In Her Silent Way: A short and fun-filled weekend

Having spent our last long weekend of 5 days resting and playing tennis, the (short) weekend that just passed seemed packed full of activities.

On Friday night, Bunny and I went to watch the controversial play named 251, on Annabel Chong’s life from student to pornstar to web designer. The setting of the stage was different from what we had expected. Instead of having the audience facing the stage, the audience was placed in a way where we were all facing one another with the stage in the middle. It didn’t matter where you sat, because you would be able to see the actor’s expressions and everything they did in detail.

We enjoyed the play immensely and I personally liked how the director took the opportunity to display homosexual connotations, tagged along with political and feminist themes, into this play. I’m assuming that plenty of people who watched the play might not be able to grasp the important essence of telling Annabel’s tale – of how her unconformity landed her as (Singapore) society’s outcast, of how a woman is almost always bounded by the chains of passivity and subdued desires and also of how estranged we all are from who we really are and what we really want to do. The whole play centred around one topic – the double standard that denies women to exhibit the same sexuality as men.

Anyway, after the play we had a quick bite at Ichiban and headed towards The Clinic for the Party Junkie party.

This group always had great girl parties, mainly because they organized them at different venues, it was always free entry, the crowd was different from other parties and the music wasn’t R&B.

The following two days were spent playing tennis – first at Thomson and then on Sunday, Bunny went to display her athletic prowess at the tennis tournament organized by Adlus.

Tossing for her outstanding serve

"Whack the motherf**ker..."

I’m sure she had so much fun there, playing doubles with the other gay boys and soaking in the bright sun rays. I was the official water and towel girl that day. It was so bloody hot I was hyperventilating when I played for a short while, so I decided to plant my ass in the shade.

And then we became camera whores..