Simply Wicked!

Great stage design. Great acting. Great singing. It's simply WICKED!! (^_^)

They turned the pomelo into Emerald City too! WICKED!!

Only not so wicked is that it is being played at MBS.. which is so out of the way and nothing to eat..

On the go!

Downloaded the free blogger app. Perhaps I can finally clear my whole backlog of posts. :p

Kungfu Panda 2

Po is back!! And baby Po is so cute!! i want his toy! :)

罗志祥 舞法舞天之Encore World Tour 1万零1夜

Been ages since i've attended a concert at the Indoor Stadium. Thought we were early to arrive but whoa!! the crowd that greeted us when we stepped out of the Stadium station. The queue to enter the stadium was endless! Imagine we had to walk from the North entrance where we were supposed to enter from, all the way to the South entrance where the end of the queue apparently is. That's like walking half of the perimeter of the stadium! Then when we finally joined the queue, we had to wait patiently in line for the walk back to the North entrance. Tonight is supposedly the record-breaking number of people packed in the Indoor Stadium for a concert. Very good ticket sales i gathered. They had to add seats in the extreme sides of the stage with very limited views i heard. Me? i've got pretty good seats. Central with no heads blocking me. No, i'm not at first row. That's almost impossible in a idol concert where the front seats would most probably be mass booked by the fan club.

Well, despite the long queues to enter the stadium, plus the long queues in the ladies room, the concert started fashionably only about 10minutes late.

It was a great show. The concert seems to have gone on a 感性 theme cos there were a few quiet moments where Show Luo recap some of the dramas he had acted in and some of the negative news that he was in. He was obviously very funny and entertaining but i do wish there were more of the faster tracks and that he didn't sing 精武门 and my favourite duets so early in the night.

Overall i think it's a dazzling visually captivating performance. The stage effects were fantastic. Though he may not be known for his singing prowess, i think he did very well tonight with the slow numbers, performing them with great emotion.

After today's concert, i'm all geared up for another pop concert! but i can't get anyone to go to Kylie's with me. :( i do wanna go hers so bad. i think it would be another brilliant performance.

881 Musical

Would have enjoyed it a lot more if i wasn't looking at the subtitles the whole time.

The theatrical version has a new element of the Fu Lu Shou characters. i like! :)

Rio

Got a free movie voucher from Eng Wah expiring, so went to watch this cartoon. :)

Not exactly wow but not too bad either. i guess animations are generally fun to watch. The Suntec cinema is recently revamped. Go when it's still new and EMPTY! :p

Singapore Biennale 2011 Open House (Part 2)

Last site for the Biennale... Old Kallang Airport. Now, this site is really quite off the usual track and away from all the other sites. Take the free shuttle if you want to come here.

The place is quite big. But quite a number are long boring video installations. It's really too hot to sit through them. Anyway here are some of the more fun installations i like.

A quirky part from the piece "The flying method of the artist with a fear of flying"

i find that i like alot of the seemingly simple pieces. And most are in black and white! hehe.

Had loads of fun at this interactive installation "Frequency and volume". Radio frequencies get tuned into by shadows. Spent lots of time making funny poses but it can get quite noisy if there's more people.

Did i mention that students get free entry to the Biennale? With my handy nafa card, i've got access to all the sites. :) i simply got to use more of it while it lasts! :p

Singapore Biennale 2011 Open House

The Biennale is back after a 3-year hiatus.

First stop - Merlion Hotel. Queued for more than half hour in the hot afternoon sun. Was inside the room for only 5 minutes before everyone was asked to vacate. :(

View from the bathroom

Mr Merlion

There's a free shuttle service which we took to the next destination. What a god-send in the withering weather! Next stop: National Museum

This is quite hilarious

Spent some time looking at the installations but my favourite for the day would have to be at SAM.

i simply adore this installation by Julian Gothe, "Voices from the off 2".

But the one that take the hat off has to be this...

This is what was written outside...

And look at what's inside the room...

Really nothing! It's a no-brainer! =_="

頑張れ、日本！

i'm very sadden at how one of my favourite country, the beautiful Japan has suffered under the hands of Mother Nature last Friday afternoon. It is a devastating sight to behold. Cars, ships, planes, houses, anything and everything, etc. swept away by the dark waters of the tsunami.

Having visited Tokyo less than a month ago, it's just so surreal seeing the clips showing the disaster. Yet, i can't help but want to know how bad it was. Still, there are little sniplets of touching moments which shows the resilience of the Japanese.

Yes! i believe Japan will fight back.

頑張れ、日本！I will be back!

The King's Speech

Colin Firth is completely believable as a stutter! Nice film but it gets a little slow at parts.

The Adjustment Bureau

Had wanted to watch the King's Speech but couldn't get tickets so watched this instead.

Fight for your fate. Film is about how Matt Damon fights the plan to be with the woman he loves. Good chemistry between the lead characters but i thought the the movie would be a tad more exciting and fast paced. No surprises in the ending but could be a little more dramatic.

偶然邂逅

Today is a day of coincidental occurences - after the pre-planned morning date i mean.

After lunch, went over to get the movie tickets. My top 3 shows are all sold out. But i'm next in queue and i really wanna watch something today. So i got the tickets to the next available show.

Anyways, there was a little time before YZ arrives. So i walked around. In passing by 313, chanced upon a roadshow. i was browsing in a shop next to the roadshow when i heard the mc introduce the host and guests from 女人我最大 on-stage! They were doing some promo for the cable company i think. Everyone was whipping out their phones and so did i! But the emcee was blocking the guests the whole time. And everyone's hands were blocking me too.

