Horrible eye bags.

Today while waiting for Jun in the toilet at West Mall, I was examining my eye-bags and they looked terrible. Totally terrible. I have decided, from today onwards, to start using every single one of my eye masks that I bought in Taiwan back in June – I bought 4 boxes (7 pairs per box). I will use it until I leave for Taiwan, and buy some more eye masks back. I hope they work. I don’t want horrible eye bags, especially when I can’t hide them behind spectacles anymore.

Plus, they are wayyyy cheaper in Taiwan as compared to TheFaceShop’s eye masks of 9.90SGD per pair.

It says on the packaging, that if I use it consecutively for 7 days, I can see results. I shall try that!

And I did some really impulse spending today. I bought this online.

Awwww aren't they adorable?

Yes, I bought the “ickle and Lardee’s Grand Adventure” book. Limited run of 500 printed books! The book is definitely not cheap, with the basic price of 25usd, and an additional paypal international shipping price of 9.50usd – converting that into sgd, it’s approximately 49.30sgd.

It’s pricey, but I’ve been waiting for the release of the book ever since I got wind from the blog that the author was selling the book and I was dead sure I will get it, and hence I paid for it online without hesitation.

Can’t wait to lay my hands on it!

In the meantime, I should go make some meaning with my time, instead of randomly surfing the net and reading random things online.

突然好想

突然好想。

好想到民歌餐廳走一趟，悠悠地坐在那兒飲茶聼歌，悠悠自在，好不逍遙。

突然好想。

多麽希望實習能趕快結束，好好的放個假期，完全不用顧慮永遠做不完的工。

突然
好想
依在你背肩
倚在你懷裏
抱著小羊
暖暖地
睡覺

Pixar

We are growing up in the times when cartoons no longer mean, The Lion King or Mulan.

Instead, we have animation films, like Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille etc. Everyone agrees (well, everybody I know, at least) that Pixar films are classic – they are the animation films that stick by you for a extremely really long time. Plus, they make you feel really good.

I remember, Finding Nemo came out in 2003, and I was in junior college during that time. Finding Nemo got us all into a nemo-crazy period, when we would grab each other’s belongings and start saying, “Mo-ine, Mooo-ine.” You know, the really classic “mine” phrase that sounded part French. We still do that from time to time, at least RL and I do. It reminds me of the good old days when we get all gooey at really cute things.

Actually, I still do get really gooey and squeal-ly at cute things. My friends commented that I could not stop squealing at Remy the rat when we were watching Ratatouille. I squealed through Wall-E and nearly drove my friends up the wall. When I was watching Partly Cloudy (a short film that Pixar traditionally plays before every Pixar full length movie), I squealed at the sight of adorable babies, kittens and puppies. The boyfriend was really very amused.

You get the gist, don’t you.

My sister adores Toy Story, she can watch that over and over and over again. I can watch Ratatouille over and over and over and over and over again. That is the impact that Pixar has left on us, the storylines could be entirely out of the world, but because they are animation films, we go along for the amazing ride and we are never disappointed.

Warning: Stop reading, do not click – if you don’t want to read spoilers to the movie, Up

Eye drops

by the dozen, by the minute. Sigh. 

Stark realisation that I haven’t been allowing myself the negative feelings to be purged out on the blog, for some reason or other that I can’t quite pinpoint. And I wonder to myself, why haven’t I been able to allow the negative emotions to be mentioned. By negative, I don’t quite mean the angsty angry ones, I mean the sadness and emotional ones. 

Like how I worry about my post-Lasik eyes and that they are too dry and regression has occurred in the right eye, such that the doctor prescribed more medication that burnt a hole in the wallet, and put additional stress and worry on the owner of the post-Lasik eyes. Had I not reflected and thought about the sadness emotions when I was walking from Wheelock to Far East to get my charboiled chicken salad lunch from Carls’ Junior, I won’t have mentioned it on the blog. 

And I wonder why. 

People say that negative emotions keep people at bay, so does that equate the same to blog readers where negative emotions on the blog keeps readers at bay too? Mmm I wonder. 

Spent the afternoon finishing up The First Assistant by Clare Naylor and it’s a wonderful read – her take on the Hollywood industry is so griping andhilarious, you can’t help but continue reading it until you finish the whole book. That was how i felt when I finished reading The Second Assistant, the first in the two-book series, and thereafter went on a witchhunt for The First Assistant. 

Try finding them in our public libaries when you have the time, girls! Don’t think the boys would much fancy such books. 

I look forward to the day (which is actually tomorrow) when I can allow water contact with the eyes, and give my face a proper pampering and finally bathe without goggles. My face is feeling extremely off, and I just splurged on Faceshop yesterday, making full use of the birthday discount that I was actually entitled for a good 2 weeks and yesterday was the last day. Damnit, don’t you say. 

天冷就回來

還是那麽一句話 – 讚。

George Chan and Joanna Dong are still wonderful. Shi Xin Hui and Robin Goh were fantastic, together with the supporting cast, they were almost perfect. Almost, because this was the preview nights and there were minor problems here and there. 

