A Wedding for a Presentation
The 1st crazy assignment!!! Nov 12th, 2009.
When Mdm. Aisyah told us to hold a wedding for our last presentation, I was agape! I mean, like, what does she mean with a wedding? I thought it was just like child’s play, but it turned out that whoa! We had to do a real wedding! Jeez, I thought. We got our group members together and decided to do Chinese wedding, mixed with Indian. I agreed of course, as I dun really like Malay wedding, so boring. So, the main heads, T& R were cracking their brains thinking about the wedding, and I was like ‘whatever you say’ and ‘I will follow you’. Their ideas were fine but I did some research and managed to find more about Chinese wedding. Truth is, that was the 1st time I’ve ever been in the same group with T & R. These two are like the black sheep in class. I dunno why but some of us just hate others with no reasons (damn these people). Maybe people talk about me too as my dressing could be weird at times but I dun care. I admit that at first T & R were not really my favorites too as I barely know them and they sometimes were not listening to my ideas. But things changed.
So our group didn’t even practice properly, until the 1st group presented (it was a bummer). They presented Malay wedding and it was so simple and un-finished that I was like “huh? It’s over?”. Oh well, poor M-chan.. Then the next group did Indian wedding. Woo-hoo… it was better that the 1st one but still quite short too. The next one… I missed it as I woke up late that morning. But the props were quite amazing, as they did western wedding, with the red carpet and the dress. I wished I went to bed earlier…
Back to our group… we didn’t even know how to do things! So, one day after class, some of us voice out that this Chinese mixed wedding wasn’t happening as we couldn’t afford to do it. It was a meeting w/o T & R. I was shocked to find out that the rest of the member wanted to do Malay wedding. Actually, I disagreed. But I just followed the majority. I was a bit sad… I wanted to be an Indian but if we conduct Malay wedding, I’ll have to be Malay. And what character I got? D.J? omg… but I was like, “yeah, that’s good” but I admit that I know zero bout Malay wedding, so I was just being a clueless secretary, jotting down the details they told me. T & R hadn’t known bout it.
We were really hesitating to tell T & R about it. I was in a dilemma. So that day when we got together again, we discussed things again. T & R didn’t know about our plan so they excitedly told us that they had new plans; we’re doing Hindi dance! Hehe… I was thrilled, though I have no special liking towards Bollywood but hey, anything to make our wedding great! But then, we’re like telling them hints that we wanted to do Malay wedding. So we debated and I finally stood up to my own opinion. I wanted the original Chinese Indian mixed wedding. To my surprise, it wasn’t just me, T & R but some other girls also shared the same opinion. Demo na, some of my friends were looking at me like I was an alien. They must have thought that I was hypocrite. Yeah, fine. Say whatever you want, I’ll still win in the end! So we decided to stick to the plan and carry out the practice. Then, T ,R , M and me were practicing the Bollywood dance. That was fun!
However, one lovely evening, while I was at the library, a friend texted me to come to the café a.s.a.p. So, I went there and I was hell disappointed when they said that they’re going to have a Malay wedding as the props were all there. I was startled. My face went like…. They could read it on my face that I hated their plan. Once again, T & R didn’t know about it. I excused myself and went home and o.t.w; I met T & R and told them what the others told me at the café. They were of course shocked and later on, we all met in the café and I couldn’t even smile. I was really disheartened! T was debating with Y and I was like, oh god, why is this happening? Again we decided to do Chinese and Indian mixed wedding.
So what happened next? I and the friends I used to hang out with were like strangers. We didn’t talk to each other. Our friendships had died suddenly. I was really confused at first but during one of the meeting that T, R and me didn’t attend, S said that the other were talking bad things about us… oh man… so, one evening, with only like a week before the wedding, again, we were at the starting point. To be fair, we decided to conduct Malay and Indian mixed wedding. Truth is I was disgusted. I was disgusted with them who were really narrow-minded that we were Malay, so we have to do Malay wedding, they were not putting effort into finding the things for Chinese wedding but rather, they were only using things they had.; they didn’t want T to be the bride because she wore tudung, so she can’t become a Chinese. Some outsider said that it’s boring to watch as T was already wearing makeup everyday to class. Most of us were like ashamed to act as Indian, didn’t want to do this and that. They were acting like idiots. If S was willing to become the wedding crasher in the first plan, why were the others were like, ‘I dun wanna dance’, ‘I dun wanna make-up!’, ‘I dun wanna get marry!’, ‘I dun wanna do at Rotunda!’ We’re like grown ups now! If you can’t do simple things like that, then you don’t deserved to be here…
I was quiet during the meeting. I was disgusted in myself too, for not being able to say anything though I strongly disagreed. Ah well, T & R was also calm and accepted the plan. So we were going on with the Malay and Indian mixed wedding. We leave the wedding pelamin whatsoever to the Malay wedding supporters and me and the original plan supporters were thinking on the storyline. We encountered a lot of problems, to the day of our presentation. While they were saying that they got all the Malay wedding props, it turned out to be a fraud. They dun have a lot of thing! What a bummer. I’ll call them the MWS, stands for Malay Wedding Supporters.
