Finally! Berakhir sudah Malaysian Nite '09 pada tanggal 8 August yang lepas. Dari dulu bercita-cita nak direct play. Tercapai jugak akhirnya. My directorial debut, meant for international.. bukan short play..but a 2-hour one. Woohoo! More importantly, it was a huge success!

How did it start? It was Otago Malaysian Students Association (OMSA) initiative to come out with the play of Si Tanggang. I was assigned to choreograph Ulek Mayang dance (ni last raye punye cite la ngan Praveene kunun nak wat Ulek Mayang). Then I proposed to have silat in the play. They accepted. But being me, who loves to write stories so much, I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I kept on giving them ideas on the storyline until one day they asked if I want to direct the play. Without hesitating, I said yes dan akhirnye.. muncul lah Si Tanggang 2009 in my own version (oh yeah, I made a lot of changes to the story. Diberi nafas baru :P)

5 months of planning and hard work. It was all paid off. Yang penting, the crowd loved it so much. Terbukti sebab we managed to keep all of them until end of the play. As opposed to last year, half of the crowd left during the intermission. Fuhh! Happy happy happy! Funny thing is, people congratulated me and said can't wait for next year's show. Haha the big Q is, will I be doing again for next year? I don't think so hahaha but who knows ;)

Alrighty... enjoy the show! ;)