jazzmint | 
08 31st, 2005| 
15 years ago..well, that’s definitely Malaysia’s N-Day…it was Mommy’s N-Day as well hahaha…reason is, I don’t think a lot of people knew bout this, except of course my school friends (some of them) whom I’ve known since primary….count and count, i think probably just 1 or 2 I could name…
Anyway, back to the story…Mommy was selected to perform during the N-Day parade *bravo!!*…I could still remember, there were like 4 schools selected to perform on National Day, and BBGS were one of them. I think there were like 50 odds or more from each school, combined together, we did some cultural dance performance (Malay, Chinese, and forgot what else)…It was fun, the preparation took like 2-3 months, so we started to practice day in day out, every single day without fail, and of course, the dance steps keeps changing every few weeks, so we got to do it again and again with new steps included…until I have to copy homework from my friends..We even practice during school holiday!!
Rehearsal took place like 3-4 days before the actual day itself, 2 sessions of rehearsal, exercise-wear and full-dress. The night before rehearsal, everyone were asked to sleep overnite in the school!! Yes overnite!! And imagine, my school was like 90+ years old back then…and we always hear spooky stories of ghost and what not…So going to toilet was like a major troupe of armies marching towards toilet…We slept in the library, woke up like god knows, 4am?? Cause the teachers got to make up the students 1 by 1..I could recall a few teacher’s name, Ms. Shobana, Puan Aminah…nevertheless, the fear of ghost never dampened my spirits :).
What do we do during rehearsal?..well, not only we were at Dataran Merdeka (Merdeka Square), but also the rest of the people whom are performing, parades from various private sectors company, armies..and the usual stuff…Day 1 rehearsal was just with our exercise wear (it came together as part of our costume package), could still remember I was wearing yellow :). Day 2 rehearsal was full dress, I think if I’m not mistaken, we were wearing like pink Malay wear (not baju kurung or kebaya, but baju Melayu - men’s Malay wear) or was it blue Malay wear ~memory half sudah gone, so excuse me for the colour blunder~, with a nicely matched sarong and even shoes…and we use a fan and selendang as part of the what do you call, performing TOOLS? hahaha….
Well, the true story was, I was one of the reserved squad (5 of us), not sure why I was a reserved..probably because I’m not a graceful dancer, got to admit that I’m very kayu one..always kena scolding from the teacher for not remembering the steps correctly hahaha..nevertheless, even reserved has to be dressed the same like the rest, in case someone fell sick and we replace them.
So on the actual N-Day, no one fell sick, but I was there with the crowd as well when the rest of the people performed…to me it was not important whether to perform or not, moreover if I miss any step, will be in deepshit hahaha…and I get paid the same amount as rest of the people, so what the heck :)..yes, we do get paid, I think it was like RM5 per day for everyday that we came for practice, something like that..and the amount I got was like a whooping RM100+, minus some expenses, received RM70+..very happy with that salary ~still very naive mah~ hahaha……
But too bad, didn’t snap any pics of such memorable day, so I can only post a Malaysia flag in the blog hehe…
Happy Birthday Malaysia!! May your people and country prosper…
On another note, while I was surfing for a nice pic of Jalur Gemilang(Malaysia Flag), I stumbled upon this fact page..which I find that it’s pretty interesting…and it’s even more interesting to know that CIA keeps info of every single country in the world (pretty updated ~ they commented that our latest environment issue is haze) with the info which I’ve not seen in my life. This includes even brief history, terrains, our political parties, our population details and even HIV rates!! Very interesting :). And the most amazing thing I find is, it was updated on Aug 5, 2005. Which means among the 23,953,136 (July 2005 est. - figures given by them) there are some CIA agents toying around and fishing info out of us every other day without fail and updating this website as and when..
