the events that occured in the space of 24 hours couldn't have been more different. opposite poles of the spectrum.
the entire saturday was spent "working" with juggling mates. we didn't actually get paid, but all food and drinks were provided for the day, just for performing juggling. what a bargain. self generating, self sustaining fun.
the day started at youth park where we were introduced as "kong1 zhong1 pao1 wu4" performers, by two girls, siyong and yvonne.
i had pretty decent fun performing, although as expected the crowd was sparse due to the drizzle and besides no one ever ventures into youth park which is machiam at the corner of earth. at least the performance before us was the CHIJ symphonic band, so we had 40 uniformed girls trapped by the rain as audience.
the hip hop group that performed was really good (incidentally these are the same guys we see every week at the esplanade). they had choreography and individual stunts, with an extremely catchy soundtrack and they were full of youthful energy. not surprisingly they captured quite a crowd (not CHIJ girlies, pple just started appearing). one day i shld model a juggling item like that. think watson think.
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turned out saturday was also VJC charity busking day. we walked past 2 VJ singing guys along the pavement and decided to crash the party for the hell of it.
"Hi Sir we were just passing by after a performance and since i have all my props i'm wondering if i can just crash your party"
"yah sure go ahead!"
"oh by the way i'm doing knife juggling."
for safety's sake we decided to plant Moses as my volunteer. Throughout the day boon teck was asking me whether i've ever dropped the knives on the volunteer, whether it'll hurt, what will happen, this and that. just before the Moses act i was joking with boon teck "haven't dropped before. maybe this time i'll drop."
and i did.
poor moses. gd thing i dropped on his legs and not face. ooh.
to my credit i did try to veer the knife off, earning myself a bruised shoulder, so hopefully that cushioned the impact a bit.
anyway all's well that ends well. Moses was fine, the audience thought i dropped on purpose, i managed to gather a crowd for a while and it had been tremendous fun.
the knife routine is not a gd busking routine i think. suspense is good for stage audience but not street audience. quite strange to try it. oh well when we left the VJ student council was doing mass dance as busking. "Gimme a V-I-C-T-O-R-I-A!" so maybe my act isn't so strange after all.
Siyong and I also tried street club passing. that was fun we really shld try it again. Basically we were just climbing up and down the stairs and walls and benches at Taka while passing to each other. Damn tiring after a while cos we kept dropping when on the high walls and we had to climb down, retrieve the club, then climb up again. also quite wu liao now that i think abt it.
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busking at clarke quay was alright too. 3 of us were taking turns performing and just jamming and even though it was very amaturish a small crowd did stay behind. it's a gd place to hone performing skills. they were also generous i would say, not that we earned a lot that night but i think if we keep working on our presentation the taking will rise quickly.
Siyong's fire staff was a gd crowd puller. I ate fire a few times (siyong said i've improved! haha) and going by alan's logic that every stick does the damage of 10 cigarettes, effectively i've smoked maybe 40 cigarettes that night in one hr.
gaffes of the night:
- threw a diabolo high. not only did i not catch it, it bounced and knocked the hat over, spilling the money all over the place.
- nearly made a little girl cry cos i took her doll and tried to make the doll eat fire. huifang had to appease her (the girl, not the doll) with a balloon.
Busking with a gang is quite cool. we're like a mini travelling circus. it's more fun and there's more banter and we can cover for each other but it's also easier to get shy.
Alan didn't like the place at all and he left early. Taking the disc man and hat with him.
"what shld we do, there's no more music. continue or stop?"
Jojo: "I can sing."
"yeah, and we can use the money from the hat to buy another hat."
anyway we stopped and blew our earnings on supper at KFC. For the record our earning in that hr was 25 dollars and 42.3 cents. the 2.3 cent came from this guy who gave a malaysian 5 cent coin.
Huifang: "i just watched supersize me. dun feel like eating fast food sia."
"dun worry that's McDonald's we're now at KFC."
