WOMAD 2005

What a blast!! WOMAD was really fun after a 2 year hiatus, with a brand new crowd, accompanied by great food and wine. Kudos to Shao, Muz, Dapeng and Me! for the preparation of such palatable sandwiches and finger food, and for wine so divine.

Muz’s beef filling for the sandwiches was awesome! He actually managed to concoct something that good using his anyhow method. Hmm.. mustard powder, some Japanese soya sauce, an appalling lot of butter, onions, garlic and whisky I think.

Shao was busy chopping away, onions and avocados, which were a tad too hard and were ousted after Shao and Muz’s disapproval.

Shao wept at Muz's house

I deep-fried the finger food, which was such a tedious chore cos’ the oil splattered like mad all over me. The samosas were nicely golden brown, so were the otak rolls, which tasted uncannily like sweet potatoes. They were definitely nowhere near chao ta, contrary to Muz’s accusation.

Dapeng just skived and hoped to get wasted.
“I get drunk for health reasons.”
“Stop shitting me.”
“ So that mosquitoes wont bite me”
Apparently mosquitoes are repulsed by traces of

alcohol in blood… hmmm..

Our Spread!

The day was just oh so beautiful.. we were in for a REAL picnic, completed by Muz’s girly picnic basket and red mat, and Shao’s cutesy foam mat. Not to mention the gratifying fillers we had! Muz’s incompetent maid burnt our cheese sausages. Sure I could do better. *Smirk*

The guys, esp Dapeng, were dying to dig in

The first act (Lior from Australia) was pretty chill. His impressive vocals are like a hybrid between that of Jason Mraz *swoon* and Adam Levine of Maroon 5 *swoon*. I made a mistake by telling Shao Maroon 5’s from down under too. *grin*

Check him out:

http://www.lior.com.au/

He’s a bit of the ang-moh gone wrong kind.

After him, there were various retarded acts. Freakin’ wasted my time. Our time.
Silvia: “I think Taliban is performing..”
Terence: “Fuck la, waste my money.”
Linting: “Janice! Janice!”
Dapeng: “ eh come, drink drink.. I come here to get drunk only”
Shao: “My abs damn manly..”
Serena: “How to work this China phone huh..”
Muz: “………...” *stone
Belle and Zhi: MIA
Wallace: “They’re giving out free coke!”

Time for redemption! The finale was a breathtaking splendid performance put up by APACHE INDIAN & THE REGGAE REVOLUTION!!!
They are way way way cool! They rocked the whole fort canning down! Including the very bored buncha of us!

“Boomshackalak” is Apache Indian’s impeccable work of art and he was touring with Sean Paul. Quite a bigwig.

Check him out:
http://www.karmasound.com/

This year’s WOMAD saw the absence of my margaritas, my bongo-bongo burgers, and the shopping at the stalls, but embraced with open arms the wonderful bunch of us, the one helluva picnic, wine and champagne!

Double Thumbs Up!