Gwen Stefani Concert

After purchasing the tickets nearly 6 months ago, it was so good to finally go watch Gwen Stefani live. Her opening act was Gym Class Heroes (who sing Cupid's Chokehold) and apparently the lead singer was really hot! But Siew Yum, November Cleo and I got there late and missed out on their performance. Damn! Princess Model was there with another friend and was unfortunately seated at a different section. Shorty was with us and already drinking before the concert even started.

Gwen Stefani was brilliant. She looked sensational, sounded great and her Harajuku dancers were awesome. She had the body of a gym junkie and not like a woman who just had a baby. The songs were great and November Cleo, Siew Yum, BBs and I had a ball dancing and jumping around our seats. I wish we were on the floor but atleast Siew Yum thought of me when she bought the tickets. Cant complain.

The stage was a little small with not much effort spent dressing it up. So, basically the stage consisted of Gwen, her dancers and the band. Nothing fancy like Madonna's Girlie Show. But Gwen did make up for it by pulling someone from the audience up onto the stage. That was a nice act. She also went out into the crowd, then climbed up the stands followed by her band and gigantic bodyguards. What an effort! Siew Yum and BBs were drooling and hoping for Gwen to climb up to our seats, but we were way too high up. Sigh......

Crazy Horse Paris

If you ever get the chance to go Paris, you must watch the Crazy Horse show. Very much like the Moulin Rouge and Lido show, the Crazy Horse is a dance show with 16 beautiful and naked girls on stage. Nowhere near as sleazy as the strip shows of Bangkok. This one was truly magnificent. The elaborate costumes (or sometimes a lack of), the well thought out choreography which apparently has not changed since the 1950s, and the gorgeous girls made the show so sensual. Nothing perverted about it, although a group of tourists from mainland China were planted in the front row seats for a good perve. Typical Chinamen. Overall, the show was tastefully and artistically done. I definitely recommend it if you happen to be in Paris. The tickets are not cheap at 100 Euros per person. Lucky for us, one of the dancers happened to be Ferrari's girlfriend! Ixo was kind enough to get four of us in for 100 Euros, which also included drinks. Her performance was brilliant. With the best body on stage and bumps in all the right places, Ixo sure drove the Chinese tourists nuts!

After the show, we managed to have a quick chat with Ixo and to my surprise she was a former ballet dancer with the Russian Bolshoi Ballet. Impressive. She told us that all the Crazy Horse dancers were either ballerinas or gymnasts. To become a Crazy Horse performer, she had to go through a very tough recruitment process. It's not just for anybody off the street. Ixo also told us about the history of Crazy Horse and how proud she is to be part of the troupe. Even Christina Aguilera wants to perform with them!

Bollywood Ball

The long awaited charity medical ball was a great idea for us to do something different. A chance to get all dressed up and all in the name of charity. The Darling St venue was perfect, but the crowd was so not. Firstly, I want to say I'm not racist. But when the ball is filled with 80% apus, it made me wonder if I had mistakenly walked into a high school prom in New Delhi. For such a prestigious venue, the food certainly didnt live up to our expectation. Safeway's roast chicken tastes better than the chicken they tried to pass off as main course. I cant even begin to describe the beef dish. To top it all off, can you believe they forgot to serve us our dessert?? Swing Sister had the right idea and kept telling us to drink $85 worth of alcohol. Yes, that's how much each of us donated to this charity. And till this day, I still dont know the name of the charity! The free flow of Hardy's wine didnt even come close to making up for the food. I'm told Hardy's only cost like $8 per bottle. We would've had to down 10 bottles each to make it worth while.

The music wasnt too bad, real 80s old school RnB tunes. HYC, SJ and I were reminiscing about the Billboard days. Half way through the night they had a lucky draw raffle type give away. Everyone had to look behind their seats to see if they had won the prize. Each table had one prize. Scar Face was the lucky one from our table. Can you believe he won a free Bollywood dance lesson? How ironic, considering we felt like we were at a Bollywood Ball.

Atleast one of us got lucky at the ball. How she found an Aussie amongst the apus, I will never know. But it may very well be a topic for my next entry.

Me, You and The Future

My friends and I have come to an age where we dont know what we want, dont know what we're doing and sometimes, we dont even know who we are. I sit in envy of those who are settled in their lives, with a good family, good job, nice car and a nice house. Are these the only things we work and live for? Part of me wants to live for the moment but part of me says I need to plan everything. Which one do I choose?

Ball Breaker and I often joke about the way our lives have turned out. She always brings up the idea of getting a couple of 6 pack UDLs and hanging out by the Yarra; just me, her and the future. And we always tell ourselves, we will still be doing this in 5 years. Man, that's scary. When will we settle? God only knows. And why should we settle? I'm so not into a life that's full of routine, day in and day out. Some people work all their lives to achieve this routine. Why???

Maybe this weekend Ball Breaker and I will actually hang by the Yarra with our UDLs...... just me, her and the future.....

Drinking With The Retirement Village

Was down in the dumps yesterday, filled with office politics. Life is never meant to be easy and to ease the pain I decided to have some wine. And so I had the pleasure of drowning my sorrows with the entire retirement village from 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Met up with Ah Sook, Ah Pak and Ah Yeh. Well, actually I met up with WMDM, Ah Sook and The Accountant for drinks at 3 Degrees. And as SJ says, that's the whole retirement village, only person missing was Fegg. Sometimes I wonder, do these people work? People probably say the same thing about me too. Aaah .... the pleasure of leaving work early and drinking the day away. If only the problems would disappear as quickly as a glass of wine.

Havent really had much motivation to do anything lately and that includes blogging. I cant even think of what else to write. I do have a lot of stories to share, but today is not the day. Maybe tomorrow.......