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The journey is officially over

It's the end, Penang is over, and the journey that started in March 2009 has come to a full stop...
So for an update of things this is what has happened:
1) Sabah took home the runner up position in the English drama National Competition 2009

2) Selangor took home the 1st Place trophy

3) Sarawak took home a well deserved third place

Well, I'm gonna do a mini critique, I'll try to limit the negativity, so sorry if you get offended XDS

So we didn't get to see the previous seven schools, which incuded KL, Putrajaya and Malacca, cause I really wanted to see them, damnit :(

But from what I heard they were GOOD BUT NOT GREAT, so I was relief about that...

Than competition time, the nerves couldn't be held back, the emotions couldn't be held back, I cried like a baby, okay i admitted it, but it was an emotional day that really payed off XD

So we got on stage and we did our thing, i thought we did the best we could, okay i messed up a little with the projector, but i thought we did fantastic XD So we got back to the hotel, had out lunch, packed the props and went back to the auditoreum to sit for the next 8 states

Kelantan
Their play was weird, funny and awkward at the same time, their topic was REALLY sensitive it was about a daughter who was raped by her own father and she's pregnant... HEY!!! I got to see a celebrity, I SAW LADY GAGA, okay maybe not really lady Gaga, but there was someone who looked alot like her, complete with the avant garde costume, futuristic make up and fake blonde wig, it was something out of this world, okay, she gives birth to a dead disturbing looking dead puppet baby, and the play ends with the fatstabbing the daughter to death, and if you don't find that confusing i don't what is, especially the ending when the father cover his murdured daughter in a bunch of fake leaves, WITHOUT even covering her head, and the mother goes around looking for her not-so-well hidden daughter, and when she does all she does to her wicked husband is push him, WTF, if i was, or anyone was that mother i would burn him alive... And all this magical beings pop out of nowhere, didn't make much sense....

Labuan
I went out to eat burger while they were loading the props but i still came back in time to watch the ending, well, i did watch a little of the beggining, they used grim reaper costumes to carry the huge banner that reads "The Recorder", the title of their play, and when i came back i saw that they ONLY HAD ONE PROP, a couch that looked nice but they had to make it ugly by covering it with a yellow cloth..... There was one actor though, despit ehaving a PSYCHOTIC recorder obsessed character, he did an awesome job in terms of acting, it was amrvelous, seriously..... Had the entire team been this strong, they would have been the frontrunners, but too bad, their story was well, i don't know much cause i was out, but it was about a recorder....The flute thing not the tape recorder.... Labuan by the way joined last minute so i'm not surprised they only had one prop to work with...

Sarawak
Voice projection, I would give a 11/10, they were perfect in that... Initially i thought they were relly bad, and i only thought they were loud because of the boom microphones, BUT, there was a sudden blackout with mic and THEY STILL SOUNDED THE SAME, OMG, i was shocked, they were damn loud!!! But their story was.... pretty bad.... It was about four friends trying to sell the body of a fifth friend who recently passed away because they were too porr and too busy to do a funeral, BUT the friend wasn't actually dead, he was playing a trick on them, and they signed a deal to take the body away from them for $15,000, okay dead can't cause that much, cause I would have made a fortune if it was like that, just kidding :p So once they do they realize that the dealer was a fraud/thief/ripoff and the body's missing, so THEN the dead man pops out of nowhere and shocks them... They apologize and bal bla bla, and he seemingly forgves and goes away BUT a perimedic team shows up out of nowhere to carry the dead body away, OMG, that person was a ghost, I know it may sound fun, but thrust me, it was VERY confusing to understand, I had to ask someone about the play to get all the info i'm writing about now, the Sarawak team in person though, well, their iffy, just kidding, THEIR AWESOME!!!! Especially the two friends, Nate and Audrey, their like so nice, i didn't expect the other states to be so nice XD But we're both non-sememenanjungs too bahh XD

