Monday, April 30, 2007

They're selling my meat


And they're selling it for only $0.95 per 100 grams. Get it at Shop N Save.

Why can't they check their typos before printing them? -_-

Read more about this here.

Ada renovation di merata-rata tempat!

There's renovation everywhere!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Trotted back to hall because I couldn't tolerate my noisy home anymore. The construction was soooo loud and disturbing, you can feel its vibration when you put your hand on the wall. Sigh. Supposed to accompany mum at home tomorrow for Labour Day, but seems like impossible liao.

I thought about the construction next to hall before I came and I guessed it wouldn't be as loud as the noise at home, but when I came here, the fan started twitching again and the construction was quite noisy =(

I think I need to go out to study tomorrow, if not I can't keep up and I only get pissed and distracted.

Tata.

救救我吧!Tolong!!!

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BLOODY CONSTRUCTION!!!! THERE'S CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T_T

HELPPPPPPPPPPPP!!

I NEED SOMEWHERE PEACEFUL!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

吵死人了!


T_T

I can neither sleep or work. And this is driving me crazy.

I found something to do

Not only did I find something to do (other than to mug) at this hour, I think that I did it for a good cause. And it is the best way that someone as small and powerless as I am can do.

I think some of you heard of a BBC reporter being abducted in Gaza in March. I remember catching some news about that, but I didn't follow up. I just found out from some local reporter's blog about him. He is still not released! And everyone is very angry at whoever kidnapped him!

I am quite worried for the reporter, in a way. 'Cos you'll never know what those kidnappers (aka terrorists) can do. They're really terrible. For a moment it was reported that he was killed, but after that the Palestinian government said that he is safe and healthy. Well I hope so.

Alan Johnston banner

Please put this on your blog/website/whatsoever to show your support. I don't know what good this can make to facilitate his release, but I think this is a small gesture that goes a long way.

You can get the code and read more about this campaign from the editors.

And read more.

Yikes

Oh dear oh dear.

I can't sleep. Muahaha. Kind of weird since I fall into dreamland very easily for the past few nights. I did a calculation, I slept for an aggregate of more than 24 hours from Friday night to Sunday morning. Which is a lot. Maybe I'm not as sick as the past two days and I slept a tad too much. So I'm pretty energetic now though I tried to sleep earlier on. To no avail.

La la laaa.

And I'm finding something to do. Now.

Labour Day Holiday Resolution

As I'll be staying home this LD holiday, I wanna watch some TV at home.

And my sole show resolution on Tuesday is to watch The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. Muahahaha.

Looking forward to the story-telling plus singing!

1030hrs on Labour Day, hope I wake up in time!

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Everything is tasteless

Either that or things taste really bad.

I'm down with fever since Friday night.

Had a headache since before Friday's paper, and I went home after dinner. The amazing thing was I had the energy to go to Compasspoint Library to borrow a book before going home.

Plopped on the bed and my temperature soared. Felt soooooooooooooooooo dead. X|

Yesterday was a really short day. My mum pestered me to wake up to bring me to the doctor's and my body temperature was 39.6 deg C. A really high fever. And my dear father even got me to move the LD player downstairs to his cab so he can bring the TV and the player to the repairman. -_- LD. So long ago.

After which I went to bathe and sleep till dinner time. Ate, and slept again. It's those extreme 全身无力 feeling. Like I had to 'crawl' out of the bathroom, drag myself to sit on the chair at the dining table, and I didn't do work at all. Gotta start on some work already, if not I won't have enough time to study.

The medicine was darn expensive. $80! I was prescribed cough syrup, cough and running nose tablets, Tamiflu (which is the expensive one), anti-biotics, fever tablets, and some other tablets. In all I consumed 6 tablets at a go this morning, on top of that, the syrup. -_- I felt like I was some old woman and when I woke up early this morning, my back was aching like mad. It's still aching now.

T_T

And everything taste really bad I don't have the appetite to eat. =C

Sian. If only I'll fall sick after the exams. Sigh.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Sigh.

I...I...I want...

..short hair.

Sigh.

One more to go

Next paper is on Thursday, my Malay paper.

No mood to study for that today.

Just came back from an examination. Calculus.

Sigh. I'm so dead.

As usual. At first I thought things took a turn for the better. Apparently it didn't

ARGH. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know how to improve myself, have those sense of motivation for my studies, be a motivated person all the time, so that I can do what I need to do properly.

