Chicago & Max Brenner

(30 May 10 - started on this post one-and-a-half month ago but am only completing it now. heh.)

all that jazz! chicago the musical was quite fantastic with all the singing, dancing and witty dialogue! caught it with shiwei and sinyee. have i mentioned how much i love musicals? have loved them since i was in primary school as i watched the sound of music, annie and mary poppins repeatedly on my vcr. 

once, when i was in primary two, my music teacher wanted each of us to sing a song in class. at that time, i was really in love with the sound of music, so i sang "do-re-me". it didn't turn out to be the best choice because not a single soul in my class knew what the heck i was singing, my teacher included. how embarrassing. =/

so from then on, i kept the love of musicals to myself as nobody seem to really share my interest. it's a little sad to be so enthusiastic about something but not really having anyone to share it with. but still, i'm glad to have my family and friends who would watch them with me occasionally. :) 

as usual, i bought the programme. some would think i'm wasting money. true, but i love to collect them. i've bought a programme for every single theatre production i've attended. the cheapest being those which are free. it's really quite inexpensive to print the programme and given that such huge productions usually have so many sponsors, they really should lower their charges for their programmes.

after all the jazz, it was time for some chocolate (too much in fact) at max brenner. lyn came to join me and wei as sy went off to meet another friend. it was mine and wei's first time there. i've been wanting to try the chocs here for ages but have always been put off by the crowd and usually long queues. so this time, since it was still quite early (i.e. neither lunch or dinner time), we managed to get in pretty fast.

Choco-pops!
essentially milk chocolate with cute tiny crunchy chocolate wafer balls. they go really well tog! love it

Melting Marshmellow Hot Chocolate!
this is nice. but i personally much prefer the one with the chocolate pops. :)

NYC Downtown Comfort Cheesecake!
it was good that wei ordered this so that we had something not so chocolatey to negate the overwhelming choc we had from all the other dishes. but the raspberry sauce (or so we think) in the small glass cup does not go well at all with the cheesecake. in the end, lyn concluded it's for dipping the strawberries in. haha.

Intense Double Chocolate Fudge Cake!

this chocolate cake sounds really rich, but it was surprisingly intense but not overwhelming. really enjoyed it. :)

Munchies Waffles!

nice, fluffy waffles covered with warm chocolate sauce with chocolate and vanilla ice-cream and candied hazelnuts. it was quite nice except that why can't they just give us normal hazelnuts instead of candied ones? hmmm.

Our entire half-eaten conquest!

the crunchy chocolate wafer balls that were also found in the choco pops drink. we added these extras (which came with the waffles) into the marshmellow drink so that it has both choco pops and marshmellows! :)

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

Cheap Thrills

two complimentary tickets and a poster for "the men who stare at goats" from 8 days

rocking horse necklace from pling

haven't really been taking part in contests for awhile. recently decided to try my luck again and won the above! i don't really win expensive stuff, but i do get excited from just having won something! yes, cheap thrill i know. but well, i guess that's better than nothing. :)

the first time i won a contest was when i was in primary school. at that time, i used to help my ah-gong fill in my details for the UIC contests when he bought the washing powder. and once, i won a year's supply of UIC's washing products! i wasn't exactly excited at winning that because obviously washing products did not matter much to a 10-year-old kid. but it was pretty cool when we went to collect the prize. a year's supply = a full trunk. we didn't have so much space at home to keep all of them, so we distributed some to family members and some neighbours. everyone was happy, and so was i. :)

then in secondary school, i took part in contests in lime magazine and 987 fm. and i won several cds, posters and got to meet the moffatts at the 987 fm studio! it was probably the first and last time i had a chance to go 'backstage' at mediacorp and meet celebrities so close and upfront! my only regret was i could have dressed better. i guess my dress sense then wasn't really something that i would be proud of.

in uni, i won a pair of tickets to one of adrain pang's theatre productions (totally forgot which show, but i think it was "a twist of fate") from class 95 fm. it was the first time i was on air on the radio! and that was also the last time i won something until this year. since then i did take part in contests occasionally but did not have any luck.

after some time, i realised that i usually won when i didn't really wanna win it. well, most of the time anyway. :)

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

Presents from Paris!

1. a mickey mouse water tumbler from disneyland paris (still loving disney!),
2. a pocket mirror (would much rather prefer the one with the pink cover, hehe),
3. a fridge magnet (that i really thought was for me - kana cheated by my sis),
4. a leather cap (not exactly mine either, koped it from my sis for the time being), and last but not least,
5. a longchamp bag!

love the bag! given to me by my godma, sis and bro as my birthday present. as much as i like the bag, i must admit that i'm really not a big fan of branded bags. the brand doesn't really matter as long as i like the bag and it's pragmatic. honestly, i can't bring myself to spend more than a hundred bucks on one. if my memory serves me right, the most i paid for a bag did not exceed sixty bucks. i should also add that i haven't exactly had time to shop for a bag since i started working. so my practice of being thrifty with bags may just be thrown out of the window if i happened to chance upon the perfect bag.

what can i say? i'm a girl and i have a weakness for bags. :)

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

Rest

over the past one and a half year, i've come to learn to enjoy many sitcoms/dramas/shows which i didn't used to have time for. for example, the nanny, two and a half men, everyone loves raymond, how i met your mother (esp!), sex and the city, ellen degeneres (love it too! it gave me something to look forward to everyday), house, bones, scrubs etc, well just to name a few.

it's a wonder how almost everything is all about work when you start working. you hardly have time for anything else. when you're at work, you think about work. when you're not at work, you're still thinking about work. i guess that's not very healthy. and somehow, i felt i had to keep myself busy. my schedule was full. if i'm not at work, i would either be at church or out with friends or giving tuition. i was hardly home for dinner. and i definitely wasn't getting enough rest. and i still found time to travel to hong kong (twice), taiwan, india and australia.

but that was 2008.

by the end of that year, i was forced, whether i liked it or not, to rest. with nothing to do but lie in bed all day watching tv. this continued into 2009. and i guessed i got so used to slacking so much that i didn't really wanna go back to work. but back to the office i went in 2010, only to find that i was actually a little glad to be back.

so right now, am still trying to sort out my thoughts and what i really wanna do. i guess i really should pray more about this.

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

Sweet Caroline

fell in love with this song whilst watching glee. love the music, tune and lyrics and i just love a guy who can sing and play the guitar/piano/any musical instrument. :)

Sweet Caroline
by Glee Cast
(original version by Neil Diamond)



Where it began,
I can't begin to knowing,
But then I know it's growing strong.


Wasn't the spring,
And spring became the summer
Who'd believe you'd come along.


Hands, touching hands, reaching out,
Touching me, touching you.
Oh, sweet Caroline,
Good times never seem so good.
I've been inclined,
To believe it never would.


Oh, sweet Caroline,
Good times never seem so good.
Oh I've been inclined,
To believe it never would.
Oooh, oh no no...

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain