Connection
Other than all the food, family and friends I miss in Sunnyland, I miss most are all those little connections I had with certain people. People from the mat-rock music industry to the Sunnyland small film industry.
I remember going to SIFF with KL and always meeting people/friends/ex-classmates and even celebrities. I feel so cool to be “connected”. Even when KL was not in SunnyLand and I went for some local film premier, I’ll still meet some of KL’s friends and they always asked about him - even though I was there with BS (an obvious guy companion).
How many of you can say that you been to a couple of recording studios or post production studio, just to hang out. Or Substation as well as Youth Park to watch friends perform and after that, go out Teh-Ping/Prata with them?
Okay, Mat-rock is not exactly my style. But I have been to a few of the local malay musician homes for dinners, also eat prata at the same table and lastly, patronise their wives stalls at Bussorah Street during Hari Raya. Geez, even support them when they have some concerts at public open space.
Well, those were my hay days. No time for the other darker “hayier daze” story. Haha. I’m now nothing but a nobody housefly trying to live in KoalaLand with KL and I’m happy.