Wicked Musical @ Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz

While in the UK, I took the opportunity to go for this musical performance called Wicked at the Hippodrome theater in the Birmingham City Centre which my sista bought for me as a gift. :)
I had no idea what it would be all about as I only know from the surface that it's related to the inside story from the Wizard of Oz.
So....it turned out to be an awesome, interesting musical performance! =)
The whole performance lasted for almost 3 hours and was conducted by Dan Jackson~
I particularly like their costume designs (medieval flare dresses/ gowns) and their musical songs too.

                                     The banner at outside the theater.                                         

The signboard which list out all their casts and with their roles.
Apparel - simple solid green blouse type of shirt from Dorothy Perkins
Flowery pattern leggings from Uniqlo.

At the theater, looking at the Emerald City stage. :D

The summary of the untold story IMO goes like this (I think the musical performance and the book storyline differ slightly, as informed by google search :P. Anyway, the storyline performance was for an entertainment. So, don't bother that much.):

Glinda, the Good Witch (she studied about magic too and holds a wand in her hand), imo, she's the one who will dress up like a Cinderella. LOL~  She's the rich and pretty girl in school and therefore, everyone looks up high upon her and likes her.

Elphaba, the so called Green Wicked Witch (physically she was borned in green colour and she always dresses in black colour apparel). Since she looks green in colour and also looks differently than others, sure enough this will make ppl around her to despise her, thinking that being friends with her will bring bad lucks to them. Even her father thinks the same cause apparently her mother died during the delivery of her. But then, actually, she is (and still am) a good hearted person.
The wicked witch has a wheel-chair bound sister named Nessarose.
Later, she casted a spell to enable her to walk (that's when Dorothy's red coloured magic shoes came in).
Her sister's love interest, Bog, was turned into a Tin man btw.

Both of them, good and wicked became good friends in university at first as they were also room mates. Then, eventually they became rivals because of having the same love interest for a guy whom both have interest for, Fiyero (who is turned into The Scarecrow, to be disguised later on. That's how it got related to The Wizard of Oz). However, the guy realised that he actually fell for the Wicked (so fairytale. LMAO~).
So, through all these, Glinda's popularity, personality differences, misunderstandings and without confrontation, they became enemies within their hearts and in the eyes of the public.
Lastly, they managed to solve their misunderstandings but Wicked requested Glinda (since they are still good friends) to promise not to expose both of them (Fiyero & Wicked) to the public that they are still alive. Wicked appeared to be killed and vanished along with Fiyero by Glinda.
It ended with the citizens of Oz rejoicing and celebrating while Glinda was actually mourning secretly cause she would never see her good friend again.

Here's the list of some musical songs which were featured in the Wicked performance and you can bet that they were actually good to the ears:

1. Defying Gravity 
2. For Good 
3  Popular 
4. What Is This Feeling 
5. I'm Not That Girl 
6. As Long As You're Mine 
7. Dancing Through Life 
8. The Wizard And I 
9. No One Mourns The Wicked 
10. One Short Day 
11. No Good Deed 
12. Wonderful 
13. Thank Goodness 
14. Something Bad 
15.Sentimental Man 
16. Dear Old Shiz 


That's all for tonight~~ Good night!

Flying with SIA: Penang to Singapore & Singapore to London

Today, I will blog about my flight via the Singapore Airlines. 

I was on my summer holidays in the UK. I just decided to take leave (supposedly to claim my annual leave & it was approved 3 weeks earlier before my departure. However, due to some management problem, I had a last minute thingy changed to an unpaid leave. wth~ 
If I knew this would happen, I would take a longer unpaid leave...fts) and be a hawt nanny for my nephew & do some holiday thingy as well too.
Anyway, I bought my flight tix around 1 1/2 months earlier, so unfortunately, I didn't get to buy those tix at a cheaper price. Besides, it was almost fully booked. :/

I will blog more about my flight meal with SIA and how much I enjoyed the food served.

The Silk Airlines from Penang to Singapore.

 Flight from Penang to Singapore was via Silk Airlines. It is a subsidiary or a sister company to SIA. Silk Airlines is a smaller aircraft which serves shorter distance destinations (from my understanding).
Flight journey was around 1 hour and we were served a warm delicious chicken puff and a small plastic "glass" of orange juice (cannot be entitled as a cup cause there weren't any handles for me to hold but in a transparent plastic container which looked like a glass).
Sorry, no pic taken. Sometimes I do feel weird that I keep taking pictures. Ppl might be thinking that I'm a crazy person? Actually, nowadays, a lot of ppl like taking pictures. Just that one hardly notice them. But anyway, pictures are taken (particularly for some special occasions) which are for me to do some bloggings in order to improve English, recommend places of interests and for memory keeping.

