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Hi,

I’m freelancing with Sunburst KL Music Festival now, and besides the obvious salary, I also got 4 Meet & Greet & 4 Official Sunburst KL 09 t-shirts. I don’t need them as I’ll be working that day. And I don’t want to simply give it to people I know who might not want or appreciate it as much. If you want it, locate the Sunburst roadshows. Find out where they will be at the home page of www.sunburstkl.com

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When you find the booth at the roadshow, you must

1. buy two tickets at 15% discount, and
2. give them the code, which is ‘Zain is ugly‘.

I. Am. Serious. 2 tickets at 15% discount at the booth AND the code will get you 1 Meet & Greet pass OR an Official Sunburst t-shirt. I will not be at the booth and please, please do not message me about this. I want to pengsan with kerja and school.

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Official Facebook event page for Sunburst : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=60527805377

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- Zain HD

Emergency: A Multi-Arts Festival!

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Five Arts Centre is proud to present,

Emergency: A Multi-Arts Festival!

The Annexe Gallery, Central Market 11am-7pm
Thursday October 16 – Sunday, October 26
Jalan Hang Kasturi Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
60377254858 fivearts@tm.net.my
Its page on Facebook + Official Site

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Sebuah Darurat Dua Minggu is a multi-arts event. The project examines and re-presents ideas, narratives, and images from the first Malayan Emergency, from 1948 to 1960.

The festival follows the on-going and exciting emergence of documentary arts practices in Malaysia which is a curious blend of re-examination and re-presentation of historical data, events and ideology by contemporary artists.

Project participants include many of Malaysians’ dynamic creative talent such as Amir Muhammad, Azmyl Yunor, chi too, Chu Chu Yuan, Elaine Pedley, Fahmi Fadzil, Fahmi Reza, Grey Yeoh, Hardesh Singh, Hari Azizan, Jerome Kugan, Leow Puay Tin, Lim Chung Wei, Marion D’Cruz, Mark Teh, Mislina Mustaffa, Norman Teh, Wong Tay Sy, Yee I-Lann and many more.

The project will comprise theatre performances, film screenings, an exhibition, plus an exciting roll of different interactive presentations daily. All events are free except for the theatrical performances.

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EMERGENCY FESTIVAL!

Events schedule below. Subject to change.
Exact dates and times for specific events TBC.

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12 YEARS

Exhibition – Thu 16 to Sun 26 Oct 2008, 11am to 5pm
Curated by Wong Tay Sy, Norman Teh and Grey Yeoh

“[T]he victor writes the history while the loser fades away….” Is that always true? Challenging this notion along with new ways of presenting history without being preachy, one-sided and linear, curators Wong Tay Sy, Grey Yeoh and Norman Teh explore the Malayan Emergency. The exhibition focuses on contextualising visual materials from the Malayan Emergency within our contemporary framework and offers an alternative and interactive approach to presenting history. A key element of this exhibition is the demonstration of the effect of the “presentation” of history. This effect of documentation is viewed from the perspective of the contemporary project collaborators and the interpretation of historical materials from the Emergency era.

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Operasi Oktober

Thu 16 to Sun 19 Oct 2008, 8.30pm
Theatre Performance – Directed by Fahmi Fadzil

Fresh from winning “Best Group Performance” at the 6th Boh Cameronian Arts Awards, Fahmi Fadzil directs an improvised tale where “over a series of encounters, four people meet in anticipation of a revolution, but they don’t know that it has already begun.”

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New Village People

Thu 21 to Sun 26 Oct 2008, 8.30pm
Theatre Performance – Directed by Hari Azizan

Hari Azizan, director of the much publicised “Vagina Monologues” brings us a story where “the lives of two good friends change forever when they are forced to leave everything behind by the British army and start afresh in a New Village during the Malayan Emergency.”

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Revolusi ‘48

Mon 20 to Sun 26 Oct 2008, 8.30pm
Film Screening -Directed by Fahmi Reza

The sequel to Fahmi Reza’s highly successful “Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka”, “Revolusi ‘48″ follows the largely unknown armed revolution for national liberation launched against British colonial rule in Malaya 60 years ago. This documentary tells the untold story of those who struggled in the anti-colonial guerilla war of independence, during the Malayan Revolution of 1948.

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Presentations, performance & participatory events

Re: Search Re: Source

Thu 16 to Sun 26 Oct 2008, event time varies
Curated by Mark Teh

Mark Teh continues his dissection of historical events (“Baling (membaling)”; “Dua, Tiga Dalang Berlari”) with an investigation and re-presentation of themes, issues and stories from the Malayan Emergency period. With participation from some of Malaysia’s foremost creative personalities, history is presented as an activity that can be creative and participatory.

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Please refer to the forthcoming festival guide for time and date of presentations. These presentations include:

• Filmmaker Imri Nasution will examines the parallel developments in studio-era Malay film industry and the Emergency.
• Writer-filmmaker Amir Muhammad will provide alternative interpretations of films made during the Emergency.
• Visual artist Chu Chu Yuan of 1948 Artspace will talk about the “Entry Points” art projects in the New Village community of Seri Kembangan, Serdang.
• Visual artist Yee I-Lann will provide a fascinating perspective on the geography and history of Sabah before, during and after the Emergency.
• Filmmaker-designer Fahmi Reza will present a 1-hour performance-lecture, every day throughout the Emergency Festival!
• Dancer-choreographers Marion D’Cruz & Elaine Pedley will create a lecture-demonstration of Communist propaganda dances.
• Playwright Leow Puay Tin will curate and perform a selection of texts about or from the year of Merdeka.
• Singer-songwriter Azmyl Yunor will rearrange songs from the Emergency era, as well as create new songs inspired by this time.
• Poet-singer-songwriter Jerome Kugan will DJ two nights of “Disko Darurat”!
• Composer-new media activist Hardesh Singh will create a sound installation using music, sounds & speeches collected from the Emergency era.

