iChestnuts 15

“Singapore’s original live parody show celebrates 15 years of shameless spoofing with a massive mash-up of new sketches and all-time classics with iChestnuts 15!

Join Jonathan Lim, Rodney Oliveiro, Judy Ngo, Dwayne Lau and Judee Tan in a non-stop rollercoaster of shameless irreverence as we celebrate Singapore’s most politically upheaving year since 1965. The merciless pen and keyboard of Jonathan Lim and Bang Wenfu will skewer a whole host of topics from our ballooning population to our multiplicity of Tans, from The Pupil to 2359, from The Walking Dead to Million Dollar Money Drop, from Spring Awakening to everyone’s favourite operatic boyband Il Volo! Come see how nude equestrianism in Equus made us feel Wicked and discover the new Stephen Sondheim musical commissioned by the Elections Department – Into the Booths.

 

And humbly presenting Singapore’s very own MBS-worthy musical – The MerLion King!

 

And whether you’re an old fan or a new aircon, you’ll get to sample some of our Chestnuts classics like the perennial favourite War Diary and the infamous SSO Plays The Best of Nokia Ringtones. Plus the return of your favourite characters, including the Pondan News Asia team and their new iPhone 4 Ass, super-censor Amy Chia, our unstoppable pair of girls who redefine PRC (Permanent Resident – Chinese), and Ris Low’s inimitable sister Ivory Low Ai Kiu introducing her sister’s new personal assistant app - SisRis!”

 

first read abt this on papers and seemed really interesting! was deciding to watch this or to watch kumar’s amazing race, and in e end decided on the latter, cos hav been wanting to catch a kumar’s show hah. could not hav both cos the tickets, though not as expensive as concert tixs, arent that cheap either. the cheapest one needs abt 40plus 50 bucks! so to watch 2 shows means a whopping $200 or so. too much hah.

 

but abt a few days before the show, i saw deal.com.sg selling the tix at abt 40% off! so the cheapest tix can b bought at $20+, which is not too bad ha. great, since this is wad i wld hav wanted to watch too. so i quickly booked 2 tix for the show on 21 jan, sat. it was held at jubilee hall, raffles hotel. a pretty small theatre, so despite us sitting at the last row, it wasnt too bad still.

 

rocking gd time at ichestnuts 15

 

it was a solid 3 hrs (almost) of performance – starting at 8pm and ending at 11pm, with abt 15mins of intermission in betw. super worth it i think! haha. and there were quite a lot of hilarious scenes which made us laugh non-stop. really many funny spoofs and jokes abt everything singaporean. esp entertained by the performance of judee tan (better known as kim bong cha in the noose) and jonathan lim – very talented and natural comedians! to think that we only knew of ichestnuts after 14 yrs, wad a shame hah.

 

we will probably be back next yr, even without the deal.com.sg coupons hah. highly recommended!

Welcome the Year of the Dragon!

before i noe it, now is already chu 2 alr! hah. the past 2 days hav been pretty tiring, but it was good.

sunday was chu xi and we spent the morning having breakfast at my old hse there (as usual ha). then i did some last min CNY decor shopping. and cos it was alr chu xi, there were quite gd discounts, esp those items with dragons. in e end, i bought 3 items for only $5 to add to my hse decor hah. old-fashioned i may be, but i indeed enjoy doing up all these CNY decor to usher in the brand new lunar yr!

getting ready for CNY

afternoon was spent washing the car and doing some last min of spring cleaning of the living room – still managed to clear out almost 5 bags of trash. shiokness hah. mum was busy preparing for the reunion dinner later in the evening. this yr’s dinner was abit special, cos we were expecting special guests hah. my mum’s sec sch gd fren (who has migrated to aust) was here for holiday and so my mum invited her and her 2 sons to join us for reunion dinner. on top of steamboat, i also went to buy yusheng for tossing!

reunion dinner!

before the dinner, we had the yusheng first for appetizer hah. huat ar! and dinner was quite a spread, with very nicely-flavoured soup. everyone was damn full and as expected, there were some leftover. after dinner was jus chit-chatting over CNY goodies and TV.

