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She is unpredictable, frequent moodswings. Sometimes she’s nice, and sometimes she’s not.
Her name is Yan Ying. 90% of the world can’t pronounce it properly, simple as it seems. But no one really cares so they just call her YY. She is not fond of people with the same name as her. She turns 14 on 6th September and she loves her birthday cause it is a sex symbol. She was from Yew Tee Primary and is still proud of her school. She will never forget the class of 6D’07, or the batch of P6’07. She is currently an idiot in Nanyang Girls High and it is a love-hate relationship. She belongs to 202’09 which she, to be honest, doesn’t feel much for. She is a Theatre Club girl and is more than proud to be one. She especially loves Emo Batch♥, and looks forward to devoting her next 3 years to TCN with much optimism. She does ballet with more than just passion but she can’t do a center split. She is trying her best and is currently aiming for a far-fetched distinction for Grade6. She loves hiphop just as much though she’s pretty new at it. Her favourite sport is swimming and she occasionally plays basketball as a form of stress-relief. She likes to be tan and loves her swimming tan line. The piano, is yet another love-hate relationship. Like most teenagers, her hobbies include MSNing, blogging, and youtubing and facebooking. She loves shopping and doing random stuff like gaying people, jumping over railings, walking in the rain, and having completely irregular sleeping hours. Unlike most teenagers, she thinks that rap music is trash. She also thinks that she is getting old cause she hates the songs the average listens to these days. She can’t explain her love for oldies, country music, ballads, and sentimentals. Nostalgic songs are the best. Her favourite bands are Michael Learns to Rock, The Beatles and Westlife. She loves too many singers to name them all. “Forevers” are bullshit as of now. The night speaks to her the way no one else can. Her favourite thing to do is to curl up with a book on a rainy afternoon in her room, where she feels safest in. Her favourite flower is a black rose, but on the contrary, she likes rainbows and hugs too. She is always torn between two. But she is determined when she sets her mind on something, so she wants the world to shut up and believe in her. Just watch.Tag
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Saturday, August 23, 2008, 11:59 PM
Scarlet
Oh no oh no. Yan Ying you do not cry now or you'll wake up with screwed eyes tomorrow. Oh no. T-TGahh I don't know how to continue. I'll go take a shower and be right back. :]
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Was unpacking my bag after shower, and when I took out the file I used for Scarlet, the million updated cue sheets, the CDs, cards, chocolates, roses, I stared and browsed through them for a very long time.
I can't believe it's all over so soon. Scarlet. Right now I feel very very...emo. Emotional. Yes emo is the short form for emotional so I don't understand why it has got a completely different meaning. And I have so much to say I don't even know how to blog this entry out, and I need a hug. ):
For a start I'll say that no, we didn't let the ahbatch whom I have grown to look up to and love so much over these months, down at all. It was the sec 4s' last performance, it was a fabulous performance, the audience enjoyed it, and we all tried our best. We made the sec 4s proud of us all, of Theatre Club Nanyang. And we proved Mr Ng wrong that we'd do a good job on it.
I'll miss alot of things. I'll miss controlling the sounds, both on Mr Ng's iMac and in the control room. I'll miss sitting on the M4 couch with Pinghui and documenting rehearsals. I'll miss updating the sound cues every night even while I'm half asleep or ponning shit like zuowen. I'll miss spending hours talking people into buying tickets through MSN or the incessant SMSes. I'll miss hanging around at the ticketing booth during recess time and lunchtime, counting and recounting the amount of money and tickets.
I'll miss Mr Ng's shouting which helps me to improve and learn, yet I'm still so intimidated by. I'll miss sec 4s' lectures which always holds the sincerity and inspiration for us to work harder, better, and to do Theatre Club Nanyang proud. I'll miss running errands for the seniors, all the "Sec ones please ...". I'll miss cleaning up with my batchmates, be it M4, audi, backstage, canteen, conference room.
I'll miss wrapping tables, the insulator tape and the gaffatape which I still don't know how to spell. I'll definitely miss the experience of moving tables from the 4th floor all the way to the 1st floor and back up again for almost every CCA session. Yes we used the lift but its still taxing as the distance between M4 and the lift and the audi is not as near as you think it is. I'll miss thinking of more effective and faster ways to doing that each time with emobatch.♥ I'll miss stacking up the tables, carrying them till I'm a pro at handling it. It gets easier each time and now I feel like Hercules!
I'll miss Ping Hui's cueing over the cans, which I am ever so grateful for. I'll miss working with dear Nicole on sounds, and never once had she retorted or found me too bossy. I'll miss how the flapper Daphne always comes up to the control room when she's bored during rehearsals to crap with us. And speaking of her I'm just so proud that she really changed from a few months ago and now she's totally loves and is dedicated to theatre. You go girl!
