I visited the Saatchi Gallery 2 weekends ago to see their latest exhibition, The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today. I enjoyed this exhibition a lot. It is much more interesting than the previous exhibition. I would highly recommend a visit.
Thanks to my best friend, I came to know about Banksy’s new movie, ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’. I was quite annoyed when I couldn’t get tickets to its premier screening in a make shift cinema in Leake Street Tunnel (underneath Waterloo Station). Luckily I didn’t give up and tried to get tickets the next morning before heading to work. I have to say, persistent paid off!! Managed to get 2 tickets to the movie (costs £7.50 each).
We got to the tunnel early as I know there are several entrances to the tunnel. The last time I was there was for the Punchdrunk’s Tunnel 228 installation. We got there about 30 mins early and couldn’t find the ‘Cinema’ sign or entrances. Then we asked a guy and he pointed us to the ‘door’ and said that the ‘door’ will not open until 3pm, which is the ticket entrance time. So we just walked around, taking pictures of graffiti artist making graffiti art in the tunnel.
In order to get in, we have to show the ticket and also the card used to pay for the tickets. Then we have to had our bags checked and ushered into another tunnel to collect another version of the ticket and another empty space with a few of Banksy’s arts. We bought our popcorns and waited to be ushered into another tunnel where it has been turned into a cinema.
The movie / documentary is about how graffiti artists operates in USA and UK and how one unknown guy became a world famous graffiti artist just like that and even went on to design the cover of Madonna’s latest album cover. It is quite a funny documentary and a good insight into their modus operandi. Dav and I enjoyed it quite a lot.
You can still catch his movie in the normal cinema. Visit this site to see which cinema it’s being shown.
Here’s some pictures I took.
Our tickets.
The ‘Cinema’ sign. Look on the left side of the photo, lots of graffiti artists working on making their art.
The fake red carpet. For this movie, they actually spray paint a red carpet leading into the entrance of the cinema.
The queue is getting longer and longer…
First art we saw is the Queen and Prince Phillip opening the movie.
The famous lion statue, except this time it has a microphone in its mouth.
I didn’t detect this CCTV until Dav pointed it out! That’s Banksy alright… always like to ’surprise’ the audience.
The movie started with this logo. Quite amusing.
Burnt Paratha
Originally uploaded by StephNgoi
We have been buying frozen paratha from See Woo lately. Really love it and it’s sooo easy to cook them. All you have to do is just heat it on a wok.
It is soooooo easy to cook and yet I still burnt them! Not only did I burnt one, I burnt 2 parathas….
This incident totally confirms why I don’t like to cook!
Last Saturday, the weather was great. The sun was out (quite unusual since it was raining the whole week). So we decided to head out to Hampstead Heath (up north) and walk around the huge area/park. After doing some research online, I found out that this place has lots of ponds and a circular walking path which we can follow.
I knew about this place when I went to Kenwood House for the Simply Red concert. I remember walking past a lookout which has superb view of the city. So I’ve always wanted to go back and walk around the area.
Here’s the planned walking route.
When we got there, we didn’t follow the planned route. It was too troublesome trying to find the right place to walk to. We just turn when we want and walk towards to things we wanted to see. This makes it a little bit more interesting and spontaneous. We even found a public ‘Women’s only’ swimming pool. The pool is actually a pond. Although we’re technically still in the middle of winter, there were several ladies swimming in the pond that day.
Here’s some pictures I took on that day. You’ll notice there’s lots of pictures of trees and clouds. Well, that’s the scenery we saw that day. For better quality pictures, please view them on my Flickr account.
The week is passing by too fast! Last week especially… the social calendar was packed! I had something to do every night after work except for Monday. Here’s a summary of what I did:
Tuesday – Dinner at Wahaca
Dav arranged a dinner with his colleagues at a Mexican restaurant in Canary Wharf. The food is quite good. The restaurant even give away chilli seeds to grow at home (to be exact, it is Serrano chillies. A kind of Mexican chillies). We actually went and got ourselves pots and compost to try and grow chillis. Last year, our Aussie friends gave us some tulip seeds as well, which we have not tried to grow. So we thought why not grow everything at one go. Let’s see whether we’re successful.
Wednesday – The Misanthrope
My office was selling subsidized tickets to this play last year, which has Keira Knightley in it!! I didn’t manage to get the tickets but luck was on my side on Monday when I saw a colleague selling her tickets. It only costs £27 to see this play! I managed to get 2 extra tickets so I invited NB and AA to come along. It was definitely worth it. Keira was good… she’s damn skinny as well! LoL.
Thursday – Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program
A colleague saw an ad in the Metro newspaper (daily free newspaper available in the train / tube station) for this concert. In case you’re wondering who she is, she was the annoying character in Will & Grace with the squeaky voice. Yes, she can sing, even with that voice! Apparently she acted in the new version of Fame (which was a flop). Since we manage to get discounted tickets, I thought it was worth a try. It’s always good to discover new music. She was quite good but not amazing. Will I see her again? Maybe not.
Friday – Chinese Grocery shopping at SeeWoo
We decided to invite our friends and colleagues to our house for a CNY gathering. For this gathering, we needed to buy Chinese snacks and food since it is CNY. Instead of going to Chinatown, Dav wanted to check out the Chinese grocer, SeeWoo in Greenwich. This place is HUGE and had lots of variety. The only down side is that it is so far from our house but relatively near to Dav’s office. I dont think we will come back unless we have to get alot of asian good like for this gathering.
