Time flies!!!

I can't believe that this sunday is my performance!! I have been busying myself doing many things and I didn't realise that time really flies! Oh my god, it's so fast. I felt like I have just started rehearsal yesterday only. Die.

Stressful because this show has been cut in many parts to shorten it. In fact, it's so short that I think it missed out some of the important points. It's quite hard for me because I have to change my mood fairly quickly from happy to sad, from nervous to disappointment etc. I think this show is in a way more difficult for me than Long Feng Xiang.

Oh no... I think we didn't rehearse enough again. I can only pray that this sunday will go well..... :P

Naiba the pig

Last 3 days, naiba's troupe was acting at Jalan Kayu which is pretty near to where I live. So I decided to go act for him for 2 days... on the 3rd I have rehearsal so I can't go. Acting for him can gain me some experience as well as making some pocket money. Hee hee...

It is unfortunate that I am unable to act on the last day as the show is a funny show about th Pig from Journey to the West... Naiba acted as the pig!

He transformed from this.....


to this....!!!!


Wahahaha.... look at that mega big and hairy and dirty tummy! LOL, he acted funny too and made stupid pig's oinking noises.



I laughed so much watching this show... Hahahaa because naiba is simply... too funny liao.

This photo is taken when the piggy transformed himself into a man.. but he still carry that big stomach... So he look very weird.


And then this is Ah peng who acted as the monkey king.


At the end of the show, tripitaka took piggy in as disciple... and they traveled together.


Besids naiba making a fool of himself in the show, there is another actress also creating laughter.

Muay Kia:


I think mauy kia sings very well and se acted quite well too for street opera.


And then there is Ah ni... erm but ah ni did not act for the piggy show. She only acted for 2 days like me.


Hahaha my mother looked very funny in this.


My mum on the left and yuzhen on the right. They were so funny in the show lor and my mum accidentally said 'OK' in the show!! LOL, yuzhen laughed and said that she caught my mum saying the wrong things. I told yuzhen that she als said the wrong thing because I noticed that she said 'suka' which is malay and not hokkien!


After the show, even haining wants to take a photo with the silly naiba. LOL...

And I wanted to try out this fake stomach! Hahaha... its so heavy and hard lor... and i think the wearer will feel very very hot in this.

Roles I want to try

I have asked many people this question but apparently, few people really gave it a thought. For example, YH never told me she never think about what kind of role she wants to do most. I gave her some time to think about it.

DLQ told me that she wants to try out acting an official in court during a trial. Interesting. Seems like we never had a scene like this before so she got to wait awhile liao. Maybe in future we will have a court scene.

May's dream role is emperor and Fan Li Hua. Emperor... erm.. abit difficult lah. I don't think she will get the chance lor because she is too short. Actually now that she keep talking about it, I also start to dream about doing emperor. Haha.. kana influenced.

The roles I would like to try:

1) Ghost - I want to do a ghost role but not like in Qian Nv. I want to do a ghost that died tragically and the came back to take revenge. It will be fun! I can make my face pale... then sway around.

2) Fan Li Hua - Yah same as May Teng but different reason. Her reason is because FLH can wear furry costumes and my reason is can torture the xiao sheng. Hahaha. Can make the xiao sheng kneel down.. then can pretend to be ghost and frighten him! So fun lor. If got act the front part, can still nab the xiao sheng and tie him up. Yah call me sadistic.

3) A handsome sheng - I just wanna try once to act as a good looking sheng lor. Want to know how it feels like and how I will look. But I don't intend to fight with the other shengs in my troupe la. I think they will kick me out lor. They have been kping that the troupe has too many shengs.

I realised that most people prefer to do sheng than dan.. hmmm ... they claimed that sheng is easier to do but that's not totally true also. But the sure advantage of being a sheng is that you can gain more popularity faster than a dan. LOL, aunties like to watch sheng and that's a fact.

Recently, troupe members who seldom act dan tried to do one and was constantly being told off by teacher. She kept telling the members that dan must do this.. must do that... then I think they sort of freaked out and decided to do sheng instead. Also, many students are like May, they hate water sleeves.. They can never be friends with them.

As long as you are doing a role that you like and feel comfortable in, I think there should be no problems ba. Like if you wanna do sheng, then just focus and practice. There is no shortcut, everyone gotta learn it the hard way. I had a hard time also and I still have a hard time in fact. SIAN~~~

Acting Street Opera

These 2 days I went to Naiba troupe to help him act because he came pleading me that he didn't have enough people. Well, I am a very nice person so I agreed though I really dunno how to do street style opera.

On the first day, I arrived in the afternoon to do the noon show. The weather was damn damn hot sia! I almost melted in this merciless sun. The heat just keep striking me like it never struck anyone before. I can feel my flesh and nerves and organs all flaming. I am not kua zhang. I am serious.

I was kping the weather so hot... and asked around if there is any coffee shops in the area. All of them told me they not sure. What I need is an icy cold coke. Uncle Peter very nice. He heard that I am kping and went to coffeeshop to get me icy cold drinks! Awwww.... Peter is so nice to me! :)

After settling down, I declare that I am not going sing. I just want to act some maid role will do. But Naiba is very 'nice'. He told me that he won't let me do those ikan bilis role. He wants to force me to do something.... My god. I cannot one lor! He told me that noon show got no audience. I can practice and try to improvise on stage. Liew... no audience I also very stress because the musicians and naiba they all are watching me when it's my turn.

