Reduced Shakespeare Company – Hilarious!

In the Telling vs Showing way…

I am going to tell you that…

Ling and I had dinner yesterday at Ms Clarity’s. Then, we caught a comedy at the National Library Drama Centre yesterday, done by the Reduced Shakespeare Company yesterday and it was very funny!

However, I am going to show you that…

Yesterday’s comedy at the National Library Drama Centre was so hilarious, the audience could not stop laughing and Ling was laughing from side to side. I was too busy tearing with laughter to stress over the fact that I still had a lot of work to do, with a lot of work to mark!

It was a nice evening to begin with, meeting Ling at City Hall where we had a good chat over ice cold java chip frapp at Starbucks before going to Miss Clarity’s for dinner. I wanted something western, whereas Ling wanted something new that she had never tried before. Combining the two factors together, I suggested Ms Clarity’s for its much affordable menu, with its delectable choice of food. I had my usual soft shell crab linguini, in garlic cream sauce and it was sooo sinfully delicious. However, the bread and butter pudding did not quite live up to our expectations, it was oozing with water, and became rather nasty when it cooled from its original piping hot soft texture, to its lukewarm hard texture.

We were both really excited at the prospect of watching the Reduced Shakespeare Company because Ling was dead certain they came to our school to perform when we were in secondary school (Aww who remembers what happened eleven years ago? I can’t!) and I could not wait to see how they managed to bring all of Shakespeare’s works into a 97 minute play!

The venue was nice and cosy, with the audience near to the simple stage setting of a painted canvas backdrop and a oldfashioned chair in the corner, apparently, for the story teller. When they came bursting out on stage (one even sat with the audience and pretended to be the one person in the audience who has read King John!), they entertained and engaged the audience. We, as the audience, even got to participate in telling Shakespeare’s most famous play of all time – Hamlet. Their version of Othello became a rap; Romeo and Juliet was just sideachingly hilarious.

Here are some video clips to show how absolutely funny and entertaining they were:

Romeo and Juliet Part 1

Romeo and Juliet Part 2

If they ever do come back, I am most definitely going to watch it again. They are just so funny and adorable! If not for the fact that all 8 shows in Singapore have been completely sold out, I would urge you to watch it during this run!

I did pay for my night of enjoyment dearly – I slept at 130am and woke up at 530am. 4 hours sleep, I’m barely hanging in there.

Sleepy. 😐

Personal Recounts!

Today, my class will be seeing this entry as we embark on something entirely new – Personal Recounts! And as we move along into Personal Recounts, they will have to maintain a blog until the end of National Day, to blog about their daily lives, to recount about their daily lives, and perhaps – add that personal reflection into their blog entries, for me to be able to see that they are learning as they blog.

Who said blogging cannot be used meaningfully as a learning tool? Kids learn plenty from blogging these days – they learn about cyberbullying (and not to do so), they learn how to phrase their sentences better (instead of using euuu lurbeee moiii – I forewarn you against using such terms!), and they learn so many more things. It’s near impossible for me to detail down every single learning lesson.

From the stand point of a teacher, it will be baby steps for me to learn how to infuse ICT into lessons, for me to use ICT meaningfully and for the students who are digital natives to interact with their teacher outside the classroom, and take learning out of the school walls. Learning opportunities are everywhere, its how we make use of them.

The number of blogs I have is ballooning I know – and my friends are having a tough time keeping up with the number of blogs I have. (:

In the meantime, I’ll be blogging about the takeaways that students should have after each and every English lesson – did you learn them today too?

If you run dry of material to blog, why not recount the English lessons that I have with you each week?

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If you know me personally, have fun reading this blog as it details my daily bits, as I recount the days that have went by me.

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