I'll also miss working and crapping with the AV girls in the control room, especially Sally, Sylvia, Rebecca and Lijun. I'll miss the crew hugs there between AV and Theatre before each show starts. I'll miss how gan chiong we get and immediately cut the crap when Mr Ng says "full-run go". I'll miss the panic when things go wrong, the reccurent "oh shit oh shit".
I'll miss the million encouragements which never fails to perk us up again and do our best. I'll miss doing the silent jiayou-we-can-do-it sign with Nicole halfway through full-runs/shows. I miss how the my cans screwed up and everyone went OHNO. I missed how we couldn't seem to control the house music volume today and Mr Zuffri saved us by just pressing two damned buttons.
I'll miss all rehearsals and practises, be it a good one or a screwed one. I'll miss every single briefing and debriefing. I'll miss the smiles, the tears, the hugs we shared especially tonight. Every hug made me wanna cry; none of us could really believe that Scarlet is over and that nine months of effort has really paid off.
I'll miss doing Scarlet, the whole process of it, to the final night. I only hope that today's the 22nd, and that we have one last show to go, so that I can relive tonight again.
Scarlet is simply amazing, the whole of it. It's my first time being so involved in a production, feeling that I actually had a very important role to play in it. It's also my first time doing a post-modern (I believe the seniors' too), something so abstract. I was about worried what the audience would think of it, would they like it or not?
"What can I say??? It was a thought-provoking show, very complex, good choreography, good choice of music, very good actresses. Not bad la..." - Kah Loon. Most of the feedback I received were pretty good, and I sincerely thank everyone who went to watch it. You don't know how much it means to me to just sell one more ticket, to have one more audience, but yah.
If you haven't watched Scarlet just because you're too lazy to get your ass off your home, then I'm sorry, it was good enough for you to regret not watching it. You missed a damn good experience, the magic of a post-modern piece and the piecing together the fragmented pieces in your own way.
And on my part, it was a super good experience with the sounds too. I realize that I'm actually very fortunate to be in charge of the sounds, and now I know the basics of the sound board which my other batchmates don't. And Rebecca also taught me abit for the lights, and AV is so freaking cool. Speaking of which, AV and TCN bonded pretty well through the whole Scarlet thing. And if I can next year I'm so volunteering to do the lights, omg. But I won't mind doing the sounds again too. Gahh I really really love Nicole!
Freaking emotional night, tonight. Everyone was like crying so badly over the show, so we spammed hugs everywhere. I realize we haven't hugged many of the seniors before, but today we just forget whatever bushuangness we think they have with us and jumped straight at them hahahah.
People were also saying things here and there, it was so so bittersweet. Yijing was telling me about how Pinghui didn't ask the sec ones to clear up the stage cause its the last time already, and she wanted to do it herself. She told us how they just stood by the side and watch her do it.
Bonded much closer with the seniors as well during this production. And today Pinghui bought each sec one a rose and told us through tears, "I know you guys are crew so you don't get as much flowers or chocolates, but I really really want to thank all of you for being such a good crew member." And she gave us a rose each and we hugged her and she cried even more.
Yingci was being very funny as usual haha. I don't know why but I found it so amusing when she made the sec ones line up in this stern stern voice and then started hugging each of us and kissing us on the cheek.
I can't help but feel bitter, and overwhelmed that they are leaving so soon, or that Tuesday (elections day) is the last official CCA for Year 1. How fast has eight months passed? I can still remember my first day in CCA man, where I was struggling to remember everyones' names and asking Bethanie "are the sec 4s in green T-shirt?". Now I can do it!
yingcihanjingzongbinpinghuihuiying, stephenieeiffelcherylesteerachelshiyuncynthiazephyrhelinjinjin,
amandaseeyuanmingteresayijingamandaongbethaniedelenahyolim,
nicoledaphneshuhuishuminsixianmelissaamandachan! ♥
Theatre Club Nanyang. ♥
I don't know how I sat here for 2 hour plus (yah it's like 3:54am now and I still have a feeling I'm going to wake up with screwed eyelids) typing one whole chunk of text out and I'm sorry for that. You didn't have to read it, but if you did thanks. I can't find the word for how we all feel, mostly its like everything combined together ranging from joy to sadness.
Rawwrr Scarlet. I really wanna thank everyone who made Scarlet a success, Mr Nick Ng, our stage manager/assistant director Tong Ping Hui, the cast and crew, the audience.
My file for Scarlet is already chucked between all my other files that serve as memory, and where on very very rare times would I browse through them cause I just feel like it. Scarlet will be an unforgettable performance, my first in TCN, and when its my turn to be sec 4 I'll look back and smile.