Huifang: "yup, wow the tray of fries with cheese and mayonaise is damn yummy."
so we bought 24 dollars worth of KFC. stayed there till the elderly cleaner came along,
"excuse me ah now is 11.40. the doors lock at 11.30."
All of us: "oh that means we'll have to stay for breakfast!" followed by a discussion of how i can use my knives to cut meat and siyong's kerosene to cook and how we can pass clubs ard the place.
We did leave quick in the end.
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Jojo's a really cool guy. Learned more abt him yesterday.
After we left KFC and the rest ran for their buses, Jojo and I decided to try out the wild idea of club passing on escalators. We were gonna use City Hall MRT but went to the quieter Esplanade underpass instead.
it was a blast. i stood on the ground while Jojo rode up the escalator and got further and further. After a while we'll drop and Jojo had to run down while gathering clubs. damn funny sight. like damn wu liao and nothing better to do. (well it's funny for me cos Jojo's the one doing all the running. i'm just watching him run.)
the only time it worked was when one rode up first and the other rode up too after we got too far apart. it looks pretty nice. travelling club passing.
anyway the reason why Jojo looks so unlike the high ranking business executive that he is is because he has a Phd! He's Dr. Jojo!
Dr. Jojo, unicyclist and juggler.
wow. His degree in in biz, his Phd is in biz, and he has already published quite a few books. This was the guy running down the escalator collecting clubs!
back in KFC Jojo suggested to huifang and i that we could pass diabolos back to back. That requires one right handed and one left handed player which is not common and so back to back has not been tried much so far.
"yeah we shld try that. and if we succeed we'll name it after Jojo!"
Huifang: "yeah! let's call it Jojo's...er...backside."
the funny part abt the above joke was that no one heard her saying it. i heard a bit but it only registered when i got home. i think it's damn funny now...haha....the joke itself and the fact that no one heard it so no one reacted and it was like such a natural comment.
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woke up this morning aching like crazy. only managed to sleep 2 hours. ache from little sleep, ache from muscle ache (too much passing), ache from knife juggling, ache from tripping and twisting my ankle. and guess what, it's Commencement DAY!
the entire saturday was spent "working" with juggling mates. we didn't actually get paid, but all food and drinks were provided for the day, just for performing juggling. what a bargain. self generating, self sustaining fun.
the day started at youth park where we were introduced as "kong1 zhong1 pao1 wu4" performers, by two girls, siyong and yvonne.
i had pretty decent fun performing, although as expected the crowd was sparse due to the drizzle and besides no one ever ventures into youth park which is machiam at the corner of earth. at least the performance before us was the CHIJ symphonic band, so we had 40 uniformed girls trapped by the rain as audience.
the hip hop group that performed was really good (incidentally these are the same guys we see every week at the esplanade). they had choreography and individual stunts, with an extremely catchy soundtrack and they were full of youthful energy. not surprisingly they captured quite a crowd (not CHIJ girlies, pple just started appearing). one day i shld model a juggling item like that. think watson think.
----------------------------------
turned out saturday was also VJC charity busking day. we walked past 2 VJ singing guys along the pavement and decided to crash the party for the hell of it.
"Hi Sir we were just passing by after a performance and since i have all my props i'm wondering if i can just crash your party"
"yah sure go ahead!"
"oh by the way i'm doing knife juggling."
for safety's sake we decided to plant Moses as my volunteer. Throughout the day boon teck was asking me whether i've ever dropped the knives on the volunteer, whether it'll hurt, what will happen, this and that. just before the Moses act i was joking with boon teck "haven't dropped before. maybe this time i'll drop."
and i did.
poor moses. gd thing i dropped on his legs and not face. ooh.
to my credit i did try to veer the knife off, earning myself a bruised shoulder, so hopefully that cushioned the impact a bit.
anyway all's well that ends well. Moses was fine, the audience thought i dropped on purpose, i managed to gather a crowd for a while and it had been tremendous fun.
the knife routine is not a gd busking routine i think. suspense is good for stage audience but not street audience. quite strange to try it. oh well when we left the VJ student council was doing mass dance as busking. "Gimme a V-I-C-T-O-R-I-A!" so maybe my act isn't so strange after all.
