last Saturday
went for the Chinese Opera
in town annually
in conjunction with the celebration of
deity’s birthday
in my neighbourhood
well.. quite standard story based in palace
an evil wife of the emperor
vs the good, kindhearted one fighting
the Hokkien dialect being used
is not actually that difficult to understand
just that when it was sung in the opera tune
plus the vocabulary which is not what we use
in daily conversation
thanks to the subtitle in LED display by the side
I still managed to follow the show
you know in the middle
I felt like fast forwarding the singing part
or maybe I can just search the titles on Youtube
and watch it at my own free time
or even much faster
Google the titles and read the stories
okay, that’s it
that the problem of people like us today
we do too many things at the same time
especially right now
in front of the computer
music player is on
internet surfing
MSN chatting
Facebooking
and not even on one device
instead of laptop
I jumped on the bandwagon of
Loltop
laptop on lap, tablet on palm
when we are made to sit down
and do just one single thing at a time
it' is killing me, really
how about you
yeah not forgetting
snapping randomly with the camera
watching the cute chubby boy sitting in front of me
dad kept saying
they simplified the thing already
they used to come out
paced around in the way they are supposed to
and the whole show lasted for 4 hours
4 hours???
and two sessions, another one in the afternoon
I guess now even the golden folks wouldn’t be here
if there is a afternoon show
they are busy catching Hokkien dramas on TV
so I stayed for whole two hours
being the only young person around
11.30 pm end of the show
the long awaited midnight supper
and this is, most of the time,
the only time
we get to talk for real
by the way
the grand palace upstairs
