farewell...

for those who are not in the know... my laptop decided to breakdown on me on friday the 13th... how exciting right? anyway the hard disk had to replaced and i finally got my laptop back today...

getting back the laptop from the service centre was a rather painful experience... not because the staff were mean or anything, it was just a case of losing everything in my hard disk...

things that have been lost include...

1) scripts that i've written over the last six months
2) music files and playlists
3) pictures that have captured my growth as a person for the last couple of years...

thinking back, so much has occurred... me moving out of the house, moving back, buying my car, becoming artistic director, career switch to debating and styling, rainbow fish, falling in love and out of love...

is this meant to be a brand-new start? that everything is lost and i have a clean slate to start all over again... but ain't it strange that i spent the last couple of hours recapturing whatever scrapes of memories that i could lay my hands on?

maybe i don't want to start anew... maybe i rather stand put and just be contented where i am as the world moves on...

the heat is on...

my mind has been clouded with too many things recently BUT i'm glad things are clearing up... and with clear skies and a clear mind... here's the lowdown of how stressed i am going to be...

27th feb: round two of julia gabriels (debates)... they had a great showing at round one so let's all hope that this will build on what they have already established...

13th mar: round three of julia gabriels

4th apr: day one of midc (jc debates)... two matches...

11th apr: day two of midc... another two matches...

14th apr: syf for bedok view...

don't be deceived by the dates... the training is super tiring!

on a separate note... it's so fun conducting the debating workshop at cat high... the boys are a bundle of joy!

final journey...

i am truly thrilled by my syf piece... the girls are really working their butts off to get everything right... hopefully everything else will fall into place...

i cannot pinpoint a line of the script that i like... the entire piece just moves me... i remember how tough it was to write the ending... the crafting of their demise was close to mission impossible...

saw the off-book version of it over the last couple of sessions... very very happy!

on that note, i'm off to bed because i have to wake up at 6am again...

giving thanks...

for a marvellous monday...

- kickstarted a new workshop series for a local school... very pleased with the response
- had a great training session... very happy that students were responsive
- reviewed last friday's competition with my students
- confirmed a job with my long-time client but sharing some of the load with a friend... if not really overloaded...

for a terrific tuesday...

- waking up at 7.30am to play driver... haha...
- performance in a school hall that had air-conditioning... shiok la... teachers and children were surprisingly responsive...
- finally did a full run for final journey... looks good!
- went shopping for birthday present then dinner at taka... it was more funny than fun... laughed a lot...

for a wonderful wednesday...

- another early morning but not too bad...
- cheap canteen food... quite tasty too!
- worked an hour but getting two hours' pay!
- met new batch of minions... bad but not that bad...
- dinner with mini-me and gerald... nice chillout and winding down after a long day
- oh, GNC is having a two-for-the-price-of-one promotion... yeah! myoplex stockup!
- cleared bulk of paperwork...

good qi! good qi! good qi!

all work and no play...

i asked myself if i took too big a bite of the 2009 work pie...

as of now, the battle wounds are as follows...

drama: coaching two schools... one preparing for a major musical in April, another preparing for competition end-march then they move on to a major musical in july. this means non-stop rehearsals till july...

debates: coaching two schools... workshops for another two schools (and possibly a third)... first school goes into competition this friday... competition will drag on for a couple of months if they go all the way till the end... other school's new intake comes in this week which translates into intensive training to bring them up to par. as for the two schools i workshop... thank goodness it's only an hour each session...

so all weekday afternoons are taken up, saturday mornings too... then what about weekday mornings and sunday?

here goes...

weekday mornings: either teaching workshops for SDC, giving talks for HPB, doing shows for ETC or training for DB (gym and cardio)

sundays: giving tuition in the mornings and dragonboat in the afternoon...

so those who want a piece of me... book early... or catch me during the late night... haha!