Titoudao

Yesterday went to watch 'Titoudao' with Weiliang...... Must really thank Toy Factory for extending its run anyway. Otherwise I would miss this opportunity.

Some seasoned theatre go-ers love to slam Toy Factory for their very commercial oriented performances that eventually fail to fulfil the expectations of certain audiences.

Examples are like Cabaret and Longhouse (Singapore Huayi Festival 2006), both of which I have watched and found true to the trend......

But really, 'Titoudao' is not one of them......

Yes it is bright, bubbly and entertaining, sprinkled with lots of jokes in between and crass humor at times.....

But eventually, there was a very important message at the end of this production which rings loud and clear in theatre practioners' hearts, which Pam Oei managed wonderfully to carry through to the audience.

It then got me thinking, 'if people think wayang is low class now, will the future generation think lowly of us theatre people in the future?'

To which I got quite emotional......

Seeing Pam Oei in the second last scene where she directly interacted with audience in her character, I got very touched by her performance......

Then I started crying..... Not out loud.... but silent tearing. In fact, I was more emotional in Titoudao than during 'Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land' by Stan Lai during Huayi 2007.

Titoudao was good, one of Goh Boon Teck's better plays anyway.

So Boonseng and Kunhua, you all miss another good performance. Its quite different from the last one 3 years ago actually.

After the performance, it got more light-hearted when DaeGekLeng pestered us to have supper with him.......

And stupid Gekleng really thought that the car boot can sit people.

Because weiliang's car changed to two-seater, gekleng say he dun mind sitting in the boot from Ang Mo Kio to Yishun because it is a short while.

Lucky I and Weiliang smarter than him, if not by the time we reached Yishun, we would have a dead body to handle.

Haha

Yet Another Week

Yet another week gone.....

Yet another lab report submitted.....

Yet another week of handing up major assignment......

Yet another week of mundane lectures......

Yet another week of ultra-fustrating tuitions....

Yet another week without rain.... No, not the korean star rain. I seriously find him very annoying.

I find anyone who names himself after a weather condition abit hard to take seriously

Dont expect me to tell delicious stories that I use to on this blog.

It cannot happen when you are doing mostly mundane stuff..... The last interesting thing I heard was that someone shitted on the bus.... And even that I wasn't there to witness....

Thanks Kunhua.

Thanks for the ideas and the advice for the short film.... I must say again that you are really a very good advisor and good listener.....

But hor, I must say you are really not 低调. You must have misunderstood the meaning that's why you anyhow use.

I bought yanzi latest album today.

燕姿在我心里排第一位.

Zhou Xun is second I think. Haha

In the past, when people wanted rain, they danced and sang.

Now, when people wanted rain, they seed clouds.

If you ask me, I rather dance and sing.

Seeding clouds is so unfeeling

知我者莫若ZhongKunHua也！

'TAKE THAT IMAGE OUT OF YOUR HEAD' I yelled

But I think its abit too late. So I grabbed the sledgehammer on the table

'WHAM'

His brains was blasted to pieces.

I couldnt risk it, could I?

This is much much safer, than to let him ruin everything that I have worked so hard to build up.

Kongming let Ma-Su lose 街亭, I cant let him lose my important ground.

_________________

Thanks Kunhua. Thanks for leaving a message. 知我者莫若ZhongKunHua也. You know when something is wrong. When you are not around, I really lack a good listener.

You are not 虚伪. 厚道yes, not 虚伪.

昨晚我盘算很久，终于知道问题所在。

观星发现三台星主主星客星暗淡。佳时未到。

距离遥远，其二要素。

人根本不和，是大问题。

天时地利人和，我三缺二。

Even if it was difficult, I still think I will wait for the right opportunity.

I truly want things my way, closest situation possible, even if I can't get it exactly right.

One of my last mysterious posts for the short term.

From now on, people who come to my house will have to dance to Macy Gray music.

Yes, Macy Gray.

She was once my idol.

And she still is

Then it doesn't matter

Which road should I take? - I asked

Where are you going?

I don't know. - I said

Then it doesn't matter.

He disappeared into thin air, leaving the cheshire smile hanging in the air.

孔明遗言：

'悠悠苍天，劣薄于我'

是的。武候鞠躬尽瘁，辛苦努力，为的就是帮先帝刘备完成统一大业，匡复汉室。

结果，天不成全，武候壮志未成，却病逝五丈原

再努力也没办法克服困难，真是无奈，真是难过。

汉武帝极力歼灭匈奴，不成。苍天劣薄

曹操努力统一中国，不成。苍天劣薄

孔明尽心复兴汉室，不成。苍天劣薄

光绪皇帝维新大清朝纲，不成。苍天劣薄

我也是。

难处非凡，言语不能表达。就差命没给，还是一败涂地。

无法形容，只有说一句：

'悠悠苍天，劣薄于我'

Foolish All These Years

Yes I heard you thank you very much.....

Stop yelling.

I heard the anti-christ yelling at me again..... But its not in the kitchen..... Somewhere in my room....

Yes I am foolish.... Thanks for telling me some thing that I already know

But I had been foolish all these years

I was foolish during 1999-2002.

I was foolish in the army.....

I was foolish in 2006. No, scrap that. Just plain dumb.

I am still foolish now in 2007.

I am waiting to buck the trend. But I don't think its going to be now.

Then what are you going do? What CAN you do?

I am sorry. That's not quite possible. Not for me.

You can't make me regret what I did either. Not my style

I dare you to take my life.....

Stop yelling.

Maybe its time for you to leave.

Repression is painful. Allow me my moments of redemption.

