theatre productions

just realised the title of my last four posts were all adjectives to describe emotions/feelings. oh dear, when did i become so emo? omg i think that's what happens when you blog as and when you please, instead of selectively. hmm. does this mean people who blog often are emo creatures?

anyway, just spent the last hour booking tickets for three shows - one musical, one stand-up christmas comedy, and one dinosaur show. how all very different. one more musical i wanna watch but haven't found anyone to watch with yet. hopefully can find someone soon! otherwise i think i may have to end up watching it by myself. and that's not a very good thing, right? :(

"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

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

Beauty & the Beast

caught beauty & the beast by wild rice on saturday with my family - godma, godpa, mum and sis. and wild rice's productions never fail to disappoint. i had such an enjoyable time that i didn't want it to end. i love how they incorporate current "affairs" into their plays everytime. and this time, it was all about the boomz, leopard preens and shingz. lol. was supposed to catch their snow white & the seven dwarfs last year in december but was unfortunately stuck in aussieland. so i'm really glad to be able to catch their production this time. i'm already looking forward to their next production, whenever it is. =)

for those who have yet to watch or wasn't planning to, i highly encourage you to give it a try. they're showing all the way till 19 dec. i got my cat 1 tix at only 50 bucks. so i would say it's really quite affordable. watch this and you'll understand how easy it is to fall in love with their productions. hehe. anyway we should always support our local art scenes. they're not as bad as you think. ;)

Victor/Victoria

caught the show with ade on friday night. and it was nothing like what i was expecting. it was about a girl pretending to be a guy pretending to be a girl. anyhow, it was an enjoyable show, with most of the guys in the show turning out to be gays. it seems that it can be funny only if they were playing gay characters. lol. but we certainly enjoyed ourselves laughing away. thanks ade for watching it with me! =)

before the show, i had dinner with the girls - ade, wei, lyn and jul. too bad ks cldnt make it. had a good time just catching up a little and well, just hanging out. things felt a little different though. but perhaps, i was just pms-ing and probably a little tired.

wei, me, ade, lyn and jul

didn't exactly want to post any photos at first cos i realised we all kinda looked a little unglam in all the shots. but i decided to settle with the one above. hee. just to remember the moment. =)

christmas lights along orchard road.

took the above shot from the cab on the way home after the play. wanted to capture the white "moving" lights, but obviously a still photo isn't going to do much justice to it. anyhow, i'm really looking forward to christmas this year, given that i spent last year's christmas at the hospital. i wasn't even excited about the presents i got then. haha. so bad of me. but i really wasn't in the mood last year. presents don't mean much when all you want is to be well and back in singapore with your family and friends. anyway, that was all in the past. so am just hoping to have a great december this year! =)