wow. i realised i haven't blogged properly for quite awhile now. i just haven't been bothered updating and i suppose i really ought to before this year flies by and i'm left with a whole bunch of photos on my blog which i already have on my computer, but not much written memories.
let's start from miss saigon shall we? (boy i can already tell that this post is gonna be long). i went to that last saturday night at the princess theatre. um.. it was an experience to say the least. theatre culture is still well and alive in melbourne! people of the older generations rocked up dressed to the nines. my eyes nearly popped out cos i was so underdressed :( ah wells.. it's not like i had the best seats in the house :D but yeh, there were sparkley heels, pretty dresses, lots of bling, clutches and purses and long coats. the men were pretty formally dressed - i spotted a couple of suits. it all added up to give a very authentic theatre experience if you know what i mean. i can't wait! next time when i go see phantom of the opera.. and i do have the best seats in the house.. i shall dress up for it too.
the music wasn't that great - and saying this i mean the actual songs. the singers were pretty darned good. the main character was some small mixed lady (her surname wasn't asian but she sure looked like one.. small with dark oriental features) anyhow. her voice projection was amazing - and the clarity in which she sung her songs was beautiful. as far as the storyline goes, i thought that was alright, a little bit draggy and not terribly exciting.. but (duh) it's a tragic love story. dont know what else i expected lol. in any case i appreciated the experience because it's been a long time since i've been to a musical - my last one was Anna and the King in london and i remember fidgeting cos some adult with a big head had sat in front of me. a couple of years later, nothing much has changed :( i still can't see whenever someone tallish sits in front of me. it sucks being short! i was pretty moved by the music though because it felt like the emotion was riding on the music and .. well at the end, the main character shot herself and it was really heart wrenching :( i teared slightly.
she waited 2 years for a man who remarried and forgot about her! it is completely beyond me ._. i left with a very indignant feeling towards the american whom she pined for. for those who didn't know, miss saigon is an adaptation of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. my favourite character though, was undeniably the engineer.. or the pimp daddy :D lol.. he was just so alive and slick that i cracked up everytime he appeared. he did a real pimp daddy dance too, complete with pelvic thrusts. :P awesoome!
um. between that there was the formal. photos were in the previous post. the location was good, the music a little bit old school for my liking, and although the food was good i sort of expected a bit more cos afterall, it did cost 85 dollars. i was hoping for lobster. instead what i got failed by comparison. so sad!
some sort of fish with fancy sounding potato gnocchi and buttersauce.. it came with like.. one kai lan on top of it. but the dessert was pretty good though :p chocolate mousse cake.. mmm. (very happy about that choice of dish).
last friday night i went to cirque du soleil. at first i sat there feeling quite lost as the show started and all these abstract scenes flooded my imagination.. tis a sad thing to say, but i've lost my imagination as i've grown up and i can only think in rigid structures now :( but i think the story involved an icarus (i remember reading this fantastic series about icari in secondary school and i have this urge to get my hands on them again.. i just can't remember the title) anyway - background on icarus - angel who had wing stuck on with wax, and he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell to the earth.. so there was this symbolism of a figure in white falling to the ground and the wings being stolen by a demon or witch or something (creepy figure dressed in black) halfway through i gave up trying to follow the plot because it was just easier to entertain and amuse myself with the acts. there was one comedy act that i didn't really get though.. this guy and the girl.. basically all the girl did was flash her underwear and giggle.. (?) liddat also can meh?
but the performers were fantastic. it's like their bodies are made out of rubber - they are so incredibly flexible! they bounced, twisted, turned, leapt, and flipped all over the place like tigger on steroids or something. there were the famous twin brothers who i accidentally mistook for gay.. can't blame me though, they were holding each other round the waist and soaring around the tent very.. romantic like lol. like spiderman would hold MJ. :p (and thats coming out soon too!)
as i came out i passed rod laver arena, and it was like there was an earthquake or something - the whole place was so loud! pink was screaming her lungs out in typical pink fashion. on hindsight, the same amount of money that would get me a pink ticket was so much better used on the circus.. because imagine the amount of training they must do to achieve such feats! and yet what they get seems like a mere pittance.. whereas pink just gets up and screams in some hoarse voice and shes got money pouring in already. life just isn't fair is it?
went with debbie.. whom i haven't seen in yonks. i knew this girl since singapore! back in the good old days of SLO and horse riding.
and gloria who had just gotten a fresh haircut. i like it.
made me feel like a kid all over again.
