Ensemble of Gamelan

June 10, 2014

Sunday, 6 June 2014.

(It should be held at march. But, due to MH 370 accident,the event was postponed)

Actually the event was held at 8 June 2014. But i was so eager to join and i arrived at Shah alam at 6 June 2014. Nasyrah and I had made some agreement about our plan. I was so bored to stay at home. So we decided to go to my friend's wedding at Putrajaya at 7 June. After that we have an obligation to fulfil which was, PRACTICE!

Nasyrah and I arrived late. Luckily, the 'big boss' wasn't there yet. As we entered the practice room, the other colleagues greeted us with big applause and cheers. We smiled. Brightly. As we just found our wings to fly.

( Nasyrah and I played pekin. Pekin has the highest pitch and tone)

From that point, all of us were practicing all night long. Yup, we pushed aside our tiredness and sleepiness. We knocked the pekin, saron, bonang,ect swiftly to produce a perfect tone. We played Seri rama balik and Merah song. Seri rama balik is malaysian classic song. While, Merah is a song composed by our specky Big Boss. Fascinating wasn't? He made this song on his own, with his mind and ideas.

We slept at 1 a.m. The end for 7 June.

Monday, 8 June 2014

(the event was held at national museum KL)

I can't sleep all night long. I was wide awake and the mosquitoes were having a blood party, I mean my blood. I just closed my eyes and heard other people's breathe snoring. I heard every alarm and got irritated by each of them. Nahh I dont care. In my mind, I just kept thinking about the EOG.

In the morning, we woke up and pray and got ready for the trip to KL.

(Tengkolok sape entah kiteorang kebas)

We took off from Akasia residence at 10 a.m. and It was pretty late lah. So, we arrived late. We had to do sound check first. But, It was so complicated. Akak manager said we can do the sound check. But when we were going to do it, the other akak manager forbade us to keep walking toward the stage. Atoii.

Masalah betoi.

Luckily, our specky big boss had successfully resolved this issue. The akak manager tu gave us about 10 minutes to perform. Haru dibuatnya.

(waiting for our turn to perform)

Seeing other gamelan performers' song, it made me sad actually. GeBu was just established this year compared to the others. Such as UTP, KISAS, UNITEN. I think they were very expert in this field. Their hands were so swift and fast. Fuhh cayalah.

It's okay for me. It just one step ahead. Pretty hard at first. Right?

Our hands got wet by sweating. Our heart got attacked by frightening. Our feet got cold by nervousness. We waited at fitting room. Some of us tried to make some jokes to crack the silence. We just laughed as nothing would happen despite of the butterfly that wandering in our stomach.

Okay. That's it. It was our turn. We walked out from the room. Walking toward the stage through backstage. We faked our smile. hahah who would have smiled in this situation? sincerely?

I knocked as hard as I can. I did what was the best I can do.