fastest strike ever: 45min

i supposed i have recorded the fastest strike/bump-out ever in my entire theatre life, only 45min to complete the strike! (even though i try to slow it down by working at only 70% of my normal rate!) even traveling from NTU to arts house took longer! this record should stay on for quite some times. hahaha~

a fast strike is always good, as the saying always go, "faster do, faster finish, faster go back". to make things even better, pay cheque is given out as well! good example of a company with good reputation, pay up immediately after the job is done. thank you TNS! (unlike some theatre company, which also begins with "t", owe me my pay for 1.5months already, still not paying up! bloody hell!)

(theatre people, take note, try to avoid this company.)

(another clue: it does english shows most of the time, whose space is based somewhere bustling with clubs and bars and pubs)

2008

17 days has passed in 2008, seems like lots of things had happen, but everything still seems like 2007, nothing much had changed, nothing much to be achieved.

one thing definitely has not changed, i'm still just as poor as before, worst still there isn't any jobs for me this year, despite the plea which i have put up on facebook! instead of jobs, i got banned from more people! wtf! now what's next?

finally into the final semester in NTU, but don't really feel like final sem, or rather what's the supposed feeling when u are in the final sem? it only seems more stressful than before, stress to get a job after graduation, stress of returning the bloody 20k debt incurred over the 4 bloody years in NTU, stress and more stress! WTF!!

then again, maybe a new year is the beginning for new things, what ever that is. whatever it is, it's time to get up, get things going, whatever it might be....

记忆？回忆？还是。。。

人的记忆还真的很难理解。

每当你想强行要记得某些事务时，往往就会在片刻之间将期忘得一干二净。但当你尝试不去想起一些事情时，它却时不时地浮现在脑海之中，而且越要去忘记，就越难遗忘。。。

又在见到她，本以为已经遗忘的记忆，又再次地浮现。。。或许，根本就没有忘，只是将它隐藏起来，隐藏在自己也不知道，也可能是不想知道的地方。。。但在无意之中，却又重新地被掘出来，重新进入记忆之中。。。

或许，这根本不是脑中的记忆，而是心中的记忆。。。

也许，真正的记忆是用心去记的，而不是记于脑中的。。。这都是心中的记忆，都是心中的感触，心中的感觉，余情未了的感觉。。。

i'm back!

didn't realize that it has been 1 month plus since i last posted some things here....

time really flies, into the last month of the year, exams ended, holidays has come (or has it? seems like it's even worse than during semester time)...

madness coming in yet again... 2days before bump-in, set construction still to get underway, sound not confirm, lighting plan not out (let alone the cue sheet), props and costumes still short for, haven't seen my crews and operators etc. etc.... how worse can this get? then again, (quoting from hh) "i'm only the sm!"...

things will be better tomorrow... (hopefully)....

船到桥头自然直。。。

sianzzz...

as i'm writing this, the 1st paper is exactly 14days away! n it's getting more sianz! as all these approaches..

though almost everyone around me has been asking me to study hard, then again, as all these come, the more 无心向学 i seem to become..

the dates draw closer, the less worried i'm, not because i'm confident, but rather, the more hack care i become...

seems like going to yet another semester of buang, n more naggings from 老板 and 师傅 le..

i'm back...

after 1 month of break, finally back into theatre again (to be precise, TNS black box). woohoo~ feels great to be breathing the air inside a theatre again, though as always, it's stale, but it's the special feeling inside it that makes coming back into theatre great!

though this show (TNS's Good People) wasn't having a generic setup, more of installation works, rather than the standard rigging. (must be a joyah problem, haven't done a show with her this year that doesn't require additional installation works!) but hack, long as it's fun, doesn't matter what kind of setup is to be done. anyway i have always prefer more installation works, more challenging, that is if proper planning can be done before hand. haha~

however, i must admit, this isn't the way to spend the weekend, especially when there are assignment datelines coming up and the first paper is less than 3 weeks away! at least it takes away most of the lethargic that was within for the past month, maybe will just kick start the momentum to start studying! just maybe... (what ever the case, at least i can add some figures to bank dipping bank account. )

天冷了，就回来？

最近有点无聊，于是就去挖出了《天冷》的歌曲出来听。（是原唱的，不是《天冷》的 OST，我也在等 OST！）有意无意中，听到了《想着你的感觉》，总觉得少了些什么，却说不出来，知觉的相较之下，Mag 跟 Jo 在《天冷》中的版本，比较有“感觉”。可能是“人多势众”的关系吧，我不知道。

