hor fun et. al.

these two weeks are gonna be hell. there will be rehearsals almost every day leading up to the show from 20-22 august, and at least one matter at work is targeted to be finalized by next week. normally this would entail staying back late in the office, especially where the documentation is voluminous. as it is, it's an accepted phenomenon that work, at regular workloads, never finishes at 5.30 pm. we're talking about a file where a particular set of documentation had me staying up in the office till the next morning. gonna have to try my best to remain sane through this :-D. an option would be to bring whatever work i can to rehearsals to be done during the breaks in between our relevant sections (which tend to be numerous and long and boring anyway). work comes first (did i just say that?), so worst-case scenarios will be me missing a rehearsal or two with the magic word "WORK" as the reason, or just hoping for the absence to go unnoticed (which is technically impossible, as a fellow grisette mentioned, since i AM one of chez maxim's six can-can dancers!) the past year or so has been a living testimony to the fact that the oft-used rant by practitioners that "i don't have time to do anything but eat, sleep and work" is not a sweeping generalization!! :-D on another note, i'll be taking a little 'break' soon to study. more on that later! ;)

remember i rambled on briefly about watching kill bill vol 2 some time back? slipped in the dvd after dinner yesterday, but i couldn't keep myself awake, probably due to the fact that i'd just returned from the Land of Hor Fun* (a.k.a. Ipoh). i managed to get past the el paso church massacre scene in the beginning with my eyelids open but during the few scenes thereafter nothing made sense cos i was already half asleep by the time bill showed up again after the massacre. needless to say, i didn't watch the rest of it. apparently it was a bit slow-moving, and especially slow-moving if compared to vol 1 (hmm, shoulda known. - vol 1 was banned by the censorship board but vol 2 was allowed thru). so i'm wondering whether it's worth my spending a few less sleepy hours watching it again.

*hor fun (cantonese) - imagine fettucine, only it's not made of durum wheat but rice flour, so it's white, soft and smooth. add soup to it. add prawns. slices of chicken. top it off with bits of fried shallots and garlic and that aromatic slither of oil.. getting hungry yet?.. and ipoh has the best of the stuff.