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One Maxi, Three Looks

After 4 months, I am still in love with the pink maxi I bought over at Old Navy. I thought the only way for me to wear it was with a cardigan, but hey ho! I’ve worn the maxi in three different ways to different events! So here’s something for you guys to see how I wore my hot pink maxi. I don’t want to put my pictures because.. hehe I’m shy.

Look 1 – To A Red Carpet Event (or a rock concert)
Red Carpet Ready by Sharmee featuring Dorothy Perkins

Pink maxi – from anywhere (Bugis is my best bet), bomber jacket – Far East Plaza, black shawl – Arab Street/Chinatown/Geylang, Vans – Miz 29.

I am really eyeing those pink Vans! Me love! By the way, I wore this outfit to Purnama 2. Although it’s not considered a red carpet event (there wasn’t a red carpet), I still think its a worthy event for a dressed up day! PS: Please ignore the Chanel 2.55. It’s still a dream of mine to own one.

Look 2 – To a Pool Party or Pinic

To a Pool Party by Sharmee featuring Dorothy Perkins

I don’t own everything here, but this look is pretty much similar to what I wore for a friend’s birthday party. Except that my denim jacket is a DIY one that isn’t really faded and washed out as nicely as the one above. I might drop by Salvation Army to hunt for a vintage one.

Look 3 – To a Date

To a Date by Sharmee featuring Dorothy Perkins

This look is lovely for a date, although as Muslims, we don’t usually date. (Note the word usually – we’re humans and to err is human) I am loving the white rattan clutch bag from piperlime.com and the heels from Topshop. Yes I’m lusting over heels, not Vans, but it would be very difficult to convince me wearing it on a date. I’l be very uncomfortable and prolly go home with blisters waiting to burst. Unless my date has a car, then I would wear pretty heels for the night.

There you go! One item, three looks. Now go shopping!

SMFS: Purnama 2 Finale (17 October 2009)

A week has passed and so did Purnama 2. From rushing for the completion of my Rikyu essay to spending an hour on make up, the Saturday of 17 October was certainly a night to remember. Apart from the rumours running around like wildfire and failed red carpet glamour, Purnama was a huge success.

The Singapore Malay Film Society (SMFS) team arrived early to set up and prepare the necessary items needed for the night. We had a registration table at the 5th level of The Cathay, complete with flowers courtesy of Liz Fleur, programme booklets, tickets and of course, the pretty ladies of SMFS to serve the guests. Reception went pretty well, I must say. 120 seats were filled up, including the guests SMFS invited. We had the honour of hosting Purnama 2 to the J.A. Halim family, Cikgu Yusnor Ef, judges Lim Yu Beng and Sanif Olek. Even Singapore Director Tan Pin Pin dropped by to watch the screenings!

One of the guests signing the guest book.

Even Mr X-Factor Effandi Mohamed came! Read about Effandi’s adventure as a visual effects artist at Dneg here.

This is not staged, I was genuinely ushering the guests over to the other door.

Watching the films, as usual, gave me chills over my spine – in a good way that is. Everytime I watch a local film production, I say to myself, “Heck this is awesome!” If you were sitting next to me in the cinema, you’d probably notice my mouth drooling over the film. Like literally, because jaw just drops each time I watch something that transfixed my eyes. In Malay terms, my mulut selalu ternganga. I’ll post a review of the films in another entry, because I just have too many things about them. OH and I watched Shingoporu Monogatari for the second time! And I met Hafidz again! Hee hee!

Pretty plaques for the awardees!

Among those present – Lim Yu Beng, Rafaat Hamzah and Cikgu Yusnor Ef

If Amalia Yunus were start a whole new series of children show, I want to be part of it! She’s a really bubbly character and her love for children led her to winning the Most Promising Director Award.

Special Mention Awardees: Ghazi Al-Qudcy (left) and Ezzam Rahman (right). But hey, they’re no stranger to local film screenings man! Read more about them here.

Special Mention Awardee: Hafidz Senor. If you haven’t read my interview with Hafidz, then read it here.

Wan citing his reasons for choosing a Chinese actor to play the part of a Japanese soldier, when at the same time, using English and Australian actors to play the part of British and Australian soldiers respectively.

Yazid aka Farid came down for Purnama 2 as well!

Isnor giving away the token of appreciation to Cikgu Yusnor Ef.

Awardees with Cikgu Yusnor Ef.

A film screening is not complete without a photo-taking session!

For a film festival that is only in its second year run, Purnama 2 is certainly a motivation for us to continue our efforts in bringing back Malay films to the silver screens. Our efforts may be small, but we’ll get to our dreams someday. For now, it is important that we have faith in our community to produce more films, be it short or feature films, so that we can say Malay films in Singapore still exist.

Insyallah.

I Think I Need to be Checked…

For excessive snorting. I was watching Adam Cinta Siapa on Suria (Hasnul Rahmat!) and I couldn’t stop laughing because the girl Adam’s parents were trying to set him up with kept snorting! I bet you, if they saw me snort naturally, I would have been casted in that series.

That’s besides the point. I’m trying to make that monthly emo post into a happy one, hence the snorting issue.

I got this quote off another blog, but it’s quoted as Rumi:

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.

I know I’m supposed to wait, but sometimes don’t you wish you know how the future is like? How different life would be if you were… in love?

This is just a random thought I needed to rant about. I think being artsy fartsy is too draining on the heart. Help?

SMFS: Purnama 2 Day I Screenings

So Purnama is baaaaaccckkkkk!!!!!

The Singapore Malay Film Society (SMFS) had its annual short-film festival last Thursday, and Purnama 2 is set to be even better than last year’s Purnama! This year, SMFS is holding a three-day screening to showcase talents from our Malay community on 8, 12 and 17 October 2009. Here are some snippets of the first screening held last Thursday at the Substation.

