opportunities

was flipping channels on the telly last night (that's about all i do nowadays after rehearsals) when it landed Maximum eXposure and i spotted the Malay translation their tagline "we have lots of Really, Really Bad Days for you" flashing away as "kami ada banyak hari-hari yang malang untuk anda". it's a literal translation, nothing really wrong about it, but it just sounded.. weird. dunno. maybe some taglines aren't meant to be translated.

anyway, today has started off as a pretty Good Day. received an encouraging review on one of my academic papers. this particular paper is also possibly one tiny step closer to being published in a journal. *fingers crossed* also, i hope the boss approves my second overseas conference for the year in December! *more fingers crossed* and i hope the conference won't clash with the usual Christmas festivities of the Selangor Phil! *run out of fingers*

we received news yesterday that the PM will be attending the Sept 2 Broken Bridges show, which will coincide with the official opening of the KLPAC. sweet. he attended our performance of Tosca back in 2003 when he was DPM, together with PM Mahathir (as he was then); and i have a somewhat odd photo of self shaking hands with Dr M, with a man in a bloodied shirt and red lipstick standing on my right doing the introductions (well actually that was our Director who played Cavaradossi that night, who was shot dead at the end of Act 3 - hence the bloodied shirt) but unfortunately the photographers probably thought DPM Abdullah (as he was then) wasn't quite important enough to have photos taken shaking hands with the cast. ah well. i'll try and get my Abdullah photo this time lah. and at least i don't think i'll have any bloodied men standing near me who will need Photoshopping out ;) (yipes.. unless we have the Ghost of Mei Ling or The Unborn Child! :P)

anyway, we're having our photos taken for the programme book tonight. found out this morning that i ran out of concealer.. and started wishing that i worked in the city, where a dozen shops selling makeup would be within walking distance. ah well, will have to rely on Photoshop as usual lah.