Month: January 2007

  • Opening night

    The show opens tonight! Yay! Actually, I’m not sure what I’m feeling at the moment. A bit of nerves, a bit of relief, a bit of pride, a bit of nerves. But yay, nonetheless. And yes, tickets are still available for the rest of the run (till Sat 10th Feb), though I think this week’s…

  • Re-hearsing

    It can be quite thirsty work, rehearsing for a show, even if you’re not the performer. Everything is coming together nicely. Actually, with five days to opening night, they’d better be. Thank goodness for these fizzy vitamin tablets that you put in water that make you look like you’re peeing highlighter ink an hour later.…

  • With low-flying, washed-out colours

    And so, with the dramatic, almost theatrical, gasping dash that lasted half a minute over the last one hundred metres, I passed the 2.4km run segment of the IPPT tonight, at 13:29, a full minute slower than my previous attempt more than two years ago. But who cares? An ugly pass is still a pass,…

  • Testing time

    So I’m taking the IPPT today, whereby if I pass, I will not be required to go to Remedial Training Phase II. The past few trainings have featured new gadgets the instructors call heart rake mongnitors. And they are for you to mongnitor your own cardio training, whereby you should be training at 80% of…

  • Hypnotherapninny

    I’m really not one to speak about all this hypnotherapy hocus pocus and mind control stuff, but I can say that one’s mind can play tricks on one. Especially when one is, for various reasons, like lack of sleep, susceptible to being tricked by oneself. See, I’ve spent a good minute wondering why, on my…