the rally

9th Lecture and Tutorial 4 August 2015

Another 15 days to the coming rally. I still remember that day after my lecturer left us a line "Go Bersih 4.0". Yes is Dr C. Haha! Honestly speaking, a lot of questions come to my mind. And I even discussed this topic with Pui Pui on the way home that day. So after a long talk, both of us have the same mind. We concluded that there is nothing change after so many rallies. So, why should we go?
Things do not change better but become worse recently until a big donation goes to our PM. Nonsense! This news is just so funny yet ridiculous!

I'm that kind of person who live for now, not for the future. I mean don't think much about future. So ya.
Until today, I read Vulcan post.
BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE.
Okieee. This seven words are so powerful until I have a second thought on this. Perhaps he is right. What we are going to do now is for our future. Do remember the Sejarah. Our ancestor fought so hard for the Malaysia we live today and...we should do something for our next generation too isn't it? I will leave this question to you as well. But to me, I think Yes we should.

What've Bersih rallies achieved so far? Yes!  You should read this if you have the same thought as me. You are right. Nothing big has achieved obviously. But after I read this, I slowly realize there is a change! Facebook will be a very good example. People is so unite and change their profile picture into black/ yellow whenever there is an event happens. You will see this very soon. You see, it takes time to change people mind and act. Even myself who does not care much about politics also need so long time to think and judge. Like after these 10 weeks, I just starts to have sort of feeling to this MMC subject. I agree with what Dr C said, perhaps we are not getting angry enough to act! Yeah which is true. The donation is a very good example. After read the news, mind to share what's your reaction/ action? So far what' ve you done about it? Or what can you do?  Yeah we did discuss in class but after that life' s still going on like nothing has happened yesterday. So Malaysian.

This topic makes me think about one of my senior in UM. I knew him cause we joined Sin Chew Jit Poh's student reporter. If I'm not mistaken he is also one of the head of SRC there. He is so involved in politics and did a lot of things in his university until gt warning letter from UM. So I'm still thinking why he wants to do all these? But wonder what if in UTAR?

Personally, I'm so curious what if the last week near the Bersih rally. We all wear yellow shirt in a gang to class. What will happen? Will other students follow our yellow trend?
Hmm...perhaps this is a good time let us start to do something as well ? Should we take this experiment?

If you ask me will I join Bersih 4.0 my answer will be...Let me have the 14 days to think about it simply because my friends gt hurt before during the rally. So abit takut LOL
But for sure a yellow T on that day =)

Another field trip

8th Lecture and Tutorial 28 July 2015 

It's a late post! A post about the previous visitation to Bank Negara. A last day with Ms E as well.
Yes we enjoyed the field trip. That's definitely. It will be good if we have a longer duration there.
It's an interesting experience. I didn't expect the pre-talk session from Bank Negara. Well, it's good anyway, at least I learnt something especially from the smart artist Muid Latif. He is so talented. And I get to know more about him by scrolling his instagram. And I found that Woah! Very organized artist.

Well, I can't describe much but I just like this kind of moment. When lecturers, tutors and students are sharing their thought in this so called Lawatan sambil Belajar. The study process is just suddenly become so effective and productive. Art is so beautiful when you can see the art with your own eyes. Not only that, you can see it, smell it and feel it. Hmm...I did smell an artwork there but too bad I forgot what's that piece about. Well, I can't smell anything actually. LOL. It's odourless. I expect to have some oil paint smell or the chemical smell but no at all. Anyway I feel abit more closer to the art with a smile on face. Probably I smell the relationship between us. Hehe! That's it! Lesson is learnt--Do take down note when you have smth fresh in mind. Like now, I can't remember anything after weeks. lol

Short msg to Ms E

Dear Ms E
How are you? You're gonna fly edi in another few weeks time. Hmm... quite miss you weiyh. I think everyone of us miss you too. You must rmb us okie? Since our class is the noisiest class you ever have I guess? ha-ha! Take care and take care 'can'?  =)
Goodbye and Goodluck

the LIMIT

6th Lecture and Tutorial 14 July 2015 


WHat's the liMit of arTIstic frEEDom?
What'S the limitS of multiCULturalism?
CAn't wE have MULTI national language?
dO we nEED national LanGUage?
to what Extend can wE have multilanguage?
questioning the TRANSLATION for language?
complain in different language GET different TREAT?
n wHY am I doinG all tHis is for EXperimeNT purpose.

