'One Day More'

[rdm_ation]

I am content. Drinking tea and just chatting after a great afternoon/evening.

Didn't quite start off that way though. I overslept, woke up at the time I was supposed to LEAVE. Which is never good on the day of an exam. Thankfully, I had arranged to meet Ame before our exam so I was late to that instead of the exam itself. Phew.
I was pretty nervous, having done next to no work for this. It must be said, I often exaggerate when I say I haven't studied for something. This time I didn't... as Ame worked out when I hadn't even thought about the 'current news' section or anything. So we spent the time looking up some details and vocab about the volcanic eruptions in Indonesia over the past week.
Well, anywho, the exam went really well once we settled in a bit. Also, we are awesome. We managed to make all three of us collapse with laughter and have to stop the exam short. Well, ok, Ame did. She was trying to say she once played a character in a play that was like a pirate, but not a pirate. Problem is, the words for 'top/shirt' and 'pirate' are kind of similar. Guess which one she kept saying and confusing the hell out of our assessor and me? XD Hilarious.
Pak T told us we got in the Distinction range (70-79) which is brilliant. He also said that if given the chance to keep going our mark would have kept creeping higher, so we obviously just need to settle in faster.
It feels so good to have that one out of the way. 2 left next week and I'm done!

After all of this, I had a physio appointment and then we headed of to a C***** st for dinner and to go see Les Miserables arena performance that had been filmed for the 25th anniversary of the show. It was utterly amazing. So much talent, it was a bit hard to take in.
Notable mentions:
Nick Jonas - I didn't know he had started off on Broadway, and boy, was I impressed at how he pulled off 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables'. Whoa. I had my doubts at the start (he was a bit shaky and off-key) but it was great.
Samantha Barks - Eponine, my goodness she was amazing. I'd never heard of her but she looked really familiar for some reason. The emotion she managed to put into 'On My Own' ... wow
Ramin Karimloo - played Enroljas, again, had never heard of him but his voice is love
But the best of all, naturally, was the guy who play Valjean. The chills I (and Ame and snuggle_monster) had running down my spine during 'Bring Him Home' were insane. Phenomenal.

By far the best moment though, was right at the end, after the show itself had finished. They brought out the original cast to sing a few of the songs. Colm Wilkinson has still got it. Holy shit. He's also the age his character was supposed to be while singing that song. tehehe.
And now I will leave you with videos of the last bit. Just because they're that amazing.
Rdm

Oh, and Ame has offered to use her super-fast internet to download me some movies. F-list, any recommendations that should be on a 'must-watch' list?

Comments

[pebblegosling.livejournal.com]

LOL. Nick Jonas looks so SERIOUS. Everyone else is smiling and he is all ._.

/useless comment is useless.

[bugbeary.livejournal.com]

The words for pirate and shirt are similar?? LOL How random XD

I've only ever seen a movie version of Le Mis, never seen the musical. o_0

MOVIES!

I dunno...have you seen Bend it Like Beckham, Fifth Element, Lost in Space, The Last Unicorn, Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Dark Crystal...I'm just listing random movies from my favorites, I have absolutely no idea what kind of movies you watch other than Disney, haha! XD

Now I'm curious - what kinds of movies do you watch? :B

[wonderlandkitty.livejournal.com]

I FRIKKIN LOVE LES MIS! My parents went to that concert and were blown away. I was soooo dubious about Nick Jonas playing Marius but I'm glad he impressed! Samantha is awesome x

[snuggle-monster.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHA I actually laughed out loud to myself on the way home at the pirate/top story, you'll be glad to hear. Thanks for that. And at the bonnet/grateful misunderstanding too...

We shall never speak of that again.

It really was too much talent to take in. Too. Much. EPIC.
I don't think I've ever had such a long train of sequential goosebumps before. Every single song, and at least several times in each song gave me goosebumps! Valjean had such cute puppy dog eyes btw.

I was happy to see Nick Jonas pull it off too actually! Although his chiselled Disney Channel good-looks were distracting at times. I wanted to pat his hair though, it was so fluffy. (That's not meant to sound weird..)

[utopiandream.livejournal.com]

Way to go on doing so well on your exam! That sucks that the day started with you being a little late, but it sounds like everything still ended up going wonderfully!

I've only ever read the book (play?). Anddddd, Nick Jonas? Whoa! Never would've thought!

Movies!

-Inception
-En La Cama (I don't know how you feel about foreign films where nothing really happens and it's all about the characters talking. I really liked it but I can see how it's not everyone's cup of tea!)
-Frozen
-Despicable Me :D

[vanilla-roses.livejournal.com]

sounds really really lovely. well done! x