Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Well here i am, in my room sipping away at an ice cold beer, whilst surfing the net. I figure its time to do my monthly update, and this time, its with a good story. Well, sorta.
Anyways, most of us knows that yeterday (Monday, 10th march) was the day all our hardwork would pay off for, all those months staying back after lectures to make many small flawed bits in to one complete not-too-perfect but still good piece. Personally, i was rather nervy, scared if you will. I did, after all, mess up my lines during two full rehersals.
Now, for the story.
Last Thursday we had our full dress rehersals with lightings and the lot. This sharade was to run (at first) from 5pm to 3am. So, since class ended at 4pm, we went for a little COD till around 5.30pm. So we were late, it was our chow time we were eating into after all. So we walk back to the college, and we were told by Ah Fett and Michelle that the stupid thing would start at 7.30pm. Man, this was FOS. Could've spent more time at the CC. But no, comunication from the management was so good that it effed things up.
Fine, no matter, we'd just go chill out. Well, we did a few run trough's and had a few mod's courtesy of Xavier, Alex and Abang Rosman. Then halfway trough we had a one hour break where we went to the gas station and bought some stuff. Redbull and coffee to be prescise. When we got back, we played a little dare game. This part was great. Melody kissed Xavier, Pui San kissed Melody, Ed kissed Ann, Brian kissed Fish. Well, after all that, we did the rehersals once with everything, we'd figure that it was as good as it got. But no, we got were told that we'd do it over and over again till it was all perfect. wow...utter BS...
Well fine, we did it again, and it was a good thing that was all they wanted, if not, i'd bloody walk out. It was 4am by the time we got home. I felt dead. I woke up the next day at 3pm where we went to watch 10000 BC. It would've been good if it had a better story line. I liked the epic battle part, just that it wasn't as long as i would've liked it to be.
Well, Saturday was another rehersals, nothing much to say about. If i remember right, we went for some more COD. Well, Sunday was the eve of D-Day. We met up with Jimmy a lil' earlier for, you guessed it, COD. We went up to the Audi at 12.30 where we were assigned rides for the convoy. We arrived at Traders hotel and we bunged down in the hotel room. But not more than 30 mins do we get our rears into KLCC for "lunch". We walked around and got rations from Cold Storage (namely redbull and coffee...again).
Well, we had dinner at one of the function rooms, to which would be our "Base of Operations". The dinner was a bit better than what they'd feed us in KDU. The difference was that the food here tasted a bit better, even if it did cause half of the crew to fall ill.
I was a bit pissed off that night. A group of us wanted to head to the Sky Bar up o the 33rd floor by the pool. It was a nice place to be. But just as we sat down, got comfortable, and had a few orders, we were ordered back down to the rooms. It was like we were kids and toddlers who didn't know how to take care of ourselves. Hell, that didn;t stop us from having a blast.
We went to Jimmy's room where a whole bunch were playing cards. From my room came Brian and Vince as well. We had our key cards taken, so KP stayed back to open the doors back again when we were done. So we just sat around in Jim's room, stoning i guess. More guys came and left, until it was down to Me, Brian, Xavier, DBoy, Vince, Faye, Jimmy, Jilly, Sylvia, Pui San, Fish and Tze. (Eugene was dead on the floor). So here, we played the dare game, again. I'll be sure to upload pictures and video's once i get them.
Well, at 1.30 am, we went down for a grand supper - bread and water. Ok, there was coffee, but essentially, that was it. We were supposed to do some rehersing on the new stage. So we were told to come down and wait till we could do the rehersing. So we waited, and waited and oh yeah! we waited some more. What pissed me off the most was that we were told "i don't care, just come down here, if you have to wait, you wait." so there it was, we waited for i think about 3 hours before we rehersed, and for how long? about 20 mins to half an hour. wow...talk about pissy.
That left us with 3 hours of sleep coz we were to meet again at 8.30 am. I slept on the floor and froze to death in the morning. Ok, get this, we went down at 8.30, and waited again. This time, we waited a bit more than an hour. talk about more time wasted huh? Worst part was, and this was when the steam reached critical point, when "lunch" finally came, and when the group was done with it, there was hardly anything left. we were told "why didn't you come down earlier huh? now theres no food, don't complain" well, we were the first down. but ah eff this, what can you expect right?
Well, we waited some more, ran two more full rehersals, and a whole lot of radio tests - to which was really dissapointing. They were using old radio sets, and the way they said it it was like it was our play, so if the mike gets effed up, its all on us, so, don't eff up. You'd at least think that if there were people paying 10K per table that they'd at least rent new mic sets right?
Well, next was the make up, which took a very long time. I was thinking about how bad it was to wait anxiously for our time to perform and that it'd be a whole lot better to just do it straight, but we barely just made it with the make up and all.
Well, we went on with the show, the mike messed up here and there, dropping our face value. But at the end of the day, the dances were good, the acting was just as we'd rehersed, if not better. I'd say it was a sucess, if not for the mic's. Well, supper was, surprisingly, really good. altough i did miss the main course, again.
We went back at around 1.30 am. i wanted to light of a cigar with Cho, but that wasn't gonna happen, so now the cig is just waiting to be lit this Friday at Maison's.
Well okay, so there arent any pics or vids in this post, but i'll look for them and have them out on the next post.
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