rose vs. puteri rosita ayu?
Morning ppl, it’s 7.51 am and I’m awake. Yes take pictures. Idora is up in the morning. Yeesh. Can’t sleep pass 6 am these days. Really feel like a mom. Bangun pagi settle kan the Ya's punya hal so they can ‘go to school’ either that or a maid. Hahaha.
Anyway, I reckon now it’s my turn to lay down an idea. Let me see if I can still do it. These chains are a little berkarat…hehehe ;)
Idea 1
Her name is Rosita Ayu. She’s a girl from mixed parentage. Some Caucasian with melayu. She born and bred overseas where in kindergarten, she was made fun as melayu perak! One day her father died (he’s the melayu) so since mom’s parents resents the marriage and consider her daughter a ‘traitor’ for converting to Islam, she has to go back to Malaysia. (Happens to be dying fathers dream, to bring up her daughter the melayu way) she bring her back to Malaysia and settled in a kampong, where the community labels the family as ‘rusa masuk kampung’
She is now 13. She enters a maktab yayasan school. Being so displaced coz she doesn’t speak Malay very well. She got boycotted and ragged till she was form 5. Being called name such as kafir because she don't know how to pray. She had some Chinese friends who never stayed long in that school. But they were the lucky ones that left. She has no choice but learn to survive there. Trying to learn the traits but since it was too hard, discouraged her from learning the culture, religion and language. She had a crush on a boy when she was 15. This boy who always wears a kopiah to school and always becomes the muazzin (I think this is another synonym of a bilal, a person who sing/reads out the azan before every collective prayers in the surau). Happens that he is the school’s golden boy. One of them at least. He is the only one that speaks to her in good English and smiles at her in class. She is attracted to him because not only he’s not ‘typically melayu’ like the rest there, but he respects her and has a friendly modern approach to religion rather than a strict approach that the school practices.
She is now 28. (I don't know where the scene takes place, u guys help me out) (I also don’t know how to do the scene but since this isn’t a script, ill leave it to you guys) she finally bumps into the golden boy who wears a bandana. He is an artist. (I don’t know…..something a Malay girl aspires to become……a doctor? A dentist? An engineer?) She speaks to him in broken Malay. She now more settled in her ways. She speaks sits down for kopi. They talked and flirted. They reminiscent together about school. eventually they both finds a lost attraction between them, where they resolve their own differences with the revelation they find in each other during the conversation.
Okay I don't have an ending as usual. But here how I see it: (I know I should talk treatment here….but I started a story thru character bio…so naturally I wou…ahhh! just bear with me k?) anyway,
first of all let me mention: this aint a love story. it's a story about resolving her issues through the movitation of a memory of teenage infatuation. like jigsaw puzzles theory: finding its missing piece.
I see it starts with her being 28, and then she flashes back to the memories. It has potential to be a modern musical (David, don't roll your eyes...) but no so big on dance…maybe slight movement. Just excerpts, not the cliché Broadway wannabes. We can make it very Broadway versus melayu if it works. Not the muhibbah. Can be satirical…I don't know. And, maybe her flashback could be her seeing her self in folklore (or during flashback, she daydreams of Malay folklores, coz that is what she reads or hears from her father for bedtime’s stories). Naturally she sees herself as PUTERI ROSITA AYU….that’s the TITLE!
i also like to say that my rendering of puteri rosita ayu was a little different. but a linked my character to most of your story's issues you guys blogged here. some things were very interestingly discussed.
issues: problems within a race, probs between races, different school produce different ppl (klans more like), lost or unknown indentity, morality issues, etc.
Woo hoo…..now I’m exhausted…but what do you think. I'm writing of my POV as a performer, director and producer. Please comments!!!!!
Love
Id.
Anyway, I reckon now it’s my turn to lay down an idea. Let me see if I can still do it. These chains are a little berkarat…hehehe ;)
Idea 1
Her name is Rosita Ayu. She’s a girl from mixed parentage. Some Caucasian with melayu. She born and bred overseas where in kindergarten, she was made fun as melayu perak! One day her father died (he’s the melayu) so since mom’s parents resents the marriage and consider her daughter a ‘traitor’ for converting to Islam, she has to go back to Malaysia. (Happens to be dying fathers dream, to bring up her daughter the melayu way) she bring her back to Malaysia and settled in a kampong, where the community labels the family as ‘rusa masuk kampung’
She is now 13. She enters a maktab yayasan school. Being so displaced coz she doesn’t speak Malay very well. She got boycotted and ragged till she was form 5. Being called name such as kafir because she don't know how to pray. She had some Chinese friends who never stayed long in that school. But they were the lucky ones that left. She has no choice but learn to survive there. Trying to learn the traits but since it was too hard, discouraged her from learning the culture, religion and language. She had a crush on a boy when she was 15. This boy who always wears a kopiah to school and always becomes the muazzin (I think this is another synonym of a bilal, a person who sing/reads out the azan before every collective prayers in the surau). Happens that he is the school’s golden boy. One of them at least. He is the only one that speaks to her in good English and smiles at her in class. She is attracted to him because not only he’s not ‘typically melayu’ like the rest there, but he respects her and has a friendly modern approach to religion rather than a strict approach that the school practices.
She is now 28. (I don't know where the scene takes place, u guys help me out) (I also don’t know how to do the scene but since this isn’t a script, ill leave it to you guys) she finally bumps into the golden boy who wears a bandana. He is an artist. (I don’t know…..something a Malay girl aspires to become……a doctor? A dentist? An engineer?) She speaks to him in broken Malay. She now more settled in her ways. She speaks sits down for kopi. They talked and flirted. They reminiscent together about school. eventually they both finds a lost attraction between them, where they resolve their own differences with the revelation they find in each other during the conversation.
Okay I don't have an ending as usual. But here how I see it: (I know I should talk treatment here….but I started a story thru character bio…so naturally I wou…ahhh! just bear with me k?) anyway,
first of all let me mention: this aint a love story. it's a story about resolving her issues through the movitation of a memory of teenage infatuation. like jigsaw puzzles theory: finding its missing piece.
I see it starts with her being 28, and then she flashes back to the memories. It has potential to be a modern musical (David, don't roll your eyes...) but no so big on dance…maybe slight movement. Just excerpts, not the cliché Broadway wannabes. We can make it very Broadway versus melayu if it works. Not the muhibbah. Can be satirical…I don't know. And, maybe her flashback could be her seeing her self in folklore (or during flashback, she daydreams of Malay folklores, coz that is what she reads or hears from her father for bedtime’s stories). Naturally she sees herself as PUTERI ROSITA AYU….that’s the TITLE!
i also like to say that my rendering of puteri rosita ayu was a little different. but a linked my character to most of your story's issues you guys blogged here. some things were very interestingly discussed.
issues: problems within a race, probs between races, different school produce different ppl (klans more like), lost or unknown indentity, morality issues, etc.
Woo hoo…..now I’m exhausted…but what do you think. I'm writing of my POV as a performer, director and producer. Please comments!!!!!
Love
Id.
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