Event: “Aladdin” by W!ld Rice Venue: Drama Centre Theatre Run: 24th Nov – 17th Dec 2011 A Dazzling Place You Never Knew (All For Under $70) W!ld Rice’s big year-end production “Aladdin” sees Glen Goei directing this incredibly colourful extravaganza, with two of the biggest stars from Singapore’s pop music world headlining the show. This [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Review: “Aladdin” by Wild Rice
Monday, 28 November, 2011
Why Do Songs Sound Better On The Radio?
Monday, 28 November, 2011
I have mulled over this question ever since I was in my teens. Radio today isn’t what it used to be. It’s gone the way of TV and newspapers, in the sense that people don’t rely on radio being a big part of their lives the way they did back in the 90′s or earlier. [...]
“One Day” The Book
Saturday, 26 November, 2011
I have been slowly working my way through the book “One Day” by David Nicholls, of which the recent movie starring Anne Hathaway was based on. As I’m an outrageously slow reader, I’ve only covered a small portion of the book, although I’ve always believed that one should not take too long to finish a [...]
Tracy Chapman
Saturday, 26 November, 2011
After watching “One Day” about a month ago, and after hearing the song “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution” being used in one of the very early scenes when they were in Emma’s little apartment, I began to return to my Tracy Chapman album once again and have been listening intently to it for the past month. [...]
What’s Height Got To Do With It? A Lot, Apparently
Monday, 21 November, 2011
I guess this topic just doesn’t seem to go away. Recently there was a spate of articles based on some findings done by Lunch Actually that concluded that “Singaporean women are not open to dating shorter men”. You can read the readers’ comments for yourself on the Yahoo article (here). And today’s Sunday New Paper [...]
You Are The Apple Of My Eye
Saturday, 12 November, 2011
It’s hard not to be charmed by this sleeper hit from Taiwan that has taken the Hong Kong and Taiwanese market by storm recently. And judging by the looks of things, “You Are the Apple of My Eye” looks set to take Singapore audiences by storm as well. Our audience last night certainly enjoyed it [...]
The Goods & Bads Of Social Media
Sunday, 6 November, 2011
I’ve always felt that social media has its virtues, but I am not of the belief that social media has made everything in the world better. One example is at live concerts. My last two concerts at the Indoor Stadium were Faye Wong and The Cranberries, and it seems like nowadays at all concerts you’d [...]
Remember The “Great Singapore Workout” Song?
Friday, 4 November, 2011
Well, this is a bit disappointing. I recently heard this really old song called “You’re Sixteen” on the radio. Must have been Gold 90.5FM or something. Apparently it was a song by Ringo Starr, and I’d never heard of it before until recently. (Ringo didn’t write it, but he did cover it. The song was [...]
Song Placement
Wednesday, 2 November, 2011
I was just having a little discussion with Ilkosa about this the other day. We’ve seen our fair share of new musical stagings and stuff. Every time there is a staged reading of a new musical, I’ll always make it a point to go check it out. Firstly, I want to see what kind of [...]
