Actorlympics! 2005

This Saturday night, I will be watching a comedy play called Actorlympics! 2005 at The Actors Studio Bangsar in Bangsar Shopping Centre. I will have great company too - Deep Blue Sea, Insane Ox, Pick Yin and M&M.

Apart from our sate dinner on Tuesday night, I haven't been going to the theatres or been hanging out with Deep Blue Sea, Insane Ox and Pick Yin for quite a long while. I've been too busy with work on weekdays, and not to mention partying with Devil's Advocate, Mr. Incredible and The Gang most Friday and, or Saturday nights, I guess. I need to relax my partying and to start doing more meaningful and intellectually stimulating activities - with a more mature but equally fun crowd. My brain, body and soul needs it :)

Well, here's sharing with you the synopsis of the play:

See some of the best of Malaysia's live improv-comedy performers onstage in another instalment of Actorlympics! as they try to outwit and outperform each other - playing theatre-sports games such as 'Stand Up Sit Down Bend Over', 'Inventions' and everyone's favourite, 'Line In a Bucket'.

Prepare to take part: players will create skits from scratch based on suggestions from the audience. Featuring Afdlin Shauki, Harith Iskandar, Patrick Teoh, Ida Nerina, Edwin Sumun, Nell Ng, Gavin Yap, Reza Zainal Abidin and Jason Lo.

If you are keen to watch, the play will be on from now until March 6. Showtimes are at 8.30 pm for all days and at 3:00 pm Sunday matinee. Tickets cost RM47 / RM42. Get from Actors Studio Box Office. Call (03) 2094 0400 / (03)2094 1400 for reservation.

Have friends will travel

Last night, I had an interesting satay dinner with Deep Blue Sea and her friend, Katherine at USJ Taipan's Restoran Sate Kajang. Insane Ox, a fellow blogger, joined us and was the only rose among the thorns. Katherine, whom Deep Blue Sea made friends with at her belly dancing class, is an American from St. Louis, Missouri, who is traveling here and staying with new found friends she met through Global Free Loaders Program. She has an interesting day job, I must say, being a nude model for art classes at a university, wow! And she's a freelance photographer too.

Talking to Katherine while sending her to her host, I find this Global Free Loaders Program very interesting. Maybe I should try. It's a program where you meet friends online, and offer to host friends. In exchange, you need to host friends too, although not necessarily the same ones. It's an uncoventional, great and adventurous way to travel to a new place to meet new friends. Much more fulfilling and interesting than taking a tour package, I must say. And it's a lot easier on your budget too. Click on the title to find out what it is.

Anyways, just to digress a bit, I am glad I got to know Insane Ox a little better, because although we have met two or three times, we never had a chance to really talk and discover and explore our minds and thoughts - what I learned about him are through his blog, and from Deep Blue Sea, which was not much, until tonight. So, in a way, I not only made a new friend, Katherine, but I also rediscovered my blogger friend, Insane Ox, and seeing him in a different light.

Tonight, Insane Ox and I are taking Katherine to Petaling Street to shop for souvenirs to bring home. After helping her with her shopping, we'll be sending her to the airport. She's going to Bangkok to visit her brother who lives there.

I don't know about Insane Ox, but I'm really thrilled about tonight and I look forward to playing a tourist guide to Katherine. Yippie!