William Chong

The exhilaration you get from refreshing your screen incessantly to see the changes of votes, next move, who dies, who lives, did the mafia win, what’s that suspect “citizen” saying, where’s the cop’s information… think Trademe but on an intense, adrenalined scale!

Mafia.  If anyone has never played it before, it’s on wiki as well.  But oh, it’s been so addictive! I love the thrill of tension in the air, as people sift out who’s Mafia and who’s citizen.  And then there’s the cop, who tries to out the mafia.  And doctors who heal… so fun, so fun!

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This one’s a birthday present too! A bit of a Matchbox 20 throwback, you know, when they were pumping out awesome tracks and before Rob Thomas opted for his rent-a-band.

It’s an uncommon first name but one that tends itself very well to a chorus – melodically pleasing to sing! The 2nd of a series of reducing optimism (see Head over Heels for the Backstreet Boy end of happiness).

 Under the Awning [4:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloads 1

Under the Awning – WILLIAM CHONG
Lyrics

It’s three in the morning
She’s crouched in the corner again
The world passes on and
no one is making amends
Her daily endeavours, they seem lifeless at best
And all that she longs for is gone
Under the awning who needs to pretend?

Her mind is a mooring of tears, sorrow and pain
Her makeup is blurred, cuts etched in her hand
And in this way she can hide from the rain
But looking outside she sees a rainbow

Chase all the grey skies away
Rainbow, colour this dark world I’ve found
Give us a smile
Your frown is upside down
Bring out those blue skies again

It’s ten in the morning
The crowd is dressed in black
She sees bearers walk on with such
weight on their shoulders
He gave his warning the counsellors tried
His father a grown man he cries

The note that the boy left
yea it’s a tough one to read
And it could’ve been her
but then she pleaded for a rainbow

And they’re moving on
Cos we’re moving on

As a duty manager of a restaurant, you get to do some cool things.  Today it was the Hospo show – basically a collection of all the players in the Hospitality Industry (sans Licensing Nazis), and had a whole host of things to see and to do!

Stalls for companies promoting their products – things like stemless martini glasses, point-of-sale systems, Tequila D’or RTD samples, chef uniforms, olive oils, Prenzel, boutique hams and pestos etc, gelato yum!

Saw the Culinary Fair competition – basically Hospo schools or big hotels etc send out teams of 2 chef/1 silver service wait staff and they compete against each other.  Judges are hardcore watching their every move: so fantastic to watch their pressure-cooker pedantics! (waiter: apron on, move fork, move knife, set towel, set glasses, set flower, apron off, prepare sth else, new apron on, gloves on, set champagne bucket, set water, set blar, set pretentious customer…)  Iron chef wannabes all hard at work on the other side of the hall, lots of people watching and cheering, would have been great to have eaten the food.

Picture of some courses prepared from a different day:

Also seeing the patisserie awards section, and the margarine sculpturing: some really creative people are out there baking and carving and preparing!!  My favourite was an Alice-in-Wonderland themed cake with accompanying Cheshire Cat, a picture frame and 2 potions.  There was also an entire Chocolate fantasy section which had desserts immaculate in presentation… if only NY did desserts to this standard!

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The piano man is so cute and adorable, who would ever eat him!

New York New York got pinged last night at 1.30 in the morning. Was not a good night.

(will add more to this later)

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