Archive for the ‘The great outdoors’ Category

You’ll never look at dinner the same way again

A summary of my past couple of weeks and the next one.
The Unguarded Moment by Steve McCurry

The exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum showcases a selection of McCurry’s works, including the world’s most recognised photograph -the above “Afghan Girl”. Most of his displayed photographs were taken in Asia, especially India.
I like how McCurry believes that [...]

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P-p-p-poker face!

A hodgepodge of updates / ramblings ahead. I hope this doesn’t mean that my attention span has been reduced to 140 characters or less, especially since I’m not even into Twitter!
Uh, anyway.
1. Grabbed my Lady Gaga tickets yesterday! Unfortunately the Early Bird tickets flew off the shelves like nobody’s business, so I could only lay [...]

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Much Ado About Nothing

After missing the first two Shakespeare in the Park productions, I finally caught SRT’s Much Ado About Nothing at Fort Canning Green last night. Awesome stage and props, although the portrayal of Act 4, Scene i kinda raised my eyebrows (a Chinese wedding in Sicily in the 1600s? Surely that’s pushing the envelope a little [...]

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Oscar Wilde at his finest

Premier tomorrow:

Had watched the movie back in 2002 (Colin Firth!) and it was incredibly funny. Now the play will be showing at the Drama Centre, 25 March – 11 April 2009. I heard it’s gonna be an all-male cast, so expect surprises and get your tickets here already!
I’ll be volunteering so do say hi if [...]

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Do your bit for Mother Earth – switch off

Was at the Earth Hour volunteer briefing yesterday and the presentation by Ms Carine Seror (the director of WWF Singapore) was reminiscent of An Inconvenient Truth.  
She spoke about the frog. Remember?  The one which gets thrown into a beaker of lukewarm water and does nothing when the temperature of the water is increased gradually, [...]

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I’m probably half deaf now but it doesn’t really matter…

… ‘cos SINGfest 08 totally rocked my soooockssss!!!

 
Never mind that it must have been a thousand degrees in the day and I didn’t have my dinner till it was 2 am, ‘cos I had a friggin’ good time!

The open-air festival started at 2pm on Sunday (didn’t go on Saturday ‘cos I’m not exactly into the emo/punk/britpop line [...]

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Why so serious?

Haven’t updated this space in a gazillion years!
Thank you everyone for the well wishes sent through the website, emails, Friendster, Facebook, sms, etc :) And especially to those who took time off to come down, many thanks! Will share the photos once they’re available, yea?
Unfortunately, the couple of days of formalities itself was plain tiring for me [...]

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Spaß!

I know I haven’t updated this space for eons!
Went for German on Monday this week instead of the usual Saturday so I could play paintball yesterday, and it was sooo much funnnnnn!!! Thanks PwC Sports Club for organising!
Mahesh and I reached the Orchid Country Club slightly before 10am for the briefing etc. Unsurprisingly, only less than half [...]

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