Post Leicester-London Weekend (Part 2: London)

Phew...

BruNotts Easter Games 08 is around the corner and still feeling unfit. My thighs still hurt when walking. Whatever it is.... PAJAL! Hahaha... Anyways, back to the orginal topic.

After our last game against LUFBRU, I rushed off to have my shower at the gym changing room. OPEN shower I tell you! Not going to elaborate what I saw and experinced. Sorry Aziz for making you and the rest of the BruWick people and the taxi driver wait for me. A man's gotta look his best all the time you know. Although I didn't look appropriate, but still... hahah

We beat the traffic and got at the station with few minutes to spare. With enough time to buy snacks amongst other stuffs. On the train we tried few games to entertain ourselves but nothing worked as everyone was tired. I managed to catch a few minutes nap.

In London, we took the tube from St. Pancras to South Kensington (i think). There Suresh Pillai picked us up and brought us to Imperial College. Huge I tell you. With all my bags and luggage, I made a little scene going up the steps towards my seat.

Got to my seat where Mei Ann reserved a row and to be honest I made it in time. The first half of the show is something for us Bruneians to generally understand. The play introduced our country pretty well showing the four districts. It went on surrounding the life of a Bruneian PhD student (name: Simpur) doing her final year in the UK. She is doing a dissertation on the different characteristics of different guys in the four districts.

To add to the hilarity of the play, Simpur is fashioned in a way that she kinda looks like UGLY BETTY. Loose dress, loose baggy jeans, slip in shoes, thick rimmed huge glasses and curly messy hair (one episode actully has Ugly Betty in curly hair). Obviously thats the common stereotype for female PhD students. Other stereotypes include Abdul Hunter (Temburong boy) as a nature loving jungle man who has no idea what global warming is about but has an idea that it is dangerous; Bandar boy who just goes for the exterior looks and ditches Simpur and not feeling bad at all; Tutong boy who rocks at making pulut panggang, is a liar and a player (i hear girls say 'GUYS, typical') but has a girl's name (Nurul if im not mistaken). And finally Belait boy; chinese looking, tall, not so dark, handsome, sensitive and so on.. I'd say the stereotype worked on the audiance and really, what's comedy without stereotyping!!

Dances and montages were good. But the one stereotype would make fellow friends back in Brunei upset would be the pinoy hairdresser guy. The accent is good for beginners. Guess he had no idea of the accent till he had to practice it for the play. 'Ai NAKO!' Thats a classic!

At half time, Fadzillah caught up with me and surprised me with her unannounced and unplanned trip to London. Back in Leicester she was half hearted about making more trips for the day. Amazing what a friend would do huh? I mean its not easy to be at two places in a day to visit friends in different places. She did it. Damn!

Back to the second half of the play. The storyline evolved to a point where Belait guy and Simpur is getting along well and the rest of the guys plot to curse her with a pulut panggang. By now you guessed right. Tutong guy made the pulut panggang and Bandar guy brings it to the Temburong guy to curse it. And like every other love story, curse makes love grow stronger.

The play summed up good. The hardwork put in by Bruneians in London are visible and we can hope for better shows next time... (To be honest, I was pretty tired that I dozed off every now and then during the show.. hehe, thanks to Suresh and Ren Chong for retelling the stories when I fell asleep.)

Next up is the Brunotts Easter Games 08. This weekend will be the last of my easter outing I guess. I'm looking forward to a good game with a few friends this weekend so gotta get fit soon.

P.S. Sorry no pictures, didnt have the thought of taking pictures... was dumbstruck. You know what I mean... ;P

Soon people!
the12thplayer