had the chance to catch Forbidden City at the Esplanade yesterday night. its my first time watching a musical at esplanade and i think that its a great piece of work. the vocals of kit chan is great! i was blown away. haha. but on top of that they chose to portray Cixi in a different light- not the usual domineering and aggressive nature but it showed the inner struggles that she went through and how many truths were manipulated and twisted to show what people wanted to hear.

this shows the hidden story that no one has seen before. people from the past and the present have this opinion that if a woman were to be successful and powerful that would mean that she is a nasty person and she would go through all the means to achieve that. often, what is being neglected is the fact that there is another side to the story. In the times where man are the head over the household and of the nations- Cixi had to take on the role that no other woman wld dared to think of, she had to rule the empire. Has anyone thought of how hard it might be for her? Instead people just add salt to the wound and add on to all the rumours about her and judge her as a horrible person. All these went down into History and no one gave her justise except this girl call Katherine Carl who wrote a book about her encounter with the Empress. BUT being a lady- she was once again regarded as being emtional and inaccurate in her portryal of the Empress- whom probably only bear her heart out to this western artist.

what has the society become of? where people do not regard the existence of woman in power and judge them to be ruthless just because they are sucessful? is this the way that we are socialised into thinking? then all the education that all of us receive has gone down the drain. i am not a feminist and i do believe that there are certain role for both male and female but its saddening to know that in a time where we are supposed to be more civilised and educated that such thinking still exist. I guess if anything that would take another few thousand years of civilisation to ever be able to change that.

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seemed like i have been on a movie marathon recently. let's see, i've watched Singapore Dreaming, John Tucker Must Die, Le Grand Voyage, Akeelah and the Bee..is there anything else? apart from John Tucker mus Die which is more of a comedy to hold much meaning (it does tell us about guys..hahha..keke) the other 3 films ar really good and all sld go and catch them. it makes you think though life and think about issues that you never thought of till this point in time. i shall not start on it, it will probably take forever to finish with what i have got to say man. but you will always need the media industry!!! hahahaha

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alright, gotten over the shock that someone gotten herself a boyfriend in Austraila, checked out her blog and check out the guy's friendster- that is the use of such media when you are trying to do things like this. hahha. if all is well, we will probably get to see him at the end of the year. its so exciting when your best friend has found the "one"..hahaha..makes your life interesting and exciting despite all the mandane things that take place everyday. hehhe. i think i am really starting to not make any sense at all. man.

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the one week break is almost over and let me say that i had done absoultely NOTHING. haiz. dont talk about it. i mean i dint get to do anything that has a tangible effect lah. i've caught 3 movies and a musical and talk to best friend and found out her secret and sent fookai off at the airport (and i met kiamin there too..the world is so small and i begin to wonder how wld life had been if i had taken up the suggestion to sign on with the army---i know its maddness that your own father actually suggested that!!!). on top of that, i went to see the chinese doc (yucks!! oh..its time to take the bitter medicine)

*hiatus*

yucks...its so bitter that it actually made my bitter green tea sweet in comparison.. sigh..
and that is all that happened. man. how unproductive i am . sigh

signing off...
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