On Tuesday night, we caught up with a few friends who were down for business from Malaysia, and they decided to go to Ling Nam. I wasn't too crash-hot on going but never the less, it was a relatively predictable Chinese restaurant, so I thought.In Uni days, we went there after a late night and order our supper of hot bowls of beef and preserved egg congee with Chinese fried donuts. That's what I thought they were good at. This time, luckily we went with friends who knew what to order, my Ling Nam horizon has broaden.We ordered giant pipis ...
Archives for June, 2007
Goon But Not ForgottenAnyone who called Prince Charles a "grovelling little bastard" is OK in my books. And when you see this play along with a genuine audience who genuinely want to see a play about Milligan and the Goons, Ying Tong a Walk with the Goons by Roy Smiles is an OK play where you laugh at what's on stage while laughing at the remembered Goon Shows it carefully evokes. It’s not a great work of art and it has some patchy patches but it is eager to please its audience and balances that eagerness with a fairly tough ...
Let There Be Light ... Comedy!Uncle Semolina (and Friends) is a performing arts collective with a knack for turning out memorable theatre in the most unlikely places like an abandoned shop or a shipping container. After the success of their reinterpretation of the ancient and homoerotic epic Gilgamesh Uncle Semolina are tackling that daddy of all epics, the Bible, in their Chronicles of the Old Testament, a selection of the sordid, taboo-ridden and violent stories from the Old Testament so beloved of fundamentalists.Using their trademark props, namely a collection of children's toys and kindergarten furniture, the cast act out the ...
School Daze?Alan Bennett's first play was a self styled revue called Forty Years On unrolling the history of post-war Britain with singing schoolboys and doting dons. This time Bennett's boys recount the downfall of one dear and queer old teacher Hector and the rise to power of another less popular but no less queer Irwin.Underneath the surface story is Bennett’s view of Post-Thatcher Britain. Even Thatcher’s most memorable saying “There is No Such Thing as Society” is parodied on the blackboard when the play opens.In 1983 a group of boys, fresh from their A-Levels (something akin to the VCE) have ...
Sloane Square!In this new production, the first professional staging in years, poor old Joe Orton gets a battering almost as bad as the one his psycho boyfriend gave him back in 1967. Entertaining Mr Sloane was Orton's first staged play and one of the greatest English sex comedies since the Restoration. In Orton’s words “it’s about a young man who wants a room and comes into this house. He’s met the woman of the house in a public library and she shows him around the house. Within about five minutes she attempts to seduce him. A bit later on, she ...
On Saturday we went to Shark Fin House with two friends, Jin and Kian. I rang up at 10am, expecting them to be booked out, but they had some room available for their late (1.30) session. The only trouble with having yum-cha on a Saturday is finding a park. Most parks are 1 hour limit, and you normally need at least 1 1/2 hours to have a nice relaxed yum-cha. We were lucky and found a 2 hour park at the top end of Exhibition St, and filled the $3.50-per-hour meter with coins. We got to Shark Fin on time, and joined the ...
I've been away in Hong Kong and Vietnam and just got back last Monday... A short trip the day after I accepted my new job offer...I'm now working on the corner of Spring and Lonsdale in the city... and I've never worked in this side of the city before and it's fabulous! So close to Chinatown, and so close to Horoki! I ventured down Lt Collins Street from this side of town and already noted a few restaurants and cafes that I would like to try for lunch.I've never been to Horoki for lunch so I didn't know how the ...
After about four days of subsisting on whatever's been in the fridge, supplemented with a few fresh veges, I decided that I'd splurge on a takeaway before Michael returns home. Several times throughout Wednesday I thought about what I should order. On a wintery evening with "showers and local hail" forecast, delivery seemed the smartest option. But delivery constrained me to pizza or Indian, neither of which I was particularly interested in. What I really wanted was some Chinese-style mock meat from the White Lotus vegetarian restaurant and I was pretty sure they don't deliver. ...
Outside Flinders Lane Police Headquarters
Corner of Bourke and Swanston St, Melbourne “The cityscape involves a circling, a continual return to the same loci, the same figures the same objects, but each time from a different direction, from a different vantage point.” Walter Benjamin
