Siti Nurhaliza – From Lipis To The World
I’m writing this post just because I just watched the first half of Siti Nurhaliza’s documentary on History channel just now. I watched the second half of it last week. Which commenting a lot on the juicy controversy of her marriage to Datuk K. Didn’t like it that much. But I gave it another chance to learn about the full story of her and watched the first half of it when I stumbled on that documentary again earlier today.
Never know her personally even I lived in the same town more than a decade ago. That was just before her big break in entertainment industry. The closest I’ve been to her family is knowing her younger sister who is one year older than me(Siti Nurhaliza is 5 years older than me). We went to he same primary school and I didn’t know her until I went to Lipis District Jamboree in 1995(or 1994. I couldn’t remember which year it was exactly). Spent a week with her in the same camp with a bunch of others. And the most memorable thing I could remember of is we had to prepare a performance for the closing ceremony of the Jamboree and our school decided to go with traditional dance.
Had to learnt, practice and rehearse the dance routine for a few weeks before going to the camp. To tell you the truth I wasn’t even close to her. I’m very poor in memorizing people out of my circle, and she wasn’t in that. I do however remember her because she gave me a photo of our performance that night to me personally about a week(I think??) later. I am still bad at remembering person but I do however will always remember an honest nice touch.
My point is, despite any controversy Siti created over the years, she came from a very good family and was educated well by her family. Her personality along with her hardwork has catapulted her to be what she is(or what she was if you think that she is declining from her peak). The two combination helped her reaching a height that a small town girl like her could only dream on. She resonates with Malaysian with her conservative actions. And not to mention we were longing for a big star to portrait the majority of Malaysians since P.Ramlee era.
Her looks, her voice, her personality. Three components that have been packaged in her plus her hardwork helped her with her success. As for her marriage and personal life, everybody have an opinion on it. And while every other article on her will love to have a hot gossip on her to spice up the story, I do believe whatever her decisions and actions is up to her and is her responsibilities. If the documentary on her on History channel even only at least 80% correctly portraying her trueself, I believe she deserves what she get with her effort. The only comment on her marriage I could make is love is a strange thing. Me myself don’t rule out the possibility that I could fall in love with a much older divorcee woman and married her. And just by thinking of it I know how people around me will talk about it and how the family resistance will be.
p/s: To any family members or friends reading this post, no I’m not in love with an older divorcee woman. Just giving a thought about what Siti gone through before she get married. And at the strategizing how to handle the resistance if I am one day will have to face the same situation or any kind of family resistance in the future.
And owhh.. Frankly speaking I’ve never been a big Siti fan. Not a fan at all I think. She doesn’t really resonate with me. I guess I’m the Malaysia’s minority. I have to say she have a really good voice and personality. Hurmm.. or should I say I’m a fan of her(herself) but not a fan of her songs?
