CATHAY-KERIS STUDIO

The development of Malay films in Malaya is suspected to have its beginning in the 1930s, based on the fact that two Malay films, Nelayan and Laila Majnun, were made during this period. The popularity of Malay movies was evident shortly before the outbreak of WWII, when Indonesian movies began to catch on with Malayan viewers. After WWII, Cathay, which by then already owned a network of cinemas in Malaya also rode on the boom in Malay movies by forming Cathay-Keris.

 Cathay Organization was established on 18 July 1935 by the late Dato’ Loke Wan Tho and his mother, the late Mrs. Loke Cheng Kim as Associated Theatres Ltd. In 1936, the company opened its first cinema in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Pavilion with 1200 seats. The year 1939 saw the landmark Cathay Building opened in Singapore with the Cathay Cinema premiering Sir Alexander Korda’s Four Feathers.

 In 1952, Ho Ah Loke opened a studio in Tempines Road, Singapore, calling his company Rimau Film Productions. Ho owned a few small theatres through his earlier venture as a film distributor. The company was renamed Cathay-Keris Film Production with its studio in East Coast Road, Singapore. This studio produced its own films in the Malay. These were former barracks occupied by the Japanese and were converted into processing labs, sound studios, offices and even a canteen. That year, Cathay –Keris produced Singapore’s first color film, Buloh Perindu.  More than 100 films were made at Cathay-Keris’s studio 1953 to 1973 including five Pontianak movies that were Pontianak (1957), Dendam Pontianak (1957), Sumpah Pontianak (1958), Pontianak Kembali (1963), and Pontianak Gua Musang (1964). Sadly the first two classic Pontianak films are long lost.

Facing competition from television and the loss of the Indonesia market due to the Confrontation, Cathay-Keris retrenched 45 studio staff in 1965, and a further 17 staff in 1966. In 1967, Shaw closed down its Malay Film Productions. A few years later, in 1973, Cathay-Keris produced its last film, Satu Titik Di-Garisan, marking an end to Malay film production in Singapore. For the next few years, the studio focused on production of advertisements, public relations film lets and news reports before stopping operation in 1977.

Pengertian Qurban Anda

Alhamdulillah Hari Raya Aidiladha atau dikenali sebagai hari qurban telah berlalu lebih kurang 3hari dan hari. Rumah aku tahun ni buat qurban.. Tapi bukan family kami..family sebelah ayah iaitu pakcik aku. Lembu tersebut sampai malam sebelum tibanya esok untuk diqurbankan. Agak mengganas juga lah. Mungkin lembu tu tahu dia nak diqurbankan. 

Kali ini entry bukan nak cerita pasal lembu itu.. tapi aku nak cerita makna pengorbanan tersebut. Dalam erti kata lain apa yang korang semua tahu dengan makna qurban?

Kalau korang tidak mampu untuk qurbankan seeokor lembu mahupun kambing, korbankanlah sifat buruk, tabiat yang tidak berfaedah kalian semua.. Lakukan pengorbanan yang begitu berharga untuk diri kalian. Maka secara tidak langsung hari raya qurban anda akan lebih bermakna.

Kalau anda selama ini punya tabiat malas, korban rasa malas anda dan gantikan dengan rasa rajin. Maka penggantian yang baru itu akan lebih bermakna sekiranya anda rajin berusaha menuju kejayaan.

Selamat membaca dan beramal.. =)

p/s: mimpi sama. mungkin rindu sgt kot dekt wan chel tu. tak pelah. aku qurbankan rasa hati aku agar aku terus sihat. semoga dia bahagia..

My Promises

Personal Attributes.

     I.        I always waste my time by surfing the internet such as Facebook and Twitter.

So, I promise not to waste my time by managing time successfully.

    II.        I always get sick such as fever, flu, and spinal backache.

So, I promise to keep fit and healthy in order to give the best output from myself.

  III.        I have Insomnia so; I can’t sleep at night like other people.

So, I promise try to balance my life to maintain my mind and physical health.

  IV.        I am very lazy to find what I should do and what should not I do.

So, I promise to myself to seeking continuous self-improvement.

    V.        Sometimes I not speak in respectively to my friends.

So, I promise to myself to being a good communicator in daily life.

Good Human Relations.

     I.        Sometimes I can’t handle my emotion in right way.

So, I promise to myself to managing my emotions productively.

    II.        My best friend's always say that I difficult to admitting my mistake.

            So, I promise to myself to admitting my mistake if I make a mistake.

  III.        For the past five years, I have a high confident level. But when I entered UiTM Melaka, my confident level was reduced.

            So, I promise to myself to gain back my confident level and maintaining it.

  IV.        My friends always say that I not like to smile and laugh.

So, I promise to myself to always smiling and acting cheerful to make my life wonderful.

    V.        Maybe sometimes I not sharing the ideas and information that I get.

So, I promise to myself to sharing ideas, skills, experiences and pertinent information.

Superior Work Performance.

     I.        I have little bit problem when work in team.

So, I promise to being a team player for get the best result and achievement.

    II.        I often spent time on things that wasted my precious time and not give any benefit to me.

So, I promise to myself to doing top priority work first that give a big benefit to me.

  III.        Sometimes I made a mistake on my work.

So, I promise to producing error-free work to get the best result on my job or work.

  IV.        I admit that I have a talent on creative thing such as music instrument, writing poetry and crafting.

So, I promise to be more creative and innovative in order to give a best performance on my work.

Biography Tan Sri P. Ramlee

Tan Sri P. Ramlee was a Malaysian film star, comedian, singer, director, and songwriter. P. Ramlee was born Teuku Zakaria Teuku Nyak Puteh to Teuku Nyak Puteh Teuku Karim and Che Mah Hussein at his grandmother’s house and right now opened as P. Ramlee House, in Counter Hall, Penang, Malaysia. 

