The Pensieve

The entire bunch of 11 turned up mostly all on time except for me… who um… did the usual thing dopey does when u put her with a car and an unfamiliar place to get to…

Actually I’m a bit sian of Cafe Iguana already hehe… Used to go there quite a bit, and so got scared of the cheese and beans. By the time I got there, most of them had finished their margaritas and were getting started on 3 for $10 tequila shots. I think most of the guys were a bit disinhibited already… SO LOUSY. Pls refer to Wenky’s website for hypoC’s suggestive look before the lick, swallow, suck routine… eh-hem. Okay, his wasn’t very suave, more like lick, grab the shot, smother it down and gobble up the lemon. I think BK, Wenky, and Ahleong did a better job… Hmmm… I snuck a bit fr their shots… Um… it’s like very ‘hot’? I think brandy’s better… more matured, full taste… hmm… Anyway… I’ll make it a point to go to Mexico for the tequila agave ok.

Here are some choice quotes of HypoC, who got a bit tipsy…

“My father say cannot drink, he said cannot drink! But he didn’t say cannot drink mah!”

“I’m not drunk! Let’s go clinic and drink some more!”

“My mummy say must tuck in my shirt.”

After the short stint at Cafe Iguana’s, we moved over to this pastry shop place… It’s next to clinic. Btw, I think clinic looks very unhappening. It reminds me so strongly of the hospital that Ewww… no way… Getting your drinks out of IV drips? Your shots out of syringes? Hospital screens? White and silver all over? Eeeee… Stayed at the dessert place for just a short while and then left… cuz some people wanted to go buy cakes at half price at Ricciotti’s… Some were feeling a bit pukey after an evil fren spun his chair…

I’d watched the musical when it first played in Singapore in 1995. And in April 2007, I was to watch it again… It’s always been my favourite musical, I guess cause it was the first musical I’ve ever seen, and so it etched a deep impression. On the contrary to the first time, where I was sitting right at the stalls (that what it’s called?) and real close to the front, and the chandelier had been precariously hanging above my tiny head, I was sitting in circle 1 this time round… The view’s still quite good though, just a bit skewed.

Unfortunately, I did not enjoy this musical as much as I had expected. Whether it was the events immediately preceeding it, or just that I’d grown up so much that it would now take much more to impress me, I don’t know… Or perhaps, the cast this time was exhausted by their continuous and extended run here? Anyway, it was rather anti-climax because the audience did not give as rousing an applause as it did before, the applause and whistling (was there even any?) did not ‘bring the house down’, and sadly, there were no calls of ‘encore!’.

Still my favourite scene is the boat ride the Phantom took Christine in his lair, and later on, where he sang ‘Music of the Night’. Incidentally, Brad Little’s rendition and ending wasn’t as powerful and lingering as I’d remembered… Nevertheless, he is doubtlessly the best of this lot! Rebecca Knowles was casted as Christine Daae, our female lead, and she wasn’t really that good… I remembered tearing towards the end of the musical when I was a kid then, it was so heart-wrenching to see the Phantom’s heartbreak… But for this one, the ending eh…. not really that tearful… Sigh. Anyway… I think Sarah Brightman sang much better as Christine Daae on my CD… Heh heh…