Life Happenings

In just about two weeks I'll be done with the sitcom. After this I'll be moving on to work on a new chinese drama then I'll be out of job again. So this means its audition time again. There's an audition locked for me this friday and I really hope I'll get the job. Crossing my fingers.....

And, I'm still coughing.

My elder niece who just started primary school this year get to spend $1 in school everyday for lunch. This is so unfair because during my time I only got $0.30 per day for school and its only enough to get myself a bowl of noodle... She has the cheek to tell me that she bought strawberry cookies and a bowl of noodle with EXTRA ingredients. AGGRH!! Oh mother!! This is so unfair!!

On the other side, I'm happy for my niece that she got much more than I did during my time. I hope to make enough money to make sure I see my nieces through university. But first of all, they gotta stop eating my drumstick during dinner and stop stealing my chocolates!!!

Sugee Me

Since I can't keep buying premium chocolates to comfort me, sugee is my next best choice. Yep, I'm munching my sugee now.

Brob left on the 3rd day of chinese new year. I had to leave Boss's house early to send bro off at the airport. I guess boss is not too happy about it but well, my brob will only be back in April or May for a week. And now, I miss him already. Hope this little brother of mine will be fine.

The first 3 days of chinese new year was crazy but on the whole I had fun. So now its back to work again. The director for last night's shoot gave us angbao for good luck.

I should be sleeping soundly at this hour, 7.48am but somehow, my eyes are wide open. Even though my call time is at 6pm later today, I should still get some rest. Perhaps this is a good time to remind myself that peace begins when expectation ends. Not that I'm unhappy. Maybe I'm just too tired to even feel tired. Maybe it's the cough, yeah I'm still coughing and it has been more than 3 weeks.

I shall just get some sleep now. Good nite and good morning to you.

新年快乐 2009

Wishing everyone in good health, good mood and will be bless with true happiness and good luck in the year of ox. Happy Chinese New Year, 新年快乐， 万事如意，心想事成！

Let the fun and feast begin!! CHEERS!!

Rest

I get to take a 3 days break from work. I'm still coughing but I'm feeling much better. Yep I'm only gonna get better because all scenes that were needed to be shot in the freezing studio were all completed. Finally from today, we have started to move outdoor for shoot. It was nice at the beginning, away from the super air condition in the studio but it was no joke to shoot under the unforgiving sun either. With melted makeup on my face and sticky sweat on my body.... eeeeek.

Now I'm starting to miss the studio.

Wait

It's bravery or foolishness? It's blind faith or plain old hope? One of the most painful thing to do is wait. One waits because there's simply nothing one can do anymore. You can cry all you want. You may scream and even curse all you want. But when one can only do nothing but wait, just wait.

One Moment In Time

There maybe a few times I wished I could just have 2 more hours of sleep but the moment I got out of my bed there will always be an excitement imploding in my heart. I just couldn't wait to get into the studio and start working.

Looking back the years, the uncountable days I earned hard for my cup of coffee and packed rice from the studio. The super cold temperature in the studio are meant to keep the lights cool. Every drop of coffee as precious as gold keeps my heart pumping and every grain of rice as hard as stone keeps my body functioning.

I've seen a young plant outside the make up room that had grown into a tree over the years with roots deep into the ground yet now slowly withering. I've seen cats that fought rough for territories at the open parking lot and yet were replaced by younger cats each year.

Every studio has its different sets of footprints and every story presents itself the moment someone switches on the TV.

Comedy comes from suffering

VO stands for voice over. Looks like that's what I'll have to do to save all my scenes after the whole shoot because after dinner break today at the studio, I lost my voice.

The bill for my medical fees at Thomson Medical Center was $119.70 (after 10% discount for DBS/HSBC card holders). My antibiotics alone cost $49.2 for 6 tablets to be taken over 3 days. I knew I just have to see the doctor right after work at 10pm. I told the doctor that I urgently need my voice back. There's no way for me to take MC. So I requested him to give me the best and strongest medicine possible to speed up my recovery.

Today's shoot was fun during the first part until I lost my voice after dinner. I tried to "conserve" my voice till my last scene by whispering when I need to communicate. I was kind of "lucky" that my two other scenes needed only my facial expression. Still, I couldn't make the words out of my vocal chord when I was speaking my lines. ARRGH!! I felt so lousy that I couldn't even look into the eyes of my EP/Director. It wasn't even a difficult scene to begin with and I had to screw it up.

I will do better tomorrow.

Fallen ill

Falling sick on job really sucks. My soul had left me. I'm not paid to perform with my outer shell. I'm paid to bring life to a character. I shall summon my soul back with all the strength I'm left with now. I will pull through.