Not So Fast!

Happening now? When i'm still so young? I won't let hereditary issues win! I'll make sure won't have the same problems as my dad. ROAR!

Stage or not?

I would like to do shows, like children birthday shows. But that means I have to learn stage magic, buy stage props, buy nice magician clothes (basically stylish black outfits LOL). Not easy.
Last time tried doing a children's show under Reuben's recommedation, which made me realised that with what I know, I can't do a show.
Will take one step at a time. Thinking of my spongeball routine now.

A fruitful day. =)

Went to meet Rui Ming for lunch yesterday over at Dhoby Ghaut Sunshine Building. Ate the Thai food there that made us wait super long. RIP to his laptop, hope the one who kop it starts to rot the minute he/ she starts using it. Rawr!
Felt good to meet up with him, brings back the old JC days. Have to meet up with the rest of CTG 218 soon! Haha..

After that I went Aunty Betty's place to pick up a deck of Bicycle Seconds ($3.50) and 4 (1.5 inch) sponge balls ($6.00, without box).

Then I went to Sim Lim to check out prices of RAM for gal. The embarrassing thing was that I got laughed by one of the shop's uncle sort of because I still thought Pentium 4 processors was still the fastest processor till date. LOL! Now already dunno what quad core liao but somehow I didn't realise that. So funny. =.=

Leaving Sim Lim after visiting an exciting place, I headed to tampiness to visit David's Balloon Baron. Actually thought of buying the balloons in bugis area, but they sell one packet of 260's for $15.00! So expensive! Also wanting to improve my skills, I went to BB at the end. Reached there and realise that no one else is there, apart from Jessie, David and another lady, whom I didn't catch her name. Had a really long talk cock session with David.. which basically means I listened to his stories for very long. Haha! Although his thinking and theories aren't always the best, I have to admit that I felt honoured to have the chance to talk to and know a legend like him. Indeed this 'balloon-artist' (quoted from him) has done stuff that no other balloonist can achieve. He may seem full of himself, but I feel that he has the right to be so. Being the pioneer of ballooning art in S'pore, he was able to be so successful and also perform for many important people in Singapore and Asia.

Think he see the way I twist also ching-sim already. Lol. I seemed so lousy as I struggled with some twists. Even so, he didn't come down too harsh on me, and even gave me some valuable advices. All in all, learnt a lot that day, restocked my balloons, and even bought a new pump! Yay!

Hopefully everything turn out well for my dad. The environment of his current job is getting bad recently according to him. Upper management getting lousier, manpower getting tighter. Which was why he was looking forward to this new job. I can see that he still has feelings for this current job- after all he has been working there for over a decade already. But he felt that the deteriorating working environment is too much to take, and also since the company seems to have some buyover problems, might not be a bad choice to 'jump'. Prospect of the new job looked good, but now might not be within reach given the sudden realisation of some contractual issues. Sigh. My dad's like is filled with ups and downs, why can't he have something smooth this time? God/ Guan yin/ Buddha bless him and our family.

Recently went to Pek kio market for their last CLAP! fundraising event for the needy residents there. Brought over 5 decks of cards, 2 balloon pumps, 2 bags of balloons. Ended up using only the balloon stuff. Was happy with my first experience in helping out in a booth selling balloons, but I felt that I really need to improve on my speed and control, so as to burst lesser balloons. The afternoon ended with a parent complaining abt the slow making of her bugs bunny and she being frustrated, scolded her children for doing some harmless stuff. All because I did the bunny too slowly and it was due to it keep bursting. Really sucks man.

Heard from Baofa and Veronica that Wei Lai's event still might need helper, so I decided to join them without asking WL's permission. Luckily it's a rather free and easy thing, so more helpers are always welcomed. In the end I went to jurong earlier than the required time, so I sat on the upper stairs of the area where people waited for the IMM shuttle bus, and did a 160 bunny while waiting for the Chevron shuttle bus. Was determined to make one at a faster rate, but ended up only doing a little but faster. Hope to speed up my balloon making process with more practice from now on. Balloons are running out, think need to get more soon. =/

Whatever the thing is, just hope they go shun shun..

Gypsy Thread

Just finished watching the download. It's something very visual and magical for the audience, if done right. The problem is the handling has to be rather delicate and careful. It's not difficult to flash. Will spend some time to practice the effect. Dan Sperry is expectedly humourous, but I felt he could be more detail in his explanation, like giving more tips and experiences on the handling. 28 mins seemed like a lot of material would be covered before watching the clip, but much of the time was spent on meaningless stuff and humour. Watching the performances by Wayne Houchin and Dan himself made me feel the effect would be very clean. While I felt a little deceived, I'll strived to achieve that kind of standard. Time to practice!

The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett were kind of shocking to heard this morning. Knew about the MJ's news since everyone on Facebook starting posting RIP messages about him. For the latter, not many knew or talked abt it, but saw it on the Yahoo! news while I was checking out MJ's news. Kind of a bad day to pass don't you think, as her death would be overshadowed by that of MJ's. =/ In any case, R.I.P. to both of them, and may those who loved them live on happily.

Had been visiting theory11 and dananddave website recently and I have some items that I'm interested to learn!

Gypsy thread seemed to be around for a long while, but sadly I've only heard of it recently. Will be looking forward to learn it on the 1-on-1 soon, when i still have some extra cash to spare. =D

Professor's Nightmare is also another trick that belong to that ' IshouldknowthattrickbynowbutIdon't' category. Norvin said that it's not expensive to learn, probably will check out the price from Baofa's side, if not might get from Aunty Betty's.

Identity by Richard Sanders! OMG it looked amazing! Extremely visual, and very high WOW factor in my opinion. Price is a little steep though. It's definitely in my wishlist, but maybe not buying it now. ;)

Knew about Pressure for quite some time now, but haven't really got into finding out abt it. Saw the trailer again today, and since I had some balloons with me, I thought I'll give it a shot. The basic effect worked out pretty well, though I'm still thinking abt the clean-up. Have some idea abt it, though pulling it off in front of a live audience might be a little hard. Wouldn't be buying the download/ effect since I don't think I wana spend that kind of money. Would have some fun trying to figure it out and perfecting it though.

Feeling good =)

Surprised gal today with this!


















Been very happy playing with balloons recently. Very fun and entertaining hobby actually. =)
To say that it's all joy that's the motivation for this interest is not entirely true, as I also do hope to use this skill to help me earn some pocket money, which can be extremely useful based on my current situation. So I hope to learn as much as I can for now, and seize any opportunities along the way.
Gal mentioned an interesting idea earlier today, shall think abt it these few days.
Also realised that this blog is becoming something that it wasn't meant to be when I first started it. I actually wanted to make it a magic blog, something like what Baofa started recently. Then somehow it became more like a daily diary blog, haha. Anyway, will try to put more magic/ balloons stuff in this blog from now on. =)