Plymouth Respect Festival finally over and I was bloody tired. Taking care of the booth from the morning, waiting for the henna, attending people and workshop, from 8 am to 4.30 pm, was quite tiring.

Anyhow, I had fun, and I wish that Plymouth Respect Festival will arrange the events, not scattered in 2 days. I like Exeter's Respect Fest, they got series of events and it takes the whole week. So people (like me) who would love to go to many events will have oppotrunity to do so. Not cramping everything in a day. There are so many things I missed yesterday, for example, I didn't managed to go to each and every stall in the guildhall, the extreme sports perfomance, the cultural concert, the booths in the sundial, etc. I wish the henna booth can handle more people and the queue will be much shorter. I wish.

I joined for awhile the Football for Poetry Workshop. Football via poem is a cool way to detach racism from football. Football can unite people. Football is not a place for violance. It's for people who have sportmanship and love football passionately. Poetry too. It conveys what football can't say. I wish I can get the Kick Racism Out of Football T-Shirt. I wish again.

4.30 pm, I helped my friends to pack the stuffs of Malaysian booth. Time to go home. Been there for a day and I did many things. Whew~

Music Zone Second Session

Second time went to Music Zone. I rearrange the music once again. Using a keyboard and GarageBand software, I recorded "Doe a dear" (from sound of music) song.

My best experience was playing drum and bass. That was the first time I really played drum and I think I'm going to like drum ever.

Finally, my CD was burned. You can download them from here.

Cretive Writing Workshop

Venue: Barbican Theatre
Time: 6-8pm
Who came: Aini, Marrick, Daisy, Lau, Dienka, Ben, Ruth and Mrs Balindjer.

Yesterday I finally attended a creative writing workshop conducted by Mrs Bhaldinjer from Bristol and she complimented my name as I pointed my eyes and knees and she said "wow, your name is a poetry too". So I replied with a smile and little laughter. I never knew that. Cool huh?

Next, she asked us to composed a couplets of 14 lines. I do it from the view of a detective. Not sure whether it's Mr Holmes of Grissom from CSI. She said it was good. She even asked Dienka whether I am the one whom she said composed a good poem. Dienka asked me to read the poem which I sent for the Respect Festival. Mrs Balindjer said "superb" and all I can say is "thank you" since I do not know much how to handle a praise. Phew.

I can't wait to get into the studio this Thursday. Got lotsa idea. Gambaremasu!~

log from september to october 14th

This writing has been postponed in this blog due to author's procatination. in this entry, it will go according to the sequwnce of events. Starting from the beginning of the activity I do witht he group till the recent event that I attend.

First time I meeting with Collective Voices members, it was fun. We had play 'hotseat', bluffing game, etc in order to socialise and talk about the stuffs that we have interest in and talk abiut future plans for the group. Dienka gave a file containing a notebook and a booklet of 'young people art award-- bronze'. I do use the book as sketch book and scribble my thoughts in there, but I wish to keep a blog in order to organise my thoughts. Also, I don't like writing (literally) that much.

Thursday, 12 October 2006:

At the Music Zone studio. I thought we (Heery, Gloria and I) will arrive late since we finish our class at 4pm. Then we enjoyed ourselves playing the instrument in the active room such as keyboard, guitar, electronic drum, drum set and playing according to our not-so-talented music skills. Then Simon and Steve asked what are we going to do for today

Saturday 14 October 2006:

I went to Big Draw event held in front of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. It was a giant chalk drawing. I drew a girl's face and say "ai" in hiragana script which means 'love'. It was simple yet very fun since it is the most simple way to express, no canvas or paper, no expensive material, yet you can express yourself with drawing. I got a sticker and I will paste it in the notebook as proff of attending the event.