Mantra Theatre

I had an old friend called yesterday saying that he’s going to come and visit us next week from Boston. I’m excited because even though Boston and New York is not too far, we haven’t met each other for almost four years. I then invited him to see a theater show with my family during his stay here. He was thrilled with the idea and said that actually there was a musical he would like to see, Wicked. Fortunately, I had planned to see Wicked too so I said that we definitely could go together to see that show.

After the phone call, I went to my computer and saw if I could get Wicked tickets for us online. I’ve been buying Broadway tickets online for some time since I found it much easier and practical than going to the theaters’ box offices. I googled the sites this time because I always want to see what sites are available for online tickets instead of the ones I’ve been visiting. Soon I found many links to the sites which sell Broadway Theater Tickets in one Google search. I click on one site I hadn’t visited yet and started to search for Wicked Tickets NYC. Only in 10 minutes later, 3 Wicked tickets on Monday evening were already secured for us. Don’t you love the internet?

After I was done with the Wicked tickets, I started to search for West Side Story tickets. It is one of my favorite musicals of all time together with The Phantom of the Opera, A Chorus Line, and Cats. So every time it is performed in Broadway, I never miss the chance to see it. I bought two West Side Story tickets in Palace Theater for me and my husband for next Wednesday. With my friend’s visit and these two great musicals to see, I can’t wait for next week to come

This weekend, my class has an opportunity to do a short performance in a small orphanage in Chicago. The owner of the orphanage is an old friend of our teacher back when he was in college. To him, a small yet very rare stage performance is a special event that can cheer up the children. On the other hand, we all are very pleased to be given an opportunity for a stage performance and to be able to do a good deed for the children in a way that we can.

Since it is too late to perform any of Christmas story by now, we decided to write a simple play to be performed for the children. The story is about animal society, more or less similar to that in “Horton Hears A Who” story, just without the Whoville part. The story was done since last month, and we’ve been practicing to perform it during holiday. Right now, we are all set with the play and just need to prepare our trip there.

Considering the props and the remote location of the orphanage, we chose to travel by cars. There will be 8 of us in total, so we have two cars with 5 persons capacity each ready to take us in our trip, Angela’s Toyota Camry and my Prius.

Since it is a quite long trip there, I and Angela have gathered some necessary information about auto repair shops. We have noted down all the auto shops between New York and Chicago, just incase. Of course, we also noted down some Chicago auto repair shops with that. I have some uncomfortable experiences with check engine light during interstate trips so I will make sure that everything will be going just fine this time.

Now, I already imagine the smiles of the little faces we will see when we get there. No doubt it will be one of my memorable performances in my life.

After a tiring week of helping with my neighbor’s moving chore, I don’t feel like going out for theaters this weekend. Yet, I still want to see some musical performances to cope with my longing for the theater lessons after the long holiday. So, I decide to have another Direct TV weekend with my husband and children.

A DirectTV weekend is one of my family traditions. It means that all the members of our family will be ready in front of the entertainment room TV after dinner with lots of snacks from pop corn to ice cream to accompany our Directv time. Since it is weekend, then the children will be allowed to stay until 10 when the first musical has finished.

After that, we the adults will stay until late to continue to watch other programs.

Direct TV has been our escape for quite a while when the weather is too bad to go outside or when we just want to relax at home. It offers all of my favorite programs such as arts, theater, sports, and sometimes documentary of famous persons in history. My children can also take advantage from the education channels like science and documentary programs.

With Direct TV, all I have to prepare to create a relaxing yet entertaining weekend is a string of our favorite snacks and chocolate drink which all of us really love. We also often watch NFL games instead of musicals and live up our weekend by cheering our favorite team to win the match.

For several last days I’ve been helping my neighbor packing for moving. She and her family will move to Houston, Texas in a couple days. Her husband had been promoted and soon will manage a brand new office in that city.

Since she has quite a big family, one husband, four children and two cute dogs, there were so many things to manage. She asked my favor to help her with all the moving preparation. Of course I didn’t have to think twice to say yes. We’ve been a close friend and we often visit each other at dinners. Coincidentally, I also had a loose class schedule this week so there’s absolutely there’s no problem for me to come and give extra hand.

Moving, especially when it involves a house with many people, is a daunting task to do. Basically, you need to move every single thing in the house to the new one. You need to consider which things can be packed first and which ones you will still need to the last minutes. You also need to make a list note of things you have packed to avoid the confusion in the future. However, apparently the job has not done yet once you have finished this task.

Yesterday, my friend told me about her problem in keeping her Direct TV subscription. She has been subscribing to Directv for years and very satisfied with its service. Now when she has to move to another state, she wondered if she could just continue her subscription in the new state.

Fortunately, I had just the right experience to answer her question. When my uncle Ben moved from California to Florida several years ago, he also moved his Direct TV subscription. All he needed to do was just contacting the Direct TV in California about his moving. My neighbor was so happy with my explanation, knowing that she had another problem solved so she could focus on the other problems.