Birthday doings...
Jan. 4th, 2010 01:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carlfoxmartenI must say I had a pretty happy birthday on Saturday.
I got stuff I wanted, as well as several gift cards, and I even got to see a pantomime, too!
The important stuff I got:
The pantomime I got to see was put on by the Royal Canadian Theatre Company at the Surrey Arts Center. If you've ever seen the Robin Hood pantomime as put on by Ross Petty Productions, you'll notice some similarities.
I really enjoyed the "band", a two-piece accompaniment made up of a set of drums and an electronic piano, both played by people old enough to know how to play them properly. They played before and after the show, as well as during the intermission, a selection of songs such as Christmas favourites, some Big Band stuff, and more.
One other thing they had while the show wasn't running was snowflakes projected onto the walls of the theatre, they gave a very nice effect that I think more theatres (as well as theaters) should do. It adds so much to the experience.
Some of the songs they sang were from various places, including one from Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (You're My Little Teddy Bear), Anything You Can Do (they included a verse about singing anything faster...), and, and...
Hmm, must be bed time again...
My semester starts today (Monday), with one class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, another class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and a third class Tuesday evenings, and one of them is on the campus closest to me.
The nearest campus is having an open-house event on March 4th, so I need to get my act together and figure something out to present for the Computing Science department...
I got stuff I wanted, as well as several gift cards, and I even got to see a pantomime, too!
The important stuff I got:
- The first two Schlock Mercenary books (Tub of Happiness and The Teraport Wars)
- The FlyTech BladeStar helicopter. (sure I have another RC copter, but that one only lets me control the height, while this allows me to control much more)
- A book on Electronic Arts' first twenty-five years. (fascinating read, though the first ten or fifteen years are more interesting to me at the moment)
- Cats: Commemorative Edition (there's interviews with some of the actors and the producers that describes a bit of how and why it was done)
- Clue: The Movie (the movie based on the board game. Very entertaining)
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (it's going to be very funny, as it includes some clips from Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers, Good Neighbours, and more!)
- A tape of some of Victor Borge's musical comedy. (most of what I have so far is his jokes, so I don't have much of him horsing around on the piano)
- A book called Rhyme and PUNishment: Adventures in wordplay (should be good!)
- Also of some mention: More mint chocolate (I'm starting to get tired of it, despite the fact that it's one of my favourites) and more gift cards (for London Drugs, Tim Hortons, and A&W)
The pantomime I got to see was put on by the Royal Canadian Theatre Company at the Surrey Arts Center. If you've ever seen the Robin Hood pantomime as put on by Ross Petty Productions, you'll notice some similarities.
I really enjoyed the "band", a two-piece accompaniment made up of a set of drums and an electronic piano, both played by people old enough to know how to play them properly. They played before and after the show, as well as during the intermission, a selection of songs such as Christmas favourites, some Big Band stuff, and more.
One other thing they had while the show wasn't running was snowflakes projected onto the walls of the theatre, they gave a very nice effect that I think more theatres (as well as theaters) should do. It adds so much to the experience.
Some of the songs they sang were from various places, including one from Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (You're My Little Teddy Bear), Anything You Can Do (they included a verse about singing anything faster...), and, and...
Hmm, must be bed time again...
My semester starts today (Monday), with one class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, another class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and a third class Tuesday evenings, and one of them is on the campus closest to me.
The nearest campus is having an open-house event on March 4th, so I need to get my act together and figure something out to present for the Computing Science department...
