THE GETTING OF WISDOM
- "PLC Drama Production- world's premier"

yupz .. it sounded real gorgeous and grand eh?? and guess wat??? i'm in it~!! :P .. well .. i'm not the cast as i cant really act .. and i'm not capable of dancing u see .. so i'm in the crew .. lighting crew .. :) my job is to lit up and dim down the stage in time and accordingly ... sounded like an easy and appealing job to me at first when i signed up .. bearing the tot that oh .. no big deal man .. easy job and i could watch the play for free!! yay~!! :P but when i was at rehearsal .. oni at that time i realised tat it was completely opposite~ .. timing is very important and not to forget .. accuracy~! .. and the producer is such a fierce and strict man tat u simply couldnt afford to make any mistake .. but other than tat .. he's kinda alrite .. during the play .. i have to pay full attention to wat i was doing ..no day/night dreaming .. and keep focus ... not a single minute for me to relax .. can u feel the tense now? .. eyes on stage and hands on the desk board .. no fooling around . no toking to my frens .. no anything except for doing wat i'm supposed to be .. bring up the light .. blackout .. cross fade .. and 11 up . 12 should be down by the time she enters the stage. . and all those .. wow~!! so stressed when the house lights are down and when the ochestra started playing their music .. every single person around me is just so stressed and the atmostphere is simple so tense cos ... the most obvious mistake on stage is the lighting mistakes .. now u see ..

2 nites ago. was the opening nite ..first performance after 2 weekends of practice and mon and tues nite practices .. crews have to be in black .. gates opened at about 7.15 and the show started at 7.35 .. nard .. my partner who was supposedly to be doing lighting as well is terribly sick ..(get well soon nard~!!) and the producer couldnt afford pau to do it since she hasnt seen the whole play .. *note that i'm using present tense there .. she fell asleep last nite when she was should be watching the play .. so .. considering tat .. she hasnt watch the full play .. and she thinks tat it's very boring .. secretly .. i kinda agree too... ) phew.. the producer sitting next to me was kinda scary at first ..cos he was under so much stress and was literally so stressed out! .. but it was kinda good though cos the part where i was unsure of .. he was there to do the checking and the yes that... no .. do tat .. so ... ya ..it was pretty alrite .. :P and i wouldnt get tat much scoldings from him too .. cos he would be the one who wasnt concentrating and dint give me the queue .. so :) kinda went well last nite..especially the second half :P
something really funny happened during the interval .. cant really remember now .. something like susanne spilt the cordial all over the carpet but was saved courageously by jess .. :P

yesterday was the second nite .. nard was still poorly sick and still lyin on the bed .. so i brought pau along to help me .. the first half dint seem to go tat well cos i just have this feeling tat i brought the lights up too early .. :P but then .. the producer told me tat it was too slow .. hmmm .. i wonder why~ ?~!! well .. anywayz ... during the interval .. i sneaked and ate lots of cookies .. hehe :P need tonnes of energy and sweet things to ease the stress mann .. the jam tarts were absolutely scrumptious~!! :P stolen all of those from vicki and see ann's stall hehe :P ya .. then continuing for the second half .. i actually tot tat the second half was way better .. but in the end .. he came down from the balcony seat .. and said tat he would sit next to me again tonite to make sure tat everything is rite in order and accurate .. so tat the show would be perfect~ .. and he claimed tat it was by no fault of us .. since he changed the settings and gave us a new script .. so .. just pray for the best to come for tonite ! :) anywayz .. pau, after doing lighting for one nite.. complained tat it was actually a very tiresome and effort consuming job .. she said it was very "shang shen" since u seriouslly have to concentrate full on .. not oni ur eyes .. but also ur ears .. ur head.. ur hands ... ur everything .. personally .. i think it's even worse than excersing non stop for one hour .. well ..for ur info .. this play goes on for 3 full hours .. and ya .. i would rather excerse 1hour .. at least i can get slim ~!! hehe :P