't also collapse for making this epic wtfyouredoingitonaCon punya randomness..
YES NAGO KEISUKE MAY LITERALLY BE VOICELESS OTL.
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Went to KLCC and met up with ryo_hakkai, raethes, limbebe, yinghua & sapphire_1010 for lunch. DAMN EPIC TROLLING FROM EVERYONE LOLOLOL Thx for the memories.
And then limbebe passed me my copy of World Chaos World Dancing. AUGH FUDGE SEEING MY EMBARASSMENT IN PRINT ahahahahahah forever crying
Stuff I learnt? I need to thicken my lines a bit... so damn teeny cannot see in print la wei
And then I realize.... there is a missing page in part 3 of my comic.
:|
I'm not exactly angry/saddened/ecstatic/zetsuboushita about this. (Btw, I don't blame you limbebe so you don't have to feel bad about this.)
I'm used to dealing with many disappointments in my life. Things going my way is a pretty alien thing to me. Oh something went wrong? CONSIDER ME SHOCKED /sarcasm lol
:|
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 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
Last Tuesday I broke silfa's X-Box (-12 points). In May I pushed gypsydres in the mud (-17 points). Last Wednesday I donated bone marrow to deidarags in a life-saving procedure (300 points). In August I signed my organ donor card (28 points). Last Friday I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points).
Overall, I've been nice (223 points). For Christmas I deserve a Pony Slaystation 3!
Sincerely,
honou_no_izumi |
ahahahahaha what?
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Holy crap. So I downloaded OP volume #0, the one where they gave out at the movie screening yeah? And then... I got ballistic over the merchandise section. I mean, LOOOKKKKKKKK
    
FUCK FUCK FUCK WWRRRYYYYYYYY AM I NOT IN JAPAN????? gdi the Banpresto sets are too awesome DO WWWAANNNNNTTTTTT HHHHNNGGG SUUITTSSS
MEGAHOUSE U EVIL BITCH u dare release a FORTUNE set that has Luffy, Sanji and Zoro in SUITS ONLYYYYY
There's one thing weird I noticed about Nami's skirt. The Banpresto figure follows the skirt length as shown in Oda's sketch. But the POP Strong World Nami has her skirt reduced 70% in length. CUE THE PUZZLED EXPRESSION HERE
Now I need to watch the movie so I can see how long is it actually '3'
edit: OH WAIT. I don't she appears in the movie wearing that outfit.
brb crying a river
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Will be meeting ryo_hakkai & limbebe later. HABBBIISSSSS
Anyway, watched the Haruhi movie trailer. I got to admit, my love for the series dwindled after the EPIC TROLLING by KyoAni. But this movie might make me love them back again lol Oh, I wish I could quit you.
Yes, the trailer. I like how it shows clips with musical accompaniment of Gymnopedie No.1 IDK I might be over analyzing here but that piece is a good way to represent Nagato's state of mind. Very calm and lonely at the same time. Bleh I shut up now.
In other news, holy crap I found Kyou mo Ashita Mo's older RodEli book on YJ. BUT HOMG THE PRICE *dies* brb crying a river
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ORZ.... need to get this outta my head XDDDD
And this had to come out the day before CF LOLOLOLOL
( Possible wicked plot twist in Shinken? XDDDDDDD )
Seriously... is 2009 a year of surprise trolling us TOEI??????? Not just about Decade and the HEY~~~ Original Rider Worlds STILL connected to this Decade world and AR Rider~~~ ANDWTF PLOT TWIST HERE AND THERE~~~~ XDDDD You had to also include Shinkenger. SERIOUSLY CAN'T YOU GET OSM-ER????
(ﾉ-_-)ﾉ~ ┻━┻
(If it was possible to type TOEI upside down and replace the word with the table... I'd do it NOW XD)
Okay... hahahaha... despite this emote... I'm not really in despair. But seriously they should never screw the plot up in the end YO~
Cos the moment I read this on FB I went...
"Hahahahaha... there goes a whole truckload of fics. XDDD"
But THEN again... it's not that I ever used that other random what if plot... and so far my fic should stay safe~ tralalalallaa... and WAITAMINUTE! I can use some bit of THIS muse...
*dies*
CF IS TOMORROW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHH IXACISE~~~~~~~ HAAHAHAHAHAHAWAWAWAWAWAAAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAAA
But you know... a side interesting thing that might come over this... it probably be like...
"Eat this wankers!!!! (￣へ ￣ 凸 Say again that Shinkenger is sexist maaaa?????"
Hahahahaha~ totally robbed most of ameblo's emotes~ XDDDD Sorry I am high.... IT'S BECAUSE EARLIER THIS MORNING AND LAST NIGHT I WAS SO HIGH WITH GANGAN AND YUHI'S RANDOMNESS AND EVERYONE GOING CRAZY OVER CF AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
*makans kerepek* (Hahahaha manglish~)
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I still haven't gotten used to typing on an European keyboard, spare me the typos that you pick out.
Italy's been coldcoldcold (haven't seen any snow, but then again, it apparently snows when we're asleep and melts into puddles before 8 am here in Florence) and epic. No, Josie, I haven't gone to any art galleries, but I've taken plenty of pictures of architecture! Venice is amazing (and difficult to navigate on foot, trufax), Rome is astounding (but it's bloody difficult to navigate around to all sights), and Florence is BEAUTIFUL (but cold). It's a pretty place, thouugh, guys, seriously.
Am heading off to Naples tomorrow morning, then back to Rome a few days after- ENJOY CF, M'SIAN PEOPLE- ENJOY THE 4TH WALL WEEKEND, RPERS-
Also, Happy whatever-it-is-you-celebrate, guys! Will only be landing on the 26th, SO. kagu_chan, are you back from London yet???
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Ahahahahaha~ Cos I kinda had free time no other stuff to do aside from packing for CF... which I'll do later. My Secret Santa fic is done~~~ wheeee~
hahaha later I layan that Orthros no Inu fic muse for the OSM-ness of random ideas~
I love writing~
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