10 mins before the clock struck 12, my father would prepare the altar for praying later. it was an annual thingg at our hsehold and my father wld wait till the joss sticks finish burning before he went to sleep (at abt 2plus 3am). we wld try to stay as late as we could ha. but usually not beyond 2am.

bai ti gong

chu 1′s itinerary remains unchanged year after year. in the morning, we went to our paternal grandma’s place to bai nian. it was a big gathering with all the uncles and aunt and their families gathering under 1 roof. and we wld take the customary family photo with grandma, follow by a pic with everyone.

the neo family

left for maternal grandpa’s place at abt 12plus and had our lunch there. it was full of kids there (cousins’ kids) so the whole place was pretty noisy hah. while the kids were playing kiddy stuff, the adults would play ban luck. still thot ox has pretty gd luck this yr, but i was wrong! lost $55 in the end booo. hah but at least that was an easy way to kill time la. headed home after dinner, and we were alr pretty tired.

at grandpa's place

woke up damn early at 6am this morning cos i had to work booo. but the gd thing is most APAC ex-japan countries are also on holiday today, the only major mkt that is open is aust mkt. so i went into office at 730am, hoping to leave earlier. was done by abt 1plus pm actually, but last min an issue cropped up and i stayed till almost 3pm. not too bad still la hah.

my family came picked me up at suntec and we headed to sentosa. my mum wanted to try the newly-opened malaysian food street at resorts world. though we reached at abt 3plus pm, there was still a snaking queue outside the “food court”. quite a gd thing that they regulate the crowd inside the venue though. we managed to get in after some wait and we bought quite a lot of food to share heh – prawn noodles, wanton mee, bah kut teh, lor mee, penang char kway teow, KL hokkien mee and cuttlefish kang kong. followed by chendol and ice kachang ha. the prices werent too exhorbitant, but i think the quality is so-so only. and the interior decor is nice, but the whole place is abit stuffy and warm.

malaysian food street at resorts world, sentosa

after dinner, we walked ard resorts world for a while before heading to a relative’s place to bai nian. and it was time to go home after that, cos tired alr hah. think age is really catching up!

spending chu 2 afternoon at sentosa

the main CNY activities were over and tmr will be back to normal work alr. hope the year of the dragon bring everyone gd heath, abundance of wealth, lots of joy and happiness and many success!

Toto Reunion Draw – $7,017,051

this friday is the $5,000,000 toto reunion draw! but cos of snowballing, the prize money is a whopping $7,017,051 hah!

hav you bought yours?

for the fun of it (and secretly hoping to be the only grp 1 winner), we decided to pool our resouces tgt and place a bet. it started yest on our grp chat channel to rope in interested parties. within an hour, all 12 slots were filled! a total of 12 of us gave one number each, and paid $38.50 each, to buy one system 12 ticket that cost $462.

how nice if we are the only grp 1 winner – each of us will be $584,754.25 richer hah! with that sum of money, i will save most of it, and spend the rest on a long trip, on treating family and frens, on shopping spree, and maybe giving up our segar BTO and go buy trivelis. eh wait, not enough to buy trivelis hah. ok la abit early to be day dreaming. oh well, even if we dun win the top prize, as long as our 12 numbers hit 4 of the winning numbers, we will be richer by $46.70 (nett gain of $8.20, or 21% return. not bad at all hah).

HUAT ar!

and next up: toto hong bao draw on 3 feb – $10,000,000 (or more)!

CNY is Coming!

woah jus 2 weeks into the new year and very soon, it will be chinese new year! today went to shop for CNY stuff with my parents at jurong west mkt, IMM and jurong point. so damn crowded everywhere man. but i enjoyed the whole CNY atmosphere with all the red auspicious stuff, and those CNY music blasting hah. CNY is afterall my fav holiday of the yr.

spring cleaning is more or less done. and soon, will start decorating the house to get into the mood hah. and of cos, CNY calls for new clothes, and i hav bought mine – a checkered casual shirt and a pair of khaki pants hah. one set will do cos i will start work on chu 2 alr. needa thank my colleague who doesnt mind working on chu 1! im okie with working on chu 2 cos my main bai nian will b completed on chu 1. come to think of it, this will be my last yr collecting angbaos hah! i shld do my visiting i guess.

sis will b back next fri for reunion. gd that she decides to come back afterall, cos that really makes my parents happy. so next sun it will b our reunion dinner – jus steamboat and a few dishes. simple, but all it matters is the whole family gets tgt.

counting down 1 more week! gong xi fa cai in advance!