This friend list supersedes the last one.
Note that order does not matter. people of the same status are of equal standing.
and this time all friends are mixed together, church friends don't get separate ranks.

PLATINUM

Platinum.star friendships describe confidantes I've made.

Adeline

Gerald

Peter

Jun Xin

Felix

Krystle

Eric

Shu Ren

Anlynn

Alfred

DaoYuan

Matthew

Leon

Isaac

and W445!

Platinum for Teachers:
Mr Charles Low
My current teachers

Platinum Awards:

Go to friends i've made.

Qi Han
Alfred (again)
Dominic
Angel
Pauline
Valerie
Chloe
Rachel
and N309

Gold Awards:
Special recognition to A14/A15--Choo Jun!!!

Silver Awards:
Everyone else I've befriended in the past.

Bronze Awards:
Everyone else left!

 

Ok i'm just posting at an unearthly hour to fill up what happened between fri and today.

SATURDAY
Saturday was an eventful day! Went to piano, completed chi compo (yus i do take h1 cl for the uninformed :) ), went for cell (not batteries, as in cell group...) and then went for huang cheng.
Nothing unusual happened during cell so it will be glossed over.

Huang Cheng turned out to be quite a disappointment for me. I know the people involved worked really hard, and applaud them for it, especially the backstage staff, ie. the props, lighting, sounds teams etc. But the acts were rather run-of-the-mill, or to put it more bluntly, cliched.
The props team deserves extra commendation for the fact that they worked 4-11pm from Mon to Fri throughout and the whole Saturday as well for the past weeks. Good work people!

ACT ONE
The first act is a typical Channel8 soap opera, sob story. Detailing how a debt-ridden father resorted to suicide and the struggle ensuing between the mother and the handicapped child paralysed from waist down, the whole play was exceedingly gloomy. i wouldn't say arrestingly gloomy, much as i would love to, since the plot was rather mundane. A question that lacks answers would be what put the family to such a despondent state in the first place. Music was normal.

Nevertheless, the actors were awesome at controlling their mood and acting their hearts out. In this aspect they deserve applause, rather than simply criticism over a storyline they had no control of.

Plot: 5.5/10
Acting: 8.5/10
Music/Sound: 3/5
Props/Lighting: 4.5/5

ACT TWO
Much better in terms of plot, yet the horror element did not manifest well enough, morphing into a morality play that explores the selfish desires of man that led to the death of a close companion of the characters. Highly original storyline, i would say, captures audience attention, but somehow it just lacks the X factor due in part to the sheer length of character dialogue that stretched the whole play and made some parts of talking rather boring.
Again, great acting, excellent props and lighting control. (The curved staircase on the right is ultra cool!)

Plot: 7/10
Acting: 8/10
Music/Sound: 3.5/5
Props/Lighting: 4.5/5

ACT THREE
Finally a relief, a comedy!!! After all that leaden stuff, the light-hearted nature of this play obviously scored well in the hearts of the audience, amidst hearty laughter. A significant embarrassment and hilarious moment occurred when the toymaker addressed X as "Was X good to you?" or sth like that when he meant the master of X. The love with robot plot thing is kinda funny and unrealistic but adds to the fun of the whole play.
Excellent props. Acting was relatively a little less impressive.

Plot: 7.5/10
Acting: 7.5/10
Music/Sound: 3.5/5
Props/Lighting: 4.5/5

Overall i would say the plots of the plays spoilt the whole thing. Everything else was nothing short of perfect, so it is quite a pity lar really. But i enjoyed myself lar.

SUNDAY
Sunday was again really eventful, with a supercharged church service (most are), followed by a sentosa event. The most memorable thing that arose out of my being stationmaster and stoning at the southernmost point of the asian continent away from all civilisation connected by the hanging bridge was:
The wonderful sound effects of 3 girls swimming across the 25 m length of the sea.
They were doing a "swim and scream" sequence, causing me to laugh hysterically and everyone else who saw did too. (The girls are: A* Ly**, C*l*e and their friend. names partially concealed to protect identity). Really funny.

Then we had dinner, played a random no link game going like:
A: Do you like playing the piano?
B: The sky is beautiful today.
Super hilarious but addictive so we shouldn't play too often, lest we answer teachers in the same no-link way as well.

MONDAY
Rather boring and lacklustre compared to Saturday and Sunday. Woke up, did math, went for guitar lesson, did math again and watched juno on my com.
Guitar lesson was uber boring.
Juno is real cool, probably rated nc16 due to the mature theme of teenage pregnancy lar. cos everything else was nice and clean ;)
The plot was original and enjoyable, the acting was awesome and the leads look good too! ;)
Basically its about how an accidental teenage pregnancy resulted in the decision to give the baby to a successful upper class couple, how the couple had underlying severities in their marriage and the wonderful resolution at the end although their divorce was unavoidable.
Shan't spoil further.
OH I MUST MENTION THE MUSIC RAWKS. watching it for the music is worth it too.
the landscape is uber nice, especially the winter landscape, made me think of japan and korea. ;)
jazzRatings:
Plot: 8/10
Acting: 8/10
Music: 9.5/10
Humour: 7.5/10
Landscape: 4.5/5
Cinematography: 3.5/5
TOTAL: 41, highly recommended
(you can see my ratings tend to incline towards the high side...yup yup.)

TUESDAY
A really mundane and frustrating day, due to the fact that i spent
4 HOURS trying to recover the files from my mac-formatted ipod and
close to 2 HOURS trying to repair my quicktime and itunes, which stubbornly refused to delete all their components completely, hence i had to use windows install cleanup utility to delete them and run registry cleaners 6 times. GRRR.
The ipod was worse. after 4 hours of being cheated by some Data Recovery Ipod software thing which spent 1+ hour analysing my ipod and gave me empty folders after that, i realised that teh solution was something SO SIMPLE that i wanted to cry. (haha i didn't)
Its called MACDRIVE 7. Its so cool that installing it allows you to access any mac-formatted stuff as if you were using a windows & mac at the SAME time.

Had a wonderful bible study about worship and its importance in the morning. And i discovered that i was guilty of a serious sin, so i repented and hopefully will continue to do so.

On a sidenote, I'm being informed that my blog is chim. Which is why i post at unearthly hours when my brain cells are almost dead so the vocab is less daunting. Dunno why they still say chim leh, must be they don't read. HAHA>-<

end of this long post.
jazz....