With "The Write Stuff" being over, I'm finally having my first taste of a break in 4 months! I have slightly more than a month of a holiday and I spent the first week catching up with friends. I even had a day I proclaimed "Random Day" where I tried to do the opposite of every impulse I got. I quite enjoyed myself ending up in different places, consuming food or drink I had never tasted before and also randomly collected a group of friends along the way.
I recently rediscovered my love for the arcade. It was nice to see that some familiar favourites were still there but also great to know that I could easily pick up the new games as well. Some of these games require a lot more physical strength, like the one in the picture to the left, "Manic Panic Ghost". It's extremely fun especially when you play with a partner. With your wand in hand, you smash the screen when ghosts appear. It's a lot trickier than one would think, but after the easy-to-understand-2-minute-instructional-portion, any one can play the game. I do worry for the screen though. There's another game where you also have to hit the screen but at a distance and with balls. Up to four players can play! How fun!
My ex-school mate from New York is in town, so we've been hanging out some. We went to "Thomas and Friends Live!" because I auditioned for it once and didn't get cast and wanted to see what the actors that did get cast could do, that I couldn't. Most actors are curious this way. In any case, the actors were probably more talented than what the show demanded for. The sets were lovely! But in terms of story, I didn't find it too engaging, but perhaps it was because it was a kids' show and it does gets hard to concentrate with the kiddies running about and screaming out loud most of the time. My friend and I were mostly interested in talking to the actors to ask if they were treated well. But we didn't get to.
Then, we headed down to the launch of the Mercedes Benz CLC Sports Coupe and schmoozed with the who's who. I don't think we ended up meeting any big guns. Everyone else was just like us... poor struggling artist. We all stood around the car and could only imagine what life would be like to own it. Okay, okay, we did take it one step further. When no one was looking, we got into the car and pretended we did own it! Poor struggling artists? Who? Us?... Nah!
With "The Write Stuff" being over, I'm finally having my first taste of a break in 4 months! I have slightly more than a month of a holiday and I spent the first week catching up with friends. I even had a day I proclaimed "Random Day" where I tried to do the opposite of every impulse I got. I quite enjoyed myself ending up in different places, consuming food or drink I had never tasted before and also randomly collected a group of friends along the way.
I recently rediscovered my love for the arcade. It was nice to see that some familiar favourites were still there but also great to know that I could easily pick up the new games as well. Some of these games require a lot more physical strength, like the one in the picture to the left, "Manic Panic Ghost". It's extremely fun especially when you play with a partner. With your wand in hand, you smash the screen when ghosts appear. It's a lot trickier than one would think, but after the easy-to-understand-2-minute-instructional-portion, any one can play the game. I do worry for the screen though. There's another game where you also have to hit the screen but at a distance and with balls. Up to four players can play! How fun!
My ex-school mate from New York is in town, so we've been hanging out some. We went to "Thomas and Friends Live!" because I auditioned for it once and didn't get cast and wanted to see what the actors that did get cast could do, that I couldn't. Most actors are curious this way. In any case, the actors were probably more talented than what the show demanded for. The sets were lovely! But in terms of story, I didn't find it too engaging, but perhaps it was because it was a kids' show and it does gets hard to concentrate with the kiddies running about and screaming out loud most of the time. My friend and I were mostly interested in talking to the actors to ask if they were treated well. But we didn't get to.
Then, we headed down to the launch of the Mercedes Benz CLC Sports Coupe and schmoozed with the who's who. I don't think we ended up meeting any big guns. Everyone else was just like us... poor struggling artist. We all stood around the car and could only imagine what life would be like to own it. Okay, okay, we did take it one step further. When no one was looking, we got into the car and pretended we did own it! Poor struggling artists? Who? Us?... Nah!
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