Well, I was trying to play the 'capslk' and highlight and it forms a heart shape. (a failed heart shape)
This reflect to the art of words. It is so disturbing yet creative when you read the lines. I stop to do that or else you will not continue to read my post simply because it is just annoying. What I want to bring out is everything has the LIMIT, including arts. Or else, Zi Hao's works won't be banned and M'sia media won't get censored.

This is what I learned- the LIMIT.

Same opinion with Chok. I was shocked when Zi Hao mentioned about the language "English and Bahasa" makes so much differences in political discourse. Is like what the...? Same content but just in different language only weiyh. I am really amazed language has such power.
To argue Chok's post :
Sesungguhnya, garisan diantara kebebasan bersuara dan ucapan kebencian adalah amat halus sekali, kita harus sentiasa memastikan ucapan kita bersifat munasabah dan sopan untuk menjaga perasaan khalayak ramai.   

With the statement above, I wonder how much can we "JAGA perasaan orang lain" and to what extend can we jaga? jaga forever? tolerate forever? And what if orang lain don't even care of us? Will you still care of them? My opinion is...we have our own freedom to speak. So why should we care about the sifat munasabah? If you are not satisfy with it, just voice out. But if you are not, I would say that you already put the limit there unconsciously. Not to say this is good or bad, but another way to say is "there is no freedom of speech".

Actually it is same when we have the setting in the class.
We have our right to speak. We can choose to answer or not to answer questions.
We have our right to speak. We can voice out our opinion every time.
We have our right to speak. We can stand up and point at the lecturer says, " I don't like the way you teach. You are sxxxs."
Wow! Can you imagine IF this incident happen in our class? I study from kindergarten until now, 16 years...to be honest, I never experience this before. So basically, we all know our limit. I would say even sometime we don't like the things or objects, we will not show it obviously but try to camourflage. Haha! Anyway rule is rule.

If you are daring and curious enough like Zi Hao, actually you can try to experiment it which I think all of us won't do I guess. To conclude this, I remain my stand as everyone has their own level of limit. Different thought, different judgement.

Personally, I think every artist has their own characteristic. Can't say it's weird but don't know how to describe in a proper word. Perhaps special? He too. A man who overcurious. And this is why make him so creative. Remember the question "Where does the inspiration for creativity come from?" I guess Zi Hao will be one of a very good example.

He makes me think of as a young adult, should we really cross the line and do something weird too? Hmm...we can think about it.

Tutorial TIME! I like the screening of " The Rising Sun" compare to another one. Both are the story about the old time when Japanese came Malaya. One is broadcasted by History Channel in a documentary, interview style whereas another one is more modern style play with graphic and editing. Again we talked about the formal and contextual.

Formal analysis
1. description (historically)
2 .analyse ( chromatic/vibrant)
3. interpret ( why)
4. judgement

Contextual analysis
more deep and consider what's around.
Eg, WHY the bicycle under water, demon mask, female in red etc

Think think think.

Anyway, Happy Raya and Holidays peeps ;)

Malaysian Art

5th Lecture and Tutorial 7 July 2015

Dance. Is not just about the steps, the formation but is about using the body movement within a space to tell the story. This definition is like WOW! Totally agree with it. Art is just that beautiful.
Recall back to the short movie of Chilayu...Melayu....Malay....Chinese....Cina....DLL....Indian...
I was pretty amazed after Dr Carmen actually explained the composition in the show then only realized the power of art. Ok...perhaps I'm not contextual enough to understand it in prompt.
In dance, movement and expression will be our common vocabulary as formal.
Likewise, contextual tells story content based on cultural or artistic.

Somehow, we have racial bogotry, xenophobia and racial prejudice to certain people. This is actually come from our personal; suppose not to act on it or show it out.
So...
We cannot say that it is racism until we institutionalized racism which means government organization or etc giving negative treatment to a group of people based on their race. So-ya!
(Correct me if I'm wrong)


What event is so significant that Malaysia artist should feature in their artwork? 
Basically, I have no idea. Perhaps something like what Zunar did will be fine? So daring yet so true.
But it must be having historical sign which is value for future la.

