Thursday, March 29, 2012

Kampung Iban

Semua cakap aku berani gila pergi Kampung Iban buat research. huhuhu...sebenarnya x lah berani gila....aku hangkut jugak mak bapak aku pergi sama....cost pon aku rasa banyak jugak aku keluar sendiri tanpa ditanggung oleh company yang budget gila....so aku rasa macam job kali ni lebih personal dari job job sebelum ni....

1st time jumpa producer, aku agak teruja....sebab aku rasa sapa ja yang pernah duduk kat Sarawak macam aku (belajar 3 tahun kat UNIMAS) sedikit sebanyak akan rasa macam Sarawak ni dah terpahat dalam jiwa.....ntah lah...there's something special about Sarawak that can't be describe by words.

Lama jugak la aku fikir....gila la producer ni...hantar aku sorang-sorang pegi buat research kat negeri orang....ceh....mau kepala aku kena potong sapa nak jawab??..nasib baik dia kenalkan aku dekat sorang brader ni - Abang Hussein. Dia ni mmg PR sangat power....pandai amik hati orang. Selama 3 hari dekat rumah panjang tu dia dah kenduri beer tiap-tiap malam. Patut lah diorang layan dah macam VVIP. Superb. Dah macam family dah.

Supa & Jessica (our host)

Quest kali ni ialah untuk mencari rumah panjang yang betul-betul tradisional....masih diperbuat dari kayu belian (katanya kayu belian ni lagi keras dari jati) sebab zaman ni kebanyakkan rumah panjang dah moden, dah diperbuat dari batu-bata dah. ada Astro, ada TV LCD. Haaa...jangan main-main....

So, lepas buat segala research - Lemanak la destinasi yang paling ideal. 5 jam drive dari Kuching lepas tu kena naik bot lagi 40 minit (kalau x cukup tradisional jugak, xtau la nak cakap apa)....dalam kepala aku ...besar gilak budget projek kali ni....ni baru hantar writer, belum designer, costume blah blah blah.....nak shooting lagi kat sini ...perghhhh....(since kita belum ada studio yang power macam Hollywood - semua bantai buat dalam studio jer)

Apa-apa pun, doa yang terbaik ja lah....doa pergi dan balik selamat dah cukup dah...maklumlah dah masuk negeri orang....lepas tu xdak line tepon ...internet lagi lahhhh kan....mana ada UNIFI dalam tu....

1st Day Journey to Lemanak

1st Day

Our trip to Lemanak's Iban Longhouse is definitely a journey to remember. U'll never get the chance to get the same experience else where. As a girl who lives in the city her whole life, it definitely felt as if i'm going to a absolute isolated place. Luckily i had my mum & dad with me....hehe....not quit adventures tho.

On the 1st day, we started our journey at 8 in the morning, after having our breakfast in a coffee shop next to our lodge where we stay in Kuching. We are supposed to start at 6 but our driver, Mr Hussein had seem to over slept the night before.

Running in our thoughtful heads, we all had this idea that there's no Halal food there in the middle of the jungle since the Lemanak Longhouse is about 5 hours drive from Kuching and 40 minutes by boat so we stock ourselves up with lots of Maggi Mee and junk food to make sure we don't starved to death (although it's only 4 days trip).

We stopped at Serian, a small little town for our lunch. There's lot of Muslim food there (nasik campur and such). Then, we continue with our journey. Without any propper planning, you just have to faced the uncertain outcome. We had no proper map (hanya berbekalkan peta yang dilukis tangan) we lost our way and had to stop everywhere to ask around. It seems that Lemanak is actually quite big. There's even 2 jetty for the boat. 1 is for the villagers and 1 is meant for the tourist. In the end, we did found the Jetty but we were told that we have to book a boat first. :(

That night we had to spend our night at Sri Aman, a small town about 20 minutes journey from Lemanak and had to spend our night at a budget hotel which cost us RM50 per night. But, i had my bontot ayam....nyaman ooooooo.




Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Siapalah Seorang Penulis Tanpa Laptopnya

It's the end of the day.
I'm super tired.
Running here and there, just to get my poor lappy fixed.
Luckily I had an IT guy as my fiance. Writer and IT guy is a perfect match. Yeay!
All is well now.

Hell yeah. I panicked when the lappy died on me last night. All the documents, all the work...how could I survived. Please lappy...please be nice to me....I'll sure be extra nice to you....