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So I watched Avenue Q for the second time last Saturday, which I really don’t make a big deal out of except that I sat in the orchestra now instead of at the balcony. But I should not have been surprised that two people who have watched it too expressed interest in watching it again.

There were some changes from the last time I saw it, such as longer pauses added where they expected the audience to get the joke but they probably got a poor response due to slow processing time.

The song “Schadenfreude” for instance, still did not generate as many laughs as it did with me when I was listening to it with the lyrics in front of me in another browser window. It could also have been their delivery though.

They also changed the lyrics of “For Now” from “George Bush is only for now” to “WAS only for now”.

There were also souvenirs selling, like shirts and pins and key chains besides the usual program.

@@ In the student center, the plug for my computer is located outside my cubicle, using an extension cord.

Today when I came back from lunch the extension had been unplugged, so the file that I had left open there is gone.

Lessons learned: always save files before leaving the terminal, and write a note on the extension saying do not unplug.

@@ I discovered this cure for blank pages (AKA writer’s block) over the weekend. It’s {http://writeoneleaf.tumblr.com/}.

It gives daily, sometimes hourly suggestions on what to write about when you can’t think of anything.

In fact, if I were to follow the possible topics there in any order, I could already fill pages worth of text.

@@ I just realized that although I have been raving about the last two movies I watched, I have said nary a word about another movie that I watched two weekends ago, Alice in Wonderland.

It’s funny that I talked about the swimming afterwards, but not about being in SM near Better Living with fellow programmer Ryan watching that Tim Burton movie when I got the invitation to the swimming.

First of all, I thought there was a 3D theater in that mall, since there is a 3D theater in Sta. Rosa. Apparently, though, not all SM cinema multiplexes rate enough for a higher priced movie house with full complement of glasses.

And I guess it is just as well because I did not like the movie that much, and if it were in 3D, that would probably be the only think I would have liked about it, or maybe I not even say that.

It was a dark movie, and the accents were more mumbling than anything, which I couldn’t even say with Sweeney Todd or How to Train Your Dragon. I know Lewis Carroll is a former mathematician, but it does not mean that Tim Burton was able to stay true to his original analogies.

Sure it was a visual treat, but more and more nowadays that is not enough to be well-liked.