But these aren't what I want to do. I just don't know what I can do.

I'm turning 20, and it feels like I've been aimless for the past twenty donkey years of my life.

School isn't as manageable anymore.

I need to dream for something.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

A new home...not?

European astronomers have found a new planet that is about the size of the Earth and temperature about 0 to 40 degrees Celsius, where liquid can exist in liquid form and they decided that the planet has potential for sustaining life.

But seriously, if there comes a day when you can choose to move to that planet, will you want to leave the Earth? It's far worse than moving from Singapore to say, the US.

I'm not sure if I'll move there though. I doubt so.

Wee-hour doodling

Hur. Did this when I couldn't continue mugging anymore. Damn, gotta pia later in the day if not I may not be able to watch my Idol Gives Back.

Blow up the following pictures if you need to, and please laugh. Or at least, giggle.

'yang hitam' means 'which is black'
End.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Idol Gives Back

I am contemplating if I should spend 2.5 hrs on TV on Thursday night. It is a hard decision because I have a paper on Friday afternoon.

But it is quite hard to give up the show on Thursday. I don't like recording shows because it'll disrupt the sound and it's a singing programme.

It's Idol Gives Back by the American Idol. A charity show combined with the results show. Then the money generated from the voting calls the previous night - a part of it will be donated to the needy from the sponsors. It'll be a 'star-studded' event with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Michael Buble, et al and most importantly. JOSH GROBAN!!!!

I've never seen JG on TV before!!!! I really wanna watch and not record if not I cannot enjoy the essence of his voice! Whahaha. But then..I really wanna see him perform!

It's a performance that I really don't wanna miss! T_T Josh Groban lehhhh........

Idol Gives Back will be shown on Channel 5, 2100-2130, followed by the news and the second part will continue at 2200 after the news till 2330. If I didn't get the timings wrong. And I wanna watch the news as well. So it'll be quite a night gone already....How how how. I don't know if I'll be well-prepared enough to be able to watch the show on that night.

I love JG!

Muahaha.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Va. Tech VS Iraq

The massacre at Virginia Tech caused the whole world to be in mourning. 32 victims died. And the powerful (dis?)United States of America harped an influence that caught worldwide media attention, and the entire world sympathised. In addition, PM LHL wrote a letter of condolence to President Bush.

The massacre at Iraq which happens everyday seemed like just another day for us. We made no big deal about it. Does this mean that the Iraqis (and American/British/et al troops) who died because of war - be it outsiders or suicide bombers who killed them - do not deserve world attention? Or has it become a rampant condition that nobody made a big deal of? Why aren't there outsiders grieving for the Iraqis?

What is the difference between these two groups of people? Aren't they the same? Didn't the Guy-Up-There made us to be of one people? I thought He is great. Why didn't the world mourn for those whose lives ended in Iraq? Why does Bush continue killing others? Has he really thought about how it feels like to lose someone close to you? He is just like another Cho Seung-hui in Iraq. Did he mourn for the victims in Iraq? Did LHL write a letter of condolence to the current president of Iraq? Do Americans feel ashamed like how South Koreans do? Young as well as respected people were killed at Va. Tech. People of all ages were killed in Iraq. Including kids, the elderly, etc.

Argh. The ironies of this world. -_-

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Meltz

I asked my dad to buy this new item in the menu at KFC, called Meltz. Looked damn nice in the taco-like wrap and all the cheese oozing out. So since my mum cooked only porridge for dinner, it'd be good for some addition =P



Like so nice right? Full of stuff inside, and woots cheeeeeeeese.

Happily went home for the Meltz waiting for me on the dinner table.

And at dinner we opened up the box and....


So flat.

Daniel Kang, your favourite KFC can be quite a liar isn't it. The difference between the advertisements and the real thing.

Errors in expression

I'm on a blogging spree.

Anyway, I cannot really express myself well in words, because for my English essays, my teacher will always underline some phrases and write 'exp' there. What I thought made sense apparently didn't make sense to the reader -_-

I thought I was really bad, till I saw this.


Muahahahaa.

Thank Queue.

Thank you?

Thank Q please Q.

I saw this at Old Chang Kee at YIH.

Exams so far

Last semester's final examinations was a nightmare for me. Times were hard to tide through, I don't know why. Things that I actually knew how to do. However I freaked out during the exam and it was only when we were dismissed that friends tell me you just do this by the so-and-so way. Felt quite horrible, and damn afraid that I'd fail the modules, especially MA1100. An extreme down period then.

