Tony's stash of textual information

Over a time-period of approximately ten months – from 18th September 2023 A.D., to 14th July, 2024 A.D – I experienced an encounter with people from my past. I think of it as a milestone in my journey thus far.

I list those people in no particular order:

1. Crystal, Nan Hua Media And Debating (MAD) Club, 2004
2. Goh Shi Bin, Nan Hua, 2005
3. Yu Ting, NJC Harmonica Band, 2007
4. Hwee Hwee, NJC Harmonica Band, 2008
5. Tay Yi, 35SCE, 2009
6. Yong Rui Xuan, NUS SoC, 2011
7. David Bensadon, entrepreneur (in the field of domestic helpers), 2015

I made some new friends in this period too.

I can't write poems I can't take a photograph Creative self-doubt

Simple game. Few rules. Fun and laughter in childhood Give me back those days

Two young men walked into a bar. J had clothed himself in his usual way: a T-shirt and a pair of shorts, hat-less. Whereas Y had chosen a floral-print button-up shirt, a pair of skinny jeans, and a baseball cap.

They sat next to each other at the bar counter, saying nothing to each other.

J's dessert punctuated the silence. Its arrival elicited a puzzled look from J.

1. performed on a Shigeru Kawai grand piano. (Music: “Forbidden Love” by S.E.N.S., the theme music of a Japanese television drama “Nisen-nen no Koi”, or “Love 2000”). 8 December 2021, approximately. Location: No. 176, Orchard Road.
2. performed on a Bechstein grand piano, and an Bechstein upright. (Tchaikovsky's Nocturne, Op. 19, No. 4). 14 November 2023. Location: Block 3014, Bedok Industrial Park E.
3. performed inside a ballroom of a hotel,

Brick-and-mortar book-shops have been closing down, one after another.

I'm trying to contribute where I can, in as appropriate a manner as possible, with what little strength that remains in these frail arms.

I attended a screening of a documentary, at a nearby cinema.

It was about how humans manage – or fail to manage – industrial waste, and consumer waste. There were a lot of statistics in the documentary.

It ended on an carefully curated optimistic note:

In other words, what do I want to work on, moving forward?

1. Apply for a subsidy in renting a public house. (here be formidable bureaucratic dragons). c.f.: Mei Ying.
2. Toil away at a higher-salary job so that I can afford a more expensive house. (But why would I want a more expensive house, in the first place?). Become a piano-teacher, maybe? Or, a software-salesman? CRM, ERP?

Darren suggested future directions.

HCAC: private acting school with various short courses of styles and methods.

https://methodactingasia.com/

Nine Years Theatre: Actor Training