The Southeast Asian Night Market

Its holiday!

Just hav my 225 paper on las friday...well,it dint turn out well since i hav screwed it up..I feeling feverish when i m answering those ques.. i get bit mad on myself since the fever make my brain go blank...sigh...was disappointed after the test..

straight after test, went to the full dress rehearsal at kelburn. I felt relieved for the cultural committee since all the costumes hav finally arrived. Previously I still rmb how wori the cultural committee are with the hassle n delays on the costumes from Malaysia...but we were all thankful that all of it managed to reach just right on time, 1 day before the big event - first ever Southeast Asian Night Market arrived at Wellington. Although it said that it's a night market, but it is held indoor...funny huh..but i guess since its winter, no1 will ever willing to come to this event if it's held outdoor...

My mood on that day was still 'sunny' as the weather wasnt too cold. I m really hapi that I get the chance to wear 3 different costumes although i need to keep on changing oufit time to time. I was really surprised that the respond for this event was really overwhelming. I nvr imagine that the queue can be so long which could form almost a circle in front of tsb arena. No joke. its real.

the 1st dance for M'sia kick off at 2.30pm with Inang renek, Datun Julut n Mangunatip. As this is the 1st time i m performing for Datun Julut, I was really nervous though...i still rmb how trembling i was when i stepped up on the stage..gosh can feel me so shaky even though i was trying to conceal it with my smile. but somehow,i think v did well =)

Our costumes are attractive, dont u think so? so colourful...hehehe

Before the performance, taken together with Mangunatip dancers...

during the dance...that is the only pic taken..:p

after the dance, all of the dancers for the 1st slot..

with Poon & wyne!
After the first slot of Malaysian performance, since its still early for me for another round of performance, wyne & I decided to go out jalan-jalan, to cari makan n feel the heat! hehe we decided not to change our Datun Julut costume too n I think our decision is right. As we are walking around the place, in a way we are promoting Malaysia too. Our costumes are too colourful to caught the attention of most of the crowd. Many people did approached us n complimenting on our charming costumes... for this, credit should be given to Abg Rudy n the Sarawk govt=)

there is this cute lil gal request to hav a touch on our costumes, so v decided to take a pic with her...*grins*
later, meet up with ck n vivian...
then found out this ===> Beca- the only display item in front of the entrance..hehe

with the whole batch of frenz...thanks for coming!=)

What unexpected was we met the high commissioner in random. he was really hapi that he finally got the chance to see the beautiful outfits posted from m'sia.

As a way to showcase this lovely Malaysia costumes, he even requested two of us to walk in front of the vips during the formal opening parade, ushering the NZ minister to the stage..*wink wink* well, at this point, I felt blessed n proud.

While waiting for the food for dancers to come, Wyne & I were so eager to try out other countries food as well. we wanted to buy cendol & ABC but the queue is so looonngg~so end up v bought a slice of kavana cake from Indo, 2 chic vietnam roll, 1 cecodok, n thai green curry. kavana cake looks yummy but was abit tasteless whereas thai green curry taste turn out to be delicious ;)

The 2nd slot for Malaysian performance began around 7.25pm, with the combination of malay,chinese and indian dance. this time i wasnt that nervous compared to the first slot. probably this is not the 1st time i was performing chinese dance, so has much more confidence on it=) although there is some minor mistakes almost reaching the end, but somehow ppl dun really notice it...i hope.. :P zapin rajuk and indian dance were all good as well. the wound on my leg was bleeding again after the chinese dance..but i m glad dat it bleeds after dance ;)

okay, these are some of snapshots before the dance:

with elun...i think this pic looks good!

with Wyne...we two look so chinese..ok, i know i m talking nonsense...

the group pic of chinese dancers - wyne,me, dali,iqa, yuyu,iynas, ida n najwa - good job gals!

during the dance...
After the dance, back to changing room...

stil dun wan miss out taking pics with the indian group dancers...

We caught a glimpse on thai dancers..i like the head gear they are wearing...hehe

third slot of dance began with the energetic contemporary dance - Arus at 9pm. Although i did not got the chance to join into, but still Arus is my all time favourite =)

Right after the multicultural performance, its time for the fashion show. Each country has their own beautiful models wearing their traditional costumes. I m glad to be part of it. Thanks iynas for that ;) The m'sia representatives - we have wyne & iqa wearing traditional sabah n s'wak costumes while me n poki wearing baju kebaya n bj melayu. although there is some similar traits between our costumes with other countries, but thankfully there is not exactly the same one. All models have been elegantly on stage. I m sure we, as the m'sia model did our best too! we are proud to be the beautiful Asians =))

some random shoot before the catwalk.... thanks to irin for lovely kebaya=)

iqa with the s'wak costumes, Anna, sporean with the Portugis costumes n me in baju kebaya..
Me in the catwalk...
the four models salam-ing...
with indo n philipines pretties~~
thai on the left, followed by spore...

catching Vietnam costumes!
its four of us again! we were joyous for the show=)

Although I was tired at the end of the day, being part of it is such a bless for me..

Bravo to all dancers who hav work hard to put up a good show=) the time n effort v spent on practicing, refining the steps, all hav contribute to a good performance! Thanks to the cultural committee, Iynas, Palie & Ila for their commitment for managing the event successfully. Not to 4gt, sincere thanks to Abg Rudy who has sacrifice so much from cheoreographing our dance till preparing all our costumes and accesories back in m'sia.. Much appreciated=) we were sori for some of the silly mistake in wearing the costumes for zapin rajuk dancers...hehe we will ensure there will be no mistake on m'sian nite.

Thanks to Elun for all the wonderful pictures! n to Wan Ling for video-ing all the m'sia performance! tq so much~ to those who hav helped out, being the volunteer n helper at the bckstage, those who opened up the food stalls n those hav participate in the traditional games, good job! we hav make m'sia proud ;)