有继续听了其他的歌，都觉得“味道”和“感觉”都不比《天冷》中的版本好。可能是因为《天冷》的时候听太多了，有所“耳濡目染”下，渐渐觉得，那才是“对”的感觉。

但无论如何，听了原曲后，就更坚定了我要在2009年看《天冷就回来》的决心，而且是在前台看，不是在后台！当然现在也只能期待 OST的发行了。。。

the crap continues...

finally the end of the week of madness.... phew~.... and i'm still alive! this is definitely not the end, probably just a short lapse, before the next round of madness hit. why is this so different from the timetable, where, on paper i'm supposed to be slacking the whole semester?

exactly 1month and 1day to my 1st paper, and i still not in the mood to start studying, unlikely to get into the mood anytime soon. things are not going well.... how? help! save me!

crap still...

one full week of madness, and i'm only half way through it, well and truly going mad already. things are not going as smoothly as planned (that's the norm), report being rejected, stuck on assignments, fyp progress submission...... all the shit coming together in 1 week, and i still have to time to blog! what the hell am i thinking?

perhaps, i just need a channel to vent my frustration, jump out of all these shit for just a while, to get the brain going again. (talking about brain, seems like it has gone AWOL again! shit!)

bloody 179A Part II

damn it! why the hell is there lesson at 8.30am in the morning?

have to wake up early, squeeze into bus with school kids, n wait bloody long for the bloody 179! bloody hell, SBS, totally no improvement at all!

why the hell are we paying so much for this "SELF-ACCLAIMED WORLD CLASS" transport system?

DAMN!!

bloody 179A

damn bloody bored in school, rotting away, while waiting for the next lecture to start. wasn't a good start for the 2nd part of a bloody siong semester. then again, does it matter?

bad start to the long day anyway. today is the day which there is a new bus service, 179A, to NTU. if u have been anticipating a smoother ride and shorter waiting time, then u would have been damn wrong. nice idea to have a service to bring students directly from boon lay interchange to NTU skipping all the stops in between, BUT what's the difference if the frequency of the bus is still the same? the main issue has always been the frequency of bus 179 every morning, but today, the same old problem is still there, probably could have even worsen. else how could u explain the fact that i was in the queue at 7.55am, but only managed to board the bus (yes, it's the new 179A) at 8.20am, and reach NTU at only 8.40am. damn late again, when i reach boon lay even early than before. what is happening?

only manday morning, such shit happen, what's going to happen for the whole week? damn!

sleepless...

6plus in the morning, still wide awake, 24hrs without Zzzzz and still counting! must be the 2 glasses of teh bing 在作祟！

haven't been doing nothing this whole time, but managed to discover a "shocking" (or rather interesting) attribute of an old friend. 这位XXX竟能在察言观色之中，窥探出一个人心里的想法，至少在我身上是应验的！太恐怖了！just imagine, if only he has the mouth of a certain ting hock hoe + the influence of wendi teoh, how much stories will be stirred up in this world!

即使不是天下大乱，至少也会鸡犬不宁！

even more craps?!?

very happy end to the day. had high tea with 师傅 BB (being treated some more, what else can i expect. woohoo~). there after have dinner with 师傅 and 美兰老师，2 person whom i have a lot of respect for. what nice way to end off a day out. haha. not forgetting hearing the "trade secrets" for 《当兵》．

as i writing this, cant really believe that i'm actually so bored to be playing food fight on face book! ( OMG! what is happening to me?) assignments are stacking up, den again i'm not a studious person, so let it stack 1st ba, WHACK others in food fight 1st！　

chiong ah! hoot!

more craps?!?

though 好的开始是成功的一半，the day started well by not having any hangover from the previous night's exertion on beers, but the afternoon began to change for the worse. the treat which i had waited for the past 3months is CANCELED! or rather postpone indefinitely. more waiting to come, not another 3months i hope.

晚上就到了实践走走，竟然做了一件难以想象的事。我竟然与一个圆的，叫邓福和的男人在实践的办公室里面对面的，单独的谈了４个钟头！OMG! what am i doing? what am i thinking of? probably this is what is call men's talk? still a bit incredible though, sitting through 4 hrs, just like working in theatre, everything must go in 4hrs block?

seems like everything is getting more and more crappy, but who cares? isn't this suppose to be a crap blog? :-D

The beginning...

i must have been damn bored to really get this blog started, never imagine myself being a blogger. haha. but never say never though.

but still today can be considered as a good start, no hangover from last night's drinking session at holland V. (phew~) somehow did manage to get up at 8plus in the morning after last night's exhaustion, must be the biological clock 在作怪.

long day ahead, but at least good food to look forward to at night. finally getting the treat from Xiao Rong for my involvement in 《小白船》，albeit after 3months of waiting. yeah!