I just came from watching the best show ever!!!!
For now at least...but I think it will be for a very long time after!!!
I LOVE
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Okie granted that the singing wasn't all that good
but still,
the screen set and all those costume was quite a feast for the eyes
And I quite liked the way they did a blend in from past to present
black and white to colour....
And it was just so nice to have my memory refreshed
All those lovely songs sung under par, but still recognisable.
Sigh....wish I could see ti in its original
stage production as a musical.
I must have watched it years ago when it came to singapore.
But I must say....
no one beats Michael Crawford in his role as the Phantom!
In this production you have Gerard Butler as the Phantom...
middle aged SCOTTISH ( Glaswegian ) guy, thinning hair kept in place by copious amounts of gel.
The mask they gave him was a tad bit small or maybe that's because he's
a big man.
But he did give a believeable performance and was quite nice looking
for a guy his age.
The character that I REALLY have to gripe about is : RAOUL
My goodness...it's as though in every single movie
you have to have some whiny sub-sub-sub standard whimperer
He acted like this pathetic freak
and frankly speakin it was quite painful to see him
attempt to sing and act all pitiful
paticularly in the last few scenes when he was cornered in the dungeon
and let himself be so EASILY overpowered by the Phantom
LoSER with a CAPITAL L.....
yup that was the most disappointing part I was expecting more
fighting, more action...but NO!
He enters and gets overpowered...the worst part is that
he could actually see the Phantom coming towards him.
Sigh.....
You just can't have your cake and eat it can you.
But still it was a lovely show, I wouldn't mind watching it again.
Maybe I'll catch it in Singapore.
Okie...let's see wat else is there to say about today.
Today was a really short day.
Went in at 9 for one lecture
Had surface anatomy then caught the Phantom at 11.30
(P/s : Today is the first day of the screening of the Phantom. YAY!)
Surface Anatomy:
This week it was about the abdomen so we were given
BUTCHER' s plastic aprons to wear
and we got crayons and started drawing the different regions
etc onto our aprons.
Sounds pre-school huh?
Quite fun really.
Then we got one of the fellas to sacrifice his body for the sake of science
And we started to palpate his liver and kidneys
and hear his gut sounds and feel his abdominal aortic pulse.
And that was that really.
I'm gonna head back now and immerse myself in DVDs and ER.
Sigh....NEED MORE SELF CONTROL!!!!
Well, it's monday again.
I must be seriously bored to be here filling out
another entry.
It's in between lectures now.
Have a two hour break.
WHoopee.....not.....seriously running out of ideas
on what to do during these breaks.
ANyway, nothing much happened yesterday.
Did laundry, cleaned out my room, watched ER,
finished Angels and Demons.
Ate dinner,
slept.
Woke up at 4 am and did some work.
Have been awake ever since.
For all you Dan Brown Fans:
IF you liked The Davinci Code
you'd love Angels and Demons.
So proud to have finished that book.
A real page turner.
If you're gonna read it, start early on a saturday morning
and read non-stop.
But actually it doesn't matter if you don't read it continuously
because once you pick up from where you left off,
you're instantly back in the thick of the action.
I can't describe why I love that book.
Maybe I just love Dan Brown.
haha...
I'm bored once again....
Cheers
''IF''
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build em' up with worn out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch - and - toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them : ' Hold On!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - not lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With 60 seconds' worth of distance run -
Your's is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
~ Rudyard Kipling ~
