REunite

It’s a night not forgotten. It’s a night to be remembered. A night where impossible became possible, dreams became reality, and all efforts and hard work are paid off in the end. About a week ago, Anas, Allen and Faisal came out with the idea of having a night of reunite-cum-performance before we submit ourselves readily into the life of endless assignment submission following the next few weeks. And we called the night ‘REunite’.

When this plan has got its approval from the authority, its preparation was in full swing. Different groups of dance enthusiasts began looking for volunteers. Similarly, committee members were busy preparing and arranging events and ideas days and night. I on a lower profile volunteered myself to join the one-of-the-best-art-dances as described by Glo called Glowing in the dark.

As choreographed by Hani, we had our first dance practice on the day I had my right wisdom tooth removed. I could in fact talk on the first night despite my half numb face resulted from the ecstasy injection. That night, I was asked by Tapa if I was interested to do Haka dance. I agreed. The next day, I was informed that there will be a break dance on the night. Having no idea how to move or act like a hip-hop rapper, I agreed again with a hope that this experience would be an awesome one.

Basically, we had only one week to prepare for this night. Those who were committed and chose to volunteer had put in a great deal of effort to make this night possible. I, for example, suggested an idea of using technology to do slideshow on the night. The next second I knew, I was in the team. I was in charge of technology, particularly on the section of creating and editing video. It was on Monday night when this was suggested; and the show was just two nights ahead.

That night, I started scratching my head to think of a good introduction. Finally, I had it done perfectly but it was already 4.30am on my laptop’s screen (lectures began at 8.00am that morning). There were seven sections which I needed to do and 5-8 minutes was allocated for each section. It’s considered late to start then, but all I could think of at that moment was to have it done successfully. I regarded this project – this night – as a night of utmost importance because lecturers, friends and even Nesa would come and I wanted them to enjoy every single moment of it. I wanted to give it my best shot.

Time was running as I was working behind time. Many challenges came along my way: not enough photos from each university, time constraints, my own dance practices, insufficient ideas and painful tooth. That Tuesday, I knew I won’t be sleeping that night because of the loads of work to be completed. At 3.00am Wednesday morning, I just completed the first part. 6 parts to go! As persistent as my effort went, my friends here too were also running against time in completing their work. I really appreciated their efforts in giving up their time for this night. I understood some who in fact gave up and slept after a long night of work. By 7.30am the next morning, I had only completed 3 7-minutes-slideshows. It was the first time in my life that I spent a sleepless night for something non-academic. Indeed, I went to class that Wednesday morning with a pair of tired eyes yet determined heart of completing the slideshows.

Class finished at 12.30pm. 8 hours to go! Already I felt a little hopeless in this task completion thing, but all my friends told me not to keep going. In my tired eyes yet active brain functioning, I continued working. At 3pm, I finished the fourth part! The fifth’s at 4pm! Before I forget, Allen had me participated in Para-para sakura dance for this night, and so he explained to me about its formation at 4pm something. Back to working, the sixth and the seventh were quite short and so I had them both done in an hour time. By 5.30pm, I successfully completed everything! I remembered I being very hungry at that moment; and Nesa told me he had arrived already. So we went Scud and had dinner there.

It was a total contentment to see that everything was done well before the event started.

On the night, I chose to wear a rapper costume. Since I thought I was participating in the break dance and had never worn a hip-hop baju, I decided to give it a try. The night was fantastic as it moved along. Dances went excellently awesome, especially for Haka dance for which people thought it was lame and unreal at first. After the night, I took lots of pictures with my friends around despite my tired eyes and brain this time.

me, Dodo & Elyas

Me, Allen & Dodo
group pics

Vwen, me & Cath

me & Ashes

The Hip-Hop boys

The best things I loved about that night were that:
- the sleepless night.
- Nesa coming from Melaka and watched my show.
- wearing like a rapper.
- words of encouragement from my fellow friends.
- words of compliments after the show.
- strong unity between each one of us after the show.
- the feeling of teamwork between each one of us despite the time constraints.

The night proved to me once again that nothing is impossible when I called upon Jesus’s name. Even the sleepless night would not hinder me from completing what I want to do. All thanks to those who had helped me so much throughout this period of time. Knowing that I am blogging now, Allen, my roommate now, asked me to include his name in this blog. So here you go Allen. Thanks to u too! And though saham has naik after the night, I must maintain my humility with others. There is nothing to be proud of myself because all good things come from Him. With everything that I am doing, I am doing it for Him. At least now I can publicly declare that I have done something meaningful in my life here in IPBA.

Ps: Mr. Aslam our lecturer yesterday commented our REunite that night as 3S’s: Spectacular, Sensational and … he left the last one for us to think. Is it supposed to be a suspense sir? Do we need one? :p