N U R S A F I A H

Friday, August 26, 2005/

eventfully heartfelt @ 9:36 pm

I liked today...in fact I LOVED TODAY.

Aah...Ok so it started out bad because our schools' 'O' Levels' Higher Mother Tongue was bad...I need to improve now. My Malay Language is going down! But after that it was okay.

We did TAE-BO during PE, another one of Miss Poon's ideas. Thank you! It was fun, working it all out. In case you did'nt know, Tae- derived from taekwando and BO derived from boxing. Sweated out. Woo...now I know what you mean Mumu. Ms Poon looked like she had fun..well of course! I had fun too. It has been a long time since I did taekwando. All those side kicks and front kicks..brings me back of memories from my TKD life...

Well when I first heard of Tae-Bo...

Fadilah: Safiah, I want to take Tae-Bo lessons.
Safiah: What for? Teh Boh? U know whats that onot?
Fadilah: Ya lah.
Safiah: Teh as in tea and Boh as in Teh brand Boh? They have tea making lessons?
Fadilah: Ape je Safiah ni. Its like thai boxing lah...
Safiah: OoOoh...haha....

Then...

Safiah: Mu what's Tae-Bo?
Muhaina(Mu): Taekwando-Boxing. It's really fun lah.
You can lose a lot of weight you know when you do that exercise.

Oh...Now I am enlightened...haha.

Then she gave us a loooong speech about her, the ppl around her...i felt so sad...i almost wanted to cry. It was really heartfelt. Then a few workouts after that she was smiling again....and being her usual normal self.

Then ACES practice workout. Such a physical day. Some people from 2N making special effects to go along with the moves. Very noisy. And Abigail changed her specs. So retro. I like...

Malay period:

Amira:(testing with pens, pens no ink) Stupid Assholes (throws down pen)
Safiah: Diorang takde ass, macam mane nak ade hole?
English translation: they have no ass, how to have holes?
Amira: (saying something but too muffled so Safiah can't hear.)

Ok she was very quiet and not exactly in high spirits. Now I know why....suspect there's something more to it too. This complicating problem...

Ooohh...THEN THE 1st HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY...
Roystan Tan came to Cedar Girls' Secondary School. I thought Eric Khoo was Roystan but haha..this person standing on the stage clad in white tee, white coat and green trousers was definitely NOT Eric Khoo...he's soooo...chi boy!!! haha. So he came and threw limited-edition '15' posters to us. I wanted one...but did not get. He came because he was on "tour" visiting schools. He screened us a couple of short films (30 mins) ,"Sons", "Mother", "24 hours" and "Hock Heap Leong", out of the many films that he has made.

"Sons" was narrated as the Father of a grown up boy who had no communication at all between them. The father does not know what he works as. The actors just stood or sat still while a voice over narrated the story in Hokkien accompanied with subtitles. It touched my heart but did not evoke my feelings.

"Mother" was not narrated in Chinese by a boy while video images were shown. Subtitles were what I read as that was what I could understand. The story behind it was that one day, Roystan got a call from Singapore Prisons telling that a prisoner wants to talk to him. They allowed Roystan and the prisoner, who was in jail because of drug abuse, 15 mins of conversation where the prisoner poured out his story about his relationship with his mother, and asked if Roystan could make a film about it. HE DID....wow. The prisoner requested for a copy of it to go to his mother. If I was the mother, I would cry, and cry, and cry....I was holding back salt water just now in the dimly lighted hall. His friends, neighbors and parents were in the film. He said that he wanted to preserve that moment in their life.

"24 hours" was about his love life in Korea I think. On the right side, there was a tv screen showing Korean advertisements ( there was Sony Ericsons' ads ), news, people walking in the cities. All Korean. On the left hand side, there were sentences so we had to read it- no voiceovers. How he tried to talk to the girl about his feelings but she could not understand and just smiled until he told her he was leaving. Then she was smiling no more. I love how it touches one's heart despite its simplicity. I noticed though that the images were rewinded.

"Hock Heap Leong" was about his favourite coffeeshop where he used to hang around in when he was stressed. It was narrated in English. A boy in a shop, sitting,staring. There was one line in it that I really liked "The people who are most closest to you may not be the ones who really know you." He made it like even non-living things had soul and experience. Then when the hawker asked him what he wanted to drink, he opened his mouth and a chinese opera song came out. Ironically, the voice of the singer was a girl while the singer in the film was a boy. Everyone laughed at that scene as the main actor and the coffeeshopers and hawkers danced the 80s style dance. Then, at the end, it said that the coffeeshop closed on 31 March 2002/3? One day after my birthday. It had to make way for urban development. Sad.

He has talent. He's fabulous! N there were a lot of questions asked. He also told us the process of film making. He also thought that we, Cedarians were shy and that we would only sit and stare at him. But we proved him wrong! He actually had nightmares that we would just stone in front of him and couldn't sleep properly for 8 days! Haha. His first time in all-girls school. So honoured? haha...Next week, he'll be going to Crescent Girls'.

I like his garb.

THEN, MY 2ND HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY!!!
Me, being the Bookworm that I am, went to Popular Sale at Singapore Expo, Hall 6A...bought 6 books for $30. all storybks. With Atiqah. Ok Amira, it wouldnt hurt ur ego if you asked to come along ok. I would not turn you down. I though you had plans with them....as ALWAYS. And as you were being sarcastic and not that good a mood, I didn't wanna ask you.

Now im sleepy man...shall look up to that Roystan and support him. MUST SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS...esp nice ones like him and Taufik...heh...

Ok what happened in 2/O....was inevitable.

a lyfe* like mine-; 9:36 pm