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Syazy my dear friend who is now trying her hardest to work in Wales was back for the weekend, to celebrate her mom’s 50th birthday (which was actually a week ago). I knew parents could have fun, but this was really a treat to see people not around my age but still able to enjoy having a blast and just hanging with company that they all like.

The party was held at Rick’s Cafe Casablance located in Onebangsar. I once again thank God for such a thing called Google Maps. The earlier part of the day had me running around The Curve to find a mask for the masquerade party…

Yes you heard me MASQUERADE PARTY!

Gosh i didn’t think i’d go to on ever in my life and this was a blast!! It was so much fun, everyone in masks with glitter and fru fru feathers. I bought one at Axxezz for about RM33. Not too bad till i found out you could get even nicer ones for the same price at Great Eastern Mall… dang it!!!!

Then when I got to the party, there were beautiful masks all over the place. Way nicer than mine! So it didn’t hurt to go around each table and pick one to take pictures… Hehehe  going to a masquerade party reminds me of two things. Gossip Girls - The Handmaiden’s Tale, when they had a lavish masquerade ball.

and The Phantom of The Opera - Masquerade. Let’s sing a song

CHORUS
Masquerade!
Paper faces on parade . . .
Masquerade!
Hide your face,
so the world will
never find you!

Ahhh…. that brings back memories…

Yes… as a chef.. or a student chef.. my sister was absolutely horrified to see good carrots gone to waste by the magician. He was trying to show that it is sharp and the blade he was fiddling with is real.

As any birthday party, there “has” to be some lame magician show. Now, see, I have a little brother who is really into doing magic tricks. Least he was at one point. So when I start to look at magic shows, I’m either trying my darndest to figure it out or I’ll be saying ok I know how he did it. Lol.

Here we have the birthday lady’s husband, Uncle Rahim, giving a really sweet speech about his wife. About all the times they’ve had together as a couple, why 50 is such a significant time, the obstacles she has faced. The birth of her wonderful children and not forgetting the people whom she’ve met. And whom enjoy her company and visa versa.

The lovely family. The gorgeous lady of 50 is standing there in gold. This is the whole family together with the masquerade cake. The cake was delicious just that the icing was kinda hard. But the texture of the chocolate cake inside…. muak… magnifique.

This white mask is probably my favourite out of all the masks we had just simply grabbed from each table.

They also just had to… and i mean had to put on some songs that were popular back in the 80s.. or 70s.. Memorable songs like YMCA, Saturday Night Fever, Tell Me More by Grease, I Will Survive and the must must for every party. The Macarena, lol, which my sister quickly jumped right in. lol.. aww so cute.

See told you the masks were really nice and they were so much fun!!! I’m going to have a masquerade party too one day. A real must!

The girl in the middle is Syaz and she’s probably on her way back to Wales now at this point.

I have been going through my school times and you know what…

I just started smiling to myself.. heeheh. I had some fun times in SSU. Granted it’s not the BEST school in the world, but it was enough.

As you grow up and then you look back at yourself. It really does make you want to laugh. I mean in school as a young teen, I really felt like such a teeny bopper to some extent hahaha. Liking the likes of actors such as Devon Sawa and the recent Backstreet Boys concert down in KL, reminded me how much we were all gaga over them then…. and at the same time we poked fun about their lifestyles as well. We used a number of their songs in school plays.. and ooo i found this picture on Facebook which really made me smile

Can you guess which is me?

And I remember as a teen, I admit to being a rather spoilt brat and a bit of ‘mean girl’ at times (even though if you ask me I don’t know why). To some extent I’ll say it was the whole thing of being pretentious from too much TV where you have the popular group and the outcasts. It sounds so terribly silly now. At one point I considered myself in the popular group till an unfortunate mishap happened, which i shall not get into the details. Which then made me start to think … what’s the point of bothering who is in the happening group or not? If anything it’s because of these ridiculous notions that you are ‘great’ that’s why you have kids getting depressed, insecure, unsure of themselves..

Also looking back, you see all the ridiculous stuff you did, like being childish and trying to get attention. Or worse when you consider the possibilities of ‘crushes’. hahaha

I remember i had a crush on a couple of friends in my days.. i’m not telling who! But oh gosh the dreaded crushes.. eeek… Really really I want to laugh at all that now. In fact it reminds me so much of the Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion.

