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spent most of today doing the most feminine thing i ever do. sewing! haha! what i achieved today:

first, i cut up a pair of old jeans and got denim.



a pouch for my ipod! tis ok. bit plain. thinking to get fabric paint and draw something cos i can't get my nice coloured thread to go through the needle eye. lol!



excuse the expression. i didn't know the camera was taking the pic in that split second. anyway, cut my jeans and made 3/4 pants. how? nice? first time i adjusting the jeans successfully. the last time i did that, i had to make it shorts instead. what u think? :D

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so cute!!

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almost, almost makes me want to get myself a kitten.

lol!

today was the concert. was a blast despite all the hanging around and waitings. mj had quite a few guest choirs, not just us (the alumni) but also TK and AHS choirs. saw terrance. haha!

anyway, like i said, it was a blast. started off a bit bad when we were trying to warm up them mr yong suddenly came running to tell us that it's our turn to use the stage. omg! that first try on stage sucked big. we were off key from the get go. major panic attacks going round. then, we went outside and made ourselves get the act together. then went back to the hall and waited and waited and waited, getting more and more panicky when we realised that all the other choirs are gold honors choirs and sound way better than us.

took the stage again to rehearse. that was a good thing. get used to the stage and space a bit more. mr yong took over for one run to show gerald how to conduct better and we were all like, "mr yong, you conduct lah!!" poor gerald. mass mutiny. but gerald did good in the end. after all, he's trained us this far, he knows the choir best.

backstage, we're assigned to sing in the second half. so, sat around. concert began at 8.15, apparently pushed back cos of the soccer match against RJ. woah. so anyway, some of them went to watch from the stall seats. me, duan hui and samuel sat around backstage and talked and took photo. got a 'scary' moment when we suddenly heard thumping noises. then thumping noises with singing in it (no, not from the stage). so we began about supernatural stuff and maybe there's an entrance to narnia through one of the lockers in the room. lol! but samuel said that he could hear gunshots in the sounds also. wonder what was going on. suspected that it was NDP rehersal. forgot to go see the padang after the show. anyway, twas nice to talk with sam. been a long time.

second half came around. and then suddenly gerald is panicly running through the backstage areas to rush us to get in line, the next item is us. omg! so fast??! thought there would be a male chorus or something before us, we didn't hear them. so, we rushed there. got onstage and sang.

i think it went well. personally, i was really comfortable there. surprisingly. it was the most relaxed performance i had for a long time. maybe cos i already knew the songs so well, it was a breeze singing them. anyway, really had fun with it. and later on, sam said that someone in the audience he knows commented that we sounded good, better than the chamber choir. yay! so, our efforts paid off. nerve wrecking but it felt so good.

will post photos when they arrive.

i'm back again with yet more random ramblings. just felt like typing something. surprised i haven't yet gotten carpal tunnel syndrome or something. been spending more and more time on the comp. i admit, i'm addicted. haha! nothing better to do with my life. today, i made the 'plunge' and 'registered' for that clone scavenger hunt on the board. lol! so, i'm going to the set of pirates of the caribbean with timothy and calvin. anyway, took today and typed 8 pages of my scavenger hunt report. that was fun. my character with two clay clones and i meet johnny depp. lol! see, my VR life is so much more fun than my RL. :p sounds like i'm seriously going nuts. i'm almost positive, when i grow up, i'm going to be neurotic.

went for dinner with ah ma. dua ku and janice came along. so long never see janice liao. she's so cute today. she's got her hair tied up in a pony tail and wearing a white dress with pink flowers and a pink 'handbag'. aiyo! so cute. but she don't like to play with me lah. or rather, she likes to play with me when she's running away from me. serious. she started running around the restaurant, and i chased her. she ran along the buffet table and stopped and waited and started running again just as i approached her. giggling all the while. she's gonna be a big sister soon. her baby brother going to be delivered tomorrow morn. mum's worried why she's still not talking, speculating if it's autism or something. don't know leh. she seems all normal to me except that she doesn't talk. she did something so cute at the bus stop. mum, dad, ah ma and her were sitting at the bench. andrew and jonathan were standing outside the bus stop. she came and first dragged jonathan, made him sit down, then did the same for andrew. wawww!!! what a precious little child.

