saturday was not a bad day afterall :-)
it was an interesting day... well, apart from waking up early and then going back to sleep, managed to do many things too. let's see, met up with my, lk, lp for lunch to celebrate my's 40th birthday. t'was a good lunch catching up with them - my uni friends (all of them str8) whom i have kept in contact after all these years. anyway, lk and my know abt me and bee bee. but not lp. and despite having gone on holidays with lay pheng in beijing, she has always assumed that we are just nothing but best friends... well, of cos there were frequent questions of why we are so close, etc etc etc...
ok, back to yesterday - ended lunch with dessert at ah teng's cafe. and oh my goodness! there were so many gaymen there. almost every table! but of cos but of cos, perhaps having tea is something that more gaymen indulge in on a lazy weekend afternoons :-) drove lk to work after tea and had a chat with her in the car. we kinda think that gaymen tend to set the trends for many things, even the macho-ones - such as, rollerblading, canoeing, dragon-boating, surf-boarding, gym, etc... in the mid-90s, there were hordes of gaymen rollerblading and jogging on weekends at the east coast fort road area. these days, they have somehow all disappeared and instead, we get gay teams of dragon boaters,... and of cos, according to lk, all you need to get gay men to congregate is to open a gym :-)
caught the afternoon home song stories. a very real and touching but depressing story about a mother's struggles between her own life and desires and bringing up her children. the show was told from the eyes of the 10-year-old son, tom, and centered around how he tried to make sense of his mother's erratic behaviours as she grappled with life by using her body; and how he and his sister were thrust into the harsh realities of the adult world. i could imagine how traumatic it was for the pair to see their mother hanging from the ceiling. the scene that followed showing their helpless & desperate race against time as the sister tried to cut the cord while tom struggled to hold up his mother's limp body was most heart-breaking. i could hear many in the audience sniffling throughout the show. and to me, the show also reminded me of a more serious and sad fact - that of the helplessness of the asian women not too long ago. joan chen pulled off the role excellently. one of her best performance i must say. and i am sure we will be seeing more of the joel tok, the 11-year old boy who played the son. he is just so, soooo innocently cute!!! i enjoyed the show thoroughly.
and to top off the day, bee bee and i went to chinese garden for the lantern festivals... and ended with teochew porridge before heading home.
not too bad a saturday afterall :-)
it was an interesting day... well, apart from waking up early and then going back to sleep, managed to do many things too. let's see, met up with my, lk, lp for lunch to celebrate my's 40th birthday. t'was a good lunch catching up with them - my uni friends (all of them str8) whom i have kept in contact after all these years. anyway, lk and my know abt me and bee bee. but not lp. and despite having gone on holidays with lay pheng in beijing, she has always assumed that we are just nothing but best friends... well, of cos there were frequent questions of why we are so close, etc etc etc...
ok, back to yesterday - ended lunch with dessert at ah teng's cafe. and oh my goodness! there were so many gaymen there. almost every table! but of cos but of cos, perhaps having tea is something that more gaymen indulge in on a lazy weekend afternoons :-) drove lk to work after tea and had a chat with her in the car. we kinda think that gaymen tend to set the trends for many things, even the macho-ones - such as, rollerblading, canoeing, dragon-boating, surf-boarding, gym, etc... in the mid-90s, there were hordes of gaymen rollerblading and jogging on weekends at the east coast fort road area. these days, they have somehow all disappeared and instead, we get gay teams of dragon boaters,... and of cos, according to lk, all you need to get gay men to congregate is to open a gym :-)
caught the afternoon home song stories. a very real and touching but depressing story about a mother's struggles between her own life and desires and bringing up her children. the show was told from the eyes of the 10-year-old son, tom, and centered around how he tried to make sense of his mother's erratic behaviours as she grappled with life by using her body; and how he and his sister were thrust into the harsh realities of the adult world. i could imagine how traumatic it was for the pair to see their mother hanging from the ceiling. the scene that followed showing their helpless & desperate race against time as the sister tried to cut the cord while tom struggled to hold up his mother's limp body was most heart-breaking. i could hear many in the audience sniffling throughout the show. and to me, the show also reminded me of a more serious and sad fact - that of the helplessness of the asian women not too long ago. joan chen pulled off the role excellently. one of her best performance i must say. and i am sure we will be seeing more of the joel tok, the 11-year old boy who played the son. he is just so, soooo innocently cute!!! i enjoyed the show thoroughly.and to top off the day, bee bee and i went to chinese garden for the lantern festivals... and ended with teochew porridge before heading home.
not too bad a saturday afterall :-)
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