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Yo everyone. Am sitting in a coffee shop having a quiet lunch on my own - lamb curry with some bready Indiany thingy, delicious! - so I just thought I'd provide some minor updates. Sorry I haven't been typing too much lately; been busy at work, and when you're sitting there staring at a computer screen all day, the enthusiasm needed to work on a blog post (i.e. more staring at a computer screen!) is really hard to dredge up! But anyhoo...

Gawsh, I wish I could say there's lot to update you guys about, but the truth is, there isn't. Well, that ain't exactly true. I'm several steps closer towards achieving my vision of restaging FTL in 2009, but since nothing's confirmed yet I won't go into detail now, heh! And I've already had discussions with Chris on this year's major Christmas production in KLPac, an adaptation of A Christmas Carol which will have original music, songs, arrangements and rearrangements of existing carols by yours truly (yay!). Plus, Chris and I have discussed the next step for The Edge in February... so yea, there's been progress!

Last weekend, Terry, Debs, Phaik Leng and Scary Nick and I went to celebrate Debs' birthday. Actually, Debs' birthday was spread out across two nights since Terry couldn't make it for the dinner the first time around, so we went out for dinner again the night after, LOL. That was pretty fun. I've got a couple of shots on my mobile phone but wouldn't you know it, this darn lappietop doesn't have bluetooth, so I can't transfer 'em over right now. Oh well. 

And the weekend prior, Debs, my friend Cat (designer of my website!) and I went to see this production at KLPac, Love & Beauty, which was a strange but entertaining show comprising scenes with Shakespeare's sonnets interspersed in sometimes cohesive, other times deliberately contradictory juxtapositions. The real plus for me, of course, was that I had two of my musicalised sonnets in there (evolutions of the pieces from the Shakespearean mini-productions staged in Murdoch Uni in 2003 and 2004) — one sung live, the other pre-recorded, and rumour has it the songs were well-accepted by the audience and the KLPac VIPs... (there was even a question as to why there weren't more songs in the show. La la la.) You can listen to the songs by going to my Shakespeare's Sonnets page on my website. (See how I've plugged my site twice already now? Not bad, eh?) ;))

Well, I guess that's about it for now. TV show reviews still to come; but I'd better leave this coffee shop and get to work now. Plus, the lamb-bread-thingy was oily, and now the keyboard's all greasy too. Fantastic. Oh well, at least it smells of fragrant lamb. *insert straight face here*

Bye for now!