Sporeland Jellical Ball

Jellicle Cats come out to-night
Jellicle Cats come one come all:
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright -
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.

After first watching Cats on telly (TV3 we think we showing the DVD version), we thought, "Meh." Some of the songs were good, but as Cat's really was based on a children's books about cats (Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats), there wasn't so much of story as there was about cats. So happens when we were in Esplanade for Cinderella, the Chief saw that Cats will be showing. Hence this trip to Sporeland!

Once again, the overnight train down and back - altho' this time we both killed time in multiplayer Space Invaders Extreme and Pacman Vs on the DS! Both of us were expecting to reach early, and have breakfast once again at Swensen's. Something we both looked forward to before we headed to freshen up in the gym.

To our surprise, Swensen's disappeared! And Park Hotel! In fact, the entire building's closed down! What's happened? More importantly, where are we going to have breakfast this early an hour?

Luckily, this trip we weren't as early and Paragon's lower ground food stores were already opened. We both decided to stop by The Soup Spoon for their breakfast set of Ham & Cheese sandwich and Cereal With Yoghurt.

Soup Spoon have quite an extensive selection of soups to choose from, but the soups are more to our fancy than the Chief, one of our East VS West differences. And the Chief doesn't fancy yoghurt either, and that the Chief sampled a bite before we discovered that there was honey at the bottom of the bowl to mix in didn't help.

After a shower at the gym, it was down to the Heeran for a quick looky about for clothes. NUM still doesn't do cheap clothes, and while Mook caught the Chief's eye we decided to check out other places first.

Given that we decided to make this trip a much more 'relaxed and easygoing trip', there wasn't much planned in our itinerary. But there happened to be delay in our train journey that after Heeran we'd to rush to Marina Square with only time to lunch and not shop. The reason?

The Mango Snow as featured on Hyperion's. The both of us are mad for mangos too, and since Marina Square is near the Esplanade, lunch at Xin Wang HK was the obvious choice.

We both were rather disgruntled, however, as when we asked the waitress how large the Mango Snow would be, she was vague in her answer. Thus we called our lunch, the Mango Snow, and cups of water. The Mango Snow is appropriate for THREE people - for two, you don't need to order drinks at all.

Cats was a pleasant surprise. For we were thinking we would be awake and listening to the parts we found interesting and sleeping through the rest ie. sleep through Rum Tum Tugger's and Growltiger's songs (to be honest, we did get sleepy and almost fell asleep at some point).

Okay, so we admit we didn't know just how much of a dance musical Cats turned out to be. It was very enjoyable and we respect how the dancer-singer-actors manage to do it all! Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats itself impressed us as how clear their singing was - when they did the bit, "'Round the cathedral, Rang Vivat! Life to the everlasting cat!" we sorely missed classical choral singing.

Still, this is one musical where we will pass buying the CD as proof that we've been there to watch it, the program book is enough. Oh and because the Chief already has the CD.

After Cats, it was down to Chinatown for a bit of walking, shopping and dinner. Oh dinner! More raw fish with porridge! Seriously, we love this dish.

The only problem with this kind if dinner is that, we're sitting outdoors in the heat and we're eating porridge. Thankfully this trip we're partly prepared and dressed light, keeping a shirt in a bag to wear during Cats only. Need to get more suitable clothes!

After dinner, it was back to the gym for another shower and change then it was onwards to catch our train back. Our overnight train back was rather interesting, as this time we had a group of aunties travelling along with us. They first made their impression when one of them quite loudly exclaimed, "EXCUSE ME, WHOEVER IT IS THAT IS SMOKING PLEASE GO OUT TO SMOKE. THIS IS A NON-SMOKING CARRAIGE!"

Mentally applauded her, although soon after we held that judgement in check when she went, "There's a smell from this side, someone over here farted."

Throughtout all the time we were in our bunk with the curtains drawn while playing Space Invaders Extreme with the Chief. And in both cases, the cause of smells were not from either of us.

At Woodlands we confided to the Chief that we were going to be worried that the aunties were going to be a troublesome lot later. The Chief consoled us by saying that the aunties will be likely to sleep early. This proved true, as their noisy chatter died down not long after we've all left immigration and were well on our way to KL.

Only we were effing woken up sometime 6am by a couple of aunties making small talk rather loudly in Mandarin!!!!!

We would have been happy to have slept until we were at KL Sentral, not up early in the morning being reminded that we have a full bladder and will not be using any toilet till we reach KL Sentral some 2 hours later!

Some half hour after being disturbed, we heard another voice, a foreign or Indian lady (intonation not clear), politely telling the Annoying Aunties that their conversation woke everyone up early in the morning.

It took some yanking our bunk curtains aside loud enough and staring out at the aunties with slit eyes (the kind of look when you wake up and everything's bright) for a couple of seconds before yanking the curtains shut that got the attention of one of the aunties - the politer one (to the left) who'd actually called for the unknown smoker to go smoke out of the carraige. Her voice quietened down while the other aunty (on right) could do no effing thing about how loud she spoke.

If they weren't talking in Mandarin, we would have also added in our bit of telling them to quiet down and let everyone sleep. As it was, we had a grouchy morning until we'd gotten back, dumped our stuff and gone for breakfast and a bit of shopping.

Up up up past the Russell Hotel
Up up up to the Heaviside Layer