everytime i watch sean mckinney's video i feel like crying. what a nice tribute video.
did some juggling today before heading to jeremy's show. time passed very quickly somehow. we were almost dragging ourselves out of the underpass, forcing ourselves to stop.
managed to do 441 and shower with clubs. yipee! watching videos does help, wires up the mental channels somehow. also did the vova olga duo cascade thingy and the ghandini box effect with minjiang.
met koah fong with his daughter during dinner. everytime one of us jugglers sees his daughter we'd be asking him if he teaches her juggling. he's the godfather of juggling after all. apparantly she's not the least bit interested or fascinated. KF said she's gonna grow up thinking everyone, or at least everyone's dads, can juggle. haha.
2nd time i've been to Jubilee Hall. first time was some RJ musical that steph was in i think. this time i took note of the hall interior. not bad, interesting. must cost a bomb to book though, like all things associated with Raffles. it was pretty weird sitting in the hall full of magicians. it was like the convention in the Witches. somehow i associate sly, cunning and hao lian with magicians. just a very negative feel.
they were all dressed very smartly. it's a magician thing to dress and act smart. half of our row was filled with jugglers. which means you'll find large equipment bags and very casual dressing in our row. siyong very observantly noticed that he was the most under dressed with his sleeveless shirt and berms.
the show was alright. jeremy did his usual gigs, with some talking in between. it was alright but not wow. putting aside my slight disdain for illusion prop stage magic, i just felt that the show was a little amatuerish. but i can't really put my finger on why. it was okaay, nothing went wrong, and apparantly he's one of the best magicians in s'pore. maybe it's the "ang moh is always better" syndrome. or maybe his routines are just not slick enough, a bit obiang with all the glitter and the dancing was cheesy. besides i never liked stage prop magic, it's expensive and fail proof. all cash and no brawn/brain.
I liked Nique's (why do pple like to "misspell" names?) routine. it was really good. for one thing it was totally sleigh of hand, which required a lot of skill. He was fast, slick and with the accompanying solo guitar soundtrack the whole thing fitted well together. Jeremy's end routine was memorable too. Slow music, talk a bit of yourself, a bit touching. but then it went back to obiangness so leave that part out.
siyong, min jiang, boon teck and I were still in our seats after everyone (except jeremy and his helpers clearing the stage) has left. we were just sitting there nua-ing, discussing abt the show, discussing abt setting up a juggling show, where to do it, how to do it, who will watch, how much it will cost.
"pple must be thinking we're so stunned by the magic we dun want to leave"
"either stunned or fall asleep liao"
"we're waiting for the 3rd half to start. this is interval ma."
"our tickets free one we still bu she de zou!"
daisy and jeremy went out, shook hands and mingled with everyone, came back and we're still there. haha. He had to politely take pics with us (we're still just sitting there) and invite us for his post show party. we finally left an hour after the show, before they shut the lights and doors.
i think one of the reasons for our inertia is that we wanted to juggle on the stage, but we didn't dare to lest we crack the lights or floors. so we're just waiting for everyone to clear out so we can juggle sneakily. we're like "those kids can run to stage and play with the glitter, i think we can go to the stage and juggle right" in a bid to rationalise our somewhat improper behavior.
a juggling show will be cool. thing is we need a show first. even if we have a gd show we may not have an audience. so that's next. who's gonna watch. will they be willing to pay. what's our budget and can it be recouped. are we aiming for the show to make profits. are we aiming to make a reasonable amt for each performer (thereby restricting the number of performers).
i would love to put up a show someday. not necessarily juggling. just some show.
right now i'm putting my sights on building my portfolio. edit a promo video, set up a website.
busk more. clear my room. apply jobs. repair the computer.
so many irrelevant things to do.
losing weight might be nice too. been eating and sleeping too much.
denmark and sweden playing now. i hope they end 2-2. that'll kick the sore losers italy out.
weips back. all is good. according to steph she's the funny one and i'm the weird one, making us a potent combination. :o) hope she hasn't grown up too much.
