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b prospects i knew that i wanted to be a full time writer but how and where i had no idea i had applied to a bunch of places to become a writer and in my desperation i even ended up sending in my resume to places that needed content creators but i knew i wanted to be a script writer i wanted to write for the screen i had been wanting to write for the screen for a long long time and i finally got to make it my full time job it felt super nice and reaffirming and satisfying and anxiety alleviating i m here now i m so grateful pinball monkeys performed once at the joke factory while still continuing to upload weekly sketches on our patreon page pasca sini also performed at a live stream show called sadtember with some other local rock bands in the line up i don t know if they re ever going to release the full show but here is us playing dmb on the night october i started october with staging the romansiprokal plays it was an anxiety inducing time also since covid cases were going back up to triple digits on top of that i was down but not out with a runny nose and cold it wasn t covid but i still didn t want to get my fellow theatre pals to catch what i was having so i had my mask on almost all of the time it was nice to be able to do theatre again but our run of shows had to be cut short since the number of covid cases had made it untenable for us to continue with the staging anymore it was sad but it was also the right thing to do besides that pasca sini recorded a live session at reka karya for the youtube channel click here to watch it was a fun time we also shot the music video for our song fikir sebelum bertindak in the later half of this month it was shot at petai belalang studio and it was also a fun time recording that one i also spent a lot of this month writing my first telemovie script it s a musical too it hasn t been shot yet as of this time of writing but i am excited to see how it turns out november this month was taken up by a lot of rehearsals for the aforementioned musical that i wrote i didn t do much at the rehearsals since the cast was doing a lot of dance practice i just ended up sitting in a corner and writing drafts for other scripts i was working on at the time i also guested for two different podcasts that weren t mentol pecah once for the mulut murai podcast made by the people at safehouse i like this episode muchly the other is for the how to malay podcast with mozek and qam this was also fun pasca sini released our first full length album called emo department on all streaming platforms on the 20th of november it consists of twelve tracks that we have been working on since 2018 with the help of our producer and friend shaheir jibin we really like how the album turned out it s a bummer that we can t tour it but we look forward to playing the songs on the album on stage whenever it is safe again to do so until then have a listen to it and be emo with us december the final month of the year i was mostly on the set of slub milky mouth bukan nama sebenar making sure that any rewriting could be done quickly and scriptwriterly it was a new experience for me seeing a show being shot on a multi cam setup in a huge closed studio each member of the cast was very talented and sung and danced their way to getting the job done besides that shoot i was also involved in a script reading workshop type thingy at lot ng for a play that is scheduled to be staged sometime in the middle of 2021 we met up three times in three weeks and we helped the playwright hear what his script sounded like out loud so that he can make adjustments where he feels necessary i look forward to going into rehearsals for that play as the cast members seem super cool and i d get to work with chris the director again right after the shoot of that milky mouth show we started shooting for the educational show i had been writing a script for i was on set for the episodes that i wrote to make sure that the cast pronounced things correctly and that they got all the facts straight i was also there to rewrite what needed to be rewritten it was a huge learning experience to me in terms of finding out what is helpful and not helpful for a writer to do in their script i also got to see some actors in action and make up my mind about how to go about being an actor in the future if i were to ever be cast in a screen thing nanti primarily learn my lines well before coming on set and listen very carefully to what the director has to say pinball monkeys also published our first comedy album called semua on the spot it is a collection of all our favourite sketches that we ve made at our patreon page and we like it very much we had so much fun making the sketches and we hope you give it a listen to have just as much fun as we had and that about wraps it up for my 2020 it has been a sucky year it s true i didn t get to tour with pasca sini i couldn t perform more shows with pinball monkeys i couldn t hang out with my friends i couldn t travel anywhere most of the time but it s also been a year of blessings for me i finally got a job a screenwriter i got to meet some amazing people i got to be a part of the best comedy podcast in malaysia i was able to be a part of publishing both a music album and a comedy album i got to spend a lot of time with my wife i got to spend quality time with my family and friends and i learned how to cook there is still much to be grateful for in my life i hope your 2020 wasn t too bad either may 2021 bring us more joy and serotonin author anak pak man at 7 05 pm no comments friday january 1 2021 remembering 2020 part 1 so 2020 was a great big yikes wasn t it who would ve known that things would go south the way that it did i guess bill gates in that one tedtalk video but nobody else probably and how we ve rued not taking heed of the dude s tedtalk but i feel that i am getting ahead of myself ehem every year for the past handful of years i ve done a month to month wrap up of the things i ve done throughout the year so that i may remember the year that was and document it for my future self s reading pleasure and i shall be doing it in this post will it turn out to be in two parts like in previous years i doubt it but let s see january ahh january such wonderful times a time of blissful ignorance so naive so young so free i kicked off the year by playing a new year s eve show live shows remember those with pasca sini at impero studio ara damansara we ended up playing like an hour or so late we dressed up in button ups and blazers we really wanted to play a good show we played an alright ish show kami dah mengantuk semua orang lain dah mengantuk tapi tibai ja lah oh how i miss it how january was also when i first read and rehearsed for the first of only two theatre productions that i d be involved in throughout 2020 24 jam dalam 37 tahun directed by chris ling and written by khairi anwar i remember bawling the first time we did the read at lot ng there s this one sequence where the main protagonist played wonderfully by shah shaha was asking my character at that moment his father like 50 questions back to back to back it really did me in real good we started rehearsals on the 29th of january and continued to rehearse until the first of march we also experimented with the first iteration of the pinball monkeys podcast around this time we did a few recording sessions but we were happy with none of them so they ended up never seeing the light of day having said that