Green is...

...A Joke,

My friend treated me to a pre-birthday celebration night of funny trannies at the Ichiban Library, there were seven of us including a kid. This is my 5th time in that place, even though some of the jokes are old, any sort of delivery by the gay (but prettier than thou) hosts cracks me up everytime. (Cute guys beware!) But this is a green joke stand-up fest, mind you, not a place for the ridicule-challenged, sensitive loving peeps; unless you can manage to hide in a dark, emcee-unfriendly corner, bring along a welder's mask to deflect the mocking sparks, or just be like what I am -- a girl.


...The Oakland A's,

I can't believe I spent nothing going to this baseball game (except a train ride)with SD. But it is my first time attending a company sponsored game with a couple of field seats plus FREE lunch at their Barbeque Plaza where we can also sit and watch the game. SD couldn't believe our luck (contemplating on a $5 savings on a piece of hotdog) as he munched down two burgers, while I enjoyed a hotdog, tot salad, chip and a cookie. As far as the game goes, the team did make the fans' day on the 6th inning against the Twins 2-5. Add that with the team proclaiming Aug 13 as Dennis Eckersley's Day* nothing could go wrong.

*BTW, I am ignorant still in anything that involves sports, always will be and will choose to be. So, to those who share my sentiment, Mr Hometown Hero D Eckersley is the pitcher who won for the A's in the famous Battle of the Bay (the other bay being San Francisco) game in '89, which coincidentally is also made infamous by the massive earthquake which killed a dozen or so people. Some useless fact thrown at ya... but yeah, the O A's made an emotional tribute for the pitcher with the moustache.


...Wicked,

Something that belongs to my corner and SD's birthday gift for me. It is an untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West aka Elphaba that can only be related in (sarcastic) surprise and hurray, a musical. I really love this play, it's an interpretative history of how the smart wicked witch came to be, how the scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion came to be, how she befriended a ditzy blonde witch named Glinda the Good, Elphaba's relationship with sister Nessarose, the wicked witch of the East; which all culminated in a house from Kansas that landed in Oz. The singing, dancing and production thingie were undoubtedly great. But the way the events were weaved independently (but not) from L. Frank Baum's original novel was even impressive. And I've always wondered why the witch was sooo jello green...


...and Lucky.