LANGKAWI LIMA PANDA
feeling very blessed and fortunate from the langkawi trip. even tho we only went 3 days, it felt like a week or sth, cuz we did so much and so much happened. Its quite a humbling experience, being given the chance to perform overseas, it makes me feel very priviledged. Plus, new NSFs like me don't normally get the chance to go overseas so early.
Anyway, here's what happened.
woke up 7am and got sent to airport by bro. the flight was 11am, so we lazed around for abit. It was a transit flight, so we stopped in penang before flying again to langkawi. When we landed in penang, it was quite a rough landing. It was like a loud BANG when we landed, so because of that, our transit flight was delayed like 30 mins cuz of a "technical problem".
Anyway, when we touched down at langkawi, the whole place was DAMN BRIGHT. its like the colors are larger than life. the sun was so strong, but that made the whole place feel like a paradise of sorts. It was like windows XP wallpaper kinda scenery lol. and there wasn't like a linkway from the plane into the airport, just a staircase down from the plane and we had to walk across the runway grounds into the airport, so its like some superstar private jet or sth.
inside the airport, we had MUFFINS XD
our host was jeffrey tan from the navy, lol same name as our mdc jeffrey. we went straight for rehearsal at the venue, which was the grand ballroom of some hotel (which was quite small actually). only 4 of us went there to perform, jeffrey, cindy, zarinah and me (i'm the only nsf, which made me felt quite priviledged) Anyway, sat was zarinah's birthday, and i bought a plush toy of patrick from spongebob squarepants. it was too big to put in my luggage so i put it in the props luggage. we had to rehearse, but zarinah's gift was in the props luggage, so i had to go like a corner and hide from zarinah and stuff patrick into my small bag, which became damn pouffy. So we just did a mug thru and a run there, and we got applause from the other performers, already i get a sense there was quite abit of respect for us already from the other countries.
Oh, the event was called LIMA, which stands for langkawi international maritime and aerospace exhibition, which was a congregation by USA, malaysia, phillipines, india, pakistan, Korea, thailand, indonesia, singapore and alot of other countries. very coolio, ma first time performing to such an international audience.
we then went to our hotel, which is called the frangi pani hotel. The hotel is like a chalet, each room is like a small chalet building, and we have a private beach siaaaa. One night there costs like 800 rm, which is 400 sing dollars O.O ZOMG. but mdc's paying so xDDD
at 8 ish, we started preparing for the event. Backstage after we changed into our costumes, cindy kenna hounded by pakistani guys who kept taking pictures with her.. lol. That was just a taste of what's to come. we met the phillipino performers also, who are so... phillipino lol. kinda bad to say but, they remind us of the phillipino maids in sg lol.. But they were very cheery, their costumes were yellow too, kinda cute.
We then performed our heritage medley. haha we made quite abit of boo boo, all of us, except jeffrey suprisingly, cuz during rehearsals, he kept making boo boos, but we were quite alright. come show time it was the other way round. I dropped my indian stick props lol, right before the indian part when i got on stage. and jeffrey did a leg extension which he did like a split on one leg kinda thing. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE DID IT! i was quite shocked lol, but that made the performance even nicer hahaha.
We had quite a loud applause, apparently we were like the favourite there. after the performance we were still in our costumes, but we went down to mingle and eat from like the food stalls of the different countries there. lol PEOPLE KEPT WANTING TO TAKE PICTURES WITH US. well more so with the girls hahahah. like every 10 secs someone would want to take pics with us. And the audience were all captains and above, i was probably the only private there, and they were all treating us like superstars or sth. I felt quite proud, damn humbled that like captains and warren officers all wanted to shake our hands, plus they were from like US, phillipine, indonesia etc. Lol oh and one amercian black dude tried to hit on zarinah, but failed miserably. Quite a few of em tried to hit on cindy and zarinah, but failllllll xP
Our singaporean general/captain/warren officer/im-not-sure-what-was-his-rank liked the performance alot, and wanted to have more performances by us. The whole thing made me very very humbled and proud at the same time.
the next day was even more fun, but i'll blog about it another time
Anyway, here's what happened.
woke up 7am and got sent to airport by bro. the flight was 11am, so we lazed around for abit. It was a transit flight, so we stopped in penang before flying again to langkawi. When we landed in penang, it was quite a rough landing. It was like a loud BANG when we landed, so because of that, our transit flight was delayed like 30 mins cuz of a "technical problem".