[insert random sch photos] from when i was bored during my spares. my awful bottom locker!and the poor person in my stranglehold is maggie.
bas
gina .. i did one too but i look retarded :P
the weekend was honestly very trying and tiring. cutting it short, i've never felt so helpless before in my life and even now i still feel drained from the happenings over the weekend.
i am very lucky though to have friends who take care of me. thanks guys.
and now.. school's more or less back to normal! i have a new phone though.. slidely slidey! :) my new number is 0403 688 276 .. prank me with ur new number! :)
ciao all.
Monday, April 30, 2007 at 7:44 AM
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bits from songs that have drifted their way into my head over the past week.
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付出的爱收不回 还欠你的我不能给..别把我心也带走 去跟随*if that aint love then i dont know what love is.. ;).. -Badadada! (lol my fave bit)
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如果有一天 我离你遥远 ..不能再和你相约 你是否会发觉我已经说再见
-insert emo sentence- that i shall spare everyone from..
catch.....?
Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 7:26 AM
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YEAR 12 FORMAL @ THE HILTON ON THE PARK
us girls before we left
back row : chris, tim, isaac, mark and maurice
front row: pris, glo, xinni, em
at the hilton before entering
gloreeah
my well-behaved formal partner.. the best date ;)
pat alwaysss has this expression in photos!
we always hang out.. makes sense to get a good picture yes?
one of my best friends =] its.. *drumroll*...RAY!
white boy pimpin' lol jk =]
tina, me, mamie and bassiebassiebasilie!
chinese buddy! cutest girl of the night award goes to her :)
cannot forget jan and mel cos life is never the same without them.
my lit buddies from last year, kara and zhen.. aren't they sexed up ;)
gina, sarah, me and zhen! :]
us again, camwhoring like no tomorrow. :P i think the prof. photographer was abit annoyed with us lol.
when we walked out, tea was standing there so we had to take another photo!
the girls at pancake parlour..this is a different group. from left(left?): goli, sarah, zhen, tracy, basilie, xin, mel(who couldnt wait to get out of her muffintop dress into a hoodie), kara, and gina!
with basilie
Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 3:00 AM
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我想开始写中文的日记。。when i can be bothered ;p
我觉得用汉语来表达自己让我更清楚地说出我的感觉。=) 反正这样也可以一举两得，
让我进步汉语的水平！。。then i don't have to read subbies when i watch my
taiwanese shows and i ace vce chi hopefully..
but anyways.. tb entry up ahead. can't help it.. =] its a scramble of my
thoughts that i just wanted to get down before i started doing my work.
每当听到周杰伦的‘简单爱’和‘星晴’就给我带来回忆(还记得是那一个人介绍我
听chinese songs..这个人在我心目中还战一个很特别的地位 =) )，让我想起几年
前的我多么天真。。自己心目中完美的情人就是每个女孩子想象的白马王子。。还
以为爱情的感觉就是那么简单，那么单纯，那么完美。 ^__^
可现在的我。。再也不会这样想了！(世界上根本没这回事~only in Jesus do we
find such perfect and unconditional love..) 因为这样只会让自己感到失望。。
我想学会欣赏别人为我所做的每一件小事。。这样才能尝到那种甜蜜的感觉。。i
guess you really do learn something new every day huh?
