Experiencing a bigtime dry spell...

...and i ain't talking about the weather :(

Starting to get a tad worried here...

...couldn't clinch a single role at auditions...tried out for 3 TVCs, nothing...nobody's calling. 

Am i losing my groove?

Or is it the rising oil prices? :P

Well, at least i still have my students.  Oh...did i forget to mention that, apart from acting, i'm a private tutor as well?

Fact is, i was a tutor before the acting bug bit.

After leaving the airforce, quiting my engineer job 9 months hence, and a second rejection on my teaching applicaton, i started tutoring mathematics...yeah, it's a long story.

At its peak i had 9 students though by then, i've started putting my occupation down as 'ACTOR/TUTOR' on casting forms...instead of "TUTOR/ACTOR". ;)

In private tutuoring, students come and go but with acting taking precedence, i've long stopped actively seeking new students. Currently, i have 3 students. 2 will be taking their 'O' level exams later this year, afterwhich i'd lose them to higher education. Then there's Jon:

He's in Secondary1. i've been tutoring him since P3.

i was visiting my grandma one fine day some 4and a half years ago and this lady comes knocking, conducting one door-to-door survey or another. At the end of the 15-min survey, she asked for my particulars; name,contact, occupation etc. 2 weeks later, that same lady called me about tutoring her son...and that's how i started with Jon.  :)

So anyways...i'm just really glad there's still a place to go and something to do, even for a guy who's low on the dough...

i'm currently on chapter 16, page 421.

This past 4 weeks i've also read "Men Of Bronze" by the same author Scott Oden.  Then there was "The Afghan Campaign" and " The Virtues of War", both by author Steven Pressfield who wrote "Gates of Fire"...think "hot gates" in "300". That's the next book i'm after...unless i get to experience some serious 'weather' changes  ;)