Monday, June 5


Went to watch Grease at the indoor stadium on Friday. The singing and acting was not bad, but I felt it was a little low on production cost, which made things look a little shabby. But well, the female lead had a damn power voice.

Anyway, I'm supposed to talk about things that happened before and after the show. That's the more exciting part.

The show was at 8pm. Both of us had the whole day free, and we could have gotten out earlier so we wouldn't need to rush, but no, we had to watch Wo Cai in the afternoon until we had to rush to prepare to set off. Bad choice.

Wanted to eat Sofra, this cozy Turkish restaurant down at Shaw Tower. It's a little overpriced, but the food's not bad, and the cheese is good. Think it'll make quite a nice place to celebrate birthdays.

Anyway, by the time we settled down in Sofra, it was close to 6.45, and we wanted to reach the stadium early. (Yeah, see what procrastination does to you.) Had dinner, then left hurriedly since we needed to get a cab as soon as possible. A little too hurriedly I guess, coz we forgotten the tickets AND his glasses at the restaurant. That, was the highlight before the show. (There's another highlight after that.) Wonder what we'd do if we really did forget the tickets and left for kallang. Luckily we remembered just before we flagged down a taxi, if not I think that'll be er, 120 bucks down the drain. Plus his specs, that'll be an additional cost of er, 150 bucks? Oh man.

Well, the show was yada-yada... (Look up. First line. Yes, that's it.)

It ended really early. Considering that it was the last night of performance, there was no encore, no mingling with the audience, no nothing. Kinda like an anticlimax. Well, at 10.30pm on Friday, we were once again stuck in a situation. There were hell lots of people flooding out of the stadium, so the taxi stand was out of the question. The next step? You call for one. Wrong. Next time, never expect yourself to be able to get a cab when there's about 500 (exaggerated) other people waiting for 'on call' cabs just like you. The operator made us wait on the line for ages before she finally came back to us to say there was no taxi available. I think that's really kinda sad. Says who taxi drivers don't have businesses waiting?

Anyway, we were left without much choices. Either we wait miserably at the busstop for a bus that both of us don't really know where it's going, or we walk down. Actually, common sense, we should have taken a bus. At least it's gonna go AT LEAST somewhere. But nah, we chose to walk. Lol. Yeah, took a stroll down the road (don't ask me which road).

Somehow or rather by some stroke of luck, we saw Geylang's lights flashing. You know all those bright bright neon lights? Right. At least we know there are more taxis there. By the time we finally reached Geylang, we were jokingly saying if we actually find the right dimsum place, we'll have supper. And you know Geylang isn't that small. There's only that slim of a chance we'll walk into the supper place we went the other time. (The one with the unforgettable chee cheong fun.)

The first place we saw was this coffeeshop just at the corner of the road, and we needed desperately to get drinks. Just beside that shop was this small inconspicuous dark alley. You know, where all the *ahem* business deals are done? Yep. Could have just gotten the drink from that coffeeshop and hop into a taxi homeward bound, but we chose to walk down that alley. Along that alley, you really see all the lau ah peks and the pretty girls talking to each other. Not the most comfortable place you'd wanna be in.

We reached the end of the alley, hoping to find a nice kopitiam to relax, but what caught my eye was this gigantic red signboard: SONG KEE something something. Ok la, that wasn't the dimsum shop we were looking for, but I know the Mongkok dimsum (the one we were finding) was nearby. Woot. The famous tau huey shop was just opposite the dimsum shop too. Some stroke of luck. I mean, what are the chances of you walking from Indoor Stadium to finding the perfect dimsum shop in Geylang?

Small adventure huh?

Posted by Isabelle at 12:56 am