我决定尽量不再和他辩了。。免得又让他生气。。反正如果我能从这次学会做个比
较好的人，对我来说也是个好处。。凭我这个倔强的性格，我也知道这并不容易。。
但我还像试看。i appreciate the things u do for me ..i really do.. i just
didnt know that u expected me to acknowledge that in some way or do something
back..
from the stupidest chinese song.. just the bits i like lol if u know where this is from.. DONT BAG ME =.=
如果真的有一天 爱情理想会实现
我会加倍努力好好对你永远不改变
不管路有多么远 一定会让它实现
不管有多少风雨我都会依然陪着你
我想你想着你 不管有多么的苦
只要能让你开心我什么都愿意
wow and i should really be doing work lol. cheers to improving my chinese.
Friday, April 20, 2007 at 5:12 AM
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:(
好烦！
受不了某某人随时改变他的语气或心情
更受不了的是我还提他担心
我是一个大笨蛋！
Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 4:34 AM
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i realised that i haven't blogged for a long time! too soon, it's the end of our term 1 holidays.
haven't done any work. but one consoling thought is that dev tells me he's all partied out in the past week, and my other friends have been shopping so i can't be the only person who's been lazing around on my bum all week ;)
phwoar! but hurray! i heard POTO was fantastic.. i can't wait till it comes to melbourne..!!
congrats to janean and pat, who both got baptized this year.. God bless you guys!!i keep intending to get baptized but always chicken out somehow.. i need to figure out how to stop riding on spiritual highs and lows, and find an equilibrium to stay at.
truth be told, i have had alot of things on my mind lately. nothing new in my life, but just reflecting on and reviewing the way it is at the moment. things that i'd like to keep the same, and things that i'd like to change. and perhaps, things that have been left too long without reflection.
my cousins have been here lately.. it's been nice to have a "big family" - a good change from the quiet and usually reserved 4 person family dinners. its a warmer feeling to walk into a house alive with chatter and the smell of food, and ocassional bursts of laughter. even better to walk from room to room finding people there. i miss my grandparents alot now! another thing is i did manage to connect with one of my cousins for the first time.. even though we're not a whole lot alike, it's nice to talk to her like we're on the same level since we've never done that before..the age difference when you're younger is way more prominent but the gap sorta blurs as we grow older. and we were musing about how once my dad's generation passes, our generation will hardly ever make the effort to see each other. the family's so big that its a hassle organising gatherings and not everyone can make it.. and with a pang i realised that my kids would most probably grow up not knowing their relatives back in singapore. the bond that held my extended family together has unravelled since my aunt passed away.. and another thing that has been really different for me is just talking about my aunt. we rarely talk about her since she passed but having them here, the older ones always reminiscent brought back memories of my auntie.. and how i miss her so! she was the classic doting auntie who always had a lap for me to crawl into and cry on, and buy me the things my parents would refuse to.. and knock on my door to comfort me whenever i'd been punished.. :( it opened up old hurts that hadn't been visited in a long long time and regrets that i would change in an instant if i could do it all over again..i know for one thing, i wouldn't have avoided visiting her cos i was too scared to see her sick.
i really miss the listening ear and sympathetic shoulder my aunt or my grandpa would give me when i was at my wits' end with my parents. they were the only ones who really understood what it was like.. and saw how bad or naughty i could be and still love me anyway.. my grandparents are alot deafer now, so it's harder to communicate something private without yelling.
damn, now i reallyyy want a kitten.
school's starting. i need to reaaally get started on work. and be less absent minded. i did something stupid the other day, i walked away while waiting for someone.. and that person disappeared and i started walking around looking for them.. ringing their phone and not realising that the phone was with me too..
>.< i can be unbelievably dumb sometimes.
and i keep forgetting when i have my tuitions too..
this month's gonna be a busy month!
the formal's coming up in 10 days. :D woo! i took my dress to get a few minor alterations done. i have miss saigon on this coming saturday, and cirque du soleil 27th.
will take lots of fab photos!
Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 5:49 AM
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CAMP
mark was sexually assaulted. enough said. the end result cannot be posted.
gloriooous scenery and weather
guys crowded around foosball table. they wouldn't stop playing it allll weekend.
the dining hall
discussion group
i found a little rubber ball that amused them for awhile.. they sat in a circle watching it go round and round.
my first ever daisy chain :) courtesy of tina!
glo, kate and i =)
yes this was church camp..=\
heh.
