Been wanting to change out my bed vacuum. Saw a few from Taobao but eventually I chose a Japanese brand.
9th May : Was walking around in Orchard while waiting for lil’ one to finish her therapy and passed by Tokyu Hands. Finally bought it after comparing the prices in various places, slightly cheaper in Tokyu Hands.
I thought Tuesday was going to be my last trip to Flower Dome, but here l am again today. 我的心痒痒when che-che said she's meeting her friend to see tulips but I had things to do at home. Then .....the more I look at my flowers at home the more I wanted to go down again. Few hours after she left home i went.
It's really the last one unless I gila and decide to go down on Monday, their last day. 🤣
* attached a video collage
The bud yesterday. Stop! Stop! Stop! Slow down.
I thought l am a cat #twolivestakenfromme# 😂
I went from being Empress Dowager to Cleopatra - laying down low on floor to grout. When I lay down low my back aches so I sit up, then dizzy. This went on and on so many times.
That's why it's taking me so long to grout just 3 places. I only do the grout lines where I couldn't reach last time for the toilets. As at this time (8.03pm), I'm still waiting for the master toilet grout to dry before cleaning off the excess. Then I can shower!!!! time to rest then next day to work like horse again.
Ps: when I was doing the master toilet. Hubby came into the toilet with a small fan for me. Wah.....I super touched leh! He must have seen how dirty I looked.
But hor .....coz he wanted to turn on the room aircon.
Chey! Make me happy for nothing!
After the electrician left, I went to regrout the kitchen.
Suppose to just clean off the part I didn't clean off last time (that was not easy to clean given the angle) n do section under the fridge, I ended up doing the whole kitchen 🤦🏻♀️
And grout the wall grout lines where the fridge is. I couldn't reach in the other time #missshortie# #shortarm#
🤦🏻♀️ when I forgot to check out. I only realised this when I was going to Check-In into my class.
Happened to me a lot of times, coz most times I go into 🚗 and then do my FOC Grab driver job. Once back home also totally forgot abt it.
No worries. Before my tutors all start panicking n requests to do online lessons, I was there only from 1.20pm to 2.15pm to pack my lunch at SoPho n a grocery 🏃♀️. Was in 3rd level the whole time. (I didn't sleep in Parkway 🤣. Anyway the person was there in the evening.
#besafeeveryone# #rmbrtocheckinandout# #iamok# #irregardlessiwillstillmonitormyself#
Truly appreciate your sweet gesture, Youli Song
731 sleeps and 6 aliens (4 papa aliens and 2 babies) have tried invading my territory. Commander Teo's instruction is KILL ON SIGHT.
Did my grocery run after dropping che-che in school.
It's so nice to go into a supermarket without the crowd. For the first time, I did my grocery slow coz no queue; no crowd. Well, actually the main reason is : in my blunder I deleted my grocery shopping list (c so I was literally walking aisle by aisle.
Better still, as I just learnt, it's 24hrs too!
Okay..but that doesn't mean I'll run out of the house in the wee hours
10th May 2016
365 sleeps since ...and guess what? I've not stepped into the gym
yet!
10th May 2015
They say kids are tech savvy, I certainly agree. Dunno how that girl figured out she could mirror her phone to the TV and start playing videos there. And here I am still keying "how to ..." into the search engine.
10th May 2015
Guess who chose this plant?
😀她的造句真好笑😀
My girl wants to see this school too.... I asked her why should we go? It's too far, out of her league, n it's not our targetted school.
Okay, real reason is .. I'm too lazy. So blardy hot!! I'd rather hide in the aircon room at home and nuah
My whiteboard now - all cleaned.
Study table - partially tidied up. Haven't sort out the Top school exam papers. Need to tabulate the scores in my reward chart.
がんばって！
I’m culture-ly busy this year which also left me very poor-ly - a huge hole in my pocket 🤭 When I learnt that Les Mis is coming to Singapore again I know I have to go. They came in 1994, 1996 (didn’t go for this), 2016. It’s time to go again to re-watch with che-che who is now 24 and probably more mature and should understand and appreciate musicals more now than before. Last time was probably I drag them to musicals to expose them to the theatres. Need to rub this expensive influence 😂 on them. Later I noticed that only Che-che appreciates so I only buy tickets for the both of us.
Bought the tickets last year and waited so long for this. I really love Les Mis.
After checking thru the dates in Mr Google
All the time I kept thinking Les Mis was my first musical but it’s not! Les Mis was the second musical I watched with my friend Clarence after watching Cats[1993]. (obviously Cats was the wrong choice coz it didn’t leave much impression on me. I hated Cats coz it came to behind us and the aisle and the thick makeup scared me. The plot was also super boring about some street cats) I know I went for three musicals (Phantom[1995] was the 3rd) with him coz we both like musicals. All musicals at Kallang Theatre 😂. It was that long ago! That time it’s not easy to find friends who have the same interest, unlike now I can just bring che-che with me.
But probably because I was a little disappointed with Cats that I went with low expectation. I was super WOW-ed with Les Mis. Frankly it’s the only musical where I took the effort to get the scores and find the lyrics.
Loved this that just for Les Mis, this is the 4th time I’m watching this (twice in Singapore and once in London when I was flying.) BUT the first time for this arena concert style. It is going to be a new experience for us.
