Statue of Toa Pa Yoh Park

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For a few times these few weeks, I have been meeting up with susan whenever I am free to practice Yueju with her at TPY. I know she is very keen in pulling me into her yueju group so I sometimes go there and see look.

Because Director Zhang is here, we made use of the opportunity to let Zhang correct our movements and teach us more about acting. I must say that I have also learnt a lot from Director Zhang.


Susan, Xue yan and Director Zhang practicing an excerpt from the Lady White Snake. I think they did pretty well under Zhang's guidance. At least I can see a big improvment in their acting after a few lessons from him.

Sorry the image is dark cuz they are back facing the light source. We realised that its dark like this so we moved to another area where the TPY statue was founded.

This is the famous TPY Statue. LOL!

Xue yan is a hardworking student.


I started practicing this yueju excerpt with Susan, 草桥结拜. It's really difficult for me because I don't know how to sing yue ju. I only try lah. I learn this partly because it can help me in gezaixi too because movements and acting is kind of universal. It can apply into any opera type. Zhang suggest me to go learn ballet! Aiyo.. my god. I am so old le leh....

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