weekend round-up
1. Yay for a lazy weekend following on a lazy week - I haven't slept as much as I should (OMG it's 4am *cries*), and I haven't watched ANY of the TV I was going to watch, augh. But... urm, at least I got to rest and chill out a bit?
2. Watched Blindness with a friend on Saturday - I really liked it. Not an easy movie to love, and it certainly wasn't perfect by any means (I would have liked to kill the voiceovers at least ten times over)... but it was intelligent in fashioning a dystopian world in which everyone goes blind (except for one woman), quite harrowing to sit through in places, and Julianne Moore - as always - was phenomenal. I do not understand how this woman does not yet have one, two, twenty Oscars. (Okay, because that might involve her getting an Oscar for Benny & Joon, so let's stick with one or two.)
3. Then I went to experience LOCAL THEATRE OF FAIL with my elder brother. He badgered me into watching The Wizard Of Oz - based on the movie with deleted songs (like The Jitterbug) added back in - and I figured I should put my money where my mouth is and support local theatre or it will never take off the way I would like for it to do. The production wasn't... dire. There were some interesting bits, and I kind of had a crush on the dorky Australian actor who played the Tin Man. But it still felt a bit painfully amateurish (it wasn't supposed to be), and... well, I had to duck out at interval and listen to Julia sing The Wizard And I to steel myself to get through the second act. *weeps*
3a. (A gripe: My brother EXPECTED me to record as he forgot to bring his own recorder - yes, I have converted him, ha ha - and then INSISTED ON TALKING throughout the show. Why oh why oh WHY does he keep doing that?! He should KNOW that recorderS pick up AMBIENT NOISE, that's what they are MADE TO DO, WTF. Good thing my battery died. :P I couldn't be bothered to bring fresh batteries and it wasn't a show I'd want to KEEP anyway.)
4. I went to bed at 7am on Sunday but managed to get up and actually meet people for lunch! Mmm, aburi sushi. I love me some sashimi, but when it's done RIGHT, half-seared fish is the way to go. ♥ We had a good long chat, which was nice - I hardly get to see these two friends, and I've literally known them almost half my life. It's crazy how work keeps you from meeting up, even though one of these friends works in the SAME BUILDING as me. Insanity.
5. And then I was supposed to do SOMETHING - watch a movie and/or tv, go for yoga... and I wound up flailing and taking a two-hour nap instead. WTF ARGH. Good thing noldoparma asked me out for dinner at the last minute to distract me from watching Mamma Mia for a FIFTH time (I swear, the temptation has been STRONG this weekend). MORE Japanese food (I could subsist on this forever) - unagi (eel) and asari (clam) kamameshi (claypot rice). See here - man. Why so yummy? BTW, I love how Singaporeans clearly have nothing better to do at meal-times than take pictures of their food, since I didn't have to look hard to find a picture of exactly what I ate for dinner last night. Mwahaha. Book shopping with ridiculous discounts after (I have lots of kids' books now - including Neil Gaiman's newest, as well as the new Xanth paperback, as I am a dorky completist that way), then dessert.
6. And why was I FLAILING, might you ask? Not that I ever really NEED a reason, but the simplystreep.com forum has been down since the beginning of October due to bad spamming issues, which has criminally prevented me from getting at Meryl flail and pictures. Today, for some reason, I was FINALLY able to register, so I swooped in there and POSTED LIKE A MOFO so they can't cut me. And then I went through SIXTY PAGES OF PICTURES posted by the people on the forum because it's better than going through the 10,000 pictures in the image archive by myself. (RIGHT?) Found a shit-ton of new gorgeous photos (predictably, icons have already been made), and one of my ABSOLUTE favourites is my new icon - SO. EFFING. BEAUTIFUL. AMIRITE. - but the one I liked BEST, after looking through a couple hundred photos...?
AHAHAHAHA. DORK. ♥ ♥ ♥
7. Finally, everyone NEEDS to watch this video - because Perfect is one of my FAVOURITE Julia songs ever (EVER EVER) and it's such a treat to get to WATCH her perform it live. She acts the crap out of it and it breaks my heart, is what it does. It's SO. SAD.
8. Okay. I'm going to bed now, even though my younger brother and his friends have been playing Rock Band for the LAST FIVE HOURS (no lie) and they're clearly practising the same ONE song OVER AND OVER AGAIN. It's a public holiday on Monday, but I'm going into work anyway because I can't keep up with everything otherwise. But I also plan to go for yoga and... err, watch a movie. I have a free voucher that I HAVE to use tomorrow... and there's nothing to SEE but High School Musical 3. *weeps* So I guess that's what it'll have to be...??
