Was surfing the web for things Wicked. At Kristin Chenoweth’s (original Glinda on Broadway’s Wicked) website, I read that she has started work on Disney’s new animated movie Rapunzel: Unbraided!!! Chenoweth’s voicing Rapunzel… and an actress I really like, Reese Witherspoon, is voicing another main character in the film. YouTube has a short preview to […]
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A Wicked SMS Duel
I knew it as soon as the SMS came through. That a game’s afoot! Oh it’s been so long since I’ve done this… the rush was fantastic! It just so happens I was listening to the Wicked soundtrack, and my phone buzzed. Kenneth (Li): This is terrible… I’ve been trying to study for some time […]
The Path to Wicked
There never yet has been a musical that’s played so hard to get with me as Wicked. My interest to watch it began in March 2005 when a theatre critic in New York personally recommended it to me. I checked some reviews, all of which were glowing. Wicked was showing in Toronto then, but all […]
Mother & Son
Zibin and I were talking to his mom on Skype earlier. ********* ZB Mom: (to ZB) “ä½ çš„è„¸æ¯”è¾ƒå°‘è‚‰äº†.” ZB: “是啦, ä½ çš„è„¸æœ€å¤šè‚‰çš„å—.” ZB Mom: (to me) “这个å©å很å．　牙尖嘴利．” ZB: “是è°å…»çš„？å（养）ä¸æ•™çˆ¶ä¹‹è¿‡ leh.” ZB Mom: “父在外é¢!” ZB: “那是财政部长．” ZB Mom: “Aiyah, ä½ è„¸çœŸçš„ç˜¦äº†.” ZB: “ä½ çœ¼ç›å°å•¦ï¼Žã€€æ‰€ä»¥çœ‹æˆ‘的脸瘦．　我眼ç›å¤§æ‰€ä»¥çœ‹ä½ 的脸胖．　è°å«ä½ 生我的眼ç›è¿™ä¹ˆå¤§ï¼Ž” ZB Mom: *to me* “Eh, å彬生下æ¥çš„时候很丑的 leh.” ZB: *eyes widen in indignation* ZB Mom: (goes on […]
Compassion
Something I didn’t know… that the Latin root of the word ‘compassion’ means “to bear with” or “to suffer with” (com + pati). Nouwen writes that, “to live with compassion means to enter others’ dark moments. It is to walk into places of pain, not to flinch or look away when another agonizes. It means […]
Love. Pain. Freedom.
To love at all is to be vulnerable….If you want to make sure of keeping [your heart] intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket of your selfishness. But in […]
Community
It’s been an extremely busy week leading up to GSCOPE. And now it’s come and gone, after a year of on-and-off preparations, leaving me to muse at how transient time is. During the week, and especially during the two days of the conference, an entire gamut of thoughts and feelings went through me. The stakes […]
Thanksgiving
For the air I breathe, For the food I eat, For restful sleep and the love of friends, I give thanks. *************** It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. And I have so many things to thank God for. Beautiful days with crisp cool air and azure blue skies that keep me gazing up. The joy of […]
Frazzled
Suddenly, in the space of just 2 days, a ton of new things have descended upon me to do. And maybe there really is no reason for me to get stressed (yet), but for some reason, I am super jumpy today. And I don’t know why, but I keep having this image of Ivy, the […]
E-mail Exchange
Been following your blog dear, somehow must say I half-envy you for being so introspective. Yet on the other hand, it seems so far from the daily hustle and bustle I face. Especially with the complicated human relationships I see at work every day…sigh. Really not easy to manage people’s expectations. You remember the chinese […]
Journey of the Heart 