Shiny Black Gold

I am a member of PSPA but not so active. I joined PSPA since 2009. This year (2011) while I was in college I received an e-mail from PSPA that they were going to have a drama called Shiny Black Gold. I was wondering what that was. I wasn’t interested at first because I was stressed at that time, but my mom persuaded me to join. I refused and my mom told me that I’ll like it because I like drama, dancing and acting.^^ I finally, after much persuasion from my mom, went for the audition and I found that it was about history of Chinese in Malaya. It was quite interesting but I hated history during schooldays==. Nonetheless I continued, and thought at least I can get to meet new friends but I’m hyperactive and not sociable. This makes a lot of people not willing to befriend me==. I felt old because I finished my SPM (my worst nightmare). There were around 20+ people joining, most of them were new. New because new members of PSPA are usually not active :P. Well at least I can get to meet  new friends. We had rehearsals every weekend; I enjoyed every minute of it and told my mom that I really enjoyed the practices. She said, “See I told you, you sure like it”. The good thing is I didn’t regret joining SHINY BLACK GOLD. Well every rehearsal I’ll go hyper because I would be so excited. BTW I acted as one of the gamblers, it was fun acting even though I was not the main character. During rehearsals we dance, sing and act at the same time. I enjoyed it so muchJ. There were some misunderstandings that happened, and I had no idea what was going on but I slowly found the answer. I acted dumb that time and they didn’t take notice but I didn’t care and just continued acting. I was looking at other things but most of them thought I was looking at MD, they thought I liked her but that was not true. They gossiped until I felt offended, that was why I didn’t smile with them, but I got a girl I like but she’s in university studying. Back to drama, we continued rehearsing until it was time to perform, the director and the co- director were getting more serious. I’ve experienced it before back in 2009 when I acted in the Black Box, I was the youngest actor then. Few days before the performance we went to Taman Budaya Ipoh (the place where we perform). We have been practicing, practicing, practicing and practicing like mad. I didn’t know that my hair style will be almost like a girl’s, I thought it’s real hair but it was cloth with hair at the end and I pitied the hair dresser because he had to make up our hair and had to stand for long time.  We exercised with joy before we step on the stage. During performance I enjoyed and I felt there was a lot of team work in display. The 1^st round I had no time to put on my microphone, everyone was rushing to change until they lost things or props that they were supposed to use. Then it happened that there was a technical problem, the song stopped in between but the director asked to repeat(I felt she shouldn’t have done that). For the following performances I put on the microphone earlier so that I don’t have to rush so much. There’s one incident during the 3^rd performance where I was supposed to fall on to the ground and felt helpless, I did but the microphone almost went into my nose, I was breathing so hard until everybody could hear my breathing through the microphone. So I had to put a lot of cellophane tape around the back of my neck for the subsequent performance. I tried and it was ok so the performance went on smoothly, but on the 4^th day of performance we, the performers were over acting until the director was unhappy about it. All suddenly went silent and we got upset due to that but we tried better on the final performance. The sad thing was when the main character told that it was the last time we were going to meet each other. We felt touched and most of us cried. So on the last day of performance (with Raja muda’s presence) we did our best in front of the Raja Muda. Well it wasn’t perfect but we enjoyed it ;). We took pictures as our memorable day we had:P and that was the nicest moment I ever had