Maritess vs the Superfriends

Maritess vs the Superfriends

It's a hilarious cartoon made with the purpose of educating people on the plight of foreign workers. It deals with things like sexual harrassment and expired visas. It was shown during lecture a couple of weeks ago when we were taught how the internet was used as the medium to educate people about issues in a friendly manner. I was only reminded of it when Ros and Melvin started imitating Maritess during one of theatre rehearsals. Random, I know. Anyway, it was memorable and I thought it was a great way to introduce problems in a non-serious manner! So check it out for a good laugh if you have the time!

"I think Batman's gay. He's always hanging around with the little boy Robin!"

Have fun imitating Maritess!

I'll Give You Moar

Ah... yes. You guys have already voted for emo entries, so I'll give you MOAR! Okay, I'm kidding, but I am feeling kind of emo. The lights are turned off except for my table lamp and the screen of my laptop. My roomie's sleeping because he's sick, but he still went to school today. Hope he gets well soon. I'm feeling emo because I'm tired and hungry. After a long day's work, I guess it's natural to feel the way I do.

Rehearsing for theatre was damn fun though. Despite all the waiting, Ros and I did renditions of Gimme More no less than 500 times. It started from merely singing it, to dancing along to it, to doing dumb things with it, to imitating her VMAs performance. I don't need people to love her. I don't need people to buy her album. I just need people to acknowledge that Britney is Britney! And for that Fabian and Ahmad deserves a shoutout too! There was a make believe advertising agency called Spears Lohan during lecture and they got my attention and we all laughed at it together. Kind of like how, in JC, my classmates would turn around and ask me if I was high whenever the Chemistry lecturer said "Toxic".

Rehearsal today was good. I've more or less settled into the shoes of my psycho role. I've to scold my refletion and then collapse into peels of laughter. Twice. It's been frustrating for me but my groupmates have been extremely supportive and gave me a couple examples. I've ran through the scene a couple of times in my mind especially when I'm walking alone (which explains the weird stares that I've been getting when I look serious and then start smiling to myself). The lights and music... everything looks good and I'm really excited about the performance tomorrow. No matter how it goes I know I had fun doing it, and I'm glad to be part of a bunch of talented people. We were really havoc. As of now I still smell of Febreeze. Okay, so it was my fault because I sprayed Melvin when he came into the Wardrobe and then he tried pinning me and I sprayed Ros and it became a rather messy affair which ended with strange white gob staines on one of the shirts. I'll leave it to your imagination.

Anyway, I'll put the video of our final performance tomorrow if I manage to record it!

I'll also be doing the lights for two other groups tomorrow and yes, I'm freaking out. It's a scary thing, listening out and looking for cues. I know I volunteered but I hope I do a good job and not screw up anything. I've just doubled my chances of doing so! Haha... I'm really nervous because I felt I haven't practised enough with them!

Theatre is the only elective that I'll miss when it's all over. I'll have to go back to seriously facing books and mugging for the rest of the subjects.

I don't know if I'm good at acting but I'm certainly interested in taking on more projects as time goes!

I'm on my way to mastering the art of zi high, and I'm getting more and more keen in performing in front of an audience. Doing a presentation, however, is a different story. My group finally presented our shizzle for Speech and Argumentation and we were all ecstatic that it was over. Every week that we weren't called was another week that we had to prepare and feel stress and fret about being chosen. Three cheers for Amos, Jinyong and Joan! You guys rock and it was fab working with ya'll!

Ooh yeah and I'm super prone to losing stuff recently. I'm kinda sad after my file, my thumbdrive, and now I've left my pencilbox in the lecture theatre. I'm going to try to hunt for it though. Unlike the other two cases, I won't give up hope so easily. Rawr. I don't know what to blame my recent episodes of forgetfulness on...



+ Ahmad who took the photo. Just wanna say I couldn't possbily stay in school without you guys. Sorry for not going on the Thailand trip, but if there were something else in the future I'd definitely go. Let's weather the exams together first! Haha...

Dammit... I'm getting a headache. I'll look at Britney's VMAs performance just for a laugh, then I'll be ready to sleep.