oh ya, King Solomon's Mines have finished. very interesting story really. go and read/listen to it if you've got the time. after all, allan quartermaine is the world's first action adventure hero (even though he's a self proclaimed coward). anyway, now listening to this weird thing called The Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle. i have NO idea what it's about. the first chapter, or rather, chapter zero and chapter one, first talked about the president vanishing. then talked about warble mcgorkle making a fool of himself because he suspects that the muffin on his plate is not a muffin at all and really something that his enemies put there to try to kill him and take over his master plans for world peace and instead establish themselves by giving the people everything they want whilst secretly being tyrants and cruel taskmasters. crazy goon! haha! more if and when i figure out what's going on in the story.

oh, and something very important i almost forgot to mention. today, i received an email from the folks at multiply. *gasp* an official email asking me to please remove some content from my site because it's violating copyright. ok, so i removed it. wonder if they'll consider the other two playlists copyright also? because, technically, i'm not distributing it. and i own the cds (as in i bought them). hmm...this copyright thing is damn hard lor. it's not like everyone has a credit card that they can use. no more here. don't want them after me with an expensive lawsuit. they say that these people purposely target students cos students don't have the financial means to retaliate. wonder if that's true. cos it does sound plausible. anyway, time to hold my tongue.

well, another weekend has come and gone. what have i been doing? singing, singing and...ooh! more singing!

anyway, ya. thursday had ascension mass. ok, not singing, but played the organ. that was fun. long time since i played a (almost) full mass. saw daryl hiding in the congregation. hmm...don't remember much about the mass. :p such a bad memory i have.

then, friday, supposed to go for mj choir practice in the evening. but didn't.

saturday. mj choir practice! can't believe the performance is coming so soon. practiced in the siglap hall. lucky we did. we sound so different there as compared to in the room. wake up call, as gerald put it. didn't sound good i think. exaultate justi and sigulempong. hmm...what can i say? the environment was so different that we all kinda forgot everything we learnt and sounded bad. nelson was commenting that we didn't have any dynamics. mr yong was more tactful, or rather, he declined constructive comment. i seriously miss mr yong's choir sessions. hehe!

saturday evening. supposed to be teaching the bro the psalm for sunday. ok, did that. then, (proud of myself) gave him a piano lesson! haha! ok, rather, just taught him to identify the keys on the keyboard and simple how to read the tow-gays on paper. and apparently he could do it after the lesson, but i doubt he still remembers now. oh well, at least he's got the basics. the absolute basics. he'll make a pianist yet. muahahahaha!

saturday night dad made us all watch this al gore documentary "an inconvenient truth" about global warming. ok, fine, he knows what he's talking about. but one thing i found interesting (to me lah and it's a bit off tangent), he showed this chart that highlighted population with the amount of carbon emissions etc, and i was thinking, you know what? governments shouldn't worry so much about falling birth rates cos it's good for the environment. hehe! anyway, ok, his arguments made sense and all. but does it make me more conscious about global warming and the prevention of pollution? i'm not so sure. btw, the hole in the ozone layer, it's getting smaller?? i never knew.

sunday. mum woke us up early cos she ordered mcdonalds breakfast. haha! then, church. choir full strength was there. that was nice. simon peirera was the priest. one thing about him, i said before, i don't like him. anyway, i wonder, is he trained in sociology? cos he's like, blaming society for EVERYTHING. very one sided view he has. i wonder if the teachers in other religions have the same attitude as he does. cos i cannot, repeat CANNOT, stand what he's saying. for one, he calls everyone who is non catholic pagan. i'm sure that's not right. i heard that he's actually been called up by the govt and told to shut up with the antisocial comments. anyway, i don't buy what he says lah. never could stand this kind of elitist attitude. i wonder, do other religions also have this kind of elitism? or is it just catholics/christians that are such self-centered _________?