Is there the responsibility of Malaysia artist to create Malaysia artwork?
Yes it is because even what Marion D'cruz and Ramli Ibrahim do are still practicing Malaysian artwork. They are very much confidence and understand their own culture before stepping out from it. So when globalization allows culture to flow free through national barriers, Malaysian art is still surviving. But if we don't take this responsibility, who will?

Creativity

4th Lecture and Tutorial 30 June 2015
Post- understanding
Like oh myy....my thought is completely different from the class. More applicable for advertising I guess. So based on Msia Media & Culture
Creativity is come from the 4C's
-Curiousity (desire to know)
-Confidence (self-stable)
-Courage
-Change


Pre-understanding 

An interesting question to me once I saw the fb post.

"Where does inspiration for creativity come from?" 

I do believe inspiration always come into your mind at your least expectation especially when you are craving something new for your work/ assignment. It might be the time when you're having your maggie goreng or when you're showering, walking or even dreaming. So do I. But to get all these happen, you have to understand and knowledge about the particular item that you want, then only you are able to relate and think out of the box. 

To be honest, our creativity has been limited since young. Those days, we're taught to colour the plant in green, sky in blue, hair in black etc. We do not have chance to explore and experiment new things and at the end of the day, we learned to be uncreative. But it is not a bad thing to me. Why?

Question
If you are given a piece of A4 paper to draw anything you like based on your creativity.
What will you draw? Why you draw that? Where's the idea come from?

So do creativity always come with a reason why...?

To me, I think creativity comes from constraints. As I said earlier, our thought is limited since young. There is a boundary for us to think out of the box. Therefore, it is just like holding a pen to link from a point (constraint) to another point (new idea). If without a boundary perhaps I will not know where to start from. It is a leading point to cross over. Do you agree?

So today, we as a creative industry student, have to train ourselves to become a creative person. I think creativity is something to do in our brain which called as imagination. Lets start with it! Try to connect something seems unconnected together; try to create something without follow the rules and logics and you will be surprised that it will be your master piece. 

Looking forward to this discussion on Tuesday. 

Patriotism VS Nationalism

3rd Lecture and Tutorial 23 June 2015 

Back to those days, I was the one who always dancing on stage with my bunch of mates. No matter what festival it is, we will never fail to perform the so called "Tarian Satu Malaysia". I led to pledge for the national principle (Rukunegara), brought national flags (Jalur Gemilang) to the class, let all my classmates put on their tables, deco the class, joined the Merdeka countdown etc. Like wow (gila betul budak ni) ! So practically, I think myself was very patriotic because I was really 'semangat' to do all these on that time. Every morning will sing national anthem state song in school but now, no more. We are lacking these kind of activities since we entered university. As we know that dance, music all these are arts. That's why I strongly believe arts and cultures can really bring people together like nothing else; it can speak directly to our emotions and bring us together to celebrate both similarities and differences. This is how I connect to my country. Perhaps we can try to do something like what we did in high school? But I think it will be tough. A simple example "How many of us will open mouth and sing loudly when you hear the national anthem? No right?  (even myself sometimes will just mumble)

As I mentioned above, patriotism is something you can show by using visual symbol. It is hard to present if only with your mouth of words. I do proud to be Malaysian, living in a multi- cultures and races place. Stronger feeling of proudness comes when Datuk Lee C.W won the badminton, when Datuk Nicole David won the squash etc. Don't you? I dare not to say I love my country because definitely I will not fight/ die for it. I will just try to be respecting and obeying the rule even sometimes forced to be. Ya I'm saying GST.

When we talk about nationalism is just something the government imposed on us such as the language, car, costume etc. These things can eventually differentiate us apart. It shows the identity of a true Malaysian based on certain culture and background. Like a lady wears Batik/ Baju Kurung and speaks in Bahasa Melayu will be a very goof example.


A brief Negaraku composed by three of us (Khailin, Nisshanthi and I)

Together, together
We love Malaysia
We hold hands
Share the laughs and tears

Together together
We are 1 Malaysia
One heart one mind
Just need sometime

Jokes here jokes there
We are still in a line
Multiraces multicultures
Make us one of a kind

--end--

p/s: I found Chuck's post is pretty interesting. So do have a view =)

Another Country

13 June 2015, 8.30pm @ DPAC 

Directed by Malaysia's Jo Kukathas and Singapore's Ivan Heng. 

