Fringe 2010

It’s that time of the year again: The Fringe Festival! The period of a month where Adelaide springs out to life! The time when the otherwise sleeping Adelaide zombies walk the earth and terrorise the innocent, unexpecting civilians who clearly don’t know what is happening in the city. I love the sudden outbursts of music, dance, art, etc. in the corners of Rundle Mall and squares around the city.

So we performed during the pre-Fringe festival bash. They got a few performers from various Fringe shows to perform snippets of their shows to promote their shows, while also entertaining the thousands and millions of crowds we attracted. They also had some raffles going with the prize of the tickets to see many of the Fringe shows. Of course, there out of the billions of people attending, most bought at least a dozen of raffle tickets. So when they picked out the tickets, more than half of the tickets went to the organisers of the bash; while three consecutive tickets went to the same family! That was how crowded and enthusiastic the crowd was!

The logo for this year’s Fringe festival is an astronaut (female, I presume) wearing a ballet skirt/tutu thing (whoever decided this is rather silly). And if you have a lack of imagination, feel free to take a look at the photo I put up on the photo “gallery” below. What is really ridiculous, worse than the actual logo itself, is the mega sized logo that they erected up on Victoria Square. It is a purely titanic and grotesque figure. I wish I had taken a photo of it when we passed it today. It would have been quite a priceless photo to put up here.

Well, I now am going to give you some excuses to explain why haven’t I been updating this blog. No, I haven’t abandoned this blog yet, neither have I lost interest in this blog yet. I know I have had a very promiscuous past with blogs (I have at least 10 of them!), but that was the past. I can now gladly say that ever since I switched to WordPress, I was sucked into blogademia (not blogging about what I ate this morning or what I am going to do when I go out today) and I can say that I am a changed man. But anyway, the excuse is because I have been busy with music rehearsals for the Fringe show too! The company is founded by my friends and it is called No Tenor Allowed. Their/our prémiere show is the Double Bill: Cox and Box by Arthur Sullivan and the Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti. My role there is as the musical director of these operetta/operas. Our opening night is next week’s Thursday. It’s going to be fun, I am sure. So, if you are in Adelaide come and watch us. If you are not, what are you waiting for? Book your flight and come to Adelaide already!

So, pardon me for the lack of updates. I know I apologised in my last post before and I am apologising here again, and I might be apologising for the same reason again on my next post. But I do sincerely hope that I will be updating more frequently, and with better posts too! Really!

P.S. Toreador is cool!

iPad and iTennis

Just a short commercial shoutout, Apple’s newest product, the iPad, marks its market expansion to a whole new world of women personal products. Sources mention that the new iPad can be easily hooked on to wherever it is meant to be hooked on to and is able to download protection for up to a thousand periods. And for those who are worried about viruses, each new iPad comes with vaginal firewall protection. So why still use the normal pads, get your newest iPads in your local Apple Stores.

Anyway, I’ve been watching some Australian Open matches these few days. My housemate was rather surprised since I actually hangs outside my room (the telly is in the living room). To those who know me personally, I am not really sporty at all. Neither do I care much about sports. But I recently found out that I can enjoy a Badminton or Tennis match quite much. Well, the only Tennis that I would really try to watch are probably the matches that involves the Williams sisters. And no, I do not watch the matches because of their squeals and moans. I just find them amusing to watch. Williams vs. Henin in the final was definitely a great fun to watch. One Henin supporter shouted at Henin, “You can beat her, Justine, she isn’t that good.” That propelled Serena to win the games and sets. Some supporters are probably the most idiotic people out there. Saying stuffs like that would most definitely spark motivation to the person they aren’t supporting. That said though, Justine Henin was playing amazingly too. Just like Serena said, she is definitely back in the court.

One of my greatest disappointment is not to watch Williams vs. Azarenka, which was quite a close one for Serena. Lost the first set and was losing 0-4 in the second. But she fought back and won the set and the next one. Must have been quite an amazing one!

The other match I watched was Federer vs. Murray. The result was quite expected, but I was rather disappointed that it lasted for only three sets! Oh well. Federer was quite smart, mentioning the fact that the British haven’t won yet since 1936, putting a lot of pressure on Murray. The tears shed at the end was rather silly but expected.

Oh well, sorry for this rushed, half-arsed and belated post. I’m rather busy these days, especially with a lot of rehearsals. But not to worry, I am sure I will be posting more soon!