Thursday, May 15, 2008
out of sight
so many things to update. my blogs before have never been the chronological, journal-like types but i think a change is due cos we're all getting old and it'll be nice to put a date to certain memories.
the video that Kantakaca submitted for the 48hour film competition won best direction. they had the "best of" screening at sinema old school, mount sophia on tuesday, which i unfortunately could not attend cos i was working at TP. very gratifying given the amount of work in the short period of time so kudos to director "cip" rafaat haji hamzah and the whole Kantakaca team, it was an interesting weekend working with you people and i ultimately enjoyed myself.
going back a couple of days, the cousin i'm closest too, aman, left on sunday night for a year-long stint in brunei. NS, nuff said. my family paid him a visit on sat nite and as i contemplated not having a close lepak buddy around for a year i got pretty sad. "lepaking" has taken some sort of a back seat recently, except for the times at thomson plaza, and i haven't seen a few teh tarik bros for awhile, namely johnny and shawal (this one since before i got my pink IC) plus big's gonna be leaving for KL so there'll be a hiatus of conversations over soup kambing and cigarettes. now that aman's not around i have one less chill out partner. its hits home harder cos he is my cousin and also the link to my extended family which i admit i haven't really been putting in effort to connect with. he's leaving behind his parents, his kental sister, ina and his girlfriend so its gonna be hard for him but at least his bank account's gonna be happy.
r&j rehearsals are gonna be kicking into full gear very soon. i'm playing marzuki, the bawean mercutio. mixed feelings about the whole thing but its finally time to get back to working the way i've always worked. watch out for it at esplanade's theatre studio in july.
sidetracking a wee bit (but not too much), i guess i've gotta keep my composure at a higher level than the norm for now. i don't know if its an positive trait or a weakness that i can never hide my dislike for people, not that i try too (maybe that sentence explains itself a little at the end). its plagued me in school, in NS, at work and when i do shows. a bit funny how i can be nice and courteous to customers even when i feel like crap but i can't pretend to be nice with the people i personally know who i'm not very fond of even when i need their assistance sometimes. oh well, c'est qui je suis
and finally, been working closing at TP the past 3 days. two of those with the resident ah beng, Joseph, who's currently going through his shift manager training. the same ah beng who always has something to say in his defense when he makes a boo boo, who always looks out for things to make fun of in other people, is now the super kancheong training shift manager at TP. congratulations are due but revenge is also up in the air..hahaha.
and that is all for today. time to sleep my cares away because i've got no work tmr and no (confirmed) direction in life at this moment in time.
-dib- at 2:48 AM