4 posts tagged “tt nite 08”

I'm sorry to those I won't be seeing, beginning 10.00pm yesterday.

A lot of you were damn good, some of you didn't deserve it.

Yesterday was Eliminations at our Talentime Nite practices. Of our four categories - singing, dancing, emcee, and instrumental - there were eliminations in the emcee and instrumental category.

Most tragically of all, this had to happen when those who eventually were eliminated started showing real promise.

I've got the feeling my blog is mostly photographic nowadays, so it's time to balance.

The week beginning 19th May and ending 25th May was our auditions week, a hectic time which involved lots and lots of running around and shouting for things. Funnily enough, it seems to have worked just nice. We got a large number of auditions, some serious, some not so serious. Our publicity booth in the canteen foyer was also a hit. We had performances on several days, some of which involved singing, some of which involved dancing, and one in particular was a rendition of The Cranberries' Zombie, which involved lots of jumping and shouting to the chorus.

Now, this week, the week beginning 26th May and ending tomorrow, was a less hectic week, but one that involved regular meetings and irregular classes (we had four scheduled, yet only one actually happened: a classroom lecture on Malaysian Constitution, sarcasticyay). We had our committee photoshoot on Thursday, which was another exercise in legally allowing Amirul to wear a suit everywhere he goes. That photoshoot was fun in its own right - we had free makeup and free hairdo styling, for which makeup involved three makeup artists arguing which shade of foundation looked best on me (I Am Not Making This Up), and the hairdo involving about three minutes of a style known generally as Making Amirul's Hair Look Kinda Like His Hair Already Is, But Marginally Messier. It's a hallmark in hairstyling. I have yet to see the photos, but some comments I heard were positive, and some were negative. Ya win some, ya lose some.

I watched some of the finalist training on, um, Wednesday, wasn't it? They somehow did the impossible task of exasperating Andy our emcee trainer, who happens to be one of the nicest, most gentlemanly people I know, even if his favorite greeting to me is his original song Amirul, which involves bawdy rhymes with my name. So the finalists needed some kicking here and there, and I gave my all in trying to maintain a serious look of +1 leadership.

Oh, screw the words, let's have some photos, and photographic descriptions, before I have to go down and do some laundry.

Julia took this photo in late April '08, cementing her status as Favorite Photographer, capturing me here in my Winter Communist look, despite the  fact that the surroundings are anything but winter (or communist, for that matter).

Myke is the loveliest person in the world, because she was born on February 15th. Here she is taking a photo of me with Julia's D50, which she swears never to lend to people.

Jeff is a photographical whore. That's the correct expression right? Photographical whore. Thoroughly nice person, very responsible, but never ever give him a camera.

The briefings during Audition Week. Andy, the guy standing there in the slightly-off-center, is the emcee trainer mentioned previously. Also in the shot is Michelle, leaning against the desk, who is also pretty awesome, simply because she has a car and is completely willing to drive me around.

Stacey, our PR Director, seen here talking on the loudspeaker trying to bring people to either our booth or our auditions room. I assume she succeeded very well. You may have seen Stacey before on this blog. She had a guest starring role as Stacey, Amirul's Date in the episode "Accounting Night" earlier in this season. Her success on that episode sees her taking a recurring role this season. In fact, so recurring, she's going to have other photos on this post.

The crowd of white-dressed people are either our crew, our committee members, or random people dressed in white.

I hate using that "a picture tells a thousand words excuse" when I never blog. I really do.

But because most of you would rather see pictures and illustrations to describe the many woes that occur to me, I'll show them here to you on Big-O-Vision instead of writing long meandering text. Some of these photos are probably going to be reprinted on the TT Nite blog.

I saw Jaziel, Michelle and Tammy at the bus stop on my way to the TT Nite meeting. They were doing some sort of commercial shoot, presumably for an assignment. The scene I saw involved Tammy running across the lot twice.

As I said, Tammy was running.

Mr. Jeff.

Sarah talks her Treasurery in this photo which covers Alice's face with a giant mineral bottle.

Carmen, Assistant Program Master and kungfu whiz and my own Director of Events, usually talks smack of my choice of outfit, but today she didn't seem to mind the floral-green shirt + white disco jacket choice.

Sofea the Program Coordinator explains work-related matters, I assume, to Carmen.

Winky is the Queen.

Siok Cheng, Vice-Chair extraordinaire, dons the White Jacket of Amirul B Ruslan to get in a performer-y persona. Every week we showcase the talents of a TT Nite committeeperson with a video clip of them doing generally stupid things, such as singing, dancing, or worse. First they had recorded me singing Lovefool to a camera phone, then Jeff had his moment in the sun singing as well, and now, Siok Cheng.

The video clips taken by my Sony DSC-1 were a little too big to upload on this crappy connection, but I'll do it no doubt for both this Voxblog and the TT Nite blog.

And whilst she wore my jacket, I wore hers. A good trade, though I think I like mine a bit more.

Okay, as long as the Internets suck, I can't possibly add more posts, but the weekend beckons and I would very much like to return Tabby her internet.

I'll post some more, because more has happened. Til then.

Things I Want.

1. Grey trilby hat.

1. Traditional old-person black waistcoat, Clanbronwyn style.

1. Plain dark blue tie.

1. Dark red stabwound.

1. Black velvet mask.

1. [OPTIONAL] Grey pinstripe suit.

Go ask yourself what it's for.

Also, for the upcoming TT Night 2008, since we've come to an agreement about the color - I need a white suit somewhere. Heard I can get one for... RM70?

Also, if you've been wondering why Amirul never blogs anymore, go to http://ttnite08.blogspot.com and you'll see. Just don't watch that video of me singing Lovefool. It's... not worth the pain.