Meringue Tower/Gingerbread Crossroads



Sunday, August 22, 2004
0 comments

Post a Comment


You trouble yourself justifying spending $50 on preparing presents for a group of friends who you would have given up half the world for their happiness(literally, if i owned e world). But in reality, you are unable to spend $50 without letting it bother you for the whole bloody evening. It even makes you slightly irritated at them. Unreasonable shit you sure turned out to be. Apparently, 'a peace of mind' wasn't included in the $50 deal.

I hate money as much as i want it.

~

I jus came back from YAWP (Young Active Writers Perform) at TCHS Drama Centre. Its a Poetry Performance Competition organised by the ELDDFS Lit Wing from HCJC with competitors from various JCs and Sec. Schs reading either original or adapted (no word-for-word accuracy) poems. "Reading" is quite an understatement although sometimes i wished they would JUST READ. There were dances, background music, little skits, recitals ; 4 girls (more like their shadows really) crawling, pouncing, dramatising as they recited the famous Witchy Cauldrony thingy in Macbeth (as the emcees put it : " DOING macbeth " distasteful joke. urg.) to a duo performance which ended with the girl pushing the boy's head into a pail of water, leaving him choking and sputtering, reciting, " Say yes or ......... die " from an original short poem entitled " Stalker " (which left a puddle on the stage floor where the same boy and same girl had to wipe up on all fours. the glamour AFTER the scenes)

All in all, it was a pretty nice experience. Although i had much difficulty understanding alot of the words for the more difficult poems like one which talked of a gay relationship between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter.

Some were angst-filled, action-packed while some others were jus pure drearily boring(gosh, there was this girl who went on and on and on about "same mothers, once brothers, no colours, red blood" united-colours-of-universe theme). I sort of related the experience to listening to Tori Amos, cos most of the time i can't get what she's trying to say but the words have power in them and seem to leap and bleed in their singular existence (okay okay, at least a phrase). And unless i actually referred back to the programme with the actual poems on it (i tried not to so as not to miss the action ahead of me), it was pretty hard to digest the poem and it's meaning. But still i found the readings pretty intense, nice accents too and i was pretty tickled by silly Pied Piper performance (which was really jus a bit more professional than ur average mom reading some nursery rhyme).

there came a few pretty established poets, some got on my nerves for being extremely rude by letting out big sighs and inappropriate chuckles during performances like some overexperienced ah chek who dun give a sh*t to newcomers, there was one who was really outlandish, who read from a little notebook in a staccatoed way and kept turning his notebook upside down or flipping it behind jus for effects, most of them read usual Singapore related stuff (i can never quite appreciate these pieces cos it always seems to me that they're jus saying wat's been OVERmentioned in alternative expression).

The Lit Wing did an outstanding piece at the end about poems. I realli liked it. It had them (prob 12?) standing around this spotlight where each of them (or sometimes 2) would enter and read a stanza and sorta express it with body actions and props. It was artistic and sad. Very nice. i'll try to put the poem up here.

Oh anyway, the thing was free. Go support nxt year if it comes along again. The turnout today was quite sad. Not very encouraging for these young hearts n soul.

~

Li Jiawei. Dashed Olympic silver medal dream (no way she would have beaten China's Zhang Erm Erm). Poor Sussilo and Jiawei. I wonder where their marriage will go now? But can u imagine how stressed JW was? I felt it was quite touching dat she wore her diamond ring up on e game and i felt realli realli sad that she had to lose esp since she led 3-1 (with a beautiful 11-0 thrash). My mom started tearing when she lost. Bugger. Never mind Singapore! We'll do it some day! ( Shit you North Korean communist dinosaur for making all those weirdcrap noises at e start n end of each point.)

~

Making konnyaku jelly is just troublesome. Easy but troublesome. Oh well, as long as grandpa likes it. Slept 11 hours! wooooo. i feel rested for once.

~

haha I'm into VCD moods again! i suspect its the lack of excitement and drama in my life. After the Taiwan Dou Yu and the Japanese Love Revolution, i'm doing another Jap drama series called Love Mania. Watched it a few years' back. Oh god. it's super funny. The most exaggerated facial, body and aural expressions. It's basically ONE WOMAN who keeps falling in love with the next guy she sees. Haha. That's it! And there she goes in and out of love like nobody's business. Super funny. I'm bored.

~

I dunno. It's either i'm tired physically or i'm jus tired of ppl playing me out at the last minute, I dun even feel pissed anymore. I jus think : okay. next tuesday/week/month/YEAR then.

Jus a reminder to everyone : I need one day's notice when you decide not to turn up for any appt (dat means : NOT " hey tmr i can't make it/i dun wanna go liao". ) and the reason behind it YOU KNOW doesn't convince me much. Only 3 things justify late/sudden cancellations or more crudely known as BANG4 SEH1 : Family matters. Deaths (this could mean funerals. sudden deaths. or your death. no joke.) and Being Sick. And of cos others like ARMY (sudden guard duties,confinements.OT). OUT OF NOWHERE REMEDIAL SCHOOL CLASSES ( and not those on ur timetable ) and WORK (same rule applies).

I am demanding.

~

Do bargains jus linger in ur mind after u spot their ads or am i jus ah soh?

" HAAGEN DAAZ 2 FOR $21 " jus sticks in mi head all the time. And i can't help but consider the deal every freaking time i walk into e petrol kiosk. wah lel. N why am i fat?

Did u know jus one normal Timeout is 17g of fat?
1/3 of ur allowed daily fat intake.

Mus share this with u ppl.

Big Macs : 34g
Zinger : 40+g.
BK WHOPPER (w a slice of cheese) : 84g

I'm hoping this info i caught on this chart outside Subway refers to the American sized/made burgers. SHOCKING statistics.
i think i take 80g of fat each day. sick.








8/22/2004 12:25:00 AM