Monday, January 08, 2007

Sometimes, lessons are best learnt the hard way. :)

Yoohoo! Its been awhile. Sorry folks.

Went to JC Sum's Micro Magic Convention yesterday, so sorry to Nicky if i didn't reply to ur message. Oh btw, if y'all don't know who JC Sum is, he's the fella who did a magic segment for Top Fun(Channel 8 variety show by Jack Neo and team, every mon nite), for a period of time. Ring some bells? If not, i shall just carry on with my rants then.

So basically, the micro(due to spaces limited to onli 50 pple) convention, was held at Fluid Bar at Far East Square with free flow of coke, sprite and lime juice It started off with a great lecture where JC shared some of his original close-up effects with us. Though some of us may not really put them to use, it was great insight into how we could produce great effect for even close up magic.

After the lecture was the "Producing Your Act" segment, where pre-signed up pple get to perform in front of everybody. So I, boldly went to sign up for it. Made quite a mess of my routine, because i was so nervous, n i tend to just rush through everything. So i flopped my bottles, dropped my cane, fumbled my linking rings. Man! 5mins seemed like an eternity! I knew that i wasn't gonna do very well, n a normal person wouldn't even think of signing up for something like this in the first place, but i did it because i wanted to know, first hand, what were my flaws and how i could improve. After my routine, JC gave some SOLID critique which left me pretty much satisfied. Thank God for the many others who encouraged and gave me some good advice as well. After which, was a performance by another guy who took up the "Producing Your Act" segment, then came the veteran guest performers.

The convention pretty much ended after food and the sale of alot of magic stuff and a lucky draw in which i wasnt so lucky in, but i was presented with a personalised JC Sum deck of cards instead. The stuff on sale were great in which i bought quite a number, so now having no choice but to put on hold my bike course for another month(damn!), but i guess its all worth it.

So thus ended my sat, still feeling proud of myself for having the courage to perform, and still feeling the passion! But all is not done yet! Another magic workshop, Secret Session 3 this end of month!!! CHIONG AR!!! but still need to spend more money. damn. hehe.

Yours,
Ken

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