No More No More...

So the audience was supposed to sing during Afdlin Shauki's (did we get that right?) song skit at the Gala Farewell at the Actor's Studio Bangsar yesterday - and even that was ribbed by Harith Iskandar much later on.

Bangsar Actor's Studio is closing down.

Admittedly for us who'd never really were that interested in the arts scene (and only joined the YKLS after they'd decided to try out other venues for their performance), we don't have much of a strong connection with the place - but it's really a shame because we do realize the place has done so much for the arts here in Malaysia. Then again that's because we'd worked at BSC before and do occasionally go shopping there so we've been exposed to the many posters of performances, political satire, even watched the YKLS performed there before for their 5th anniversary - you have to say that the place allowed for very good exposure of such things to the public.

And so YKLS was to perform as part of the farewell performances, every day from Wednesday till this Sunday.

The choice of repertoire? Songs from past productions - which meant that for most members all they had to do was brush up, for some of us (especially yours truly) it meant learning new songs. Nooooo problem. Just a few obstacles that need getting out of the way only, like say, for the Kenangan Lagenda Medley, somewhere in the song we'd been muddling up the lyrics.

The original lyrics go:

Hujan yang turun bagaikan mutiara
Berkilau, bersinar, berkelipan.
Subur menghijau, bumi terbentang
Dan bayu berpuput lembut.

Cinta yang bersemi di waktu hujan turun
Menyirami ketandusan hati.
Dan hujan turut mengiringi
Engkau pergi.

Very poetic lyrics right? This is the kind of writing that caused us to hate Bahasa Melayu karangan in our SPM years (heck, every year in our school life) because we hadn't the vocabulary and style for it. So anyways, we're trying very hard to stop singing:

"Hujan yang turun
Di waktu hujan turun."

'Cos everytime we do that, we get stuck for the next line of lyrics.

Anyways, we must say that we're rather glad to have the opportunity to perform in Bangsar Actor's Studio at least once, and get to watch all the other performers here too.