In between start and end

The reason we (my classmates and I) had to draw the picture of our Prime Minister is because since Malaysia's Independence Day is on August 31st, this is one of the competition that is going to be held among the Form 3s in my school. So this is kinda like a practice for us before the actual competition.

That's it in this post. See you in the next one!

Xx,
Melynn.

Let me just try to summarize the whole 2 hours of play for you.

It started with a husband, Pak Ali who got married with two women, Mak Labu (who is the older wife) and Mak Kundur. Basically both of the wives were pregnant at the same time. Mak Labu gave birth to Merah (the protagonist) while Mak Kundur gave birth to Puteh (the antagonist). One day, after Merah and Puteh grew older their dad decided to go into the forest to look for something when a storm came and hit a tree. That tree somehow happened to fall onto Pak Ali and he died.

After that Mak Kundur (the bad wife) decided to kill Mak Labu (the nice wife) while she was washing her clothes at a well, Mak Kundur pushed her into the well. The thing is she didn't die yet. Merah, who were worried about her mother not returning home when it was almost dusk, fell asleep and had a dream about her mother saying that she died and turned into a fish after she fell into the well. Merah then was asked to bring some rice and veggie to the well to feed Mak Labu, who is now a fish. Without realising, Puteh was spying on her and when she found out about Mak Labu still alive she immediately told Mak Kundur about it. Then they went to the well and caught Mak Labu and cooked her (in fish form). When Merah got back from somewhere (maybe the well but that won't make sense cause Mak Kundur and Puteh was there after she left), Mak Kundur served Merah a fish with rice and told her that she can finish it all by herself. If you haven't figure it out already, the fish is Mak Labu. Yes, so Merah ate her own mother. Yay.

So Merah was an orphan living with her stepmother and stepsister. One day, Merah was singing at a garden when a prince passed by. He obviously heard a beautiful voice and asked his followers to find out about the girl. Then after some drama happened like when the prince's followers mistaken Puteh instead of Merah, the prince and Merah finally got married.

On one of the night after they got married, the king (or in this play Sultan) caught Merah and one of the prince's followers, Awang in a room... together... alone. The Sultan was angry and kicked Merah and Awang out of the village forever. It was then revealed by the prince that Puteh and Mak Kundur planned all of this and of course the Sultan became angry once more. But before he could sentence their punishments Merah defended her stepmother and stepsister so they were (unfairly) escaped from their punishments.

It ended when the Sultan held a royal event to welcome Merah back to the palace.

Can't believe I managed to summarize it. Btw, this play uses Malay language fully throughout the whole play. Also, the summary is BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING and of course I didn't tell the WHOLE story but believe me I told you most of it.

Xx,
Melynn.

Yeah so my family and I went to Cameron Highlands for Fathers' Day! Well it was actually planned by my dad himself though. It was technically my 2nd time I've been there. The first was when I was a few months old in my mum's belly... if that actually counts. 

Anyway, we went there on Saturday the 15th and stayed there until Sunday the 16th. Btw, on the same Saturday it was also my school's annual Sport's Day (which I had to miss because of this trip).

That is basically where we stayed for 2 days and 1 night. Heritage Hotel. It was a nice and decent hotel. The rooms are comfortable and just simply relaxing.

My favourite purchase at the market. Even though, it's not mine.

The hotel view from outside during night time.

My total purchases for the night, as well as the whole trip.

I always wanted the strawberry slipper for myself. I know, lame... but I find it comfy okay so shut it. The rest are all souvenirs for "certain friends". They're fridge magnets. I just love fridge magnets idek why. The last time I went somewhere was early of this year which is Universal Studios Singapore (USS) and Legoland, Johor and I got my friends lego bricks which are also fridge magnets. Heh.

So the next day we went to MARDI (which is the abbreviation for Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute). It's basically just walking around looking at the many beautiful flowers and plants there.

The two people who planned and decided to bring us here!

After going through all the tea bushes, finally... the peak!

Nothing much up here except for the cool breeze that can never be felt back in KL.

Casually standing in the middle like he owns the place.

The feeling of reaching the top (of the world).

That's the cafeteria, where people stop by to have a sip of different types of tea served.

He was just posing no hard feelings, plant lovers!

Btw, here's a short story for you people...

Once there was a boy, alone in the bushes.

One day a 'visitor' came by, looking for the boy.

The boy hid and kept hiding in the bushes.

After a while, the boy stood up (for idk what reason) and blew his cover  up.

At the end, the boy finally got caught.

That was a random story made up of random pics taken while they were playing hide-and-seek. There was a random circle in between of the bushes where my brother hid, if you noticed.

Saw a pathway below one of the bushes. Guess we're not the only people playing hide-and-seek around here.

Family photo! Aha notice I'm standing on a higher ground and  it made me look slightly taller than my mum and brother.

The snacks we bought from the cafeteria there. P.S. I mentioned about the place in one of the pictures taken above.

I ordered the chocolate tea which is in the white mug closest to the camera. It tasted just like hot cocoa tbh.

These are the other souvenirs bought by my family.

A scorpion amber which I find really cool and also unique.