2. Watched Blindness with a friend on Saturday - I really liked it. Not an easy movie to love, and it certainly wasn't perfect by any means (I would have liked to kill the voiceovers at least ten times over)... but it was intelligent in fashioning a dystopian world in which everyone goes blind (except for one woman), quite harrowing to sit through in places, and Julianne Moore - as always - was phenomenal. I do not understand how this woman does not yet have one, two, twenty Oscars. (Okay, because that might involve her getting an Oscar for Benny & Joon, so let's stick with one or two.)
3. Then I went to experience LOCAL THEATRE OF FAIL with my elder brother. He badgered me into watching The Wizard Of Oz - based on the movie with deleted songs (like The Jitterbug) added back in - and I figured I should put my money where my mouth is and support local theatre or it will never take off the way I would like for it to do. The production wasn't... dire. There were some interesting bits, and I kind of had a crush on the dorky Australian actor who played the Tin Man. But it still felt a bit painfully amateurish (it wasn't supposed to be), and... well, I had to duck out at interval and listen to Julia sing The Wizard And I to steel myself to get through the second act. *weeps*
3a. (A gripe: My brother EXPECTED me to record as he forgot to bring his own recorder - yes, I have converted him, ha ha - and then INSISTED ON TALKING throughout the show. Why oh why oh WHY does he keep doing that?! He should KNOW that recorderS pick up AMBIENT NOISE, that's what they are MADE TO DO, WTF. Good thing my battery died. :P I couldn't be bothered to bring fresh batteries and it wasn't a show I'd want to KEEP anyway.)
4. I went to bed at 7am on Sunday but managed to get up and actually meet people for lunch! Mmm, aburi sushi. I love me some sashimi, but when it's done RIGHT, half-seared fish is the way to go. ♥ We had a good long chat, which was nice - I hardly get to see these two friends, and I've literally known them almost half my life. It's crazy how work keeps you from meeting up, even though one of these friends works in the SAME BUILDING as me. Insanity.
5. And then I was supposed to do SOMETHING - watch a movie and/or tv, go for yoga... and I wound up flailing and taking a two-hour nap instead. WTF ARGH. Good thing noldoparma asked me out for dinner at the last minute to distract me from watching Mamma Mia for a FIFTH time (I swear, the temptation has been STRONG this weekend). MORE Japanese food (I could subsist on this forever) - unagi (eel) and asari (clam) kamameshi (claypot rice). See here - man. Why so yummy? BTW, I love how Singaporeans clearly have nothing better to do at meal-times than take pictures of their food, since I didn't have to look hard to find a picture of exactly what I ate for dinner last night. Mwahaha. Book shopping with ridiculous discounts after (I have lots of kids' books now - including Neil Gaiman's newest, as well as the new Xanth paperback, as I am a dorky completist that way), then dessert.
6. And why was I FLAILING, might you ask? Not that I ever really NEED a reason, but the simplystreep.com forum has been down since the beginning of October due to bad spamming issues, which has criminally prevented me from getting at Meryl flail and pictures. Today, for some reason, I was FINALLY able to register, so I swooped in there and POSTED LIKE A MOFO so they can't cut me. And then I went through SIXTY PAGES OF PICTURES posted by the people on the forum because it's better than going through the 10,000 pictures in the image archive by myself. (RIGHT?) Found a shit-ton of new gorgeous photos (predictably, icons have already been made), and one of my ABSOLUTE favourites is my new icon - SO. EFFING. BEAUTIFUL. AMIRITE. - but the one I liked BEST, after looking through a couple hundred photos...?
AHAHAHAHA. DORK. ♥ ♥ ♥
7. Finally, everyone NEEDS to watch this video - because Perfect is one of my FAVOURITE Julia songs ever (EVER EVER) and it's such a treat to get to WATCH her perform it live. She acts the crap out of it and it breaks my heart, is what it does. It's SO. SAD.
8. Okay. I'm going to bed now, even though my younger brother and his friends have been playing Rock Band for the LAST FIVE HOURS (no lie) and they're clearly practising the same ONE song OVER AND OVER AGAIN. It's a public holiday on Monday, but I'm going into work anyway because I can't keep up with everything otherwise. But I also plan to go for yoga and... err, watch a movie. I have a free voucher that I HAVE to use tomorrow... and there's nothing to SEE but High School Musical 3. *weeps* So I guess that's what it'll have to be...??