Of Messages And Arts...

Dikir Barat..I'm sure that it's not something that most of my friends will be interested with..Neither me myself..I never fancy dikir barat..However today I got to watch few performances by secondary school teams from all over Malaysia..It was a national competition actually and my father's school represents Terengganu in this final round..As the school principal, he came to support his school and I tagged along with my mum since we've nothing to do at home..The venue is KB Mall and I brought along my lappy because I thought I might not be interested with those performances and I can hangout at Secret Recipe having my favourite Choc Indulgence while surfing the web..But it turned out to be the other way..I was stucked at the competition because I was posessed to watch such energetic performances by the students..All of them are performing dikir barat songs with the message of 'civilized community without drugs' of 'masyarakat madani tanpa dadah' acknowledging to the anti-drug campaign by Ministry of Education..

They were quite good even though they came from all over Malaysia and not all of them are Kelantanese which is where the dikir barat culture started in..I heard that my dad's school team is very good so I wanna see how good they really are..And I agreed..However, I was fascinated with the performance by the Sabah team..they were very pleasing and enjoyable..Their movements were like dancing, so soft and synchronised and they always smile..That's making them pleasurable to watch..Their performance was the most energetic of all because I could feel the floor of the mall was shaking like there's an earthquake coming..And as I thought, the Sabah team won the competition while my dad's school got the second place..They're also very good..but lack of smiles..It was very entertaining and satisfying to watch this competition..I never thought that I would like it and maybe because it was a school competition that I put my interest on, not because of the dikir barat itself...Well..I don't know..

This is the Sabah team..They're marvellous..and they're Sabahan..

My dad's school team..Their message was the clearest and the most interesting..