leganya!

hey hey hey...

GRC dah selamat....sekarang ni kena fokus utk post-GRC plak...perhaps, Chris will ask me for meeting sometimes next week to discuss another steps further in this research. Anyway, I am very happy as I did very well presentation, even though speechless sekejap in the q & a sessions. Apa pun depa puas hati, esp Dr Stephen dari NUS...siap sebut nama aku and point his finger on me waktu dia present keynote...oh bangganya...riak laa sekejap....keh keh keh...walhal research aku bukannya hebat sangat pun...mungkin it seems very ethnographic and the way I conceptualised the theoretical framework yang buat dia excited tanya lebih-lebih...

Ok lupakan GRC...aku baru jer dapat name list dari Azah - iaitu insan-insan yang digelar wanita yang menggemari televisyen drama...ada lapan orang semuanya dan rata-rata dari perlis...mak cik normah, mak cik rafida, mak cik fauziah, mak cik rokiah, mak cik misah, mak cik pura, dan mak cik Asma....alahai...nama pon tahap mak cik2 semuanya...ni yang buat aku exciting nak berjumpa dan bertentang mata...harap2 laa semua mak cik2 ni boleh bercakap dan ramah-tamah...bimbang jugak aku nanti jumpa semua jadik patung cendana tak bercakap-cakap...

Oh ya sebelum aku lupa, waktu GRC dengan tak sengajanya aku terjumpa Allison Wootherspoon, bekas penyelia sewaktu aku study kat Flinders dulu...memang lawak sampai dia pun terperanjat tengok aku study kat sini....apa lagi dia terus peluk cium sebab terlalu excited...memang lawak...terus aku teringat Cole dan Helen...Al beritahu aku Helen mengandung lagi untuk anak yang kedua..Cole pula semakin sibuk sekarang...dah lama rasanya aku tak e-mail Cole dan Helen....Al tanya sama ada aku akan buat filem lagi sepanjang aku di Melbourne...sorry laa Al, aku dah tak larat ler....dengan timbunan buku yang boleh membunuh sesiapa kalau jatuh kat atas kepala ni, macam mana laa aku nak buat filem?

tak sabar aku nak terbang ke Adelaide...walaupun ramai yang marah kt aku sbb tak pergi ke benua lain, tapi aku rasa selesa kat OZ...other than that, I learn a lot of things here and I will never stop....Kak Mira will be here somewhere around end of this year and Puan Liza plus Kak siti as well....hmmm...what would you think if we build another school of thought in term of cultural and media studies in the dept? this time an australian school of thought - that would be fun, hey! Ok laa..cukup laa takat ni...letih ler...nak rehat jap..ta!

christine says:

Dear Shah,

You are busy indeed. Your conference looks very interesting. I wish I could be there to hear the papers. I've been attending Mike Walsh's lectures and screenings in Asian Cinema, and I must say some of the auteurs and their films are fascinating. Tomorrow we move on to Iranian film. Last week we worked on Korean film, and before that Chinese. We are near the end of the course: next week is Bollywood, and that wraps up the year.

I read your abstract. Do you watch soaps? You know you must indulge if you are going to write about them. You must ask your mother what she likes, and her friends. I don't think you have sisters, from memory. Better ask Nora what she thinks, for the modern woman. When is your graduation in December? Does it take place atFlinders or in the city? Do you have somewhere to stay? You are welcome here, if you don't mind a mattress in the study. We would be happy to accomodate you. Molly is very friendly: she may bark but she wont eat you. Yoyo and Merry are enjoying the warmer weather, lolling in the sun. Frisky's old bones are happy too. Have fun writing your paper.

Cheers, Christine

GRC!!

Imagining Transnational Pleasure: Foreign Soaps, Malay women and the Modern world

Women and Soap operas are universally connected. Foreign soaps significantly create a new phenomenon and become one of the ‘must watch’ television programme in the afternoon or during prime time in Malaysia. At the same time, the association of Malay women and foreign soaps become a national tension and patriarchal-hegemonic discourse, in term of absorption and appropriation of foreign cultural value in the Malay’s socio-historic-specific activity environment. Thus, this research will argue how foreign soaps construct imagining transnational pleasure and the sense of ‘modern world’ to the Malay women. In order to seek the pattern of imagining construction process, this research will use media reception-ethnographic studies in the selective rural and urban setting in Malaysia.

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Walaupun member aku ni dah lama bertandang kat melbourne ni, tapi hari ni jer aku ada masa untuk bercerita tentang 'ratu air mata' ni...aku panggil dia ratu air mata sebab mak cik ni selalu jer nak menangis bila stress....entah hapa-hapa laa...nasib baik ler si erwanita tak menangis bila stress cuma keluarkan statement "I want to be a woman" jer paling kurang...keh keh keh...kutuk siket erwan...biasalah sebelum raya ni kan...anyway, member aku ni namanya Rosya...aku pon kenal dia melalui si raja aminah...dia dan suaminya datang sekitar bulan Julai yang lalu...sapa nama suami dia ek? aku cuma panggil Zack jer...tapi kalau tak silap nama dia zamzuri....a week after anak rosya pon datang....budak cicah yang comel tu...anyway, itu jer laa aku nak cerita kali ni..ada masa nanti aku ada tulis lagi...