picnic is for any weather

Last Friday, Susan organised a picnic outing to Hyde Park. To be honest, I recently just learned how to torrent episodes (yes, I've very technology incompetent) and I was on my mid-semester break as well, so I didn't really fancy on going out. But because I haven't been going out, I thought I might as well bath in the sun once in a while. The weather wasn't what I called picnic weather, but it didn't matter. The only thing matters at a picnic is the food =D. I jest. The company's important too. 

So Thanh, Susan, Minhky, Edim, Claudia and I indulged ourselves with snacks, fruits and drinks before taking a trip down memory lane with bubble blowing, wrestling, filming and piggy-back riding. Well, I wouldn't call it piggy-back riding. Thanh put me on his shoulders and many times have he scared the living lights out of me when he pretend to drop me. There were a couple of times which he seriously almost did. Just when I thought I was safe, once I get off his shoulders, I hit head first into the plate of home-made bubble detergent. Yes... smooth move. Apparently, he was trying to 'slip' me off his shoulders like a piece of clothing =.=. Here's some news for you, I may be small, but I'm not a piece of clothing =.="!

Claudia left us early, and Vicky was going to meet us at the station, so we had a short pit stop at Hungry Jacks before meeting up with her. After the rendezvous, we went to the Chinese Gardens to walk around and enjoy the scenery. Thanh and Minhky were having fun taking random photos of everything and everyone, even the random dressed up guy who was performing some kind of martial arts. I must say, I didn't think it was martial arts =S more like a combination of dance moves and made up martial arts moves. 

After walking through the night markets at Chinatown, we had dinner at the food court in Market City. Then I headed home while the others when to karaoke. I had to go home early because if I stayed out any later, I wouldn't have had a ride home. Besides, I didn't have any money left either =.=. The others did suggest that they'll help pay, but I rather not. I don't like owing people =). Anyways, that's it for now =).

Thanh got killa'd

On the 24th of March, Friday, we had a small gathering at Carramar's Killa Girll and Thanh took up the Killa Kage challenge, where he was required to eat a huge burger, huge fries, huge coke and icecream all in an hour. Alas, he attempt was futile.

Ah, there's nothing much to talk about besides Thanh's non-existent achievement =3. It' wasn't so bad; he managed just over half way of the burger. We had fun just socialising, eating and taking random photos, though I must say our group's quite indecisive sometimes. It took us 10 minutes to decide where to go afterward, then another 10 to figure out who drives who and who's going where. Some of us were driven to the station, while the rest of us were driven to Thanh's house, either by Nigel or Kenny. Many thanks to Nigel since I was in his car. After 2 minutes on the road, I finally realised that he got a new car =D. It wasn't the vintage, red car anymore. Not exactly his own property (family car) but it was still cool. 

More sociolisation occurred at Thanh's house, with a bit of gaming and playing with musical instruments. Although he moved houses, I seriously thought he was being sarcastic about moving next door. Seeing that I was so sure that he was being sarcastic, I was quite surprised when I reached the door of his house. I didn't know if I should laugh or feel confused. Hence, I did both, if that made sense. It was around 10 PM when Mimi's brother drove us home. Many thanks to him for driving us so many times. Well, me in particular.  

By the way, I just remembered something Nigel said which I thought was pretty funny, that's why I made it as the title of the blog =): 

Thanh got killa'd - Nigel Khine.

Wicked is the new Good

On the 22nd of September, Wednesday, it was my first time watching a musical. I've been to threatre plays and all, but never a musical. I'm glad I did, even though it was $86.70 (including handling fees) because it was definitely worth.

What was the musical, you might ask? it was 'Wicked.' What can I say, it's the epitome of anything that defines wicked - no! It's beyond any definition because there are no words that can describe the awesomeness of the musical =D. It's a shame that it's over now, but they will be showing at Brisbane at the beginning of next year. As much as I loved it, I'm not sure if I'm willing to travel all the way to Brisbane to watch it again. 

Out of the two Elphabas, we got Jemma Rix who, I thought, did a great job in portraying her character. To be honest, I thought Glinda (played by Lucy Durack) was an annoying character but I love her lines because they're hilarious =D. I admit that her voice was quite good, but I still like Rix's voice better. Also, compared to the original Elphaba from San Francisco, Idina Menzel, I still prefer the Sydney's Elphaba, but I do like the voice of Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda) better than Sydney's Glinda. To be honest, initially I thought that if they actors were to sing, they would just focus solely on singing however; they actually included their acting into their singing. I was quite surprised and amazed by their talent. No wonder 'Wicked' was rated 5 stars. To be honest, I think the voice of James Smith (Boq) was much better than Tim Campbell (Fiyero), but who am I to comment about the casting. AH! What surprised me was to see Bert Newton (Wizard) perform because although I knew he did a lot of acting on television, I never expected him to be singing on stage =S. How shocking. Anyways, I was going to do some research and write about it on my blog, but I'm not bothered, because there's always wikipedia.org =3 just search up 'Wicked (musical)' and you'll find it.

The story itself was such a great plot with a very sad twist. It really did open my eyes to fairy tales - never take things at face value; don't judge a book by it's cover; etc. It was just like a movie I watched about Jack and the beanstalk. It was live action movie with a twist to the story. I thought it was pretty interesting. Man, Kinokuniya was selling two books in one (Wicked and Son of a Witch [sequel]) for $25. I should've bought one for myself =.=! Anyways, back to the musical, I cried when they were singing 'For Good.' It was such a great and sad song! Now, almost every time I listen to it I cry >.<

The architecture of Capitol Theatre is commendable; the interior design looked a lot like Old England if you ask me. I especially liked the lamp posts. Why there are lamp posts inside buildings, I have no idea. I guess they replaced indoor lights =S. The toilet's quite clean too. Why I mentioned that, I have no idea. Moving on, Kelly and I gave our belated presents to Susan as an apology for not going to her birthday dinner. I gave her a Korean drama called 'You're Beautiful' and Kelly gave her a box full of paint samples from Bunnings. When I said 'a box full', I seriously mean 'a box full.' I mean, there were barely any gaps. According to Kelly, there were ~300 samples of them. Why did Kelly get Susan that? Simple. It's what Susan wanted =). Anyways, I had a great night watching a musical with Linh, Kelly and Susan. Thank you Susan, for giving us drinks and the photos, and Linh, for driving us home. Well,  for driving me there as well =3. Oh, we actually met a high school friend that night. Apparently, it was his second time watching it =D and he was generous enough to let us take a photo with his colouful martini glass =). Later on, on Facebook, I found out that a couple more friends also watched it on the same night as us , but we weren't lucky enough to bump into each other. Oh wells =P.

 I told you there was a lamp post inside the building =P. The background looked like a sunset/sunrise =D.

 The green martini glass we borrowed from our friend =D.