I've been MIA on the internet with my facebook left to accumulate nearly 103 updates, my yahoo email account to gather 168 unread emails, of which by the way only 45 were worth reading and ofcourse, my blog to rot and my words to gather dust. So this is going to be a rather and I would like to think interesting update on the happenings for the past one week.
But I must warn you though, if you intent to fall asleep while reading my post here, just change the webpage...and I'll blame your drooping eyelids on a long tiring day rather than on my long winded blog post.
So....let's talk MUSICAl. I had been busy for the past one month moving back and forth from the comfort of my own home in Sembawang to the National University of Singapore (NUS) campus based in Clementi. And for that 1 and a half hour ride, I travel to build and paint sets for the production I was aiding in. Let me tell you that for the past one week, it has been hell. Traveling early in the morning to the University Cultural Centre's theatre to bunk in the sets and carry them about has not only been physically exhausting but mentally exhausting.
Physically for obvious reasons; each piece of set had to be more than 10kg. There was a moving train that spewed smoke from the chimney and ofcourse the facade that lowered from the flybars. I painted two 15 feets horses and I've never been proud about my artwork lol. And let me tell you, the other sets were brilliant!!! There was a large fountain, a mansion scene, a cowboy street during festive seasons and so on so forth.
Mentally simply because I like to know everything and in this case it was impossible. Most of my friends would know that I'm a freak for details and information. I rather know everything about what I'm about to do before I do it. I think it just makes me feel more in control of the situation as I would be able to contribute ideas and such. But in this case, I had no leadership position in that department none whatsoever. But therein lay the lesson I learnt...
Sometimes being a good leader means being a good team player. And when you're a team player, you're job is to make your leader's plan successful by all means possible.
Plus it helped that Yoga, Prabs and my sis were there backstage. Thank you Yoga and Prabs for coming even with you throat infection and fever respectively. And my sis, thank you so much for coming even though I know you hate getting dirt under your nails...although you did in the end!!! But seriously the three of you'll were awesome : )
And to Uwa, Pru, Sasi, Suran, Sara, Anitha, Anu and Prakash, thank you for making it all worthwhile. You guys are force to reckon with and it was a pleasure working with you'll.
Right then, moving on. Bidding!!! Yes, well, only one paragraph will be dedicated to this. While the production preparation was going on, we had to do bidding for our modules and I nearly died outbidding others. God. Seriously there must be a better way to attain the modules you want.
So on a Friday night, I trudge back home, tired, with a gash on my bag, blisters on my hands, bruises on my legs and nail punctures on my fingers, I fall onto my bed exhausted only to wake up the next morning recalling that we had an MJ tribute to do. When I reached the CC, there were only 7 of us there and I have to admit, I was disappointed with a few people who promised to turn up but never did and having 7 people do an MJ tribute was kind of ridiculous. Even then, I reminded myself that we were doing this because we respected Michael and wanted to pay respect for his work as well as have some fun doing it.
As we set off for our first stop, Bugis, we start recieving messages from unknown numbers telling us what colour shirts they were wearing and confirming where to meet up. And so from a 7 man team, we turned into a 24 man team. And so, we performed at Bugis at precisely 1pm.
Then, having made new friends,we set off for Orchad, Taka. After having lunch and chit chatting most of the time, we performed at exactly 4pm and by this time, our 24 man team had turned into a 35 man team.
Excitement surging freshly through our blood we decide to perform it once more at Orchad, outside Ion. This was at 4.20pm.
And finally, we went to Vivo City where we slacked at the rooftop for nearly 2 hours. We played games, made friends with drunked people from Belgium and Spain, performed forfeits where I ran around the rooftop trying to imitate baywatch (failed attempt obviously), ate dinner on our laps, danced to the beat of a drumline group that performed there and finally ofcourse, at 7.40pm, performed 'Beat it' for the final time. We did twice though, one after another.
And why 7.40pm and not 7.30pm as we had orignially planed? Because, our speaker's battery failed and we had to find a power point. Thank you Sathin for doing so and tolerating my scolding. This video is kind of dark but if you do want to see a clearer one, click on this link...
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