A relatively quiet day.

It was a relatively quiet day for me yesterday. Beside the perfunctory phone calls and random screaming at people, I just had two meetings and a press conference. A quiet day, by all accounts.

My first meeting involved a lot of screaming. Now I usually do not push my face into other people's faces. I generally avoid confrontation and try all means possible to problem solve, but when the other party just refuses to listen or has little brain capacity to absorb or retain simple concepts, that is when I resort to verbal violence. So I screamed. The look of horror on the reciepient's face said it all. I finally got the answers I was looking for and I achieved my goal.

I really need to be nicer, I think.

Then I went to Ning, Nikki and Yanie's Secretaries' Week's show press conference at Sheraton Subang. This show will be on the 5th of April, and the very funny Dee will be the host.

I'll be doing a whole post on the Secretaries' Week's shows that my girls will be involved in later. So wait for that posting, which will have all the right information, just in case you're a boss reading this entry and want to book tickets for your secretary or you're a secretary reading this entry and you really should threaten and blackmail persuade your boss to buy you seats to a Ning/Nikki/Yanie show.

After the press conference, I met up with an agent to discuss a show coming up in November.

Agent: Have you heard of Josh Groban?

Me: No, because I'm extremely stupid, completely uninformed and have been living in a little hut off the coast of a desert island somewhere in the middle of the South China Sea and I only swim to shore once in a while to attend press conferences like the one I just had. What do you think?

Agent: OK. The whole world has heard of Josh Groban. Sorry, just checking. Anyway, do you think Ning would like to sing with him?

Me: When, where and how much?

Agent: Year end, up north and not much.

Me: Year end is always busy, up north is not a problem if it's business class and not much is not acceptable.

Agent: How much then?

Me: I don't want to sound difficult but you already know my price. So let's not haggle. It's not elegant. Plus, I'm hungry and when I'm hungry I can get violent. All that coastal swimming builds up an appetite.

Agent: OK. Fax me your contract. I'll email you the details.

Me: With pleasure.

Seven minutes. I nailed a deal for Ning to sing with Josh Groban in seven minutes. Still one minute short of the Sepang F1 endorsement deal, which I nailed in six minutes. Oh well, I'll use shorter words the next time.

Done for the day, I drove home. Later in the evening, I agreed to accompany my good friends Joe and Rudy to Astro to shoot a live show called AF Debate at 10pm. It's always hilarious to see these two look ever so proper and controlled on tv when I know them to be the loudest and most foulest of mouths in the industry.

Rudy: Mana Pengetua kita yang garang dan sungguh menawan iteww?

Aznil: On the way kot.

Rudy: Agak agak dia lambat cos baru habis marah bebudak kot. Dah la production untuk Diary semalam dan tadi hancur terabur ke laut, skarang bebudak pulak buat hal. Sesuai.

Joe: I'm hungry. Really hungry. Is the mic picking up my stomach groans?

Alam: Make-up department, cukup bedak tak muka I?

Sometimes, what you don't get to hear on air is more entertaining. Meanwhile, as the show progressed, I was busy lending my ear to wagging tongues backstage and getting the low-down on the new kids in AF5. How delicious!

After the show, we went to meet some friends and had a light supper. We chatted for hours, and bitched about how bad and busuk the production has been for the AF5 diaries. Disjointed, busuk, haphazard, irrelevant, busuk, draggy and monotonous were some of the words that cropped up in our session. Oh, and did I mention busuk?

Today is going to be another quiet day. Just one more press conference later in the afternoon and one quick meeting. I won't be screaming because I'll be picking up my new suit for Gang Starz on Sunday. Retail therapy always puts me in a very good mood.