Seeking Men and Health

Whaddya think of my new heading? After months of fiddling with Photoshop, I think I’m not minding my photoshop skills, as basic as it might be. Hehehe.

So the past few weeks of running on adrenaline and coffee has taken its toll on me. After very, very vivid dreams of my boyfriend, Eizwan turning into a murderer which ironically, becomes a case I solve (complete with a reveal, Hercule Poirot style – a definite sign that I read and write too many disturbing materials), I woke up feeling feverish and miserable.

It didn’t take long for me to figure out that about 3 weeks after recovering from my last bout of flu, I’ve fallen ill again. My paranoid mind is on an overdrive, what with the flu outbreak in Hong Kong turning deadly. Tis not a pleasant thing to be ill.

On other news, my life is slowly but surely being consumed by “Coming out of the Closet” henceforth, known as COOC because I can’t be arsed to type something long. Working on COOC reminds me quite a bit like Malaysia Night back in Warwick where there is plenty of bribing, threats and begging to be done. And it’s only just the beginning.

Hahahahaha. Ahem.

Audition call for KL. We have 5 male parts and so far, only one male actor have agreed to come for the auditions. So I’m putting up here that parts that we need:

 Auditions Call for “Coming Out of the Closet”!

Ashley (early-mid 20s, male, any race)
Fun-loving, caring humanitarian type with a penchant for breaking the rules. Sensible at times but mostly utterly irresponsible. Also known as Tenderheart, the Care Bear.

Suren (early-mid 20s, male, Indian)
Gullible,slightly neurotic and narcissistic. Suren has a inferiority complex, is easily riled and is pretty selfish. He thinks he was born in a village somewhere between Melaka and Negeri Sembilan. He can’t remember.

Ling Ling (early 20s, female, Chinese)
Speaks only in 3rd person. Ling Ling is the model Chinese daughter, dedicated to her parents, obedient and kind. Unfortunately, she hasn’t an ounce of intellect in that bubble head of hers, but there could be a hidden side to her. (Isn’t that always the way?)

Azhar (30s – 40s, male, Malay)
Feeling washed out and off his game, Azhar comes off leaving the impression of being slightly too sleazy and inappropriate. But he’s just a sensitive man, really, terrorized by his wife’s antics speaking of which…

Nuraini (30s – 40s?, female, Malay)
War-crazy,violent and aggressive. Has Daddy issues. Nuraini rules her life withan iron fist and the military will always have a special place in her heart. Nothing matters except her personal war between herself, and the world.

Osman (20 – 30s, male, Malay?)
Coffee addict that twitches and is obsessed with scandals, but really isn’t a very good reporter. Has a thing for proclaiming himself ‘The Reporter!’ and saying ‘Scandal!’.

Hao Ming (mid 30s – early 40s, male, Chinese)
Completely neurotic, everything must go according to plan. He has a plan, but he doesn’t have the confidence to pull it off. Nervous, easily overwhelmed and frustrated. Poor guy, everything never goes according to plan.

My personal opinion is that age doesn’t really matter as hopefully, we’ll get some very talented make up artist to work with us So, um, any makeup artist willing to work with us?

We aim to put the show up late April, early May. It depends on how early we can raise funds to book a place in KL. So…come on and join the fun!

Any questions? Either Facebook me or message me below. I’m more than happy to respond!

Coming Out

Thanks to Ashes to Ashes, I’m starting to discover the New Romantics era. I’ve never heard of them in my entire life, and thanks to Wiki, which says it was prominent in the early 80s and mostly in the UK, I don’t feel I’m that much of a doofus for not having heard of such an era.

So, 2008 is the year of the 80s soundtrack for me. As I walk about running my errands, I imagine Visage’s Fade to Grey in the background. When things are going wrong, it’s David Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes.

I might just start wearing androgynous make up and book an appointment for a perm.

Ahem.

On other fantastic, awesome, awesome news. On my entrepreneur workship front, things are going well. I might be closing a deal and chasing on two prospects that would give me some income. I’m grateful especially after a difficult past two years.

