Friday, May 31, 2013

RECAP 2012 - Zagreb - Beautiful Flowers and a Cute Couple

Its been a while....but we continue our recap of past trips...

The Green Horseshoe is a U or J shaped route in Zagreb that host the cities most beautiful gardens and architecture. A stroll through this route gave us many photo opportunities – including, cover shot of our would-be sitcom – ‘Lost in Zagreb’.


 
 

The Botanical Garden which is part of the Horseshoe is just ilke any other botanical garden, except that they have a few trees in there which I believe are Cherry Blossoms, and Yay! We saw the bloom! Mr T went crazy here taking photographs of every type of flower he could lay his hands on!

 

 
 
 


 


RECAP 2012 - Croatia - Open air museum

On the way to Plitvice Lakes National Park we were treated to Crotia's version of an open air museum......more like a playground for real men's toys.......a reminder that this beautiful country use to be in war not that long ago.








Thursday, May 16, 2013

A Teenage Dream Come True ....

It all started early Sunday 3am in the morning, after several hours of brain-cell killing thinking playing our new favourite strategy board game, PowerGrid; that I saw a video posted on Facebook by my Sis-In-Law, of my favourite boyband 15 years ago, one that I remember skipping school one day to see - 911. Do they still exist? I asked. Yes, she said...they are on a reunion tour. And so I googled and found out that they are performing LIVE in the O2 on Tuesday - 1.5 days away!!! So I went into a panic mode and made my loving husband Mr T, buy some concert tickets online at 4am on a Sunday morning. :):)



The concert is called The Big Reunion, where several old bands came together to put on a concert  - Five (Baby When the Lights Go Out); Atomic Kitten (Whole Again); Blue (All Rise, Sorry Seem to be the Hardest Word); B*Witched (Cest La Vie); Liberty X; Honeyz and of course, 911 - the reason I am even here. 




Atomic Kitten


Liberty X
B*witched
 Mr T with his nerdy, geeky childhood, has not heard of any of the bands before ....but commented that Blue is his favourite of all the bands that performed.



When 911 performed, think I almost went mad......a dream born 15 years ago came true!! Seeing them perform 'Bodyshaking' LIVE... never thought this day would come...and the way it came too, so suddenly. They also sang "Party People", "Love Sensation" , "A Little Bit More" and "More Than A Woman". The shocking thing is....I could still remember the lyrics to all these songs even though it is a whole decade and a half ago that I first learnt them!








And of course, seeing how the boys have grown!! My favourite, the cutie Lee Brennan, is not so much of a cutie pie anymore with his dark hair....Jimmy and Spike still looks pretty much the same as they did....






Wow, what an experience....if not for that one facebook post by sis-in-law, I would have missed having this teenage dream come true! Saw it just in the nick of time - So, thank you Elaine!