The Opera Populaire

A very nice weekend indeed. Met a lot of new people, some of which can only be explained as being part of God's grand scheme of things! It is flabbergasting what can happen when you decide to venture beyond your comfort zone and the God of the universe reached down to do a little miracle.

Watched the musical "Notre Dame" with my cousins and two new frens. I dunno how to say this nicely, but that was the 1st time I had ever gone to watch a performance wishing that it would end asap. Perhaps sitting at the higher levels of the Indoor Stadium was not exactly the best way to catch the actors' expression and get into the feel of the performance. The songs also all sounded very similarly fiery and intense...not enough variation. It made the whole show a flat but racous mess with not enough variation of emotions. It was also very distracting to keep having to look sideways at the subtitle screens because the musical was in French. I thought they should have put more effort into costume and scenery changes as well.

Finally mastered cycling! Learned it during Sec 4 graduation chalet but never had the opportunity to touch a bike till now. Had to re-learn it all over again. Through very unexpected way too! Lets just say that God taught me Himself *wink* My body is covered with bruises, esp the rear end now...and it's not from falling down, but simply from sitting on the bike. I'm also some degrees tanner now, as my wrist will prove.

It was so good to see Joo Cheong, Andrew and Chingling again. Joo Cheong's Chinese is really power...he could guess all my lame Chinese quiz in an instant! Andrew never fail to entertain as usual, with his mock Mexican rendition of "Speedy Gonzales" and instant Chinese translation of "Blue Da Ba Dee" and confession of recent fascination with car tyre patterns.Happy birthday to Cherky and Weijin!