Our short retreat to Malacca

My kawanz and I had an installation to do for the MAP Fest in Malacca. Yeap, for the second time! :D And they expect us to be a part of their event every year nao which is very exciting. Anyway, so yeah, after a week of HELL and non-stop submissions, we finally finished up all our assignments early and headed to Malacca, with style mind you! Our lecturer managed to get a massive bus for us (with 3 seats per row! Imagine the space!), and there were only 7 of us in the group (originally it was 14 though but half of the group got engulfed by assignments). We traveled in luxury babeh! Haha.


As we arrived Malacca, we were dropped off at one of the cutest hotels ever, Hotel Puri! It's so humble and comfy. The rooms were pretty good too! Hooray for my lecturer and his generosity (and cunning way of getting sponsorship from Taylor's LOLLERZ).We headed to St. Paul's Church, with all the material and equipment needed to make our installation. We honestly hadn't properly planned out whart to do nor did we feel stressed or pressured about not having a proper plan. I don't know why. Maybe it's cause we've already gone through a week of hell that when we arrived in Malacca, nothing seemed worse. Our minds were already set on relaxation + food, installation came after. Haha!


We had already begun making ropes out of plastic in the bus, so we just had to continue whatever it was we were doing + spray paint the bicycle rims white. We had to figure out how to hang everything from the huge tree outside the church. I gave myself the job of identifying which branch should be used as a support for the rims, which resulted to neck cramps, seeing as my neck was at a 90 degree angle most of the time.

We worked like normal, once again, emphasizing on no stress (which we found so weird because we were taking our own sweet time and nothing seemed to be bothering us). We became one of the main attractions, inviting people to make wishes and being in many, MANY photos taken by tourists from all over. Some fellas from India and Algeria even asked for photos WITH us, which was like ... mmmkay then? LOL.

Us, walking to site.
The view from our site. :)

The whole of Friday was mostly spent on the installation. Work continued on til about 4pm the next day (no, we did not work continuously. We slept and ate most of the time), and once it was done, we were pretty satisfied. The installation impressed a lot of people which we take pride in (seeing as we only made it in one day). Not bad for something we didn't properly plan on (gotta give us credit larh. We had like truckloads of assignments before this. November is a hectic month!). Here are photos of a few of the wishes made that day.




And this is just us, posing with our installation.


After we were done, we had baba nyonya laksa, cendol and then we attended the opening ceremony, which was similar to last year's, with many boring speeches. Luckily for the beautiful contemporary dance performance, the highlight of the ceremony + the teh o ais and finger foods! After that, we decided to go play at the nearby playground before heading back to the site to take night shots of the installation. I assume this was our attempt at being kids again, since we've all turned 20 (and the giant monkey bars got us all excited! They don't have dangerous crap like this in K.L. anymore!).




The trip continued on to be AWESOME. A lot of playing around and being silly. Friday night, we camwhored on the streets as though we owned the place. We so gangsta liddat! Most of the photos turned out pretty mafia-like, as though we were in some "My Wife is a Gangster" movie. W00T!

As the hours passed, we slept like babies, played games, ate EVERYTHING, stoned, jalan-jalan cari makan, randomly bought all kinds of rubbish from Jonker Street, stoned, ate Nadeje Cake, saw a cute shophouse that was a restoration project by Badan Warisan, checked out some adorable cafes around our hotel area, stoned, walked walked talked talked, meditated in front of one of Map Fest's featured artist's installation, STONED, burnt our skin walking everywhere under the sun, play play jump talk skip hop leap pounce whatever it is students with no responsibilities (temporarily) would do. :D


Here are some pretty photos!







Over all, this trip was whart I needed. Stressing myself out just to meet deadlines is making me go bald. Thank goodness for this project. (:


For your viewing pleasure! Made another video. Hope you like!


P.S. I'm using the blogger image uploaded as a way of protesting against Photobucket. Stupid thing won't let me install the plug-in, nao every time I try to upload photos, it crashes my Google Chrome. >:(