To start with, the event was a success la i think. Din't expect so many people to come..the hall is so full that even nyamuk have to shrink body to move. On that fine day, everything goes on well..there were performances to entertain the ppl while eating ( distraction haha..) the food was good, everything looks "nice"..but..what a non-organiser can't see is the hard work behind all this..The committee members and the cooks, performers have been working day n night (like cheap labour) before the event..
Malaysian population in edinburgh is like the orang utan yang hampir pupus in borneo, so little.. every1 is trained 2 be multi-purpose and multi tasking. the same person can be the cook, one minute u'll see them serving the customers, one minute dancing on the stage...
The performance practice starts weeks before, slacking in the first few weeks, but getting more n more intense towards the last week. AND, for me, not only one performance. I joined 3 dances n dikir barat = 4 PERFORMANCES in 1 day...chinese dance, asmara dana dance, dikir barat and kadazan dance.
The funniest is i practice the kadazan dance for 30 minutes the night before...I feel like a robot...that respond to music..when i detect chinese song, then i dance chinese dance..when i hear malay song, then dance asmara dana..when i hear kadazan song, i do the so called "bird dance".
The day before:
Besides dancing, have to cook oso..how many portions? 60 portions...huiyo...the amount of chicken that we bought is enough to eat for a year. we had to go shopping for our stuffs the day b4. Me, shi ying n james and our free kuli the fatty headed 2 tesco, lidl, chinese supermarket. Its like a Malaysian DAy OUT...every shop we go, we'll see tonnes of malaysian buying stuff..Their daily sales sure increase for the day.
Oh..not forgetting the chicken cutting session..in order 2 get chicken for lower price, we were provided with unslaughtered chicken...(nola..jus that not chopped chicken) and we end up having 2 chop n debone the chicken ourself..15 pairs og chicken leg..cut till morning..as my neighbour said, we getto learn the anatomy of chicken..For the details of the chicken cutting process, kindly visitu.. http://angchoonseong.blogspot.com/
Now we understand y butchers earn 350 pounds a week in edinburgh..
CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKENOn the friday night..dance practice till 11pm..rushed back 2 jaga my ebay(haih...) afterdat started cooking...cook n cook n cook...the problem is not with cooking..its bcos there r 4 of us cooking in the house, n we hav not enough
- pots and pans,
- no space,
- no place 2 put the cooked food...
Soo... we sort of take turns..the process of cooking nearly got us crazy..no matter how good a cook you are, its not easy cooking in huge huge giant portion..i had to taste till my nose and tongue stopped functioning..we start putting things on the kitchen table, then move on to dining table, then not enuf space, move to the window, still no space, put on sofa, chair, and even on the floor...imagine 3 fella cooking for 60 portion each..
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SPOT THE CHICKEN...CHICKEn trying 2 hide in plastik 
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wahhhhhhhhhhh pui. Hebat. =P
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