Just another installation of K-Pop.

This group is called Koyote

Was fooling around on the search engines and found this article. It was for my previous play. Enjoy!!

Freeing the bound woman by Himanshu Bhatt

A lawyer awakens in a dingy room to find herself tied to a chair and guarded by a manic-looking girl.

Trying to free oneself from being bound, as the lawyer does in the short play called Infant, is exactly what a new double-bill production on the modern female is all about.

Entitled F for Female, the presentation also features a monologue titled T.O.P.

Both short plays are meant to deal with the dilemmas faced by many young urban women.

The production is presented by La Victoire Production in collaboration with The Actors Studio at the latter’s premises in Light Street, Penang.

Infant is written by Fariza Zainul Ariffin and directed by her younger sister Fadzrina.

Acted by Adeline Ong and first-timer Shaleena Saduruddin, it’s about a young girl who was kidnapped and raped, and now seeks vengeance.

In a sequence with doses of intense physicality, the character holds captive the very lawyer who helped her abductors go free.

T.O.P. deals with unwanted pre-marital pregnancy, and the stigma and predicament that arise from it.

The monologue, performed by a focused and crisp Johanna Wee, is written and directed by Janarthani Arumugam.

Wee plays a young woman who is taken advantage of by a boy for five long years, only to be abandoned when unplanned consequences arise. The painful experience leads to renewed feminine awareness and a human maturity.

Very importantly, the script’s conveys the message that, like the duped girl, gratuitous physical expression in romance can be superficial and misleading.

With minimalist set design and concentrated lighting, both plays lend focus to role and dialogue that emphasise relevant issues on womanhood.

* F for Female will have its final two shows today at 3pm and 8.30pm at The Actors Studio Green Hall, Penang. Tickets at RM25 and RM15 (senior citizens and students).

In relation to my sunscreen entry yesterday. I remembered a video clip by Baz Luhrmann back in 1999. Advice had never sounded so good.

This means a lot to me because I was the class of 99 in my previous secondary school. It is sound advice and the memories came at the right time. I am at the beginning of a new chapter in my life. Just fresh out of university, having my first job and being some what confused by the many people who offered advice. Each means well, at least that is what I believed. However, ultimately the choice is mine. I have made many bad choices over the past year. Some to the verge of driving me insane. But I am confident that I will strive through and that every action has a reason.

I mean 8 years ago when I first joined YE, I never thought I would be doing a job with an NGO to help product development. The experience comes in handy, no doubt.

Being 24, I have already encounter few gems of advices that i have received throughout the years. They may not have made sense at the time but it took me a while to see its true form and power.

We draw strength from the things we learn and our daily practises. We make mistakes, like it or not.

I was always told (and am still being told) that I am young and still can make mistakes. However, I am no longer young, neither am I old enough. Many have started making millions when they have yet hit puberty. So where does that leave me?

The song below, has answered a few questions for me.

Ultimately, in the end of the day, we will have our own self to answer to.

Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99,
Wear sunscreen,
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own..

Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you’re 40, it will
look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen…

Michelle Yip had this great entry that I needed to share.

the many ways of using ‘frenshit’

to illustrate the use of ‘frenshit’ in daily conversation, below is an excerpt of a conversation i had with its maker:

*read at your own risk. names have been changed for confidential reasons. the excerpt can or cant be fictional. like theatre, it’s up to your interpretation.

Xxx: eh, where were you the whole sem holiday? sms tak reply, online dint see you…sesat mana????

Yyy: hehe, sorryla… malas la nak reply.

Xxx: frenshit la u!!!! me sms also u dun wan reply. call la urself a fren!

Yyy: aiya, busy mah…

Xxx: with wat???

Yyy: er… holiday with family…

Xxx: where o? frenshit again…go holiday dint tell…curi curi go…

Yyy: family time mah…besides, the place no line…

Xxx: why? u in camerons kah?

Yyy: no…er…bangkok….

Xxx: @^%@%$!!!!!!!! FRENSHIT!!!!!!!!! go bangkok dint tell!!! den, got get anything for me? sure got rite? we kan coursemate….

Yyy: hehehehe…..no..

Xxx: DOUBLE FRENSHIT!!!!!!!!!

[notice here the number of times Yyy uses the term 'frenshit'. conclusion is, 'frenshit' can be punctuated anywhere and anytime you like]

I was told that my poems seem very dark…

I am not sure though because I always consider them the emotion of the time. I write poetry when I am down or inspired. I cook when I am stressed out because I find cooking very relaxing. The only trouble is, I do not know who to feed. Any volunteers??

Anyways, read my following poetry and tell me if they seem dark to you. Someone told me my poetry is rather Goth. Then again, I am not sure of the concept of Goth either, though I have many friends who are.

Too many nights of being lonely (8 November 2003)

The pain of being lonely is slowly engulfing me like a plague,
Waiting for a cure that does not seem to materialize,
Though many say time is the best cure of all,
If time was a cure, why does it hurt so much?

Bitter Lesson

life gives us the bitter lesson before it rewards us,
but how are we suppose to get the rewards
if the bitterness has already numbed our senses towards the pleasures of life.

Being selfish

If you love those that you are willing to leave behind,
Killing yourself is definitely the last thing on your mind,
The pain might be unbearable no doubt but sooner or later it will past,
However, how long will it take for my pain to past?
Should I consider being selfish for once and risk hurting the ones dear to me….

Candy
They say I’m like hard candy,
Hard and pretty on the outside,
Sweet yet tough,
But I am soft and gooey on the inside,
My insecurities are the filling within the pretty shell.

Copyright ©2003-2006 Adeline Ong

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