Wednesday, February 07, 2007
the people who brought u verve productions - the store of memorabilia! (sans a few people haha)
but first, thanks to all who came to support our show! it was a massive massive success thanks to every single one of u! :)
am feeling kinda lost now that hallprod's over. am having this floaty feeling, like everything that happened on saturday nite was unreal. till now, it's still quite hard to believe that we achieved full house (!!) and that audience response was superb......
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my own memorabilia:
- it wasn't that long ago when roomie and i decided to re-run for hallprod. we had a tough time deciding on our starting com and the seniors' positions. we approached johnson and he actually initially refused to be director again.
- yinglan decided to be adventurous so we decided on an original script this year. remember our script roomie? haha.. the one we drafted in our sociology of changing family lecture.. it's so amateur compared to johnson's script! lol..
- luckily johnson volunteered to write "the store of memorabilia" for us.. can still recall our long chat with him outside his room, when he shared his initial ideas about the script.
- at nydc, johnson provided me and shujing with a scene by scene breakdown and rough plot.. that was where the wayang idea emerged. we had lots of fun, coming up with outrageous dialogues and scenarios while shujing gave me the -_-" face.. haha.. prim and proper shujing canot take it..
- our first starting com meeting and script read-thru.. johnson only completed up till act 3 i think.. i remember i read susan's part and he was mother yee.. we reached the quarreling scene and then he played "sim ai eh jai hui la" on his lappie.. it was my first time hearing this song.. and i teared.. i'm not the kind of person who wil tear in cinemas or while watching shows.. so that moment i knew - this was gona touch many people's hearts.. to me, that scene was the make or break of the show..
- then it was headache for publicity and recruiting freshies. i remember me and shujing coaxing the whole dogon og to join hallprod.. haha.. there was a dogon freshie in almost every portfolio.. then it was late nites and extensive hours spent on msn, trying to persuade the 'hot' freshies to join hallprod instead of other coms.. lol..
- then it was first hallprod meeting followed by our first activity tog - hall 2 night cycling.. was kept entertained by gossip mongers zongming, ah lien, shujing, yinglan etc.. johnson was so shagged after chionging the last stretch at punggol end that he had wobbly legs and couldn't walk down the stairs! wahaha! :p
- it was also a difficult search for potential cast members. yinglan and i spent every waking hour visualizing who can fit the roles. imagine sebastian being considered for the roles of keith and johnny then finally cast as desmond. desmond was supposed to be jinhe but he pulled out soon after. it's prob a blessing in disguise, if not we wun have considered coco the man as johnny!!
- i also remember our ridiculous canvassing job for quakers'.. had great fun partnering ah lien weijie and scholar milly.. they r such entertainers! and our funny encounters with aunties who humoured themselves doing the 10 seconds challenge ("quakerisgoodquakerisgoodquakerisgood")..
- speaking of canvassing, carwash was so fun! it was our first time trying carwash, but we were so zai! eric the polisher was so freakin good at removing paint from cars that he decided to carve a career out of that.. hoho.. and he managed to turn a beat-up old dusty car into a spanking new shiny white one! tiring but good soapy fun with the com!
- my garang guni group (comprising me, daro, johnson, jt, lingwei, phyllis) was damn efficient.. we finished all our blocks and collected a good amount of stuff by 130pm! record breaking speed man.. johnson got so high collecting unwanted old stuff for our store of memorabilia! things like the red retro luggage and toys were all kio-ed during garang guni.. lol
- we had our fotoshoot at arab street.. had a great afternoon which ended with our first hallprod dinner at zam zam's..
- my mahjong session with ah lien, zongming, zibin and yinglan.. we decided to write off all debts at the end of 2 rounds at 5 plus am.. faints..
- countless nites with my roomie, visualizing the big day and painting castles in the air.. haha.. we even imagined opening circle seats before we sold any tickets! and were contemplating how much red packet to give to the com members with "excess profits".. wahaha!
- all the hours spent fixing shelves, finding things to put on them, deciding what to put where, how to play about with the shelves' orientation.. i'm glad the audience love the shelves cos the props pple put so much effort into it! even moving the shelves took so many hours of practice and drilling..
- all the ridiculous things we did during rehearsals and the nightly macs supper for the cast.. i miss rehearsals esp after i stepped down from the position of stage manager last yr.. it was always so much fun standing in for absent cast members.. i can just sit there and laugh the whole nite.. plus johnson's vocal warm ups (ie. dog panting) and funny acting games that helped polish our acting skills.. all are so memorable..
- hallprod dinner @ marina square changing appetites plus KTV after that.. my hallprod guys can really sing! xiaoniu and randy esp.. unexpected.. haha.. and our songbird milly.. zai!
- boliao zo bo nites with zongming, crapping in my room till 5.30am.. -_-"
- mass sending zongming's self-recorded acoustic songs via msn.. and trying to lelong him to interested gals.. haha..
- me trying to make arrangements for AL the man to be at a certain stage side with a certain somebody.. which failed miserably due to unforeseen circumstances.. groans.. benefited daro instead.. boo boo!
- eating yuhao's chicken rice every full dress rehearsal.. got lemon chicken, thai chicken, salad chicken.. but all same chicken.. only different sauce.. bleah..
- all the birthday celebrations for our hallproddies.. not forgetting yinglan's cheapo $8 fiesta cheesecake for the jan babies, coco's vodka + macs + slice of tiramisu cake celeb and milly's sara lee cheesecake from 7-11 complete with 20 pocky "candles" celeb at macs!
- our welfare during the whole production.. from curry puffs, konnyaku jellies, nuggets, fries, nachos, churros, to custom notebooks, files..
there's so many many more great memories of my hallprod days.. goshhh i'm so gona miss all of these...
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as this particular episode of my life comes to an end, i have so much to say to so many people.. but i duno how to adequately put them into words..
to my dear, thank u for all the support u've given me, no matter if it's emotional or actual support in the props subcom.. i can feel it, so strong, so direct..
to my roomie, thank u for being my partner in this.. u've done well leading our com to success.. be more confident of urself next time ok? more TLC coming up!
to johnson, thank u for not foresaking the com and agreeing to be our director again, though we half forced u to.. i learned so much from u.. thanks for everything, and i do mean everything. glad to be able to help u realise ur dream..
to my dearest friends, thank u for coming to support me. i know some of u don't even dig dramas, but u're there cos of ur support for ME. that means alot to me and i'll remember that deep down in my heart. esp YOU, kayin. :) oh! andy and songwei, it's the thought that counts yah..
and now, it's back to being mugger me. grins.
{/11:00 pm}
Dum DeeDee Dum!