But the other news that I am pretty excited to share about is this:

My co-writers, Alex, Louisa and I from our NIDA-Astro course have finally completed our stage play. After hours of writing, screaming, tearing your hair out from the insanity, our play: “Coming Out of the Closet” is finally complete, and ready for production!

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Coming Out of the Closet

Office politics can be deadly. Just ask Ashley and Suren; they’re hiding in a cabinet
in their boss’ office in the middle of the night, where their boss has arranged a
very questionable meeting with an innocent and clueless co-worker. But being discovered
by their boss is the least of their worries. How about a disgruntled colleague turned murderer wannabe, or a scandal-obsessed reporter with a thing for coffee? Even worse, what about the boss’ war-crazy wife? From gun juggling to secret office hijinks, it’s going to be a long night!

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Anyway, I’m pretty excited. We’re very serious about producing this and have already sent out a call for auditions. We’re also looking for a production team which include but are not limited to:

Stage manager, Director, Accounts, Set designer, Set builder, Costume manager, Props manager, Stage hands, Lighting technician, Sound technician, ushers, producers, publicity manager, fund-(seeking) manager.

If you’d like a chance to enter theatre, no matter what skill level you have, you’re more than welcomed to join in. We’re all amateurs here but we do endeavor to pursue the project as professionally as possible!

So email me, or seek us on Facebook. No matter what your experience level, you’re welcomed to join us!

God is in the Details

Friday October 26, 2007

P Ramlee the musical: courtesy of NST I love John Simm. I love Life on Mars. But I imagine, if I ever were John Simm/Sam Tyler’s subordinate, I’d go insane from half admiration and half irritation with his cryptic ways and his incessant repetition of his beliefs. Like that one episode where Sam Tyler kept repeating to himself “God is in the details”. I’d want to smack him as his subordinate. But in watching “P Ramlee the musical”, that was all I could repeat to myself. “God is in the details”. P Ramlee the musical is produced by the same people who made Puteri Gunung Ledang the musical. As some of you know, I wasn’t too crazy about PGL although, I do think it’s mostly due to Tiara Jacquelina. But that’s another story for another day. This is about P Ramlee the musical. I had a fair bit of trepidation before watching P Ramlee. I adore P Ramlee, absolutely love him. I have seen a chunk of his movies and sung most of his songs. He was essentially larger than life, and I was not sure if anyone could pull him off. But I was excited as well because Siti Nurhaliza was performing. And Siti can do no wrong in my eyes. I’d go gay for her. Ahem. No amount of Siti could have made up for the farce that was P Ramlee the musical. It was a long musical, about 3.5 hours long and to sum up my experience, it was one of the most tedious experiences I’ve had in theatre. I kept wishing it would just end and put me out of my misery. Felt a bit like JD in Scrubs, where he imagined himself in a noose as a chick kept rambling on about herself in the bar. Except this was me in Istana Budaya with a noose as Sean Ghazi played Sean Ghazi (not P. Ramlee…that man wasn’t there that night) and the actors wore mismatched clothes from various eras. It wasn’t as bad as Chess the musical, but granted, that was done by a bunch of inexperienced high schoolers who mumbled through the lyrics and stumbled through the dance steps. My favourite part of the musical had to be this: the set. The set was bloody fantastic, and certainly comparable to some of the West End musicals I had seen. Incredibly creative and ostentatious, in a good way! I utterly loved it. But it’s terrible to think that if the late Tan Sri P. Ramlee was still around, he’d probably made this musical a smashing one. It says a lot about our entertainment industry that in 2007, we can’t even compare to a man whose golden era was in the 1950s. Since I have so many problems with the musical, I thought I’d break it up into points on what I thought was flawed about the musical if you’re still interested. Or you could stop knowing that it was a terrible experience (if you’re still reading that is. I know how I tend to ramble on my blog). The rest of the critique is on my LiveJournal (which I really ought to revive). Click here to read the rest of the review. But that’s just me. I have an insane desire to listen to some P. Ramlee songs now, because I feel so, so cheated. For those of you who had watched it, what do you think? Posted 10/26/2007 at 10:11 PM