And it has nothing to do with my lovelife. Haha.
Caught the directorial debut of Lee Hom last Saturday, essentially a romance show that I suppose wasn’t too bad for a first-time director. The movie was typical mainstream infused with musical vibes, and perhaps also with a bit of an insider take behind what a celeb’s life might be like. Entertaining, with a nice song sang by the man himself while his fingers danced gracefully on the keys of the piano. You know, it’s things like these that make people go ga-ga over men like that. As much as there are people who think Lee Hom isn’t the best-looking species of men around (think Takeshi Kaneshiro or Daniel Wu – icons of male beauty in Asia), the very image of him sitting at the piano or concentrating on the strings of the violin while singing a song can elevate an ok-looking person to the ranks of 帅!
Anyway, the weekend passed too soon and I’m already bemoaning its passage, until the next weekend swings by that is. Finally made a trip to the newly-opened MBS yesterday and couldn’t help but start comparing it to the Venetian that I went to in Macau. I haven’t visited any casinos in Vegas, but the Venetian in Macau was really grand in terms of its size and opulence albeit it falling to ill-maintenance after a couple of years of its opening. Where size was concerned, MBS really is at a much smaller scale, although they tried to compensate for the lack of lateral size with vertical grandeur – there was a lot of upward space used to make the entire compound seem like it is very huge but real estate wasn’t all that impressive. They had a river-like feature with sampan-boats rowing people about that I thought was a funny take on the Venetians’ gondolas and gondoliers.
There were plenty of high-end luxury shops that still had not opened theirs doors when I went yesterday, and I was disappointed that they didn’t have more cafes that I could check out. Coffee Bean has a “Beanstro” that deviates from its usual self-serve cafe-style to one where you needed to wait to be seated, and there was another coffee place called… Java detour (I can’t remember now) that was closed for a private event. But I think TCC is in the works, and another food court that I saw a direction plate pointing to.
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Was tempted with a short weekend trip, but I think I’ve sort of rationalised it to be uneconomical, seeing as to how the airfare and accommodation can be better spent shopping in Singapore, until I finalise my next holiday destination. Perhaps if it wasn’t the lack of annual leave that I have to contend with, the decision might have skewed the other direction… although I still can’t hope enough for more leave days!
Beautiful days 