dikir barat...
speaking of dikir barat, i followed zuraida and liza to watch a dikir barat competition at U/M last night. we didnt stay till the end tho. we left at almost 10pm just rite after the group that both of them wanted to watch performed. was suppose to start at 8.30, but it was only at 8.45 that they did the balloting for which group to perform first. all i can say, it was everything was so messy, and disorganised. or was there an organising committee in the first place? hhmmm.. i doubt so, especially from how everything went on last night, i dont think there's any committee at all. if there is, they dont know a single thing abt organising. hehehe.... i aint saying that i do great in any events that i organised but surely there are a systematic ways to do things.
the first group was alrite, their costumes were nice. i like it being red as it really really captured the lights well. the juara's voice i think was good, but when it came to the tok karut, he sang it really really in kelantanese slang. i mean, ya, dikir barat is from kelantan, but u are in KL, for goodness sake, and u dont have to follow their style. i dont really understand what he sang tho. hehe...
the second group, was perform by a group of girls. one of the awok2, was sooo cute. she sat in the middle of the first row. can see that she is very enthusiastic with the whole thing. and boy, can she flirt. she was actually flirting with her eyes. and when the tok karut was singing, that awok2 girl's tanjak actually slipped and covered her eyes. and that brought laughter to everyone. but she covered it well, and with a fast move, she just adjusted the tanjak back. this group, however, again the tok karut sang with kelantanese slang as well, but not as thick as the first group.
the third group was perform by yet another group of girls, from a/p/m. the group that the hsemates wanted to watch. i believed it was led by a sporean student who is kinda prominent in spore. the lyrics was good, i can say. and the tok karut didnt sound like she was from kelantan. she sang in malay. i think she did great. the juara, didnt really do a good job. it was either she was nervous, or she WAS nervous. hehhe... her voice was shaky and cant really be heard. i cldnt make out what she was singing. and the biggest set back abt this group, (at least, this is what i think lah!!) was their costume. i mean, they are gerls, and both the juara and tok karut had to put on very heavy and very oversized baju kurung lelaki in songket. and it made them look bigger than ever and shorter. and truly they look weird, especially with the tanjak.
we made our way back straight after that. dont think we can actually last till the end of the performance.
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it had been a very very long time since i last watched a dikir barat competition. during secondary school, dikir barat was such a big thing. i remembered watching dikir barat competition, year after year, organised by n/a/n/y/a/n/g jc.
i remembered the last year i watched it very well. i was with the ex that time. he didnt follow me to the competition with my cousins as he had a new toy to play with. and with the new toy, he broke his first promise and he lied to me, and got himself into big big trouble after that. i remembered waited for him from 4pm to abt 9pm at amk mrt taxi stand. and to make things worse, he didnt bring his pager that day. i finally decided to go home at almost 10pm without any news from him.
he called me at ard midnite and apologised profusely and told me the truth that he went trailing at some place in spore (was it at seletar?? hhmm..) and he lied to me saying that he got a fren's reception to go. all because he just got that scrambler. when he first bought it, made him promise that he wont go trailing or anything of the sort. and he did just that. was sooo disappointed with him that time. but i reckon, those who bought a scrambler surely wanna have a taste of trailing for at least once. but, his story didnt end there. on the way out to fetch me, he accidentally knocked down a cyclist. a middle aged malay man who was the sole breadwinner of his family. and that man, got his leg broken from the accident. and he was suing the ex for all those things. the case prolonged for a few months, and after some time, he didnt hear anything from the man's lawyer. guess he got lucky. he was crying the whole of that nite while on the phone with me. i was very angry at him, yet i felt sorry too at that time. after that incident, he didnt ride the bike for a good whole month. hehhe...
and after that day, i never watched another dikir barat competition as he dont really like it. and last nite, the whole thing just came back to me yet again.....