The Phantom of the Opera
18 November 2008, 10:29 pm. 17 Comments. Filed under Holiday.
Made of WIN.
The $120 NZD ($65 USD) was so bloody worth the live stage show a few metres away from me. If you thought the 2004 movie was amazing (as I did), this was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G with capital letters.
I was sitting in the middle-middle of the theatre, and almost the entire time the chandelier was hanging right above my head. 
And for those who don't know the story of this musical, the chandelier falls and crashes to the middle of the theatre. But W-O-W at the music and stage effects.
I came home, sat down at the computer, and am replaying the musical soundtracks and singing along to it. I remembered the entire script and the lyrics since years ago. I'm obsessed. I'm definitely going again when it comes to Auckland again in ten years' time. 
What a great treat to myself to celebrate end of 2008 exams. If the show visits your way, make sure you throw in your money, and for the premium seats too. It's going to Perth after leaving Auckland at the end of the month. Again, made of WIN.
A little contrast to my daily life
7 September 2008, 2:58 pm. 11 Comments. Filed under Holiday, Miscellaneous, School, Web-related.
First, let's define my daily life:
But for an anomaly of a past week, I was allowed to go to four parties in a row—big big contrast to my 5pm curfew last year.
- Law Stein: with a "90's Rave" theme, this was the last of our four annual steins. (Although I hear of a fifth coming after the final exams.) The most un-sober I got on this night was at the pre-drinks party hehe.
- Opening Night Dinner: a great event for a chat with random new people. Fun, but I was extremely red and tipsy after one glass of chardonnay. Couldn't take more, or I wouldn't have been able to get to my bus home.
- Pub Crawl: Arrived at the city with my outfit ready, full-on with a stethoscope and all, I was planning to attend the event as a "zambuk" (kudos to you if you know what it means). But I didn't sleep well the night before, so after timekeeping for a mooting competition I wagged the event and went home. This day marked the failure of my party marathon. Sigh.
- Cocktail Party: free cocktails, interactions with lawyers at a large law firm at the Auckland Viaduct, what could go wrong? Well, a vodka-champagne mix pushed me over the edge and I couldn't stand straight for an hour afterwards. I suck at alcohol. Period.
So I trotted along to those parties in the name of "social network building" within my future career field. The last three were special events held by the NZLSA Conference, which I was invited to for building their website (together with Tim).
Now that also explains my lack of blogging. There, I've fulfilled my dream #1 of attending a classy, civilised cocktail event like those in movies and novels (except not as grand but still). And now, I'm back to reality:
*sulks*
Update: Added some photos of the party events!
A movie-full holiday and new semester
28 July 2008, 8:54 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Holiday, Miscellaneous, School.
It was rushing a criminal essay during the last week of my three-week semester "break" and cutting the number of words from 2870 down to the maximum of 1800 the night before deadline (actually went down to 1798 woot).
And it's movies and anime to welcome the pile of work to get started on. In order of movies watched:
Flushed Away: very, very cute adventures of mice.- The Comebacks: fucking gay and wrong in every single way possible. The 1 point is for being so bad that I could better concentrate on my work rather than watching it.
- Ratatouille: absolutely godly! Cute genius definitely.
- In the name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale: some mock-Lord of the Rings-ish thing.
- Devil Wears Prada: watched it for the second time. I love the pretty dresses.
- One Piece: only watched four episodes so far. It's good, but I still like Bleach better.
- Enchanted: creative, beautiful, happy, simply great, great, great!
I've never watched so many movies in such little time. In addition, I also watched four movies in the cinema during the short break:
- 21: I liked it for the smart students but it was much too kiddish cheating, highly unrealistic for Las Vegas casinos.
- The Incredible Hulk: other than the admirable digitally-created green giant itself, the plot and ending is by far worse than the previous Hulk movie.
- Kung-Fu Panda: so incredibly cute and funny, I like the strong links to actual Chinese history on martial arts. A must-watch!
- Hancock: very average. Funny etc. in the middle but ending wasn't anywhere near good. I repeat: very average.
Now just waiting for the bumhole New Zealand cinemas to hurry their arses up to get "Wanted" and "Wall-E" out!