Had to set countless reminders that my tickets include a drink. Can you believe that I had forgotten to claim a programme booklet in Miss Saigon? (edited : found out on date of publishing this blog entry that we had a collectible to claim in Sunset Boulevard as well! 🤦🏻♀️
With the Dream Premium ticket we have a dedicated lane for entry. 讲到很好听而已. When we decide to go into the foyer there was no queue anywhere 😝, no special red carpet laid on the ground doing the Cannes walk of fame. If there was a long queue in 3 other lanes, I will strut in with nose in the air in our dedicated lane and do the royal wave 👋. We went in earlier coz we weren’t sure if we can bring the drink into the hall. If we can’t, we need time to gobble down the drink.
For the Les Misérables Arena Spectacular in Singapore 2026, the "Dream Premium" and "Freedom VIP" ticket packages include a complimentary themed drink before the show begins.
The concert commenced with the startling snare drum, timpani, trombone, horn and dunno what else two notes that had everyone in shock🤣. All of us were caught off guard coz it took them longer than usual to start after the whole hall is quiet. All shoulders lifted upwards in sync. Haha! The starting of the story and music is harsh and heavy. Umm…. Dunno how to explain but maybe you get what I mean.
I wasn’t sure if getting third row was a good choice. I was worried about tilting my head up if I had chosen the first row. Then Jean Valjean tore his paper and threw it on the ground. The first row people, a group of chinese teens, ran to pick up the papers. The people around us were laughing at them. I wonder what’s on the piece of paper? If all of them friends picked up, they can piece them back together. Maybe it’s just a blank piece of paper?
Although I’ve watched Les Miserables musical thrice, sometimes I may forget certain scenes in the musical. In this concert when Bishop covered up for Jean Valjean’s theft and gave him the two candlesticks, I cried.
“But remember this, my brother
See in this some higher plan
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man
By the witness of the martyrs
By the passion and the blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have saved your soul for God.”
This is the turning point, the time for redemption. The time Jean Valjean turned to be a good man. I used to ask che-che why she needs to buy books and why she has to re-read them? Her explanation was “sometimes you may miss out certain things if you need it once, read it the second time I may have a different interpretation.” Not her exact words but something like that lah! So now it applies to musicals. Haha! Meaning I must watch it many times. Wah! So expensive story telling. I shall pick up Victor Hugo’s book and read.
Of course story is also about the socioeconomic disparity in France. So many important lessons we can learn from this story to apply to our daily lives. Of course I’m not suddenly going to be Mother Theresa Lily. So yah, I think I should read the book to have a deeper understanding. Victor Hugo wrote this book when he was in exile so maybe he was approaching story in that direction? I may be wrong. Hmm…..will I get to finish it? I have e-books in my iPad and I haven’t finished reading the book I was reading 🤣. I definitely cannot read the same book twice or thrice coz I already have problem finding time to finish the first time.
I’m not sure if anyone goes to the musical as blindly as I do. Haha! I usually don’t read what the story is about prior to it (just like I go to SSO concerts blindly), so I have to keep my eyes and ears open to see and listen carefully to the lyrics. But Les Mis coz I’ve been a few times I get to see how (1) the kiddos 被枪毙 at the barricade and (2) Javert commit suicide. He just walked away! Haha! I thought they would use the stairs and make him jump down from the 5th step. Anyway the theatrical staging has to do it that way with this concert version, just walk away. This new experience doesn’t take much away, all compensated with the staging the lights. Not forgetting the projector to see the casts faces clearly. I was in third row so can still see their faces. But I hate to think that those people sitting at the first or second level may be blocked by the whatever setup and lights.
How he commit suicide in this Arena Spectacular?
https://youtube.com/shorts/A-0wRTtdMUw?si=-Sy41pBB0tB6z346
How is it that people can secretly record? In SIN, the ushers will go out quickly and stop. But I must admit that so far I haven’t seen audience around me stopped by the ushers coz I’m usually in the front few rows 😂. Not sure if those people at the furthest away seats sneak video taking or not.
Throughout the whole concert, the lady next to me was singing along to the songs. Wasn’t a nuisance but it goes to show that she knows alot of songs, she must be a much bigger fan of Les Mis compared to moi 🤭. But I was really irritated with this chinese ah-boy in first row when clapping after songs would raise his hands up above his head to clap. So 夸张。 I wish I can use a rubber band, fold a paper and shoot his hands. Luckily during curtain call he didn’t do that coz he was busy filming. Haha!
Finally it was curtain call. As usual in any Les Mis the Thénardiers steal the show with their comedic acts, a break away from the emotional cry story. I need time to clear my blocked nose, if not cry somemore I must breathe thru my mouth. Lea Salonga played the role of Mrs Thénardier with Red Concepción as the greedy manipulative innkeeper. Seeing the way he played the comical character, I thought he is suitable to play The Engineer role in Miss Saigon. And lol! He did play the role before 🤣, not in the ones I watched tho.
Somehow his name sounded familiar, now I know l may have come across his name somewhere before.
As for Lea Salonga, I was lucky to see her when she was playing Kim in Broadway. Seeing her twice is not a lot but just glad to see her in different roles.
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10th May :
Still in this Les Mis craze. Promise, this is the last post on Les Mis.
Came across this on YouTube, click HERE
Will I watch it once more if they come to shore? Not sure if che-che remembers what she saw in 2016, how the stage and people walking on a huge lazy susan and moving from one scene to the next. She might be keen to watch it again. If it took them 10 years to come back with this concert style, will it be another 10 years later for Les Mis to return? If so, at 61 I need to wear adult diapers coz sure cannot tahan holding bladder anymore 🤣. Maybe by then che-che can pay for my ticket instead of me bringing her.