i still had a good time recording them lots of laughs were had cumanya the episodes became unwieldy and hard to figure out jadi we didn t feel comfortable putting it out to the world we d finally figure out how to do it later in the year during lockdown i was also a guest on syafiq syazim s podcast called dramatic dialogue where he speaks to people mostly in the local theatre scene about their experiences and thoughts on theatre and the arts in general i really like guesting on podcasts and i aim to be a paul f tompkins in the local podcasting universe meaning that i want to be in any and all podcasts made round here if i can i was still working at thelaki at the time so he came by sri pentas and we recorded the episode there i played one making shit up show and one pinball monkeys live show at the joke factory in this month both of which very fun i m sure masalahnya i don t remember what happened in those shows anymore such is the temporal nature of improv shows but i do know how they made me feel and they made me feel amazing february a lot of february was taken up by rehearsals for 24 jam dalam 37 tahun i was around lot ng a lot with my fellow actors shah shaha and anissa azis we worked through the play sorted ourselves out and became as prepared as we could ve been going into the staging of the play that would happen the following month it was my first time playing multiple roles in one play and i ve always wanted to do that i ve always seen it as a rite of passage towards becoming an actor i ve always in my own little head thought that i wasn t a real actor until i can bawak multiple roles in one play and i m super glad that i was entrusted with doing just that by chris i was also an extra in two music videos in this month for ariff bahran s usah and for the venopian solitude s camaraderie the shoots happened on consecutive days in one weekend quite the busy weekend but it was fun and nice to be on a set with friends pasca sini played our final pre covid show on the 28th of february it was called jenuh kampoi and we played at tala records in gasket alley pj it was a cool show with cool people kami macam biasa tak tight but we had fun the show was supposed to be the first of many many shows that we planned for our 2020 nationwide tour to get the word out about our debut album that would eventually be released in november 2020 and we were supposed to be on tour with i lost the plot and timemachine and it would ve been such a nice string of shows i m sure tapi apakan daya kita hanya mampu merancang gitu march the month it all went downhill but not before having a few highs in store for me i did my first ever bfm radio interview to promote the play 24 jam dalam 37 tahun with fellow actor anissa i relistened to the recording of it and i feel like the first half was rough in terms of me being able to give good answers to the questions asked by the dj sharmilla but i finally got to set foot in the bfm office and they have like the best pantry it s so cool and the view is so nice i was super jealous as ripple s pantry wasn t even half as good we started our staging of 24 jam dalam 37 tahun on the 5th of march and it lasted two weeks taking monday tuesday and wednesday off we put up eight shows and i think all eight shows or maybe it was seven ended up being sold out that was a first time for me too to have a sold out run of a show it felt great and gratifying i think it s the best play i ve ever been a part of to date we had plans to re stage it later in the year but y know corvid in the play i got to play five different characters and figuring out how to pull that off was a challenge but i managed it it was such a satisfying experience to embody the characters and tell the story of haikal to a willing audience the play ended up moving many people to tears just like it did when i first experienced it there s so much heart and honesty in it it breaks your heart khairi wrote a super powerful piece and chris directed it immaculately as one would expect from the great chris ling shah s performance as haikal was amazing anissa did a great job the sound design by kir was onz the theme song made by takahara suiko was spot on and the set made by adry was cool esfak it was great all round and i m super grateful to have been part of this production while the play was going on i squeezed out some time to play with pasca sini at gasket alley again for a very pop punk heavy show we wore oasis inspired clothes and covered don t look back in anger because oasis are pop punk as fuck i also got to send my youngest brother off at the airport for him to fly to romania he did a semester over there under a student exchange programme thingy and it was cool to see him study oversea like that although because of corveid he ended up doing all of his classes online kesian kat dia it was interesting to be at the airport at the start of covid it was the emptiest i had ever seent it it felt very ominous a day after we wrapped the 24 jam dalam 37 tahun production the government announced the first movement control order that was huge news we were very grateful that we were able to conclude our production before the announcement throughout march we were already macam was was about everything dah sanitizing our hands all the time sanitizing the lot ng blackbox before every show and then the mco was announced and we were to work from home until further notice we d never done that before at thelaki so it was interesting to me to see how we would navigate having to still make video while being at home we figured it out of course and made quite a few videos from our respective homes i like this one in particular where we talked about our daily routines when working from home i remember the first time i went on a grocery run during the first mco i was staying at my in laws at the time and i was given a list of things to get i went to aeon and tesco to find all the things that were in the list i remember the line at tesco being super super long because of the limit in the amount of people allowed in the shopping area at any given time as well as the social distancing that was required of us while in the line i waited like an hour and a half kot kalau tak silap just to get into tesco this was the time that felt most apocalyptic to me everything was familiar but surreal seeing all the shops closed like that there was palpable fear in the air and everyone was extra careful with everything but there was also a sense of we re all in this together ness whenever i made eye contact with strangers like we were saying to each other stay away from me and together we ll beat this thing it was weird and cool but mostly strange i remember listening to the latest episode of the anthropocene reviewed by john green at the time and feeling like fuck this is really happening fuck but at the same time we ll get through this it ll be a while but we will get through this i really recommend you listening to the episode it s great i didn t like this period at all though i didn t know what to do with myself i struggle with staying inside all day everyday it made me realise just how important being out and about was to me i am a much more social creature than i give myself credit for i ended up giving myself the goal of writing a play script in two weeks i met my goal and shared it with one friend so that they made me accountable the first draft is finished and i have no idea when i m going to get started on its second 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