TVC

That stands for, or rather, used to stand for 'The Voice Company'..

It was off to Clarke Quay for the recording after watching Final Destination 3 with Neshie...

For the record, the show was a 2.5 out of 5...
I don't know.. it did not seem complete and well put together.
The dialogue..gosh.. it was there for the sake of being there, as in, it would be unnatural for it to be silent.. or, in other words, it was not important..
BUT
The show did leave me looking out for possible dangers when on the roads...
Hee..

The instructions I got on how to get to the TVC office...

1. Alight at Clarke Quay
2. Exit A
3. Turn right
4. Turn left
5. Keep walking till you see WineBos

Of course I got lost... well.. slightly...
It was along a row of those old-fashioned shop houses, the historical relic sort.
Here comes the dramatic bit...

It was getting dark.
Clouds blocked the sun from the land...
I looked up a narrow shaft and saw endless stairs before me.

I took a first step, praying that no roach of any sort would make an appearance before me...

Higher and higher I went, my only light source a naked bulb fixed upon the wall in front of me.

2 flights up, were some signboards with Chinese characters...
Now, I could not read those, but they had bodiless arms wielding swords as their trademarks...
Not the friendliest or most welcoming...

Then before me were 2 paths.
The right flight of stairs looked bright while the left flight looked dark and menacing...
Needless to say, I took the left one..
Upon going up this narrow flight, I began to doubt my choice. It was steep, it was narrow, it was suffocating...
I had no choice but to go on..
Honestly, I got a little nervous and giddy at this point in time and my hand phone had no reception...
I was imagining scenes from 'Final Destination 3' at this point, which was really not too pleasant a feeling...

3 flights on, it got brighter...
Then...
In front of me...
THE TVC OFFICE!
I was sooo relieved...

It's a small office and I had 7 pages to record.
The first set of pages were basically an introduction to the chat line...
"Hi! Welcome to Gossip corner.. ya da ya da..."

I got my directions from the 'Boss' who is an Indian man in his late 30s with a British accent... Only that accent became more Indian as he spoke...
"We need someone with an attitude, yet friendly and spunky... Firm but demure.."

Boy.. Did I have some work cut out for me..
I did my best and recorded the introductory passage to which they all (all 6 of them in the office) had a listen to.
Then they came in a circle, with me cornered (yea.. cornered in a circle! Hah..) and they did a short evaluation and agreed it was alright!
Thank goodness!

They took almost 1.5 hours to get the rest of the equipment up and test the voice over the phone line and such... then came the full recording, which in all honesty, is not as easy as it sounds.

I sat in front of a microphone, with a cup of water beside me and started to read.
Of course, reading with expression meant gesticulating with the whole facial expression to go along...
Was so incredibly embarrassed at first, since there were quite a few people in the office, but then I decided to 'act' and well... I think I was totally into the role of this funky lady bouncer (yea.. was trying to play that role), that I totally forgot their presence.
If I think I did not read well enough, I would re-read the whole paragraph.

The worst part of the whole thing was actually the 'compulsory and mandatory' reading, which is basically recording the various months in a year, numbers 0 to 99 and all the hundreds, millions... ish...alphabets included!
It was kindergarten all over again!

Got that bit done and honestly, with you concentrating really hard on enunciating, you might skip a month... haha...yes.. I did.. think I skipped September and went straight to November... :D
Kidding... I skipped September, but I did not forget October...

Anyway, the worst was counting from 0 to 99...
I felt like I was counting myself to sleep and had to fight to stay awake!
Way better than reading the phone directory to sleep...

Got everything done in 2 hours and went home...
Back down the dark and narrow flights of stairs.
I was holding on to the walls for fear of tumbling head over heels down those stairs!

Was so elated but felt so tired that I thought I should take a power nap (after I got home) but I never woke from that nap till this morning at 8am to call my Mom a cab, then heading back to dreamland till 2 in the afternoon!

OH k...
So that's done and I'm just waiting for the call to re-record anything they want...

Looking forward to a walk along the shore this Sunday at night...
It'll be nice...