四月一日
北京衛視 LIVE @ 1940

weather here reminds me of boston very much...
dry, chill in morning and nite, warm during the day with moderate sunshine and spring breeze.


just found a pic i took on 27th March, 2003; exactly three years ago.
photographed in Times Square, New York City

Met with Director 胡玫 the other day... Like every one else, I did a brief introduction of myself and she started to ask questions, mainly on my language skill and experience as an actress. She also pondered what character I'm interested in, other than 寶釵; and I told her honestly that it had to be 元春. Seems like no one else here looks like元春 more than I do.

The unusual part of the interview was that all of us were required to put off any make-up and show her our "real face" 素面. Never had that before in my past 10+ yr casting history

Announcement of 賽制and 賽程 was held last night. Competition will start on the 1^st of April. Around 10 of us will leave on that day to make 寶釵and 黛玉 numbers go down to 28 each. Another 寶釵 match will be held on the 6^th to get the number down to 14; same process as黛玉 on the 8^th. More competitions will be held in the following weekends of April to get 8寶玉﹐8黛玉﹐and 8寶釵. Then, Further competition in the entire May will produce 3 representative of each character. And Ever Further competition might be held in June to decide who exactly are寶黛釵.

All programs are nationwide-broadcast at Beijing Television (BTV).

Busy memorizing poems, reading the entire紅樓夢 for my second time, and practicing台詞 and acting in various scenes at the moment.

p.s. Happy Birthday to Heidi~

北京乾得誇張...
我臨睡前﹐將洗好的t-shirt攤平放(o吾係"掛")o係枕頭旁邊﹐隔6個鐘頭--->乾透....

o甘我塊面....

上表演科是最快樂的事﹗每天上午﹐下午﹐晚上在老師的指導下在搭戲﹐細排﹐真的學到很多。看著所有選手的戲都越來越有戲味﹐演技都越來越成熟﹐我知道我真是沒來錯地方。

跟這麼多優秀的選手一起密集式上表演課﹐可謂千金難求。在香港找個表演老師﹐一個小時可花上一千多塊﹐還沒當上演員﹐先破產了。更不知在哪找個好對手…

到了北京好幾天了﹐排山倒海的訓練讓我有點透不過氣。每天早上7點到晚上11點多﹐回到房間還要背 5首唐詩宋詞。自問文化基礎淺陋﹐可借這次機會磨煉一下自己。用普通話背詩可把拼音﹐聲調也記住﹐一舉兩得﹐但花的時間當然是很長﹐而且背起來總是結結巴巴的。-_-!

記得我在復旦的時候也選了中國文學和中國現代史這兩科。我這些中五理科畢業便出國留學讀經濟的人﹐實在自愧對中國文學﹐歷史所知有限﹐絕對有進修的必要。可明知這類知識像個深淵﹐非埋頭鑽研一年半載才方能掌握一點皮毛。加上對學業和工作沒有直接的幫助﹐我作為一個典型實事求事的香港人﹐怎能在百忙的生活中﹐付出極大的 opportunity cost 去豐富自己的文學修養呢﹖

所以有時候我回想一下﹐真的沒有後悔過選港姐﹐選秀﹐可以接觸這麼多不同的人和事。尤其是今次選秀﹐在自己沒有優勢的環境下﹐相信一定能逼出些真功夫來。

A貨袁氏物語嘛。。。

不如改成﹕

A) 袁氏勿語 (被剝削言論自由之感)

B) 袁氏蜜語 (甜蜜之感)

C) 袁氏襪羽 (溫暖之感)

D) 袁豉墨魚 (“方太”之感)

E) 圓視物宇 (富物理奧義之感)

F for Favorite) 袁氏謐*語

G) 完事勿語 (......? why not)

H) 緣是陌遇 (....)

I for Impossible) 袁示密乳 (!!!)

* http://www.zdic.net/zd/zi/ZdicE8ZdicACZdic90.htm

袁 氏 物 語 ： 投 資 100 萬 　 收 入 300 元

接受不能改變的

改變不能接受的

(thanks for telling me this, YL from shenzhen)

It helps one to make critical decisions.