WICKED: The Broadway Musical. “The untold story of the witches of Oz”

So I went to this musical last Sunday. I knew what it was about but I wasn’t a huge fan before BUT NOW I AM. Oh my god, it’s soooo good. For those who’ve never heard of wicked:

“So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

WICKED tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. “

I love it so much. I cried when Glinda and Elphaba sang “For Good” It reminds me of my 3 best friends that lives in Manila and Germany, and it made me miss them so bad. Distance sucks you know. I never expected that it will be that good to be honest, it makes you think, feel, dream and want to see it again. Its amazing. No, its more than that, its truly wicked. 

“Seriously, its like you’ve been photoshopped!”

STUFF THAT HAPPENED TO ME: I went to Somerset / Orchard today to buy my doc martens’ “ramsay” it kinda looks like creepers but not really. Bought it for $199 which is pretty cheap actually. I can wear it yet though because its suppose to be a christmas present from my parents lol so they wrapped it first.. ooh I wonder what that box is.

And I’m also asking for concert tickets for Foster the People and Laneway fest YUSS.

Here are the shoes btw:

and then, I went back to Abercrombie and Fitch and finally had the balls to ask for a picture with some of the models and here is it:

Then there’s this one model who came up to me and started asking me about my polaroid and idk he kept on going on about it and asked me the same question like 10 times, my friend was like “maybe he wanted you to take him to the polaroid shop” but she told me that after he left so uhm MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE OH WELL He was hot but I’m not good with picking up guys at all.

Anyway, CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE. And its my first christmas without her.. this is gonna be brutal. & another thing, it sucks when i’m actually liking living in Singapore.. Its time for me to leave again. Its like me: “FINALLY I’M GETTING USED TO THIS.” Life: “DENIED. BYE! you have to go!”

sigh life of a teenager with expat-parents

GQ magazine.

gq:

Should You See Fassbender’s Fassmember in Shame Tonight?

Let our critic Tom Carson help you decide. The general sentiment of his review is along the lines of, “Yo, you should probably see this.” But it’s a bit more complicated than that. An excerpt:

McQueen has so much talent to burn that theaters ought to post warnings about smoke asphyxiation. There isn’t a frame in the movie that isn’t intricately planned—not only visually arresting, but designed to bear out the theme. Since that notoriously erratic performer New York City plays itself and his signature is long, fanatically controlled takes without a single flaw, the achievement really is kind of incredible. It’s just that, at times, people may find themselves marvelling, “Wow, that shot must have been insanely hard to get”—and McQueen, whose dedication to his material is at once impressive and peculiarly abstract, may not even consider that reaction symptomatic of a failure to involve us at what used to be called the human level.

Another side of Shame I don’t trust at all that—in the tradition of Closer, Eyes Wide Shut, and poor old Last Tango in Paris—it’s one more important-looking movie under the impression that the way to lay bare the truth about sexuality is by leaving out the rest of human experience. You know, spot the fallacy there. Beyond the obvious chic of letting us live vicariously, one reason this type of movie so often features well-heeled, fabulously comely people without material concerns is that it makes their monomania less farcical. Brandon’s life would be very different if his budget forced him to choose between call girls and paying for, say, a hernia operation. Come to think of it, that’s the sex-obsession movie I’d love to see—starring Paul Giamatti, maybe, or Kevin James.

Besides, there’s such a thing as “subtlety” that never stops hitting you over the head with a mallet. McQueen may think he’s playing it cool by never spelling out the thwarted-incest subtext driving Brandon and Sissy’s relationship, but all too often, the subtext is the only thing in sight. When Sissy asks her brooding bro why he’s so angry, you pine for a vintage grindhouse audience to shout back, “Because he wants to bang you, ya friggin’ nitwit! And he can’t.”