This time round, things took a turn for the better. Could be the planning of modules that helped. Though I still couldn't do a chunk of questions in the MA1101R paper today, it was much better than last sem when I couldn't do almost all -_- Yea. So felt quite good la. Ya..hopefully the following exams will be better.

Impressed!

My friend AG just graduated from Temasek Polytechnic, some design course I'm not sure which. =P

Anyway, she just did a project which is to design for ACRES' fund-raising gala dinner. Here's the link, you all can take a look.

It's a very pretty work of art, I'm so impressed. I bought some postcards she drew some time ago also.

Help...

...sheet (shit).

Writing a helpsheet - when you're one of those cannot-make-it people - can leave you as a cripple.

My right arm is very strained.

Argh.

Getting kan chiong already. Say hello to sleepless nights. I took about an hour plus to fall asleep last night. I can't imagine how much longer I'll take tonight, but I'll still try to sleep.

I don't think my preparation is adequate enough, one last stage to go. About 12 hours to the MA1101R paper, 加油咯。

I'm feeling rather 自闭 these days. Not a good sign, because I'm starting to show signs of anti-socialism. And I'm quite weird nowadays. Oh dear oh dear. I'm a psycho -_-

I can go home tomorrow already! Yeay. I miss my parents (though I met my dad twice this week).

Back to preparations.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Two things to cheer about today

I told myself not to blog today, but there're still things I wanna say.

Firstly, Sanjaya Malakar is out of American Idol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAY!!!!! Three cheers~~~ Yea. I think he should've been out of the competition since the Top 24. I still don't understand why there are people who like him. And people voted for him because of his hardship and pitiful stories. Like sympathy votes. And he cannot sing as well as the many contestants eliminated before him. I wonder why people don't sympathise with the other talented contestants as much as him. Fweee.

Secondly, this is what I did to my wallpaper. Desktop Earth.


Do blow up the picture and take closer looks at where the arrows are pointing to.

Wheeeeee. Italy trip is nearing.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The fan. Again.

I went to the office to report the damage of my fan yesterday. In the form I was required to fill in my name, room number and mobile number. I also needed to indicate if I allowed the workers to come in when I wasn't around. So of course, I circled no.

I went out for breakfast with my dad today and when I got back at noon, I saw the operations manager locking up my room, accompanied with the workers. So I asked, is the fan fixed already? And he said ya, OK already.

Shit you la. What's the point of the form then? You asked if I allowed you to go in and I circled no in bold. I remembered circling it many times because the pen ink wasn't flowing properly. And what's the point of me leaving my mobile number with you when you don't even call and ask for my permission to enter my room? It's a girl's room, by the way. No manners at all. And there was dust all over the place, my bed wasn't even 'protected' from the dust, and you people happily threw the screws and wires into my rubbish bin. Very self-service eh? Pui.

And this is not the first time you entered my room without permission.

>=C

Virginia Tech massacre

I'm sure many of you have heard about the shootings that occured in Virginia Tech, a university in Virginia, a few days ago which left 33 dead, including the killer himself.

He has been identified as Cho Seung-hui, a South Korean permanent resident in America. His photo in the press looked very normal, just like any other average kid but it is hard for me to imagine him wielding a gun and shooting endlessly. As an English major he wrote plays for his creative writing class and his plays contain extremely gory and violent content. Scary huh. When someone in your class submits an essay which has got all these stuff.

There were two rounds of shootings, one at a dormitory and another at a classroom building. They took place within two hours of each other, however, the university administration did not evacuate students out of the school, if not 30 people, including two professors, would still be alive. I don't know, but they should've taken as far as they could to evacuate students from the school buildings but they didn't. They had two hours. Two whopping hours. I think many lives could be saved at least if information was disseminated immediately. And the president of the university still received a 30-second standing ovation during their candlelight vigil. Which I'm not sure if he deserved it.

There are speculations that 23 year-old Cho suspected an 18 year-old girl that he was romantically involved with was seeing another man. So he killed both of them in a dormitory.

At the end of the massacre Cho commited suicide by shooting himself in the face that left it badly disfigured. He was really disturbed.

I felt quite sad for those who were innocent. The 76 year-old professor who protected his students by blocking the doorway from the gunman while the students jump out of the window. I cannot imagine how many shots the professor took, facing Cho by himself. He deserved the standing ovation much more than the president of Virginia Tech. And all the young people whose lives ended, they don't even know why they were killed. And their parents who will never see their kids coming home ever again.

