The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
NEW YORK.
Welcome.
The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
New York.
An aspiring hikikomori/ gomiyashiki owner who will get 3 dogs, 1 cat and a herb
garden when she is in her 40s.
Currently a second year Phd student in East Asian Studies, NYU; a self-proclaimed OTAKU; a
clumsy but avid snowboarder; and absent oneechama of Variel.
8 Sept 2010: West Side Story, WICKED
19 Sept 2010: Chicago
8 Oct 2010: Promises Promises
29 Oct 2010: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
14 Nov 2010: American Idiot
18 Jan 2011: Billy Elliot
8 Feb 2011: La Cage Aux Folles
6 Mar 2011: Paul Taylor Dance Group
5 Apr 2011: Catch Me If You Can (Broadway preview)
2 Dec 2011: La Boheme
9 Jan 2012: Rent
22 Mar 2012: Phantom of the Opera
23 May 2012: Avenue Q
26 Sep 2012: Newsies
2 Oct 2012: Turandot
4 Oct 2012: Once
15 Oct 2012: Sleep No More
28 Nov 2012: Lion King
7 Feb 2013: Book of Mormons
14 Mar 2013: Jersey Boys
25 Mar 2013: Sleep No More
21 May 2013: Kinky Boots
26 Sep 2013: Big Fish
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
7:22 PM
Round the musical chairs... AGAIN!!!
I wait in trepidation for this coming Friday, where I get to play 'round the musical chairs', albeit in my home country. Friends who lived overseas might be familiar with this. Sociable friends who lived overseas might be well versed in this social interaction. Otaku friends will not be attending these functions.
It is where you deliberately meet up with a group of strangers and perform the niceties, hoping against hope that you might just happen upon a wonderful friend to be your succor in a strange new world. Connections leading to future benefits in the area of work and study may also occur.
I tell myself that I look forward to playing nice. It can be an exciting excavation, discovering people with similar interest and uncovering their lives. On the other hand, I am subjecting myself to a playing field that is highly dependent on the portrayal of me as a successful social actor and the approbation of others.
This time, the game is held in PLAYERS@SG among current and future students of NYU and the age of the participants ranges from 18 to 25. Of course, I do not put up mental barriers against the 20s. It is just the musical chairs I have an issue with, especially since I played it so many times in Japan. Sometimes, the thin veneer of sociality will border on boredom and give me an out of body experience, where the academic in me starts to analyse the social interaction between participants and the underlying discourse of social norms. I wonder if that will happen this Friday. I also wonder if I will be the only person who don't know anybody there. tokidoki tokidoki...