Two misfits in school that go back to their high school reunion, to find that everyone is successful and where are they? Lol..

All the way down to maybe the failures and happy times in life. I miss the good ol’ days when basketball was a weekly thing. My first boyfriend came from there and I always imagined that I’d have a cute (ok at least presentable) guy by me side and who would love to play b-ball with me as much as i’d love playing it… Ohhh the joy of the game.

When i met Mister G.. i really wondered whether I had as much as he did in his school days and uni days. To some extent maybe not as much. But I still enjoyed them no less. My life is fairly boring hahah. But the people around me are the ones that give me the stories to tell

I don’t know why but this will be second post on J.Co Donuts.

This is how it starts, mom doesn’t like us eating those donuts. So sometimes me and my sister Nessa will sneak and curi curi eat them. We managed to sneak two away today. One tiramisu and another strawberry donut.

And this is what happened when we ate them… only showing the strawberry one.

My sister took one bite….

and she wanted more…. but unfortunately because we were both drooling so badly….or more so surprisingly “I” was drooling alot. In the end, she got put off a bit by… this…

See that splotch…???? Sad to say that was umm….. a salivating person that didn’t know she was salivating. It feel somewhere where it did not need to fall.

What can I say?

Which I decided was better if I make a silly face on it..

Yeah she still wasn’t very happy about it… even though I fed her the rest of the donut….

So I passed it to someone else who might be more appreciative of the strawberry donut.

Hahaha that was just some cream I gave to Benji… He sneakily came by while I was sitting on the floor and started licking my hand while I was using the other to snap pictures… sheeesh.

Nessa was still happy though. Since I gave her the last bit of the donut….

All this for a donut. Hahahaha

…for now anyways.

Today was the final day of the Practical Aesthetics class. And I miss the people already sigh….

It was loads of fun… I repeat loads of fun acting with everyone in class. Working through the different exercises of the “as if” and “repetitions”. Two things that were essential in order for us to really just give each character a different touch for each scene. In a way you could say that this method is used to refine the edges of an actor for a role. This is just one method that I have been exposed too there are a lot more…

Anyways…It was the last day and I’m hoping that there will be more opportunities to work with the group for, who knows, future productions and what not. Well cool part is that i’ll still be visiting KLPAC tomorrow along with Min Li and Grace for the Physical Movement workshop. So yay!

The last day which meant presentation day to a small group of friends and the KLPAC crew, went rather well. It was just a bunch of scenes that we had tried out in class and did them for the final presentation, showing people what we have done and have achieved out of the class.

In all honesty, today’s was the best for nearly all of us that had performed. I’m so proud of you guys! Everything went well and even better. Those who never had acting before at least got to give it ago, and those trying to get into it, learnt something more.

I haven’t got the pictures yet but when I do I’ll put them ASAP!

What I have are the pictures of the after math lol. Crazy group photos and crazy dinner. Lol more to come..For now… i’ll show the crazy group pic

Nutsie picture hahaha

where we all started jumping

Ah.. well… it has come to the last days of the “Practical Aesthetics” class that is held at KLPAC conducted by David Lim. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself in the classes held over there and really experience is one thing, I am taking away with me, but more so I’m really happy to have met all the people in the class. New friends and new shared interest. That said, I won’t continue further till the class is really finished.

Anyways, purpose of the class was to either enhance or teach us another method of acting. Which required lots of THINKING! Wasn’t an easy class, I can actually say. At some points one can get really confused with the technique. Homework was also inevitable..lol… and we had to do scenes taken from either TV shows, films, or monologues. One of the scenes we ended up trying out was from friends and it was a real blast to do it.. haha… albeit a bit weird but really a lot of fun just practicing late at night with the gang and just trying out how to work round it.

Here are the two scenes we were trying.. and it really made me miss the series Friends a lot. I mean well they really grow on you. Even now I can still remember trailers from the show before it first started and it looked so cool…comfy and lighthearted- as how a bunch of friends should be. I suppose they had naturally good chemistry going on. Which I have also come to realize, is such an important factor for both actors to have the right chem. It’s not essential at the first go but it does make the work a lot easier. Imagine yourself having to act like best friends with a person you don’t really know.

Have fun with the scenes. This one is the very first episode of Friends in season 1.

And this is the other one from the scene where Monica gets stung by a jellyfish. season 4 episode 1.

You can really see how much not just the cast but also the writers have grown in their stories.