Saturday, July 15, 2006
the marriage of figaro
work's been great thus far. ungodly waking hours aside (anything before 9am is ungodly to me), all's been going good. my motivation to work has kind of waned in the past few days; i've spent more time indulging in gossip with my now partner-in-crime at the library, with pockets of listening to stories from my mentor, and the occasional client meeting, representation-to-write, and laws to research on. and going for lunch with my mentor and friends means being severely stuffed with food. even though the tea house dim sum at china square is really yummy.
yesterday evening i met my baby for coffee, warm chocolate cake, and 'pirates of the carribean' at 10pm. the movie's not fantastic, but mr. depp singlehandedly saves the show. he is brilliant as jack sparrow. following tt, we had a supper of beef noodles for me and fish porridge for him at newton circus.
today i got off work late coz at 5.25pm, an associate came in with some laws for us to research and we had to present the relevant statutes and hansards before we left. so although ben drove down to raffles place to come find me, i was nonetheless more than half an hour late in meeting diana. we had dinner at thai express in marina square; her pad thai came a lot earlier than my tom yam noodle soup and ben's beef noodle broth.
the dessert of red ruby with coconut ice-cream was pretty nice, but i prefer the dessert with coconut milk and lots and lots of shaved ice.
after dinner, ben and i went to catch 'the marriage of figaro', mozart's opera sung in italian by a completely asian cast. this was my first ever opera. ben appreciates operas; unfortunately i couldn't stay awake in act 1. but i have to admit, the opera was very good. the orchestra was tirelessly amazing and the actors not only sang well, but had good comic timing. the only gripe i had was tt they took sooooooo long to sing 1 song, and the subtitles were so over-simplified tt it made what they were singing seem kind of stupid, so for someone like me i realise tt tt is not a good thing.
because operas are almost twice as long as a normal play or musical. every act takes almost an hour to go through, even if there is not much plot development in tt act. the whole opera took almost 4 hours to go through. nonetheless, it was quite funny, and i was impressed by the amount of effort put into bringing this production on-stage. the sets too, were so picturesque.
after figaro got married, we went to glutton's bay for a supper of hokkien mee. and guess what? i met samuel there! so we spoke fo a while, and then after tt ben and i left to get the car, top up petrol, and then head back down to east coast park to watch the waves of the sea and just enjoy each other's company.
coz ben was craving meat, we had some meat at the 24-hour mac's. then he sent me home and i crashed out in the car. i reached home around 3.30am.
and so here i am. munching on mcnuggets and fighting off the compulsion to zzz. wahaha.
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
yesterday evening i met my baby for coffee, warm chocolate cake, and 'pirates of the carribean' at 10pm. the movie's not fantastic, but mr. depp singlehandedly saves the show. he is brilliant as jack sparrow. following tt, we had a supper of beef noodles for me and fish porridge for him at newton circus.
today i got off work late coz at 5.25pm, an associate came in with some laws for us to research and we had to present the relevant statutes and hansards before we left. so although ben drove down to raffles place to come find me, i was nonetheless more than half an hour late in meeting diana. we had dinner at thai express in marina square; her pad thai came a lot earlier than my tom yam noodle soup and ben's beef noodle broth.
the dessert of red ruby with coconut ice-cream was pretty nice, but i prefer the dessert with coconut milk and lots and lots of shaved ice.
after dinner, ben and i went to catch 'the marriage of figaro', mozart's opera sung in italian by a completely asian cast. this was my first ever opera. ben appreciates operas; unfortunately i couldn't stay awake in act 1. but i have to admit, the opera was very good. the orchestra was tirelessly amazing and the actors not only sang well, but had good comic timing. the only gripe i had was tt they took sooooooo long to sing 1 song, and the subtitles were so over-simplified tt it made what they were singing seem kind of stupid, so for someone like me i realise tt tt is not a good thing.
because operas are almost twice as long as a normal play or musical. every act takes almost an hour to go through, even if there is not much plot development in tt act. the whole opera took almost 4 hours to go through. nonetheless, it was quite funny, and i was impressed by the amount of effort put into bringing this production on-stage. the sets too, were so picturesque.
after figaro got married, we went to glutton's bay for a supper of hokkien mee. and guess what? i met samuel there! so we spoke fo a while, and then after tt ben and i left to get the car, top up petrol, and then head back down to east coast park to watch the waves of the sea and just enjoy each other's company.
coz ben was craving meat, we had some meat at the 24-hour mac's. then he sent me home and i crashed out in the car. i reached home around 3.30am.
and so here i am. munching on mcnuggets and fighting off the compulsion to zzz. wahaha.
# posted by Kitana @ 7/15/2006 04:06:00 AM 
