variasiswa!!!!!

5.aug.2006
we had the variasiswa on the 5th night and it was SO COOL!!!! It was so fun. It was beyond fun. It was the most incredible experience I’ve had in uni. so far. The lights! The makeup! The music! The noise!! There was lots of noise. Mostly made by my desa reps. Haahaa.
The night starts at 9, but they drag you down for rehearsal at 8 in the morning, and then they let you sleep til 5, which is when they slap on the makeup.i had my makeup done by 4 people, because each one after the other thought I didn’t have enough makeup. Really. Lol. After that everyone looked like Alice in Wonderland:the Musical rejects. With glitter.
Our hero and heroine, elmy and biha, looked like they were knocked on the head with a sack of stardust, and the rest of us couldn’t escape the inevitability of looking like extras on Fairy Night Live. Abang ee was so enthusiastically thorough it took two days for everyone to get rid of the damned stuff. Me and two friends went for the Sarawak Society round island trip serba berkelipan. Fortunately, not so obvious in the day time la.
So at 8.30 they herded us off to the DTSP (dewan tunku syed putra, where everything and titas happens), where we met people who looked even more OTT, and we were grateful for that ;p. The persembahan2 was by each desa, and our lottery rep pulled the last no (ELEVEN) for us. So we sat through 10 plays, dances and musicals before our turn, and just watching them made us tired. Mostly because abg ee and elmy would stand up and cheer, dance and make lots of noise (and whose actions we all would dutifully mimic, having nothing else better to do through the 10 performances. Plus it was lots of fun) at every opportunity. I mean every. Music would be playing for the stage show and all of a sudden the two rows at the back would be standing up and, I don’t know, maybe you could call it dancing, and laughing and singing. Insanity. The other desas were so boring. They should have given us a prize for being the most spirited. Or a prize just to shut us up. Haha.
Anyway, we didn’t win, but it didn’t really matter. 9 other desas didn’t win and I can’t even remember who did lol. After that there was an excess of picture taking. Thank god for my camera!!!i will have eternal memories. Seeing as my god given memory is notoriously lousy. Yay!Yay!
Everyone was too lazy to walk out for dinner so we accepted (haha) the free food and melepaked in the bilik gerakan. After that, most people went back to their rooms, except those who were still itching with excitement. That would include me. So someone switched on the radio and I went around recording people dancing. Or trying to dance. It was hilarious. I’d show it here but I’d have to ask everyone’s permission to publicly humiliate them on the net.
That’s about it, I guess. I can totally understand why some people just love being in theatre. It isn’t so much the actual acting but the family-ness you end up having with your fellow ‘actors’ and ‘technicians’. Seriously. After practicing with these people every night from 10 to 1 nearly 3 weeks in a row, you can’t help but miss them (you also can’t help but sleep at 2, because your body clock is so messed up). I know they’ll probably never read this, but here goes: love you guys, and thanks for the most funnest experience ever!! May we all be able to sleep normally someday. Probably after the ambang merdeka thing…oh man.