The Bad Thing About ...

The downside of the wonderful long break I had was that I lost most of whatever bond and 'affections' I had towards my fellow cast members.

It was apparent during our first rehearsal upon coming back from the break. The chemistry and sparks that were built up during the weeks of intensive video shooting just weren't there anymore!

Thankfully, as we go through many rounds of rehearsing the same scene over and over again, some of the sparks were recaptured. But we still have quite a long way to go and D-day is coming up real soon.

Most of us, cast members don't know each other from Adam until we were recruited for this production. Thus, the long break apart from one another sort of made us almost-strangers again.

This is very much in contrast to the reunion I had with some pals from my previous church last night. Jennifer's sister Susan is getting married next week. So dear Jenn took this opportunity to meet up our old long lost pals to pass the wedding invites personally to them. I tagged along during her rounds yesterday and boy, it was such great fun seeing the faces of dear friends whom we haven't laid eyes on in years and feeling like hardly any time has passed at all since we last saw each other.

That laugh, the knowing look in the eyes, the smirk, the weird hand and neck gestures - ah, the best things in life sometimes remain unchanged.

One of us had just been through a bad breakup and got a new car in replacement of his girlfriend. We bundled into his spanking new car and he drove us around his housing estate aimlessly for many rounds as we shared our sorrows and joys till late into the night. Jenn commented that we could have jolly well gone to a nearby mamak and yak there but nah, mamaking was just too normal a thing to do when meeting crazy friends from the glorious days of old.

Next week, we will all be placed in the same table and I can just imagine the awesome time we'll have catching up on each others' lives again. Friendships like this that can survive any long breaks are a very rare thing indeed. I can't hardly wait to meet them again... hee!