CSS Esplanade Public Performance @ Thoughts
Saturday, April 01, 2006
after school ends at 2pm that day, I had to rush home and bath and change and rush to Boon Lay MRT station to meet Ying Sheng at 4.10pm.
both of us arrived at Jurong East MRT station at 4.20pm and started waiting for everyone to show up. finally we could leave at 4.40pm or so.
the MRT ride there is full of talking and photo taking, making the journey seem really short. soon we alighted at City Hall MRT station and walked through CityLink Mall to Esplanade.
after arriving at Esplanade, ying sheng and I snapped crazily at anything that is photo-worthy. the design of the building, the people around, some prominent landmarks in the area and blablabla. the rest simply walked around a bit and they decided to head to Clifford Centre for Dinner.
after that we headed back quickly to Esplanade, for it is going to rain soon and it is approaching the latest entry time of 6.45pm anyway.
I had been to Esplanade before so my real "first" is entering the theatre. from the moment ying sheng and I took the escalator up to Circle 2 and took our seats to the intermission and to the end of the performance, I could see that many aspects of the theatre are actually specially tuned for its purpose.
the roof is soundproof and bounces the sound around the theatre (with the bent slabs of blocks) the entire environment looks very classy and exquisite with all electronics hidden well. that explains its high rents.
theatre aside, the show was actually not a bad adaptation. it is rather localised, though the time frame seems to be different. also I did not even catch the ending at all and suddenly it is curtain call already. guess I cannot really appreciate arts well yet.
after the performance, we waited for chong keng's gang to come out before leaving. during that time, the girls took loads of pictures again, even after chong keng and the rest came. we wanted to go Lau Pa Sat to have supper.
however, no one knows what bus to take or how to get there, plus we are seperated from pei fen, shiva and pamela. so we decided to meet at City Hall MRT station and go to Jurong Entertainment Centre McDonalds to make things simple.
along the way back, the girls are going gaga over chong keng's broken arm. and poor chong keng is forced to repeat his long long story of how his arm got injured. things like protruding bones, fractures and operations made the girls slightly shrilly.
finally we arrived at Jurong Entertainment Centre McDonalds, where the remaining of us ordered something and talked for a while before heading home. I also used the chance to take metinee's memory stick and transfer the contents to my computer
I remembered I took 335 back home. the time I stepped into house at 2355. finally slept at 2am after bathing, MSN, surfing around and transfering the pictures.
this is an incredibly short entry as nothing really big happened this time round, what's more most of the time are spent watching the performance.
I am so glad that I am finally done with this set of 3 posts that set me back quite some free time.
both of us arrived at Jurong East MRT station at 4.20pm and started waiting for everyone to show up. finally we could leave at 4.40pm or so.
the MRT ride there is full of talking and photo taking, making the journey seem really short. soon we alighted at City Hall MRT station and walked through CityLink Mall to Esplanade.
after arriving at Esplanade, ying sheng and I snapped crazily at anything that is photo-worthy. the design of the building, the people around, some prominent landmarks in the area and blablabla. the rest simply walked around a bit and they decided to head to Clifford Centre for Dinner.
after that we headed back quickly to Esplanade, for it is going to rain soon and it is approaching the latest entry time of 6.45pm anyway.
I had been to Esplanade before so my real "first" is entering the theatre. from the moment ying sheng and I took the escalator up to Circle 2 and took our seats to the intermission and to the end of the performance, I could see that many aspects of the theatre are actually specially tuned for its purpose.
the roof is soundproof and bounces the sound around the theatre (with the bent slabs of blocks) the entire environment looks very classy and exquisite with all electronics hidden well. that explains its high rents.
theatre aside, the show was actually not a bad adaptation. it is rather localised, though the time frame seems to be different. also I did not even catch the ending at all and suddenly it is curtain call already. guess I cannot really appreciate arts well yet.
after the performance, we waited for chong keng's gang to come out before leaving. during that time, the girls took loads of pictures again, even after chong keng and the rest came. we wanted to go Lau Pa Sat to have supper.
however, no one knows what bus to take or how to get there, plus we are seperated from pei fen, shiva and pamela. so we decided to meet at City Hall MRT station and go to Jurong Entertainment Centre McDonalds to make things simple.
along the way back, the girls are going gaga over chong keng's broken arm. and poor chong keng is forced to repeat his long long story of how his arm got injured. things like protruding bones, fractures and operations made the girls slightly shrilly.
finally we arrived at Jurong Entertainment Centre McDonalds, where the remaining of us ordered something and talked for a while before heading home. I also used the chance to take metinee's memory stick and transfer the contents to my computer
I remembered I took 335 back home. the time I stepped into house at 2355. finally slept at 2am after bathing, MSN, surfing around and transfering the pictures.
this is an incredibly short entry as nothing really big happened this time round, what's more most of the time are spent watching the performance.
I am so glad that I am finally done with this set of 3 posts that set me back quite some free time.
