Club Crawl!

For the past 1 week i’ve been stuck to this weird illness where i have a terrible flu, with a bad throat with loads of phlegm plus a bad fever/headache. I feel so weak i wished i could sleep more. Unfortunately, i need to work for 5 weeks from 7am to 745am. Since i’m living in Choa Chu Kang, i have to wake up at 4 plus just to make sure that i can be slightly early for me to prepare some routines for the skipping rope class. YES! I’m a skipping rope instructor. LoL. I don’t know how it happened but because i could naturally skip and a guy introduce this job to me, i accepted it immediately.

To leave the house during the dark and reach home when it’s still dark, it’s been too tiring. Can u imagine i leave the house at 5am and reach back around 11pm for 3 weeks straight? Argh. Maybe i’m just weak. And recently i just got my projects from my course. 3 projects to be precise. And it’s just the first week of my “first year”. It’s so funny when some of my OGLs wonder how can i be so enthusiastic in participating school event when i’m just a year one. LOL. Damn it. This means that i have 4 years in NYP! Gross. I really hope they improve the facilities and focus their budget properly. Like seriously, who would want to renovate the Mcdonald’s twice and renovate the north and south canteen but there’s no difference generally? Tsk tsk. It’s ok…our new principal is younger and he’s more ARTS inclined so everything will go great i guess.

Wait. I’m supposed to talk about club crawl but somehow the first two humongous paragraphs has nothing to do with it! Ok Club crawl…Hmm. It’s been quite a big preparation for this year’s club crawl. We made beautiful banners, lightings and props for our booth. Frankly speaking, i think our booth stood out because of the shimmers and colours. I thought Nick did a relatively good job for this club crawl. For Francisca, she’s the best! She really did the props and contributed the most! But the whole committee did a well done job.

Sarah was so funny and bimbotic during the club crawl period. She would follow the guy from the back, grab his shoulder to face her and with lust she said “Join StageArts”. It was a funny experience because all the guys who were brought by her looked as if they were forced instead of signing up because of interest. It’s ok, interest will rise somehow. The make up team did well by making Zul the ultimate winner of best mascot! Wo hoo! i’m glad he don’t take criticism like “bapuk”[drag prostitute] or gay…not everyone in this world is as nice. They are just made to create shit in life. Anyway, nadia, yatasha and sarah were great too!

For drama, the performance was impressive. I love it because of the funny element. Thanks to kaye for that idea! For dance…hmm… i wished everyone was synchronised but i’m fine with it because i know synchronisingis never easy. It was really hard to dance just now as i could hardly breath because of my sickness. Oh well,  i hope everyone mindset change after this club crawl. No doubt Foreign Bodies did great and always wins the crowd but it’s their passion that causes everything to happen. They were still practising after club crawl! I love their mindset. I asked one of their junior and he told me that although he’s “sian” practising all the time, it’s the passion and sweat from the other members that made him come. And to see his powerful standard, he’s really humble. If SA dancers have the same mindset, we will be able to make it because when we first came in, we have more trained dancers than FB. Complacency is the killer word for dancers!

To end it off, it’s a great experience being in StageArts. I hope i’ll cherise the great moments with everyone. Today marks the day. I’ve decided to end my performing arts life. First, i’m just not great at it. Second, the environment. Third, it’s time for me to have a new life. So if anyone saw me in a bad mood or crying when i’m dancing an upbeat song, it’s because of me making this decision. It’s really tough leaving it just like that. I would want to continue but so far, i’ve yet been convinced by anyone. I appreciate Rene’s and Zelia’s advice but i just have this strong gut feeling to leave the club. Athough i still have hopes for the club and its future, i shall put it aside. I love to dream. I always dream to make a difference in StageArts. Ultimately, all my dreams never come through. It makes me feel really weak just by crying while typing such a huge junk. Sometimes like i said, people give up not because they’re weak but because they’re brave enough to let things go. There’s a reason why i start to drift myself further from the members; so that i won’t be attached to them and will soften my emotional state. Perhaps i’m just too emotional. Hais…

20 cents game

So Anjana was late. When i reached 5 minutes earlier, i saw Kaye sitting in the room looking really sick; she arrived really early. Ok, it’s the 1st time she’s late so i’m fine with it. I found few annoying late-comers. They are the ’seasoned’ late-comers or somewhat like a diva in the house. Whatever. I’m not gonna let such things to corrupt my mind. Too much things happened already.

Anyway our warm up is pretty tiring. Nope we didn’t do stretching but we ran all over the small room while playing one of the warm up games. Soon after we challenged ourselves to a short and simple script but making use of our creativity to make the lines interesting. I partnered Kaye…and we did scenes about a horny guy and the other one was about 2 bodybuilders. LOL. Then Anjana introduced a game called scenes from the hat. 5 people were asked to impromptu as many lines as possible when given any particular scenes. I did not have any inspiration so i did badly at this one.

So the last game was 20 cents coin. I was terrified if to be chosen. Luckily, Kaye was chosen first. In a minute she cried. WOw. I thought she did well although she was having a really bad sore throat. Anjana was so mean she refuses to give the coin to her…even to the point where yana and i cried because we were feeling it. In the end Anjana ‘angel-ed’ herself and gave the coin to her. After kaye was Franssica’s turn. She wasn’t able to get the coin because she did not really open herself up. Perhaps, she’s just shy.

After Fran’s turn, Anjana called me. I was like “Freak! I’ll never gonna make it”. And yes i was right. It was hard to get the coin. I was actually in the mood until Anjana commented on how nice my hair was. It was so funny that i lost my tension. But i build it up until i cried. Then Anjana said “Wanna try again?” That’s when i really give all out! I screamed at her…and cried so badly that my eyes looked small, my mucus coming out…and my veins on my forehead can be seen. It felt so surreal. She tricked me again by passing me the coin and then continued “Oh maybe you’re not ready”. I seriously felt like smacking her but the feeling grew stronger and stronger until she decided to pass me the coin. I feel that it’s a huge accomplishment to be one of the three people among the juniors to get the coin. After the game, i went to the handicap toilet and continued crying. I could not let go of the strong feeling. It took me 15 mins to get rid of the entire feeling. Although my eyes were swollen for another 10 mins.

The game really helped me to improve my acting skills in the future. I’m proud of what i’ve done because i never knew i could do it.