First Weekend without our dearest friends...

Hmm....it's been more than 2 weeks since my last entry. Here's an update of some of the stuff we did since then:

Wen & Celia left. But we seem to have more friends than ever....

The first Friday that they left, we met up with some of Zing's church friends who each brought along some of their friends. So a group of Asians (Viet Chinese, Singaporeans, Malaysians, French Chinese, Filipino Chinese, Hong Konger) hanged out at a pub in Midtown Houston. Why is this special? That was the first time the four of us went to a pub here in Houston. When Wen & Celia were around, we never went drinking together at all


That Saturday, we went to the Pangie's (Peter & Angie) CNY party. Peter is a Taiwanese. Angie is half Indian, half Japanese. They communicate in English of course since they've been living in the US since young.

We've been to their house for several parties before. Last Sat was our second CNY party at their house. The Pangies are great hosts. They will come up with whatever reason just to host a party and will prepare lotsa food and liquor to entertain the 30 people invited to their house. It was at their house that we got to know some great friends.


This year's CNY party, the Pangie invited close to 50 people. It was the first time that they had so many people over at their condo. They decorated their place with CNY paraphernalia and even had to hire someone to clear up the place. And they even gave out door gifts - paper brollies and fans.


Kudos to the Pangie! We love goin' to your parties!


That Sunday was SuperBowl weekend. Two years ago when we first came to the US, we tried watching Superbowl together. But after watching for probably just 10 mins, we changed channel and watched some repeated soccer match instead. None of us understood the game then.

This year, the four of us were so into football that even though we had a musical to go to that night, we tried to catch the game by going to Hard Rock Cafe located near the theater. We reached Hard Rock at 5pm and were one of the first few customers. The rest came after the game started at about 530pm.

We managed to catch 2 quarters of the game before we had to leave for the musical - Jersey Boys. We bought the tix to the musical back in Sept 07 and had no idea that the musical was gonna clash with the Superbowl then.

We missed the biggest Superbowl upset ever! New England Patriots who never lost a game the whole season lost to New York Giants, the underdogs.
When the game started I asked everyone who they supported. Three of us supported Patriots. Tim was indifferent. He just wanted a good game. When the game started, Zing and I automatically switch side. I changed side cos the Giants were wearing red jersey. So it was a natural instinct for me to support the red team. Somehow the blue team just looks like the bad guys. As Chris would put it, "Strange but true..." See Tim, I support.....................
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Arsenal! or Liverpool for that matter. hehe....

Jersey Boys is a musical that uses the hit songs of the Four Seasons to tell the story of group's rise to fame in the 60s/70s. Although the songs were catchy and sentimental, I didn't think that it is so good that it deserves to win the Tony Awards for Best Musical.

A musical should have music and lyrics that help to tell the story as the musical develops and bring out the scenes played out. Jersey Boys is merely a regurgitation of the songs sang by the Four Seasons at different stages of their career. It feels more like a concert rather than a musical. I wonder if it won the Tonys because of its popularity with the baby boomers who grew up listening to their songs.

Granted, the acting and dancing by the cast were really good, but probably it's just not the kind of musical I like. I prefer musicals like Les Miz and Wicked with great singing, original lyrics and a strong storyline.

So that's our first weekend without the Thongs.