After Lan Xin Mei went off after playing one game, i proceed to my next destination. At Orchard Central, i saw Joanna Dong and the other female lead. They were there to be ready for their roadshow for the 881 musical in the late afternoon. i had already gotten my tickets some time back so i didn't stick around for their performance.

Later, while enjoying my ice cream, also saw someone i know from the company there.

After a teabreak (really it was our trip discussion) @ Fruit Paradise which serve quite good tarts, we went up to find a place for early dinner before the show. Chanced upon this new restaurant Long Xia Zhou Shi Jia. We ate the lobster porridge and pan-fried kurobuta. The pork is quite nice but oily. The porridge is actually rice is soup. The soup is very flavourful though the lobster is too tough.

Cold Stone Creamery

Sampled their ice cream before the official opening! :)

Mint Mint Chocolate Chocolate Chip. i like! Yummy!

Shop @ Orchard Central. Opening on 12 Mar.

Beach Road Foochow Fish Ball

i totally forgot it's Mummy's birthday till she reminded me last night! As i had already missed 2 art classes, i can't miss a third. So took half day off work instead to spend some time with her. And since Pa said he'll bring her to eat traditional Foochow mee sua for lunch, i thought i might as well join them. You see, i'm Foochow but i hardly have a chance to be in touch with my dialect. But i'm proud to be a minority dialect.

After a long walk trying to find the eatery (in the rain!), we finally found it along Sultan Gate. It's an old coffeeshop. The 红糟鸡面线 is very nice! i didn't eat that though. But i like the soup from the sip that i tried. hee.. i ordered the 福洲炒年糕。 Foochow nian gao is not the usual brown sweet gluey stuff you see. It's rice cakes actually. i find that the 炒年糕  is too soggy. The Foochow fish ball is quite nice. Taste like those i ate when i was young. But i've had nicer 燕皮 though.

[sidenote] we actually caught a rerun episode of Tuesday Report on sunday showing this particular Beach Road Foochow fishball family! What a coincidence! :p

Closer

When i knew that Pangdemonium's next production after The Full Monty was Closer, i went out to rent the dvd. That was more than half a year ago. Even though the film boasts a gorgeous-looking stellar cast of Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman, i didn't quite get it. i know it's meant to be different from your usual love stories and it's meant to be provocative. But the excessive use of the f-word doesn't get to me.

It's one thing to hear them screaming vulgarities in the movie but it's another to be hearing them dishing out in the flesh at you. Ok that's not the point here. Anyway, despite my reservations about the film, i went ahead to watch Closer anyway as i'm a fan of Pangdemonium. The play is indeed thought provoking. But i still like The Full Monty better.

It's a pity Emma Yong had to pull out due to health reasons. i would love to see how she plays Anna.

It's a Great Great World!

A very simple film consisting of 4 short stories. i like the last story especially. Touching and heart warming.

A Day Full of Surprises!

Surprise #1

Slept in late (no surprise.. hee.. :p) All cos of the construction near my house which OT till 1+ AM this morning!! In my haste, i randomly grabbed a haven't-worn-in-a-year pair of sandals and wore it out. i had just walked a few blocks away when i realised that my sandals was getting loose. Horror of horrors, it started falling apart!! OMG!! i'm stuck and can't walk home so i had to call my dad to bring another pair of white shoes down for me. But he got me a super casual pair and i'm too late to go back to change so i just went with that. Anyways, just as well cos i missed the shuttle so i had to walk to the office. Lucky for the flats. :)

Surprise #2

Well, after work, on the spur of the moment, decided to go walk walk and replenish my shoes. hee.. Spent quite some time deciding if i wanna get a second pair at the second shop which was having 50% storewide. Decided not to in the end and was about to make my way down the escalator to go home when i thought i saw someone i know... OMG! it was him!! He saw me too and was also like "is that him/her"?! In that split second, i knew that it was him and my mind just went blank. What conspired after was quite lame. i remembered uttering like, what was he doing there. He said, eating ice cream. Well, obviously cos he just walked out of the ice cream parlor and was holding onto and eating his ice cream. -_-" And i commented i almost couldn't recognise him cos he had changed so much. Yeah, fatter. And that was it.

It has been almost 8 years since we parted and i last saw him. i had always wondered what would it feel like to meet again. Well, now i know the answer.

Surprise #3

So while i was still reeling over the fact that i saw someone whom i've not met in a long time, i walked myself home and opened the letter box. Surprise surprise! There were two mail for me. One from JL in taiwan. i knew she was sending me something and was waiting for it for some time. The other was from KC. i knew that he was going to send me a cny card too. i didn't know that it was being sent from the US!! What a surprise! :)

What a day! i wonder what tomorrow has instore for me. :p

The Tourist

There's too much time after the office event till the art class, so decided to watch a movie instead of idling my time shopping!

The gowns and suits are pretty, Venice is beautiful, Angelina Jolie is ravishing, but the plot, the ending especially is crappy.

Art Class!

Two months after registration, the wait is finally over! Class starts today! The instructor talked quite a bit today. Well, probably cos today's the first lesson. We were told to practise drawing straight lines and circles. It might sound crazy or simple but don't you know that foundamentals are the toughest?! It's so hard to draw a long straight line. Can you draw a perfect circle without use of a protractor? i can't!

Siow Lee-Chin and The Oberlin Orchestra's New Year Concert

Haven't been to an orchestra for ages! And boy was this good! It's such a crowd pleaser. Siow Lee-Chin played in the first half before intermission. Although she played well, i like the second half after the intermission better. For no other reason but cos it was more cheerful. She was too good in her opening piece - The Lark Ascending - it was too sombre and sad for my liking.

Other than the two "encores", my favourite piece was Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214 by Johann Strauss.

You bet i'll be going to more orchestra in the New Year! Especially if there's the Keppel discount! :p