fo shizzle my nizzle
on friday i managed to get thru a lot of lil errands and tasks i had to get done.. stuff to do with my trip and stuff about HECS and other lil work related things.. its good to be productive for once =p hehe

after work i went to see Phantom of the Opera: the plastic fantastic version... I was sorta wondering how a movie like this could come through without me hearing much about it (since im quite alert to news about musicals) .. and after watching it, i found out why i hadnt heard much. to be honest, it was terrible. they totally masacred it.. they had good voices but didnt sing that well.. the leads mostly had very hayden-like acting.. and they tried to compensate that with some other characters who horrbly overacted. and the fake accents were cringe-worthy... there were a few scenes where the actors were singing, but they were like holding a note, and at the same time doing stuff which would prevent them from successly holding a note like that or like theyd barely open their mouth and belt some some awesome notes, making u think "she is totally not singing that". the music was awesome as u can imagine, but frankly this is a good example of how not to make a musical into a movie.

... ahem.. anyways.. today i went surfing for the first time.. it was pretty fun. its totally tiring on the arms, i found it tricky to paddle on this massive foam "beginners" board that i got =p but once i managed to catch a wave, it was pretty easy, i was standing up by the end =) if i couldve caught some better waves then i wouldve been doin really well i think. well enough that ill try it again sometime.

.. in other news: its the twins' birthday today (as well as Elvis, David Bowie and Stephen Hawking) .. as far as i know neither of them read this, but Happy Birthday girls. i havent seen those kids in like forever, they grow up so fast *sniff*