Me, Naz and Hazimah participated in our school Bicara Berirama competition. In case you don't know what a bicara berirama is, it's basically choral speaking, but in Bahasa Melayu ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think we only got to practiced for 2-3 weeks but it wasn't enough time for us because we practiced from 5.00pm - 6.45pm (which was until school ends). And the fact that we seem to always change ideas and some of us are confused to get used to it with some of the other participants were playing around and not being serious, it reaaaally shortens the time that we have to practice.
We also have some issues at first because most of the participants decided to go out/quit from the bicara berirama because they said that the teachers that are conducting us is not fun and serious and some of them even use PBS as an excuse to go out/quit. Pfft, I'm sorry but excuuuuuuse me, most of us also have PBS to do and we do agree that the teachers act like that but think about what we can do for our school. (no matter how much you hate it). And some of us didn't memorize the script. The script have lots of singing parts and pantun, so it was kind of hard for us to memorize it. Even the words in the pantun was.... complicated for us to pronounce it and besides, I bet that we don't even know that there's a word like that before.
The competition was supposed to be held earlier at SMK10 Kota Damansara, but it was postponed to 23rd April (which was yesterday, Tuesday). I don't even know why they postponed it at first. And then the teachers told us that the place of event was changed and the competition was to be held at SMKDU on the same date. And then just a day before the real competition, the teachers told us that the place of event was changed again, and this time it's SMK Damansara Damai.
Now let me talk about the school, the surroundings there and our performance.
First of all, I think that the school is big. They even have a separate hall, just for that school. No wonder the competition was held there. The hall was big, but the only thing that's bothering me, and even about 480 (or less) students, is that the hall is fcking hot okay. You can't even feel the fan.
There's only one bathroom that we can go to, which is at the back of the hall (it's not far and it even have a link/passage to the stage in the hall). I really think that almost most of the students from different school will at least say "what. they only have one toilet in the bathroom?". I don't know about the other bathroom that they have there, but I got to say that the bathroom is rather clean and spacious, even though we need to use a bathroom that only have one toilet.
Second, most of the students there are SO nice and friendly. It even makes me feel jealous that I didn't go to that school. And oh my god almost most of the population of the guys there are fucking cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not even exaggerating okay they don't even need to do anything to make them look that way and- fucking hell why didn't I heard of that school before????!!?
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Our school got to perform in the 9th place in order out of 15 school. I was reaaaaally nervous because I know that during our practice, it's not that perfect. Like, there will always be something wrong. It's just not perfect. For choral speaking, I'm not that nervous (although we're the first one to perform) because I know that all of us are commited in it and we did it perfectly like how the teachers that guided us wants to.
The opening for our performance was a little bit "chaotic and messy" for me. So, I'm in the 2nd row out of 3 rows. On my right is Sabirah and Sofea is on my left. The 1st row stands on the floor; in front of the stage & in front of the bench, 2nd row stands on a bench that was prepared in front of the stage below and the 3rd row stands on the stage.
Why I say that the opening is "chaotic and messy for me" was because there's something wrong that happened between me and Sofea. Sofea can't get up on the bench because there are no place left. So I fucking hissed (no hate please) to Sabirah to ask her to go in front a bit because there's no space for Sofea. And she said to me that there are also no spaces left in front of her. Yeah right. I clearly saw that there are enough space for her to go in front a little bit so Sofea can stand behind/beside me. Thank God there are actually enough space on the 2nd row.
And there are part from the script that we accidentally skipped. Everyone on our team noticed this but we decided to not say or do anything about it because the judges might notice that we messed up. So we just go along with it. It all went well after that but I think I messed up a bit on the pantun part so I bet that I look like a retard mumbling things and gasping for air.
After the performance, most of us noticed that Izzati cried a bit because she said that the part where we accidentally skipped was her fault. It was her solo part but she skipped a bit forward. We need to follow along with her solo part because that's how it's supposed to be. So when she said the solo part which was a bit forward, we also performed it a bit forward. But I think it's not her fault though because most of her solo parts almost sounds the same.
After the performance, most of us went outside the hall because we're bored, hungry and feel really hot and stuffy already. Me and Naz just went out for a little while because we went outside just to bought dadih for herself and a mineral water for me that they sell outside the hall. After that we continued to just sit inside the hall no matter how hot it is inside and talk. We didn't realize that there are only two of us from our school team that is sitting at the place that were prepared for us. Which makes it looks weird tbh.
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Now let's just skip to the part where they announce the winner.
At first one of the judges gave a speech. And then she gave a certificate/sijil penghargaan to the teachers that guide us. All of us are waiting for this one part where she announces The Best Conductor for Bicara Berirama. In a choral speaking or a bicara berirama competition, there's going to be a special award for the conductor. The conductor is the one who conducts (duhh) the group.
Simon is our conductor and he's also the conductor for choral speaking. (I actually participated in the choral speaking competition but I didn't make a post about it). At first, all of us really and honestly, didn't expect that Simon is going to get the award. But he did.
..................Konduktor yang terbaik ialah daripada SMK Seksyen 4.
We all jumped and go to the place where he sits, which was beside me. So I literally can see that proud and happy look on my team's face <333. I was shaking and almost cried a bit because I'm so proud and happy for him, because before the judge said that, he tweeted that he wants to win for Best Conductor and his wish came true ;___;
And then the winners.
- 1st place goes to SMK Damansara Damai, which was the group from the school where the competition was held.
- 2nd place is this school that I can't remember it's name.
- 3rd place goes to SMK (P) Sri Aman.
Although we didn't win anything, I already feel happy and proud because Simon wins Best Conductor. And although it's not my award or anything, the judge mentioned our school's name. That's the best part. The best thing about winning is that people will know you and people will not look down on you.
And I think I now understand how it feels like when you can really feel someone else's feelings and emotions.
After that we took group pictures and all that and went straight back to school and went to home.
Please note that this was supposed to be published on Wednesday, the day after the competition. Goodbye. 23/4/2013.
Please note that this was supposed to be published on Wednesday, the day after the competition. Goodbye. 23/4/2013.