i am happy to announce that i watched my lysistrata tape, and there is a considerable amount of dramafest video that actually is still there, because thankfully wiggy didn't start recording from the beginning of the tape (although i told him to rewind, not knowing that it was a rather sacred tape. but it was a fortunate disobedience, and with another stroke of luck the tape lasted until the exact minute that lysistrata ended - how cool is that.)

only problem: for the entire part that some of dramafest video was taped over with lysistrata, the tape is very screwy and says that the head needs cleaning. but i think that the head's in the camera and not the tape right? yet the other parts of the tape play perfectly, so i don't really get it. anyway, the taped over part plays really annoyingly, all jerky video and stripey. as in, it's mixed up: one stripe of dramafest video and one stripe of lysistrata and so on, with the sound equally screwed up like two soundtracks are playing at the same time or something. and that lasts through two scenes of lysistrata!!! it starts playing normally at the point right before lysistrata enters the magistrate scene when they're bringing the crowbars and everything. which is really shitty cos the opening scene is my favourite scene!!!!!! so there is still much to be upset about. but then from that point on in the magistrate scene, the video's fine except for shaking due to wiggy's laughing, especially in the cinesias/myrrhine love scene. and i realised that the parts i flubbed didn't look as bad as they felt, but parts that feel really dramatic look less dramatic from the audience. or maybe it's just the tape.

which reminds me, is there a dramafest video?? i hope there is, because that was an amazing experience, and thank god i have jireh still on tape going "arts fac......" (expectant silence in the semi-darkness) ".... YOU ROCK!" and then saying something like "no matter what the outcome may be later on, you have to remember that you have done something really good tonight." so, well. outcome disappointing, but that was the first and the best theatre experience for me this year, and it led to so much more because if not for dramafest my involvement in rp would have been so different.

and another part of the video that was lost: jen and my soft-porn dance video to 'singa bonga baba', and probably the porn king stuff as well. i can't really remember what else was on the video. but there's a considerable bit that's left, and it's good stuff. and now i'm going through all my tapes and LABELLING them so that next time i don't tape over such a valuable tape. worst part is, i found a blank tape on my mom's desk, and it's been there for ages according to her, and i could've used it but i went and took the dramafest one of all things. i shall also go and buy some more tapes so that i won't have a tape crisis next time. and cd-rws and dvd-rs. i have a long shopping list. contact lens stuff, new sneakers for school because the sole of my current right sneaker is coming off. which is really shitty because those are relatively new shoes. ok not really that new.. i think i bought them sometime last year, but until this year i didn't wear them much. only started wearing them to school when my beloved white nikes died. maybe i can go this evening and do all my shopping. and that's only the necessities. as i was telling someone yesterday, my wants are few. only three: an ipod, a casio exilim, and a new phone (ideally the samsung 700 or a nokia with a camera.) few but expensive, sighhh. that's a total of about 2000 bucks we're talking about, i think. hmm maybe i can convince my parents to let me withdraw my entire scholarship money and blow it on tech gadgets. i do also want a plasma tv for my room, with accompanying dvd record-player. and a round-the-world trip. and a lexus sc430. and a mansion. and a private plane. hahahahaha. sigh, for taitai-ness. these are the things i do not put on my wishlist. take note.

skipping school is quite boring. i should do math or history, ideally. but i think i'll sleep.