ON AIR

DATE: 25/03/2009
DAY: WEDNESDAY
VENUE: MHI STUDIO (TV3)
BY: mi$$RED
EDITED BY: Pa'eja


Last Wednesday, Angklung Group was given a chance to perform at TV3 for MHI (Malaysia Hari Ini) which is one of famous live morning show in Malaysia. This is the biggest greatest offer that we received so far and we are so happy
Smiley Face. We were informed about the MHI show last Monday so we don’t really have much time to practice. We started our training A.S.A.P on the same night we received the news.
Smiley Face. We practiced eight songs namely Enjit2 Semut, Rasa Sayang, When The Saint Goes Marching, You Are My Sunshine, Bujang Lapok, Poco2 and Kopi Dangdut. This performance is quite a challenge because we need to memorize all the song by heart as there might not be enough space for us to put our note and stand
Smiley Face. Alhamdulillah we memorized the songs in just two days. We departed from IIUM at 6.30am and arrived at about 7.30am. This is our first time in the studio and we were so excited. When we arrived, the show has already started and we took our place to arrange everything before they asked us to perform. Alhamduliilah everything went well. After the show, we took pictures with the celebrities that come on that day like Adibah Noor, Anggun and Wardina etc.
Smiley Face. After breakfast at TV3 studio we went back to IIUM. From this performance we have learned a lot. We realized the importance of memorizing the songs, to deliver the songs with the right facial expression, and to enjoy the songs that we played. Nonetheless, this is the sweetest memory for this semester and forever.......Thanks to all!!
Smiley Face

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MAHALLAH ASIAH APPRECIATION NIGHT

DATE: 07/03/2009
DAY: SATURDAY
VENUE: BANQUET HALL
BY:Hanis chan
EDITED BY: Pa'eja

Salam and hye to everyone…

Last Saturday (7th march), Angklung Group has been invited to perform at Asiah Victory Award (AVA). This event was held as an appreciation for Mahallah Asiah’s residents who give excellent performance not only in curriculum but also co-curriculum.

We have the chance to perform at the Banquet Hall in Admin Building. The program started around 8.30 pm after the arrival of the VIPs. It started with the gimmick from Silat Seni Cekak IIUM,
Smiley Face who performed martial arts with all the knives and sticks. This way, the Malay’s strength and macho-ness showed.
Smiley Face.

After hearing the speech from all the VIPs, Angklung Group were finally ready to perform a total of 4 songs while the audiences enjoyed their dinner. We performance started with a ‘Compulsory’ song from Angklung Group, Enjit- Enjit Semut. Followed by Bujang Lapok, then the ballad song "Rindu Bayangan". The last song was Rasa Sayang.. Even the emcee of the day sang the songs that we played.

Then, it was finally ‘makan time’ after the performance. Everyone was really happy because we could gave all our best in the performance. It is normal and very important for Angklung Group members to have photography session. The event was a bit of a ’chaos’ because most members of the Angklung Group are "GIGAM (Haha...). One by one the camera flashed to capture the memorable event.
Smiley Face

Cool…. after about 2 days of practice, Angklung Group successfully performed well even though it was the first time for the new members to play some of the songs. Even Bapak, could smile while conducting the performance….that’s a good sign
Smiley Face. Alhamdulillah, we gain lot of praises from the audiences and the committees. But, we have to remember the Angklung Group motto, ‘Jangan Riak’……

Thanks to all the seniors who still could spend their time performing together with us.. Also not to forget other members, who have to sacrifice the holiday to make this performance a good one..
Smiley Face Keep up the good work!!!

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GOTONG-ROYONG

DATE: 20/02/2009
DAY: FRIDAY
VENUE: ANGKLUNG TRAINING ROOM
BY: mi$$RED
EDITED BY: Pa'eja
Today, Friday 20th February 2009, Angklung Club organized “gotong-royong” which had been postponed so many times for valid acceptable reasons and today it is like “a dream come true” to finally see it happen.
Smiley Face We started our “gotong-royong” at about 3.30 p.m. We cleaned up our training room together and helped each other. We polished all of the angklung sets that we have with the special oil(to maintain the condition of angklung and make it more shiny), indexed and numbered the angklung, patch things on the wall, made inventory for clothes, keep the patitur in order (the notes) etc. We enjoyed doing our work together and we can see lots of smiles today.
Smiley Face We ended the event by having dinner together at Human Science Cafe. Thanks all for coming and sharing the moment together...
Smiley Face

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STUDENT CARNIVAL

DATE: 12-14/02/2009
DAY: THURSDAY-SATURDAY
VENUE:IIUM CENTER
BY: mi$$RED
EDITED BY: Pa'eja

Last week, IIUM organized Student Carnival which also known as Cocu-Week whereby all clubs in IIUM joined together and open a booth to proudly present their clubs to all students and visitors. This includes Angklung Club and we were so proud to present our club and be a part of the event.
Smiley Face.
We opened our booth at 10 a.m until 5.30 p.m everyday (Thursday-Saturday). At booth, our members who were on duty entertained the students and IIUM staff that visited our booth and let them try to play angklung. Alhamdulillah, our booth is one of the booths that received good respond from students and staff. It’s good and exciting to see when Angklung members wore baju of the same colour everyday for the week.
Smiley Face. We played Enjit-enjit Semut and Bujang Lapok on Thursday and Friday accompanied by Percussion Club. On saturday, angklung had a collaborated performance with other Cultural Clubs namely Caklempong, Percussion, Zapin and Gamelan for the opening ceremony which was attended by all the VIPs. We played Cindai, Medley Ketipang Payung Joget Pahang and Wau Bulan. To be honest, we didn’t perform well for the two earlier songs. Kak Fai admonished our mistakes after the performance and we took her advice with an open heart and took as a motivation to perform better for the next performance(
Smiley Facetq kak fai). During the VIPs' visit to our booth, we played the Enjit-Enjit Semut and also showed them how to play angklung. At 2.30 p.m, we had another collaborated performance with all the cultural groups. We played the songs Tuhan and Iktiraf during the performance. Alhamdulillah, the performance was great and a better one. Thanks to the audiences for watching our performance from the beginning until the end even the day even though it was quite hot. We made the preparation about a week before for this carnival. Thanks to all members and also thanks to all the cultural groups for the commitment (Most of us didn’t get enough rest
Smiley Face to make this things happen.) Bravo everyone!!!
Smiley Face
Smiley Face

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MASS GATHERING

DATE: 28/01/2009
DAY: WEDNESDAY
VENUE: ANGKLUNG TRAINING ROOM
BY: mi$$RED
EDITED BY: Pa'eja


It is two hours before midnight and it was only a few hours ago that we had mass gathering to welcome the new members. Congratulation (
Smiley Face) for those who are selected and for those who are not, thank you for your participation. We really appreciate it. The gathering started with ice-breaking. Some of them have a unique nicknames like Ito, Feri, Payung etc. It’s really interesting. Then we proceed to Q&A session. The hot topic that we discussed was about fees (hehe...money have power to make people talk). Our training room was at peace again after a clear explanation about it from our president and supported by kak atun (our ex-president). Next, we separated them into four groups according to four bureaus that we have (T-Dev, Cosmo, Promarch and Butem) to become the sub-com of each bureau and also for them to learn the sof-skills. So, everybody in this club have position and a job to do. Each head of the bureau explained about the job scope of their bureau to their sub-com during the group meeting. Before we went back, we took some pictures together (with each bureau) as prove of our first meeting (
Smiley Face..ehe...) Congratulation again to all new members (welcome to the club!
Smiley Face), and hopefully we will achieve more in future, InsyAllah...amin...

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