Did I mention I got into the Japanese play called Rashomon? I didn't know it till they called me yesterday and told me to go down thi afternoon for a reading with the whole cast. I'm playing the part of the medium. Mad woman, really. I got to act like I'm contacting the dead.. not quite like they do in those Chinese movies, but similar... head swaying, stuff like that. Y'know, maybe they picked me because I was Asian.. and looked more convincing as a medium. I don't know. Don't really want to know. I think I'll have a lot of fun with this part tho'. I don't have many lines and only appear in one section of the play. Anyway, the reading was fun. The play's quite interesting, but lame ending if you ask me. Very cheesy. I'll be performing for 3 nights, from the 30/11/00 to the 2/12/00.

By the way, I've gone to watch the Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, and it's nothing to rave about. Look at me now. I'm not scared! A horror movies is really good if it can get me totally freaked. But here I am all alone in my room and not one bit afraid. It's really nothing. There was a lot of nudity tho'. Too much if you ask me. Breasts here and there. There was even this scene in which the characters in the movie were having an orgy I think. (Wonder what the film censors in Singapore will do with that bit.) You've got to be 15 to watch the movie here. I really wonder about the Singapore system. You can have sex without parental consent at age 16, you can drive and risk killing people while driving at age 18, but you can only watch an 'artistic' movie when you're 21? So you can have sex, but not watch people doing it. There's also no age limit for a person to murder another, but we can't watch gruesome scenes till we're 21. I don't know. I think it's strange. Maybe it's just me. Anyhow, back to the movie..

Basically it's 5 people who went to the woods to experience the Blair Witch, got drunk, killed 5 tourists (kinda like them touring the Blair Witch woods) in about 5 hours (they did a whole lot of other stuff too, like prance around naked..) and they had no recollection of what happened, then they went back to this guy's place (which was near the woords) and watched the tapes from the cameras they set up around the famous Blair Witch sites hoping to capture something, and they see some interesting stuff. Meanwhile the police find the 5 dead tourists and figured out that the original group did it, tho' like i said they had no recollection of it at all. Lotsa weird tihngs happen which they couldn't remember anyting of, or rather, they remembered a different version of it (which did not involve killing anyone). See. Not very interesting. The cinema was not new either. The seats were not tiered such that the head of the guy sitting in front fo you won't block the view, and there were NO CUP HOLDERS! My thighs were cold by the end of the show coz I had to place my drink between them! The screen was also very very small and dolby surround sound? Dolby *what*? They don't have it. The guy whow tore our ticket was nice tho'. He was joking with us and was very funny when he told us to turn off our handphones or the Blair Witch might get us. Oh yeah, I didn't have a seat number. It was a general admission ticket, so the one who gets there first, gets the best seats. It's about £3.30 for the movie and about £1.15 for the drink and another £2 or so for the popcorn. Extortion!

There are fireworks going off here every 2 minutes. It's all very pretty in the night sky. It's bonfire night. But I was told by this guy I met at the laundry place downstairs (I did my laundry today!) that it's supposed to be tomorrow. 5th of November. Some guy (Guy Fawkes I think) tried to blow up the government. I don't know the story really. Anyone who does should enlighten me! I think Guy Fawkes was born in York tho'. Remember seeing a little sign with his name on it and an arrow pointing to the place he was born when I went to York. It really sounds like we're at war here. Not too far from the frontline, with the canons or bombs or guns, or whatever it is they fire, going "boom boom boom". Take cover!

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