I should start a new category on the Goonfather, who just won’t quit being a nutcase.

In fact, I could start a separate blog about him and have more things to write in it than about myself.

Except that he hates being in the limelight, so I can’t blog about him too often or he’ll get shy and run away.

But I just have to post this picture.

Goonfather watering his car!

Gong xi fa cai, may it grow big and strong and clever.

That aside, allow me to wish my blog readers (who all seem to have vanished, as a matter of fact) a happy lunar new year. May you also grow big and strong and clever! And rich, so you can donate some funds over here.

No, actually, may I get rich myself so I can provide my own funds. Yippee!

新年快乐！万事如意！心想事成！

And, finally, many many fish to you.

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Spent Valentine’s Night with the Goonfather spring cleaning the room and then having a late dinner of seafood mee goreng at the nearby coffeeshop.

Drove to nearby Shop N Save to buy multi-purpose cloth (but Shop N Save didn’t have them) and then back home to continue spring cleaning.

I feel happy that, for once in my life, I didn’t succumb to the nonsense of celebrating Valentine’s Day, which is really just a special day for florists and gift shops.

I’m sure the Goonfather feels happy for his wallet, too.

Anyway, I can’t be bothered with V Day this year, what with CNY so near and so much spring cleaning and shopping NOT DONE YET.

Nevertheless, I hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day and didn’t spend too much money. If you did, well, I hope you’re happy, anyway!

*hugs and kisses*

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So, pregnant mums are supposed to have beeg beeg boobies, right?

If you’re my regular blog reader, you’ll know that I don’t even have normal sized boobies, much less beeg beeg ones, and that I’m still awaiting donations for my Breast Endowment Fund, which, today, still stands at the paltry amount of $0.00.

Unfortunately, the world loves exposed breasts, especially now, compared to, like, five, or 10, or 50 years ago. You can tell by checking out several random boutiques in Orchard Road. Ladies clothes are getting more and more revealing by the day. Like 90% of clothes on sale today are cleavage revealing.

It severely limits my shopping options. That’s why I wear kiddy-style clothes all the time. Not that I want to act cute lor. It’s that adult-style clothes make me look like I’m a kid wearing mummy’s clothes pretending to be grown up can?

Anyways, thanks to this annoying boob-exposing trend, all the maternity clothes acquired for me for this film were, indeed, very boob exposing.

Drastic measures had to be called for.

Extra-size bandages, masking tape, lots of gel padding, maximiser bra.

I will leave it to your imagination what we did with those – we don’t want to get too graphic here, do we?

The first day, Jann (producer) and I spent an hour fixing up my boobs and managed to get them to fit quite decently into the annoyingly sexy clothes.

For the next seven days, it was a ritual we had to go through first thing in the morning and then once or twice more in the day because the bandages constricted my breathing and I had to remove them during meal breaks or die of asphyxiation.

By the end of the seven days, Jann got to be really expert at it and we managed to complete the ritual in about 20 minutes.

One night, when Justin (special effects makeup artist) was there to dress up the ghost, he did some cleavage-enhancing special effects makeup on me.

That was really awesome!

Between Jann’s bandaging and Justin’s makeup, I looked like I had breasts for the first time in my life!

Wow.

But now I understand how women in the Victorian era suffered from corsets and why wearing them could cause fainting spells.

What a horrible price women pay for beauty.

And what horrible people who set the standards for beauty. I have a beeg beeg bone to pick with society.

Anyway, I don’t sport a yummy cleavage throughout the film.

Sometimes we didn’t have enough time to fix me up properly and sometimes Justin wasn’t there to do his magic. (Jann and I learnt how to do the makeup from Justin, but we couldn’t do it as well.) So, during those times, I just look deflated.

Oh, well, we can’t always be perfect.

Well, of course, there are perfect women out there, but I’ll just pretend that they don’t exist.

La la la la la la.

For now, I’m back to wearing my kiddy clothes.

Too bad!

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Remember I mentioned that Jann (producer) managed to procure clothing sponsorships for our film?

Not counting the ballet outfit, which was tailor-made, they got me about 11 outfits from three different boutiques.

Unfortunately, I only got to wear five of them because Jon (director) didn’t want the film to be a fashion show.

Outrageous!!

I didn’t get to wear my favourite outfit for the film and I forgot to take a photo wearing it. Sad~~~~~

But here are those that will be seen.

Oh, yeah, if you noticed, I’m kind of a sad person in the film. Some of these pictures were taken on set by Edric during camera rehearsals so I’m in character.

Did I also mention that I’m pregnant in the film?

It’s my third pregnant role to date. How cool is that? I’m beginning to notice that maternity clothes can be really cute. So, I guess it mightn’t be such a bad thing being pregnant, after all.

Then again, maternity clothes are freaking expensive for something you’ll outgrow in less than a year.

I think if I ever get preggers for real, I’ll just stay home naked all year.

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Filming for Hole in the Wall is over and I’m caught in the grip of post-production blues.

I am relieved that I can finally take a break after seven extremely exhausting days of filming, but I also feel lost, not being able to step back into the world I have been living in for the past week.

I feel like a wandering ghost trapped in a strange plane of existence, not knowing where to go and not really belonging anywhere.

This feeling will pass, of course. Especially since I only have one day in which to rest and feel melancholic being going back to day job reality tomorrow.

In the meantime, I have re-activated my EQ2 account. =D

I will start posting up production photos over the next few weeks once I receive them from my co-star Edric Hsu.

I found out over the course of filming that Edric was trained in photography and he takes really great photos. I think he took like 2,000 pictures over the week and I mean literally.

He has also very generously agreed to give us all a copy of all the pictures, so I left my camera sitting in my bag all week and just let him take all the pictures. Heheh.

Well, watch this space, then. I won’t be blogging every day since I still have about another month left in my day job and there’s also EQ2, but I’ll try to post something up once every few days.

It’s been an awesome shoot and I can’t wait to talk about it!

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