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Sydney 2025

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 Our Sydney Adventure started on June 20, 2025, and finished on June 24, 2025. Over these four days, I was fortunate enough to spend time at SupaNova in Sydney. I was lucky enough to be graced with the presence of Travis Willingham, which, believe me, I was very grateful for. This experience had been a long time coming, as I had been waiting a mammoth 15 years to meet Travis.  Aside from meeting Travis at SupeNova, I didn't purchase many items. I only bought myself a red Minnie Mouse, which these days is tough to come by. Other than this, at SupaNova itself, I also bought food. I was lucky enough to spend my holiday with the lovely Sofia Martinez and the mighty Julia Marr. Now, of course, we have been friends as well as co-workers, and sometimes when I go on holiday, it's a very fine line to balance on. However, 80% of this interaction is positive, and 20% of the time, it usually involves teasing, making jokes, or doing something to someone. But, at the end of the day, Sofia...

Blue Roo's Laughing Out Loud Friday the 13th & 14th June 2025

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 Laughing Out Loud was a bit of a different experience for me because there were no script involved.  So basically, the show was made up of different acts involving a lot of improvisations. Overall, the show went for about an hour in length but getting to that polished hour of improvisations was a task to behold. It was a challenging because to me, the cast was a geat group of individuals - which I will give a shout out to later- but it seems to me that we had different levels of improvisation experience. So for some of the cast, it took a longer amount of time to perfect a scene - which is not always a bad thing, especially when it comes to improvisations, as they are meant to be as spontaneous as possible. I certainly did it to the best of my ability but I wouldn't say my performance was flawless.  In this performance I think a shout out should go to Oliwia Suchocki for a very outstanding and memorable performance across the whole weekend! Through my eyes she probably d...

Figures in Steph's Pokemon counting book

 Friday 4_4_08 = 310 Figs 30 +13+3 62 + 13 = 75 + 17 + 92+1 Money box - 1 Plush toys - 16+2=18 Translator  Posters - 17+3=20+9=35 Pokemon license 1 Plastic badges - 4 Diary - 1 Phone (hangers) - 10 Boardgame - 1 books - (49+5=54) 22 Boxes for cards - 14+1 Clothes pins - 4 Finger puppets - 6 Reverse plush figures - 9  Remote control pikatchu - 1 + remote ball pencil toppers - 17 Spinning tops + case - 5 portable slide show - 1 target master game -  Mystery dungeon - 26 DS games - Diamond version - ranger - explorers of darkness - blue rescue team   - rangers shadows of almia -dash Stickers in tin - 12 (with figs) Diamond + pearl - throw game Stickers sets 1 - 8 2 - 7 3 - 8 DVD - Ranger & the temple of the sea - Advanced lucario CD - pokemon 3 Games - 6+1=7+2 DS games - 6+1 case + 2 Nintendo - 3+1 1 console Medical equipment - case 1 - pieces 25 Pencil case - 2 Pencils - 12 Sharpener - 1 DVD case - 6 DVD - 14+14=14+14+14+14 = 84 separate DVDs - 18 writing...

Happy 59th Birthday (Angela Valentine)

 Well, well, well! We find ourselves here again. Unbeknownst to most people, it's been three years since I wrote a blog on your actual birthday. Actually, this one is two days late, but 😺 I am so jealous of John's holiday with you in New Zealand. It's a holiday that I have always dreamed of. I hope you enjoyed your day in Wanaka. Now, we get to the fun part. As for me, I have been busy writing Angela and Murray story and sequels - which are as follows: What happened to Kathryn. Physically Windy Cindy.  Shopping Shannon. Angela, the legendary carer. Murray the master electrician.  I'm unsure in what order the final two will be, but I know I will complete the first three in that order. The other funny thing is I did not see this series would be so big. At first, I was only really thinking of you and Murray, but then, I felt I had to find a way to include Kathryn , Cindy and Shannon; otherwise, I would have felt very greedy keeping you all to myself. But, alas, this is ...

Screenwriting for film

 Screenwriting for film was a 10 week course which I did through AFTRS. It was taught by Jonathan Ogilvie. This one was a more intensive course than the Intro to Screenwriting and it went from the 15th of April to Sunday the 23rd of June 2024. So as you can see, the first half of my year has been  spent constructuvely spent on building my screenwriting career. These courses have not been easy to do nor they havent been good for my bank account either but I wouldn't change a thing and I mat have thrown myself into another screenwriting course by Jonathan in 2025.

Quest South Brisbane 13th to the 17th of November 2024

 Quest South Brisbane is where I stayed for the duration of the production at QMC, which allowed me to stay up in Brisbane for the two performances of Midnight at the Cementery.  My holiday originally started on Wednesday, when we picked up one of my carers whose name is Sofia from Oxenford, then continuing through to Brisbane, where I aslo met up with a friend by the name of Adrian. We had lunch together at the Riverside cafe in Southbank. After this we got to check in at Quest, where we stayed for five days. My carers did change for once during these days, having Julia for the three first days and Wiesia the last two days, but Sofia for the whole five days. Throughout this time we had numerous rehesals for the Thursday to the Saturday, and then the final performance of the Midnight at the Cementery was on the 16th of November.  I had fun during my time at Quest although I was exhausted on the Friday night, so all I did after the performance was  basically go to bed...

Blue Roo's Midnight at the Cemetery, Friday 15th and 16th November, 2024

Midnight at the cementery was a 18 week voluntary acting program that I was part of for the end of this year. I started with Blue Roo back in August of this year, and to be honest, I wasn't sure if I would continue, but, they surprised me at the end of term party and they offered a mentorship for the second half of next year, which I'm very excirted for!  I will continue with the acting program for next year, but in light of being offered the mentorship I am uncertain at this stage how it will affect things. So, for I've been told so far, the mentorship will go from 12 week but it's only two hours long each week. As for the rest I'll have to keep you updated. The producton of Midnight at the Cementery went off without a hitch. By the end of the program we were visiting the Queensland Multicultural Centre. It was really great to see the show come to live on the big stage. I will admit the weeks leading up to this to me felt a bit slow beacuse I felt like I should hav...