My Happy Medium

Rachel got some amazing seats for The Phantom of the Opera tonight, we were 4 rows from the front and when the chandelier was coming down, it was pratically right over our heads. We could see all the expressions on all the performers, including their microphones haha, in the end of one scene, I could literally feel the heat on my face from the pyrotechniques; we were THAT close.

We got Sarah Lawrence as Christine Daeé instead of Marni Raab whom is the regular and has performed the role of Christine all over the world, but we both had no complaints for Sarah, she was amazing. We got the good Phantom - John Cudia - which I felt was almost a bit too powerful in Music of the Night (maybe his mic was just turned too high) but other than that, we enjoyed his performance very much as well.

Such an awesome show, I hope it comes back soon. Thanks Rachel!

Oh, I got the CD

Some people know I’m always curious about cultures, middle eastern culture is one I particularly like to learn about so I read this article right away when it appeared on digg.

In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil

The American female author to a Saudi woman:

“Maybe you don’t want to vote,” I said. “But wouldn’t you like to make that choice yourself?”

The response:

“I don’t need to,” she said calmly, blinking slowly and deliberately. “If I have a father or a husband, why do I need to vote? Why should I need to work? They will take care of everything.”

I really really don’t fregen get Islamic culture.

Sometimes I am forgetful of things, this shouldn’t have been one of them.

Some follow up, read this last night

A young clerk with no knowledge of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown allowed a tribute to victims slip into the classified ads page of a newspaper in southwest China, a Hong Kong daily reported on Wednesday.

Young clerk let Tiananmen ad slip past censors: paper