eu sou um capoeirista!

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sa capoeira!

I've joined a capoeira class at the Substation!

And look how strange intersections happen in my life!

me: hey

dylanstillwood: hi

1:44 AMme: weirdest thing ever

after my capoeira class (the guys did some shirtless extra practice afterwards, slobber)

I went to the AIDS candlelight memorial

1:45 AM and though it's basically the closest thing to mardi gras we've got, it has the backing of the interreligious association

1:46 AM so we sit to hear prayers by a hindu swami, a theravada buddhist father, a methodist minister, a muslim imam, a jain priest, a zoroastrian whatever they call them, a bahai whatever similarly, etc

dylanstillwood: wow

1:47 AM me: oh and the taoist priest had the most fabulous costume ever. he did dancing

anyway, afterwards i'm talking to the rabbi

because singapore has a tiny but rich jewish community

1:48 AM he's this rather good-looking bearded grey-eyed young guy, full beard and black hat and everything

and it turns out he's from sao paolo

we start speaking spanish

and it turns out he's also a capoeirista. he's in a capoeira team in singapore

dylanstillwood: wow, small world

1:49 AM me: it's not the small world that really blows my mind - it seems a bunch of my friends have also done capoeira

but CAPOEIRISTA RABBI ISRAEL!!!

(that's really his name)

i mean minus the capoeirista bit

1:50 AM i can't help but imagine this mel brooks scene

of cartwheeling jinga-ing men with the tanakh in hand

dylanstillwood: lol

you have a fertile imagination, my friend

1:51 AM i have to go do some flyering now

me: peace out

dylanstillwood: peace

Texts I've read/watched mid-May-mid-June

I love looking back on the eclecticism of my viewing fare.

*Poetry*
Alvin Pang's "City of Rain"

*Fiction*
Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
READ Singapore’s "Looking In, Looking Out"
Andrea Levy's "Small Island"
H.A. Rey and Margret Rey’s “Curious George”

*Plays*
Noel Coward’s “Hay-Fever”
Jean Genet’s “The Maids” and “Deathwatch”

*Non-Fiction*
Mark Abley's "Spoken Here :Travels Among Threatened Languages"
Karen Armstrong's "Muhammad: A Life of the Prophet"
Jonathan Bass's "How to Get Laid"
“The Renaissance City Report”
Lim Tzay Chuen and Eugene Tan’s “Mike: Catalogue to the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2006”
The Commission for Africa’s “Our Common Interest”

*Performances*
"Camp Cabaret: Featuring Irene Ang, Broadway Beng, Kumar, Lounge-zilla and Rick Lau"
Matthew Lyon's "Shifting"
The Stage Club's "Canterbury Tales"
SITI Company's "Death and the Ploughman"
Al-Kasaba Theatre's “The Wall”
Farm.sg’s ”Rojak 05”
Theatreworks’s “Geisha”
Singapore Musical Theatre's "Victorian Days" and "Swingle"
Dramabox’s “A Stranger at Home”

*Films*
"Mission Impossible 3"
" X-Men: The Last Stand"
COM&COM’s "Mocmoc, das ungeliebte Denkmal"
Han Yew Kwang’s “Unarmed Combat”

Heheheh...

They also just condemned gay marriage again... ah well, what's new?