*Rotunda= Ruang tunda I think, the faculty ‘lobby’
On the Wedding Day
I didn’t care about the props anymore. We were going to stand on our own for the wedding. On the day of the wedding, I had a fever… for god’s sake, I was feeling like exploding! And I had to play guitar and sing, and my voice had become so weird. The prep was havoc! We forgot to book the LCD, and Mrs. Aisyah was looking very fierce that morning. When we got the LCD projector, it wasn’t compatible with my laptop! So we had to find another laptop. Luckily Siang was there… the hardcopy hasn’t been done, and on the new laptop, the videos we played were like not playing smoothly, we didn’t manage to fetch the cake we ordered (I dunno what happened to the cake), and I think the most interesting thing happened was that our wedding planners decided to back off at the latest minute as they said they didn’t have any roles. In the original plan, we’ve given those 2 charas and now they’re the MWS, I dunno what to say. I asked one of them whether they really wanted to do it, after doing the pelamin and hantaran and she said yeah, they’ve decided.
Oh yeah, I wore a cheongsam for the wedding. We did culture exchange; the Malay became Chinese and Indian and the Indian became Chinese! Everyone looked great!
So then it was my turn to play the guitar and before that, my guitar had been knocked down. So when I started to play, I strummed and the sound was horrible and with such a face, I excused myself to tune the guitar. It was really havoc, and I was having a real hard time tuning the guitar as the tuner was being an idiot and the surrounding was noisy. Luckily, there was A. Fuh! Then I started to play the guitar, to my fav. song, ‘It’s Happy Line’ by YUI. My voice was like cracking as I was having a cold. I just closed my eyes and sang as loudly as I could. When it was over, I was really relieved. They clapped! Yay!
Next up, came the Bole churiya! Haha! I was kinda waiting for it! We dance and there were lotsa people watching and amazingly I didn’t feel embarrassed or anything though there were few moves that really made people went ‘Uuuuu’. When we were over, Mrs. Aisyah called me and told me that she really loved the song I sang and she didn’t know that I got a nice voice. She asked me to play it again in the next class but I’m not sure when will that be. I was really happy at that time and Mrs. Aisyah comments were like the best!
Here are her comments!
- Good choice of songs
- The flow of the wedding has a story, which is actually the strength of the presentation.
- But the voices of all the characters were too soft and not clear enough.
- Though, the voices were not clear but overall presentation was a great blast.
- Keep up the good work.
She wrote this on her notebook and gave it to us. We went to photocopied it for each of us. It had started ugly but finished like a heaven.
So, MWS went to joined the other group, who are also their supporters and I thought theirs gonna be superb but it was like the other group. No storyline, just wedding. Well, the pelamin was nice, there was food, but that was all.
4th group rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you to:
Tasya & iRa for your brilliant ideas and efforts in making this worked! Thanks for the camera and support you girls gave me. If it weren’t for you girls, our wedding would have been zero like the others.
Syaza and Izzati; for being with us throughout the process and supporting our ideas.
Syaza; for your work on the video and Izzati; for willing to be an Indian.
Amelia, for coming into our group… it made us looked much better, with multiracial concept.
Ayie, Amir, Fikri for being in our group even though the groom had been changed so many times! Amir; for tuning my guitar and being the groom, Ayie; for all his effort of fetching this and that, Fikri; for willing to dance, though it was saite…
Faiz; for dancing with us, though you were not in our group.
Ika; for not following your emotion and your friends. Thanks for sticking with us till the end.
Siang; for practicing with us and helping us a lot throughout the whole process and the wedding.
Steven; for the pics you took and driving us to dinner and lunch.
Muffy; for her advices and support.
Dira; for willing to dance.
Imah, Ainun for the pelamin. What a pity you girls quit!
Sarah, Siti, Q, Nina for helping out before the wedding making the pelamin.
Mrs. Aisyah for your comments. You really scared us that day.
My brother who sent his speakers for us to use.
And my mum for buying me a cheongsam just for this wedding.
Arigatou gozaimasu minna-san!
i.o.u!!
To all of you who came to the wedding.
To all of you who felt that we did great.
To all the students who stopped to watch us do the wedding.
To all the time and patience that God had given me.
Thank you.
p/s: sorry for harsh words… if you read this you will hate me. Hate me if you must but I always will be your friends if you ever need me…
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