Our play -The story about Nolbu & Hongbu

hehe... yet another outdated blog...

a busy wk.... soon after meeting Sam (as mentioned in my previous blog), I had been busy with the upcoming role play competition at our school.... Yah another activity organised by our school, if you still recalled we had our singing competition in Level 2, so now in Level 3 we have our role play competition...

So you got to see the future actor-to-be and actress-to-be during this competition... Had been busy preparing for this competition. Thinking of what to act, who and what characters.... Being appointed as the class monitress (kena sabo lor!!) hence it's more of a pressure to me this time round compared to the last singing competition.

Whatever.... Its really difficult being the class representative... First, you got to take note of what is required for the competition after being brief by the teacher-in-charge (all in korean... can you imagine in level 3 I guess only a few of us were of other nationalities, the rest are all Japaneses) . Secondly, inform your classmates and come up with a plan on what to act, who and what kind of props are require.... Last but not least, to get everyone to memorise their lines and schedule for rehearsal........ STRESS STRESS.......

Sad to say, but my classmates are mostly people who couldnt care less about this competition hence we had a hard time deciding on what to act... Hence we had changed our plans for more than 3 times......

At 1st, we had thought of reacting Dae Cha Guem （大长今） but this ideal was given up cause we couldnt find the appropriate dressings and not everyone in our class knows the drama... Next, we decided on making our own script with some broadcasting theme... Everyone agrees but we had a hard time coming up with the script hence we gave up the idea again. Its kind of frustrating... I thought broadcasting was a gd idea but I have no confident in writing the whole script myself..... as no one volunteers to help. Sometimes I really wonder why can these ppl come up with their script during the exams bt not for this competition? All I can say is they r either selfish or they simply couldnt care less. Anyway, a classmate of mine managed to find a Korean bedtime story with script etc... Its the easy way out so we chose it.

As most of the students in our class are busy with their own lives, its rather difficult to get everyone together hence we only had a full rehearsal just 1 day before the competition. And you also have people who are not co-operative, who just dun want to do this dun want to do that..... arrggh.... But I should also say thanks to those who did put in a little effort in helpin me out... for staying back to rack our brains, to accompany me to buy the props.....

But anyway, I kind of gave up in the end.... So on 23 Nov 07 (Friday), we had our final last rehearsal in the morning at 8.30am (of cos you got those late comers.... ) before proceeding to the hall to watch the others performed..... I have totally no confident of winning at all just wishing that everything runs smoothly....

So at ard 9.30am, we went into the hall... The competition had started hence I had missed a few classes.... The other classes were well-prepared and had many props etc... Some were really hilarious... For instance, we had the snow white guys version, Cinderella Kr version and even one class reacted a class scenario!!

Cinderella Korean version

Snow white guy version

classroom scenerio

Soon its our turn........ Yah... Everything went smoothly as I had hope... Just that we werent as fanciful as the rest of the classes..... Since ours is a Korean bedtime story it wasnt as funny. Hence in other words its kind of boring... But I was kind of happy for my ideas of throwin the sweets and bursting of balloons did had an impact on the audience...

Phew..... Finally its over and I had lifted this class rep burden..... Its really difficult to manage a grp of ppl esp. when they have no interest in the tings and when you are not close with them/do not know them well.......Or perhaps the problem lies with me.. I wasnt a gd leader then. Now I realised its so difficult to be a supervisor, manager etc... I tink i still need more training on this.

Our play is about 2 brothers named Nolbu and Hongbu. Nolbu is a wicked elder brother and Hongbu is a kind soul. Its about how kind Hongbu helped a injured swallow and was repaid his kindness. On the other hand, how Nolbu was punished for his evil deeds.