Malaysia’s most beloved and versatile entertainer received his early education in Sekolah melayu Kampung Jawa and then the Francis Light School. He was very active in sports, especially sepak takraw, badminton, and football in school. During the Japanese Occupation he worked in a tin factory and attended a school set up by the Japanese navy, where he learnt Japanese songs. In 1945, he entered a singing contest organised by Penang Radio for North Malaya, where he emerged third. He was the runner-up in the following year and the winner in 1947. 

His big break came on 1 June 1948 when he was spotted by Indian film director B. S. Rajhans from Malay Film Productions (MFP) of Jalan Ampas, Singapore at a cultural festival in early 1948, where P. Ramlee sang his own composition “Azizah”. 

Rajhans invited P. Ramlee to work as a backup singer for the Shaw Brother’s MFP. P. Ramlee accepted the offer, and the next few weeks saw him working as a clapper-boy, assistant cameraman, and continuity person in addition to singing. 

His first acting role came in 1948 in Cinta (Love) as a villain. The director was so impressed with Ramlee, that in that same year, he was cast in the lead for the film Bakti (Piety). Seven years later, P. Ramlee directed his first film Penarik Becha (The Trishaw Man). P. Ramlee acted in a total 65 films, directed 35 films, made two television drams, directed two stage plays, and wrote or co wrote 359 songs. P. Ramlee won several acting and composing awards at the Asian Film Festival in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Among his films that received awards are: 

· Best Musical Score for Hang Tuah –Third Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong (1956); 

· Best Male Actor for Anak-ku Sazali (My son, Sazali) – Fourth Asian Film Festival, Tokyo (1957); 

· Best Comedy Film for Nujum Pak Belalang (Pak Belalang, The Fortune Teller) – Seventh Asian Film Festival, Tokyo (1960). 

In 1968, in homour of his contributions to te Malaysian entertainment industry, the P. Ramlee Memorial was set up in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.

Sempatkah masa menunggu sebelum tibanya waktu

Dekat pukul 2 pagi....aku cuba tidur, tapi rasa mual...sakit...tulang belakang memberikan tekanan pada saraf tunjang.. Sejak 3 hari ni aku rasa sepeti tulang belakang ku semakin sakit. Ada rasa seperti dicucuk.. Bila aku cuba baring, rasa mual mula berkumpul di tengkuk dan kepala semakin sakit. 

Aku tak tahu sampai bila rasa sakit ni akan bertapa.. Samada seketika atau datang untuk memberi amaran terakhir.. Aku kira tamat degree baru aku jumpa pakar.. Aku redha dengan ketentuan takdir..Ketentuan Ilahi.. jika ini yang tersurat untuk aku lalui.. Sempatkah aku tamatkan pengajian aku atau sebaliknya.. 

Bila ramai bertanya aku jawab dengan bersahaja..Tanpa ada mimic wajah yang kecewa.. Berat mata memandang, berat lagi bahu aku yang memikul. Aku pun teringin hidup normal seperti orang lain. Punya kawan, Punya kegembiraan, Punya Kasih sayang.. dan satu hari nanti punya seorang suami..dan menjadi seorang ibu.. Semua itu lumrah seorang perempuan.. Fitrah kehidupan.. 

Kalau aku diberi masa untuk menamatkan pengajian yang berbaki 3 sem lagi ini, InsyaAllah... Aku akan menjejakkan kaki untuk berjumpa si baju putih.. Merawat apa yang patut.. Hidup ini terasa semakin singkat dan aku kira timbangan memberat ke kiri.. Ya Allah.... jika tersurat jalan ku tidak semudah yang disangka... Engkau ambil lah agar timbanganku tidak terus memberat ke kiri.. 

Sakit itu anugerah yang tidak terhingga... Semangat untuk terus hidup berbekalkan keredhaan Mu Ya Allah.. dan keberkatan doa Ibu dan Ayah..

BERBORIA - MISKIN KAYA

Salam readers... entah macam mana nak di jadikan cerita al kisah di satu petang, aku kenen denda...Aku yang jadi class rep ni terlupa nak bawak tanda nama ( ada siap moto tuk letak atas meja bagai). Maka...hendak dijadikan cerita lect aku panggil aku kedepan untuk didenda.. Dan entah macam mana lah kan aku boleh panggil beberapa orang lagi untuk didenda bersama aku.. 

Otak aku ni ligat pikir pasal boria....tengah-tengah buat lirik tetibe lect kata tak payah buat persembahan sekarang. Buat masa malam AGM KWB. Fuh!!!!! Time tu gak aku terpacul satu ayat.. "Apa kata Madam, kita buat satu kelas... baru meriah sikit..." Hahahhaaa...ambik..aku angkut satu kelas naik pentas gara-gara aku sorang.. minta maaf ye kawan-kawan... =)

Yang ni tak boleh nak cakap.. Madam beritahu Selasa, tapi esoknya Rabu nak buat persembahan.. Berbekalkan kerjasama daripada rakan sekelas yang seramai 38 orang tu.. Dengan gigih aku melatih mereka pada hari RABU petang sebelum tibanya MALAM tersebut.. hahahaa... POWER tak? 

Maka ini lah sebahagian pasukan BORIA kami.. Masing-masing berpakaian hitam dan bertopeng di mata.. Malam tu aku jadi KONDUKTOR.. kuikuikuiii... =) Papepun...kami semua enjoy!!

note: petang ni ada picnic sampai malam... em...macam nak tak nak je aku pegi..bukan apa..aku bukan suka aktiviti melibatkan air... diaornag nak buat kat Pantai Puteri.. Ikutkan je la.....