Hands Down at Going Local 4

Mon, 15 Jun 2015
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Going Local 4 (2015)
Going Local 4 (2015)

My play, Hands Down, will be staged as part of Buds Theatre Company’s Going Local 4.

Hands Down is a comedy about a married couple that finds themselves facing off in a challenge to see who can keep their hands on a car for the longest period of time in order to win it.

The catch: whoever puts his or her hand down first loses the car – and the marriage to boot.

This year’s Going Local comprises four short plays, including Dressing Up by Gwendolyn Lee, Don’t Colour Outside Of The Lines by Jaryl George Solomon and The Untitled Funeral Play by Luke Vijay Somasundram.

There are four shows, as follows:

  • Fri, 26 June, 8pm, Tampines Primary School Black Box
  • Sat, 27 June, 7:30pm, Toa Payoh Central Community Centre
  • Fri, 3 July and Sat, 4 July, 8pm, Zhenghua Community Centre

Standard tickets are $20 while concession tickets (for students, senior citizens and national servicemen) are $15.

And if you’re a PAssion Card Holder, you get 10% off ticket prices.

Book your tickets here. If you’d like to, you can read the 2012 version of Hands Down here.

Of roosting chickens, circling back and WISHBs

Sun, 14 Jun 2015
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"Nothing will come of nothing." #1ismorethan0 #keeptruffling #obese #obesity #ohbabi #running #fitspo #fitness #fitspiration
“Nothing will come of nothing.” #1ismorethan0 #keeptruffling #obese #obesity #ohbabi #running #fitspo #fitness #fitspiration

The chickens came home to roost last Tuesday.

I spent the whole of that day privately making jibes at a PR company for using the term “circling back”.

They did so while corresponding with my colleagues, in instances like these:

  • “Thank you for circling back to me.” (I think they meant to say “replying”.)
  • “Circling back to our previous conversation…” (“Returning”, perhaps?)

While they weren’t exactly wrong, I was amused because their usage of the phrase was unnecessarily cumbersome.

So I mercilessly mocked them by “circling back” to the same phrase at every opportunity I got, during conversations with my office mates.

I guess it was only fitting to receive my comeuppance by inadvertently making a typo on the same day.

Shortly after knocking off, I accidentally interacted with an emotionally toxic person outside of work.

By the time I reached home, I was so drained from dealing with this person that I almost skipped my weekly run.

But I decided I wouldn’t allow myself to be affected by said individual.

So I thought I’d force myself to carry on with the workout through a bit of self-motivation, based on something I’d learnt from this post on Reddit.

Before heading off for the run, I created the image you see at the top of this post.

It’s supposed to say “1 > 0”, or one is more than zero i.e. don’t have a zero day by putting one foot forward, and then another, and so on.

Unfortunately, I only realised later that I used “<“, the lesser than sign, instead of “>”, the more than sign.

Adding insult to injury was the situational irony of my caption: “Nothing will come of nothing”.

It’s a line from the opening scene of King Lear by William Shakespeare, which I meant to use in a self-motivational manner.

However, the original line was meant to demonstrate the protagonist’s hubris…

I guess the moral of the story is: don’t “circle back” when you can “revert”?

In any case, a WISHB was in order – and duly published:

Cannibalism

Wed, 27 May 2015
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Apparently, cannibalism is now a thing.(For avoidance of doubt: It should be "Kids' halal menu".)

Posted by Laremy Lee on Sunday, 24 May 2015