I am quite thankful that I'm residing in Singapore, where the possession of weapons is against the law. You can't even get a gun legally here. So even if I live in school, I still feel quite safe (other than the fan). This may turn me off on going for exchange programmes, but I'm targeting to go Australia, so things may just go on. We'll see, going on exchange takes into account my scores as well.

Life goes on, life goes on.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Dangling by the wires

As you all know, there's something wrong with the fan in my room in hall. It's been twitching especially loud and at a higher frequency these days, I had a hard time sleeping last night T_T Bloody irritated. I went to the office to report (finally =P) but the uncle was on leave. And the last time I reported about my fan, I had to wait more than a week before someone came to fix it! So means I may have to wait till next week. Sigh.


The fan is dangling by the wires up there whereas my life and patience are dangling by the strings. Pissed off! Argh it's twitching again.

Monday, April 16, 2007

ARGH

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I'm seriously not the sort who can study full-time.

I MISS BAND DAYS!!!! T_T


This was me in 2003. When I hadn't got hold of a digital camera yet and this was taken by the analogue camera. Posing are: Erina, Besson 994, black top and pants and my favourite-but-stolen Bata shoes! MUahahaa.

*clears throat*

ARGHH. I got the itch to go play somewhere. Grrrrrrrrrrrr. I think this could be a medical condition. =\

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I wanna play the tuba! BABY! COME TO ME!

Whahaha. I sound like some...weirdo.

I wanna go play somewhere...play some nice pieces...aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Ahhh.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Ouch


Can you see a slit on my thumb? It has been giving me extreme pains and I really hope it'll heal soon. T_T There are a lot of things that are harder for me to do without my right thumb. I can feel the discomfort when I write. Sigh.

Semester 2 06/07

I'm done with Freshman Seminar, the last presentation was last Monday. Had a nice presentation (whahhaa) because *ahem* I have a sense of humour. WHAHAHAHA. And I did the ppt in a quirky way. Everyone else did too, they were telling the audience their journey in making the icosahedron models and some were really hilarious. Some were really smart okay. I just felt sad that, why do we have to warm up to each other only at the last lesson. But it was great. It really was. I can see that the prof was particularly amused at my slides -_- because he was laughing loudly. =P

