My 3 year old nephew loves to sing. I took the opportunity to record his singing on one of our car journeys.
He sang 3 songs in this car journey:
And here, he’s singing Cheryl Cole’s Fight For This Love.
The many faces of Marcus.
If you do not know who that is, please go and watch SATC!
To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of the HBO series until I moved to London and got close to AA. Since then, the series’ creator has made 2 movies. I enjoyed the first movie very much and was very impressed by how there was a twist to the story line. Now the second movie came out earlier this year and I noticed it has a bad review. I didnt have a chance to watch it with the girls in London due to all the business trips I was on. Plus Dav would never go and watch it with me.
Few months after the movie premier I totally forgot about the movie until I saw it in HMV yesterday. So I make a note to remind myself that I must watch it! So finally today I watched it for the very first time.
My verdict, I totally LOVE it!
The reason why I like it is not because of the fashion or the drama. But because I can totally relate to Carrie, for the first time. I totally agree with her on how it is up to you and your partner to decide how to make the marriage works. Whether it is 2 days off each week, live apart with occasional visits or maybe sleep in separate rooms!! I personally feel that society has pressured a lot of us into living a certain way and get frown upon when you’re not following the normal path / trend.
Dav and I have been true to ourselves in having a marriage the way we want it to be. We create our own tradition and make changes as we see fit.
As Carrie said at the end of the movie, “You have to take the tradition, and decorate it your way.”
Last Wed, a colleague decided to arrange to go for afternoon tea after work at The Wolseley. Now this is the second time I’m going to afternoon tea in a week. It’s never enough really… hahahaha
The food is served in a 3 tier tray but cant be refilled. They have really cute tea pots and the atmosphere is great. I would definitely recommend this place. The price is really reasonable too!
Love the macaroon dipped in chocolate.
My tea set.
Another cute little tea pot. Can’t believe they serve teas in different types of teapots.
I saw a friend baked marble cake and posted a pic of it in Facebook. That made me wanna try it too. Luckily Rachel Allen’s bake book has a recipe for it. As usual, I modified the recipe slightly to cater for the ingredients I have at home, instead of buying new ingredients. Basically instead of using cocoa powder, I used melted chocolate. It was relatively easy until I had to make the ‘marble’ effect.
The cake turn out well and quite yummy. Dav took half the cake to office and all his colleagues loved it.
I woud say that’s a success!
Fresh out of the oven.
Can’t really see the ‘marble’ effect.
Dav’s colleagues said it was good. No wonder nothing left. 
Next attempt may be pizza or bread.
Yesterday I attended my first Prom for this year. To be honest, I bought the tickets 2 months ago and have no idea at all what I was gonna see. In addition, when I decided on this prom, I didnt do any research to find out what it was all about. The title was familiar (Romeo and Julie – Love Scene) plus it’s classical music, I thought it wont be too hard to appreciate the performance.
I was very WRONG!
I’m ashamed to admit I fell asleep 3 times and I fidgeted non-stop throughout the performance (when I was not sleeping). To add on to the challenge of trying to appreciate the show, the second act was sung in German….. Now since after the show, I realised the prom’s programme is available online and I’ve seen people carrying printed paper of the programme. I didnt quite understand why they keep looking at the programme during the show. It was because the programme has the lyrics and the translation in English!
So now I’m well prepared to attend my second and third prom. The last one will be a contemporary one (gonna see Jamie Cullum). Can’t wait.
Prom 21: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Sir Simon Rattle as the conductor.
Programme:
Berlioz Romeo and Juliet – Love Scene (18 mins)
interval
Wagner Tristan und Isolde – Act 2 (80 mins)
My companion for this year’s BBC Proms. We have 2 more proms to attend before it ends in September.