haha thanks for all the nice tags :) the earlier post was unreasonably angsty. but to update (and to just reassure myself that things are going to be alright): tickets and seat numbers have been fixed and there is a new Plan for the selling of the seats. and the booth, i trust, will be in fine form on monday. and tuesday and the rest of the week until all tickets are sold. am actually wondering if perry might let us sell standing seats (isn't that an oxymoron? make it standing tickets) like hwachong did. IF we have a full house on friday, which is highly likely. as for judges, i'm getting either mcconnell or emma yong, and mcconnell's confirmed if emma yong can't make it and andi should be confirming with emma yong today. gifts for judges - perry will have a think about it and i'll bug her again on monday. i should write down on my list of things to do that i need to make the prize for the winning production. maybe add best ensemble also. hmm perhaps i'll give a poster to each of the judges. such a pretty poster. claud the rocking art director! and MCs is settled too - timmy and zach - so watch out world! council will hoepfully have the announcement made on monday.

but other than things gradually falling into place, i am convinced that i am losing my mind! because i think of various things to add to my to-do list, but i forget half of them before i can write them down. which is absolutely pathetic. and i've started talking to myself and making weird noises. although i have a sneaky feeling it isn't an entirely new habit.

and hwachong dfest - the usual, first three plays were kinda bad, although i barely saw any of the first two because of getting there late and then hanging around outside in the searing humidity because i was bored inside and standing around was not my cuppa tea. met the fruit&veggiecult and confirmed that they're the filler item for our dfest as well.

the third play, the indian one, was fairly enjoyable, but only because it was completely absurd! although i have major nits to pick with it. the angsty love-love-murder-r&j/moulinrouge ripoffiness kinda ruined the hindi-movie-parodyness. (oh god what a sentence.) hmm anywayy since when are ruru, muthuindram, bodosamy and prava or prada (hee) or whateverhernamewas vaguely hindimovie names? and the girl's sari was like a villagegirl's, hardly a princess's. and delhi does not have beautiful mountains or crystalclear lakes - it's near a desert. and the whole yama bit was rather bastardised. ok maybe we bastardise greek mythology as well, but atleast we're slightly better-read and better-informed about it. and maybe i'm just being indignant because i'm indian and the whole concept of their play was so ridiculous and it's just because india is considered exotic or something so they use it and presume a chinese audience and therefore just invent their ideas of india or whatever. but if you're going to do a play based on a culture you don't know anything about, even if it's supposed to be a parody and even if you assume that the audience will know as little as you do (which is a sad thing to assume), you try and atleast make some sense and do some research. ok maybe i am indignant, which is a little silly because it's not like they really insulted india or indians or anything but it was just kinda stupid. and the title was the only thing, to me, that gave away the fact that they were trying to parody hindi movies. and given that the play began with the presumably adoptive mother running around in the forest with the baby, that storyline hardly counted for much through the rest. but the choreography at the beginning was pretty nice. (that's such a grudging comment, haha.)

enough ranting then. YAYY i just got confirmation that emma yong will judge. how superfunky.

AND mrs perry has got the gifts for the judges. "another job jobbed", she says. good so reminding her is off the list. and! she says "I thought that last play last night was very funny and clever! Hope we can match it!"

now i will go finish watching eternal sunshine, and then sleep again. it's weird you know, in titanic i loved kate and leonardo, and then i realised how stupid it was and then i hated them. and now the aviator and finding neverland and eternal sunshine and they're both turning in such fantastic performances. but i didn't like the aviator as a whole so i'll just be content with being a newfound fan of kate winslet and allow my embarrassing leonardo dicaprio fandom to remain firmly in the past.