But still, wonderfully fantastic. 

I might actually be mad enough to try and catch it one more time before the run ends. I just might. In fact, if ruoling might have a spare ticket, I might just take it up. I can sit there and listen to George Chan and Joanna Dong sing for eons, seriously. I love the scenes with them inside. 

Tonight was a wonderful night with the cat, too bad we didn’t have much chance to catch up properly since we were rushing for dinner, and then the show. The cat is flying soon (gasp, you mean cats can fly!!?) and he’ll be gone for.. 3-4 months! I want my pockys!! 

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Tonight brought back memories, 有點憂傷，有點憂愁。胸口有點悶，不知何從說起。If only I didn’t have class tomorrow (today), then we could have found somewhere to sit down and chat properly. But the cat was stoned too. The zombie attempted to pull stray whiskers off the cat muahahaha. 

胸口就有那麽一點點悶，一點點沉。明天（今天）還得上課，我還是去睡了。希望那一點悶，早晨就不見了。

晚安啦。

David Garrett

I’ve never ventured into classical before, but for once I dipped one tiny toe into the album of this guy, and I’m sold.

Check out Smooth Criminal (later half of the video)!

Granted, this is a marriage of pop with classical but my attention was instantly caught when I heard his version of Smooth Criminal in That CD Shop while I was waiting for Peanut yesterday evening. It was so slick, I never knew violins could sound so vivacious and impressive. When I was giving it a closer examination to the tracks on the album, I kept wondering how pop classical could sound on my ESW10. I haven’t tried it yet, will probably try it later tonight after my date.

I am definitely impressed and totally sold. There are several other tracks in his Encore album that the mainstream listeners might be interested in, say Summertime and Ain’t no Sunshine. I totally adore the combination of genres, like how I have a CD, Pops in Bossa – where as self explained, its a marrying of pop music with bossanova style.

I’ve been buying a number of albums recently, probably about 1-2 every month, which is really fun because these are new found music that I’m slowly dipping my fingers and toes into. So fun so fun so fun!

Performances..

all through these few months!

There’s 天冷就回來 with the cat on 16th April.

There’s 18 grams of love with Peanut and Eileen on 18th April at 1130am in the morning at Sinema Old School.

There’s Much Ado about Nothing with BX on 10th May at Fort Canning. (Booked!)

There’s Ole! The Latin Music Explosion with BX on 31st May at Esplanade. (Booked!)

There’s Sing Dollar with BX, Peanut, Roo and possibly Oompa on 23rd July at Esplanade. (Booked!)

SING DOLLAR! The Musical Comedy about Money!

Exciting exciting!

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Possible lineup in the later half of the year:

Obtained the following from Dream Academy group, Facebook -

THE HOSSAN LEONG SHOW!
Date: Opens 30 Sep
Venue: Drama Centre Theatre
Starring: Hossan Leong (plus surprise ‘international’ celebrity guests!)
Directed by: Selena Tan
Synopsis:
WATCH OUT Jay Leno! Hossan Leong, Singapore’s funny boy, returns to the stage with his very own talk show. With all the stops pulled out, this show promises to tickle funny bones you never knew existed! Hossan brings his wit and musical talents to bear as he delves into current affairs and gives his views on the Economic Crunch (is that a new ice-cream flavour?) and taxi drivers! Add ‘international guest star’ interviews, a 3-piece band and silly games! This is one show that will definitely kick your woes and worries away.

BROADWAY BENG! – JIAK LIU LIAN!
Date: Opens 3 Dec
Venue: Esplanade Theatre
Starring: Sebastian Tan
Directed by: Royston Tan
Synopsis:
RETURNING TO eager audiences on its fourth installment, it is sure to be ’sibeh’ havoc wan! Join Broadway Beng as he regales you with brand new tales of the East and West personality clash in his life, leaving him crazier and more ‘obiang’ than ever! Who says theatre is only for the ‘atas’ (snobbish) people? You don’t have to ‘jiak kentang’ (be local) to watch this show!
Expect more glitz, more glamour and more side-splitting laughter as Broadway Beng takes on the ‘liu lian’ (durian) … er, we mean, The Esplanade, with his 9 all-singing, all-dancing ‘Chio Buus’ and 5-piece ‘Ge-Tai’ band.

A CRAZY CHRISTMAS
Date: Dec
Venue: TBC (any interested parties?)
Synopsis:
Love! Joy! Friendship! Music!
COME CELEBRATE the festive season with the most talented thespians in town! Carols, hymns, old songs, new songs, pop songs, comedy songs… Our crazy bunch of singers will entertain you with their airtight harmonies and madcap antics. It’s a concert for the whole family! Jingle your bells as we dash through another ‘winter’ wonderland, bringing joy to the world! As Orchard Road enjoys another traditional light up, be sure to catch the brightest lights shining this season.

