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After a (Non)Break...

It feels like the works of a whole life have been done in a month. I hate telling the others I am "busy" (I guess nobody will say such thing to oneself), knowing it's usually more an excuse than a reason for not taking one more step forward. I will try to swallow that word whenever it comes to the lips but sometimes there is hardly any good replacement.

To justify the use of the connotation at least, I am recalling in my heart what I been through in this month:

• confirmed the combination of two sources for the performance in the Directors' Lab and named it "The Lightless Ring of Angels" ... and finished a rundown much earlier than usual...
• had my review of U-theatre's Meeting with Vajrasattva published in Mingpao ...
  
• sent out the first issue of newsletter of ICC (for which Toby has provided many up-to-date opinions and cruel criticisms...)
  
• finished the draft of ICC's new brochure (but a very close friend who has been designing the layout disappeared after I requested more options....or after he becomes a freelancer?)
• organised a seminar of a professor from UC Berkeley on his neuroscience research in relation to creative thinking... (and understood the difference between UC Berkeley and "Berkeley University" - dumb me!)
  
• studied the controversial consultation paper for the proposed academic structure reform especially on the implications of having "Liberal Studies" as the core subject in secondary school...
  
• read about the development and major arguments and possible actions about the West Kowloon Project...
• watched 2046 twice (Am I the only one in the whole world?) and read everything on-line about it, such as the resourceful MonkeyPeaches' site (and started to like this most disliked film of Wong Kar Wai) ...
  
• went to Taipei again for my Master's commemorating events... and organised the related exhibition there... (and again inspired)
  
• joined Grace's thematic wedding banquet based on EYT (="Enjoy Yourself Tonight", a long-life popular variety on TVB) and was touched for the first time in wedding.....
  
• and missed Wilson's birthday performance...

After all, the opening of the performance is coming in less than two weeks and I am triggered just now by yet another sweet post to keep my blog alive, when I am particular hectic actually finishing the script for the performance. (Yes, I have had a lot of improvisations with the lovely actresses before I sit down and write the script for the scenes. Occasionally I would think the performance would be a presentation of a creative script at last... Wait, but it's called "Directors' Lab"... Well, I have at least reflected on the significance of a "laboratory".)

Once again, I started with something simple (I thought it was), and tried to develop it in a simplifying manner, but (doomed to) finish in an extremely complicated text. Anyway, I am still working hard on it and looking forward to it...


This is one of the very few images that I like in those publicity items.

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