sunday afternoon. 2pm went to siglap for nus choir PLAY rehersal. that was interesting. strange twisted songs. don't know what things gamers are listening to. the only one i recognise is the halo suite. andrew's gonna love that one. gonna show him one day when there's time. he'll jump! he's really interested in this thing. wish he could sing in it also. it's really gonna be an experience. like, this is the FIRST time i'm singing in a show that had to EXTEND it's run!! how cool is that??! the songs suck tho. all the twisty convulated high notes that don't make sense. probably they make sense when we add the orchestra in, but now they don't.

sunday evening. 4.30pm after nus, had mj practice again. yay. haha! worked on the dynamics of the songs. it was alright. but guess we'll be really soft on that day. really tired by now. the voice is officially strained. no singing for the next few days. concert is this thursday!

last night had a mini adventure. ok, not really adventure lah...there was a moth in my room. damn big one. now, i cannot stand moths. cos since young i've believed (don't know where i've got this from) that moths are spirits of the dead come back to watch over the living. so, i've got an inordinate fear of moths. so, i've never liked to kill moths either because of this. anyway, so there's a big one in my room! fuck! i do what i've always done, freak out, then open all the windows, shut the light and close the door. hopefully it'll be attracted to the light outside. checked after 15mins. it's still fluttering around! checked after another 15mins. the damn thing is STILL there!!!!! dad tried to help me chase it outside but it refused to move. it stuck itself around my cupboard area. dad says probably cos of my bunch of dried flowers that are attracting it. (note to self: get rid of it). anyway, so, mum suggested that i evacuate my room for the night then. context, we recently bought a portable air con for the living room to transform it into a guest room if necessary.

so, i spent the night in the living room. that was interesting. long time since i slept anywhere but my room. it was alright. refused to sleep facing the balcony. me and my neurosis as usual. middle of the night got real hot though. discovered the next morning that the crazy air con changed temperature in the night. don't know why. i think it's something to do with timer and those cyclical things the temperature is programmed on.

so that was the weekend.

oh ya, saw this video. pretty cute. kermit the frog on extreme home makeover. hope i can find the full episode.

anyway, i was moosying around youtube and i found...before i say what i found, let me say (if i haven't done so already) that agatha christie is an extraordinary writer. been reading her books this hols. very good and immensely interesting plotlines. no, the butler didn't do it. it's always the most unlikely person that does. for poor deprived people who don't know what i'm talking about, i'm talking about agatha christie, the queen of detective murder fiction. her books are full of suspense thrillers and knotty plotlines that are so twisted up that it's a miracle that the genius detective (hercule poirot or miss marple) is able to unravel the truth at all.

so, back to my youtubing, well, i found a series of short films that are based on agatha christie novels. can you imagine?! just watched "the body in the library" just now. so cool to see the novel being brought to life. miss marple strikes me as a very irritating old lady. like neurotic at times. haha! gonna read "cards on the table" next then watch it just to see how they portray hercule poirot. yup. something to amuse me whilst being online and wasting time. lol!

just some music. wish could put background music on here.

back again! and what have i been doing. well, been messing around with my comp. found viruses in it. :p so i reformatted. double :p. well, was scared out of my wits cos it was the first time i'm reformatting it by myself (the last time having had ww to help/do it for me). so kinda proud of myself. but i don't know what happened. the comp's well...it's not the same as before. i mean, it works just fine. just not the same. like now for some reason, i don't have to type a password to log in anymore (don't go using it as an excuse to hack into my computer). and the shut down window, it doesn't have that drop down menu anymore. it's like the downstairs desktop comp. not complaining too much. at least it works and is more or less virus free. need to go to school to get the trend micro protection so for now, using the limited norton. actually, come to think of it, we bought norton didn't we? so maybe i should just install that instead of relying on the school's trend micro. hmm...

