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Saturday, June 04, 2005

ONCE UPON A TIME, I WAS THAT SHOWGIRL - Episode 13

From the last episode... Episode 12: 2003, here I come!!!

The year 2003 was like a year yang mek bebetul jadi Miss Tak Serik2... asalkan ade contest, nah!!! That's it! Masuk jer! And the year also sees me as a showgirl under the group of Glitters.Com. I'll come back to that shortly...

Now, let me recall back - how many contests erk yang mek competed in 2003 alone? Hurmmm.... (sambil bukak port folio - maaaaaati la mek!) Ahhh yes - total of seven contests mek masuk throught the whole year of 2003... gile kan? WAIT until we come to 2004 punye entries... SIAP!

*Bla bla bla bla*

Ok - so much for the pageants that I competed throught 2003, now lets talk about me getting myself involved with Glitters.Com... but before that, lets take a short break and I'll be right back with Once upon a time, I was that showgirl - Episode 13... :) LOL!!!

Episode 13: The other part about 2003...

Well, sorry for the long commer-sial break peeps. Ehehe - anyways, in this entry, I will be sharing some stuffs that happened during 2003, aside from me participating in numerous beauty pageants in town la kan. And this other 'stuffs' nih were my main activities, mostly during the weekends (Fridays and Sats that is) provided if I tak fly somewhere anywhere... - apenye??? Ape lagi - BUAT SHOWS LAH! Hehehhe...

Somewhere around April I guess - I was invited to join a group; a show group - nama group ni dah memang terkenal among gays and drags in town - for fabulouso shows and great character-shows. Initially kan I performed solo (kalau tak pon dengan my KJ girls and sometimes joined by my Subang Jaya gang...) - So apparently the group leader, who so happened to be a dear close 'mama' angkat, sudah decided that it is time to let Lady Laurielle join the group and be part of it and let me learn as much as possible dalam dunia shows nih. Well - thanks to her, eh, I mean, him, eh!?!? Whatever it is - thanks to her, the once called 'kayu-oh-so-very' showgirl named Lady, setelah dah joined the group, sudah pandai lenggok2 lelebih sikit dan bit by bit the group ajar this kayu dancing drag to really go out and do the best in every show.



All I knew was to perform fast numbers - semua orang tahu. My killer-spin-with-3 1/2inches-heels- step, my lip sync ala ala okkk la jugak; tu jer yang mek rase mek tahu. Nak buat show feeling2 slow numbers, I don't have that 'character' in me - me tak pandai nak feeling2 with lagu2 Melayu at that time - so they called me berangan. But this group, they ajar me slow2 - to buat shows yang pelbagai. Dance, funny character shows, feeling, drama - semua diaorang ajar, but bit by bit. And I guess I pon belajar slowly - but surely.




Days after days, months after months - bile tibanye weekend yang I tak work, I would be spending my weekend kat Setiawangsa, the group's HQ. I would normally spend the weekend sampai Sunday (depending on my roster) dan during those days, Fridays and Sats, we would perform at The Bleu Bar Kuala Lumpur (this one berbeza dari the Budak Biru Club ok... ). It was fun to work with this group and so I have to admit, I enjoyed being in the group. And being in a group, I guess, it telah melonjakkan my name up even further - plus those pageants I kept on participating - lagiii la kan? So like - in 2003 - ppl dah associated me with the group... Kalau sebut nama Loreal or Lady - "owwhhh yang dengan group Glitters tu ke?". Or probably the other way round, kalau sebut the group... "yang ade Loreal tu ke?" which rarely happens this way lah. Usually its the other way round - the earlier one.



With this group - mek bukan hanye performed in clubs around KL and during special events kat hotels ke ape ke, we also performed in Tesco Mutiara Damansara, we performed kat kenduri kawin rumah orang in broad daylite, macam2 lah. Dan secara tak langsung, it apparently telah mengajar me to be brave and to keluar rumah ptg2 siang2 in drag - aiyoh! Panas nye, haiyoh! AZABS sangat! But it was fun la. Seriously it was fun. We did shows kat number of other clubs in town - so basically, me being in the group - memang bagus la jugak. Leh promo diri jugak.. muieueieueiui - maaati la mek!



Being in a group - banyak mek belajar erti working together. I don't do leads most of the time - they thought me how to be a back up too! Normally when I performed solo, its like, the whole world was watching ya. Tapi bila jadi back up jer, well - seronok jugak to get less attention and just relax and perform. And when with this group - I felt like, very happy. Very. The group paid me for my every show (showgirls lain dalam group tu pun dibayar jugak - kire siapa buat show, dapat la duit gaji siket - jaaadi la, dari, nan ado?) - The group nih consist of many different peeps - different, personalities - and by being a member to this group - I learned a lot in knowing personalities manusia nih, especially drags. MJ (mulut jahat) tu, walaupun ade, tapi, kureng lah. Tak lah banyak sangat nak MJ tapi kalau sesama kiteorang, nak 3M (Mengumpat mengutuk dan mengeji) itu, selalu lah. Ehehehehe....