Uh, I think you can check out the Chemistry Admin Office area. I think they displayed our icosahedron models there so you can look at it. Gotta collect before the start of the next semester. The pink and red ones made out of straws are mine =D

~~~~~

I'm done with Science of Music too. HA! Great. I hope my MIDI composition will sound good to the prof. All the wind and string instrument patches on MIDI sounded damn terrible on my laptop. So I couldn't make up my mind with what to use so I finalised with the tuba. Muahaha. Not biasness, really. I think other instruments sounded incompatible with the piano accompaniment. I did the piano part first, then I did my melody and percussion. Yea. Dunno where I got the melody from though.

And hope I'll get at least 24/25 for the end-of-term test! I was surprised that I wasn't distracted by the thoughts of Hai Sing's SYF because they were on the same day. Haha.

Oh back to my point. I played my MIDI on my brother's laptop and it sounded gorgeous! Seriously! (I don't mean my composition is good, I meant the instrumentation -_-) So I'm hoping that the prof's speakers are as good as my brother's, or even better. Heh. Now I need to think of something to compensate the lousy laptop of mine. I need the good quality speakers!

Ah, maybe I need a new laptop. *sniggers*

WAIT LONG LONG LAAAA. ITALY TRIP ALREADY BLEW A HOLE IN YOUR POCKET!

My mum said she'll pay the trip costs for me, but since I paid first.....I don't think I'll go to her and ask for money. =\

Exams in 5 days. Please give me luck and motivation!

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Hai Sing played well

I was waiting for the Brother and the Mother when I saw Mr & Mrs Chua and their daughter at Tampines Mart.

I said hello and Mrs Chua told me that she saw a current student of hers and Mrs Chua said hi. Then the student was so shocked he/she 'ran' away. Mrs Chua was like, 'I also shop at normal shopping malls what.' Whahahaha.

So I chatted with Mrs Chua a little bit, and asked how did Hai Sing play that day. She said something like they played very well.

Woots.

That's good. Damn good.

Throughout all these postings it's very hard for me to tell you how I feel exactly. I don't know how to put it in words, I can't even draw an expression out for you to see. I'm feeling better about things compared to the past few days. However...I don't know how to explain. =P

The fan

Come one day when the fan in my room comes off, and it spins and harm me in some way or the other, and if I don't wake up, you people got to help me sue the management of the hall.

I'm saying this because the fan is murmuring and I can see a gap between the ceiling and the fan.

It has been fixed before, seems like it likes to dangle by its wires.

Help.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

A change in colour

Hai Sing's SYF today was fine, as so I heard. Glitches here and there, but Daniel seemed to say that the tubas did well. I'm happy enough.

They got a silver medal, like I expected actually. But the disappointment is still there, considering that the colour changed (including the colour of their uniform -_-).

I think the bright yellow uniform was a morale booster for many of us last time. Uniform changed back to blue, the medal changed along. I'm not blaming on the uniform la. -_-

Anyway, I looked back and thought about the three consecutive golds that Hai Sing got since 2001, of which I've been through two of them. It's like, gone already..albeit the disappointment was there, never mind la.

I'm rather result oriented when it comes to this kind of thing it seems. Though I hate to admit it. =P

The kids can't even tell me how they felt when they were onstage, whether they felt happy or not. =\ Hope they will never ever forget.

Most importantly, I'm proud of the kids. =)

April 12!

Today's the day!

Hai Sing's SYF is going to take place soon in less than 14 hours.

I am freaking worried. I dunno why. They will do their best! They can!!!

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I damn jin zhang. Damn jin zhang. And now I dunno if Felix is going to take Ping Yi for the competition.

Everything is so worrying!!

OK, back to work.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

累了

我累了!

眼睛不像以前的大了。

样子憔悴了。

心情垮了。

不对,暂时不能用华语沟通。

今晚有马来语口试。

惨了。

Hari ini, saya ada ujian lisan. Saya akan belajar dengan rajin untuk ujian ini. I will. I will.

Monday, April 09, 2007

SYF 2007

The biannual SYF is back again.

So anxious and excited for my juniors!

Sigh. Judging from today's results, it seems like the adjudicators are strict this year. If the bands keep up their standards.

You can view the updated results from here.

This is post no. 600.

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Project

This is what I've been busy with during the weekends, to build an icosahedron - the last project of SP1201. Finally completed it last night, spent donkey hours on it. Goodness I had my sister for ideas and help and my mum too.


On the left is the solid, on the right is its skeleton. Built using straws and red cardboard paper.

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark by Bert Appermont. MJCSB played this piece at a competition organised by World Music Projects (a wing of Band World) and was held in Genting in December 2005. Hearing this piece reminds me of those days again.

But anyway, here's a video done for that piece.



Seems like Noah didn't rescue the lions, I didn't see them anywhere.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

A visit to my juniors

I went to Ngee Ann Sec today as Hai Sing was having band practice there. Woke up at 7 plus this morning because my dad called and he was in the area so asked me if I wanna go back. OK lo, will save a lot of time and after that we went to Tampines N2 for breakfast with mum. And I saw this cat sleeping comfortably.


I'm quite worried because of the lack of support from Hai Sing's new principal, and on top of that, his management is really poor. Shall not talk about it, don't wanna blow up now. Bleh.

And there was sectionals for the main band, and we alumni (a lot of us went back! =D) helped our juniors and such. In addition to that I played a bit. Heh.

With Tsz Shan. That's Wei Xiong's tie that I was wearing and it had a lion figure print on it

Go, prepare to stop, or stop?

Cedric, me, Daniel

We didn't realise that the colour combination of our tops had some meaning until Daphne told us. Haha.

Friday, April 06, 2007

Saw this on the news

Tuned in to NUScast just now to Channel 5 for the news. Then saw this pair of very cute otters in Canada. Damn sweet la.


ARGH!

MY WORK IS ALL F-ed UP! T_T

ARGH!!!!! I DON'T WANNA DO THAT BLOODY PROJECT ANYMORE!!!

~~~~~

What happened actually was, I thought I needed to construct a soccer ball made up of any domestic materials. However I only need to do something much simpler. Realised this only after making 20 hexagons.

Damn.

Wasted 6 hours of time on this public holiday.

Is this the way to treat me, whoever's controlling my life? I bet you're entertained.