Keep them in mind – am absolutely definitely looking for people to go watch all these!

Gosh this is really so exciting. I just spent 15 minutes doing up all these.

Floors.

I love working on the floor, with the cool smooth tiles against my legs as I put my laptop on my lap – it is a laptop, despite people not putting it in their laps. Couple that with working at BX’s place in the cool night just makes it even better, though we both are staring at our laptops and he’s studying for his test and I’m supposed to be doing work. I’ll get to that in a while.

Work is coming in with one big gush again, this caught me by surprise. I never saw the 45 min EL presentation coming, nobody did and I’m not panicking yet, despite the presentation being next week and I’ve yet to finish my individual assignment. I better haul ass and start working. Sometimes, I need that bit of extra work to push me to start working hard – if not I’ll never get started.

Like now, when I’m supposed to be reading about depreciation and yet I’m blogging away.

I realised that a huge chunk of my entries are work related, about how I whine about work not done, and things that are happening in my life.

Nothing inspirational, nothing fun and enjoyable to spark off comments. I think I’m having blogger’s block. This has been with me for quite a while. I wonder what is the cause of this blockage. I wonder.

And now, I shall get back to my textbook and read about depreciation, so that I can start working on my excel self marking worksheet which is due Thursday (I only heard about that today).

A bunch of us – Roo, RL, me and BX are going to watch Sing Dollars. Anyone else interested? Interested parties please let me know by Thursday so that I can go book the tickets – we’re going to get the preview show night of cat 2 seats – 63 SGD in total.

天冷就回來

昨天與BX到附近的IMM去逛逛，結果有了新發現！

我們吃完晚飯后，剛好經過Popular書店。好奇的我想找花生介紹的百萬富翁新遊戲，結果我就拉了BX進書店去兜兜看看。那百萬富翁的新遊戲就擺在遊戲架子上，我看到了欣奮不已，把它抓了起來，就往櫃檯還錢。我還以爲，今天就花了這麽一點小錢。

結果。結果。

我在音樂部門看到了一樣非買不可的專輯 – 天冷就回來的原聲帶！

還記得兩年前，大家一起去看天冷的時候，都超喜歡這部音樂劇。看完了以後，大家都好high好high。到家后，我們都忙著找新加坡新搖專輯，花費了好大的力氣才找到好幾首歌。如今，實踐劇場終于認清了天冷的魅力，把它的音樂搬進了錄音室，把天冷的歌全權收入在原聲帶，好讓觀衆把天冷的美麗帶回家，繼續欣賞，繼續品嘗。

這次原聲帶的歌都是由今年的演員演唱的。因此，裏頭有石欣卉的歌聲，聼起來還真的不賴！

好期待4月16日的到來，能與the cat一起去重溫天冷的魅力！

相信俊慧，the cat 和 Szemin 聼到這消息，也一定會超級興奮！

The importance of being Ernest!

I sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo want to go and watch this. If we sign up soon like starting next week, THERE IS 20% OFF!!! Come on, who wants to watch this too? Glenn Goei is directing, and we’ve got people like Hossan, En Lai in the cast! It’s a comedy piece!

The synopsis goes like this:

Two dashing Romeos bend the truth to spice up their lives. Jack has invented a brother, Earnest, whom he uses to escape his dull country life, and to woo the ravishing Gwendolyn. His best friend Algernon also decides to take the name ‘Earnest’ to cosy up to Jack’s beautiful ward, Cecily in the country. When the lovers finally come together, we have two men who claim to be Earnest but aren’t, and two women who are love with men named Earnest but aren’t. So just who is in love with whom? Will Lady Bracknell find a suitable husband for her daughter Gwendolyn? And what is the truth behind the mysterious handbag?

Anybody, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease? I just realised I don’t just have one expensive hobby, musicals/dramas/theatres are another expensive hobby of mine! But hey, I’m giving CATS a miss alright, because I figured it shouldn’t be my cup of tea, and I’m not about to hop onto the bandwagon as per Phantom the last time round and laud it loudly just because its an international act coming to singapore.

SUPPORT LOCAL PRODUCTIONS – Wild Rice anyone? Teehee.

Actually, there’s another one by Toy Factory Productions – Sleepless Town, which is starting soon.

It honestly looks interesting too!! Plus, it is a pop musical. Damn – why must Peanut go trekking this weekend. I feel like asking her, especially since she is not going Denmark till late March, maybe we can take time out to watch this. Or, maybe if anyone else is interested?

Calling all couples (or wonderful male and female friends!!) – Defending the Caveman!

This looks entirely interesting tooo!!!

WHINE. Will anybody watch them with me – pleaseeeeeeeeeee. I’ve hyperlinked all of the pictures to the various sites for more information, so go take a look, and let me know which you’re up for! If everybody wants to watch one together, we shall then all watch it together!! Tralala.

Early in the morning, I should be trying to get some work done, but here am I, surfing Sistic – as usual. Hee.