Pretty Purnama 2 programme booklets!

Posing/Cam-whoring while briefing.

Pretty, right? Done by yours truly, sponsored by Linda!

Audience! Spot Sarah, Nani and Izzati!

The QnA Session led by our curator, Ghazi Al-Qudcy. Catch Ghazi’s directorial debut on Suria’s Sewa on Monday Nights and 9.30pm.

Filmmakers, actors and funnymen. Second from the right, Hafiz Huzaifah, the director of Stress Management. A funny Mat instructional film that led me questioning the Mat culture.

Crew!!

I’ll leave you all begging for more, so in the mean time, come down to the Substation today at 7.30pm for the round two of the screenings!

Tickets for the finals cum awards screening on 17 October 2009, 1930 hrs, can be purchased at the Substation today, or reserved via email to shamsydar@smfs.sg or roslinda@smfs.sg.

Hope to see you there!

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

No, this is not a post about Beyonce’s number 1 hit. This is about BEING a single lady.

Back when I was younger (chey step aku dah tue giler), I found it difficult to get used to the idea of being single. I mean, all my friends were somehow attached – somehow because some had their relationship under wraps, while others went public with it. It was quite a fear to be in a relationship that teachers knew about, especially when you had an aku-abang-abang kind of male teacher in secondary school. Come on, coming from a guy who got married to a childhood sweetheart, I think you’re not in a right position to tell your students off for being in a Boy-Girl Relationship.

Oh yes, the feared topic of BGR. It was hot, I tell you – as hot as fire! The moment an adult mentions the term BGR, we would all groan in dismay. But hey, we were young, carefree and pretty much ignorant.

So back to the topic of being single. I have always been single, that is, no flings, no official “let’s go steady” kind of thing and whatnot. I never liked the idea of being single, though. I dreamed of sitting down in the school canteen and talking the afternoon away with a boyfriend. But I never could find a perfect boy.

Come on! Cut me some slack! I was fourteen! If I believed a Harry Potter enrollment letter from an owl awaits me, what more a ‘perfect boy’?

Anyways, I am still the most single yet unavailable sister/girlfriend around – I think. Perhaps I was a guy’s girl then, that’s why all the guys were freaked out by me. Okay fine, not were, but are still freaked out by me. But somehow, I morphed into a girl’s girl. Not that I hate it, but at times I find it difficult in coping with girl politics, or break ups. I would love a lepak session at Simpang Bedok drinking teh tarik with some guys once in a while. Its my way of winding down, I guess.

Recently, more and more of my girlfriends are becoming single. I mean, I’m not ‘happy’ for them, but I am happy for them. Us girls use more instincts than rationale when it comes to relationships, and most of the time, our instincts come true. It’s not the best way for ending a relationship, or trying to cover up a bad break up, but instincts help.

My advice to girls who are trying to get over a failed relationship – embrace singlehood. Yes it might get lonely, but being single would mean making more friends, and keeping in touch with old ones. It would also mean spending time with family, and fulfilling your own wants and needs. And of course, Allah will always be there to listen and answer your prayers. The good thing about a break up is that you’re making a step further from Haramville and a step closer to Jannah.

So yeah, its 1.30 am and I’m still awake trying to finish this piece. Single ladies, love your status.

Eid Mubarak!

Salams and may you be in the best of health, Insyallah.

Firstly, Eid Mubarak to everyone! I hope this will somehow entertain you while I start writing some proper entries about Ramadhan, Eid and whatnots I have been involved in. I really miss writing from the heart, but you get to a point in life when you just want to write but not let anyone read.

I’m going through that now. But I’m trying my best to let it happen over here.

In the mean time, enjoy eating pineapple tarts and other kuihs that will make you bloated and puke.

Hello, Stranger

On the way to campus for my Political Science lecture this morning, I fell asleep almost immediately as I sat down. I was pretty much dead save for the phone call my mum gave me asking if I knew her customer’s son who is also in NUS (okay mum, the school as a gazillion people, and I don’t even know people in my year). I had to study for the mid-term test but I insisted on catching up with my rest so I can finish the film and history essay due tomorrow noon. So yeah, I dozed off for the entire hour ride from Pasir Ris to Clementi.

When I woke up, I was at Dover, a stop away from Clementi. In a naturally Sham manner, I looked around, stole a glance at my reflection in the window, then took out my wallet from my bag.

Then it struck me – there was a piece of paper on my bag – a small one. I picked it up and intended to throw it away when I see a dustbin. Being curious, I opened the paper and to my surprise, there was a name and a telephone number.

Yes, someone gave me their number while I was sleeping. Haha – While You Were Sleeping – geddit?

Anyways, the paper is still lying somewhere in my wallet and I have yet to do anything about it. Maybe I’ll throw it away sooner or later, maybe I’ll give that guy a call.

But whatever it is, I don’t like not knowing how he looked like. Gives me the creep.

So if you were the guy who passed me your number, hello. Next time, wake me up so I can see your face before leaving me your number.

Wait -

Are you even a guy?

Well, Sometimes I Do…

Yesterday, I woke up early to check my mail when suddenly I received an IM from an old friend.

Friend: Hey…

Me: Hey! Long time no chat…

Friend: Haha… Yeah.. I haven’t seen you online in a while.. How you’ve been?

Me: I’ve been great.. thanks.. Just started school..

Friend: Cool.. U still singing?

Someone asked me if I was still singing. Oh my God, I was singing… Five years ago, that is. And that is the kind of question I want to fall in love with – I mean, the person who asks me the question – you’ve got to know me then to get to know me now.

*Sighs*

When will I ever wake up from this dream of mine?

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