D'LaharianZ @ Tioman

As promised, the production team were ferried to Juara Beach Resort, Pulau Tioman for a holiday after all the dramas. Only half of us went - Lina, Saiful, Normi, Ridzuan, Fairuz & Zharif. We were joined by Abg Wan (normi's hubby) & 3 kids (asyka, amar & alysha), our friends (muiz & qayyum).

Package of ~RM300ish include ferry Mersing - Tioman - Mersing, jeep ride from Tekek - Juara - Tekek, 3D 2N accommodation, welcome drink, 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, island hopping & snorkeling trip.

Eventhough some of us were not feeling very well physically and a bit jiwa kacau emotionally, everyone had real good fun ;-)

more reports on tioman escape @ http://neomesuff.blogspot.com & http://sixofaugust76.blogspot.com

More getaway to come.. come join us... ;-)

Person Difference Than 'A' Person....

People live as a person....
Lots of people can be 'co-op' but there will be a person that want to be a ''wanna be''....
Some of us can be understanding but many will be telling it is unnescessary to 'co-op' nor giving any damm interest about ''wanna be'' person because.....
''wanna be'' person will never take any advices or think like the wise people think....
The ''wanna be'' person always claimed that they are the best of all and never look down the root before the ''wanna be'' person theyself failed to be 'A' person....The ''wanna be'' person will try and try to make a tiny small insect info to be a 10.9 scale of ricther tsunami story in order to influence the other or should i say 'brother' and always try to make people see the ''wanna be'' person as a heroes or savior....... but....

Here is the fact of life......

If you not from the higher rank people..., please dont try to be one....
If you are having a lots of experiences all over the world...,use it wisely and dont turn it badly...
If you think you are noble by helping the others...,please do it properly.......
If you want to condemmed somebody...,please make sure that the 'somebody' cant give you back worse than you gave....
If you walk infront...,make sure that you look back to see the others....

And last but not least.......

The more you talk..., the more you will expose youself....better think before you tell...


*This is a proffessional experience life advise's to whom who might be concern....*


Don't Cha....
Love's...

C'est La Vie

These few days have tested my patient.

When i decided that entertainment industry is my destiny i promised myself that nothing would stop me from getting to it. i've been given titles, worst than you can imagine, i.e. slut, bitch etc etc.. along the way i've lost how to love, how to trust and how to respect. unless a person earn my love, trust and respect, to hell i care what they think about me.

my darling have a good heart. he tried to mend things up with this idiot eddy. while for me, i wouldn't do that even if i need to die for it. not me. i was born with sarcasm. and i am proud of it.

i don't give a slightest damn if this eddy choose to lie, that's his life, but if he lies about something that i have said, i'll make it my life promise to show him the fucking side of it. plus, it doesn't help him to appeal once he made it personal e.g. cursing on my cousin's personal blog.

for those who eddy refers as "kami", if you have the guts, come forward. if not, you are no different than eddy.

for those who never earn my respect, good for you, good for me.

for those who did earn my respect then loose it, i.e. eddy rusdi - in the name of god, you WILL be sorry.

my two cents, if it's worth it at all...

my dearest laharianz,
i wrote the following post on my blog, pasting this in this blog just so you know.
i would like to apologize to anybody if it affects any of you but not to worry, the battle is mine. again i would like to thank you all, standing ovation and my hats off to each and everyone in the production team.
cheers !!


today i read a blog that personally attacked me as a director. it was a long one, and the word refers me as "pengarah yang meraban & tak profesional" (refer to http://artsloveddy.blogspot.com)

there, how not professional am i to state his blog add on my blog ?

my cousin said everybody is entitled to their own opinion. agreed. so do i.

before i give my opinion, i want to correct this boy for mentioning 'the actors studio' as when i directed this play i was already NOT ATTACHED with 'the actors studio'. i proudly claim that the production was produced by own company along with the production team. 'the actors studio' do not get any credits with regards to this production.

so obviously, eddy, you don't know any bits of my credential, so get your facts right before giving your opinion.

as a director of the play, of coz i do have some dissatisfaction about the whole thing. from pre-pro right up to the end of show. but i keep my opinion to myself as i appreciated everybody's effort trying their very best to satisfy me. from day one i understood the word teamwork, i learn that even if you have the least dissatisfaction, you don't complain. just don't complain coz it'll make the production look bad as a whole. or at least if you can't contain yourself from the dissatisfaction, you go directly to the face of the person you are dissatisfied with and tell them off.

in my 10 years involvement in events & theatre management, i did just that, makes the whole production so much better. we tell off or crudely fucked off everybody and the results were superb. yeah, not everybody can take that then maybe, eddy, if you are not up to it, then maybe arts is not your forte. boy, IT IS a cruel industry.

