last nite went to watch a rendition of "The Glass Menagerie" with my class ppl and mostly the lit teachers and students at some ulu theatre place at kembangan (how to spell??) anyway, i had realli high expectations of the play since its sch recommended and all, but haiz sadly it turned out to be quite disappointing. firstly, they changed the story bg frm depression-era America to post-war singapore, which is like, weird. then so got some asian additions like the father became an aisan, tom wingfield was chinese and all the weird stuff. prob is, they didnt realli change much of the original play to fit the asian context so it was like not this not that. like for eg singapore where got Blue Mountain, Rubicam Business College, Moon Lake tis sort of places! and personally i feel the picture of the father look more like an orbituary than a portrait hah! and the setting was weird. there's no difference in lighting at all!! and the sound effect was horrible. the glass menagerie music was non-existent, the paradise dance hall music sounded like a seven month getai, and Laura's red dress didnt make her look fragile and delicate but more like a half-mad seductress.. and throughout the whole thing i didnt feel anything at all, no pity for tom ( i tink his acting was quite superficial and unnatural), no sadness for Laura (who was more funny in her actions than delicate and weak).. onli Amanda and Jim were better. but the worst thing was it didnt feel like a memory play at all. everything was too realistic, too bright. there's no fantasy, no tragic beauty and watsoever. so sad.. it totally spoiled my impressiion of the glass menagerie. now when i read the play i can imagine tom and the father played by chinese! not that chinese is bad but its like they dont fit in the family leh.. dunno la just doesnt feel right haha. i tink the teachers were quite disappointed oso.. urgh wasted $20!
but after tat went to newtons circus for supper.. i tink tat was more fun haha. we ate fried hokkien mee and satay.. the hokkien mee was quite nice, except tat i dont like the stall uncle. he was like so rude lor! bang into me still glare and me and growled "Oi Oi!". stupid. i realli wanted to boycott his stall hmph, but cant resist the temptation of the hokkien mee haha.. so much for willpower. =/ ya then after tat we decided to cab home, then were waiting for taxi at the junction with a couple who were oso waiting in front of us. so siying said its difficult for the cab to stop at the junction and suggested to the woman in front to move further up, then she gave us tis veri demeaning look and said tat we can move up if we like. and her husband was like muttering something abt 13000 taxis in singapore and looking veri grumpy..so watever lor!! siying was so angry haha.. so we walked up la and got a taxi much faster than her hahah! when our taxi went past her she glared at us summore walao. too bad lor u can wait all night no taxi wld stop at such a busy junction for u hmmph. huo gai. stupid jiak kandang woman. she's obviously chinese still wan to use wat slang.. haha watever. ya so reached home at 12 plus.

anw, here's a meaningful quote frm one of my war history books:

All the seas in every quarter
Are as brothers to one another
Why, then, do the winds and waves of strife
Rage so turbulently throughout the world?
- Japanese Emperor Hirohito, 1941