and again, i forgot to do something about the emoticons in my messenger, so they've gone. got to go load them again. :p

been messing around with itunes also. been looking up album artwork! haha! so most of my albums got the pictures in it. happy! can't believe how many albums i've got in there. strange thing is, even when i loaded strictly legal cds into the thing, the album artwork still didn't show up. why?? anyway, fixed up my itunes liao. quite happy with it. took me 3 days work. :p and then, ya, reformatted my comp. i used the consolidate library feature on itunes. and you know what? it lost one of my songs. grrr...but luckily before that, i had loaded that song on multiply, so just got it back from there easily. phew. if i lost that song...took me damn long to get it proper. found out the joys of album sorting. or rather, i only use that for a few albums namely, PotO, Les mis, Lion King and recently, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. got an album of theirs off multiply called Beethoven's Last Night. although i can't understand what they're singing (cos i haven't been listening carefully), i found out from wikipedia that it's a rock opera that deals with the night Beethoven died. apparently on his deathbed, for some reason, the devil appears to claim his soul. beethoven naturally, tries to resist and the devil gives him an hour to decide an ultimatum, that his soul will belong to him or his soul goes to heaven but all memory of his life's work be forgotten by the world. then, something about Fate and Destiny and some kind of low and lousy trick that beethoven managed to trick the devil into letting him keep his soul and go to heaven. *rolls eyes* crazy storyline but great music as only the trans-siberian orchestra can produce. go check them out!! such an orchestra as you've never heard before. (there's an electric guitar among their instruments)

and then, american idol. melinda is out!!!!!! omg! why??!?!?! i thought blake would be out. but...he's still in. he and jordin. go jordin!

my printer died. don't know why but the black ink refused to come out. :p damn thing. but i know it's a printer problem, not the computer cos i switched off the comp and tested the printer with the copy function. and it didn't work. grr...angry. tried everything in the instruction manual but nothing worked. silly me even took out the black cartridge and shook it, causing ink to fly around my room (one hell of a mess). but didn't work. i think the printer head is broken. that's what the manual suggested. anyone got any ideas? the colour cartridge is working fine. but just, black refuses to come out. it's damn annoying. there's NO WAY to avoid using black ink. it's an essential colour. so anyway, hope to fix it somehow. i'm inordinately attached to my printer cum scanner cum photocopier. see why? :D

got back my google IME. found out that actually, google is in trouble with another chinese input software cos apparently their IME is similar enough to the other company's. but, obviously, google isn't pulling out their IME anytime soon. 不懂是谁赢那个lawsuit. 大概是google咯。 as if google 会那么轻易放弃这种software. 很好用， 很多人用。 连我这个平常不用华语的人也有用到， 那么那些中国人也大概是有用咯。不懂我在讲什么。 嗨， 太久没讲华语了。 anyway, in case i was not understood, i mean, that, google isn't going to easily give up this lucrative software so soon seeing as likely as not, a lot of users downloading it. see my singlish influences in my chinese writing? lol!

complain time. i love being at home alone. know why? cos when mum's at home with me, it's always nagging and scolding. :p hate it. i'm on fucking holiday! and she's like, stop using the computer, what da hell u using anyway??! go to sleep at 9pm! wake up early! (i'm already waking up at 9.30am latest. and to her it's like, why u wake up so late everyday??! *rolls eyes* i'm on msn and she's scolding who i'm talking to, why i'm chit chatting when i should be doing proper work (what work thinks me). and the bro isn't doing well in sch, why am i not helping him? as if it's my fault that he's not doing his studying? for the record, he cannot hear my computer sounds from his room. AND most of my online activities are carried out in the morning when he's in school, and at night, when he's asleep. fuck! as if it isn't bad enough that she's not letting me go find a job, she expects me to be busy as if the semester is still on. i'm 21 this year. she's still treating me like i'm 12. blowing her top just because i didn't respond to her messages that day after phantom. for the record, i've told her already that i hate her messages to ask where am i and what time i'm coming back. and typically of all parents, when i say that other people i know do the same as i do, she says don't compare. but she uses my friends as examples to scold me. btw, going pattaya, she was interrogating me all about my roommate. isn't it enough for you know that it's a girl and she's my choir mate??!?!?! i think i'm old enough to know good guys from bad and if i don't know, i'm old enough to find out. *rolls eyes* pisses me off.

