This is the first time that we sat in the first row seats. The view was excellent, we can see Kit Chan and the other actors very clearly, in fact so clearly that we can spot microphones on their forehead, which I am not sure whether this is a good thing or not.
Kit chan gave a fabulous rendition as the Cixi... This woman has really power lungs. The song sang by her was resonated with passion and despire as she can't do much to help her dying husband and son.
The inaccuracy of the historical aspects spoiled the otherwise spectacular performance. I am so perturb by the inaccuracy that I have to check up my texts and internet for validation. Turns out that we are wrong in some part of the Messy Qing history.
Eg: We know that Pu yi is the last emperor of China. But we thought that he is the nephew of Cixi... Turn out that Cixi 's nephew is Guang Xu. Stoopid me tot that Guang xu is the father of Xuan feng. Nah, Xuan feng father is called Dao guang... Turns out that the musical is right abt Guang Xu being Tong Zhi 's successor. Aiyoh. After Guang Xu die, Pu yi then ascend the throne. (Pu Yi is supposed to be Guang Xu half bro)
Ahhh... Headache ah.
But hoh, the interesting fact that I have encountered is that all the last 3 emperors of China did not have any children. Pu Yi and Guang Xu are known to be impotent. Even Xuan Feng, Cixi 's husband got prob with producing a heir. Tong Zhi die early due to STD. Garfield and I discussed and conclude that qing blood become too thin after all the inbreeding of those bannerman. Aiyoh, must be lah.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Saturday, September 16, 2006
A tale out of nothingness
Wham, had been a long long time since I last blogged. Reason is I have nothing to blog about. Lament abt my job; same old stuff that bored even me to tears. Interesting pple; I din get to meet any, unlike garfield.
Okie I do meet pple, but hoh, not the totally glam and foreign kind.
I went to a course recently and meet a Primary school teacher, what interest me is that like me, she can tok lengths on Classic books. The batter is comfortable and we actually know what each of us are toking about.
We actually tok abt Mr Darcy and Elizabeth conversation in Pride and Prejudice and whether Keira Knightley shd be the one who protray Elizabeth based on the novel.
Hello, how many of us will make such a conversation? Perhaps u may say that it is boring, but then the rarity of finding such pple makes me feel understood all of sudden. The bond is there, surely.
As this course is a small class, we get to tok to the lecturer too. Interesting biology lecturer who is a Hawaiian. Can see that he took effort in coaching non-bio teachers on the dissecting of cell. While we are doing the dissecting of a fig fruit, we managed to get the wasp whose whole life is embedded in the fig;like a microecosystem.
Well, we din managed to learn that in the textbook, or perhaps, not the right textbook.
He is really exhilarated on the few wasps as he claimed that he had learnt abt them in the books, but never ever saw any inside the fruit before in his life.
Yah, the wasps were quite difficult to find as they resembles black spots in naked view, you have to really break open the fruit for us to see it under a microscope.
This is real learning moment. If we never bothered with the details, we cannot "discovered" what has been already there in front of us as we are too used to routine, which is just cut, sliced and look at the seeds.
Thus opportuntity is out there, our obession of getting from one point to another prevent us from seeing it. Maybe we should just slowed down and relax, more things can be revealed to us if we are in less stressed state of mind.
The best things that come out from this " discovery thingy" is, Dr Hawaii want us to be part of his team for making learning materials for teaching purpose.
Yuppe, can write that down for my CV and portfolio liao...
(ps: okie, Dr Hawaii is foreign, with a Japanese mother.)
Okie I do meet pple, but hoh, not the totally glam and foreign kind.
I went to a course recently and meet a Primary school teacher, what interest me is that like me, she can tok lengths on Classic books. The batter is comfortable and we actually know what each of us are toking about.
We actually tok abt Mr Darcy and Elizabeth conversation in Pride and Prejudice and whether Keira Knightley shd be the one who protray Elizabeth based on the novel.
Hello, how many of us will make such a conversation? Perhaps u may say that it is boring, but then the rarity of finding such pple makes me feel understood all of sudden. The bond is there, surely.
As this course is a small class, we get to tok to the lecturer too. Interesting biology lecturer who is a Hawaiian. Can see that he took effort in coaching non-bio teachers on the dissecting of cell. While we are doing the dissecting of a fig fruit, we managed to get the wasp whose whole life is embedded in the fig;like a microecosystem.
Well, we din managed to learn that in the textbook, or perhaps, not the right textbook.
He is really exhilarated on the few wasps as he claimed that he had learnt abt them in the books, but never ever saw any inside the fruit before in his life.
Yah, the wasps were quite difficult to find as they resembles black spots in naked view, you have to really break open the fruit for us to see it under a microscope.
This is real learning moment. If we never bothered with the details, we cannot "discovered" what has been already there in front of us as we are too used to routine, which is just cut, sliced and look at the seeds.
Thus opportuntity is out there, our obession of getting from one point to another prevent us from seeing it. Maybe we should just slowed down and relax, more things can be revealed to us if we are in less stressed state of mind.
The best things that come out from this " discovery thingy" is, Dr Hawaii want us to be part of his team for making learning materials for teaching purpose.
Yuppe, can write that down for my CV and portfolio liao...
(ps: okie, Dr Hawaii is foreign, with a Japanese mother.)
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