Malaysian Signage Fail 02
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And once again it's time for a new blog design change! Here it is, boys and girls! Let me know what you think! Comments in sidebar appreciated. Cheers!

Hey everyone. Whew, busy weekend! FTL is kicking into fuller gear, with me preparing contracts, photocopying scripts and burning copies of demo CDs so that everyone who's committed to the project is able to start learning the songs and sign their souls away to us for the next six months or so, arf arf. So that's pretty exciting!
Yesterday was an interesting day. I did some research online and finally managed to trace down my old friend Jackie from Sydney, who was my piano teacher in 1998/99. I saw her contact details on a music teachers' website, zapped over an email, and later on she contacted me. We had a nice chat on MSN and managed to catch up (as much as one can over MSN in a short period of time), and it's amazing that it's been 11 years since we last spoke.
Here's another demo from Little Girl Lost, my entry for Short+Sweet Musical 2010. The context: a mother has just had a glimpse of a little girl who was reported missing in a public place. This causes her to reflect on her experience of having once lost her own daughter. Lyrics below. Enjoy!
Hey, everyone! Long silence, as usual. Let's see, what's new... Umm... been having a bit of a clumsy week, unfortunately. First, my laptop went wonky. Well, that's not really due to my clumsiness; it was just on its last legs. So I had to send it in for a tune-up, which... um.... isn't all that exciting, is it? LOL.
Yo boys and girls! It's been a while, sorry bout that... but it's been back to routine, focusing on work, developing my ten-minute musical, auditioning new people for FTL (long story!), and basically trying not to fall apart from having to do too many things all at the same time. Apart from this, there's not much else going on (because, honestly, who's got time for more stuff to be going on?). Can't believe it's only been about a week or so since the CT crew left for Perth - it definitely feels much longer. And yet, time's a ticking... the deadline for the ten-minute musical was supposed to be today, but fortunately they've extended it by five days, so I have a bit more breathing space to get it finished. Damn me and my complicated rhythms! Oy!!
Hello, ladies and germs! It's a rather cloudy Tuesday afternoon, and I'm sitting at home, having been graciously given the day off to relax and recuperate by my lovely boss Jac. But I'm not really relaxing or recuperating, because I've been catching up with some household chores, gone shopping, updated the collection of pics and vids, and I'm planning on working on the ten-minute musical soon, so... yeah. Heheh. No rest for the wicked, eh?


Yo boys and girls! Back in PJ/KL, almost back to real life once again! I drove in from JB on Thursday, and managed to make it back in a record-breaking three hours. Nobody ask how fast I was driving, arf. After the really, really smooth drive back north from JB, the first thing that happened when I entered KL was that I got caught in a massive, headache-inducing traffic jam for about 30 minutes, with a desperate need to pee, LOL. Oy, tedium!!! Can't say I was very happy to be back!
Hey everybody!! Wow, it's been a totally hectic couple of days, I can tell you! Apart from my working for the website in the daytime, the past couple of evenings and nights have been filled with performances and post-performance festivities. Yesterday (Tuesday), we had the first show at the Temple of Fine Arts in Johor Bahru. It was a really, really good one, I felt, and even though at times it felt like the audiences' attention waned a little (possibly, perhaps, due to the language? The accents? I dunno), in the end, they — the kids in particular — loved it.
I'm back with more updates on Monday's goings-on! After work at the coffee outlets, I managed to head over to the Straits View Hotel nearby, where I quickly freshened up before heading to the venue for the bump-in for the show. The venue is the Temple of Fine Arts (TFA) in JB, and it's located in a rather isolated village. From the outside, TFA looks like an ornate, old-style wooden house, which is what accounted for my earlier remark about the potential "culture shock" of our performing there. (It certainly would've been a bit of a culture shock for the Aussie boys and girls, I reckon. And believe you me, it was also a bit of a culture shock for yours truly, too. So there you have it).