伤心沮丧中...

I tried to digitized the tapes with the footages of The Cat, The Bride and 廖妈妈 performace only to realise that the videos DO NOT haf audios!!!

I feel so bad for the actors and actresses involved.. We could only see their spectacular performces in mime.. sigh...

Things just have to screw up when we do not have a backup plan..

新面貌 :: new look

希望換了個新面貌，大家看不到我打得中文字的問題也得以解決。

雖然我越來越少用中文寫網誌。:P

用中文需要一股“心血來潮”。

yet another production..

it's the end of yet another production by hhk youth drama troupe..
yet another fulfilling production..

it's always a jovial affair, working with the friends there.. always an enjoyable event as the people are forever so dedicated yet also play really hard..

it's nice to be involved with people whom were away and missing-in-action for a while.. those from my batch.. there is no other batch of friends like them.. we literally grow up together..

it's nice to be getting to know the younger ones.. it's wonderous seeing them grow up.. (tho i feel that most of them just grow up physically and not mentally.. esp the guys.. haha)

having being involved in other productions before, there is nothing like working in a hhk production.. the kind of bonds, the kind of dedications, the kind of commitement, the kind of support we get.. the people are simply great!

THE CAT, THE BRIDE AND LIAO MAMA..

-- yet another quality production by Hokkien Huay Kuan Youth Drama Troupe

"我们是一群自小一块儿长大的朋友。我们这群一块儿学习说标准话语、唱歌、上形体活动、学习剧本创作等课程的朋友，在福建会馆度过了无数欢乐的岁月。"

Father of the Century

From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I stink.

Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars–all in the same day.

Dick’s also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much–except save his life.

This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. “He’ll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'’ Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. “Put him in an institution.'’

But the Hoyts weren’t buying it. They noticed the way Rick’s eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. “No way,'’ Dick says he was told. “There’s nothing going on in his brain.'’

“Tell him a joke,'’ Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? “Go Bruins!'’ And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, “Dad, I want to do that.'’

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described “porker'’ who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. “Then it was me who was handicapped,'’ Dick says. “I was sore for two weeks.'’ That day changed Rick’s life. “Dad,'’ he typed, “when we were running, it felt like I wasn’t disabled anymore!'’

And that sentence changed Dick’s life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon. “No way,'’ Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren’t quite a single runner, and they weren’t quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, “Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'’

How’s a guy who never learned to swim and hadn’t ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried.

Now they’ve done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don’t you think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you’d do on your own? “No way,'’ he says. Dick does it purely for “the awesome feeling'’ he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time’? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992–only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don’t keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the
time.

“No question about it,'’ Rick types. “My dad is the Father of the Century.'’

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. “If you hadn’t been in such great shape,'’ one doctor told him, “you probably would’ve died 15 years ago.'’

So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other’s life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father’s Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

“The thing I’d most like,'’ Rick types, “is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.'’

Source: http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?t=1380350

YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS!

got axed!

早安您好 just axed us from their show on thursday morning for national day rally reports.. what the heck?!? to think that it was one of the first medias that confirmed with us.. THANKS LEH!

i was actually pretty excited on going down to the studios on thursday.. oh whatever..

still do look out for the report on The Cat, The Bride and 廖妈妈 on Thursday's TODAY papers..

come and support the show!

decisions.... to be made

should i stay on in PAC?

should i join impresario?

should i take radio prac since it's on friday evening?

many questions to be answered, no time to think them through properly.. my mind is overloaded.. really..

The Cat, The Bride and 廖妈妈

time to do some publicity here!!! since it's been publicised on Zao Bao, UFM, Wo Bao and RSI already and also coming out in TODAY and 早安您好.. hehe.. juz have to publicise it here too!!

A cat in search for the perfect gift
A man on a quest to select his bride
A woman on a duty that never ends

A triple bill in 2 ½ languages exploring the simplicity, eccentricity and sacrifices in life.

一只在寻找完美礼物的猫

一个必须做出选择的男人

一位永远不用睡觉的母亲

一点偶剧、两种语言、三出戏。共同分享生活里的纯朴、荒诞与奉献。

Presented by Hokkien Huay Kuan Youth Drama Troupe

Date / Time: 25 - 26 August 2006 (8 pm)

26 - 27 August 2006 (3 pm)

Venue: Play Den At The Arts House

(The Old Parliament House)

Ticket Price: $18 (Not inclusive of $1 ticket surcharge)

Look for me for tickets now!! I promised it will be a great show!!

here's the link to the program on RSI.
the cat, the bride and liao mama

B-U-S-Y

my life goes in a spin.. for the past week i'm shuttling from one place to another, one event to the next...

lessons from 10 to 6 on Monday.. really tiring.. but i'm really enjoying audio..
tuesday is another pretty packed day with lessons.. but we had siok visiting us and staying over which was really nice!

wednesday.. li sheng jie campus concert... he is really good live.. it's a pity i had to leave early to shoot my video project..

it was quite an eventful shoot.. haha.. firstly the camera refused to work cos of condensation problems.. then being the 7th month and us actually shooting a somewhat horror video, we actually scared a passerby in the process.. shunyi is really successful being a ghost.. haha..

and today.. i travalled 3 hrs back and fro to toa payoh only to be there for like half an hr.. all these to get an interview with Today.. hope the article will come out good manz..

and there's stil more editing to do, one last campus concert of Wilber Pan tml (if i decide not to stay on in the committee..)and the performance next week to take care off.. my yr 3 life has definitely started with a BANG!

fireworks...

i believe everyone has a little soft spot for fireworks.. everyone just love to watch them..

and for Singaporeans, it's especially so since fireworks is always linked to NDP and how the nation celebrates its birthday and its progress thus far... i think many of us just link fireworks to national day naturally.. and the increasing amount of money we are spending on fireworks display each year definitely shows something..

as for me.. there's definitely a soft spot for fireworks in me.. i'm so glad i actually got to play with them myself in Taiwan.. too bad it can't be done here.. of course the display is barely 1% of the magnificence of what is seen on display here.. at least i thought friday's display was great.. ) but still the feeling is completely different when you know that the fireworks was meant for you and you only and you actually physically light them up yourselves..

i definitely wish to play with them again someday...

back to school..

i've never been so happy to be back in school.. seeing those familiar faces and going back to the familiar setting that i left 8 months ago... was really excited to see my friends again.. it's really a very cosy feeling sitting by the benches and having packet lunch with them, bitching about this and that, making lame jokes, just hanging out..

if going for exchange has taught me one thing, it is cherishing my friends and not taking them for granted.. really.. so glad that i'm back with all of them around me.. in school, in hall, in my CCAs.. feel so happy just having them around.. they are always ever so entertaining..

it's the official start of a crazy semester.. video I and audio I would be quite a killer.. I'm already having 3 hr video tutorials starting tomorrow when this is still the first week of school..

welcome to the world of an EBMer..