Post Kalaichaaral 2016 :] A Thank You Note :]

I could have sworn that this did not go the way that 

I have planned.

I could still remember the day where I dolled up in 

a tight brown dress as I wore my black Alain Deloin high heels boots as I tied my hair up in a super tight ponytail. To finish the look, I drew up a hot red lipstick along the curvy lines on my lips as I daringly walk into the interview room, convincing myself over and over again in my head that this is what I wanted. That I was just going to enter this and get this done and over it and within minutes I’ll be out of the door and be free. UGH.

I sat across the board of five interviewers as they questioned me one by one, as to why I qualified for the project. Two members from Tamil Language Society, Saratkumar and Senior Kalai as well as Yoges and Rathnah sat across of me on behalf of Hindu Society University of Malaya.

I couldn’t remember as to what question that were asked to me that night but it was a non - stop machine gun session honestly. I remembered having Sarath questioning me as to how would I publicize the event. Before I left the room, I remember repeating again and again to the interviewers, saying I was only here, to fit in as a normal AJK Publicity member ( honestly what

 I wanted ) or as a Marketing person considering such hectic second year of law school I was handling at the moment. Before stepping out, I looked at the interviewers once more and said these exact lines that these two legendary boards consists of people who we the new members have for cross reference purposes and to run back to for any advices. I remembered saying clearly that we could only do this with the support of both the legendary boards and then I left the interview room quickly and rushed back to my hostel knowing by heart that I’ve done the interview right.

Exactly a week later, I was expecting to see my name only as a normal member under the Publicity Bureau but trust me, I was really disappointed as I scrolled through the list and realized that my name was not on neither as a Publicity member nor a Marketing member and that was when I thought, great, I’ve yet to prove myself wrong and maybe it was the over confident of mine which had screwed the interview instead. It was then when my eye caught sight of my middle name “Lingwei” and my heart crashed to the ground when 

I saw my name on a High Committee list and not on any position but for the Treasurer post of a brand new project Kalaichaaral 2016. I almost broke into tears as

 I thought to myself, another MAJOR commitment but relief flushed through me as I saw members' names.

I really do not want to dwell on this ten months journey on this project because truth to be told, the fact that

 we pulled the project through together gets me every single time. We travelled to Aimst, Kedah, to other public universities ( Ranggoli Fiest ) ( Malam Irama Penyayang ) UKM, Bangi UniSEL, we stood by roadsides simply because we were so determined to raise this fund for the autism children. Having taglines that this goes back to the community from the community, trust me things I’ve never thought 

possible of doing, we did it. Honestly, we did, 

and not as a person, but as a TEAM.

All and all, I would just want to keep this really short considering I am writing this in an elective class but, 
I should bid my thank you first of all. I think it is
 crucial to first thank my dearest Deputy Treasurer, Harchanadevi Arivanthan for the nags and laughs 
we go through whenever we need to cut class for bank visits. I’ll honestly miss you and all the senior-junior dramas that the both of us undergo. You’re such a kind and beautiful soul that I honestly believe the boy who marries you is going to be one of the luckiest man alive. Don’t you worry about getting your cousin sister married, because you’re next in line. 
So until then, enjoy life, okay?

 

I should bid thank you to my fellow High Committee
 as well, Director and Co-Director, Sarathkumar and Ratnahjothi respectively, for always believing in me and always pushing me to do better. Vice Director, dearest Thesen Rao, who looked after both the heavy bureaus, both performance and technical. Mind you, medical student okay? You were also the 
Floor Manager that night of the event. 
For crazy lunch hours, I am going to miss all of those. 
To dear Secretary, Senior Saranya for always understanding me in just a glimpse of sight. You would literally know what I was thinking and feeling by just a look to my face. For standing through UM Central bus stop and Complex Perdanasiswa and sell tickets 
one by one, together that day. Remember when we 
almost died meeting the International Students? 
You were amongst person who I really cherish.

All and all, not forgetting dearest Producers, 
Senior Kalai, Senior Arul, Senior Shobana, Sivanes and Yoges, for believing in me and always sharing kind and courageous words to me to keep moving on. 
To always teach me upon handling the members, 
I couldn’t thank you enough. Thank you is not even enough to gratitude everything you’ve done for me.

 

 

To all of my Head of Departments, honestly, I wouldn’t know each and everyone of you well enough to write this post however besides, Protocols Head ( Thiviya ), Special Task Force ( Sharvin ), but this one’s for Senior Kavita Gopalan ( My Marketing Head Bureau ). Both you and I have come so far in this 10 months journey. Trust me we did. From handling too much of things at one go, to feeling like death was nearing in on the both of us, to me becoming Treasurer cum Head of Ticketing. From arguing to quarrelling, to shouting to hugging to all at one go and making up and doing this right, you are breathtaking. You are. Thank you, 
for bringing Jignesh into the group cause honestly, we managed to pull the entire Marketing and Sponsorship through. We made it. 15,000 is not a small amount and I think we could hold our head up high to have said the Treasurer and Marketing Head did it, senior. We did it!

