all in a day of woek..

just when i thought the weekend was finally approaching,
and that i culd finally have a night of late-tv-marathon or sumthing of that sort, (been bunking out early before 11pm throughout the weekdays..),
woek decided to extend its hours on a friday... which was worse than any normal 'extensions' as this one involved some silly politician-clients who wanted to print some equally silly election flyers at the lastest minutess!!!!
the amount of coordination work and printing time alone had me bumbling along between calls to the client, to the boss who wasnt in, to jane from the art department, and to my dear sales guys who would eventually come back to the office at closing time to help with the printing.. (tq! eric, zen & Kevin!!)
missing out on en rais' open house at our dataran prima office wasnt the biggest issue then, but now that i think of it, i do feel kinda missed-out of that function.. it was, after all, the first raya open house held officially at the KST office...~ oh well... guess i'll just be thankful the whole lot of mess was cleared by 9pm on a fri . . . =S


and today (saturday), was our official first rehearsal for the upcoming dinner-play.
yes, there's going to be another dinner at the office, this time for the Raya cum Mid-Autumn Fest celebrations, and it's going to be another performance required from us . . .
them bosses made it clear-er this time, they wanted the tale of chang-er`, that ancient gal who popped some pills and flew to the moon . . . (if you're also thinking of that one with the ten suns tale, then yes, you've also got it right).

rewind to wed evening: Got a call from kev, there will be a GRC meeting at 8am the next morning. it'll be on the coming dinner, fine.. but what has it got to do with me, i asked? i'm only the past grc-secretary!! ~ ~ ~

thur morn: 8am the meeting started. blah blah blah, jen's in-charged of a chinese play/dance performance (wuz like, waht? again ?!?? .. i'm like whut, 5-yrs old in this company and i'm still required to these choreographs? what happened to "leaving some opportunities to the new bloods"? and they're leaving us with like 3 days for the preparations? are they getting more notorious by the years or waht???) sigh......

well, well, again, .. if you cant beat 'em, might as well just join 'em!
once the name's been mentioned by the group MD himself, there's simply just no running away, and that's known fact for all of us there long enuff . . .
and so began my clicks on the internet, prepping up on the story of chang-er (wikipedia did the job fine!), prepping up on the costumes required for chang-er and the bloke houyi (found this costume rental place in pelangi d'sara ... 'costume world' with some serious stocks of whatever u can think of! .. oh, the convenience! we were damn impressed!) .. and finally, prepping up the team itself! thought it would do some good to get the team members motivated in the first place before we attempt any full-steam-aheads. fast-and-painless, that was always my motto for these 'side-projects' at the office, and that's what i made sure they know of. my assurance to them, in some ways... :)
roped in helen as co-pilot, joseph as creative director, bryan as male lead houyi, and aini as female lead chang-er.

fast-forward to saturday, today, we finally kicked off our first rehearsal. and i cannot heap enuff thanks and praises to kev, for all his enthusiasm and contribution to this play!!!
sure, he's the grc president and the dinner committee chairman and all, but the kind of eagerness and practical help that he actually put in, was really something that ive not seen before in any of the past presidents. he actually took my storyline and matched it with his own-edited background music complete with good-to-evil-song changes, eville laffs, and sound effects of arrows-bursting-9-suns!!!
to sum it all up, this is just great!!
we were only given like THREE working days to materialize everything that they'd envisioned.
so we cant be sure that we've aced all that they were having in their mind, but still, for something cooked up in less than 3 days! i am feeling mighty proud of my team here!
so now, i'll be happy enuff to just sit back as the scriptwriter, and have kev as our director from bollywood(!). the costumes' all set and paid for, the main leads already know what they're supposed to do, kev will be up with the final song edits by monday, and the supporting casts (including meself) have easy-enuff-roles that wont jeopardise the play. so as usual, i'll just let things run its course.. =)

oh darn, i'm suppose to come up ready with the props too~
that will entail sumthing like a tennis ball as the pill, and some arts-and-crafts for a big, beaming moon! ! ! s w e a t . . .


as i sat there this afternoon during rehearsal at our function room, lazing on the green banquet chair watching them rehearse onstage, i thought to myself, that this is just another day at woek... ohmmm~~~




another itch scratched...