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There and back again
Day: Day of most return
Weather: Pollen season without rose petals in the sky
Something I hate most is when the holidays are over. When you were a kid you dread going to school after the long holidays, wanting to leave school all the time. By the time you left school and went to uni, you started to enjoy the inhumanly long holiday periods and breaks and in between, thinking that you were in heaven. Then as with everything good, they will have to end it and throw you back into the real world cos it’s time to start an ever-lasting working life. Sometimes I wonder which is worse: to die young or to live and work to your pension age and found out either you don’t have enough money in your funds or you just couldn’t spend it all before you die.
I’ve been blessed with a successful dad and never really needed to worry about money…not really, but at least I have it when I needed it. Mum, as a traditional Chinese woman, doesn’t believe in kids living off their parents and sit on their bums. That’s why even with dad’s support I still have to go to work. If it is going to location or on set that’s fine, I can deal with it cos that’s what I want to do anyway. But going back to that Battlestar Galactica is really a bit too much.
I scored a few gigs after my spectacular gay bitch performance on the new TV series. The producers even said that they want me back again if the character returns to the series – which never happened, as I know they just wrap production for the second series. So after the gay bitch role, I was back to kitchen hand and restaurant waiter. It’s really depressing but then you got to throw yourself out there and prostitute yourself for art to look out for bigger roles right? It is the whole “looking out” process that mum doesn’t like. She said young people should never just wait but go out there to make money. That is why she insisted me to sign on for another contract at the Battlestar this year. I was devastated, but I’ve dried up my pool of excuses in the last two years, so I got no choice but to go back.
First week back was ok as all the hyena queens were still on holidays. So Claire and I were just busily catching up and having fun. Claire went back to the snowstorm city of London and told me about all the crazy things she did. She also insisted me that next year I have to go with her and she can introduce all her theatre friends to me. Obviously one of her exes before her current Aussie partner was a producer and thus through him she met all these cool people whom she remained friend with (even with her ex) after the break up. So the first week just cruised by happily without much disruption. However, when the jungle gang started coming back things just went downhill again. I don’t know what Eva did during the holidays but when she came back she suddenly had all those crazy ideas that she wanted to push through in relation to the project (which actually are not related to the project as far as Claire and I concerned). She is back with all her battle spirit and determined to take down Alice the Thunderland this year. Claire and I tried to stay amicable with her at first but after two days of harassment from her, all our nuclear missiles were out in the open again.
As for the drama school, the library has been downsized to make way for more meeting rooms in the building. So one of the compactus was gone and part of the library collection is now seeking refuge on the floor, in between stacks and under service desks. Also now they are recruiting someone to just do a few hours of night shifts to extend opening hour – and idea that Angela was pushing for a long time but then was turned down only to be revived as Succubus’ brilliant management decision right before she left for holidays. As far as I know several other teaching staff were over in London too, so whether Succubus will conveniently disappeared in the snowstorm is still unknown but I am sure that a lot of people will be cracking fireworks if that did happened. Oh one of the most shocking news before the holidays was one of her minions suddenly resigned and left. Nobody knew what happened but rumour has it that even he could not stand Succubus’ Stalinist rules. However, he is just a minor minion. The two main weapons of mass destruction are still loyally following Succubus waiting for a chance to strike. They are now like Dementors living a life just to suck happiness out of other people.
So looks like this year will be shaping up as another colourful year both at the Battlestar and the drama school. For me I wish that it will be a colourful year for my acting career.
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