Cirque Du Soleil

What can you say about this show? It is amazing! This is the third production I have seen (I've previously seen Allegria and Quidam) but I am never disappointed. I got tickets in the VIP section for the same price as a regular seat. *happy claps*

There was so much going on at the beginning, you didn't know where to look!

The whole show had me enthralled from the very beginning, including the clowns antics while ushering people to their seats.

The flexibility, fitness and committment from the performers always amazes me.

Some of the physiques on the the guys are to die for... phwoar!

I can't wait for the next production to hit town in the next 18months or so!

Random Facts 17

1. The kernel of the tree ‘Myristica Fragans’ is called nutmeg.
2. Scarlet O’Hara’s real first name was Katie.
3. A person who is scoptophobic has an intense fear of being seen.
4. If laid out in a straight line, the average adult’s circulatory system would be long enough to circle the Earth two and a half times.
5. Scientists have found chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression.
6. Children born in May are, on average, 200 grams heavier at birth than children born in any other month.
7. Plain vanilla is the favourite flavour of ice cream, making up 29% of all sales.
8. A camel can shut it’s nostrils during a desert sandstorm.
9. Facial hair is the fastest growing hair on the body.
10. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders.

Movie Review: Hairspray

I won a double pass through a radio station to a preview of Hairspray. I had said to a friend that it was a movie I would only go and see if I won tickets, and I did!

I took Ace's wife along (hell would have to be frozen for Ace to sit through a 'chick flick') and we both enjoyed it. There were a few good laughs, and some cringeworthy moments, but in all was a very good film. John travolta in drag - hillarious! *grin*

Plot: Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair, and an even bigger heart, has only one passion – dancing. Her dream is to appear on “The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s hippest dance party on TV. Tracy (Nikki Blonsky) seems a natural fit for the show except for one not-so-little problem – she doesn’t fit in. Her plus-sized figure has always set her apart from the cool crowd which she is reminded of by her loving, but over-protective plus-sized mother, Edna (John Travolta). That doesn’t stop Tracy, because if there is one thing that this girl knows, it’s that she was born to dance. As her father, Wilbur (Christopher Walken) tells her, “Go for it! You’ve got to think big to be big.”

After wowing Corny Collins (James Marsden) at her high school dance, Tracy wins a spot on his show and becomes an instant on-air sensation, much to the chagrin of the show’s reigning princess, Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow), and her scheming mother, Velma (Michelle Pfeiffer), who runs television station, WYZT. Even worse for Amber is the fact that it’s not just the audience who loves the new girl in town: Amber’s sweetheart, Link Larkin (Zac Efron), seems to be smitten by Tracy’s charms as well. This dance party gets personal as a bitter feud erupts between the girls while they compete for the coveted “Miss Teenage Hairspray” crown.

At school, however, a short stint in detention and raised eyebrows caused by the budding relationship between her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes) and Seaweed (Elijah Kelley), opens Tracy’s eyes to a bigger issue than the latest dance craze or the coolest hairdo – racial inequality. Throwing caution to the wind, she leads a march to Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah) to fight for integration and winds up with an arrest warrant instead. Tracy is on the lam now and goes underground – literally – to Penny’s basement.

Movie Review: The Bourne Ultimatum

I have been hanging out to see this movie for ages. I've just been to see it now with Ace. We'd made a deal when we went to see Shooter that we would see this together. His wife is not a fan of action flicks otherwise he would never get to see it.

It picks up immediately from the last movie, with a bit of overlap between them.

The car chase and roof top scenes are unbelievably cool!

Matt Damon is so sexy and I love him in this role.

Plot: All he wanted to do was disappear. Instead, Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was.

Gremlins In My Phone

The weirdest thing happened with my mobile phone this morning.

I was getting dressed when it started ringing. This was at 6.30am, which doesn't surprise me because even though I have had this phone number for 8 odd years, people still dial the wrong number and are calling from interstate.

Anyway, I grab my phone out of my bag to see who is calling and the display is clear! Nobody is calling. The phone is still ringing though. So I push the answer button, it still keeps ringing. I push the end button, it still keeps ringing. I push several more buttons, it still keeps ringing.

In the end I had to turn it off for it to stop ringing.

Now I've got it on silent just in case it happens again.

Bizarre!!!

Movie Review: The Simpsons

I didn't really want to be at home when my stepdad's kids came round for father's day wth their screaming kids. It was just like watching an extra long episode with more characters than normal. I especially liked Bart's nude sequence. *grin*

Plot: Homer must save Springfield from a catastrophe he himself created.

Please Take A Message

I was doing my grocery shopping this afternoon and had called my mum on her mobile phone to find out what I should pick up for dinner. While we were talking, I could hear another call coming through. I've had this phone for 2+ years and it's the first time it's ever happened. I didn't even know I had call waiting on my mobile.

I was trying to get my mum off the phone so I could answer it, but then her land line rang, so she was trying to get to that phone and hang up from me. The person calling me on my mobile had hung up by the time I went to answer it, so I gave it 10minutes before calling my mum back because we hadn't decided on dinner.

It turns out that the call on their landline was someone looking for me. I have no idea who, because my stepdad took the call but didn't bother to ask who was calling and didn't take a message! He never does! The only helpfull bit of information he managed to ascertain is that they were male!

They haven't called back, so obviously it can't have been too important. But it's going to bug me until I find out who it is.