Friday, April 13, 2007 at 6:02 AM
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camp was exhausting..tiring..but refreshing..
but now im back with a new burden weighing down on me..
i have so much to think about, so much to sort out and alot of things to make peace with inside.. i can't make simple decisions and stick to them..
so yeah right now.. i want to curl up into a ball and sleep for a long long time.. and wake up with all the right answers.
Monday, April 09, 2007 at 5:38 AM
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 12:22 AM
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the music wasn't that great - and saying this i mean the actual songs. the singers were pretty darned good. the main character was some small mixed lady (her surname wasn't asian but she sure looked like one.. small with dark oriental features) anyhow. her voice projection was amazing - and the clarity in which she sung her songs was beautiful. as far as the storyline goes, i thought that was alright, a little bit draggy and not terribly exciting.. but (duh) it's a tragic love story. dont know what else i expected lol. in any case i appreciated the experience because it's been a long time since i've been to a musical - my last one was Anna and the King in london and i remember fidgeting cos some adult with a big head had sat in front of me. a couple of years later, nothing much has changed :( i still can't see whenever someone tallish sits in front of me. it sucks being short! i was pretty moved by the music though because it felt like the emotion was riding on the music and .. well at the end, the main character shot herself and it was really heart wrenching :( i teared slightly.
some sort of fish with fancy sounding potato gnocchi and buttersauce.. it came with like.. one kai lan on top of it. but the dessert was pretty good though :p chocolate mousse cake.. mmm. (very happy about that choice of dish).
last friday night i went to cirque du soleil. at first i sat there feeling quite lost as the show started and all these abstract scenes flooded my imagination.. tis a sad thing to say, but i've lost my imagination as i've grown up and i can only think in rigid structures now :( but i think the story involved an icarus (i remember reading this fantastic series about icari in secondary school and i have this urge to get my hands on them again.. i just can't remember the title) anyway - background on icarus - angel who had wing stuck on with wax, and he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell to the earth.. so there was this symbolism of a figure in white falling to the ground and the wings being stolen by a demon or witch or something (creepy figure dressed in black) halfway through i gave up trying to follow the plot because it was just easier to entertain and amuse myself with the acts. there was one comedy act that i didn't really get though.. this guy and the girl.. basically all the girl did was flash her underwear and giggle.. (?) liddat also can meh?
went with debbie.. whom i haven't seen in yonks. i knew this girl since singapore! back in the good old days of SLO and horse riding.
and gloria who had just gotten a fresh haircut. i like it.
made me feel like a kid all over again.
bas
gina .. i did one too but i look retarded :P
us girls before we left
back row : chris, tim, isaac, mark and maurice
at the hilton before entering
gloreeah
my well-behaved formal partner.. the best date ;)
pat alwaysss has this expression in photos!
we always hang out.. makes sense to get a good picture yes?
one of my best friends =] its.. *drumroll*...RAY!
white boy pimpin' lol jk =]
tina, me, mamie and bassiebassiebasilie!
chinese buddy! cutest girl of the night award goes to her :)
cannot forget jan and mel cos life is never the same without them.
my lit buddies from last year, kara and zhen.. aren't they sexed up ;)
gina, sarah, me and zhen! :]
us again, camwhoring like no tomorrow. :P i think the prof. photographer was abit annoyed with us lol.
when we walked out, tea was standing there so we had to take another photo!
the girls at pancake parlour..this is a different group. from left(left?): goli, sarah, zhen, tracy, basilie, xin, mel(who couldnt wait to get out of her muffintop dress into a hoodie), kara, and gina!
with basilie
mark was sexually assaulted. enough said. the end result cannot be posted.
gloriooous scenery and weather
guys crowded around foosball table. they wouldn't stop playing it allll weekend.
the dining hall
discussion group
i found a little rubber ball that amused them for awhile.. they sat in a circle watching it go round and round.
my first ever daisy chain :) courtesy of tina!
glo, kate and i =)
yes this was church camp..=\
heh.