Siyong and I also tried street club passing. that was fun we really shld try it again. Basically we were just climbing up and down the stairs and walls and benches at Taka while passing to each other. Damn tiring after a while cos we kept dropping when on the high walls and we had to climb down, retrieve the club, then climb up again. also quite wu liao now that i think abt it.
-------------------------------------------
busking at clarke quay was alright too. 3 of us were taking turns performing and just jamming and even though it was very amaturish a small crowd did stay behind. it's a gd place to hone performing skills. they were also generous i would say, not that we earned a lot that night but i think if we keep working on our presentation the taking will rise quickly.
Siyong's fire staff was a gd crowd puller. I ate fire a few times (siyong said i've improved! haha) and going by alan's logic that every stick does the damage of 10 cigarettes, effectively i've smoked maybe 40 cigarettes that night in one hr.
gaffes of the night:
- threw a diabolo high. not only did i not catch it, it bounced and knocked the hat over, spilling the money all over the place.
- nearly made a little girl cry cos i took her doll and tried to make the doll eat fire. huifang had to appease her (the girl, not the doll) with a balloon.
Busking with a gang is quite cool. we're like a mini travelling circus. it's more fun and there's more banter and we can cover for each other but it's also easier to get shy.
Alan didn't like the place at all and he left early. Taking the disc man and hat with him.
"what shld we do, there's no more music. continue or stop?"
Jojo: "I can sing."
"yeah, and we can use the money from the hat to buy another hat."
anyway we stopped and blew our earnings on supper at KFC. For the record our earning in that hr was 25 dollars and 42.3 cents. the 2.3 cent came from this guy who gave a malaysian 5 cent coin.
Huifang: "i just watched supersize me. dun feel like eating fast food sia."
"dun worry that's McDonald's we're now at KFC."
Huifang: "yup, wow the tray of fries with cheese and mayonaise is damn yummy."
so we bought 24 dollars worth of KFC. stayed there till the elderly cleaner came along,
"excuse me ah now is 11.40. the doors lock at 11.30."
All of us: "oh that means we'll have to stay for breakfast!" followed by a discussion of how i can use my knives to cut meat and siyong's kerosene to cook and how we can pass clubs ard the place.
We did leave quick in the end.
---------------------------------
Jojo's a really cool guy. Learned more abt him yesterday.
After we left KFC and the rest ran for their buses, Jojo and I decided to try out the wild idea of club passing on escalators. We were gonna use City Hall MRT but went to the quieter Esplanade underpass instead.
it was a blast. i stood on the ground while Jojo rode up the escalator and got further and further. After a while we'll drop and Jojo had to run down while gathering clubs. damn funny sight. like damn wu liao and nothing better to do. (well it's funny for me cos Jojo's the one doing all the running. i'm just watching him run.)
the only time it worked was when one rode up first and the other rode up too after we got too far apart. it looks pretty nice. travelling club passing.
anyway the reason why Jojo looks so unlike the high ranking business executive that he is is because he has a Phd! He's Dr. Jojo!
Dr. Jojo, unicyclist and juggler.
wow. His degree in in biz, his Phd is in biz, and he has already published quite a few books. This was the guy running down the escalator collecting clubs!
back in KFC Jojo suggested to huifang and i that we could pass diabolos back to back. That requires one right handed and one left handed player which is not common and so back to back has not been tried much so far.
"yeah we shld try that. and if we succeed we'll name it after Jojo!"
Huifang: "yeah! let's call it Jojo's...er...backside."
the funny part abt the above joke was that no one heard her saying it. i heard a bit but it only registered when i got home. i think it's damn funny now...haha....the joke itself and the fact that no one heard it so no one reacted and it was like such a natural comment.
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woke up this morning aching like crazy. only managed to sleep 2 hours. ache from little sleep, ache from muscle ache (too much passing), ache from knife juggling, ache from tripping and twisting my ankle. and guess what, it's Commencement DAY!
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