So I'm going to bring the materials back home tomorrow morning and do it at home.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Feelings

I feel, I feel.
I feel like watching Phantom of the Opera again!
WHAHAHA.
Miss the show badly.
~~~~~
Anyway, I am finally able to wake up on time for lessons. You know why? I changed my alarm ringtone. Whahaha.
Instead of the default tone that used to be able to wake me up, I changed to Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra's Down Beat Stomp. A very fun and energetic song. So when the alarm rang I hear all the shouting and beating and music I can wake up already -_-

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Post-Phantom

FYI: This post is not really a spoiler in my opinion since most people should know the storyline, considering the fact that Phantom has been around for quite some time. Should you not know the story, I'm not revealing anything of it, just some rather superficial comments on my thoughts post-musical.

I don't know what to say, seriously. Haha. OK, main point is, I sort of cried twice. Whahahaha. I cry quite easily while watching movies etc, so...ya. I may be exaggerating. Haha.

The first time I teared was because I was overwhelmed by the fact that I was watching the musical finally. It was like, I was in the theatre, the stage was gorgeously vintage-ly furnished, and during the first act I cannot help it already, when Christine and Meg (if I didn't get her name wrong) started to sing. It is quite the 'I made it here' kind of feeling. The second time I cried -_-. Haha. As in, tears really flowed. Towards the end it was so sad, I couldn't help it. Didn't want the tears to fall so I tried really hard not to blink but I guess my eye cavities were not big enough to hold them anymore and they fell~ Haha. After that I pretended I was just giving my face a rough wipe, like just scratching or whatsoever. Don't wanna let my brother see me cry whahahaha. So paiseh. I went with him and his colleagues by the way.

I think my favourite roles were that of the Phantom and Madame Giry. The latter has a very cute role, somewhat Nanny-McPhee-like. But I'm not going to say anymore in case this post becomes a spoiler.

For those who are going to the musical, don't expect too much I guess. I wasn't exactly touched by most of the singers except for the Phantom, the actor is Brad Little if I got his name right. Seems like people with surnames to do with 'small' aren't that small after all. Think Melinda Doolittle on American Idol 6 and Stuart Little the talking mouse. Digression. Back to what I was saying, I think the guy who played Raoul should have a charm and a strong voice not only to swoon Christine but attract the rest of the ladies as well. However this wasn't the case. Raoul's voice was relatively weak and lacking of a certain power that he should have, especially the parts where he had to project but I didn't feel that his sincerity reached me. His part in All I Ask Of You was fine la, and those parts where he had to sing with others, people easily covered his vocals. Christine was quite a disappointment too. Though she had the technicalities, she hit the high notes and her singing flowed, but she couldn't project her voice. Not as zai as Sarah Brightman. I think I'm comparing them with the original cast which isn't really right, I just had this tiny little hope that they may keep up the standard.

However I was particularly impressed with Phantom! My, his singing reaches you, (probably that's why I cried) and his acting skills are superb. I felt the Phantom's agony and his need for love, which he worked so hard to fight for. His singing is resounding, thunderous, emotional, etc etc etc. Like when he shouted I jumped a bit in my seat. I am really impressed.
You all should go watch, as long as you're not sitting too much to the side. I THINK, I THINK, you don't trust this, but I THINK if you can see the stage, sitting anywhere isn't a problem. So don't refrain from going for this musical just because you can't spare extra cash for good seats okay. I think it's worth a go, the last time they came here was 13 donkey years ago. My brother waited for 13 years, we couldn't afford it because at that time he was only in secondary school and my family wasn't very well-off. Lots of financial problems, but my brother went to get the cassette of the Original Cast and we're still keeping it. Whether it can still play or not, I'm not sure. Haha. I don't know how long I waited, probably since secondary school too, when I learnt more about this kind of cultural and artsy stuff. Probably that's why I was so excited and overwhelmed -_-

Thanks to my brother who paid for my ticket (muahaha) and it costs a bomb, considering he got two of the tickets which means he spent nearly $300. And plus all the souvenirs we bought...hahaha. He bought the programme booklet $25, mug ~$12 I can't remember the price, Original Cast CDs $33, and he paid for the mask necklace I wanted, $20. I think $20 for that is a good buy, though we all know it's all touristsy money. Haha I'm going to pay him the $20 of course.

OK la, I think you all better go get the tickets now. Hahaha.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Pre-Phantom

I was very excited the entire day I couldn't really concentrate on what I was supposed to do. Whahaha. 'Cos I've been waiting for Phantom of the Opera to come to Singapore and here they are!

Phantom, here I come!

(This is in fact a bit of an overdue blogging.)