i was told that i was too hard on the casts. i felt it was a bit unfair (speaking from my own experience) because when i landed on my first job, no one, not a single soul gave me a chance on that matter. i was treated the same like other people in team, regardless that i was new. i was fucked upside down, leaving no rooms for mistakes. i have to step up aggressively to put myself on par with the experienced one.

ok, back to the said eddy and the play. my opinion on him (since he has a lot to say about me), to me eddy portrays as someone who is good to hold a character as a hero bangsawan. that's all. don't really know him in person, but acting wise, onstage, i don't see him fit in multi characters as he only has the very ancient malay look and cannot speak english to safe his life.

i planted the "real-life" concept in the play, making sure whatever they act onstage make sense to the audience and to themselves. eddy did commented to me about it during one of the rehearsals. i rejected, of course, as his comments were only good on theory, not real life.

i repeated my comments so many times on a certain issue of the play, which eddy refers to my not being professional. well, eddy, am sure if you directing a play and your cast repeat the same mistakes, you tend to repeat your direction. or are you so noble that you gonna just let go of the mistakes and let everybody do what they want ? you are the director after all. what's the use of it ?

another thing that i think eddy was pissed off about is the payment. giving business talk to eddy, in my opinion is close to useless. so let me just say these - business people have contract terms on when they should pay or when we should get paid.

taking credits for calling other friends to join the production or allowing us to use the studio for free was lame. we, the two directors, were banging our heads when we had casting problems but we did have a plan b. allowing to use the studio was your offer, eddy. the production has already calculated the cost of studio renting. yes, thank you for letting us rehearse in the studio for free but if you want to take credit on that, please, please, send me the invoice.

eddy also wrote about "jiwa" in his blog. jiwa, according to eddy was to know yourself. eddy, i hope you already know that you have an inferiority complex in you as you don't even have the guts or jiwa to even identify yourself in one specific text message you sent to me. what were you trying to do ? letting me guess who it was from and if i didn't guess it right, i would blame your friends for it ?

i do have plans to stage this play on a bigger scale. yes eddy, since you have the opinion that you are better than me, why don't you try write a play about tanah melayu evolved to malaya then to malaysia, a play that started from the 14th century right up to now, in 30 mins, must include narration, songs, dialogs and dance. owh, plus only 2 weeks of rehearsal with 20 casts.. come on eddy, you don't even know how to act as a civilian reacting to the tunku abdul rahman's character.

your 14 years and my 10 years experience, come on, lets do a comparison chart. 14 years of acting experience is that your standard, eddy ? for a first time director, even i don't think you have achieved the national level, boy. indeed, you are not yet strong and sturdy !

so eddy, i hope now you can swallow whatever i just said as i did swallowed your words. owh, and i also hope that your english is enough for you to understand whatever i just said ;-

signing off, the proud director of 'a case of belonging', performed at berjaya times square for the reception dinner of WCIT 2008 on may 19, 2008 - lina hasbullah.

c'est la vie !

cheers !

Speechless

I dunno wat 2 say...
Thank you so much to "Ibu Tiri" (title baru setelah dimaki hamun) hahaha coz giv us da chances,
to Ayah Tiri (automatically) and pada sume yg terlibat..
im gonna miz da moment...
thank youuuu.............. luv u all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU

yeah, as it has been stated below & proved by pictures, yes, we were extremely busy.. i feel the need to emphasize how intense situations happened and handled, last minute problems came to surface, jokes were taken seriously, temper were flying everywhere, tears dropped etc etc etc.. well, mostly from my part.. no other reasons, solely for the best of the production.

the followings has been said on the cast party but here it goes again.. generally, i would like to thank each and every crew who stood beside me from the very beginning to the end, even though i know each and everyone of them wanted so badly to have me killed somehow somewhere on the line :)

to all the casts - actors, actress & dancers... (not in alphabetical or preference order..)
fina, fairuz, eddy, adeq, shah, roy, salleh, keyown, zehan, lydya, nabila, ena, bya, hanz, kash, kl, abby, liyana, siew boon & chan - all of you gave me a heart attack at least once everyday during the rehearsal but revive me back to life on the actual show. thank you very much for realizing my dream on stage, may your dreams come true too :) i wish the very best for each of you, hope we can work together again. as it has been emphasized, we are one family, we will always be.

rina (legal advisor), thank you for listening, advising and simply was there for me..

am (videographer), thank you for jumping in at the very last minute and recorded what we will only left with besides our memory on that day..

lim (lighting designer), one of the best theatre lighting designer in town, stayed from 1pm - 2am to lit the casts on stage, beautifully. thanks lim..

