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