Can’t Multi-Task X No Telecast: Opera Show of the Past

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