13 March, 2006
(0 ) 01:36 Sort of just came back from Huang Cheng. Yeah, quite late, and I should be going to sleep, but I don't feel like it. I'm wide awake.
Met with Lay Ning on the MRT and travelled to City Hall MRT to meet the rest who were going to watch Huang Cheng, namely Jason, Yanxia, Ms Yang and Da En, in order of arrival. LOL. We decided that we all weren't hungry, and ended up at Haagen-Daaz in Raffles City eating chocolate fondue, which Ms Yang kindly treated. Yay! Poh Wei and Wei Jie met up with us outside Haagen-Daaz, and for once, Poh was not the latest. LOL. After having a completely indulgent "dinner", we walked to Victoria Theatre. Realised that our seats weren't exactly the best ones -- we were at circle 2, the higher circle seats. It isn't b-a-d, but from our angle, there were some stuff on the screen that we couldn't see, which was immensely annoying, especially since the second play made liberal use of it.
Talking about the plays. I think I must be stupid or something, because I didn't "get" any of them. I mean, I got the main gist, but not the meaning of them. Seriously, I think it's because my Chinese is really really bad or something. Ah well. I didn't enjoy this as much as last year's. However the plays themselves aside, I loved the staging, as in, how the effects were done and achieved, and the props and all that. They were really great. One thing I love is the exuberance of the crew and cast. You've really got to hand it to them for that rousing rendition of the 黄城 song, and the cheering and the clapping and all that.
After the performance we went to Mac's. We intended to go to the one near Raffles Place MRT, but realised it was closed. Ended up walking all the way to near City Hall where there was a 24 hour Mac's open, sort of across the road from CHIJMES, and we had supper there, which explains why I'm so full and cannot sleep. Heh. Sat there and talked a bit, took some photos, then went home.
Shared a cab with Poh and Lay Ning. Do you know how much the bloody fare cost? $24.55. Raar. It's actually $17+, but because of midnight surcharge and all that it came up to $24. >.< Oh, we managed to catch a Mercedes cab too. Speedy driving and nice interior. However I felt the cab driver was trying to earn more money or something, because he took all the long routes? I'm not sure. Anyway, I think this could be one of the latest times that I've got home.
Watched The Pianist on TV yesterday. I didn't think I would like it, but I did. I never liked films about the war, and at the beginning, it was kind of draggy at first and I almost gave up, but I persisted on, just to see what it was like, and I sure don't regret it. The movie was good, and the silence of the second half of the movie really struck me, as well as the desolation of it all. Yet desolation wasn't the thing that drew me -- it was that sliver of hope, that was clung to and never let go; the determination and will to live, to persevere. It was that quality that made the movie so meaningful. I was sceptical at first, but now I can safely say that yes, it's a good movie, so watch it if you can.
One week of holidays. Argh. Holidays are the very best and worst times. It's what I've always been wishing for, time to sit down and actually study. But that in itself is the very problem, because I get so restless, and I keep on thinking that there's more time, wherever it came from, and so I spend my time idling away, thinking that there's always tomorrow. But that isn't true, because tomorrow always inevitably comes, whether it crawls or leaps or runs or flies, but it eventually reaches you and becomes today, and sooner that later, you realise you have no tomorrows left, and then what?
Met with Lay Ning on the MRT and travelled to City Hall MRT to meet the rest who were going to watch Huang Cheng, namely Jason, Yanxia, Ms Yang and Da En, in order of arrival. LOL. We decided that we all weren't hungry, and ended up at Haagen-Daaz in Raffles City eating chocolate fondue, which Ms Yang kindly treated. Yay! Poh Wei and Wei Jie met up with us outside Haagen-Daaz, and for once, Poh was not the latest. LOL. After having a completely indulgent "dinner", we walked to Victoria Theatre. Realised that our seats weren't exactly the best ones -- we were at circle 2, the higher circle seats. It isn't b-a-d, but from our angle, there were some stuff on the screen that we couldn't see, which was immensely annoying, especially since the second play made liberal use of it.
Talking about the plays. I think I must be stupid or something, because I didn't "get" any of them. I mean, I got the main gist, but not the meaning of them. Seriously, I think it's because my Chinese is really really bad or something. Ah well. I didn't enjoy this as much as last year's. However the plays themselves aside, I loved the staging, as in, how the effects were done and achieved, and the props and all that. They were really great. One thing I love is the exuberance of the crew and cast. You've really got to hand it to them for that rousing rendition of the 黄城 song, and the cheering and the clapping and all that.
After the performance we went to Mac's. We intended to go to the one near Raffles Place MRT, but realised it was closed. Ended up walking all the way to near City Hall where there was a 24 hour Mac's open, sort of across the road from CHIJMES, and we had supper there, which explains why I'm so full and cannot sleep. Heh. Sat there and talked a bit, took some photos, then went home.
Shared a cab with Poh and Lay Ning. Do you know how much the bloody fare cost? $24.55. Raar. It's actually $17+, but because of midnight surcharge and all that it came up to $24. >.< Oh, we managed to catch a Mercedes cab too. Speedy driving and nice interior. However I felt the cab driver was trying to earn more money or something, because he took all the long routes? I'm not sure. Anyway, I think this could be one of the latest times that I've got home.
Watched The Pianist on TV yesterday. I didn't think I would like it, but I did. I never liked films about the war, and at the beginning, it was kind of draggy at first and I almost gave up, but I persisted on, just to see what it was like, and I sure don't regret it. The movie was good, and the silence of the second half of the movie really struck me, as well as the desolation of it all. Yet desolation wasn't the thing that drew me -- it was that sliver of hope, that was clung to and never let go; the determination and will to live, to persevere. It was that quality that made the movie so meaningful. I was sceptical at first, but now I can safely say that yes, it's a good movie, so watch it if you can.
One week of holidays. Argh. Holidays are the very best and worst times. It's what I've always been wishing for, time to sit down and actually study. But that in itself is the very problem, because I get so restless, and I keep on thinking that there's more time, wherever it came from, and so I spend my time idling away, thinking that there's always tomorrow. But that isn't true, because tomorrow always inevitably comes, whether it crawls or leaps or runs or flies, but it eventually reaches you and becomes today, and sooner that later, you realise you have no tomorrows left, and then what?