{"id":356,"date":"2005-03-14T09:54:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T09:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2005-03-14T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T09:54:35","slug":"far-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Far Knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An addition to Saturday 5th March&#8217;s blog:<\/p>\n<p>I was bumming around alone most of Saturday, walking aimlessly in Bintang Walk. Fate it was that I didn&#8217;t hop on the bus that would take me home; instead, I bought guitar strings and stared at my shredding shredder friend\/Bentley guitar salesman. I then went to Lot 10 where I saw a new OSIM massage chair complete with lower arm massage, like it was a blood pressure machine or something!<\/p>\n<p>One 15-minute round of freeloading wasn&#8217;t enough, so I hit the button for another. Thank goodness I took such a leisurely pace, that my German-Indian drinking machine friend called me up, offering a free ticket for The Actorlympics!<\/p>\n<p>(Her name has been withheld lest you know her and think you deserve the ticket more than I do.)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get to have dinner with my friend as intended, so I gobbled a McValue Meal quick, and as I walked towards <b>The Actor&#8217;s Studio<\/b> I bumped into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybersonique.org\" target=\"_BLANK\">DJCS<\/a>&#8230; who had two free tickets.<\/p>\n<p>It was good. Like <b>Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/b>, but by the <b>Instant Cafe Theatre<\/b>. Afdlin Shauki was bad at accents though, and his George Bush impersonation didn&#8217;t sound Texan nor stupid, but he had classic <b>Ah-Ha<\/b> moments. Gavin, I felt, wasn&#8217;t as quick with his wit, but when he was, it shone and reminded me why I&#8217;d watch <b>Sketches<\/b> regularly. The best bits had to be the ambiguously homosexual tendencies of the troupe and their sense of humor about it. Yes some gay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~stcsoo\" target=\"_BLANK\">dudes<\/a> can be darned quick-witted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An addition to Saturday 5th March&#8217;s blog: I was bumming around alone most of Saturday, walking aimlessly in Bintang Walk. Fate it was that I didn&#8217;t hop on the bus that would take me home; instead, I bought guitar strings and stared at my shredding shredder friend\/Bentley guitar salesman. I then went to Lot 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}