Price was 5.50 GBP for a packet of 4 seeds, just nice for the 4 of us! :) Expensive though....but well worth it!!
Yummy creamy yellow!!
A walk through the Chinese supermarket showed some familiar sights like YEOS.
And since we were in Chinatown and most of us have already tried out Four Seasons as well as whatever duck that London had to offer, we decided on having Dim Sum lunch...YESH!! 2nd time in the week le....first being in Manchester!!
Nuff' said.....it's Dim Sum....what else can you ask for?
Think all of us miss the prawns that were in har gau...the prawns sold in the UK supermarkets are puny tiny pieces, but the ones served here are much bigger and have a nice and crunchier feel as you bite into them...
Heart-shaped mango pudding....chao sweet loh...
Arriving at the Lyceum Theatre for the Lion King musical for an afternoon matinee
My thoughts on the musical...felt that singing-wise it wasn't as powerful as I had hoped it to be...especially for the main songs "Circle of Life" and "Just Can't Wait to be King". Budden again, could also be due to our seating and the acoustics cos we were situated right smack at the topmost and last row of the theatre (hence the cheap price!) For the record, I have watched a musical version of the Lion King in Hong Kong Disneyland before, and I felt that the singing was way much better then...(heck.....the Lion King musical is probably the only redeeming thing about Hong Kong Disneyland....did not manage to catch the Paris Disneyland one though :()
But some things to really comment about this London musical though....it was nearly a scene-to-scene transition from the movie to the musical...and most importantly, the props and stage performance by some of the actors, especially the bird Zazu, the villian Scar, Rafiki, Timon and Pumbaa were particularly memorable. Loved the opening scene and ending scene where the animals were gathering cos the props were simply amazing...esp. the giraffes and elephant...overall was quite an enjoyable experience! For a look at the props and how the animals were portrayed...check out this vid!
The whole performance of "Circle of Life"! The appearance of the animals were a crowd favourite both for the adults and children!
With some time to burn until the next musical, decided to walk around Long Acre Road for a bit of shopping...was at Ted Baker with WP and the rest until somebody called out to me...and I got the shock of my life....pleasant shock though...cos I bumped into Alex!! So random and unexpected la!! Always forever disappearing, not on Facebook or MSN or email...the other time the 4D guys thought that he was on sex or on drugs or something...lolol.....Anw was supposed to meet him in London for a meal during Easter but something cropped up and super unimaginable to meet under such circumstances..the dude was with his gf and I cldn't recognise him a bit cos he looked so beng...hahaha...anw...stood frozen to the street and chatted with him for some time...It's these random and little things in life that makes you feel that the world's really small after all... :)
Evening show for We Will Rock You!! Liked the look of the Dominion Theatre..
I must admit that I was very first reluctant to watch this musical, but given the circumstances and prices, we did not really have much of a choice...but I must say that this is by far the best musical I have watched (total of 4 so far with Grease, Phantom of the Opera, Lion King and now We Will Rock You)and was totally surprised by it...
What's so good about this? Right down to the music (songs performed by the legendary Queen), the story plot (seriously corny yet refreshingly funny and enjoyable, the powerful vocals of ALL and i really mean ALL of the performers, the humour injected into it, and most importantly towards the end, the musical sorta evolved into a mini rock concert with a great atmosphere!
SO here's the story...it follows that sometime in the future, somehow all live music and musical instruments and rock music are banned and music is now manipulated by computers and run by the villians Killer Queen (who has powerful diva-like vocals) and her commander...the 2 main protagonists of the story have to find their way, with help from hippies and rock rebels (with weird-ass names like Victoria Beckam and Madonna) to bring rock music back to the world....Killer Queen is defeated when the main hero reveals the electric guitar and inspires with the song "We Will Rock You"!! Sounds corny enough? Hell yeah....but the thing is that with so much humour and the way Queen's songs are used scene after scene to tell the story really amazes me how they managed to come up with this stuff...
Can't really describe any further just how crazy this whole musical is...but here's a couple of vids to see..the songs are really nice!!
Managed to find some good vids of the musical with full length performances...the cast in it are of course different.
Starting of the musical...loved the portrayal of the Gaga boys and girls showing a futuristic yet boring world...brainwashed nerds!
The songs "I Want to Break Free" and "Somebody to Love". 2 songs that I really liked and intro of the 2 main leads
Introduction of the villians, Killer Queen and her commander. Preferred the Killer Queen in the musical I watched to this one on Youtube...she was much more fiercer and domineering in it!
Capture of the leads and their escape!
Meeting with "Victoria Beckam", which is actually the black guy! In this video, he's "Britney Spears"! So I guess they keep changing the names to mock current artistes! Hideout of the rebels with funky outfits and names! This scene cracked me up!
"Crazy little thing called love" performed by the rebels! Catchy tune! But ends with the capture of the rebels and the end of the first segment of the musical.
Opening act of the 2nd part of the musical after the interlude. The Gaga boys and girls again singing "One Vision". More brain-washing stuff!
"Don't Stop Me Now" and "Another One Bites the Dust"! Killer Queen gets rid of her second-in-command in style!
And of course not forgetting the finale "We Will Rock You"!!
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