KLPAC, my second home
Thank the Gods (Joe and Faridah) that KLPAC's gorgeous. Situated in a beautiful park in Sentul (seriously), with lots of glass overlooking lots of greenery, and the soul-numbing concreteness of KL feeling so far away; no noise of traffic, or the perennial hustle and bustle of people and machinery you get in cities. It's like being in the middle of Hyde Park - you can't believe you're right smack in the centre of London. Look at it!
(picture taken by Kelvin Tan, who does some truly beautiful shots. Check them out here.)
Seeing as I'm spending so much of my life here (3h weekdays + 4h weekends = 23h/week), it's awesome. What I'd do to make it my kind of paradise:
- have a juice stand. The JuiceWorks ppl (1 Utama, The Curve, MegaMall) would rock.
- have a lounge bar, a la La Bodega Lounge / Alexis. Make sure they sell cigars.
- have a reasonably-priced restaurant. Make sure they do good pasta. In fact, maybe integrate with lounge bar above: good tapas would be cool.
- make it all wirelessly connected to the Internet.
- convert one of the studios into my bedroom. Once everything's there, might as well right.
Hmmm come to think of it, it would be sooooo fantasticsimal if they could do a Buena Vista Social Club week or something - bring them in (or the Afro-Cuban All Stars, or equivalents), convert Pentas 2 into a den (a la Cuban social club / music lounge) and make it a themed event - dress your most 50's decadent. 3 piece suits, bowler hats / fedoras, feather boas, feathered everything! Hmmm fancy dress party, anyone? Or maybe one of those Murder Mystery nights! I don't really know how that works but hey, it could!
Watched Superman Returns recently. Check out what Maybel has to say about it (lots!). Not bad, but not great either. Preferred X-Men 3 (except for the "we're X-men!" line). Hell, right now I'm preferring Lost. Just watched episode 20 of season 2 last night, and it is one hell of a WTF moment. Very good. Of course, watching Lost requires you to have a big suspension of reality - why are all their clothes so damn clean? Why doesn't anyone have a beard? Where to they get all those sexy new clothes from? Why is their hair so well kept? Why doesn't anyone have a tan? Why is his botak head still so shiny? - okay a MASSIVE suspension of reality. But the fun premise of the show is that it's character-driven - the people are interesting, and things happen to support the characters. The plot weaves and twirls around the characters. And backflips and all sorts of extreme displays of dexterity. It's fun.
Which reminds me: one of the most fun things about being with Joe Hasham is his flamboyant use of the English language. He uses terms which I know I'll never hear anywhere else in Malaysia. In fact, he regularly provokes the feeling of "waitaminute, I've read that word before... what's it mean again?" from me. Recent examples include inscrutable and gesticulation. Of course he also has some seriously visual metaphors, like "we've got to grab them by the short and curlies", as well as totally WTF names, like "oi! Two dogs fucking!" Yes, he did call someone that, and not simply to be rude. No, no idea mate.
Had an awesome party with my cast and crew on Saturday. It's been too long since I've had one at my place, so it was great fun. Got to (watch people) play Scene It, which is a clever movie trivia game where you need a DVD player to play the game. Got to play Twister for the first time in my life, which is cool. Yoga helps. Haven't seen so many snacks in my place before, and haven't drunk so much wine in a while. Great fun. Eating, chatting, playing board games, eating some more, drinking, singing for cake, singing to the guitar... the simple pleasures of life. Lovely. Pictures when I get them from a gila woman.
(picture taken by Kelvin Tan, who does some truly beautiful shots. Check them out here.)Seeing as I'm spending so much of my life here (3h weekdays + 4h weekends = 23h/week), it's awesome. What I'd do to make it my kind of paradise:
- have a juice stand. The JuiceWorks ppl (1 Utama, The Curve, MegaMall) would rock.
- have a lounge bar, a la La Bodega Lounge / Alexis. Make sure they sell cigars.
- have a reasonably-priced restaurant. Make sure they do good pasta. In fact, maybe integrate with lounge bar above: good tapas would be cool.
- make it all wirelessly connected to the Internet.
- convert one of the studios into my bedroom. Once everything's there, might as well right.
Hmmm come to think of it, it would be sooooo fantasticsimal if they could do a Buena Vista Social Club week or something - bring them in (or the Afro-Cuban All Stars, or equivalents), convert Pentas 2 into a den (a la Cuban social club / music lounge) and make it a themed event - dress your most 50's decadent. 3 piece suits, bowler hats / fedoras, feather boas, feathered everything! Hmmm fancy dress party, anyone? Or maybe one of those Murder Mystery nights! I don't really know how that works but hey, it could!
Watched Superman Returns recently. Check out what Maybel has to say about it (lots!). Not bad, but not great either. Preferred X-Men 3 (except for the "we're X-men!" line). Hell, right now I'm preferring Lost. Just watched episode 20 of season 2 last night, and it is one hell of a WTF moment. Very good. Of course, watching Lost requires you to have a big suspension of reality - why are all their clothes so damn clean? Why doesn't anyone have a beard? Where to they get all those sexy new clothes from? Why is their hair so well kept? Why doesn't anyone have a tan? Why is his botak head still so shiny? - okay a MASSIVE suspension of reality. But the fun premise of the show is that it's character-driven - the people are interesting, and things happen to support the characters. The plot weaves and twirls around the characters. And backflips and all sorts of extreme displays of dexterity. It's fun.
Which reminds me: one of the most fun things about being with Joe Hasham is his flamboyant use of the English language. He uses terms which I know I'll never hear anywhere else in Malaysia. In fact, he regularly provokes the feeling of "waitaminute, I've read that word before... what's it mean again?" from me. Recent examples include inscrutable and gesticulation. Of course he also has some seriously visual metaphors, like "we've got to grab them by the short and curlies", as well as totally WTF names, like "oi! Two dogs fucking!" Yes, he did call someone that, and not simply to be rude. No, no idea mate.
Had an awesome party with my cast and crew on Saturday. It's been too long since I've had one at my place, so it was great fun. Got to (watch people) play Scene It, which is a clever movie trivia game where you need a DVD player to play the game. Got to play Twister for the first time in my life, which is cool. Yoga helps. Haven't seen so many snacks in my place before, and haven't drunk so much wine in a while. Great fun. Eating, chatting, playing board games, eating some more, drinking, singing for cake, singing to the guitar... the simple pleasures of life. Lovely. Pictures when I get them from a gila woman.
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