Celebrated the feastday of the archangels today and while there was a buffet after Mass as it is the custom, the food catered was horrible. Some trays of beehoon were burnt, while others were too salty.

Went to catch Mama Mia the movie and I swear I could literally hear Dr. L's voice talking about nostalgia, how it is the songs that drive the simple plot... I think I miss school and academic life. Yes, someone please inject a little brillance into my life. I can't deal with obnoxious, bitchy HODs who are jealous of my qualifications, and thus stomp to the front of the class when I am in the midst of giving my lesson, to RUDELY take over the class, and prove with a smirk that you're one-up on me. Thanks to your concerted show of manners, the class doesn't listen to me anymore, but I digress. Mama Mia was funny in some parts, but I felt that there were parts which could have been better, for example, I would have expected a musical type genre, which has ABBA songs in it, to milk the kitsch and the campiness of nostalgia, something which would evoke and affect the audience to dance and sing along, but it didn't. I think it might have been due partly to how wonky GV's sound system was, and also in large part, due to the quite sedated audience who didn't quite belong to the ABBA era-I saw audience members as young as primary school kids. There were quite a number of popular culture references, but very few people caught them though. I guess the screen experience is different from a live theatre experience and thus, film has to work all the harder, which is why spectacle like the Moulin Rouge, or Chicago worked. Mama Mia was unfortunately flat. The subtitles didn't work either, for I was reminded of those cheesy karaoke videos with fake models and incongruous settings more than anything. I think I enjoyed the company more than the movie though...

Anyway, I've been tasked to cut salt, sugar and caffeine completely from my diet, or face the possible consequences of a damaged bladder and spoilt kidneys. Apparently there is some stone circulating in my urinary system. The best case scenario is that the stone dissolves by itself and passes out in my urine, but in the worse case scenario is that I'll have to undergo an operation to remove the stone. I have a gut feeling that I ought to return to the convalescence diet I was on after cellulitis, to aid natural healing, but we'll see what the doctors say on my next appointment.