I'm having fun!

Finally finished my two days shoot today. A bit tired but happy. I'm happy not just because of money but I'm happy because I'm working. Working means I get to practise my craft as a actor. The crews and director are friendly and easy going. They took great care of me. Matter of fact is, this has been a fun and enjoyable shoot. Prince and I had dinner tonight at Raffles City with a very good and veteran actor whom I call him PaPa "P". Food was good and we even had a bottle of sake.

About 4days ago my blanket flew away after I hung it to dry on the pole/teck ko. I had used three clips to secure it to the pole but apparently it didn't work. I was just relaxing in my room when my mom came running to my door to inform me about my missing blanket. The pole was still there but the blanket went missing. Thank goodness the pole was still there because I live on a very very high floor. I decided to conduct a mini "CSI" while ironically I was wearing my CSI t-shirt I bought from Las Vegas. I looked outside the window at my laundry area but I didn't see anything below my apartment. I figured out it must be the "work" of the strong wind as it had been very unusually windy lately. I then decided to go downstairs with my two lovely little "CSI Assistants" whom both process the IQ of a 4-5 year old kid. ( Okay, both my lovely nieces are truly 4 and 5 years old. )

ANYWAY.............

After I got downstairs, my blanket was still no where to be found. I thought to myself it must have flew its way to Johor?! LOL Just as I turn my back to head back home, I SAW IT.
My blanket was nicely hanging on top of a tall tree. So how tall are we talking about here? Picture this, it took me a 4 step ladder and two poles/teck Ko that were attached together to extend the length to the maximum and a good 15minutes to "rescue" my blanket from the tree top. As a friend mine put it jokingly, GONE WITH THE WIND! I actually thought this incident was funny and also heart warming as both of my nieces, my dad and I worked together as a team on this "rescue mission".

My Chinese Poem: 寒潭望春

有心栽花花不开
肥田树枯水月寒
春去秋来时景迁
秋水难留又一梦
明月看似冬无限
鸳鸯寒潭望春临

I must be watching too much TVB period drama to come up with something like that. Feel free to correct my chinese poem.
Have a great weekend.

Serious Cravings

I wanna eat Bak Chang. Those with salted egg, pork and mushroom. Where can I get good Bak Chang? The one at Joo Chiat road is too far for me........ Arrgh. Finally I ate my last piece of Sprungli Chocolate Truffes. Anyone knows where can I buy this brand of chocolate? Dim Sum!! Where can I get really really good Dim Sum besides 126 at Geylang?

Yep. It's all about food. Maybe I'm just too hungry now.
I shall just shut up and go cook instant noodle, my favorite unhealthy happy food.
But before that I wanna share my "secret recipe". :P

Here's what I usually add into my instant noodle besides the usual egg and crab sticks.

1) One Table spoon of sesame oil
2) One to two table spoon of Chinese rice wine/cooking wine.
3) One tea spoon of ready made deep fried onion.
4) Whatever vegetable available in my fridge. Best is fine slice cabbage and bean spout.

So, what do you usually add into your bowl of instant noodle?

4 Birthdays and a box of mooncake

Recently I met my childhood friend/neighbour Siew Lan while doing a show at Suntec City. I haven't seen her for 15 years at least. I was rushing at that time so I quickly gave her my contact number and rushed back to the stage. I didn't expect her to invite me to her baby boy, Victor's first birthday party. I made effort to turn up even I had another birthday party that happened on the same day.

I was nervous when I got there and had to calm myself down for a good 15 minutes before I took the lift up to her apartment. I mean, seriously I haven't seen SiewLan for so long and I felt a little weird. But then I recalled the good old days. The days when we were both little girls, having fun with play pretends, using blankets to create costumes and playing badminton at the playground. Yet now we both have grown up and she's a proud mother to a beautiful boy. The best part of the party is I met another of our childhood friend/neighbour, Hun. Lots of flashbacks came into my mind as 3 of us updated each other about our lives.

I headed off to another mass birthday party after Victor's. Yep I use the word, MASS. We were celebrating the birthdays for 3 friends at one go. We had dinner at a German restaurant at Raffles City and then followed by kopi and tea till late. Can you imagine the big bag of birthday presents I carried that day? LOL

So it's mooncake festival. I'm so glad they have this mooncake "convention" at Raffles City. This made it so much easier for me to make my festive purchase. Met an old friend at one of the mooncake booth. I didn't recognize him until 10 minutes later.... He looked so different. I was ashamed of myself for being rude. Rude in a way that I didn't recognize my own friend. He gave me huge discounts for my mooncakes and that made me felt even worst.

