Journal Entry 03.06.03

It's actually the morning of 04.06.03 but I'll just write something for yesterday anyway. Something short, but substantially disturbing.

The day was quite alright, woke up, had breakfast with my Indian Princess at Rocky's at Bangsar and then dropped her at HELP Institute. I then went to Education Ventures Sdn Bhd to sort out the Speech & Drama project payments and enquire about the probability of the program surviving beyond pilot year. The response was encouraging.

A little after noon, I was at Sunway College. Had a very nice lunch with Rey and managed to discuss 'Placebo' with him. Then went to sort out my library card application and took a good long tour of the library. Man, that library is heaven! Made a mental note to start living in the library.

Class started at two and wow. It was good. Could see that Rey was getting a little fatigued near the end but he still managed to make the entire three hour session most interesting. Had a basic introduction to "What is theatre?" and a brief overview of Classical theatre. Most memorable was the discussion on "What is culture?"

Getting to the point, I had a rehearsal with Prabu at 7.30 pm and it was very demoralizing. First of all, he was late. Secondly, he didn't have his scripts. Thirdly, he didn't do any homework before coming. Fourthly, he is the weakest amongst the "Shorts II" cast in terms of theoretical training and techniques, which I know he is uncomfortable with.

To be fair, the chap has been through a tough one month, what with the car accident and mother's ill health. Completely understandable. Which is why I relieved him of most of his duties as producer for the show. But still, the show's less than one month away. And he's far from even starting to be ready.

We did a little voice exercise and he just couldn't focus. So I stopped and talked to him, made him promise he'll buck up by Friday and sent him home.

Time's running out. But teamwork's still lacking.