Sunday, August 17, 2008

The World of "The Write Stuff"

The current show I'm in, "The Write Stuff" is loads of fun! We're performing 12 scripts written by 12-year-olds that are competing for the top three places. We perform a different set of plays each week but can't forget any of them because any one could end up a winner. The top three winners will be performed at the end of the show's run. It makes the whole process very exciting for us. And what's even more exciting is watching the young playwrights light up when they see their stories come to life. How many people ever get that chance anyway? The picture to the left is of Mark Wei watching "The Halloween Birthday" performed for the first time in rehearsals. (Yeah, we snack a lot while we work!)

The next cool thing I'm on to was introduced to me by my cast mates. I haven't played a role playing game (RPG) online for a long time but was recently introduced to the new table-top RPG of Dungeons and Dragons (4th edition). This is the stuff computer games are based on! I've always wanted to try my hand at this and even bought a whole set of dice but never had enough people to play with. 15 years later, the time has come! My dice can finally be initiated and I don't have to be a fake-o player anymore. I created a Tiefling character (shown in the picture) who is a Paladin. The people I play with are a lovely couple and a 9-year-old boy!

Okay! Now comes a new milestone in my life... appearing naked on national TV!! Well, I would have been completely naked if not for the pixelation. It was something I was trying to hide from everyone but there were trailers and soon the word got around. Now that I've seen the episode, where I play a scum of the earth toy boy, I guess I should take some pride in being, I think, the first naked man on local tv. This is probably the closest anyone will get to being naked on Singapore television for some time at least. For the record, I was wearing skin coloured undies!