To my Temple Gang group ; Thiviya Sasidharan
 ( numerology partner ), Sai Vinoshini ( dearest roommate ), Shaira Sulaiman Sha Patel ( my ever stunning modelling babe ) and my one and only etta kesayangan from Kurshiah ( Muva Cooghan Etta ), 
the four of you have been super supportive for always borrowing me your ears whenever I need them. Heck, shoulders all also you all borrow-lah. For always believing and having faith in me, I cannot thank you enough and there are just no words to describe
 how amazing you lovelies are.

Honestly, if I could go on and on, trust me I would, 
but I think it is crucial to also thank my Facilitator
 ( PM Gang ) especially this two, both Alexander Choo and Le Xuan who actually came to support my show. When you both told me you were coming I thought it was a joke until I saw both your faces. For staying till the very end and watch me do bhangra, I couldn’t be more touched as to what am I supposed to say. 
Thank you loves. Really thank you. Lets do supper 
on me again soon. I’ll buy you guys supper, I promise.
 Call Russell along, please.

The following Chinese girls goes to Wei Hui ( make up artist ), Fey Yee and Kai Hwei ( both wifey ). Thank you dearest three of you when you all freaked out cause
 I was unreachable that you rushed to DTC ( event venue ) to find me simply because you knew I would be there and I was in a mess as we were helping to finish up the ranggoli kolam and henna on my hands for the night and despite the mess I looked the three 
of you came to rescue. Just for me. I cry a river. 
What have I done for such kindness sayangs? P/S : Do look through thari_artworks for more information. 

  

Dear Wei Hui, thank you for doing my hair, make up and everything that night. You literally blew dry my hair, tie them up, spray, oiled them like a pro and you did everything so well simply because you wanted me to look stunning that night. For covering my eye-bags and scolding me so much as you rubbed on eye shadow, you put me at my best babe. Thank you so much. Dearest Fey Yee and Kai Hwei, for coming to the show at a very last minute and taking photographs with me, though you left early, I was really touched that the both of you came. Don’t worry Wei Wei, I love you too for your supportive text message. I’ve told you on whatsapp so lazy want to deal with it here. 

Before I end this post, my heartfelt gratitude 
goes out to once again, Producers, High Committee, 
Head of Departments and Crew of Kalaichaaral 2016 for making it a memorable one. The journey that we undergone was never an easy one, but trust me, it was of a meaningful one. I honestly and deeply hope 
that we could all work together sometime soon.

Lastly, to THE ONE person, who have stood by me against all odds and never gave up on me. For always showering me with kindness and your words of encouragements, for always asking me to get enough rest, and nagging and scolding whenever I have designer eye-bags below my eyes due to sleepless nights, sometimes only sleeping for four to five hours daily throughout my university days this year, I cannot believe how you could tolerate all of my naggings, scolding, tears and all. For doing breakfast and supper dates with me, *correction*, dinner sessions for me and supper for you, for always asking me to hold on, that this would be over before I knew it, you’ve no idea how much I’ve prayed and wished that you could have been there for the event. Do take care of yourself and don’t make me worried so much anymore. You mean 
a lot to me, honestly. More than you think possible.
 So please don’t ever doubt on that, would you? I really hope to see you around and I hope you do stay because I know, as time passes, you would see more of my weaknesses than of strength in me and I hope you could forgive and always turn me into a better person as time passes. I sincerely do not want to brag here, cause’ I think you do know how I feel about you.

In a nutshell, Kalaichaaral 2016  ( fun cultural event 
in English ) ended successfully and amazingly. It was both performance based and charity achieved motive. 
I have no words to describe or to tell people how it went for me. From gushing around to selling tickets to preparations for this and that to running up and down the stage, I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect and flawless night than of that. That’s all for now I guess. 
I’ll be back, with a surprise birthday post soon. 
Till then, I love you readers. Adios! xoxo.

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Fantastic Four In Kuala Lumpur City! Part 2 :]

It had been a month after my birthday tho. Exactly 

a month long. But that's not the point. Today, after much snoozing my phone alarm, I jumped out of bed at 09:40a.m texting both Vino and Thiviya telling them that I am awake. I woke up to noises downstairs and it is so good to see elder brother, Sureen's face and he told me that he is working this Thursday onwards. There is so much of planning of activities to be done this weekend with the family, but all I am thinking is just campus and work. Going to 

keep myself so occupied and busy, I promise.

The only good sides of me these days is the fact that I've been sleeping early ever since. Been crawling into bed and calling it a night and it is such a comfort feeling to know that my sleeping schedule is fixed. 

At least, for this upcoming facilitator camp.

I got ready within minutes like the superhero, The Flash and I couldn't decide on what to put on for today, so I thought might as well choose the basic maroon Topshop basic plain t-shirt and a leggings and finished it with my favourite pair of flats, anklet and the necklace from yesterday. So I left home early today to take the train to KL Sentral, since it was our meeting point for Day Two. Decided to ask Sureen Anna for a favour to drop me off so it is in a way easier for me and I would save a little bit of time. 

