i caught swan lake yesterday! many many thx to marcus, the amazing tambourine catcher ;) man it was so good, the sets and costumes were so lush and splendid, simply amazing. and the dancers.. where do i even begin. i don't really need to say that they were brilliant, it's THE royal ballet for crying out loud. last night's female lead took our collective breaths away. when she stood en pointe on one leg, you could feel the deafening silence for those infinite seconds. sorry lah but all i could think of throughout the entire perf was that these people could definitely strangle you with their legs , crush your tiny skull just by clenching those muscles. i shudder to think of their poor feet.

SDT will be staging the nutcracker at the end of the year. hmm maybe will go catch it =)

heh last night was also the first time i ever went for a coffee with a random stranger. some poor new yorker, lost in city hall. kinda regret not staying longer to chat, but all the places were closed liao. tall, friendly and quite nice to look at =P don't know if i was being hypersensitive, but i did feel people looking at us differently, than if i were walking with a chinese guy. guess a lot of work needs to be done to demolish the (chinese girl + caucasian guy = spg) impression. exchanged emails, and ran off.. that's one thing i like about s'pore, can walk along the streets with a stranger at 12am without any fear. or maybe it's just me knowing that if he tried anything unusal i could do some serious injury with my 3 inch heeled boots =)

// posted by michele @ 6/27/2005 09:57:00 am