Today was tiring, for some reason. I don't know why, but I was really tired today. I mean, yesterday was a day off, for goodness' sake. For the first time ever, I fell into deep sleep during a lecture. Econs. It was horrible. Woke up as if I had slept for days.
TSD was fun. We tried to stage The Chairs at the PT. It was fun playing the old woman. Her name is Semiramis. Don't know how you pronounce it, cos it's kinda French. And the whole play does not make sense at all. AT ALL. Seriously, read ten pages of it and you have no clue what it's about at all. Don't think I'll be using The Chairs for mid year papers.
Drama meeting. It was the first meeting we had with the new Exco. Was really fun working with the year one members. They're a promising batch, I must say. After the three years I've been in Drama. As a V.Actor. Now, we're the all new Dramatic Society for Dramatic People! Our board is gonna look so cool, all of you watch out for it on 13 June onward.
We have started work on about two of our many projects. Apparently I'm a "singer" in the Piano Ensemble concert. They asked for three people from Drama, and I'm one of them. Well, they helped us out for Dramanight. So now, we're helping them out! :) So nice to be good fellow performing arts CCAs.
Speaking of which, I think the performing arts scene in VJC is really neglected and under-represented. I mean, two years ago we got a clean sweep with everyone getting gold and above. WE got the sustained achievement award for the performing arts, which is near impossible to get. And what do we (performing arts CCAs) get? A cut in our budgets. Still, our amazing Dance club gets no dance room. Poor souls. The performing arts CCAs have to compete for rehearsing venues. There are the classrooms, the concourse, and the dance area. They're always hogged up anyways.
And Drama is really sad, cos we don't get much money, even though Drama is an expensive CCA to run. It is, really. Just on SYF this year, we spent more than $1600, including SYF fees. AND we didn't even have money to hire a coach or an external instructor. We do it all ourselves. And still, we get less money allocated year on year. PLUS, we don't have DSA Drama. Why? Because "we're not good enough to have DSA." Isn't it the point? Get DSA people, and we get better. I don't see why not. And how are we supposed to get better if you're gonna neglect us more?
And it irks me more how much stage time we got to announce SYF results. The sports CCAs got their own celebration on stage. The whole team gets on stage and they get to waste time with their under-rehearsed speeches. And what do we, performing arts groups get?
TWO MINUTES. And NO, you can't have the production team on stage, you're only allowed two people to represent them all. And they squeezed all the SYF results into one assembly. ALL into one assembly, even though we got our results at different times. It really is disgusting. And why is there an athlete's night? Why isn't there an arts night or something? Why is it that athletes who show great performance get recognised and performing arts people don't? Why do the athletes get the yellow Adidas shirt for the soccer finals and everyone else doesn't? Why do sports CCAs get supporters for their games, and when it comes to SYF, nobody is asked to go for support?
I'm not being snobbish or anything, I just feel strongly that the preforming arts groups in VJC are really neglected, and it is unbecoming. Someone fix this.
And Drama is really sad, cos we don't get much money, even though Drama is an expensive CCA to run. It is, really. Just on SYF this year, we spent more than $1600, including SYF fees. AND we didn't even have money to hire a coach or an external instructor. We do it all ourselves. And still, we get less money allocated year on year. PLUS, we don't have DSA Drama. Why? Because "we're not good enough to have DSA." Isn't it the point? Get DSA people, and we get better. I don't see why not. And how are we supposed to get better if you're gonna neglect us more?
And it irks me more how much stage time we got to announce SYF results. The sports CCAs got their own celebration on stage. The whole team gets on stage and they get to waste time with their under-rehearsed speeches. And what do we, performing arts groups get?
TWO MINUTES. And NO, you can't have the production team on stage, you're only allowed two people to represent them all. And they squeezed all the SYF results into one assembly. ALL into one assembly, even though we got our results at different times. It really is disgusting. And why is there an athlete's night? Why isn't there an arts night or something? Why is it that athletes who show great performance get recognised and performing arts people don't? Why do the athletes get the yellow Adidas shirt for the soccer finals and everyone else doesn't? Why do sports CCAs get supporters for their games, and when it comes to SYF, nobody is asked to go for support?
I'm not being snobbish or anything, I just feel strongly that the preforming arts groups in VJC are really neglected, and it is unbecoming. Someone fix this.
