Now you see, I did this post while listening to David Choi at the Esplanade Chill Out Stage yesterday. It was type-written in my phone. And I can't wait to share my encounters with you all!
So here goes...
It all started with Japanese class when we had the conversation section of the course, which was really interesting and hilarious. We learnt how to change appointments in Japanese. For instance you and the person beside you had to pretend to be colleagues/friends/teacher-student/Beauty Salon Receptionist-Customer. So my partner and I were appointed to be friends. Therefore we had to speak casually instead of being formal with each other. And the issue was to postpone our gathering to next week and we had to state the reason for the request. Now the laughter started when my 'friend' ended the conversation by saying 'arigatou gozaimasu' and I replied with 'douitashimashite'. Now Sensei corrected us saying that it's wrong to use both statements because we're in an extremely informal setting. HAHA. So instead of saying Thank You and You're Welcomed, the Japanese will usually say 'arigatou' and I have to reply 'iiyo! daijyoubu!' which means it's fine, no worries. Now that's something that I've known for quite some time. However, I guess we do have the mentality that we can use either casual or informal language when it comes to communicating with our friends. It's somehow etched in our local culture that there's no formal or polite or even PROPER way of speaking English, thus resulting in the proliferation of Singlish, is this probably why many S'poreans are kinda weak verbally? Now, it's a hindrance and bad habit to be corrected when speaking in Japanese.
After which, I met my friend at Bugis, it was too boring, so we decided to head to Raffles City. Now that was when the fun began! We tried the Mango Meringue Pie at Cedele for the first time, and Emma Yong(Theatre actress) was at the next table eavesdropping on us and she decided to follow suit! Which was to try the Pie! HA, she had to take-away the Pie cause we think she had to go back for rehearsals. She had this really huge patch of red and black make-up which seemed like eye shadow, was wearing a white and black floral print dress. We reckoned she was probably on a break from her full dress rehearsal for the Fried Rice Paradise. Now THAT PIE was awesome! Because it was AWESOMELY SWEET, if there is such a word. No more desserts for me for the coming week! It was absolute sugar rush but had a refreshing taste, never tried anything like that before! ( : Then we headed to Esplanade and saw Lim Yu Beng(Theatre actor) on the escalator and he had a Malay accent when he said 'La' which sounded really Peranakanish. And so, we found seats near the Chill Out Stage and settled down. After which, to my utter shock, saw Mr Kwei walk past us at the Esplanade!! He didn't see us, and he was walking too quickly, so we didn't manage to greet him! Also, we didn't manage to see David Choi too clearly since it was so freaking crowded! There were probably 500 people occupying that small concourse area at Esplanade?! However, we were sitting in a comfortable position listening to him and of course, random outburst of screams by obsessed female AND MALE fans. I think his popularity in Singapore is equivalent to that of an American Artist, yeah, and by the way, he IS American, ABK (American Born Korean) to be exact.
The ultimate joke of the day was to see a teenage girl dancing Disco moves along to Choi's acoustic music. My goodness, what was she trying to do?! Attract attention??
And there goes my amazing encounters yesterday, amazing because you don't get to see so many brilliant artists within a day! And end up watching a girl dancing disco to acoustic music.
By the way, just in case you don't know who David Choi is, he is an American Youtube sensation with 2 albums under his name. His music resembles Jason Mraz's. You can check him out at www.davidchoimusic.com .
Till next time!