let's talk about something more interesting. i can't think of anything. oh ya! borrowed this book from the library (another angry mum story. she didn't want me to go to the library BY MYSELF the other day because she says that it'll be a temptation to my brother. in what fucking way?? i didn't invite him along and i fully intended to go on my own.) anyway, borrowed this book "notes from an even smaller island" by neil humphreys. damn funny lah! always loved his writings (reading his columns in weekend TODAY). the way he navigated migration to singapore and adaptation to the culture. especially loved his description of the way taxi drivers always ask the passenger to direct them:

We could go PIE, CTE, then BKE followed by a short stint on the KFC. But there's heavy traffic coming down Bukit Timah, so we could go Chua Chu Kang, then Phua Chu Kang and onto Liang Po Po, which is longer but less, traffic...That could be tough unless we go through the CBD, pay extra ERP, then turn left past McD and pay extra for CHILLI. Go right into ABC, and learn the rest of the alphabet so we can get to XYZ. Then we'll have to stop because I've run out of TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) that we are so fond of here.

ok, so maybe the driver didn't exactly say that, but you see how interesting neil humphreys writes. i was looking for funny book. i found a funny book. haha! hope the library has the sequel to this book (i know that it exists). haven't laughed this much while reading a book in ages. especially when he's talking about all his whacko neighbours. unfortunately i finished the book in a day. :p wish someone would write a funny book that's about lord of the rings size. haha!



ETA: (blogsurfing reactions)
at the beginning of the year, i said that i would avoid my friend's blog. but of course, i didn't manage to. but reading her blog today reminded me sharply of why i wanted to avoid it in the first place. she's travelling all over the US now. haiz. i feel a sharp pang of jealousy and sadness. grand canyon. if only i had just gone ahead with that work-holiday thing. i could've been there now. life is full of cruelties and regrets.

someone take me on a long holiday and not come back to boring sucky sg.

btw, NU-fucking-S still has not gotten back to me about rejecting my SEP application.

another friend doesn't like her job as sales assistant...i say, i'll take it. wish i could. :(  going to uni has generally killed my future and is steering me closer and closer to a dreaded teaching job.

i should just stop having high hopes about the future. it'll only lead to disappointment and more sadness.

found this emoticon at a message board i frequent. very apt for today's post topic.

oh my god! just got back from the Phantom of the Opera!!!!! it's freaking cool man!!!! totally worth the $147 for the tickets.

before that, had gone shopping as mentioned for the dress (also mentioned). wore the new outfit for this. felt so glam!

met sumi a little late cos i missed the train. but no matter, got to the esplanade just on time, they were announcing the 10minute signal. so went in and proved murphy's law that the people seated in the middle of the row are always the latest to arrive. haaha! cos we were almost in the middle, and we were late. and there were 4 seats next to us (middle also) and they were also later to arrive. anyway, the stage was already set for the first scene, the auction scene. that one was alright. the music box monkey was just so...poignant. the tinkle of the song was so sweet and somehow sad. the old vicount was saying, "will you still play on after all of us have gone?" as if he was thinking, "if only you could talk and tell us what you have seen." anyway, and then, the chandelier! ok, not AS impressive as i expected it to be, but still. it lifted to hang over the heads of the audience. then the auctioneer saying to chase away the ghosts of the past with a little illumination!!! and the...oh ya, forgot to say, the stage frame was covered in gray cloth at this time. and after the auctioneer said the thing about illumination, the chandelier (lying on stage) lit and started to lift up to above the audience. and the stage frame coverings also drew back/fell. BUT the one on stage left (i think. audience right.) got caught in the angel carving that was underneath. and a tech had to lean over the balcony and pull it in. lol! but the effect was cool anyway!