Let me have a moment where I can breath properly.

Otherwise stop yelling. Go to the kitchen if you want to yell.

If there was only peace around.

IF.

A word of futility

Scripted Scripting Script

Whew!

I think I can do that again.

Whew!

Finally got (forced) the script out for my short film project....

Like a baby being born after a very long period of gestation.

The idea walked into my head when I was taking an 854 TIBS bus a year ago after making my first short film project..... But that time, the story was abit different..... It was more typical, more cliche and less deep.....

The story swirled in my mind for awhile.... And along the way I see an amazing transformation to the story form as I watched more and more films along the way and experienced more stuff along the way.....

Yes. 2006 is indeed an tumultous year for me, but it is also a year full of inspirations.....

And I want to thank the person who gave me the biggest inspiration of them all... Because of you I manage to stick the biggest transformation into the heart of the story....

Then came the coincidence that I decided to take a module in NUS called 'Intro to Film Art'

The project was to do a film..... And the story which I thought would remain hidden in my head was about to be made.

I decided not to write out the story straightaway.

I decided to let it swirl in my head more.... attend lessons on Film Art first, learn all I can learn from professor (thanks professor. You were great and helpful)

Then finally, yesterday and today I forced the story out.

Thank goodness. Whew!

Hopefully I will get good reviews.... But dont get also not really very important. Decided from the first day that I can going to make a make-or-break film.

I am not afraid to lose. I am just afraid I will lose the spirit of experimentation and discovery

So without consulting anybody on the film, I had it developed.....

Last time win even if I only had 三脚猫功夫 was because 一时侥幸

Not always so lucky liao.....

I mean, how many times can 雕虫小计 work right?

Haha

品三国

孔明兵法

“撤兵时务必不能惊动敌军。一营一营缓缓的撤。先由粮草与后方营军撤出，再由前方营军改为断路士兵”

Thank you Boonseng. The book is very nice

I love it very much.... To think that you went back but left behind the book for me. Although you read the book before passing it to me, I really like it alot.

Very long time never got people remember that I like something then buy for me already.

You are the first in a year I think.

Thank you.

To think of all people, the most cheapskate one do it for me.

Haha.

Thank you

Champion Crashers

Shit

No I didnt kena bird shit again.

Not dog shit either.

But shit.

Barcelona is out of Champions League.

I hate Liverpool.

Ronaldhinho, please come back soon. We all miss the magical you that played with a smile on your face.

What are we all going to do if that beautiful old smile was gone forever?

They said 天下没有人要我

I say 天下人不要我，我不要天下人

就这么简单

Yes Sir!

Oh NO! I am starting to update less and less on this blog.....

Lacking inspiration lah...... Doing all the mundane stuff now..... Not to mention that I have to struggle with dropping viewership of my blog.... I think when less people are reading your blog, you tend to not bother with coming up with brilliant posts

Yes, everyone. The golden age of this blog is possibly over..... But dont worry. I am sure a second wave will hit the blog soon enough.....

Started filming last Sat. Was quite tiring because only two people on production and the two of us have to handle everything by ourselves.....Travelled three or four places two times.

How I miss DaeGekleng, Weiliang and Jared..... At least they were there to help out the last time round.....

But I didnt have any problems with filming because I think the two kids of choice was quite pro. After a few rounds of rehearsing and cutting, they only got better and better.....

The admirable part of them was that they were young and still manage to grasp what I wanted..... Not to mention I was good with direction. Haha

Hopefully my next stage of filming, which is also the main one with the big kids will be as smooth, if not better....

Yes Sir! Man-U won the clash with Liverpool. Go eat deflated footballs you inferior liverpoolers.

Haha but I had to admit that Man-U was damn lucky to have sneaked a goal in in all that confusion.....

And no lah, Liverpool was not really inferior. In fact, they dominated large periods of the match.

Yes sir!

I found out yesterday that I was getting ready to withdraw my troops..... But abit of a pity to withdraw within the year....

Hope I can do it on scheduled timing next year.... Life is going to be more mundane without war and love....

And hope I will be more than ready by then.

2008.

The year to watch out for.

The year where war and love will be raging full-fledged.

Beijing, here we come

Protege

Went to watch Protege alone today.....

Back to the good old days when I watched movies alone.....

When I was young, I was quite a loner who didnt know I had to do things with friends.... I saw perfectly nothing wrong with going everywhere yourself and doing things yourself.....

Unlike the young daegekleng, I was a loner by choice..... I didnt think very much of my classmates in school... not that they like me very much either I think....

Huay Guan was still a strange place with many strangers at that time......

Anyway, the movie is nice..... Tight plot, exciting pacing.... Just didnt think much of the acting thats all.....

But still everything was great and real...... Slick.... like the current generation of cop flicks coming from Hong Kong.... Inspired by Alan Mak and Andrew Lau with their now famous 'Infernal Affairs' (The remake, The Departed, scored a few oscars, including a Best Director win for Martin Scorsese)

There were a few uncomfortable scenes though, which had me on the edge of my chair.... Like a hand being hammered off brutally and a corpse being fed on by mice..... Horrific... Almost felt like a horror movie of sorts....

But I was still glad I made time to watch the movie.....

Cant we finally see something else from Hong Kong other than cop-triad flicks or comedies?

More Chung-King Express and 千言万语 (by Ann Hui. Bet you all dont know what movie is this right) please.

Enough Infernal Affairs....

Tomorrow going to Weiliang's place for my third yu-sheng tossing of the year.... Hope my income will be triple as well. Haha

Rating for Protege: 3.5 stars