Blogging

I've been blogging since 2001 on opendiary. I don't know if anyone heard of that site before. I guess things like xanga were rather popular back in the day. I switched to blogspot because it was more accessible, so that was sometime in 2005. I was writing about myself and treating it as a diary but at the same time trying my hand at writing stuff about entertainment. I had weekly music charts, music reviews and movie reviews. Yeah there was a lot more effort as compared to now! Part of the reason is because I've watched too many movies this year, and I really cannot be bothered to write about them the way I used to! Also the focus moved from entertainment to me, basically because I think everyone would rather get their daily entertainment bites from Pink Is The New Blog. So obviously I continue to do what I do best, which is to talk about me. In terms of music charts well, I've heard so many people tell me that's the part they skip when they read my blog!

I don't think I'm fantastic or anything, but over time I've learned what kind of topics people tend to respond to. I haven't deluded myself by thinking that no one's reading and I'm allowed to blog all my inner thoughts and no one would know or start flaming people I hate whenever I feel like it. Instead it's this funny realisation that you're writing for yourself as much as you're writing for an audience. I think by neglecting the fact that people actually do pop by is a sign of disrrespect. You don't consider what they want (to read).

Some people believe they can't balance being true to themselves and writing for an audience. I'm not "some people". So here's a chance for you to vote for what you want me to write. If I do end up being a journalist (which I doubt because I'm not up to it yet!) it'll be good practice writing things that actually interest people.

I've thought of actually writing proper stuff. Serious stuff. Intellectual. But it seems that I've never been good at writing those. My GP essays consist mostly of things that I can make examples of from thin air, rather than hardcore science and technology, crime and punishment type questions. In a sense I've always been writing "improper" stuff.

Now, Terence is a different story. His blog is amazing. It's intellectual and witty... all the things I'm not. In fact I feel like a complete bimbo blogger compared to him. His latest entry probably sums up the entire COM203 lecture that happened on Monday! He is also one of the few (3?) Singaporeans to ask MM Lee a question during the Ministerial Forum earlier this month.

I've known Terence since Sec 3. He's brilliant in his manipulation of the language to convey his very creative thoughts. In fact he and Taufiq would take turns to impress (and shock) the class time and again with their writing. I was good of course, but they... they were in a completely different league! Surprisingly, instead of being jealous (which was an emotion that was very familiar to my childish self at that time) I was actually in awe of their writing skills. It was also their presence that pushed me to write better narratives and although I ended up with an A2, I felt that the effort I've put in to reach their standard made me improve a lot.

CS is a small place and to have a classmate from way back being in the same school is... amazing. I'm proud to know him and I honestly think that he'll be making waves in whatever he chooses to specialise in, although I think it'll be Journalism!

In conclusion (the favourite phrase to wrap up impromptu speeches with), despite the impending exams, I'll still be blogging because it is something I enjoy doing, and it really gives me the kick to know that there are so many people who are entertained, whether they're just dropping by to peep at the photos or read whatever I have to say! Keep on rockin'!

Dnd Professional

The professional photos for Dnd just came in about a week or so ago. There weren't many fantastic photos so that was a tad disappointing, but here are some of the good ones.















I've cropped some of them so if you want them in HQ, MSN me!

Study

If life is not just about studying, why does it feel like I've been studying all my life?

The Switch

Yesterday I finally wrapped up filming for my senior's project! It was a rather tedious process but I must say that I really learnt a lot. I ran out of hotel lifts, argued with an Ah Beng at some alley in Joo Chiat, sulked in a Chevrolet and played golf! From total misses and stiff postures to something that actually looks... believable. I hope. I know "a great learning experience" was a reason to bluff me into helping Shuwan act, but yeah, I had the chance to put things that I learned from theatre to use as well. I think most of my acting was a bit sub-standard because I only thought of how I was going to translate my emotions to actions after they finished filming my scene, which is a bit slow of me, but heck, it was a good try! They seemed satisfied with it, so that's my consolation.

Other learning points included things like knowing what the hell white balance is, taking multiple shots of a single scene, the use of some technical equipment, getting permission for filming in all sorts of different places, the actors and a whole lot of other things to look out for during filming!

I'm damn excited about seeing the finished product!

Ooh, and I dressed up for the shoot (as I was supposed to act as some rich guy coming out from a party) so I felt kind of pageantly and was overtaken by the urge to pose a bit.



I'm still trying to make the yang guang nan hai look work. Although the absence of a tan is a problem...

In addition to that I came up with an idea for filming for introduction of the DnD committee. It seems that the best ideas come when you're daydreaming and travelling. Instead of forcing things out, the mind wanders and ideas naturally pop into your head. My experience in filming will definitely come in handy too! Yes, so I'm very excited about doing it after the freaking exams. If I could just get it over with! Argh!