In his car, I was so torn as to whether should I take the STAR LRT and then switch to Putra Lane or should I straight take the KTM Train to KL Sentral. I picked the later and regretted every single decision of mine.

Oh trust me when I say the KTM is such a pain in the neck when I was at the platform, I prayed that I would be on time since I am considered early for the day. Trust me when I tell you that my heart sank when the train got delayed not for a minute or two, but for 30 minutes. And it became where from being early, I was turning out to be late. I have always salute people who had the patience to wait for KTM Train simply because it is something that I didn't own. The worst of it all is when  9 STAR LRT trains passes by yet there was still NOT even one KTM Train in sight. Why is it that whenever I am early for something, the result would always turn otherwise. Ugh.

After delaying for almost 40 minutes, the train finally came and I boarded quietly heading towards KL Sentral which was five stations away, alone filled with anger and frustration. The only good part was when I actually put on a small black pottu and an Indian average looking girl asked for help for directions and for once, I felt good because it was something that I was able to help. Anyways back to the story, I arrived towards both Vino and Thiviya at 11:40a.m today, I felt so bad for making the girls wait for 10 minutes. 

Cry a bucket of tears, really.

So once we met up, we quickly decided to take a cab to the National Planetarium from KL Sentral. The cab fare was for RM 16.00 fixed rate so around RM 5.50 each, and we hopped onto a super big cab and there we were heading towards the National Planetarium.

Once there, we took photographs at the entrance and whilst we were planning last night, we thought about entering the movie exhibition but since we were already a little bit late than the stipulated time, we decided to just spend time in the gallery. It was such an eye opener I swear. We spend around an hour there from 12pm to 1pm. Among the best places for photographs was this one place where it looked like a newspaper cut out, and also, this Anti Gravity Room. So cool the room and lighting though. We had such headaches honestly. Everything felt so different. 

This is a picture of colourful periodic table and I remember them placing powder Attack detergent as Sulphur, and there were also matches and shampoos respectively. Did you know that astronauts sleep standing in the airspace? You didn't, right?

We played so much here, from checking the heart beat and pulse to the Earth to the moon to the planets and etc. I swear I felt like a school child. 

Such a good hair day and the new Fantastic 4 sisterhood necklace. And then, we made our way up to the second floor, it was supposed to be a route to Balai Celup, but it was closed. So we had the of the city. Ending the tour in National Planetarium here.

Since it was so heaty, we made our way on foot to National Museum. I would explain based on the photographs. There were so many tourists around and this is like my third trip to the National Museum though. The entrance fee into the museum is RM 2.00 each. I shall just let the pictures do the talking for me. Click on the photographs to enlarge them okay?

So once there, we spend around 45 minutes from 1.15pm to 2.00pm and halfway through the museums, both the girls turned to me and complained that they were hungry and that we wanted to head back to KL Sentral for lunch. So we left quickly at 2pm and asked for directions and we walked back to KL Sentral. How close. But before I jumped to pictures of lunch, let me explain the National Museum photos briefly okay?

Zaman Prasejarah

 Manusia Perak

Bottom Left : Writing on cave walls

Bottom Right : Gallery Zaman Kesultanan 

Melayu Melaka

 Picture one is of a handwritten Al-Quran, followed by Batu Nisan Sultan Mansur Shah. Picture Three is of Candi Borbordur and lastly, picture four, featuring on this blogpost is of the Tibet God of Avalokiteśvara :)

 Photos of cara memasak tuaian. 

Replicas of A Famosa, in Melaka and of Bunga Mas given from Sultan Kedah to Siam back in those days. 

So, we wanted to have Indian food intially for lunch, but because it was already so late and besides, we were already starving. We didn't want to beat the heat as well, I swear Kuala Lumpur heat is another pain in the neck. So we gave up on Indian food 

and just had lunch in NU Sentral Food Court.

This is lunch, wok and grill dry chilli chicken rice lunch set with egg and vegetable and oyster sauce which costed RM 10.50 for the whole set. I ordered cendol too for RM 5.10. Don't judge, I know I eat like a whale. So after lunch for about an hour, it was around 2pm to 3pm at that hour, we went to the Guardian pharmacy to get some toiletries and we took the train back home at 3.15pm and was back by four something to sleep because we're heading to Sai Centre in Bangsar for bhajans tonight. That's about it. Relationship Goals ; Humpty Sharma Ki Duhalnia :] 

• KTM Train Fare : RM 2.10
• Taxi KL Sentral : RM 16.00 ( RM 5.50 each )
• Muzium Negara : RM 2.00 each
• Lunch Cendol : RM 5.10
• Lunch Wok and Grill : RM 10.50
• Train from KL Sentral to Masjid Jamek : RM 1.50
• Bus from Kota Raya to Cheras : RM 2.00
• Total expenditure : RM 28.70

Places Covered : National Planetarium, 
National Museum, KL Sentral, NU Sentral

[ PART 2 OUT OF 3 COMPLETED ]