PENTARAMA Wows Crowd
By Lyna Mohamad

Bandar Seri Begawan - The ongoing royal birthday celebrations continued last night with the Information Department's "PENTARAMA 2008", the third of its kind held by the department in conjunction with His Majesty the Sultan and Yang DiPertuan of Negara Brunei Darussalam's 62"d birthday celebrations.

PENTARAMA is an annual activity by the department to entertain the public during these royal celebrations. Apart from that, it serves as means to disseminate information on current issues to the public.

The word PENTARAMA was derived from the abbreviations of the Malay words for dance, drama, singing and comedy, as these are the contents of the stage shows, that has reached its 20th year of establishment since it was introduced in 1988.

Present as the chief guest was Director of Information Department Hj Mahrub Hj Murni and was also attended by invited guests as well as officials from Malaysia and several artistes from the Department of Information Malaysia who are currently in the country under the MoU programme between the government of His Majesty and the Malaysian government.

These artistes will also be performing with Brunei's Information Department PENTARAMA artistes in the Tutong District tomorrow.

As always, the showcase last night saw a wide range of colourful and entertaining performances ranging from theme songs as well as several other songs performed by local artistes, drama sketch, comedy, quiz and dances. The PENTARAMA quiz prizes were sponsored by Royal Brunei Catering Services.

Amongst the line up of invited local artistes were young budding singer Puteri Norizah and P2F born Zul F along with others namely Bombay, Fakrul Radzi, Sri Nazrina and Zaem who is the vocalist band 3AT (3 at Tragedi), the band for the songs performances.

Accordina to the chairman' of PENTARAMA 2008, Kassim Hj Abd Rahman, this year marks the second year that the Brunei Darussalam Information Department is performing with Malaysian PENTARAMA artistes the first joint stage show being held back in 1992. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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