amour amour

Monday, May 30, 2005

- 1:37 pm

before i begin i have to say something; it goes like this
CAMPIONI CAMPIONI LIVERPOOL
yes it was the best match ive seen in my life; ive never seen such a comeback from my scouser boys. at half time, 3-0 down i was furious; crying and shouting watching as ancelotti celebrated with his players and coming out again; but they forget how hell hath no fury like the liverpool supporters; we stuck by our team throughout singing youll never walk alone even though we were down and out- the memory of it brings tears to my eyes specially since i was at home singing it with them at 350 in the morning till the restart. suddenly stevie g scored and put us up at 3-1 and here i was shouting for joy because i knew we had a chance, 2 goals against the best defence in the world were needed- but we could do it with our stevie g pumping us on.

steve gerrard gerrard
whatever will be will be

so began the blitz. vladimir smicer came on an produced a brilliant shot which was too good for dida to save throwing us up to 3-2 and then gerrard surged forward on an impossible ball to be tripped in the penalty box; i thought i was dreaming as we got the penalty. xabi alonso stepped up to deliver; his shot was saved but his follow up was sublime. against the defence of paolo maldini, alessandro nesta, jaap stam and cafu, with gennaro ivan gattusso DMCing we showed how we were the team who beat a top class german team, the best teams in italy and the second best team in england- we always knew we were the best. then came penalties; and all credit to dudek who did a masterful job as we won 3-2; and i was catapulted to extremes of joy ive never experienced before.

campioni campioni liverpool

its been an extremely long weekend; and im left here exhausted, but facing the prospects of a good number of matches over the next few weeks. which, come to think of it isnt such a bad prospect. go team!

shes uncertain if she likes him
but she knows she really loves him
its a crash course for the ravers

for most of the week its been skool lectures and then rehearsals rehearsals rehearsals; the life I like just without the skool and lectures bit. while waiting for daisy rehearsals, going for kalashatvam rehearsals, gettin home elevenish and then some. being called up two weeks before kalashatvam and being asked to act before reworking the script getting a play together and then replacing vishal and that other guy as emcee with hadri; and then seeing hadri get cut from the emceeing bit leavin me to figure it out. but yeah. back to daisy things.

daisy pulled it off is over; i dont know if im relieved or saddened for various reasons which as of yet are still unknown to me but what the heck. first night was quite good; i mean we had something close to full house which is quite decent and the acting wasnt so bad. THANKS THENUGA FOR COMING IN AFTER THE INTERVAL. haha no, really thanks for coming down. thenuga gave me a vodka which she promptly snatched back when i poked a jibe at her milan. but day 2- saturday was a complete joke. i put my heart out and did as good a job as i could; and although i fucked a line, i rallied and got back in place without anyone noticing anything (smritis right. i only ever get my lines right on the day itself). but the audience; it was whack. the wings of the PAC were deserted- where were they? i dont want to blame publicity because i know they tried- but it could have been much much better. i mean look at the ACJC play- camelot. they got colour posters everywhere including RJC and what do we got? photocopied pictures of pek in RJC. and they wonder why RJC wins the best play award year in year out. we're doing it wrong; for starters i think the casting should be more balanced between the guys and girls- my male coworkers were what? reuben gavin and waikit? huzzah. and then we're doing a british schoolgirl play? we're singaporean and i really think we shoulda done something closer to the heart, something more pertinent, more interesting- something people'd want to come for, something befitting an RJC play- something like Otto Fongs 'We Are Family (2001)' all credit to smriti and mrs perry though; they did a good job directing. but yeah choice of play needs to be watched please. and we need an audience. what nonsense rafflesians are we having nowadays who wont support their skool play, cheer properly for rugby and hockey?

on a higher note, congratulations to the hockey boys who did a great job; and to the rugby boys- do it next year. you got a brilliant captain in steven haurissa, use that.

and then kalashatvam; it was a great performance. every show was magnificent, the only blip on the radar being the banana rain crap put up by guess who? the committee of 2006! haha must say the new committee sucks; all in favour say aye (chorus of ayes). good stuff to jayavalli and geetha for carrying the things on their backs.

then the sunday night fight; ha!

with things back to normal on a hot monday afternoon; i examine the prospects and looks ahead- things are bleak but it aint so bad in the end- the big picture was always a misrepresentation

i like looking behind the picture