My role is a missy who owns a shop and later fall in love with a poor scholar whom already got wife. Therefore, I was forced to sing ... Luckily, I got an idea. I asked Naiba what kind of situation the show is about so while I was doing make up, I think up some lines to sing. When I got the lines I want, I write them down and try to remember them. As I am the one who wrote the lines, they were easier to remember.

And that was how I managed to pull off the afternoon show without danger. Naiba, my mum, all the rest of the members were looking at me when I on stage. They wanted to see how I fare..

The night show was a comedy and I am acting as Naiba's sister. Naiba is a gong kia (stupid kid) and I am a little girl of about 15 years old. Ok lah, not too young.

Again, I told Naiba I don't want to sing.. and I am serious but he said cannot. Must sing.... Haiz. STress leh.... So again, I made up one verse in my mind while doing make up. I already decided that I will just sing one verse.

SEKALI.... Naiba sabo me on stage!!! He suddenly forced me to sing by telling audience,"sister, your turn to sing!"

Wah lau eah... sabotage leh! I freaked out but I managed to pull it off fortunately.

After I sang, he wanted to sabo my mum.. but my mum simply replied,"It's not early anymore, mother is waiting for us...."

So my mum escaped the singing.. LOL....

Ah ni was very stylo yesterday! xiaosheng leh... Dun siao siao hor. She wore this orange costume which I think is very nice. The above pic is not the full costume, there is another outer layer. I pester Ah Ni to lend me wear... and she agreed. Hahha. I will borrow from her if got chance.

Nice right? Her wig also very nice!

I also wear orange costume. This is quite a nice costume lor which Naiba just bought from Taiwan. This costume hor.. is quite small leh.. So the boobs part cannot zip up lor. Sometimes I hate having bigger chest than other people because some costumes just cannot zip. Naiba very steady. With a swift hand, he zip up the costume... to my amazement. Though the zip is up, it made my chest part very tight.. I feel like a ba zang.

Another thing is the skirt damn short. Haiz, I think the opera actors or the taiwanese all short short one. All the costumes so short.. weird lor...

My mum.. acting as my elder brother. Most of the time we go out together so it was actually easier for us. We talk to each other fluently. On stage I can also talk quite fluently with Naiba because we know each other very well..

Ah tian tian.... She looks good in this right? I think her hair was very well done. Another artiste did it for her. The back part is very nice. AIyah.. should take photo of the back too.

Naiba... the gong kia.. (stupid kid). He acted really stupid on stage lor. Said a lot of stupid things that sometimes I dunn how to reply him...

Ah peng.. LOL..!!! Acted as Naiba's wife in the show. Apparently, he is very ugly but in the show, naiba finds him very pretty because they are fated to be together.

Second night, naiba acted as handsome sheng again. Nice costume right.... This one not too dua ban and it can be modified to make it simpler. I quit like it but too bad this costume too Shengish. I cannot wear.

Ah Ni acted as handsome emperor today~

She promised to lend this yellow costume to me... cuz I think I can wear this even if I act dan...

Another costume bought from TW by Naiba and once again I got the same zip problem and the skirt length problem. HAhahaa.. Apparently, on these 2 days whenever I want to wear a costume, naibe will do the zipping for me cuz only him can manage to pull up the zip. He always say... ," My daughter.. you too big already..."

Then another artiste will say,"I also want big leh... Can give me some..?"

Me and Ah ni... ..

Aiyoh.. ah ni standing at the back make my face very big.

Very sorry about my pale face because all the photos were taken when the show about to end. My blusher already gone so my face look like very whitish. Never mind la. I extra only mah.. and in today show I finished my part quite early.. at 10pm like that I kana killed by Min Hui..

Forgot to say, today I got fighting scene leh! How exciting! But I didn't have time to practice with Min hui one or 2 strokes missed but overall still ok and I was still killed by her in the end.

I think it's quite fun lor to do the fighting but also quite stressed because we didn't rehearse much.

Acting street opera is not easy because it doesn't use any scripts. However, in these 2 days I realised that the skill can be acquired if you act often because the things they sing and talk about are sometimes the same. Only sometimes when you want to express something then you need to think up your own lyrics. For me, I prefer to think up my own words because I can remember them easier than trying to remember the words other people give me.

Strong Teacher

Never never in my life will I expect such a thing to happen to my chinese opera sub career. It came really all too suddenly and I wasn't prepared. I was only told that I will be carried up by Ang one month before the show. How am I supposed to lose enough weight by that time for Ang to carry me? Carry me is not an easy feat cuz I know my own weight very well!

Fortunately, on that day, my very strong teacher managed to carry me up swiftly. I was so freaked out everytime she does that. Here are 2 precious photos that someone took of that very moment.

Many people commented that I should let go of my right arm since I am supposed to be dead. How can I still cling so tightly onto teacher leh?

I told them many times that it is simply not possible. NOT possible! I will fall to the ground if I did that. Then people argue that I will look more dead if I can drop one arm and let it dangle. I looked quite unnatural with both arms around the neck.

Haiz, not that I don't want to but I really cannot. I rather that it looked unnatural like thia than to fall flat on the stage. Many people also argue that if I hold tight, I won't fall. Well, I did hold very tight but I will still fall if I let go of one hand I can feel it. I can feel that teacher already used up her strength to lift me up and I cannot afford to move an inch. Shifting my weight around will make me heavier. I told YH that she is not the one being carried so she don't know how it feels like to be carried like this by another lady that is 50+ years old. Try it... then tell me about it... :P

I think everytime Ang wants to do this show, I will have to go lose some weight lor. Until maybe she decided to let someone else do my role.....