Mood: ...bleurgh...
Song stuck in head today: none
I had to go to school today for the filming of DODO. Which means whatever hopes I had of sleeping in til noon were probably dashed with Joshua's message the night before saying he needed me form one to four in the afternoon. No that I minded. Filming was kind of fun. In a dragged-out, kinda-stressful, multiple-retakes kind of way. But it was an interesting experience. And I learned that directors don't shoot the scenes in order. They jump around a lot. A whole lot. The first scene that was shot with the extras (which includes me by the way. I really wanted to play Dream but Maggie got the role instead of me. It's ok. She was a completely gorgeous Dream.) was one that included us leaving the lecture hall after the lecture. We were supposed to act like we normally do while leaving after a lecture. since we had to do three or four takes, Elia and I came up with a different conversation topic each time we went up or down, ranging from Britney to Indochine on 20th May to Nadia to SYF. Haha and I kept stepping on Disha's foot. And it's so hard not to keep looking at the camera! I kept shifting my eyes towards it sub-consciously. Maybe it's the mere fact that I know it's there aimed at us and that Joshua told us not to look at it. Even while doing the next scene with the extras. This was the one that had all of us in the lecture hall listening to the lecturer (played by Shu) and acting bored/taking notes/stoning while Dawn said her line: I'm not here to study. I'm here to find myself and figure out my dreams. And we're supposed to react in an ohmygosh-is-she-totally-serious-what-is-she-saying? kind of way (Ben was even supposed to drop his pen he was spinning). But it was definitely really hard not to look at the camera with this scene. Shu was standing in front of it and when I looked at her I couldn't help but flick my eyes towards it. I guess it wasn't an intense/obvious look at the camera because Joshua didn't say "Cut!" but still you know...
Anyhoo, we headed to the track next for the final scene with the extras. We were supposed to run/slow jog halfway across the track. Of course I almost protested to this because no way was I going to really run, but Joshua needed us to even though Elia kept begging not to run. I just thought we should just do a really good job on one take so we don't have to do it again. As we returned to the starting position after one round, Joshua told us in the grave tone that we had to retake the shot due to a camera problem. I was like "What?!" There was no way I was going to do it again. But we had no choice so we started to get into position. Then Joshua burst out laughing and said he was joking. Arghhh... Man.. Haha.. Thank god. I would so not run another round. Finally we were done! Went over the time by about an hour though. So that means we were kind of late in meeting the DEPers at Paya Lebar for dinner before the play. we decided to take a cab because we didn't want to keep people waiting.
I missed Parkway Parade so much! I missed Auntie Anne's, Banquet, Fish and Co., the fountain outside next to the ATMs. I even missed the little children's corner outside Isetan. We went up to Banquet and, luckily, managed to find a table that would fit all of us. As usual, we drama people took ages to get food and finish it. We finished dinner aorund 7.15pm and didn't leave Parkway til like around 7.30pm. Chin Hua was so worried we were going to be late. He was stressing about his messed-up hair due to the light drizzle we encountered on the way to the bus-stop. But we did managed to reach La-Salle on time, fairly dry and all of us still together.
The musical theatre students totally blew me away with their performance of The Two Gentlemen Of Verona. It was so magical and electrifiying, you just had to sit there and watch them, enraptured by their every move, their every line, their every note! It was mind-blowing! Simply awesome. Especially the actor who played Proteus. Tim something (darnnit I'll go check the program again). I love his Aussie accent!!!! And his voice? Marvellous. It was so out-of-this world!!! It was so polished and perfected the way they pulled off the whole thing, you would have thought they were an imported professional theatre company. Everyone certainly enjoyed the performance; we were laughing so hard til the whole row shook and after the play we were animatedly discussing it all the way to the bus-stop! The scenes which made us laugh, which made me cry (yes I did cry when Julia and Proteus laments about how your heart breaks when you're in love even if it was only for a moment or two), which made us squeal and sigh... It was a tremendous experience - one that I am certainly grateful for and would cherish for eternity.
*scribbled 1:07 am(:
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Mood: sad and tired
Song stuck in head today: Green Waves from The TempestSo 'The Tempest' has finally ended last night. Myriads of emotions. Good ones, bad ones. I was a nervous wreck before the opening. Probably because it was packed and I could hear people streaming in chattering and talking and making loads of noise. And maybe because ..... was there. I was downing my apple juice with aloe vera like mad. Which was probably a silly thing because instead of a calming effect kicking in, I had to make several trips to the bathroom in the span of 2 hours. And it's not easy going to the bathroom I tell you. First I have to remove my
white costume with extreme care (it's white, therefore it's easy for makeup stains to be seen), then i have to take the leotard off. It's so troublesome this leotard business. As soon as Dinesh said his opening line, I could hear the audience over the monitors going
oooooh.. I almost wished I was in the opening dance. But then again I probably wouldn't have the nerve to be in the beginning of the play. It took me ages to calm myself down and for others to calm me down. I was still rather emotional from the warm-ups and characterisation earlier. The passing of energy from one cast member to another was overwhelming. The thing is I could really feel it going back and forth - something that has never occured to me during my previous drama experiences. And going down the line while each person sends his/her well wishes to each other? Well let's just say I was bawling by the time I reached the end of the line and was too choked up with tears I couldn't say anything. I ended up just giving everyone hugs. Hell, I was even tearing up during Raj's warm-ups. Simply because it was going to be the last one with the JC 2s. I'm going to miss them insanely. Not that I won't see them again, but I won't perform with them again the rest of the year.
Sigh....
Anyhoo.. the play went fabulously well (I still don't understand why the audience was laughing during our going-to-sleep scene) and I managed not to whack Shagun or Disha or Huey Hien during the final dance. Yay me! We were all dead tired after but quite a number of us went to Suraj's house for the PPP. The food was delicious! We all ended up sleeping over, sprawled on the floor amidst the strewn bags and bouquets of flowers. But I didn't manage to sleep in thanks loads to Yi Jun and LC barging into the room yelling
"FIRE! FIRE!" like the house was really burning down. How they managed to have that much energy at freaking 8am in the morning is beyond me. I was too tired to even drag myself over to the bathroom to wash my face. Couldn't have breakfast because someone had already eaten my egg mcmuffin which I ordered. No worries.. I had chocolate bread. Chocolate in the morning. Stomach shock anyone? After an incredibly long nagging from Dad reminding me I was 4 hours late, I finally reached home at 10am. Thank goodness parents weren't home.
I'm going to school again tomorrow after 4 days of being blueslipped. I must say it feels a little bit weird. I won't be surprised if not all the drama people come tomorrow. And I have PE too. How fun.
*scribbled 7:49 pm(:
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Mood: drowsy (stupid flu medicine!)
Song stuck in head today: Opening number from The TempestLast night was opening night for
'The Tempest'. I thought it went well for an opening night and the audience response was awesome. I could feel the energy going back and forth. Darius was remarkable. It was all I could bear not to collapse with laughter backstage as his lines streamed on the monitors. Haha Darius rocks my socks. Especially at his "ague" lines. So funny. Sigh there's so much to write, so little time. I hav rehearsals in a bit and have to rush pff now. Really looking forward to tonight though. Its a completely filled bottom and top deck. Can't wait!
*scribbled 1:20 pm(:
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