gary (photographer), thank you for touching-up our faces to zero pimples (refer pix on the right). thanks gary..

ain (make-up), my 'lil sis, thank you for making the casts look nice on stage..

zenn (follow-spot operator), thank you for making the light bubbles dance..

wandi (sound engineer & lighting operator), thank you for keeping your coolness and be very understanding..

aie (sound engineer & operator), my 'lil bro, thank you for contributing your voice and time..

ridhuan (scriptwriter), thank you for your ideas..

kak g (scriptwriter, production manager), thank you for taking all my maki hamunz and still be cool at the next minute :)

petom (stage manager, wardrobe asst), also thank you for taking my maki hamunz too and still get things organized..

zaff (stage manager, wardrobe asst), also thank you for taking my maki hamunz too and still get your job done..

wan (props master, stage manager), love your laughs ! thank you for keeping the backstage live and loud..

hadi (choreographer, wardrobe master), no amount of thank yous will repay you, probably our RM deal can though :):).. you made the whole play alive.. thank you very much..

hadi, wan, petom & zaff, i started my career at backstage.. time make me move ahead but i very much envy your position at backstage coz to me backstage drama is always the very best in a production. thank you, thank you, thank you, for keeping the backstage our home..

saiful (co-producer & co-director), the only person who listen the most to all my whines, babbles, anger.. hope you understand now how i work, how drastic it can get, we'll make it happen. thank you darling, for everything.....

to all - casts & crew, from the bottom of my heart - THANK YOU !

c'est la vie !

Feelin So Good.....

Fuuhhh......Alhamdulillah...........

Ermm, nampaknya memang tak sempat nak tulis blog sepanjang C.O.B dijalankan sehingga selesai show tersebut pada 19hb May 2008....Sepanjang latihan dan persiapan C.O.B, sesungguhnya sesangatlah sesibuknya masing2 sehingga tak kenal waktu tido dan makan minum lagi....Yang tau semua benda dan perkara yg nak diselesaikan atau buat, harus siap dalam tempoh yang dirancang....baik dari kecil hingga ke yang besar gilers......
Semua penari dan pelakon memberi kerjasama yang baik walaupun ada diantara mereka yang agak sibuk dengan jadual dan ada juga dengan Exam mereka ketika latihan berlangsung....Tak lupa juga kepada semua krew terlibat yang berkorban masa dan tenaga tak kira bila masa sahaja dalam usaha menjayakan C.O.B ini....
Telah banyak masa yang digunakan sepanjang 2bln persediaan C.O.B...Dari perbincangan dengan klien ke perubahan demi perubahan sehinggalah mendapat kata putus utk persembahan pada hari WCIT itu nanti dah ambil masa sebulan termasuk menanti bayaran pendahuluan dari klien...., hingga kepada persediaan pelakon dan penari serta tempat latihan serta latihan2, gerak tari, gaya lakonan dan segala teknikal dari segi persiapan lagu, props, pakaian, dan lain2 lagi....
Hinggakan pada hari berlangsungnya WCIT tersebut, krew dan Directors masih lagi bekerja sehingga jam 4.30pagi....tido kul 6pg dan bangun kul 9pg sambung buat keje lagi....memang beku otak masa tu tapi memandangkan semua perlu disiapkan dan semua masalah terjadi Last Minute, digagahkan juga diri masing2....
Banner, Lagu, setting position stage dan macam2 lagi semuanya saat terakhir giler beberapa jam sebelum show....Fuh...!!Kesabaran teruji sepanjang masa.....Apapun, yang meng'kondem'kan show tu adalah stage yang amat sempit ditambah lagi macam2 gadjet kat atas stage tu....
Dengan lampu, tempat berucap, backdrop pakai sokongan podium..(ntah sape punya pandai buat rekaan cam ayam kg je nampaknya)...,ruang stage yang sepatutnya kami dapat dah kurang kepada SETENGAH dari ukuran asal....hati memang terbakar hampir hangus time tu tengok betapa hampasnya pembuat pentas buat kerja....cam sixx je....(marah ni masih ada la pulak..)
fuh...bertenang kejap ni....ok.. sambung balik....,
Apapun yg telah berlaku......, satu darinya adalah kepuasan dan kelegaan kerana semasa pertunjukkan, tiada kesilapan besar berlaku yang bole mencacatkan perjalanan pertunjukkan tersebut.....terima kasih kepada yang terlibat baik major mahupun minor...Tanpa sokongan dan bantuan serta pengorbanan korang semua, Case Of Belonging tak mungkin akan berhasil....

Terima kasih kepada semua dan semoga kita bekerjasama lagi dalam projek yang akan datang....
We Are As A Family.......

Peace n Loves...
Soul`z......