2 posts tagged “klpac”
... plays always make him happy.
So, here is going to be another phototastic ubermosh of, um, photos. Like yesterday's post, this one will include tedious amounts of Big-O-Vision (tm).
But first, a rough overview of the photos. Holy crap there's a lot of photos.
A lot of photos. Shall I do a random Big-O-Vision selection? Yes.
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But first - we watched a staging of WRECKS, a one man play performed by veteran actor Patrick Teoh and directed by Gavin Yap. It's the fourth play I've watched this year, from zero plays last year, and I'm happily happy. From the opening, where the piano music accompanied the bereaved main character, to the actual beginning when he starts smoking gorgeous rings of smoke, I was hooked. God, I love plays.
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Michelle and Jaziel at the tickets section, buying eleven tickets for a later staging, for classmates I assume. They're here because of an Introduction to Drama individual assignment (where you have to review one play). I think I'm going to review Alias Grace instead.
The title of this photo on my Facebook account is, "It is inevitable that Amirul B Ruslan takes a photo like this in every photo album he has." I think it's true, too.
Meiyi and me. If I had a shirt, a clean one, I'd have worn it. Jaziel went with a shirt. I always go overdressed for days like these, but all I had was a new shirt from last month. Damnations. Meiyi, the only person here who was watching not to write an assignment (aside from me), has never seen a play.
Jaziel "Orberon" Tan. He constantly tempts me with Call of Duty 2 sessions, and adds on that by frequently referring to his BitTorrenting of CoD4, which I can safely reassure others I cannot play due to a weak computer.
As the title says, she likes walls. In any case, this was the third photo of this sort that she took, with the second interrupted mysteriously by an elevator opening to nobody inside.
ELS Secretary Michelle, who will be playing Stella Kowalski in her group's recital of Streetcar (See: previous post). Sidenote One - when me and Josiah first met her, Josiah's comment was, "She looks like Serena C." I concur.
Jaziel and Meiyi are talking here. I have no idea what they are talking about, mainly because I'm just standing here and taking photos, and reciting stories of how I love KLPac.
...far too much.
Jaziel again. He laughs to some joke, probably involving buggery. In any case, he spent much of my photo-taking time talking about how I should get a DSLR. Hahahahaha! As if.
Jaziel takes a photo of feet. Clockwise - Meiyi's (one o'clock), Jaziel's (six o'clock), mine (ten/eleven o'clock). Roslyn has taken nicer ones, but that's not fair because Roslyn wears school shoes to school. I have no such excuse.
In the half-hour we waited before the doors opened, we were at the parking lot. Thus, this photo is entitled "Out In The Parking Lot".
Truth.
Jaziel has first dibs at brick-wall photos. I wish people would take the initiative and photograph me instead, but I think that's too much to ask for.
After the play: sitting down at the faux-sofas outside KLPac. We were talking at length about the Big Revelation in the play, and Jaziel was reiterating his impressedness at how low-budget the set was. It looked wonderful, so atmospheric. My words.
Five months or so in the ELS and I've never been photographed with Michelle. Here is a nice change.
More talkings about the play, sometime involving wild hand gestures, arm wavings, or biting laughter. I am taking the photo whilst talking, resulting in me being missing from the bulk of these discussion-photos.
Wirechairs are nice, but they seem to have caused minor damage to Meiyi's dress. My highly-suspect facial expression seems to resemble one who is riding a motorcycle. Something I cannot do, alas.
Michelle, as taken by Jaziel. The man knows his photography. Or something.
Me and Michelle were completely gun-baffled at the Big Reveal at the end of the play. Jaziel didn't notice until we told him it. Meiyi, the astoundingly analytical and amazing person that she is (one A-word missing, should have been alliterative!), guessed it from way before. I feel stupid all of a sudden. The reveal was surprising - putting full truth to the words at the subtitle of the play: "To Be Loved Is Never Wrong."
We go back from the gardens outside, after me and Meiyi take lengthy walks which involve talking about monsoon drains, and back into the lovely air-conditioned building that KLPac is. Michelle and Jaziel sit down. I prefer to stand. That or the fact that there's no seats for me.
Jaziel's parents, who are truly very nice people, have very nicely transported us from the college hostel gate to KLPac and back. We had late-supper-thing later. The Big Mac I had in their car, ordered due to Tabby's love for nuggets (when we got back from class, before I went for the play), had been swallowed before reaching KLPac. I was full. Such nice people.
Jaziel is dodging a BOOM! HEADSHOT! (Don't let him read this - he will invite me for more CoD2 rounds, and then own-ify me.
This is what happens when you use flash photography in the cramped, four-people-occupying backseat of Jaziel's parents' car. Me and Meiyi, in the car. And exeunt! The end of this tediously long blog post. November does me good not in volume of posts but volume of words in the posts.
Me and the girlses went out on Friday to watch a play at KLPac (the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center, I believe) and watched a wonderful play. It was "Alias Grace", based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. About a sixteen year-old servant girl who in 1843 murdered her employer and his mistress, I hurried home from college after classes ended to watch it.
Roslyn had been planning this for quite some time and naturally since she has zero social life I must be invited (possibly the other way round, but ha!). The play was interesting and excellently performed, more than capable to keep my attention throughout the entire ninety minutes. The five girls I had the honor of escorting were: Ashley, Aween, Nissa, Roslyn and Zayaana. All recurring members in the Life Of Amirul B Ruslan since, what, Season 14 - excepting of course Roslyn (permanent cast member since Season 2) and Ashley (recently promoted to the ensemble over this season and last).
They'd all been at home when I arrived, them being girls and liking to change clothes and all, and I spent time shuffling from my own room reading The Raw Shark Texts, to shuffling to Roslyn's room, where someone or another was always either unclothed or in the process of unclothing, meaning due to decency's sake I was almost always forced to vacate her premises.
This is not a review of the play. This is a post about the photos taken during the play. And thus are these:
I hate my fingers and I hate my voice. Samantha says my voice is alright. But I still hate my fingers.
Ashley. There is no photo of me in this particular collection that does not have Ashley in it. Limelight hogger! Ashley is an honorary member of the House of Ruslan, namely for buying Roslyn our dear and divine Jan, and also for coming over the house a lot.
Me, Zayaana and Ashley. Zayaana knows KLPac. She goes there a lot. I hear there's something involving an orchestra or some such. Zayaana knows KLPac.
Roslyn and Ashley. Ashley's more of a Ruslan than Roslyn is, or me for that matter. Why? Her phone number has the number 2906 in it. (2906 equals our parents' anniversary, the 29th of June)
Nissa makes her debut full appearance on this blog. She spends it posing for photographs.
Ms 2906, Mr Only Guy There, and Ms Extremely-Extremely-Pissy-This-Week.
I never take photos with Roslyn, mainly because I always look good and she always finds something she doesn't like in them, so this is why this photo pwnz.
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW ASHLEY'S POSE IS ALWAYS THE SAME?!?!
Girlses. Nissa, Ashley, Aween, Zayaana and Roslyn. This was taken after the play, and when the topic of conversation was not the play but what happened after the doors were opened. We are interesting people, capable of conjuring wonderful coincidences.
Acta est fabula plaudite!
