i feel quite happy today, despite the unbearably long rehearsal and some annoying people. 'daring to be different', indeed. for god's sakes.
anyway. let us not waste time on inconsequential things.

perry and mcconnell have ok-ed the play! so lysistrata is DEFINITELY on! next friday and saturday, remember people! anyway did our first full no-stops run for them, and it was actually pretty good! needs some work on the blocking and stuff, but it's going to work!
(too many exclamation marks. i'm not used to them now. hmm.)

heaved a big sigh of relief after mrs perry gave us the go-ahead, and had a nice lunch at delifrance with claud, kel and kaimin. usual potato gratin. good stuff. and kaimin came off his perpetual diet, and had a gratin as well. and then back for part 2 oh rehearsal, and did the nice artemis song, and then fell asleep for a while before doing the tragic dramatic scene again. must go really really really ott. this is such a weird play. i hope it doesn't go too off. now i hope the costumes turn out ok. i hope we get the tickets sold.

then messed around a bit with the music and the cloth, and then went home. and my mother tells me that her friend wants me to dance for some dance in november, for the indian women's association or some such thing that my mum belongs to. apparently rehearsals are going to be 4 times a week, but the friend really wants me to dance for it, and said something terribly flattering like "i don't care, i want aparna to dance". am supremely flattered, because i really respect her as a dancer and all-round cool person, and i don't think i dance particularly well so it's nice, but if it's at the beginning of november and promos are at the beginning of october and rehearsals are 4 times a week i don't quite see how it'll work out. anyway i'll talk it over with my mum and her, and if she really wants me to dance so badly she'll let me take my promos in peace and then go for the rehearsals after that, right? however i myself do want to dance now, cos it sounds like a really great dance and my mum's friend is wonderful to work with. i did a fashion show choreographed by her in sec 2, in the days when i wasn't so fat. or actually i wasn't exactly model-thin back then either but the designer is my mum's friend and she came from bangalore so she needed models and i was one of them. hmmm.

ok enough of the prattling. my mother's mother's uncle's grand-daughter (or something like that) is coming for dinner. i think that makes her my mother's second cousin, but my mum herself isn't very sure. none of us has met her before, but she's come to singapore to do her masters so we're having her over for dinner. how annoying is that. ok i've come back to finish this post, one hour after the last sentence, and the person is actually quite nice. i have an amazing tendency to not be bored when older people are having conversations. and i make the odd weird interjection, which is fun.

ok i'll blog more afterwards. must go and make more small talk. maybe i'll ask her if she wants to come for lysistrata.