Sunday, July 16, 2006
Friday was my last day at work. FREEEEEDOM!
The crappy part of this is that I still haven't received a single cent for my one and half months' worth of work. And I need money rather desperately.
Because I've lost my black jacket!! I was with Ho Wai at BK at Raffles Place on Wed evening, and I might have forgotten about it lying on the chair next to me when we left. Or maybe I left it on the bus? I don't know why but I must have been so tired my brain stopped functioning. But it did not stop functioning enough for me to remember to bring home the paper Chiyo's Dad hat I made for my sister in place of my jacket... T____T
And yet another pair of my earrings are spoilt! One of my favourite fish-shaped earrings has a defective catch, and my mom recently broke one of my ring earrings while trying to tighten its catch with a pair of pliers!! I don't have many earrings in the first place and even fewer silver/rhodium ones (but they are very important to me 'cos I'm super lazy to change my earrings more than a once in 2 weeks...) and now I'm left with one ring earring and one fish-shaped earring?! Maybe I should just get one extra piercing...
I've also watched Royston Tan's film 4.30 and SRT's The Dresser this week with Ricky. I felt that 4.30 was quietly evocative of preteen alienation and ennui and was very moving in an introspective, sympathetic but also gently ironic way. But Brandon hated the film 'cos he thought it was too "emo"... ^___^;
The Dresser was also quite interesting, especially in its (dare I say postmodern?) inversion of the binaries of backstage/frontstage, theatre/'real' life. Art is mimetic, and although 'real' life lacks grand Lear moments, it still has validity as an experience that can be presented on the stage as art. All in all, the play was an ode to the liveliness of theatre, and this was exactly what I needed after watching films these few months. Nothing really beats the spontaneity of live theatre, at least in my view. The humour was also pretty witty (especially the part on the Macbeth curse! XD) and Adrian Pang was superb as the fussing, silly but unwavering loyal dresser Norman. However, the other actors tended to be either too hammy or flat, and they didn't manage to convey the more 'human' side of the "ac-TOR" behind his make-up and gowns.
The Dresser is on till Jul 22, so go catch it soon! And now I don't have enough money to watch Thank You For Smoking... Sorry Brandon... =___="
kaoru said at 9:19 PM
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