my short-lived showgirls career...

this picture was taken grade 1 in HK... back in the day i guess i was pretty outgoing and involved in 2 plays that year. One of the plays, involve us dressing up as candles (above) - it was a catholic school, St. John Baptist school in Kowloon. Anyways, we were singing along merrily, in our little papier marché costumes, and the audience would chuckle every so often... (how weird, i thought, this is a serious song with religious morals and lessons here we're singing about!)

anyways, throughout the song, the audience would chuckle and laugh more and more. the other girls on stage with me didn't know what's going on either - the only thing we knew was, the show must go on - we sang to our heart's content.

finally, when i met my parents after the show, i pestered them until they tell me why everyone was laughing. Turns out that being a hot auditorium, if you look closely at the picture, you may see a sliver of a fan in the back, between the piano, the back curtains, and the row of us Candles. well it was an OSCILLATING fan... every time it moves, about half of our coustume would fly up in the air behind us, exposing our little bums.

yeah, that's me, in the blue, i was closest to the fan... now thinking about it, that's pretty good reaction from the audience... who knows, maybe i should've pursued a different type of career path afterall ;)