showtime...zzz

we felt that we couldnt make it for the showtime preshow rehearsal next thursday so we asked mdm woon if she could ask mediacorp if we could change the date to like next saturday. mdm woon asked me to ask mr koh if he was free on next sat.

so i called mr koh but he didnt listen (he was probably resting coz he was sick). den after an hour, he called back. he was rather frustrated that we had to change the date coz we had been changing our idea for the 1st round a number of times, etc. he told me dat its like the "world revolves around our grp" and he said "u do realise dat its because u started late dat u have so much problems now".

well... i felt a bit unfair. it wasnt my plan to start late. i wanted to start like in april, right after we signed up for showtime. but at dat time there was only dawn and me. moreover, mr koh said it was gonna be an ine activity and ine members will join and help us. so i waited for the announcement of the people joining our grp.

however, the ine exco delayed the asking of ine members to join showtime until late may, just before the june holidays. ok... so we were delayed by 1.5 months. den i asked the ine exco abt the confirmed members in late may, before we went for the june holidays. there was no reply. i asked again in the 1st week of june (2nd week of june hols) and finally got a confirmed list of members at the end of the week.

so i arranged a meeting on the monday of the 3rd week of the june hols. we tried thinking of a good idea but we couldnt think of one. during the 3rd week of the june hols, we were all rather busy with things such as make-up lessons and we managed to have another meeting dat week during which we still couldnt come up with a good idea.

in the 4th week of the june hols, we had GEC, so monday and tuesday was gone. it would be unreasonable for me to ask for the showtime members to come out to meet and discuss showtime during the 4th week coz they needed to study for their common tests. meanwhile, i had fever the day after the GEC... for nearly 2 weeks.

the next time we met up was on the thursday after sch reopened- 29 june. only melissa, yun shuen, yi chiew and me turned up (i was still having a fever). we thought of the idea of presenting the jaw dropper (an attraction in Genting).

den i had make up common tests on the next day; friday 30 june and on the tuesday of the following week; 4 july. so the showtime members didnt meet up during this time. we started making the props for the jaw dropper idea on tuesday 4 june but kangyu suggested dat we make use of a scene from zhou xing chi's movie "shanghai 1987" where there was a gambler with powers to see through the walls of the dice jar. he was able to see the numbers on the dice in the jar and hence he kept winning money coz he knew when it was "da" (big) and when it was "xiao" (small). den, the banker was changed. he shook the 3 die in the jar such dat one dice was totally covered by the other 2 die. we wanted to use this dice idea instead of the jaw dropper idea so we started developing on the idea. we thought of how we could let the audience "see inside the magnified jar" and how we were going to have the die move around in the "jar". when we were almost finished, we called mediacorp and told them the change in idea but they said we couldnt have any gambling theme or devices according to the media development authority. so we decided to change the gambler into a boy who told his mother he had psychic powers, the banker into the boy's mother, and worse of all we had to change the 3 die into something as pathetic as 3 beans.

coz of the change in props and story, we felt the dice idea had became rather obit and had no meaning at all on wednesday 5 june (one day before the showtime shooting of our preparation). so we were stuck again... den melissa remembered the ghost in a house idea we thought of and i started giving ideas on how to develop the story, inject creativity and innovation to the plot and the props. den we started making the props till quite late (9pm) dat day.

den we had to stay in sch to do the showtime shooting of our preparation on thursday 6 june till 10pm and we stayed in sch to do the props until 7pm today. though we were given so little time coz of the delay in the ine exco getting members, we are all trying our best and giving our utmost effort already, such as thinking up of a good idea and making a few props within a day, and staying back till late night every day. however, i think mr koh seems to be having the impression dat we are lazy and only think of stuff at the last minute. its so sad...