Lights, Camera, ACTION!

25 April 2015

Today is the day! The day where the children have the chances to perform in front of their parents and many other audiences, the day where the teachers and the sponsors waiting for, it is the Yayasan Chow Kit(YCK) Mini Carnival 2015! Early in the morning, all the volunteers and teachers arrived at Kelab Sultan Sulaiman. We reach the place via public transport, which is affordable, where we take T632 Rapid KL(RM0.80 for Touch n' Go user) to LRT University, then we took LRT to KL Sentral, and took monorail to Medan Tuanku. Lastly, there are only about 10 minutes walk from the monorail station to the clubhouse.

A sneak peak of the place! We helped them to move the things to the field, such as the hamper that they prepared, the chairs, and also some equipment they prepared. Then, we are given nasi lemak and tea or coffee of our choice as breakfast.

We waited and welcomed the guests to arrive. Most of them are parents and their children from YCK, but other parents with kids are most welcomed to the carnival and enjoy the performances! After the prayers, emcee invited Dr. Hartini for a short speech. She is glad that she had a group of hardworking and well committed committees to make this carnival a success, and also praise the children for their hard work, practising occasionally just to make their performance go smooth, and it was a big thing for the children.

The moment where everyone is waiting for, the mini concert! It started with groups of kids performing songs with simple movements. Their movements and their smiles are so adorable that put a big smile on the audiences' face. 

This picture above is special for us because they are performing the song Gemuruh by Faizal Tahir, which is also a song during the orientation week held on September last year for 2014/2015 enrollment. It was a nostalgic memories for us. We feel like we are the children, performing the song with all the other students from different residential colleges in Dewan Tunku Canselor(DTC), after all the lesson and practices with the facilitators.

The performance is followed by hip hop dance by the boys, we are really surprised that all the movements are learned and created by themselves!

 And after that is also a dance from the girls group, performing the song All About The Bass by Meghan Trainor. Fun fact: The song is actually getting compliments from the listeners, telling us that we should be proud of our own body no matter what size we are, we should be confident on ourselves and should not be affected by what the society comments. :)

Also there are a drama titled Cinderella, performed by some teenagers and some children are involved too! It gave a twist to the story, where Cinderella is a guy! and the princess wants to find her charming prince! At the end, it was a happy ending for them, where the prince Cinderella and the princess live happily ever after :)

 Mini concert continues to wow the audiences with the solo guitar performance by a child. Don't look at the expression of the child in the photo, he actually enjoy the performance a lot!

From their performances, we already realized and understand their hard work, just to perform well during their slot. We are also realized that all the children in YCK are given a chance to perform, we learned that every one should be given an opportunity. Grand or not, everyone has a talent. Many people misunderstand and don't fully realize the real essence of talent. But the truth is, when we express our talents, we create joy and fulfillment in yourselves and for others. Just like the teenager and the children spread their happiness to all the audience.

During the games for the parents, there is a show by a clown for the children, the children sit around the clown on the stage and the clown, who named himself Rara, performed a lot of tricks to the children, he even find some children to volunteer to ask them to follow his magic trick, the children laughed a lot, although Rara made some mistakes that accidentally revealed his magic tricks, he just laugh it off and the children are happy too.

To be continued, click Part 2 and Part 3 to find out more!

Signing off :)