For your information, the whole flight journey was in the Economy Class la. Next time, when my life is in the higher status, I will go for a Business Class flight then. *dreaming*

Me in the Sky Train to the Terminal 3 airport area. At the back of me is also another Sky Train which is going to the moon. :P

When we've arrived at the Changi airport, it was at the Terminal 2. However, since the next flight will be departing for the international flight, we had to change to the Terminal 3 by using the Changi Sky Train.
Well, one thing that I dislike was that the transit time was just for 1 hour and to get from Terminal 2 to 3 needed to use another form of transportation which was the Sky Train and that the Changi airport is a huge international airport. Therefore, one needed to walk for a distance to get to the next departure hall. What if you have got a senior citizen person with you?!
As I was traveling with my mother, so, I was facing this difficulty. When you've managed to reach the terminal area, you have got to pass through the security search checkpoint too. Imagine if there were a lot of ppl. We will definitely missed our flight.
I didn't inform in advance for the caddy airport service cause I wanted my mother to exercise.
This was the crazy experience that I had to face. LOL~ *what an experience, it will teach us that time and tide wait for no men* :P

The huge airbus fetching us to London Heathrow airport.

SIA flight from Singapore to London was serving the International food and a mixture of Chinese style food too (referring to the menu). The journey lasted for around 13 hours long.

My journey was started with a refreshment (I was waiting to get myself tipsy in order to make myself sleep> LOL).
I ordered the cocktail specially created by the Singaporean called the Singapore Sling to try it off. It has the concoction of of dry gin, Dom Benedictine, orange juice, liquor, cherry brandy and some squeeze of lime & pineapple juice. It was not bad for a first try. But mostly, the taste was overpowered by the liquor, orange juice and the lime juice, I would say. Anyway, it also depended on the flight attendant's skills in mixing the cocktail.

The menu. I think the menu will be changed after every month or so.
Overall, the food was good. I swept all of the food completely clean. So, what do you think about the taste of the food would be? :P


I love the cold dish starter, the Thai spicy seafood which was some shrimps & cut squids with some glass noodles salad.
I chose the beef goulash with sauteed vegetables with steamed potatoes. I took the bread to mix with some goulash sauce to eat too. *yum yum*
The petite glass served was my request for the Chardonnay white wine. *cheers*
After that, I ate the cheese and crackers.
Lastly, after everything has be walloped, a few moments later, I was served the tiramisu (if I'm not mistaken, I can't remember already, no pic to support too) ice cream separately.
Then, just drank the plain water to end my hearty meal.

Overlooking Thar desert in India!

Can you tell where were we now? ;)

Overlooking the London Eye and the great River Thames~

A fleet of the Virgin airlines~  We've reached Heathrow!



The meal was served around 2 hours before touching down at the London airport.
This meal was without any pic taken. A bit lazy by then though. I ordered the panfried chicken in basil sauce with roasted vege and potatoes. me & my potatoes. gonna be a couch potato soon. LMAO~
Actually I would prefer the pork over chicken but i wouldn't want to have the rice. If only I can mix and match. darn~
And again, I love the appetiser cause it had the marinated yummy shrimps. :)

All in all, SIA is actually a good airlines which I like about all these while (apart from MAS), with their flight services from the indoor services, their cleanliness of the wash cubicle and seating to the punctuality of their departure and arrival time. However, (sometimes) you might be served by some ego & proud attendants as well, seeing that they might have known that their airlines company is well-known across the world.

Caffè Bene @ Ground Floor, Gurney Paragon: Sweet Tooth for the Sweet Souls---> Desserts :)

Caffè Bene, a famous Korean coffee house chain outlet has reached Georgetown, Penang. Yayyy~
The popularity of this coffee house outlet in Korea is similar to the US Starbucks Or Coffee Bean.
I think I prefer to refer to it as dessert house cause they are selling a whole range of desserts, apart than coffee.
If I'm not wrong, one could find this kind of outlet at almost everywhere when one visits Korea.

The newly opened dessert house outlet.

So, this coffee house has just started its operation exactly 3 weeks at Gurney Paragon mall, the latest happening mall in town which is located at Gurney Drive.
Besides selling coffees, they also sell desserts like ice-shaved dessert, the Korean style, waffles, tea and ice cream.
If one is S.T.R.E.S.S.E.D out in life, all you gotta do is have some D.E.S.S.E.R.T.S :)

The queue. Since it's still new and I guess that there were lots of stressed out ppl, I had to queue for like 10-15 min in order to get to the cashier counter to place my order. lol~

Since it's about desserts, I went to check this outlet out last week.

