Going chronologically so…

The bro came back on Wednesday but had to book in on Thursday (strange army). So I went with him up to Boon Lay to visit Jurong Point cos I wanted to go buy the book “Queen of the Damned”. I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but, Jurong Point reminds me of the Paris shopping centre in some areas. Anyway, point is, went to Sans bookshop there where I didn’t find QotD, but I did find a lot of other Anne Rice books. However I wasn’t looking for those. Bought Bleak House instead. I know, pretty random. Anyway, after that, took a bus ride with the bro up to his camp. He stopped there and I continued in the bus up to Choa Chu Kang. By the way, the cemetery we passed by looked freaking nice. Imagine a hill of crosses. Not the nicely ordered ones but very full and cluttered and messy in a charming kind of way. Anyway, went up to Choa Chu Kang where I was intending to borrow QotD from the library there. Then I saw Sans bookshop outlet there and I thought, give it a go. And I found it! Hehe! Happy. Got it. Therefore, I’m quite poor this week. :p

Saturday, attended Norma’s 21st birthday party at Orchid Country Club. Yup, quite a very ulu part of the world. But very nice place. Never been there before. Took a shuttle bus from Yishun MRT to go there. The shuttle bus stop at the club was at the other end of the building from where the party was going to be held but luckily, I saw the sign when the bus drove past so I didn’t quite get lost. Couldn’t  find the place when I got there. The map did not do quite a good job with 3D stuff, ie, trying to show different levels of the building. But, spotted Norma with her princess crown so went towards there. It was fun. Got to meet up with the NUS choir folks after so long. Miss them lots. Played Wacko and ‘Untangle the Knot’ game. Was quite fun, except that it was quite humid outdoors, especially when we had to do the knot thing which was knotting of all our arms so it was a tight squeeze. Like doing yoga at times.

Sunday, went over to Janice’s house cos Jonathan had to take photos for his photo competition. That boy’s getting into the groove of a professional photographer. Hehe! Ok, it’s his CCA but it’s nice that he seems quite in to it. Ah Ku’s gotten him a DSLR camera and he’s going around trying to gain experience. Joked to him about getting him to be photographer at whatever events that might come up and he clammed up. Funny. Janice and Charlie were cute as usual. The little girl damn cam whore sia! She literally just sat there and smiled as Jonathan snapped photo after photo of her. Just loved the attention. It was near impossible to get pics of her brother though. That kid is gonna have serious separation issues when he has to start school.

Oh yeah, mass was not too bad today. Fr Gerard Louis came. He’s one of my more favourite priests cos he doesn’t come across as all pushy and arrogant about religion. And he smiles a lot, which is nice. Mum says she almost called him “boy” when he wandered over to the canteen to get food in between mass. He looks pretty young still. Anyway, the second reading irked me quite a bit. So freaking oracular! I mean, things like, pray for the things you want. If you don’t get it, means you don’t deserve it cos it was just something that was meant to satisfy your own selfish wants instead of to the glory of god, or whatever. *rolls eyes*

Monday today. Worked on church stuff. I’m doing paperwork and stuff for the church choir and cos the carolling season is coming round, I (trying to be clever) decided that I want to do a booklet thing for all our lyrics and scores. Looks nice and is nicer than a file full of paper. So, I was busy with that all day. But I managed to finish it! I think it’s quite nice, assuming I didn’t make typo errors and the printers agree with me. Sending it round to the com to take a look but it’s taking a hell of a long time to attach and email out. Sigh. I purposely did it as quick as I could so could have more time to feedback and send for printing and, as usual, technology decides to disagree with me. Bleah.

Evening! It rained. Was pretty sad about that cos I was going out. I had “An Evening with Il Divo” to go to. At least the rain subsided by the time I left the house with the bro. We took 158 over to Kallang and walked in. My feet hurt now. Blisters. It looks worse than it is though. Saw Michelle and Alicia doing ushering at the Indoor Stadium. That was a lovely coincidence they were both stationed at the area where I was seated. Went with the bro cos my uncle got me a pair of tickets and mum initially wanted me to go with my dad. Horror! Bro enjoyed it, he said. First time he’d heard Il Divo sing, apparently. I find that hard to believe. I was blasting their songs quite a bit a few years back. Talking about blasting, the sound system in the indoor stadium is DAMN GOOD. Which means: DAMN LOUD!!!! My ears were ringing and I could feel the place throbbing with sound waves. Yeah. The guys are already singing really loud. It was an evening with four very healthy tenor lungs all belting away at the top of their range. David looked pained when he reached for the high notes. Literally looked like they were shouting at some point.  Oh my poor ears.

Anyway, photos!! Didn’t take much cos it’s a paid concert, not a free show thing. Kind of blurry at times cos I had to zoom quite a bit and my hands aren’t the most steady of hands. See my few pics HERE.

Thought those girls lounging on the words were rather random. Wondered what I’d gotten myself into, that Il Divo had to resort to girls posing like that.

This is the clearest of my photos. It’s cropped, by the way, that’s why it looks like it’s so close. They started about 5 minutes late but it was great! First song: “Somewhere”. I didn’t use the camera during the rest of the concert, though I was really tempted to. They had nice background video things. There was a strange bit in the middle where the mini orchestra played “Heroe” in instrumental and Il Divo vanished backstage. Apparently it was a costume change. Hee!

Anyway, the second half was much better than the first half. Maybe cos by then I’d gotten used to them and settled into the rhythm of things. But the concert seemed to fly by! Sad about that. Anyway, they took turns introducing and talking a little between the songs. Carlos was so funny. Some sound bites: “Hello Singapore! Did you miss my little… curl?” (pointing to his hair).  “Good evening ladies.” (what about the gentlemen in the audience??) “Yes my darling, my number is 604… no, no.” (Could almost hear the ‘awwww’ from the audience.) “It’s time to get a bit more Latino.” LOL!!!! It wasn’t quite full house like I expected. It was full in the middle of the audience but got more empty as it approached the sides. Quite a few fangirls in the house. A bunch of them got the front row seats and were waving light sticks around and all.

This was during the encore “Amazing Grace”, the interlude part. They did their good nights and their bow and went backstage but the house lights didn’t go up yet and people were still clapping and cheering. When they came back on, they had another costume change! Cool.

Urs! I think he’s the best singer. Not too overbearing and always hitting the right tone. Hehe! Unfortunately not the best looker. He looked a bit stoned. Not drugged, mind you. Just ‘oh it’s another night, another concert’ kind of attitude. Anyway, I remember his name the most, even if I couldn’t remember whose face it belonged to. Bit embarrassed to say that, although I knew every one of their names and their background stuff a few years ago, I’d completely forgotten it by now. But, was reminded again when they introduced themselves during the concert.

Their final encore piece (I think). “My Way”. Can’t remember though. Will have to check with the bro in the morning. Hehe!

Ok, it’s 1.14am by my computer clock. Don’t feel like going to sleep. That carolling thing is still trying to upload. Damn slow! It’s one of those nights when I wish I don’t need to sleep and that time would just stop still. Oh well. Never does, does it?

Bonne nuit.
Buenas noches.
Gute nache.
Good night.