2007-11-25
I am going to sleep at 7am. If you shake me and I do not respond, it does not mean I have died.
It is 5.13 in the morning and I am stubbornly wide awake despite crewing like siao for practically the whole day, so since people are always complaining that I never update (I DO ok, just because I don't update regularly doesn't mean I don't update AT ALL), I may as well add an entry and see how long it takes for my body to finally shut itself down.
The Random List of Random Things I Did During Theatre Week:
(not necessarily in chronological order)
- Swore at Clari.
- Picked fights with Clari.
- Swore at and picked fights with Kester.
- Came up with multiple light stick configurations with Kai.
- Said, "Aah bonjourrr. I would like to come out of your nose." in a French accent to Deborah while Clari was doing her make-up. Clari had to stop to hyperventilate for awhile cos she couldn't take it.
- Got molested by Deborah.
- Got addicted to the smell of Febreze.
- Inhaled lead fumes from soldering the stupid circuits for the stupid lanterns which I have yet to hang up, set fire, and take a baseball bat to. (Kester and Kai had it worse, they soldered for 6 hours before.)
- Fed the cat that loiters around the AC Barker guard post. Kai and I got "marked" by it for our troubles. If you saw a lot strange pale orange or brown tufty things on my blacks on Friday night, that was cat hair.
- Kena hug-attacked by Estelle too many times to count.
- Had panic attacks every time they did the lantern dance (along with Kai, Kester, Rox, Lindis and all the other people who have experienced the sheer agony of trying to make the lanterns work). Lindis saw how Nick was swinging his lantern around on stage today and thus this priceless quote was born: "Nick is going to get it from me, I'm going to wax every single hair from his body."
- Had bigger panic attacks every time Kester, Kai, Lindis and I had to do Caleb's killer costume changes.
- Repeatedly thanked God for Febreze.
- Was struck dumb by Yin Ling's ability to break the links of the lantern chain during one lantern dance.
- Learnt that "chicken nuggen" is somehow a legitimate swear word, most widely used by Edlyn.
- Called Shariff a "tranny" just before Saturday night's show started cos he said he was feeling happy but he wasn't supposed to be happy, he had to be angry so someone please make him angry by calling him a "tranny".
- Got sick T_T
- Stifled so many coughs backstage that every time I try to cough normally now, it feels like I just did 1001 crunches.
- Fell asleep during the cast warm-up sessions every time they did the "Mmmmmm..." thing, then jerked awake when they got to the "Mamamamamamamamamamamamama!" thing.
- Got all the songs for the dance tracks stuck in head.
- Learnt that "Shoot Shag Marry" is the ultimate favourite i-got-nothing-to-do-backstage game.
- Dethorned quite a lot of roses.
- Laughed at Clari when she cried because some of the cast was crying on Saturday night, but then I laughed until I ended up crying also so ok, we're even.
- Formed the Order of the Broom with Mark one day while we were sweeping the stage and "jumping" gold sequins into the dustpan with our brooms.
- Ran around wearing a waistpouch equipped with one roll of masking tape, one roll of black duct tape, one roll of stage-coloured duct tape, a penknife, two markers, and a torchlight.
- Came home after PPP wearing a waistpouch equipped with 7 rolls of masking tape, 2 rolls of black duct tape, 1 roll of stage-coloured duct tape, two markers, a toffee, and a torchlight/
- Literally pranced down the road with Deborah to flag down a cab after PPP.
- Perfected the art of taking short spontaneous naps and then waking up suddenly.
- Found out that Mao Hui was a very lazy kid when he was a baby, most evident from the way he apparently used to crawl with his head on the floor and his butt in the air like some deformed human wheelbarrow.
- Choked on glitter from Jayne's hair when she gave me hugs after all her make-up and hair was done.
- Choked on smoke whenever Kester smoked the stage excessively.
- Was introduced to what Rox calls her "japanese drink", which is some fizzy green apple-flavoured aerated water canned drink thing from the lift lobby vending machine.
- Got addicted to said fizzy drink.
- Discovered the wonders of Vicks Vapo-Drops (thank you, clari).
- Had Clari act as my apothecary for one night when she loaded me with Vicks Vapo-Drops and some green things that look like Strepsils but taste weird and make your tongue go numb and do wonders for sorethroat.
- Insulted Yijun. Again.
- Told Lesley at PPP that I thought her toilet smelled wonderfully nice for a toilet.
- Fell asleep typing this entry and woke up in time to finish this and watch sunrise at 6.37 in the morning.
feimao at 5:13 a.m.