Tuesday, June 26, 2007

-woo hoo! ouch!-

My body aches. I guess it was from the running yesterday. Maybe it was the strenous SOS rehearsals. Anyway, it aches.

Did Kaypoh (the school show with W!LD RICE) today. The look on Farah's face when she lost her line was just priceless. It was hilarious. But the show turned out fine. Then, had lunch with Issy.

Oh! Guess what?! I obtained my PDL already liao. Can finally get to test my bike-riding skills on public road. 3 lessons and a TP to my bike license. woo hoo!


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Sunday, June 24, 2007

-post-mortem-

I went running today.

IPPT just around the corner and I recently found myself breathing very hard after every SOS (Songs of the Sea) rehearsal. So i decided that I need to boost my stamina.

Not that it was the main reason why I started running today. Actually, I just need to get my mind off things. NDR post production blues finally hit me. Have been living in denial for the past 7 days. Told myself that the end of the North Diversion Road (NDR) run was not the end of young & W!LD. But you know what? It's just not the same. Daphne is in the States now. Terence in Alaska. Leslie gonna be gone for 2 years to pursue his Masters overseas. El and Jon gonna be away in Edinburgh later next month. NDR could be the last time we actually spend time as a complete group. I feel all nostalgic and sad just thinking about it. And being alone in a calm and tranquil house with Lifehouse playing through the speakers, I couldn't take it. I decided that I had to run.

So I ran.

The first few hundreds of metres was not bad. I focused on my breathing. I focused on my steps. I focused on the gravel track. It reminded me of my designs that I did for NDR. And it reminded me of the crazy moment when we realise that we still had not gotten the word out for NDR. Blithe Spirit was running at the Drama Centre at that time. Someone mentioned that it will be a perfect human traffic to start the buzz. The thing was, when we decided to put up the standy, Blithe Spirit has already opened and will be closing its run in 12 days time. This was of course realised during the same night that we had our very late night production meeting which ended almost to daybreak the next day.

I remember the next 24 hours was super hectic. It felt like a nightmare. The standy by the way was 1.2m by 2m. For designers, you will understand the massive size of the psd file that I had to create and working with a super slow computer... sometimes I felt like throwing it out of the window. (But that will not solve anything. Besides, it is killer litter)

So, I worked the whole night designing it. I taught myself how to design using the "Unofficial Guide to Photoshop CS2" book and hopefully come up with something decent. The end product was not too bad. Quite proud of myself. But that was not all. I remember that very same day, I was in the middle of Mentah madness as well. That was the time when i decided to come up with version 5 (or was it 6?) of Mat CD (that's the script that I wrote for ekamatra). And not only that, I insanely decided that it will be a good idea to test it out during SERAM, which was on that very same night. So within 24 hours, I designed, sent for printing and put up the standy plus rewrite an entirely new script, rehearse it with my actors and showcased it to some ppl and getting blasted. I don't think my heart beat less than 200 per minute for that 24 hours.

But come to think of it, it was an experience where you feel totally amazing once you manage to pull through it. You feel like you can just do anything.

By this time, I can't think of anything about NDR because the scenery around me was just breath-taking. The sun is setting in a nice golden hue. The trees and the river capture the sun rays beautifully. It did not feel like I was in Singapore at all. I wished then that I had my camera with me. A beat later I changed my mind. I wished instead that I own a camera.
The clouds were beautiful as well. The closer ones were orangey and look like candy-floss. The far away ones look like marshmallows. Everything was so peaceful and nice.

But then I had to head home.

So I went home.


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