then, the initial rehersal scene. charlotta was alright, not as funny as the movie one. probably cos the movie one was exaggerated a lot. mdm giry was cool! she got this, 'don't-mess-with-me' look on her face. so cool the way she just bang on the stage once with her stick and everyone snaps to attention. monsieur andre and firmant were funny! kept getting in the way of the dancers. christine sang ok, not as good as i expected her to but her high notes were spot on. :D

somehow, i think the scene changes and all that, it works in the stage musical but it didn't work in the movie version. i remember it was all a bit disjointed in the movie. but it worked so well here. that raoul, silly rich boy. lol!

the phantom!!!! *gasp* love him. brad little did it quite well. but! i don't think he acted well. love his voice though. don't understand why people say he's not a good phantom. so romantic. BUT!!!!! i didn't like his "music of the night". i didn't feel like it was tender enough. but then, maybe this is their interpretation of the song. whatever. oh ya! the effects! don't know how to even start describing them. magnificent. the underground lake for starters. they had lots of smoke and the candles appeared, like popped up from out of the stage floor. how did they do that??! it was impressive. the whole stage covered with the 'candles' and the smoke to imitate the water, then the phantom and christine in the 'boat' and 'rowing'. ah!! oh ya, the phantom cursing christine when she first pulled off his mask was not venomous enough to me. but it was cute the way he dragged himself from one side of the stage to the other, literally dragging his body - not crawling, it's one of those wipe-the-floor-with-your-body kind of action. ok, it wsn't supposed to be funny but it was to me.

then, the part where charlotta started croaking. :D not as good as the movie version, this one sounded like it was done on purpose. (which duh, it was) the movie one really sounded like she didn't mean to sound like that but it just came out.

i L-O-V-E the part where after christine and raoul sing the "all i ask of you", where the phantom is revealed to be hiding and listening to them. i already talked about there being a stage frame, well, the top piece, in the middle, there's an arrangement of angels arms outstretched, wings spread etc etc. well, then, the phantom appeared on it, and (get this!) it lowered itself with him on it, and he was crying over christine's betrayal on it. wah liao! feel scared for him, could see the piece swaying in the air as he stood on it. anyway, that was probably one of the best to me. cos as it lowered, there was some kind of light inside it that shone through the eyes and mouth of the angel and made the thing look like a demon. i'm serious! it looked like the phantom was crying revenge whilst supported by a platform of demons holding him up. then there was the "you will curse the day you did not do, all that the phantom asked of you!!!!!!!!" the piece rose back up to it's place. but what i found so cool was that, as brad little was singing his "you!!!!!!" glory note, he had arms outstretched, and the platform was moving lah! imagine, the glory note, the phantom theme music rising to crescendo, the phantom with arms outstretched in anticipation of revenge, and the platform rising, rising, rising until you can't see the phantom anymore as he disappears into the darkness of the top stage frame. *shivers*

then the interval. i was already stunned. bought the programme for $25. expensive! wanted to buy the phantom mask but i don't think can pull out the money. went to take a look at the orchestra pit. :D it's under the stage cool! oh ya, forgot to mention, they used a lot of sound effect for the phantom, as in, can make his voice sound like it's coming from the back of the theatre or something, remember that effect? so the voice was suddenly behind, suddenly to the right, on the stage, to the left, to the right again...

the second half seemed a little tamer than the first...don't know why. anyway, maybe they shouldn't have had interval (i know, killing to the actors). but anyway, the second half was when i was damn annoyed with this guy sitting in front of me and being directly in my line of sight. ok, not his fault i think but it was annoying anyway. so, had to keep leaning over to sumi's side or to that guy on the other side of me so that i could see what was going on. bad for the second half cos so much was using almost the full stage. so there was the confrontation scene between raoul, phantom and christine, one of them was on one side of my vision, then the guy's head, then i saw the phantom on the other side. that was how bad it was. :p

anyway, where was i? oh yes, the masquerade ball. hmm...expected something a bit more grand. but, not too bad. probably cos i was annoyed with above mentioned annoyance that it drew my enjoyment of the scene away. did i mention that i love the phantom's voice? oh ya, that andre and firmant were the comics as usual, scaring each other by wearing skeleton outfits. oh ya, the phantom appeared as Red Death right? then after he delivered his opera, he vanished. as in seriously with a swish of his cloak and pulled a david copperfield in a flash of flame. *jaw drop*

