Holaaa!! Hadoihh..penat makcik haa..
Tadi aku pegi cuba costume.Eh, korang xtau lagi kan??? Hihihi! Ha, meh nak citer. Bulan lepas..ada laa satu production company dari German datang tempat aku. Nak buat filem zaman kolonial. Citer pasal kapal Emden yg karam tu.. Korang tau x sejarah dia? Apaa?? Tak tau??? Aku pon tak tau! Hua! Hua! Hua!
Adelaa aku godek2 kt tenet, tapi banyak yang citer pasal ni dalam bahasa german.So,tak bape nk clear la pun sangat, apekah ke bendenye. Lebih2 kurang mcm Titanic laa agaknye.Ni lah hasil godekkan aku pasal sejarah Kapal Emden tu..
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands consist of 27 coral islands situated between latitudes 11° 49' and 12° 12' S and longitudes 96° 49' and 96° 56' E. They were discovered in 1609 by Captain William Keeling, a Royal Navy commander and agent of the East India Company, while returning to England with a convoy from the Dutch East Indies.
The islands remained uninhabited until 1826 when Alexander Hare, a former East India Company official, arrived and settled on Direction Island with a group of Malays. The following year a former trading partner of Hare and former East India ships captain, John Clunies Ross, arrived with his wife and family and a number of Malay seamen, who formed a settlement on Home Island. The trading partnership had not been very successful and problems soon arose between the two groups. After eight years of discord Hare decided to leave and moved to Batavia. John Clunies Ross died in 1853 being succeeded by his son John George Clunies Ross.
In 1857 the Admiralty issued Captain Fremantle of HMS Juno with instructions to annex the Cocos Islands. Clunies Ross was appointed Governor by Fremantle and later the British Government gave the Clunies Ross family perpetual lease of the islands.
The Clunies Ross family established coconut plantations on the islands, building up a successful business dealing in copra which they transported, in their own schooner, to Batavia for onward transmission to London or Hamburg. They carried mail to and from Batavia as well as supplies.
So, dorang nak pakai la watak2 melayu dalam citer ni, sebagai pelayan, atau lebih tepat lagi, orang gaji kepada Gabenor.So, inilah dia watak aku.Ada 2 scene watak aku kena attend. Baru je tadi aku selak2 skrip, tgk mcmana aku kena berlakon. Ada watak org gaji melayu, kena senyum kt hero, pestu hero senyum balik, pestu kena hidang sandwich. Cenggitu lah lebih2 kurang. Nak cerita, aku xtau sangat.
So, tadi, aku dah pegi test costume aku...Halah, pakai kebaya dengan kain batik jee ponnn..xkan laa pakai gown kembang2 pulak kan. Ceh. So, aku tanya costume designer, Heidrun, aku kena cover kepala aku. Aku muslim. So, dia tanya aku, camne? Dengan tiba2 aku plak yang jadi costume designer, aku bgtau, org melayu dulu2 pakai selendang ataupun kain batik (ala2 mahsuri gitu) kt kepala. Baru laa ayu..Awww!
Feeling-feeling Mahsuri weh..
Then, dia mintak pendapat aku pasal pakaian servant lelaki melayu plak. Aku kata, meh aku nk tgk, baju ape ko sediakan. Dia tunjuk la mcm kemeja, pestu pakai dengan kain pelikat. Aku gelak Kah! Kah! Kah! Ni mcm benggali jual roti je..amende laa ko ni Heidrun! Pestu aku bagi pinjam baju melayu Speckybee, then kain pelikat buat sampin. Pestu letak la towel ke kain ke kt bahu. Ha, cenggitu kalo melayu punya pakaian.Dah abis test2 sume, Heidrun ambik gamba aku. dgn costume. Then aku lepak2 ambik gamba dlm tu, sementara tunggu Speckybee datang ambik.
Ni la Heidrun, org German dia nih.
Member baru aku.Org England.Dah 9tahun menempek kt Sri Lanka ni.Keje cikgu english.Sembang dgn org england ni, tetiba slang english aku pon jadi ter "arr...arrr..." Kakakaa!
Details aku time photoshoot bulan lepas. Segala details terpaksa dikaburkan kecuali size kasut.Mana laa tau kut2 ada sesapa nk adiah aku kasut Stiletto ke kannn....tihihi!
Bilik costume.Ni bahagian lelaki kut.Pasal tadi aku masuk bilik lain..
Tulah lebih kurang cerita pasal hari ni... Aku start shoot minggu depan. Nanti dah shoot ke bagai, aku cerita la lagi pasal kerjaya baru aku sebagai seorang biduanita ni...Kah! kah! kah!