Pictorial - Night Festival 2012

 Children's Dream at SOTA

 We the People
( by Biran Gothong Tan )

Color changing facade at Peranakan Museum 

This was such a popular performance!

Dancer on a crane moved to the beat!
Can feel the adreline rush as she twirled around

Distorted forest

Mimoid II

Eyes on you.. 

SAM @8Q

Looking at you !  
Fish Tank 

Another of my fave... 

Mylar 

4 girls sloshing in a plastic pool suspended above our heads! 

The Singapore Night Festival is a yearly event tied up with the 

museums around Brash Basah area..

Don't miss the next one now if you have enjoyed my photos! 

Come see my music grp performance

My music group will be performing at the Esplanade this Sunday! 
Yes, I will be part of it too :D There will be two sets.. we will be playing different tunes for the sets.. come support if you are keen!

Venue -  Esplanade Out door Theater 

22 Apr, Sun
NUS Singa Nglaras Gamelan Ensemble
7.30 – 8.15 pm
8.45 – 9.30pm

Panji - Javanese Mask Dance Drama

My ensemble's performance was a success :) It was great being able to be on stage with one of Indonesia's popular entertainer, Didik Nini Thowok. He sings, he dances, and specializes in cross gender and cross ethnic dances . It was fun watching him perform. With him being famous in Indonesia, he has totally no airs and we all had a great time working with him :)

Mas Didik at one of our rehearsals

I wouldn't be writing too much, just wanna share some photos with everyone :)

Pre Performance... at the dressing room

See the big hair on Sherina's head? that's fake
And it's rather heavy :P


More pre performance photos...



Here are the guys

The hall was pretty small only with seating capacity of 400 some people came but couldn't get in. I got this photo from a friend.. It was full house by the way :)


back stage.. Mas Didik's masks

dancing to the tunes of Sakura..

eek..here's the ugly demon



I don't have any pictures of our performance
( duh.. obviously.. )
and photography by the audience
was prohibited :{

Here are the group photos taken after the performance



That's Mas Didik in the middle :)

Upcoming Performance in October '09

Another up coming performance by my gamelan ensemble :)

It is gonna be a fun adventure ~ Come watch us :)


Follow Prince Panji on his journey in search for his bethroted, Dewi Sekar Taji as he traverses the lands of Southeast Asia, and encounters various military and romantic adventures full of complications, disguises, mistaken identities, and magical transformations. This performance will bring together the rich artistic resources of traditional Javanese wayang topeng (masked dance drama) with the newer tradition of wayang mbeling (naughty theatre). While most of the dance and music will be in traditional Javanese style, for certain brief episodes Thai, Balinese, Japanese and other Asian styles of dance and music will also be introduced. Famous cross-gender (male) Indonesian artist Didik Nini Thowok will play the main female role in this production that also features music arranged by Trustho and Jan Mrazek and performed by NUS Singa Nglaras Gamelan Ensemble.

Music by NUS Singa Nglaras Gamelan Ensemble and Guest Musicians
Conceived and directed by Nunuk Sri Rahayu and Jan Mrazek
Choreography by Didik Nini Thowok and Nunuk Sri Rahayu
Music arranged by Trustho and Jan Mrazek

Date:	Saturday, October 24, 2009
Time:	8:00pm - 10:00pm ( approx)
Location:	University Cultural Centre Theatre
Street:	50 Kent Ridge Crescent, University Cultural Centre, S119279

Singanglaras-- Of Malay Village Performance

Malay village
Tanah Jawa Performance

This was a rather 'rush job' kinda performance :P Why did I say that? It's because we didn't have much practice before hand with slighlty less than 2 months to practice for the pieces if I am not wrong . I missed a couple of weekly practices as well hahaah :X

Anyway, I anticipated the 'harsh' conditions that we will be facing during our last rehearsal at the event hall in the afternoon, so I was dressed light in thin cotton tee shirt and shorts. Everyone was soaking with perspiration. There was not much we could do . The air condition would not be on until 7pm in the evening and the hall was stuffy and the fans couldn't reach us as they were all on the 2nd level. So can you imagine how much I perspire? Things got better when people started streaming in to the hall at 7pm....

taken while waiting for the performance to star

during rehearsal


everyone has to sit on the floor
quite a good turn out
despite being a sunday night

The stage


perched on the shoulders...


Happy that the performance's over!
I can get out of the batik shirt!
I don't like the color tone


side note:
Chocolate almond waffle


We went over to Singapore Post Center for subway dinner
Me and Edwin bought some waffles for dessert.
Give Waffle Factory a try~
the waffle is nice and fluffy!~ not as dry as those 'downstairs bakery' shop~

It has been a busy busy week! More to come...

wooo....to say that this has been a busy week is surely an understatement!
My ensemble's performance ended on a big round of applause from the audience

Preperations for the performance started couple of months ago and after practices and rehearsals , we managed to play reasonable well ;)

Program notes and my sarong

Most of us wore the costume made in Solo Indonesia . As for the sarong, my friends did get me one during their first trip there, however, I wasn't pretty please with the design and according to one of my friends -- " it looks like table cloth''.... -_-"" so you tell me..i wouldn't wanna be seen as if wearing one! So 3 hours before our last dress rehearsal on Saturday.. I made a dash to Mustafa to get the one that I wore for the performance. It was a good choice as most of my friends said it has pretty prints ;) Phew!

wanna see how the 'table cloth' like sarong looks like? Come to think of it, it wasn't really that bad, just that it wasn't as pretty as the rest of the girls'

Me and Mus with the LT as backdrop...
that's the sarong.. I guess I'll still
wear it on some other peformance :)

During rehearsal..seated in front of my instrument

I was playing alot of fast pieces on this instrument

and had to hit really hard. My right arm was sored after

the performance! The wooden mallet is afterall not very light....

Oops my sms-ing got caught by Mus

In the changing room hehe

As u can see...i still can't tie a sarong very well
look at the ugly bulge in the middle.. eeks!


Rehearsal....


I have to cut short this update again...
I am already late for my lunch appt!
And it's Nicole's birthday today
gotta celebrate with her later!!

gotta fly now... till later.

Edited -- It's 12.50am now, Monday morning...in the midst of editing the photos and trying to finish up this post

Do you know how difficult it was to sit down wearing a sarong? My legs had pins and needles as some of the pieces we play were rather long and had no room for me to change the sitting position. Overall I am quite pleased with myself plus the fact I still managed to fit into the kebaya of coz.. hahaha. An old friend brought his friend along to watch ..though they left during intermission due to hunger pangs ;p Well..all I can say is music like what we play is kinda of an acquired taste . Nevertheless, it was good effort on their part to drop by

~~~More photos~~~

top -left to right- Xinwei, Precious , Nassar

bottom- Deyana, Xinwei ( dance costume)

Our happy family portrait
Everyone is all smiles

Our serious one!

Alicia looked damn fierce!

Khim came to watch us..and we were joined by Edwin and Alicia for supper at crystal jade h.v

I only realised I didn't even take a single photo with Edwin the entire day! And also didn't capture any photos of him!! why why.. aiyo.

my yummy porridge...