The Next Phrase of Life

I often see people talking about the next phrase of their life.

And I wonder, would it be....

"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.

or

"When one door closes, another opens"

or

"Live like you're dying."

or
  

Well, I think we're really spoilt for choice because there's so many phrases in the English Language.

FYI the next time a person talks about their next phrases of life, I'm going to ask, which phrase, exactly?

Sunday Fatigue.

Tired, weary, but happy.

Guitar Hero

G C D A E.

That's all I know.

Glassware.

 

 1) Blind Busker Wannabe.

 

2) Old Skool Auntie.

On the prospects of building ships in shipyards and repairing them out at sea.

I still wake up sometimes,
turn my memories inside out,
and wonder if a friendship is ever possible.

My God is my pillar.

Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Amen!

Now to think of 2 testimonies for Cambodia...

It Never Comes

Every bit of you,
Supposedly gone with the wind,
Comes back from time to time
To torment me.

For I knew not then,
What I know now,
And what I know now,
Have been lost.

The sands of time
It creeps
No mercy on me
And my tongue of irony.

Every bit of you
Comes back little by little
Part by part
Never whole
It torments me.

You should have been dead in me
Like I already am in you
I try to smother your fragments
I yearn for a replacement.

It never comes.

Kids Drive Us Nuts

For a stretch of 2 shoot days within a week, the whole production team had to deal with 2 batches of 100 kids because of our 100th episode special.

Imagine trying to fit 100 kids into a small studio, and getting them to do what we want!

We had "hot fudge sundae auntie" (my boss/director) trying to get the kids to do big reactions by gyrating crazily (in a kid friendly way), we had "swaying jie jie" (my colleague) trying to get the kids to sway for the finale of our MTV shoot, and we had "open your mouth" (my producer) trying desperately to get the morbid choir to look happy and open their mouths while the song lyrics play.

It was utter madness.

Our soundman has told me that one day, he will have to retreat to some mountains to find that peace and tranquility that the kids have destroyed in his heart.

And the kids weren't the worst thing to deal with.

It was the parents.

I made the mistake of telling my colleague who deals with kids and parents that for that day, the kids would wrap at a certain time, but instead, we overran by 2 hours.

So, at the end of our day, as we sent each kid out, 200 pairs of angry, impatient eyes were looking, scrutinising and waiting for their precious little darlings to be out. Then there were the complaints that felt never ending.

Well, it was a really hard lesson for me in time estimation. 1st AD-ing is challenging, but of course I hope I'll be up for it.

Till our next crazy shoot day.