Huayi Festival 2009

It's super exciting. After a lot of agonising, I finally bought tickets for 宝岛一村 (The Village) for myself and the mother. This is about the immigrant village culture of Taiwan in the late forties. I've watched 王偉忠 (Wang Wei Zhong) tell so many riveting 眷村 stories of his childhood, and I've lamented enough that I am not in Taiwan to catch this.

Well, I can't go to Taiwan, but a piece of Taiwan has come to me now. I'll kick myself if I miss it. I think the mother should enjoy it too. Tickets from here.

There's also 华丽上班族之生活与生存 (Design for Living) which has me really tormented because I really want to see 郑元畅 (Joseph Cheng - so cute!) live on stage! But I'm not completely certain about the play and I shouldn't be wasting money. But it's 小綜! Sigh, shall continue to think about it. Tickets from here if you're interested.

And then there're the in::music gigs. The lineup is fab. 盧廣仲 is already sold out, unless you're senior citizen or NSF, in which case you can get tickets here.

Also playing are 1976, 旺福 (Wonfu) and 这位太太 (Mrs. This) from Taiwan as well as 曹方 from China (I'm not familiar with her but she apparently has Cheer Chen's endorsement). Tickets from here, here, here and here respectively.I'm tempted to catch 旺福 and 1976...

So you see! The lineup for Huayi 09 is honestly very exciting! Do go for something.

Bought tickets yet?

盧廣仲 will be in town for Huayi in Feb! Through Sistic.

對阿對阿 對阿對阿!

盧廣仲 is coming in September.

OMG!!!

happy birthday to the lawyer!

here's a song for you to begin with. 無敵鐵金剛 from 盧廣仲, super adorable.

so we had dinner at palais ps as a sort of celebration. i say sort of cos we're rather subdued with our birthday get togethers. anyhow, the food was not bad but still, way overpriced. of course, we only realised how much we had ordered when 1) the bill arrived and 2) we felt our stomachs bursting.

other than buying us dinner, lawyer also got us little gifts. tweezerman tweezers from aforementioned hk shopping list! i also got my much coveted corner lash curler. very exciting!

now, just to find the watch sorter she asked for. well, basically a jewellery box for watches, since she has tonnes of watches. yes, we were stumped and did look quizzically at one another for a moment cos that is one thing we definitely had never spent time looking at. got a couple of suggestions from the lawyer herself about where to go, but any other ideas would be helpful.

More 盧廣仲

If I sound obsessed, it's because I am.

You have no choice but to smile watching or listening to 早安, 晨之美. And it makes me really, really want to have breakfast.

Also, a video from last Apr, when he didn't look so goofy. Watch and marvel at charismatic geekyness and amazing performance - 我愛妳.



I really like how they've packaged him. Managing to retain his essence and amplifying what sets him apart from other people without making him seem a freak or worse, a cliche.

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He's so goofy that it should be ridiculous but what's ridiculous is the amount of charisma he has, because he manages to pull the whole thing off so well, from the hair to the above-knee shorts to the mid calf socks. I'm not equipped to wax lyrical about his music but really, it's brilliant and you just have to hear it yourself if you haven't already.

He's pretty big in Taiwan now. Not in a Jay Chou way, more like a Cheer Chen manner. I don't think his CDs would be easy to find here yet so I dropped causualpoet an email and yes! they'll be arriving in the shop soon! Happy.

IN THE MEANWHILE, ABOUT OTHER MUSIC CRUSHES...

Camera Obscura is coming to SG! They'll be performing at the Esplanade at the end of October. The link to ticket purchases is not up yet but this is apparently definitely happening.

Also, check out the lineup for Baybeats 2008. Am not familiar with most of them, honestly, but am excited about My Little Airport coming! Their gig happening on 31 Aug at 9pm.

And, and. Sodagreen concert tomorrow night. Definitely looking forward to that.

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