HENNA ART

For the MMC assignment and presentation purpose, we went to international university of islamic Malaysia for an interview with a henna artist which name Rabia Husain. She is from Arab and she has praticed henna for more than 10 years. 

For our group, we have chosen henna as our topic of traditional Malaysian art form. Henna is widely practice and have cultural significance in Indian and Malay culture.

Henna is a rising cultural art form because many people starts to embrace it but the meanings behind it are overlooked.The traditional henna style is starting to face some changes due to popularity. For instance, white-coloured henna on skin and gold-coloured henna sticker is not pure and genuine. Other than that, the general views of henna is commonly known as a type of skin decoration that closely related to Indian, then people know nothing else about it. Hence, it is our main reasons for choosing henna as our topic.  

International university of islamic Malaysia. This photo was taken once we reached the university. This campus is quite big and we almost lose ourself when walking inside!!!!!

RM5 - Small and simple design 

RM10 or more for elaborate design.

RM5 - small and simple design

There are several pattern of henna design for us to choose. or else we can bring our own design to do so.

The pattern I had chosen. It was really nice and can be done by less than 5 minutes. This temporary "tattoo" is natural and painless. ^^

Group Photo.

Before we leave, we took a group photo with the henna artist and showed our henna design as well. This is a special and happiness experience for me since this is my first try to apply henna in my hand. Besides that, the henna artist we met is quite a nice person and she has try her best to complete our question during the interview. 

3 Abdul

In the passed week tutorials class, we have watched a film name 3 Abdul. 3 Abdul is a 1964 Malaysia comedy film directed by and starring Malaysian silver-screen icon P. Ramlee. P.Ramlee is a very well known actors in Malaysia, I am pretty sure that all Malaysian will know him very well.

Here is the main character in this movie, P.Ramlee as Abdul Wahub which is the youngest son, Haji Mahadi as Abdul Wahab which is the eldest son, S.Kadarisman as Abdul Segaraga which is the middle son and Ahmad Nisfu as Sadiq Segaraga.

 This movie is talking about the story of three brothers who are caught in a wed trickery set by the cunning Sadiq Segaraga who uses his three daughters to fleece the three brothers of all their wealth. The movie is a tribute to traditional folktales with a moral set into the story and is set a fictional middle eastern country named Isketambola, which is loosely based on Istanbul, Turkey. It last film was directed by P.Ramlee in Singapore before he was moved to Kl in 1965.

This movie as we know is a comedy film. The most funny and interesting scene which also I remember the most is when public are allow to random grab one's properties without any charge. Besides that, there is also an interested dialogue in this movie:

Adegan dalam kedai antik ketika Rafidah(Dayang Sofea) cuba menggodaAbdul Wahib

 (S Kadarisman)

 

Abdul Wahib: Hai..kanda lebih dasyat dinda..makan tak kenyang tidur tak basah mandi tak lena,pendek kata dalam seminggu dua ni macam kapal nak masok dok!

Rafidah: Ah kanda boraklah!Takkan kanda ni nak pada dinda?

Abdul Wahib: Misai pendek tidak bercahaya,ibarat kuda hampir mati,kalau adinda tidak percaya operetlah dada x-raylah hati!

Rafidah: Kalau kaki tersadung batu,jatuh selalu tersembam ke tanah.ah  orang lelaki memang begitu.sumpahnya selalu tunainya tak pernah!

Abdul Wahib: Kaki bukan sebarang kaki,kaki dioder dari Egypt,lelaki bukan sebarang lelaki,ha..ini lelaki Abdul Wahib..!

Rafidah: Kalau merpati sudah terpikat,jangan terlepas ikatan benang;kalau hati sudah terpikat,lekaslah lekas masuk meminaaaang...

Abdul Wahib:,,memineeng..hiii

However, I do not really like this movie even though I used to watch comedy in my daily life because black and white seem a bit bored for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVORFxHMSM

Here is the link from YOUTUBE to watch 3 Abdul

Perempuan, isteri dan...

I am going to discuss about a movie which name Perempuan, isteri dan..... This movie is quite famous among Malay culture and also got a lot of good comment from public. I never know about Malay movie even I am a Malaysian, and this movie is the very first Malay movie which I absolutely finish watched.

Perempuan, isteri dan is a film Malaysia which directed by U-Wei Hj Saari. The two main character in this movie is Sofia Jane which act as Zaleha and Nasir Bilan Khan which act as Amir. The story in this movie is around the relationship and things that happened between this two main character.

Basically, this story is about Zaleha is about to get married to Amir, but she elopes to southern Thailand at the day her wedding party, to marry someone else. The enraged Amir tracks the couple down, kills the groom and sell Zaleha to a pimp. Six months later, Amir brings her back. She tricks him into marrying her. Even thought they were got married, Amir treats Zaleha very bad. But the six months Zaleha spent as a prostitute have changed her mind. Now, she want to stay with Amir and start revenge. 

This was such a meaningful movie for me because it has reflected how the inequality between male and female at those generation which I never experienced. This shows the status of women is always lower than men and society was unconcerned with the subordination of women. Women are oppressed, downplayed and need to follow the step of man. 

However, I think that Sofia Jane which is the main character in this movie- Zaleha, is a brave and independent women which have the same personality with her character in this movie. In that era of conservative, she was daring in acting such a character that violating the femininity which identify by public. For example, she dress sexy, being rude, smoking and having close contact with others man even though she got marry. 

Anyhow, this movie has leave a deep impression in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7A7kENuASg

Here is the link of Perempuan, isteri dan from YOUTUBE.

#tanahairku

This is my very first time of using a blog to share my life to others. So, for the first entry of my blog, I am going to talk about the field trip to KLCC. We went to a art gallery which with tittle of #tanahairku. 

From the title of this exhibition, we can roughly know that this exhibition is mainly focus on Malaysia's culture, history and everything about Malaysia which is also "tanahairku''. 

We got a booklet to enhance our knowledge about this art gallery. Besides that, we might follow this booklet as a guide to experience a special showcase dedicted to our homeland.

The exhibition gives us a glimpse of Malaysian life through PETRONAS commercials over the past two decades. This exhibition could be categories into 6 section. Visitor or tourist from our country can experience and know more about Malaysia's culture step-by-step through section one to section 6.

Section 1 - Proud to be Malaysian

Section 2 - Our diversity make us beautiful

Section 3 - What's life without love

Section 4 - A lifetime of friendship

Section 5 - Kerna Kita Satu Sama Dipunyai

Section 6 - Negaraku. Powered by the people

This photo showed the previous and current prime minister of our country. I actually quite understand about their story because we get to study about their background and history since primary school. 

The scene I like the most which is a traditional food stall which selling bean curd. One of my favourite dessert. ^_^

Before I end my sharing, I would like to say that it is quite a funny and interested field trip. The section I like the most is section 3 which themed "What's life without love-Through sacrifices, resilience, perseverance and determination, love is what bring us together". All the commercials in this section is about love especially family love. I proud of being a Malaysian.