That’s why it’s faintly maddening that—thanks not only to the director’s formidable visual command, but the terrific performances he gets out of his cast—you kind of buy the movie while it’s going on. Luckily for us, McQueen’s control-freak side doesn’t extend to his actors, in that soul-crushing Kubrickian way. Fassbender is a powerhouse here, especially in some demanding scenes once Brandon’s impulses turn his behavior ever more degraded. (What, you didn’t think he’d become degraded? At least in movies, what else are threesomes for?) Not only is Mulligan’s work equally compelling, but you have to hand it to them both for tackling Shame at a stage of their careers when their agents must be screaming about the big bucks coming their way if they just play it safe. Even if they’re gambling that the artistic cred earned by being called “fearless” (the cliché for this sort of thing—just ask Charlotte Gainsbourg) is worth it, that’s fine with me.

Since McQueen knows what he’s got, one of his wittiest stratagems is to show both his stars full-frontal nude early on. For “there, that’s done with” insolence, his gamesmanship is hard to beat. Then he lets Fassbender and Mulligan demonstrate what they can do with their clothes on, and that goes for everybody else on-screen as well. As Brandon’s boss, James Badge Dale (The Pacific) looks more than ever like one of the most resourceful young actors around. Nicole Beharie, who plays a co-worker Brandon briefly pursues, has such poise and unpredictable timing in her big scene—a single-take restaurant conversation on their only public date—that it takes you several minutes to notice the tattletale shortage of pedestrians outside the joint’s window. Even an actress we only glimpse (she’s one more of Brandon’s hired bedmates) gets McQueen’s full interest and attention. While I’d love to be sure of her name, that’s none too easy with credits that list roles like “Late Night Lover #2.”

Because odds are you’re going to see Shame anyway, all this just amounts to saying that you won’t be wasting your time even if The Meaning of It All is on the dubious side.

Full review here. 

Stuff that happened to me:

EXAMS ARE OVER OMG I CAN SLEEP AGAIN

Today was great, finished my politics exam an hour early then I went to see 50/50 with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen with my good friend Jas.

It was really good! I cried the whole way through. I’m an embarrassment, I know. Probably because I can relate so much since my grandma has cancer too but she’s getting by just fine, thank god.

I recommend totally recommend it. Specially if you’re a huge Joe Gordon-Levitt fan (like me) Just prepare to bring your tissues along. :)

It was rated 93& FRESH in rotten tomatoes and here is the full trailer:

After that we had dinner and it finally stopped raining and I walked home while watching this beautiful sunset. Oh how I will miss you Singapore. I always rant about my school and the crappy weather but I still can’t believe that I’m almost graduating and sooner or later I will loose all of these little perks, so now I just want to make the most of it. I’ll miss you, Singapore.

There it goes.

A morning dew dropped on my forehead.

It splashed, tickled and amused.

I was bewitched by the beauty of summer

Sun filled mornings and infinite nights

I walked with sunshine beside me

we’d walk to never ending turns,

until we got lost

in the beauty of summer.

Noah and the whale was playing

It was our favorite.

I told her my story

and she never looked back

The days I wouldn’t forget

the feelings I would never regret.

Oh, there it goes away

my sunshine, my sunshine.

- Danielle “Danny” Cortes

Read this while listening to:

Florence and the Machine “DOG DAYS ARE OVER” Music Video from LEGS MEDIA on Vimeo.

Whenever I visit the cemetery, I always go around and look at the headstones of each person and try to calculate their age when they died. Some died when they were 72, 46, 53, 92, 13, 21, 64, 5. and then I try to imagine what their lives must have been, were they able to reach their dreams, did they leave any unfinished business, did a lot of people cry in their funerals… were they the person they wanted to be or at least the person they wanted people to remember by.

It’s funny how even though how much we try to search for the meaning of life, even if we become billionaires, help a lot of people, or kill a lot of people, there’s really just one thing that certain in life - death. we’re all going, and who knows what will happen next, heaven or hell or reincarnation or just an eternal sleep, whatever it is - we’re all going.