This is a display of their ice-shaved dessert called Bingsu. This shall be my next target when I visit them again next. I want the green tea Bingsu!! XD

The ice-shaved dessert.

The desserts for the sweet souls. Are your souls considered as sweet?
Then, you're at the right page. LOL~ ;-)

Currently they are doing a promo for their latte.

 I ordered their special latte, which didn't have any relation to any coffee flavour. Mmmmm.....one must be wondering about it. Well, I'm not a coffee person, so, the name doesn't bother me much.
Their lattes are sooo special and they are called the Misugaru flavour and the Sweet Potato flavour.
And currently they are doing a promo for this latte for customers to try them out or to test out their drinks. Buy 1 free 1 latte (until 30 September 2014).

Misugaru latte (left side) and Sweet Potato latte (right side)

The drinks were really fragrant and extraordinary, unlike the normal tea flavour. Misugaru flavour is made from the Korean multigrain which has rice, sesame and soybean in it. And the other sweet potato drink has the sweet potato smell and taste in it. Both drinks tasted creamy with some melted marshmallow flavour, I think.
Overall, it was tasty and me likey!
If you think that you may need some water to drink after having your sweet desserts or drinks, there's a corner prepared with a jug of water for you to self-service.

That's all for this week. Good night!

Wilber Pan in Penang @ Gurney Paragon: Album "Clown" (小丑) 2014 Promo

Hej hejj, sorry for my long absenceeeeee...I just got back not long ago from a month-long summer European trip! hehe~~ and I've been busy occupying myself with a lot of sleeps. XD

Okay, right now I'll be blogging about my encounter with an idol whom I've known (I know about him, unfortunately he doesn't know me. LOL~ aaaawwWW, one sided love) since a decade ago.
Actually, in general, I once used to idolize lots of singers & actors..such as Korean Rain, American Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Taiwanese Jerry &Vanness called F4 and many more... that was in my teens.

A bit of history which I observe all these years of my life. So, 20 years ago, Penang was just a town, not so popularised as compared to now....and I remember that 15 years ago, singers from the UK 911, American group 98 degrees started to stop by doing their promo in Penang after stopping by in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city for Malaysia.

Anyway, this Wilber Pan, a Taiwanese singer whom I think is really popular currently in Asia. He is an American-born Taiwanese singer, in which I just got to know about that. I liked a few of his songs in the past. After that, I never bothered getting to know about his updates for a decade.
It was just a couple of weeks ago when a good friend of mine informed me of his appearance which will be at a latest happening mall in Penang, Gurney Paragon on the Malaysia's National Day!!
This is like a lil' part of our silly dreams came true again, just to see an artist after sooo long (we call that for actors/actresses who are singers as well, not so much of the art painters of artists)?!
We used to chase after an American-born Taiwanese actor @ singer Vanness Wu who came over a decade ago to Penang, too. He was her idol, but I was just accompanying her to join in her escapade. ;-)
Eventually, I got myself excited too. LMAO~
Now, she is organising this event. hehe~ cool right?!
I was like ohh, cool, Penang is just an island, a small state in Malaysia indeed, but....it's now a popular destination for holiday goers and I bet it could be in the running, to be comparable to this island of Singapore in the near future too.

The stage for Will to perform.

The crowd started to crowd the area in the evening.

The banner for him by his great fans.

The crowd was waiting for him at the other floor levels.

Me selfie with the stage!

His first appearance on that stage!

Apart from him on the far right, there were the host and the fans participants to dance on a short dance for his song.

His album signing appearance on the stage for the second time.

His avid fans....with cardboard made emitting light of his name, with special fan club t-shirts worn on them and bla bla..:)

I can't believe that in such longgggg years, I haven't have the chance to chase after any artists since Korean Rain held his concert in Kuala Lumpur which I needed to travel for at least 4 hours by bus to see him.
Now, I feel lucky that an artist came to me instead, in Penang. Yayyyyy & Cheers~.~
Of course, I must blog about this. haha~

This latest album of his, Clown (I went to youtube search on all this album and I find that most of his songs are not bad, nice but it's in Mandarin language though! Well, I'm not a Mandarin speaking nor listener (I can listen maybe a bit lahh) but I can tell you that music is universal. Agree with me right?
His style can be in the pop, ballad and hip hop genre & I'm an eclectic person anyhow!
If I'm not mistaken, he's a talented person (that's why i like him) and most of his songs are composed and written by him! :D

A collage of me and all~ woot woot~~

Gurney Paragon mall by night view to end this blog! Adios~
(pictures shot by Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone)

p/s: There's a short dance clip of him teaching his avid participant fans on how to dance his Clown song, in which I shot. So, feel free to click on the title of this blog to view. Cheers~