This was what I've been working on for the past week. It really took a lot out of me. I was in a bad mood. I was not open to socialising. Actually I was worse that normal so that's horrible. The only nice thing working on it was having correspondence with Ros and Yiling, whom I've grown to greatly appreciate in the course of working on my journals and my playwriting. It's a very big deal for me as I've never put in so much effort into a stack of paper before. Never. It's the first time that I've written so much as well. I did say that it wasn't that difficult and it was a matter of "turning the smoke machine to 'full' and switching it on", but some of them were the words of my greatest inspirations this semester. I am really damn proud that there's this thing... something to show for what I have learned in this lesson. It's something that is so different from other modules.
It was amazing that I got my children's adaptation read out today. It was a very freaky experience and I haven't gotten used to it yet. It's like getting people to experience what you have inside your head together with you, and you have no idea if they are going to like it or not. Worse of all, people are doing you a favour by doing it for you so you want to make it worth it for them. I was practically hiding behind Chun Yan's chair through the reading. I thought it turned out rather well though. The best part about it was that Michael thought so! YAY! I was damn ecstatic when he voiced his overall approval of the script. And Ros gave me the "I told you so, your script's decent" look and smiled. I showed her the script and she gave me feedback before I came up with this editted version. It was a great way to end the penultimate session of playwriting... but I hope to see Ros' dialogue get performed. It will certainly end everything with a huge bang.
I went back to Sembawang Secondary School today with Si Hua, as it was our school's 10th anniversary... and was feeling quite shy so I didn't talk to many people. I think I'll go back to school on another day to talk to my teachers though. But the thing about going back to school is like that - there'd definitely be teachers that you don't want to see. And run away and hide from. Haha..
We had to walk to the front gate because the back gate wasn't opened. We spied around and looked around for some teachers. It was quite a nice experience to be back again. Those days of being in school came flooding back to me non-stop. Really. The place has changed, but it still looked so new. It was as if the building hadn't aged while we were away. Its students, on the other hand, have aged.
The hair on my arms stood on ends as I saw the band perform. The school band was one of the CCAs that did us very proud ever since it was established. My batch was actually the pioneer batch of the school. Anyway, their performance of YMCA was great and to see the rest of the students jump, dance and cheer in jubilation around them just overwhelmed me. The feelings of lost youth and innocence...
And it was in this hall that I was the MC for the Official Opening of our school, where we had Dr Tony Tan as our guest-of-honour. It was unforgettable when he looked and nodded at me as I announced "And may we now invite our guest-of-honour Dr Tony Tan to proceed downstairs for some refreshments.". It's one of those things that'll remain in your memory for as long as you live.
SSS really holds many of those memories.
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