Is another type of performing art in my life. A text exchange performance with Malaysian actors performing Singaporean texts and vice versa. Previously, I went to KLPAC for the show called "Ancient Inscriptions". It's a nice dancing performance about the history and the evolution of chinese characters. What make these two shows so different yet so alike is the way they performed. They tend to communicate with audience by using facial expression, voice and body language in live, so this is what we called performing art. 

My feelings and thoughts

I was so shocked during the Daulat: Long Live scene. Not only that particular scene but the whole show actually; they presented the stories without any boundaries. I was thinking "No censorship one meh? What if people complain their content? " Question after question. 

I absolutely agree with Ting Hui: "Then, I came to realization that politics often draw borders and divide people, but arts portray emotion and unite people by making connections in between audience, actors and the content of the art. It's fascinating to think theatre plays a crucial role in changing the way how the society think." We actually know what's happening in our reality and this critic becomes so true especially when you can hear the crowd's laughter on that night. What I can conclude from this is....We are so Malaysian. The typical Malaysian. Laugh but no action

The most memorable scene

Many of us love Mama Looking For Her Cat -written by the late Kuo Pao Kun (1998) simply because of their acting and the language used (Hokkien and Tamil). Actually, this script is about the communication difference between a mother and her children which reflecting Singapore's multilingualism and multiculturalism.  This has portrayed the estranged relationship in the society. 

Many more issues can be discussed based on the show. Anyway I like the actors so da laaaa photo! (just gt two here hehe XD)

Ice with Ghafir Akbar and Alfred Loh

2nd Lecture and Tutorial 16 June 2015 

Film VS Drama?

Film

-recorded

-technical effect (editing)

-indirect contact with audience

-play with camera angle

-one narrative

Drama 

-live, immediate  

-direct contact with audience

-more exaggerate (depends on the audience response)

-change scene/section

Catharsis  is a term introduced by Aristotle, the Greek philosopher which means the process of relieving strong feelings after being entertained. Well, we said "Another Country" refuse to obey the Catharsis theory because the directors want us to question about it. We did not achieve our satisfaction with the more than-one narratives which we didn't expected/controlled. 

Revise [Another Country] 

Malaysia team VS Singapore team

Malaysia team changed different clothing and they are more energetic compared to the Singapore team perhaps they intended to bring up the atmosphere. Also, they acted irrespective of race, gender and religion whereas Singapore team act accordingly to the race, gender and religion. Singapore team performed in the same space which did not involved much movement compare to Malaysia team who go in and out of frame.

Let's review one of the play Forever Singlish. The actors mentioned this "Proper English? So lehcheh, so correct, so actsy for what?" Despite this, I feel that it is still considered broken English, same as Malaysian's Manglish. *hahaha face palm

Hello peeps!

Hi! I'm yinping ( Ice). After viewing everyone's blog, I have much more confidence to say that blogging will definitely bring our class to another level by learning from each other. Is a pretty good starting point. Cheers!

1st Lecture 9 June 2015 

It was the first class with Dr Carmen, Ms Edaline and Mr Kevin. To be honest, I don't think this subject will make any difference to me after this semester at first. But I changed my mind when we have such good lecturer and tutors (claps). Now, I'm so much excited to know more about our country. Thing becomes interesting when the whole class loves Malaysian Media& Culture. 

Do you identify as a Malaysian? Why?

Yes. I have my birth cert, identity card, license, passport and so on. 

I was born in Selangor, stay in Selangor.

I'm multilingual. Especially I can speak Malay (official language). 

I know our national anthem and national principles (Rukunegara) .

I know Malaysia culture which only Malaysian shared that kind of experiences. 

But, another the question comes: 

How do you prove that you're a Malaysian when u lost your identity card, passport....? 

Obviously, this question made me stunned for a minute because I've never experience it. 

To show you are a Malaysian, of course you have to be excel in speaking bahasa. 

Does it matter? 

Well I don't think it is a matter to me because I'm not that patriotic compared to the past. After read my friends' blog, on second thought--it does. Malaysian always have the human rights! For instance, the right to voice out, to vote, to have discount, to complain etc. 

If you are not a Malaysian, you will never understand this line:

Anei! you want to makan here or dabao?  

It contains four types of language. (Malay, English, Mandarin& Tamil) 

Proud to be a Malaysian.