Accruals - to settle what we left behind

I know it has been 13 days after friday the 13th - my last post. Well, a lot of things happened since then that I was not conditioned to write. And, yes, of course lack of motivation takes his credit for this phenomenon as well. I know it is an undesirable behaviour for an early stage immature blog. That is the very reason iwasbornmagenta is not officially released yet, means I still have the liberty to post or not. It's like I am engaged, the vow of writing has not bound me yet.

As the title might suggest, I shall recount and settle anything left behind for the past 13 days. I personally felt I have been settling things in accrual basis increasingly. In other words, I am delaying stuffs. Especially things that involve other person. For instance, when Yulin asked me to teach her some accounting stuff, I delayed my answer till a day before the paper. As Yulin is a sweet nice girl, I did not mean to delay, and I usually never. I was asleep when I received her message and exams preparation occupied me since then that I forgot about it. But, I settled it, in most cases I did and I do not want to miss a thing.

Victor-Victoria

Well, I shall start from this point, where this event actually kept me away from writing.

When we celebrate Fenty's Birthday ('we' refers to the Indonesian NTU who graduated from JC), Merwyn came up with an ideda to watch a musical together. And so we watched Victor Victoria on the 15th



Staged in esplanade, this spectacle was the Asian premiere. It offered very strong music arrangement, elaborate settings and good comedy. I have to admit that all the actors are truly proffesional. Besides that, they had stunning dance displays. Combined with live orchestra and powerful original composition, this musical was a delight to watch.

I was particularly mesmerized by the music composition of this piece. Th chord progession during the part where Victoria was debating with Toddy (Carroll Todd) gave me goose bumps. I've never heard such combination of jazz chords. Simply amazing.

Laura Fygi, an internationally recognised jazz singer, acted as Victoria/count Victor, the main character. She has a unique vocal that really suits jazz, soothing and swaying. She was not that stellar in terms of acting though. Matt Grey (Carroll Todd) and Nicole Stinton (Norma Cassidy) stole the show I guess. Nicole Stinton put an exceptionally entertaining performance with the bimbotic-blonde interpretation of her character.

And, you know what, we got the chance to get Ms.Fygi's autograph and interact with her!

This is us with Ms. Laura Fygi

The escapade

and, next, despite the exam drawing near, I went for a resort escape to Batam. I simply needed a break,

and after that was history ( exams, you know it...)

However, yesterday, as we celebrate Claudia's birthday ('we' refers to my fix people in school here), we self-declared a mid-exam break, well some of us. It really felt like the end of the exam that Im losing my mood to restart mugging now. (ssssiiigghhh...). We dined in this mid-eastern restaurant in Arab Street called Amira's Grill. It rocks!! We took the king's corner and dine arab style by sitting on carpet and low table. The dips was simply awesome!!! The main course was nice, especially the herbs and spices, totally exotic (Crystal's term to describe the dinner haha)and the egyptian Babousa was a sweet wrap up for the 4 course meal.

the main course-mix kebab, some illustration to make you drool XD

We continued to watch 2012 and, yeah, I have to admit that it was a good movie. I had a little debate with cystal after the show about the quality. She said it did not live to her expectation, but I think it was quite entertaining. Maybe because I came with no expectation whatsoever despite the hoohahs about 2012. Well it was just a disaster movie, what do you expect, I suppose.

Anyway after such a long and happy soiree, ee chong proposed that we would have after exam celebrations on 2nd and 7th, after our each paper. We are left with Ric, Seehoo, me and JC who still have the agony of exams. And, yeahs, we DEFINITELY will celebrate!! hahaha..

Exams have been well so far, I know i'm being ungrateful for committing some stuffs, ought to have self control, must.

see you space cowboys

p.s thanks for teaching me how to play mahjong, it was fun although it lapsed to scary story session XD