the cemetery scene spooked me again. the usual spook lah. especially when it was behind that semi opaque screen. it was so etheral. but the song...well...didn't really enjoy it that much. like, not that much passion in it. but it worked ok. the scene itself was cool already. oh ya, and when raoul came to confront the phantom at the tomb...then the phantom, don't know what he was supposed to be doing, but he was shooting little fireballs at raoul. seriously, little fireballs were coming out from some device he was holding. scared me a little cos i thought it would fall on the prop (vines over the tomb) and catch fire. oh and then when phantom was declaring that it was now war on the both of them, there was fire shooting up from the stage floor!!!

then the usual...oh, "the point of no return" was SO sensual. oh my god. couldn't pick up the sensuality in the movie and recordings. but could seriously feel it here. it was like they were going to have hot passionate sex there and then. (ok, maybe not so extreme but you get the picture) that song was so well done. BUT, i expected the phantom to pull of another one of his vanishing acts with christine. but he didn't. they just ran into the wings. :p

the tech guys did damn well with this one. seriously. see, this is one of the reasons why i would like to work in theatre. create magic like this. *sigh* but i digress. anyway, not too much to talk about later on. raoul convinces mdm giry to bring him to the phantom...oh ya, he made mdm giry tell him the story of the phantom's history. that wasn't so well presented. it was just mdm giry telling the gist of the story, nothing very elaborate. don't think i would've gotten it if i didn't already know. she made it sound like she had no part in the affair at all, as in, she just said that she visited the travelling fair and saw the man in a cage and she'd remember him forever. ya.

the confrontation scene was damn intense! the part where the phantom tells to christine "you try my patience!!!" omg he was like growling the line out, violently throwing the manniquin to one side. so sexy. i could really feel for the phantom. he was pleading, "christine! christine! i love you." *gasp* felt sad for him. especially when she had gone, then she ran back to return him his ring (which incidently, he wore on his pinky finger lol). oh, but his "the world showed no compassion to me" wasn't as passionate as i expected. it was so sad when he sang his "it's over now the music of the night". i caught a previous line, him singing about himself being an angel in hell. it's true kinda. it's not that he wanted to be bad. he craved for human affection, for acceptance, for love. he's in hell because the world shunned him and treated him like a demon, a monster. it's very sad. first time i feel for the phantom's pain. when christine kissed him, how he must have felt. can only imagine.

then, the ending, when they found his lair. the phantom sat in his chair and covered himself up with his black cloak. then when meg giry came and she pulled off the cloak, the chair was empty except for the phantom mask. damn silly ending, she just held up the mask and showed it to the audience. lol! heard someone say that it was anti-climax. anyway, ya, they pulled another david copperfield there. it was more impressive somehow. it was like, did he realy exist? he vanished not say without a trace, but without a sound, like he never was there in the first place. it should have ended there instead of a few seconds later. anyway, beautiful anyway. standing ovations. loudest clap for the phantom (duh).

on the whole, like i said, well worth my money. wanted to buy "prima donna" tshirt but the crowd was quite bad and decided to save money in the end. so just got the programme book. definitely a must see. it brings the whole story to life somehow, better than watching it on tv. there's something about the stage performance that's so much better and more real. and that's that little thing that distinguishes theatre from cinema. anyway, not to discourse about that, let me rate this. on my multi purpose scale, i rate it 4 out of 5 stars. because well...raoul sounded like a duck, seriously. and phantom wasn't all that good of an actor, although i must say, he made up a lot of it with his singing. but no forgiving raoul. ;p ETA: reduced to 4 because i think 4.5 is a little too high. bit hard to explain, it's a subjective thing. but it's a solid 4.

photo! ok, it's official. i look fat. oh and sumi, your dress isn't messed up at the side, i edited it to remove the date mark. stupid camera put the wrong date on the picture.