There’s this chap on Deviantart.com who goes by the name of Alex Teselsky. His shots are really beautiful…I particularly like Goblin’s Hollow and After The Harvest…they had me going whoa, is this for real?! Check them out and tell me what you think.
About 2 nights ago, the cast had a ’surprise’ sprung on us. We were told that we generally, well, suck. All of us. Apparently, no one had done anything to make the play good enough for the whole university to watch. I sensed everyone pausing for a while, before confusion settled in, then finally, bewilderment. It wasn’t as though we all thought we were star quality or anything. It was just weird. After 2 weeks of training, this was the most logical moment on bringing reality crashing down on our shoulders? I don’t mind criticism. All of us took it in stride that night. We took note of our weaknesses and strived to improve. But come on. Open Night’s this Sunday. We should have been told a lot earlier. And I feel that our efforts and sacrifices, though it may not have fulfilled expectations, would have at least been acknowledged in some small sentence. But no. We were belittled beyond belief, and I could just feel everyone’s spirit sinking that night.
Last night though was a huge turnaround. We came, we met up with the former scriptwriters of the last (and hugely successful) mock trial and discussed certain improvisations to the script, Mun and myself had a small discussion with Adam who was the former director and former actor of the last mock trial and things took a turn from there. There’s something about Adam that really motivated everyone last night. He can walk into a room, and make his presence felt, although he isn’t the loud, imposing type. Hardly, in fact. He doesn’t even walk straight, he sort of lumbers around. I call him the Miracle Worker, because I feel the cast performed at their best last night, and although we definitely still need to brush up and improve on our characters, we received encouraging comments from the Committee members. The most important thing was we had fun along the way. Perhaps everyone was just feeling more determined to prove themselves worthy of being a member of the cast. Is this reverse psychology, I wonder? Oh, and the new vocab of the day is ‘Fulat’, introduced by none other than the Miracle Worker himself. It’s quite obscene actually; the word is the brother of the F word.
I’m trying to really bring Suzana out…it was a little scary last night. I had a moment where I felt like I wasn’t really Lubna, that Lubna was only an alter-ego of Suzana, and so I had to let Suzana take over. That was seriously freaky! I actually felt a lapse of control and completely forgot what it was like to be Lubna. I’m trying too hard, I guess. But still…freaky!
Oh yes, finally got the lyrics to Schubert’s Serenade last night from Zuhairy (who I had named Danial in my last entry) and I have to ask, are classical composers and lyricists the only people who are so romantic in their words? ‘Standchen’ was of course, in German, but he gave me the free translation too. Sigh. Simply beautiful! He even sang it for me (yes, in German!) since I didn’t know how it went (I only listened to the instrumental piece before this)…and I simply got lost in the music. Ok, I’m sounding a little ‘jiwang’ here, but I really do love Serenade. I guess you can say I was ’serenaded’ to last night, as Elyna puts it, but in a different way, of course, haha. But seriously, listen to it.
AIKOL Lab’s starting to get crowded, and I have some work to catch up on. Would someone please tell me how to get your body co-ordinated so that it would work according to plan? I keep on scheduling my days, only to find myself too worn to complete things I’ve started on. It gets depressing, not to mention, the workload gets heavier. So much for being organised.
Before I go:
"Swiftly see each moment flies,
See and learn be timely wise,
Every moment shortens day,
Every pulse beats life away,
Thus thy every heaving breath,
Waft thee on to certain death,
Seize the moments as they fly ,
Know to live and learn to die."
Enough said here.
