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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:

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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?
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Darren suggested future directions.


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

https://methodactingasia.com/

Nine Years Theatre: Actor Training

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Improvised acting.

Games, and exercises, to build up confidence and reflexes.

  • stand in a circle. Next person asks you: “what are you doing?” That next person has to do what you say. For example, you might say: “I am playing soccer on the moon.”
  • enter a space. put in, or take out something. Exit the space. Then, the next person has to evolve the story.

Ways of using your body to convey feelings.

  • disgusted: your body is tensing up
  • overjoyed: you are walking on a bed of roses
  • frustrated: your guts are twisting

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Interactions with the world of theatre in Singapore.

  1. Signed up for a course of study, at National University of Singapore. “GEK1055: The Theatre Experience”. (2014). Conducted by Paul Alexander Rae.
  2. watched a play. “The House of Bernarda Alba.” (Produced by Wild Rice). 2014. Location: Drama Centre, National Library Board Building.
  3. Acted in a short film, with Wong Souk Yee, and Jason Soo. 2014.
  4. Watched a play. “The Skriker”. November 2017. Location: McNally Street, LaSalle College of the Arts.
  5. Experienced Recess Time, by The Theatre Practice. 2019. Location: 58 Waterloo Street, Singapore.
  6. Watched a recording of an opera. “Faust”. (Produced by Royal Opera House in the United Kingdom). 2019
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This list is not exhaustive.

Kitchen Staff

  1. Qian Ling, full-time
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the practice script was “Come in, Nielsen.”

the actors were L and H.

Darren observed their performance once, and then told them to perform again, but with a game in mind – an actor's game. L's goal is to get H to look at her for more than three seconds. H's goal is to give L as little eye-contact as possible.

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“It is better to be a glorious failure than a mediocre success.”

Mediocre success hinders you from tasting glorious success. (Editor's note: Darren attributes this quote to the late playwright, Kuo Pao Kun)

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terminology from Darren

“invisible body”: What an actor does off-stage, which helps in his performance on-stage. Eg. Tai-chi, amateur boxing, basketball, soccer, marathon-running, stamina-training.

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Quoting from the Book of Sirach, in the apocrypha of the Bible:

“Do not boast about wearing fine clothes, and do not exalt yourself when you are honored; for the works of the Lord are wonderful, and his works are concealed from humankind. Many kings have had to sit on the ground, but one who was never thought of has worn a crown. Many rulers have been utterly disgraced, and the honored have been handed over to others.”

(Chapter 11, verses 4 to 6.)

The following is a list – not exhaustive, of course – for the reader to glean some insight from.


  1. T. T. Durai, former CEO of a well-known charity organisation in Singapore. (“National Kidney Foundation financial scandal (2005)”. In Singapore InfoPedia.)
  2. Yang Suan Piau Steven, a pastor. “pleaded guilty to one count of providing false information to a customs officer”. 2 Nov 2012. In: Supreme Court Judgments of Singapore.
  3. Kong Hee, husband of a celebrity, and founder of an organisation. (“City Harvest Church's founder Kong Hee along with 4 others begin serving jail terms”. In International Business Times. 21st April 2017. And: “Church founder Kong Hee was found guilty of misappropriating some S$50 million of church funds with the help of five key church leaders.”. In WikiPedia.)
  4. Karim Benzema, celebrity and soccer-player. (“France's Benzema suspended over sex-tape affair”. In DW. 2015)
  5. Salva Kiir, a president of South Sudan. ”... video appears to show President Salva Kiir urinating on himself.”. in ABC News. 8th January, 2023.
  6. Luis Rubiales, former President of the Spanish football federation. (“Luis Rubiales, Former Spanish Soccer Chief, Faces Arrest”. In The New York Times. 21 March 2024. And: “Luis Rubiales quits in wake of World Cup kiss scandal”. In The Guardian. 10th September 2023).
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