Rainforest World Music Festival 2009

Remember the last and last few posts I made about Rainforest World Music Festival? Yeah, I went!!!! and it was fun, and I wish it will never ends….kekekeke

I went for the Rainforest World Music Festival last Saturday… my driver, Cyril and another passenger was, Mike Cheng…. Mike drove all the way from his place, and parked his car at Cyril’s place… Fahriee droves all the way to Santubong Resort as he could not make it to be with us in one car…. It was really early you know? We reached there was about 11 in the morning, but yala… Sarawak Cultural Village was already with lots of people…. went through the “spot-check”… saw small thermal scanner… and metal detecter whom accroding to Mike, it detected nothing… and wondering about what actually the detecter detects??? rofl…

We got our SECOND CLASS parking… why do I called it a SECOND CLASS parking? Because, the first class parking is the one in the SCV compund…. and we parked the car at the OUTSIDE of the SCV compound… So Mike… can you agree with this? Never mind la… better than those whom parked at the third class parking (at the Santubong Resort)…rofl

Because of the early-ness coming, Cyril, Mike and me went surveying all corners of SCV…. we went to few crafts bazaar, and even stopped by at few houses…. Melanaus, Malays and Chinese house…. kekeke It was a long time ago my last visited to SCV… two years ago perhaps… I used to be in SCV every year, and always went here… my aunties and uncles are working there… and my father is the one whom judges if any events related to dance competition…. kekekeke So I could say few things I really like during my visiting times at SCV… first is, the bamboo trails…. and even the ladder made at each of the houses…. I like it so much… those whom followed me must be very sick of my attitude… every time I saw this trails, I will surely walking on it no matter how good is another even trails….

So, at 1 pm…. we were already at the SCV waiting for other bloggers to come…. and when we thought all arrived, we started it all…. Ice-breaking sessions when I was “played” by Mike…. I was the youngest among all, and I could say, I was the shiest too… so, when it comes to Ice-breaking sessions, I skipped my session and go on to those whom next to me… but can’t really skipped it as I was the second last to intro myself… kekekekeke

When all done with introducing themselves, games started to take place… we have readied three prizes anyway, but it turned out to be 5 prizes…. kekekeke The first winner was Fahriee, then Mike… followed by Alus, Chegu Carol and the last was Faezal… :) it was fun though I wins nothing… I was the organizer too ( according to Cyril) so I can’t joint in… what a chance!!!! :) Congrats to all of them…. so, hows the prizes winners???? rofl

Done with that, and group photos, we went to the workshop placed at the Iban longhouse…. even though it was just a workshop, but it impressed me so much… even though I couldn’t see what’s in front, but at least, I managed to feel the musics played… :) And this kind of workshop were actually gives us loads of information regarding the instruments played by them… :) saw Kenny Sia during this workshop though… lol not only that, I have made one fake tattoo using airbrush for myself during the bazaar… :)

Night came, and I guess we were blessed enough for this day… Got parking at the second class position, and when it comes to night… The weather was just nice as hoped… It has no signs to rain… and it has not rain at all…. even until at the end of the event… you see, we were blessed!!! Difference with those whom came on the first day… They complaints about the heavy rains during the night…. kekekekeke

Before the event started, Cyril and me managed to change our clothes and have some bathes…. and during that time, Mike and Fahriee was asked to reserve a place for us to camp around the main stage area… and yeah, they did it the best… Our place was so strategic.. In front of the VIP stage… and it was quite high and we could see every inches of the places…. I even saw few men walking with dogs… and from what I read, the dogs was to scout any people whom came by using the “wrong entrance” with no tickets… and even to scout those whom bring the drugs and what so ever….

so, when we had our “camp-placed”, Amilia and Christian joined us with Mike then officially opened his second can of beer… While we were all trying to really sit in Mike’s thin mat…. Thank God Cyril bought new mat, thicker than Mike’s…lol

The first performer was, Asika… Not that bad, and I enjoyed the music too… but all those while they were performing, I kept on thinking about AkashA… and wish they were the one whom perform the whole night…. I just admired AkashA so much…. but it lasted not that long…. It was a superb time, when the third last group started to perform.. until the end of the event, it was awesome performances from Moana and the Tribe (New Zealand), Jeff and Vida (USA) and Dazkarieh( Portugal)… It was awesome!!!! I danced and danced… forgotten about the outside world…. and I enjoyed myself so much during the whole performances…. Though they were loads of people drunk-ing around me, but who cares… As long as they didn’t disturb you… but I just hate it sometimes, when the local got drunk, and they just hit you at the body and did not even say a sorry… respect to all foreigners… I mean the “mat salleh”… I got hit by them few times, and they did it the “sorry signals” few times for me… not like the local people… rude!!! but never mind… I just enjoy and feel the music… it was fun!!! and I think, nothing can express this kind of feeling… AWESOME!!!!

Oh yeah, throughout this event, I could see all the slackness that I think STB or SCV change it be better in future… As in the toilet… I remember, during the Morocco performers, Oudaden… I went to the toilet, and you know what.. I have to queue in order to get to the toilet… not only you have to queue, when you’ve already in the toilet, there was no water at all… and according to older in-charge for the toilet, there were no water to provide the toilet… and when the water in the pail finished, just no ones could wash their ” things”… So for someone like me… I really wish they could make a change for this… at least, make the toilet bigger and make sure there is water for the people to use…. :)

After all, I couldn’t say much…. but honestly, It was superb… even though some might say that this year was not that happening compared to last year… I went this for the first time, and I can’t compared the last few years events… but I think, this was just nice… I enjoyed it so much… and wished it wouldn’t end that early… I really-really enjoyed the rain-fest atmosphere… Being in the crowds, it was just fun…. even though with the H1N1 things, it just could not stop us from being wild for the night!!!! lol

Perhaps, Cyril will organize bloggers@rwmf again next year… and I hope, I could come for another RWMF next year… it’s once a year… and I am addicted to it already… really wish and hope I could make it again next time… in the future… and next year….. :)

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