I am leaving~

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I will be setting off to the airport at around 4am tomorrow. Gotta reach there by 5am as my KS organiser is afraid that we might be late.

Although it's only a short trip, I think I will miss my dearest opera because Phuket is a non-opera place. I doubt if there will be opera on TV. I will be at a non-opera place for 3 days. I cannot sing along loudly.. etc

Suddenly I felt very 矛盾。I don't know if I hate gzx or love gzx. I think it is 又爱又恨. I realised that I sometimes hate gzx for being so rough and 俗 when I saw some low standard shows but sometimes I miss it when I didn't see it. Oh man.. I am so 矛盾.

Many people adviced me to give up gzx but I didn't. I had a hard time with gzx, learning gzx is very different from other opera types as gzx is very flexible. Teacher can tell you to do different things each time you rehearse and keep changing if she finds it unsatisfying. Unlike other opera type I tried, they are more or less quite standard. Raise right hand means raise right hand, raise right foot means raise right foot.

As I am used to such standard teaching method, I am having a hard time with gzx.

Anyway, my point is, I will still miss gzx if I don't do it although I still hate it sometimes.

矛盾, right?

Comments

A.C. said…
The only streetside opera you can find in Phuket is Teochew and Hainanese opera. I watched one Hainanese opera once, and before the start of each scene, a narrator will give a synopsis of what you can expect later on in Thai.. haha...
8:41 PM
Kongming said…
dont give up... 10 yrs down e road, i wanna c vcd starring miko...
11:15 PM
Miko said…
u sure phuket got street opera ah? even if got i also dunno where is it and i think my colleagues are more interested in the cabaret shows...

kongming.. I dun expect tat to happen!
12:09 AM
A.C. said…
i tell you , even in the deep north-eastern part of Issan also have Chinese opera performances, even though there're no Chinese there. I know it, because my friend, a thai Chinese opera performer in Thailand, told me so..
6:33 PM
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