Voyage de la Vie...and some really bad advertising...

Family,

And a good Saturday afternoon to you from across the globe after another GREAT DAY in the Lion City.  The Bull and Striker did something we haven't done in AGES today - slept until noon.  Man, it was SOOOOOOOOO guuuuuuuuuuuuuud, and we feel much better because of it.  We also skipped the workout today in favor of a massive breakfast at (where else?) Boomerang, but dare I say that, despite a 5 week hiatus, I might officially be "boomeranged" out?  Shocking, I know, but I think I might have hit a wall with our favorite breakfast place.  Muffin has arrived at the same conclusion, which left us with an even more serious dilemma - where to eat if we don't go to our fave Aussie hangout?  Oh, such times that try men's souls...

Food Republic - where the fat get fatter and Sammy
grows his dunlap to 2010 proportions...

Anyhoo, in a bit of a break from the Thailand action (only 1 more post to go on that front, for the record, and then we'll pick up with Oz), I wanted to catch you up on the only real activity of the week for Team Taylor.  On Wednesday we crossed off a pair of to-do's:  dinner at Food Republic, and seeing "Voyage de la Vie" at Sentosa.  Tackling each in turn, Food Republic is basically a glorified Hawker Center, but there are TONS of options, and the food is simply delish.  I munched on enough fried rice to kill a mule, and JT rocked tons o' noodles and beef.  We then met our friend Ellen, at which point we hopped the monorail over to Sentosa, stepping off at the first stop for "Resort World."  There, nestled in the midst of the "Integrated Resort" (which is what you call something in Asia when you don't want to call it a CASINO), is a theater playing host to "Singapore's longest running show" (which is 11 months in case anyone's scoring - don't think that they're gonna threaten "The Mousetrap" in the West End anytime soon) - "Voyage de la Vie."  Billed (as usual) as "one of the most spectacular shows in Asia," I'd been wanting to see this since we first arrived here, as it definitely has all the trimmings of a Cirque du Soleil type show.  And with that level of expectation in mind, we rolled in for the 8:30 PM show.

The theater was practically empty, but we had EPIC seats.  Seriously - Muffin Puffin did a GREAT job picking them out, as we were about 9 rows off the stage and DEAD center.  The one problem was this pair of Singapore women who COULD NOT STOP TALKING THE ENTIRE SHOW.  Now honestly, I have tried to get used to this, as with EVERY SINGLE SHOW in Singapore, every person in the audience talks the entire time.  I snapped in the Lion King (as in a few other shows), but since this one was all stunts and music, I let it pass.  That being said, I was simply AMAZED - I mean let's be honest, what IS there to talk about for 90 minutes?  They just blabbered in Chinese for 5 minutes at a time until the trick was reaching its zenith, at which point they would ALWAYS say in English:  "Oh, no!  Oh NO!  OOOOHHH NOOOOOO!!!!  Whew - he safe."  I mean seriously.  SERIOUSLY?  Have you ever actually been outside of your house?  Dodging traffic in this city is riskier than some of those stunts...

But on a positive note, some of the stunts were really cool.  There was a great sequence of acrobatics, a terrific juggling sequence, and one dude even using a crossbow on some pretty serious shots.  On the whole I did really enjoy it.  It wasn't "O" (Mum - you really should give that another shot) or "Mystere," but it was very enjoyable nonetheless. 

The only other comment to note is that, now that our gym has been revamped, they've added some new posters all over the place.  1 of them is EVERYWHERE, and it's a constant reminder to "never neglect your hair health and always monitor your daily hair fall count."  Who the @#$# knows how many hairs they lose in a day?  Really?  But more to the point - they are advertising some kind of "hair regeneration and strengthening workshop" that you can attend for the BARGAIN price of $388!!!  I mean, COME ONE - You're a gym, not a beauty salon.

The other picture (which is really creeping me out) is posted right as you go into the changing room.  It's got 2 ang mo's (one dude, one chick - both FIT) taking their clothes off and laughing.  She is dripping wet and is clearly about to get BUCK NAKED, and his shorts are practically off whilst he's reaching for his shirt.  The caption?  It reads:  "There are no strangers at Fitness First - only friends you haven't met yet."  I think it should really say:  "There's no audition for Eyes Wide Shut Part 2 - we just have a Roman Orgy Daily in the shower room."  I mean COME ON, MAN!  But seriously, I can't believe they didn't ask me to be in that photo...

Okay, that's all the news that's fit to print.  Chat tomorrow!

Love,


Sam and Jenny