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Iklim classic

Simile is a form of literary language. It can and is interpreted in many ways.

I was listening to Suci Dalam Debu the other day. It started of by going, engkau bagai air yang jernih, di dalam bekas yang berdebu. There’s a chance that one day, this simile would be interpreted as,

a transparent beautiful girl with horrible dusty makeup.

Suing for loss of profit

After reading what I wrote last week, the issue of damages should be dug a little bit deeper. Like how stupid people do what they find the region behind their nose, and above their neck, a hollow one. Somehow ‘thinking’ they actually might find something there.

Section 74 of the Contracts Act actually rooted from the case of Hadley v Baxendale.

The Millers had a mill that stopped functioning when the crankshaft broke and they employed Lem, who were carriers, to deliver the broken crankshaft to the manufacturer as a pattern, to make a new one.

Lem delivered the cranshaft late, which led to the unexpected continuous inoperation of the Miller’s mill. Meaning, instead of being inoperation for 2 months, because of the delay now the mill was out of operation for 6 months.

The Millers are now suing for the profits they could have made in that 4 months.

Court said,

NEHI.

The Millers could not sue for that 4 months because, the information communicated to Lem did not show that a delay in the delivery of the shaft, would cause a loss of profit. There is chance that the Millers have another shaft they could use, or that there might be other defects that may cause the mill to stop.

Had Lem been informed, or knew, that the mill could not operate with the shaft, he too would also know that for being a slow ass, that attitude would cause a loss of profit to the Millers.

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*The writer is a law graduate who failed Contract Law (Part 2) once. He writes for RA almost every Monday

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Malaysia fest darling harbour

Courtesy of Shaheera Djafar.

Malaysia Fest 2008 poised to impress

SYDNEY – One of Malaysia’s biggest events held annually at Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour Sydney is once again poised to impress the public with its various cultural shows and a multitude of exotic food guaranteed to impress even the most discerning taste bud.

Known as M-Fest, the Malaysian Festival has been traditionally celebrated in Tumbalong Park, Darling harbour for the past 18 years. Through the years, the event has grown in its popularity and is known to the locals and tourists alike as an occasion filled with Malaysia’s splendid show of arts, cultures and magnificent food.

The festival will be held on Sunday, August 31st at Tumbalong Park, which coincides with Malaysia’s 51st Independence Day and would run from 10.00am to 5.00pm. Admission to the event is free and everyone is welcome.

The theme for 2008 M-Fest this year is aptly named “A Cultural Connection”. The theme represents and highlights the strong foundation of various interconnected cultures upon which the nation was built.

Taking pride of place is the array of Malaysian food which visitors would be able to sample, including staples such as satay, ‘teh tarik’ (whipped milk tea), and ‘roti canai’. Malaysian cuisine is a blend of various ethnic elements, such as the Malay-style ‘kampung’ cooking interspersed with aromatic Chinese and spicy Indian influences.

Visitors will also be entertained by various cultural shows, incorporating both traditional and contemporary Malaysian music and dance.

MFest is a wholly student-run event by enthusiastic Malaysian students from various local institutions such as the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, and Macquarie University.

“We’re keen on displaying our resourcefulness,” remarked the Chief Executive Producer, Zurairi Abd Rahman. “We’ve proven that, despite being students, we’re capable of successfully organising an event of such massive scale as this and that’s something to be proud of. We have been very fortunate to receive great support from various Malaysian departments based here and other corporate organisations in making the event a truly remarkable showcase of Malaysian cultures. ”

Malaysia Fest is proudly brought to you by Tourism Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines, Student Magazines and Student Services Direct.

Admission to the event is FREE, and further details may be obtained from www.malaysiafest.com.au

*Courtesy of Shaheera Djafar.

Damaged intern

Suggestion: listen, not watch. I love songs that get me pumped. Especially sexy ones. When I heard the song below, it didn’t hit me what it was about. Just the way it sounded, was sexy. The beat, arrangement, composition. Note that I find the song sexy, not the video which was such a turnoff for me.

It occurred to me that when I was an intern at the ICRC, I was never asked whether I was familiar with the First Aid Kit. Not that bad of an irony, I suppose, being in the Academic Circles Unit. Good times.

Click here to find out more about the good work these people do.

I love songs that get me pumped. Especially sexy ones.

When I heard the song below, it didn’t hit me what it was about. Just the way it sounded, was sexy. The beat, arrangement, composition. Or whatever it is you music minds call it.

*Note that I find the song sexy, not the video which was such a turnoff for me. Suggestion: listen, not watch.

Damaged – Danity Kane

Jelly Bags

A friend of mine was abroad recently and came across these bags. It’s brilliant. I reckon it’s something nice for the kids, and, (I suppose) for adults who are still kids at heart.

They’ve got designs ranging from handphone covers, makeup, bags pencil cases, school-bags. Like over 10 designs to choose from. The bags use high quality material with various coloured trim. Yellow, pink green, orange, blue, purple, black and silver.

The beauty of there bags are that you can custom design them.

You can have your name put on, or a cute saying and then decorate with the many cute embellishments. I only saw samples cause these Jelly Bags will be available by early September. When the stuff comes I’ll put up more pictures yea.

According to another friend of ours who’s into cute stuff, really likes it. I think it’s super for kids, but this friend is after all a kid at heart. Sheesh.

Anyway, when you get yours, happy decorating!

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*If you are interested in getting one for yourself or becoming an agent, drop them an email at jellybags@gmail.com

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