currently involved in this church magic show organised by fcbc and Touch Ministries :)

It's great fun and i am enjoying every moment of it! meeting the ndp people..wearing the costume...holding the instruments...hearing the music once again :) it feels just like an extended ndp parade :p

i just love the adrenaline rush of performing. the feeling of butterflies in your stomach before every show...the conviction by everyone involved to make it work out perfectly. it's like the moment you step out into the stage, your mind shut off from everything and you just do it there and then. nothing else matters! :)

a really hilarious 'freak accident' happened during yest's performance...muahaha. one person stood at the wrong position and everybody moved down one place..leaving me and my partner with only one drum. my gosh...and the music was starting in a few seconds! oh man...with so many people sitting right in front of us. hopefully they thought it was a special 'effect'. he ended doing the dance sequence on the floor without a drum and it was just so darn corny :D thankfully there was a timing to swop drums and the light effects were rather confusing. so i quickly ran off to the empty drum. had a good laugh after everything...even up till now :p

heard from a fellow performer that he used to be invloved in musical productions. so cool! shall find out more about it :) it has been my dream to be in a musical...no matter how teeny the part may be...heh.

hmm...and maybe i should catch the Wedding Banquet. their voices are amazing. it's so different from pop 'singers'...hmm. and the best part is they can sing and dance and act! talk about talent :)

and if i ever ever ever get to Broadway...i can get to meet Clay! teeheehee.

Someday. Clay. Broadway. YAY.

managed to get through the first week of school. phew...

my Japanese biz tutor is quite wierd. he sorta laughs through his nose with a funny wheezing sound. haha :p it's a brand new format he's using for this mod - problem-solving. hmm. not sure if i can handle that kind of learning...it's something like coming up with your own research question through many rounds of discussion. the main problem is that it is sooo difficult to come up with a question! and class participation takes up 30%...better start talking in class :p but i am looking forward to see how it works out man...so different from the rest of my mods.

got a very interesting-looking project coming up from the js cultural mod. we get to visit museums and watch many japanese films etc. cool :) many familiar faces from my previous js linguistic class...nice bunch of people.

Marketing looks really tough and econs-y. as dee said..it's really time-consuming! only the first week and we gotta do chapters of reading ~shudder~ even the outline of the course was 20 pages! and i am not exactly looking forward to doing a 25-page report of a marketing plan :/ Thankfully i have joy...hopefully we get to be in same tutorial class.

Elang is as what i have expected...erm. nothing much to say about it :) i am quite worried about the sound and words mod...it seems so factual, learning about how sound is produced etc. the other module should be better...word playing time!

my major modules classes are really small...and according to what barrel said about the bell-curve grading, i foresee alot of serious work waiting to be done in this term. i dun want to end up at the bottom...sigh.

yah life is much more than studying. but cannot afford to slack especially in second year...man i am starting to sound like a chaomugger.

eeks.

i am having a bad bout of back-to-school blues!

it is only the second day but somehow already feel a little exhausted. hmm. was so looking forward to the start of term...but now feeling kinda stressed. sigh..dunno whether i chose the right mods and dealing with my own expectations etc. argh. better get over it quick.

Arts canteen is getting too darn crowded. it feels as suffocating as a clogged-up sink :( arrgh. oh man. people are standing around your table waiting for you to finish up. and the queues are sooo long and the weather is terribly hot. no appetite to eat.

as barrel said, the newbies look really refreshed. somehow you can see who the years 1s are...they got that 'fresh-from-orientation' air about them. so chatty...excitable...cheery.

i must be feeling and probably looking like very stale bread. sigh.

but it's not that i am not enjoying uni. my modules look great..so far. heh. but school became more 'academic' in a sense...no longer about hanging out with friends and people-watching etc. and no more trying out of subjects but sticking to your major choices. ahh...i miss that honeymoon year one.

stale. stale. stale.

Yesterday's parade was just perfect. it did not rain...phew. and the weather was really cool and windy. everything went smoothly and great! :) no faulty lights...no leaking barrels. the neonpaint was at its thickest...the colours were sooo bright. and so lucky to have a photographer at our entrance...heh. he was the same one who took piccies of us during balloon sculpturing and when we were escaping from paint war :p one of my fav segments was the precision drill by the military police. amazing stuff!!! i definitely hope to join next year :D

if you din manage to catch it...watch it online here now!

everything ended too quickly. SIGH :( never thought that these few months of practise past so quickly. the people, indoor stadium bonding and waiting, water splashing, dinner rush etc. have seemingly became a part of my life. Saturdays were always the highlight of the week.

and YOU.

the indoor stadium was already empty as we were always the last group to leave. stayed behind to wait for the allocated transport to try and catch a last last last glimpse of you. i already half gave up. plus a silly dream about me relief teaching your class the night before somehow made me think i won't get to see you.

yesterday was probably the only time i was glad the shuttlebus came as late as usual. *there you were at the bus stand* working as hard as always...walking around with loudspeaker and all. there wasn't enough time to take a piccy of you as we were all hushed up the bus. i am really really really thankful for that few precious seconds.

sigh...the thought of seeing you the last time was just plain painful.

the parade and people were pure fun but still, you made all the difference :)