“Awake With Nenek” Poster This year I basically have but one serious resolution and that is to get more into musical theatre and stuff. (“Stuff” in the above refers to straight plays as well, because I think although there are singular differences between a straight play and a musical, there are also many similarities as [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Awake With Nenek
Sunday, 28 February, 2010
Post-Trip Thoughts 5: Nottingham
Sunday, 28 February, 2010
I decided to stop by Nottingham for two nights en route to Liverpool from London. Well, I didn’t explore much of Nottingham except for the city centre and the Nottingham Castle, but the reason why I chose Nottingham was because it felt like a nice quaint city with a rich and colourful history (such as [...]
Post-Trip Thoughts 4: Richard Rodgers And The Football Connection
Sunday, 28 February, 2010
Because I had the privilege of attending matches at both Anfield and Manchester City during my trip, I learnt that Liverpool fans always sing their anthem “You’ll Never Walk Alone” before a match, and that the theme song of Manchester City is “Blue Moon”. Which is great. Both are wonderful songs. Has anyone else noticed [...]
Post-Trip Thoughts 3: Who Is It?
Friday, 26 February, 2010
Maybe it’s because I watched the Michael Jackson movie “This Is It” one too many times on the plane to and from London, but I just had this crazy thought: Don’t be surprised if one fine day someone uploads on YouTube a grainy viral video supposedly taken in some Eastern European country like Romania of [...]
New Facebook = Not Good
Friday, 26 February, 2010
How is the new iteration of Facebook in any way better? I think it’s horrible to be honest. It’s funny how every time they “improve” to a new version, we always pine for the previous one. It’s kinda like Windows – every time we get a new version, we go “Do we really need this? [...]
“Love Never Dies”
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
I read with great interest the articles about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s exciting new musical “Love Never Dies”, which is supposed to be the sequel to *gasp!* “The Phantom of the Opera”…only, like, the most successful musical of all time. It officially opens at the Adelphi on March 9, but the excitement is building up already. [...]
Post-Trip Thoughts 2: Musicals!
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
One of my main goals of this trip was to do some research on musicals, i.e. watch some West End shows. I could have gone for three musicals if I had pushed, but I settled for two in the end – Oliver! and Hairspray. To be honest, you can’t go wrong with either of these [...]
Post-Trip Thoughts 1: Change
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
London I think it was at the end of one of the episodes of “No Reservations” (starring Anthony Bourdain) which I stumbled upon some time back, where he said about travel something like: Travelling is meant to change you. You always take something away, and hopefully leave something behind too. And hopefully you become a [...]
Back
Wednesday, 24 February, 2010
The worst thing about going for a two-week trip is the out-of-sync feeling when you get back from it. It takes a few days to adjust back to reality. The refrain that always enters my mind after a long trip is “back to life, back to reality…” Anyway, I really liked the fact that I [...]
Trip
Tuesday, 9 February, 2010
I’m glad to say I’m going on a much-needed long vacation starting tomorrow. Haven’t travelled for quite awhile. I’m super hyped-up for this trip cos I planned every detail of it, and it’s going to be a blast. Anyway, I’m just looking forward to being able to take some time off to reflect on the [...]