Kedah
It was an okay story, and the acting was above average, and they were just okay... But the dancing, oh gosh they bought cheesiness to a new level, so damn cheesy!!! It was about a bitchy spoiled misunderstood brat named Roxy who moves in to live with her new stepfather, along with her mother and her stepsister, Roxy becomes nice eventually, after ill treating her parents and the sister like a bitch.... I forgot why she had a conversation/argument/embrace with her step sister Ashley, and convinces her to get a tattoo on he rbum and to go clubbing with her... Being the nice girl she is, Ashley originally declines but says yes eventually, being the low confident person she is..... Oh yeah i forgot to mention the very cheesy living portraits hanging on the wall, the guy is so cheesy!!! He danced to I Like To Move It all of a sudden, and pretty cheesy dance moves at that! The girl portait believes that all good is obtained by free will while the guy portrait believes in...... I forgot already, after the cheesy dancing, i didn't pay attention to him..... So Ashley ends up getting aids and her stepfather dances to a cheesy unknown song that her mother stops is what happens next, and then 5 years into the future the family meet up one last time, where the parent haven't seen their two daughters for 5 years, and at the reunion..... Ashley dies, so so so sad :(

Penang
The cheese of the show, it was like tasting a cheese burger filled with cheese made patties and cheese made buns.... Well, at least it was entertaining, it's about a young boy who tries to find the answers in life, because he's too stressed with exams, well, why don't you tell the answers to the other 20 millions teenagers in Malaysia who are also stressed of exams among other things ?!? The story was cheese, they combined three form 4/5 literature (Life's breef candle, The Necklace, The Lotus Eater) Into this play, and the play was long, it over exceeded the time limit, they just had to the cheesiest ending ever, with the dancing, the talking, the SINGING, ish........ The character Tom Wilson is very entertaining though, and he's the best of the bunch..... The king was okay and that woman is plain annoying along with that boy......

Terengganu
It was boring at most times, I fell asleep, sorry, their props were superb, and the narrator girl was really good, but the story is the problem, it was boring, they did an adaptation of Lawrence Of Arabia, I can't comment much, I fell asleep....

Selangor
They were, hate to say it, really really really good, their costumes and props were masterclass, the voice projection was a joy and the language was a little iffy, but it was good, it's about a seemingly brilliant scientist named doctor Faustus who traded his soul to the devil for 24 years of success with the seven greatest sins in the world despite being warned by the angel he did it and 24 years later we get to see that he becomes a poor lonely stressed old man and that "the greatest gifts" are the seven deadly sins, and he dies... It was a painful joy to watch..... And for some reason every other state hates them, they say that they are mean and snobbish... So noone was happy for them, OOH!!!! They got to use microphone and they get to use the curtains, UNFAIR!!!

So we got to rest until 8.30, we had to do something to get the stress of results coming and the ending (*tear) so we had fun, running around, switching rooms, talking with states, vibrating each other..... Then results, we all shared a bus with Labuan and once there it was rwally formal, there were a few performances of singing and dancing, I cried during one of them, because it reminded me too much of the journey.... Then results, public speaking first, Selangor won, gosh, and then drama results, They did a really sinister move, they called each school one by one to go on stage to collect their consolation prize as they are elimenated, it was nerve wrecking, i was like "please, not sabah, any state but sabah" Kedah were the first once ousted, followed by Pahang and then all the way to the last school to get ousted, Labuan

Then we realized we were in the final three, everyone in the team screamed for joy, and then Sarawak was called as third, we screamed again, realizing we made it to FINAL TWO of the nationals!!!!! OMG The both states were called below stage and with dramatic music, seriously, they played dramatic music for more suspense, everyone was cheering loudly for Sabah, even i screamed Sabah, ufortanely after a long wait, they ended it with Selangor winning, and as Selangor got on stage almost noone clapped, but when we got on stage everyone was clapping so hard, and we got a standing ovation from one of the teams, and there were lots of shouts.....

So, at least I got a trophy XD, after the anouncement, KL went to console us, telling us we should have won, either that or they just don't like Selangor, muahahahahaha, many states said congrats to us..... And then group photos, we took lots XD

So that was the end of the journey stretching for about 7 months, I love you guys so much that it would tear me up to ever let go of the memories we shared together XD

So for, Chin, Woosnam, Ralph, Jude, Raul, Adriance, Orlando and Nathaniel, I can't believe you guys are leaving next year, and I hope you have a great life, like how great you made my life turn into XD Love you seriously do!!!

And Teacher Haslinda, I love you so much, thanks for putting up with me every step of the way, you are the best teacher any kid could ask for, have a spectacular time, just like how made my time with drama team spectacular....

And ofcourse too Hazli, what can I say? You are one of the greatese people I have ever met, and your emotions and maturity stuns me, I love you dude, I hope you'll stay with us next year too, but you also have your own life XD

Love you all, even all the teams we fought in the past and all the states in nationals (yes, even Selangor) Thanks for making my life darn brilliant.... Gosh I'm starting to cry right now, hehe

Love Josh