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i’m beginning to like this bumming life… back in school, i was never this conscientious about catching plays or arthouse films, even though i liked them both… Many reasons… Too busy… Too lazy… And not many people would watch with me… The only time I could drag myself down to the theatre from ulu NTU was to watch a play and fulfill my requirements for theatre classes… That, or when my sisters buy the tickets for me and i watch with them…

Now? I catch a play and a documentary film all in one day… without a class assignment attached to either… Paul Rae will be so proud of me… (ok, so it’s cos I managed to find Kay to watch with me and buy the tickets for me… and also cos he got complimentary tix for the film…)

Price: $0.00

1st Shot - Second Link by Wild Rice

I paid 40bucks to watch it… check out the ticket stubby

Between the first and second halves of the play, I liked the second half better…

Not that i dun like the acting of the malaysian cast, in fact i love the tall actor… Can’t figure what his name is yet. But seriously, why do local writers always have to put a lot of vulgarities into their writing? like no serious writing or playscript is complete without a couple of f-words thrown in for good measure… Oh and not to mention the generous serving of sexual innuendoes…

In any case, those aren’t even the main reason i liked the second half better… I think the pacing of the first half was a little long drawn… the second half was so much faster… each performance was about 2 mins… and each story was funny by itself… the acting was very animated too… perfect for the Singaporean with the short attention spans…

As such, Kay & I decided that Singaporean writers should just quit their jobs and go become actors… hope i dun get sued for saying that…

2nd Shot - Passabe by James Leong & Lynn Lee

This one… very nearly made me cry…

It talked about the internal unrest and unforgiveness as a result of the massacres and the brutality of the militia. It’s sad how difficult reconciliation can be, and yet, it’s probably gonna be one of the essential elements to keeping the peace and the independence…

The scenes were beautiful… The conversations really amusing… The story very moving… When the entire village was commemorating the deaths of those who were killed for supporting independence, people wailed before the tombs of their loved ones… I wanted to cry too…

I’m rather inspired by it… Kay thinks I could do this next time… We’ll see how it goes… And like I said to him, ” let me start my career in journalism first…”