This has been a heart warming week indeed, from meeting of childhood friends to celebrations of good old friends. I've got a callback from a production house so this means I may have jobs coming in which is good. Gotta save money for my education and spare some to pamper on my nieces. It's school holiday now. I guess I shall bring the girls to the beach or do some trekking in the jungle for a change.

Randy Pausch - Really achieving your childhood dreams

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Here's something I wanna share with you on Life Lessons.

"The Last lecture" by Randy Pausch is truly amazing and inspirational. The speech was part of a series that the computer science professor Randy Pausch and other professors at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh were asked to think about what matters to them most and give a hypothetical talk.

Prof Randy Pausch age 47, with pancreatic cancer had died at his home in Chesapeake, Virginia on 25th July 2008. His last lecture titled "Really achieving your childhood dreams" became an internet hit with 6 million viewers. He had also published a book and it made it to the top of the non-fiction best seller lists.

Here's one of my favorite quotes from Randy :

Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason . The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people.

Check out his book THE LAST LECTURE

Transcript from the speech by Carnegie Mellon University CLICK HERE

Videos and Podcast can also be found in Itunes Store.

My cup of music

I'm very stingy when comes to buying CD these days. I used to spend lots of money on Cds and now I own at least 200CDs minus 100 that I had thrown or given away. A Cd cost about $20 on the average and multiply by 200 is really a big sum. So I've stopped buying them 5 years ago.

However, there's this CD I've been wanting to buy, the artist is Justin. For so many times at HMV, I put it back after picking it up. I just couldn't let myself buy it. So there's no music in my life for the last 5 years. This is sad and bad for a singer. But I thought, if I have to choose between singing and acting , acting will be my first choice.

Two days ago, Prince bought a CD for me. He got me Justin, the J TV album!! Awwwwwww.....

In my point of view Justin is the mixture of Taiwan's David Tao and Jay Chou and he's surely gifted in music. I must say I enjoy Justin's Cantonese album very much. I'm a big fan of Cantonese pop by the way and in case you didn't know this, I am a Cantonese.

So what are you listening to today? Coffee anyone?

Morning

What a wonderful morning! I'm all smiles. Coffee taste good. The air, something about the air today...... I smell happiness. It's a good sign. Now I didn't feel like repainting my room anymore. I realized I do like it as it is. Now that I feel much motivated, I'm gonna keep myself going. I can see myself working, reading, writing and typing happily all in my little cozy space.

Feels great to have a proper matching table in my room. But of course I shamelessly do admit that my room is still in a big mess. Land mines are everywhere. LoL At least the table is in and my bookshelf has been assembled with tiny help from my nieces. I haven't felt so good for a long time.

How are you feeling today? I hope you are well too.

There's room for transition

Talking about being diligent, I haven't been able to finish my spring cleaning. Shame on me. There have been too many excuses. The latest excuse now I heard from myself is that the laptop's back so I gotta test run it with my games and update my blog. Duh! Whatever it takes, I'll make a point to finish my spring cleaning by Monday.

Finally ML had spread her wings and off she flew to the states. Haven't seen her cry so much. The love of her life cried too of course. I admit I teared a bit. Good news is ML gonna be back during Christmas for a week or two. Brob has not been online lately. I wonder if he's doing fine.

My PC is not back from repair yet because I'm doing some major upgrading. The new graphic card, additional RAM, new hard disk and DVD writer stuffs. It broke down 18 months ago and I had let it rot in my room until my laptop too died on me a few days ago then I had no choice but to send both in for repair.

I'm "California dreaming" again. Missed my apartment in Santa Monica. I was amazed by the google map that allows me to see the exterior and the surroundings of the apartment! I wonder when will I be able to get back to Los Angeles. Don't think I'll rent the same apartment again if I ever get back there but I would love to stay in the same neighbourhood or somewhere in Marina Del Rey.

Yeah, I'm dreaming. Dreams are free and it cost almost nothing but a ton of sweat and blood to make it real and occasionally some tears too. Thats what we call goal. Without dreams there will be no goal in life. Without any goal in life, there is almost no meaning to life.

My Current Major Goals in Life:

1) Move to Los Angeles by 2010
2) Play Sims 3
3) Lose those 8 kgs I put on for 80s Rewind
4) Clean and do up my room
5) Grow and expand my computing business
6) Grow my acting business
7) Spend two or three weeks in India
8) Climb Mt Kota Kinabahru

Yeah, I included playing sims3 as one of my major life goals. LoL. It's the "pleasure goals" like playing sims3 that had kept me going and motivated to achieve those really difficult goals. Meanwhile I gotta work on my sub goal first, that is, to finish reading all the 20 acting books and 30 other books that has been collecting dust in my room.

Oh my........ I almost forgot, I must first clean and do up my room before I can start my readings. ARRGH! Back to square one. I hate spring cleaning!!