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free stuff duh...

this is a link to a free book... American Gods by Neil Gaiman, one of the finest piece of storytelling ever written...

http://tiny.cc/WRiXE

Grats to Neil for receiving the Jim Henson Honours

pfftttt... you bloody cheapskates...

No more bitching... only nice pretty and shiny stuff....

I have not been posting for quite some time... mainly cause I've got better things to do...

The 30th SEA FORENSICS is finally over... I'm not as happy as I could be with the results of the Solo Acting Finals but what's done is done...

Was nice to be able to go back to ISKL and meet up with all of me old friends... was splendid to see Denise again and just gossip =P 

Straight after the FORENSICS I went straight bsck to work the very next day which was awesome...

My personal sales went sky-high where for the first time I actually sold over RM11000 worth of stuff, but the best part was as I was on the phone with Denise, someone came up behind me and just grabbed on my glasses... 

"Denise I gotta go, I saw someone I like"

How surprised I was to see Jean at Pavilion.... that really made my day =)

ah well, now I'm back at work, which sucks as all hell seeing as how I have yet a single customer for the day... we'll see... maybe Jean's gonna pop up again =P

I Saw God...

OK... maybe that was a tiny bit exaggerated..

No no, i did not see god..

Saw something better instead...

I came face to face with the new MacBook Air

It's sooo light that when I held the MacBook after that the darn thing felt sooo heavy

and NO ITS NOT AVAILABLE YET... it's just a perk of being an Apple employee... hehehehe

Also I heard there's gonna be a discount for all Mac's, an iMac for myself maybe???

hmmmm

Picking The Brain of The Scriptwriter

Have yet to do anything recently except work and at times Play World of Warcraft...

Miss the time when I'd be skipping class and going for drama practices.

Miss shouting at Wai Keat for every single time he messed up and also the times when I'd shout at jim just for kicks...

Currently attempting to pen own another script, this script was an original idea I had for last years play, but I suppose we shall all see how this one turns out...

But as always before I start on a new project, I shall give the last project proper closure..

The following is the Author's Notes for KL's Best Script 2007 which was christened "Speak For Yourself" and later christened "Questionable Motives: Everyone Has A Rent To Pay"

"You have never been christened before, I don't see why you should start, it might have a bad effect on your health"

Algernon Moncrieff, The Importance of Being Earnest

I suppose getting christened twice should not be a problem...

Authour's Notes "Questionable Motive: Everyone Has A Rent To Pay"

What Put "Questionable Motives" In A League Of Its Own 

As the script was written, the only thought the author had in his mind was to allow enough space for  character development. Character development was not only applied to the antagonist nor the protagonist, but of every single character in the play. 

An attempt to achieve this, the attention of the audience was not brought straight to the antagonist instead of the protagonist when the scene first began and that the protagonist’ lines only came in at the middle of the script, this was to allow sufficient character development of the antagonist. When you compare any other script, the attention of the audience was brought straight to the protagonist of the play and that would last all the way till the end of the play. which basically meant the obvious character development throughout the play was only a[plied on the protagonist

The author also tried to achieve this by making sure every single actor that got on the stage would have their own lines to say, that every single character that was penned down would have their own history, that everyone has their own reason for being in the scene at that very moment and that each actor had a history of their own which allowed a certain amount of depth to every single character. The lines in the play was spread evenly amongst the actors, though admittedly the hostages and the police officers did not have as many lines as the others did, but they still had their share to of the spotlight.

The author believes that a play should not only tell a single story, this is what is most commonly done, that the play would revolve on the protagonist and that the whole play would be his/her story, but in “Questionable Motives” every single character had their own story to tell, making it a layered cake giving depth to the script. The main reason in which why the author attempted this was that he wanted to discard the common look of a school play which is usually a team consisting of a group of people with single actor. this style instead allowed to show that this was a team of 15 actors working with each, which was an attempt to prove to the adjudicators, that this is indeed a team of actors who are all capable of delivering a performance and not just a team that had only a single actor in it.

Scripts would usually begin with a slow tempo where the character’s were slowly developed over the period of time, but this script began on a very intense note which was the intention of the author to grab the attention of the audience the minute the curtains opened and as well as it worked when the actors performed the piece on stage, the technique indeed worked in grabbing the attention of the audience. the challenging part was that for the author to maintain the atmosphere throughout the whole play until the piece reached its resolution and of course making room for character development and ample space to allow the intensity of the atmosphere to be felt.

Special thanks to Marvin Wong for going through and editing the script, and all the actors and those involved with the play...

But before I sign off, admit it people, you couldn’t have pulled it off without me and my pretty black pen... and face it, the three page draft passed to me was completely ripped apart and the whole story retold =P