Random Rants

OMG>>> Yesterday's piccies of the parade turned out very very very sucky... Why? Because I used the wrong perspective for my digi cam... Everything was taken using the close up mood!!! Crap. That really really sucked. All the fireworks and the spotlights - all taken but all appeared very very blur. I'm not even in the mood to post the piccies here... :(

But I did find something awesome today though... A superb video of Wicked of the tour cast with Stephanie J. Block (Elphaba) and Kendra Kassebaum (Galinda/Glinda) while lurking at the Wicked forum @ http://www.unexamined-life.com . Superb superb video. It shows Stephanie defying gravity with her broom and Kendra singing Popular - Luv luv Stephanie but totally hate Kendra's voice. Totally wrong for Glinda - her upper register is very very weak. And her attempt to reach the soprano notes were really really bad... Very very thin. She is bloody funny though... Her lines for Popular for example, "Instead of dreary who-you-were... well, are / There's nothing that can stop you / From becoming popu-ler ... lar!" are totally hilarious - her head shaking after making a 'bad' rhyme was so incredibly cute! She does that a lot in the show plus a lot of hair and skirt-swishing to emphasize the bimbotic side of Glinda. She is so superbly funny and cute but Glinda is not her voice-type character... :P Download the vid here.

This just makes me want to see Wicked on Broadway even more!!! The question is whether there will be tix for me and my buddy to see it or not!!! News is that Wicked is sold out for the whole of this season and next. We'll see but I think I'll just positively die if I don't watch this show!!! :P Plus Phantom!! :P

Last bit: 1 more rehearsal left for NDP this Saturday on 060805 and then... The real thing on 090805! :) Very very excited. The hype around this year's NDP is really really good! :) I'm seeing posters everywhere and the advertisements are on on the telly every what 10 minutes or something? At least they didn't overplay the Rui En and Taufik song unlike in McDonald's. I couldn't survive studying in Mac's now... They replay that song every 2-3 minutes or something... Incessantly! :P

Anyway, that's all from me for now. :) Till next...

Piccies are up!!!

Hi everyone! :) The NDP piccies are finally up!! :)
You can find it @ http://community.webshots.com/user/rafflifantome
Enjoy! And don't worry... The photos archive will be updated routinely with newer photos :P

A buddy piccie 

A group piccie 

Last pic for tonight! :P A taste of the awesome fireworks... 

The lights again...! Notice the way they point to the sky... The lights for the 'stage' come from the lower half of the light stands. Floodlights which are capable of changing colours really really fast! And you can see the screens used for projections... Really nicely put up. 

The spotlights in the sky I was talking about... The potential is there but it really depends on the condition of the skies... A cloudy day like this simply made the effect very 'muffled'. It had just stopped raining that evening so it's understandable I guess... :P But they're really really very beautiful to look at and perfectly timed to the music!!! You've got to see this live! 

Renaître...

Hello people. I've finally decided to crawl out of my shallow grave to bore the brains out of everyone again... :P A lot of things have happened lately, all pent up in my small little head and I really fear that everything will really make me become mad one day if any more info (or data as a friend adamantly insists) keeps insisting on its right to reside in my mind...

First things first... Fantastic 4 is really really a superb movie! :) Not because there's Jessica Alba and her costume's all that tight... but that it's a pretty good transition from comic to cartoon to movie media. And it's replete with campness that is pretty hard to do on a high budget film such as Fantastic 4. The jokes are rather cheesy but that did not stop me from laughing heartily at some of the things they did. The Jessica having to take off everything to get past the police officers and crowd thing was damn hilarious... And the dejà-vu thing later on garnered laughs as well! :P But the burger on fire was the best one!!! :) Loved that part... The ending was as all endings... happy... The group managed to resolve their differences in time to defeat the evil enemy who was literally turning into metal... The effects were pretty cool too... But the containment of the super nova was a bit too unbelievable! :) Overall nice show! 4 out of 5 stars! :)

And NDP!!! Do u know I'm involved in NDP??? :) In the ration point over at City Hall. Uber cool show this year... Short but uber cool. The best thing about this year are the lights and the fireworks. Seriously. The field at the padang changes colour so quickly that it's almost magical really! Blue one moment, a fiery red next and a strangely alien green next. Really really cool. And I love that they use a lot of florescent colours on the props and costumes that actually glow in the light! :) Really really nice there... But the best thing about the lighting is definitely the spotlights that align the padang and constantly point to the sky like they're calling out to Batman. It's a really cool effect... It was superb last week since it was a clear sky but this week was rather 'muffled'. Couldn't really see the lights having a defined edge like last week. Will post a photo soon just to illustrate. The effect is really cool! When Rui en and Taufik sing the phrase "Reach out for the sky"... The lights swing into action as they change their focus to the sky! :) very very nice. And the fireworks... Not to spoil the fun... Look out for some really really special fireworks this year... Really really superb!

Those are the updates as of now... It's really kinda late... And I do have work tomorrow so... :P Will update again tomorrow when I get back :)