Julianisms

Yoke Chin applies the finishing touch 

Three weeks ago, Metro Tabernacle A/G celebrated her 25th Anniversary. The birthday service was held at the Flamingo Hotel Grand Ballroom, as usual.

And again, as usual, there were a host of special presentations to mark the special event. Among the presentations was this short skit performed by members of the drama team entitled, “The Best Is Yet To Come.”

Of course each one of our previous skits are special, but this one is special in a slightly different way in that we actually wrote it ourselves, from start to finish. Maybe it’s not that big a deal, but it’s our first time anyway and so it deserves a mention.

The script may be our own but the premise and the setting was borrowed from another skit I had liked very much and had wanted to produce. “The Best Is Yet To Come” is a three-part play, featuring three different groups of people going through different periods and experiences in their lives. It’s basically a call to remember the good times of the past and to continue to look forward in hope to the future.

Credit to the entire team for a job well done - I am so proud of each and every one of them. Mei Young is the newcomer this time around and she carries herself with aplomb in the first scene with Vincent, who is returning to the team for the first time since Christmas.

   

In the second scene, we have all the regulars: Chun Hoo, Julie, and Katy who play a bunch of sharks… sorry, lawyers. Good lawyers, I might add :P

   

Mel and I wrap it up in the third act. She previously played my younger sis in Night Shift, but this time she plays my daughter. At this rate, I’ll be playing her grandfather soon. Suddenly, I feel a little old…

   

About the video, it’s a little chunky at 24mb but that’s also mainly because it clocks in at 13 minutes of running time. Which is almost the same as the previous Anniversary skit we did few years ago with Moses and the Israelites (Chun Hoo, Julie, and I were there too… what a corker that was!)

Anyway, this one is quite a corker, too. I think Mei Young and Vincent are hilarious as the newly-weds… the lawyers look as if they are actually about to come to blows in the second act… and I always love working with Mel: I love her as a friend, and I love playing off her character in a skit. Extra hugs to her as well for drafting the initial script for this drama which we eventually distilled via collective input into the final treatment that you see here.

“The Best Is Yet To Come” (WMV / 13:02 / 24Mb / 320 x 240)


This one goes out especially to all the Metrotabbers who are away from home studying and working around the world. Enjoy!

NOTE: If you’re looking for previous videos, you can find them in the Downloads section.

Update on Thu, August 30, 2007 by Julian

My bad, my bad, my bad….. the problem with names, once you start mentioning them, is that you run the risk of omitting some un-omittable ones.

Case in point, the video team! My heartfelt thanks to Edwin, Choon Yang, Peter, and Vicky for attending our rehearsals, coordinating the shooting angles, manning the cameras, and helping us to capture this play on tape for posterity.