did some juggling today before heading to jeremy's show. time passed very quickly somehow. we were almost dragging ourselves out of the underpass, forcing ourselves to stop.
managed to do 441 and shower with clubs. yipee! watching videos does help, wires up the mental channels somehow. also did the vova olga duo cascade thingy and the ghandini box effect with minjiang.
met koah fong with his daughter during dinner. everytime one of us jugglers sees his daughter we'd be asking him if he teaches her juggling. he's the godfather of juggling after all. apparantly she's not the least bit interested or fascinated. KF said she's gonna grow up thinking everyone, or at least everyone's dads, can juggle. haha.
2nd time i've been to Jubilee Hall. first time was some RJ musical that steph was in i think. this time i took note of the hall interior. not bad, interesting. must cost a bomb to book though, like all things associated with Raffles. it was pretty weird sitting in the hall full of magicians. it was like the convention in the Witches. somehow i associate sly, cunning and hao lian with magicians. just a very negative feel.
they were all dressed very smartly. it's a magician thing to dress and act smart. half of our row was filled with jugglers. which means you'll find large equipment bags and very casual dressing in our row. siyong very observantly noticed that he was the most under dressed with his sleeveless shirt and berms.
the show was alright. jeremy did his usual gigs, with some talking in between. it was alright but not wow. putting aside my slight disdain for illusion prop stage magic, i just felt that the show was a little amatuerish. but i can't really put my finger on why. it was okaay, nothing went wrong, and apparantly he's one of the best magicians in s'pore. maybe it's the "ang moh is always better" syndrome. or maybe his routines are just not slick enough, a bit obiang with all the glitter and the dancing was cheesy. besides i never liked stage prop magic, it's expensive and fail proof. all cash and no brawn/brain.
I liked Nique's (why do pple like to "misspell" names?) routine. it was really good. for one thing it was totally sleigh of hand, which required a lot of skill. He was fast, slick and with the accompanying solo guitar soundtrack the whole thing fitted well together. Jeremy's end routine was memorable too. Slow music, talk a bit of yourself, a bit touching. but then it went back to obiangness so leave that part out.
siyong, min jiang, boon teck and I were still in our seats after everyone (except jeremy and his helpers clearing the stage) has left. we were just sitting there nua-ing, discussing abt the show, discussing abt setting up a juggling show, where to do it, how to do it, who will watch, how much it will cost.
"pple must be thinking we're so stunned by the magic we dun want to leave"
"either stunned or fall asleep liao"
"we're waiting for the 3rd half to start. this is interval ma."
"our tickets free one we still bu she de zou!"
daisy and jeremy went out, shook hands and mingled with everyone, came back and we're still there. haha. He had to politely take pics with us (we're still just sitting there) and invite us for his post show party. we finally left an hour after the show, before they shut the lights and doors.
i think one of the reasons for our inertia is that we wanted to juggle on the stage, but we didn't dare to lest we crack the lights or floors. so we're just waiting for everyone to clear out so we can juggle sneakily. we're like "those kids can run to stage and play with the glitter, i think we can go to the stage and juggle right" in a bid to rationalise our somewhat improper behavior.
a juggling show will be cool. thing is we need a show first. even if we have a gd show we may not have an audience. so that's next. who's gonna watch. will they be willing to pay. what's our budget and can it be recouped. are we aiming for the show to make profits. are we aiming to make a reasonable amt for each performer (thereby restricting the number of performers).
i would love to put up a show someday. not necessarily juggling. just some show.
right now i'm putting my sights on building my portfolio. edit a promo video, set up a website.
busk more. clear my room. apply jobs. repair the computer.
so many irrelevant things to do.
losing weight might be nice too. been eating and sleeping too much.
denmark and sweden playing now. i hope they end 2-2. that'll kick the sore losers italy out.
weips back. all is good. according to steph she's the funny one and i'm the weird one, making us a potent combination. :o) hope she hasn't grown up too much.
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