Anyway, when we touched down at langkawi, the whole place was DAMN BRIGHT. its like the colors are larger than life. the sun was so strong, but that made the whole place feel like a paradise of sorts. It was like windows XP wallpaper kinda scenery lol. and there wasn't like a linkway from the plane into the airport, just a staircase down from the plane and we had to walk across the runway grounds into the airport, so its like some superstar private jet or sth.
inside the airport, we had MUFFINS XD
our host was jeffrey tan from the navy, lol same name as our mdc jeffrey. we went straight for rehearsal at the venue, which was the grand ballroom of some hotel (which was quite small actually). only 4 of us went there to perform, jeffrey, cindy, zarinah and me (i'm the only nsf, which made me felt quite priviledged) Anyway, sat was zarinah's birthday, and i bought a plush toy of patrick from spongebob squarepants. it was too big to put in my luggage so i put it in the props luggage. we had to rehearse, but zarinah's gift was in the props luggage, so i had to go like a corner and hide from zarinah and stuff patrick into my small bag, which became damn pouffy. So we just did a mug thru and a run there, and we got applause from the other performers, already i get a sense there was quite abit of respect for us already from the other countries.
Oh, the event was called LIMA, which stands for langkawi international maritime and aerospace exhibition, which was a congregation by USA, malaysia, phillipines, india, pakistan, Korea, thailand, indonesia, singapore and alot of other countries. very coolio, ma first time performing to such an international audience.
we then went to our hotel, which is called the frangi pani hotel. The hotel is like a chalet, each room is like a small chalet building, and we have a private beach siaaaa. One night there costs like 800 rm, which is 400 sing dollars O.O ZOMG. but mdc's paying so xDDD
at 8 ish, we started preparing for the event. Backstage after we changed into our costumes, cindy kenna hounded by pakistani guys who kept taking pictures with her.. lol. That was just a taste of what's to come. we met the phillipino performers also, who are so... phillipino lol. kinda bad to say but, they remind us of the phillipino maids in sg lol.. But they were very cheery, their costumes were yellow too, kinda cute.
We then performed our heritage medley. haha we made quite abit of boo boo, all of us, except jeffrey suprisingly, cuz during rehearsals, he kept making boo boos, but we were quite alright. come show time it was the other way round. I dropped my indian stick props lol, right before the indian part when i got on stage. and jeffrey did a leg extension which he did like a split on one leg kinda thing. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE DID IT! i was quite shocked lol, but that made the performance even nicer hahaha.
We had quite a loud applause, apparently we were like the favourite there. after the performance we were still in our costumes, but we went down to mingle and eat from like the food stalls of the different countries there. lol PEOPLE KEPT WANTING TO TAKE PICTURES WITH US. well more so with the girls hahahah. like every 10 secs someone would want to take pics with us. And the audience were all captains and above, i was probably the only private there, and they were all treating us like superstars or sth. I felt quite proud, damn humbled that like captains and warren officers all wanted to shake our hands, plus they were from like US, phillipine, indonesia etc. Lol oh and one amercian black dude tried to hit on zarinah, but failed miserably. Quite a few of em tried to hit on cindy and zarinah, but failllllll xP
Our singaporean general/captain/warren officer/im-not-sure-what-was-his-rank liked the performance alot, and wanted to have more performances by us. The whole thing made me very very humbled and proud at the same time.
the next day was even more fun, but i'll blog about it another time