Arty Saturday - 22 April 2006

woke up in the morning... still quite tired... had to rest more... long day ahead...

saw KC's SMS that he had arrived in SG safe and sound... KC's passion for movies and musicals puts me to shame... he's been travelling to SG for the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) for the last few years now... this year we're also watching West Side Story, his favourite musical...

we were on the first row... although the ticket said Row D... cos the first three rows were converted to the orchestra's area...

West Side Story was not too bad... it wasn't excellent, if you ask me... the set was huge and very grand... i enjoyed the singing and the dancing very much... but the sound system like not functioning properly leh... probably it's the microphone losing its sensitivity... also the second set ended too abruptly... and too short, compared to the first...

my colleagues, Chikako and Eryna saw the musical too... they were seated a few seats away from us... we met the two ladies for a Chinese lunch @ Centre Stage Marina Square... good food... very filling... reasonable prices... yet again, i forgot to take pictures... hahahaha...

after lunch, we went our separate ways: the ladies went shopping (and they SMSed me in the night that they were at Equinox, Swissotel, for dinner and drinks, as well as to enjoy the breath-taking views of the city from the 70th floor)... KC continued with his SIFF... i dropped by MPH and managed to finish reading Brokeback Mountain the short story...

i met Ken @ the NTUC auditorium for Huang Shujun's concert, which ended at 11:30pm... Ken had to miss Ben's birthday party eventually... the concert was great... Shujun could talk a lot... brought back some memories of the 80s and early 90s...



after the concert, we both headed home... i needed to rest for the trip to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve tomorrow...

Goodnite all arts lovers out there...