We would normally siap2 for shows - then gi reramai masuk ke club - siap2 (before the clubs' changin' room siap, I remembered kiteorang siap kat tangga kat club tu tau, somewhere bahagian dalam club tu. How sedeh was that? Dengan peluhnye itu ini - haiyoh!... Eheheh) and then buat show - lepas show, would lepak2 minggle winggle tinggle around sampai probably 3 to 3.30am, then balik. Balik pulak, most of the time we would lepak kat mamak's somewhere kat Setiawangsa tu, just a few blocks away from the HQ (rumah one of the members la jugak) - and makan sepuas2 hati (sebab normally sebelum shows we wont eat anything) and then laugh2 sembang2 drama2 sikit - sampai ke dedekat 4 or 4.30, ade kala 5am! Ehehehe. It was fun... really... it was...




Sehappy2 mek with the group - ade kalanye tension2 jugak. Biasa lah, dah namanye group. And added with some rumors that said the Subang girls dah tuduh mek sombong semenjak nama dah naik dan semenjak dah ade an established show group baru... and that apparently dihidu rasa oleh the KJ Girls. Ade jugak some part of the year, mek ala ala sentap menyentap with the two groups yang membawa mek ke dunia drag nih - tapi itu lah, like they said, kawan cam mana pon, kalau dah namanye rapat dan ade bond between us all, takkan putus jugak. Gaduh2 sat2 jer, pastu, baik balik. Especially dengan KJ and SJ girls - mana leh pisah dah... :) But when it comes to me competing in beauty pageants - these three groups - never failed to attend and beri sokongan, cheering jgn cakap la - punye lah kuat! I could just name u those peeps yang dalam the groups, yang suara lantang makkk datin! Jerit belakang ballroom - atas stage boleh dengar. Ehehehe...



I guess all I'm trying to say here is this - I wouldn't be what I am today - if it wasn't for all the three groups, but especially GLITTERS.COM. No doubt, I started drag with Subang girls, then on to KJ Girls - but Glitterslah group yang mengajar mek selok belok dunia show dengan lebih terpeinchi dan mendalamz. Pelbagai tricks, facial expressions - dramas, acts, yang diaorang aja. Being a showgirl isn't always about staying pretty and do lip sync shows. Its about having pride in what you do, and doin' your best and let it all out in what you're performing. With Glitters - I learned how to NANGIS during buat show, how to hilangkan muka menten lawo dan buat muka buruk - with the group jugak lah mek belajar buat lawak bodoh during shows - and most of all, Glitters.Com made me feel that theres no place like a showgirls' world...



Nantikan kupasan Episode ke 14!!!


Nurlea Laurielle Lai Lee Abdullah
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Posted at 2:19:45 am by Nurlea Laurielle Lai Lee Abdullah

5thE
June 4, 2005   09:21 AM PDT
 
wah wah wah...mek suke mek suke! go on dahling...go on typing! :)
Simon
June 5, 2005   12:47 AM PDT
 
Fabulous ! nothing more to be said
Rya
June 6, 2005   12:27 PM PDT
 
Sambung lagiiiiiii.....i cant get enuff of this story...biler nak masuk tahun 2004???
tungau
June 6, 2005   08:07 PM PDT
 

amboii bergaya sakan la ...
mirch marcello
June 7, 2005   08:39 AM PDT
 
suke every single entry for show girl
baby bee®
June 7, 2005   11:23 AM PDT
 
komen bb - hikhikhik:

gambar no.2 dari atas mcm apek senario dlm senario xx

gambar no.4 dari atas sebijik mcm aleeza kassim

gambar no 5 dari atas... bb speechless... woman habis...
Aishwarya Rai ®
June 7, 2005   03:30 PM PDT
 
nyeh mana entry 2003 Miss Universe ittiew? Eh, ke dah already buat? sentaplah!
tanggiri fuqyi
July 4, 2005   08:29 AM PDT
 
nyah... mak rasakn show yg pki bikini kena tutup skit la. Pecah lubang. Body figure takde. Kalau u pakai dress br lawa. The rest fails..........
AdamdrAgx
October 23, 2005   09:10 PM PDT
 
posting yg very honest dari hati....boleh dibaca satu persatu melalui tulisan......

AdamdrAgx
Name Lady Bee
February 16, 2006   06:09 PM PST
 
Core Runk nihhh very very da vast laaaaaaaaahh



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