Prologue

So, it's all over now. It's hard to come to terms with the fact that I won't be with the same group of people doing the same thing that we did in the same space we were in anymore, but I am so glad that we did what we did. I cannot express my thanks and gratitude to you, Chris, because "thanks" just isn't enough. You've helped me grow not only as an actor, but also as a person. I pray that I will forever hold on to whatever you have taught me, and that someday, I will inspire others the way you have inspired me. Thank you Chris, for everything you've done for us this semester. Thank you for sacrificing sleep and time for us and for looking out for us and trying your hardest to make out lives easier. The amount of effort we see you put in is definitely just the tip of the iceberg, and I don't know how much is hidden by the water, but once again, I can only say, thank you.

Signing out,
James Lim

FINALS PRESENTATION HOMAIGOT IS HERE

IT'S TIME FOR THE SHOW HOMAIGOT HOMAIGOT HOMAIGOT

Okay no but in all honesty I was quite excited la. I felt like we were prepared and we each knew what we were supposed to do. When Chris put us on standby, I felt nervous (duh lol) but it was a good kind of nervous. I would even say that I was anxious to start the show. I wanted to show the audience what we had prepared, what we had learned in the past 3 and a half months. I couldn't help but feel sentimental that soon, all of this was going to be over. The classes that we'd get tense because somebody wasn't paying attention to Chris while he was speaking, the classes where we stood still for more than half of the class, the classes that didn't seem to make sense at that time, ALL THOSE CLASSES were the classes that I was gonna miss (and obv the fun classes la like the one we played amoeba, when we argued and shouted at each other trying to win people over to our side, the classes where we'd just talk about what we want etc etc)

BUT ANYWAYYYY, when the audience started walking in, I could feel the excitement in the room. The energy I felt from the audience was enough to motivate me to do even better. Whenever I looked over at somebody else's cubicle, I'd see them going all out. That was more than enough to push me to do even better than i had planned. The whole classroom was filled with voices, whispers, laughs, gasps, confused chatter, and most of all, it was filled with professionalism. 

I can't believe how amazing my classmates are, and how far they'v grown. I've seen people like Josh, quiet and shy and not willing to come out of his comfort zone, dance like a "ballerina". I had the pleasure to act with Sarah Marie, who seems like a nice, good, Christian girl; but when she acts, HOT DAMN, SHE AMAZING. My classmates, Sujatha, Catrena, Sam, Josh, WeiYee, Joy, Mia, Sarah, Christine, Brian, and Casey, were all so awesome tonight.

The four shows we put on didn't differ much in terms of what I learnt, but it strengthened what I already knew, which was that I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in MCKL and I'm so so so glad I had the oppurtunity to work and learn and grow with them. 

Class #21

FULL DRESS DAY!

Today was not exactly the best of days. I rushed to college after work and got into an accident while on the way here. But things could only go uphill from then, right? We ran through the whole show with our costumes and I DID NOT expect it to be so tiring, performing to nothing. Chris was tired and quite irritable (probably from his long rehearsals for Angels in America) so we tried our best to be as. . . irritating-less as possible. We did one run through and went home after that. I learnt that we should NEVER EVER EVER piss off a tired and stressed director of a 6 hour epic lol.

Class #20

Ms Kellie came in today! Chris played with our feelings lo I feel. He kept telling us that Ms Moey was gonna come for the preview. He lied. Ms Kellie came in and we held a preview for her. We showed her what we were planning to do and at the end of it all, she told us that she didn’t expect us to have put on a show like this. 

She was surprised that we managed to pull something like that off in such a short time. It was very motivating la honestly for me that somebody appreciated what we had done. This just made me want to do even better than I had planned in hopes of getting the same response from everybody else that would come to our show. DETERMINATION WOOHOO

CHOREO DAY

WAH THE DAY TO TEACH THE CHOREO IS HERE I KENNOT. DAHLAH ALL THE ASSIGNMENTS AND TESTS AND ALL WAH SHIAT I WANNA DIE.

But surprisingly everything went really well! Everybody had a lot of fun with the choreo (even though a lot of them had problems with getting the steps) and they managed to learn what I was trying to tell through the movements. The “dances” I thought were pretty meh were the ones that they liked the most HAHAHA. Interesting class la. I’m glad Chris pushed me to my limits to do this because I feel like I have finally stepped out of my comfort zone of not daring to take risks like this. This is, after all, what performing arts is about! To discover new things about yourself and to step out of our comfort zones.

Class #18

Chris did our blockings today woohoo. Yah but that’s about the only thing different that we did today compared to the class last week. We read through our scripts in the order that we decided this time, but in the positions that we put in.

Edit: Chris just told me that the space we’re going to be performing in is only 5 x 5 feet. HOW TO CHOREOGRAPH?! Honestly more stressed about the choreo than my script UGH STRESS.

Class #17

We started work on our scripts today! We read through each line written and tried to understand what was written. Chris told me that I was in charge of choreographing four dances for the class and that I had to teach them to the class on the 16^th. I know that nobody else in the class dances (not even for fun) and I’m damn scared that I won’t do a good job with the choreography, as I’ve never choreographed anything in my life before. I had less than two weeks to come up with the choreography and I wish Chris had given me a heads-up earlier so that I could be more prepared. But then again, I think he’s doing this because he believes that I can do it, and if he believes that, I should too, right? The whole class I was thinking about the choreography and what kind of movements I should include into the dances and I barely paid attention to what was happening around me and had to constantly pull myself back to the classroom. Damn I get distracted so easily it’s not even funny lol