我看（2）

Annie The Musical

Talk about optimism - the sun'll come out tomorrow, and its only a day away!

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老九

在机缘巧合之下， 和三闺密一同看了郭宝崑的“老九”。 原著是一出话剧，但实践剧场为了郭宝崑节而改编成一出音乐剧。每一首的歌的曲和词都娓娓动听，一看写曲和写词是被和多歌手要歌的黄韵仁和小寒，也难怪。

我倒觉得，最呛戏的，是陈建彬和林继修(Lim Kay Siu!) 在第二段的对唱， 和将近尾声的木偶和皮影戏。舞台历练多，一举一动，一唱一和，感觉轻轻地，不经意地就带出来了， 让人听出耳流。多变和精彩的木偶和皮影戏，视觉效果让人眼前一亮。那我和闺密都一致认同，声线最动听的是饰演 ”大马“ 的演员（忘了什么名字）－ 宏亮不失磁性。

美中不足的，觉得结尾太仓促，如果还能让老九再卖弄一下皮偶，会不会显得有活在自己选择的路上，更快乐，更有希望？

在这拜金社会，我不能不承认，自己就好像战马基金驯服的野马，主人要我跑，我就往终点线冲，就为那一口好草。会有那勇气像老九放弃这一切，去跟随自己的梦想吗？那也得像老九，虽然知道自己不要什么，但也要知道自己要的是什么，才能去追。

总的来说，”老九“是好看的。接下来，和闺密约好看 “暴雨将至 － 傻姑娘与怪老树” 和 “灵戏”， 支持支持本土的剧场！

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Batman The Dark Knight Rises

Best Batman movie IMO!! I never was a Batman fan, I didn't even watch the Dark Knight (which gave the world a lot of copycats Jokers during many Halloweens thereafter) until like maybe this year. But while most of the Batman movies will make you feel that it's more Gotham-like and surreal, this piece had a realist take, and and plot was masterful (even though it's kinda predictable but the twist came so unexpected that I didn't see it coming). 


Sometimes you also feel that the actors are wrongly chosen for the characters (like I can't imagine how they can choose michelle pfieffer to be the Catwoman), but I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anne Hathaway nailed both characters to a T. 


Totally deserve the 5 stars I saw in some reviews.

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All 3 in the same week! This must be my lucky week....

The Duel

Step up, salute

Advance and engage

Thrust and parry

A duel, leaving only
the last one to stand

Beyond the mask

of stoic indifference

A fleeting glimpse of

Blue skies shadowed by 

flurry of maneuvers 

But we already lost 

Each other

in this dance of conquest and defence

  

Falling sick

Certainly feels like that. ..hah..hah...ahh...hmm..

Ok the stress is getting to me from the past few weeks, and my head is swarming now. Not good.

The Unconventional Celebration

This has been a harrowing week. With work deadlines jam packed one after another, I swear the cosmic button is at work again. While work is still meaningful (cross fingers), there is definitely more in life than work

Like the event I attended today.

Was invited to a special celebration by 2 friends today. Being typical Asians, I guess they didn't really want to flaunt the reason for the celebration, but the event photo of the Facebook invite was quite clear that this has something to do with them being together for the longest time I can remember (when I was still schooling?). And a picture at today's event venue, of them holding hands showing their rings on their wedding fingers said it all.

And by the way, that picture clearly showed the LGBT rainbow flag in the background.

So it was the unconventional and "un-wedding" like celebration ever, though the requisite  food, wine and conversations were aplenty. The "wedding" couple dressed simply, mingled amongst friends, with no lavish display of processions like how you would see in most (if not all) weddings celebrations nowadays. You would have passed this off as a normal mass friends' gathering instead.

Was especially touched, but unsure why. I guess with all news about people's breakups, divorces, having something so simple as having two persons committing to each other by virtue of a promise, it is really the essence of the whole concept of marriage, commitment and love, notwithstanding whether if there are any witnesses in testimony to that, or have any fancy celebrations to prove a point.

I wish them the best together, but I think that has pretty much been cemented already :)

在其位 谋其政

今天早晨，友人无聊，平白无故地传简讯送了一句话 － “不在其位 不谋其政”。

孔子论语里的一句话。不难，一看词句，也能猜到含义。相反地 －在其位，就得 谋其政。

就那么巧/衰，今天就让我碰着了 各 一个 “不在其位 不谋其政 ，在其位 而 谋其政”的状况。

一根柱子就一根柱子，别去当别的有的没的。在七零八乱的环境里，自己只得心知肚明，洞若观火。郁闷简直是浪费时间，和自己过不去。

切记了！

(为什么友人就不传 好一点的，好像前程似锦，花好月圆之类的......悲催！！）

I never knew it could be so hard...

Right now, my head is bursting at the seams with the seemingly simplest but yet, hardest-to-come-to-a conclusion question:-

What Lights????

To the shadow at every corner...

“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

But still there is much that is fair. 

And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, 

the greater"

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

唐人街背后精神的复兴

今天误打误撞得闯进了两个朋友的饭局，在牛车水那里摩士街的一家餐馆吃冒菜。是不错的，尤其是它的土豆鸭，嫩得不得了，土豆是真的入口及化。那哈尔滨啤酒还是第一次喝，喜欢。

我是迟到了些，停了车自个儿步行沿街看门牌找餐馆。刚好餐馆在摩士街的另一端，那也经过了大半段的街才找着，发现到那条街开了好多家的中国菜餐馆。吃饭时，友人赞菜色美味，说近年来的中国菜越来越有道地的味道了，也都没有改划过来适应新加坡本地人的口味，因为顾客群都是内地来的中国人，也没这个必要。

吃完饭，嘴馋，过了几条街找甜品。经过地铁站，讲起那里附近的原貌馆。突发奇想，早年新加坡秉持着经济繁荣的牌柄招揽的我们的祖先从中国千里迢迢地下南洋，为的就是打造更好的将来。初次离乡背井，到了异地，聚集在一个自己衣食住行熟悉的环境， 也造就了每一个国家的唐人街。

百年后，这种精神好像又复兴了。新加坡的唐人街，或我们俗称的牛车水人，虽然景象已变，，一个个如雨后春笋的中国菜餐馆，以家乡的味道辅助越来越多在新加坡的中国人，圆他们打拼的梦。