High School Musical – The Ice Tour

I watched High School Musical (HSM) last weekend.

“I got tickets for all of you for High School Musical on 16/8.” That was my along’s sms, sent to all of us.

The idea was to take the kids to watch it. My nieces and my nephew are all crazy about HSM, it was unreal. Especially the two older girls, age 6 & 7. They memorise not just all the songs but even the dialogs as well. So my along got the tickets. But instead of just taking the kids, lets get everyone to join. Even my mum and dad. Great, a fun family outing. I don’t have any problems with it. Forget that none of us (except the kids obviously) knew anything about it. It will be fun!

But then we got a problem.

I suddenly remembered that the new season of football was starting on the same day.

“Can I give HSM a miss instead? Sigh, I can’t do that, the tickets cost so much!”

So for the first time in years, I will have to miss the opening game of the season. I was so looking forward to it but now I will have to miss it! For a show that I know nothing about!

“But it’s ok. Watching the kids enjoying themselves will be worth it.”

Then another problem came up.

My along, the one who initiated the plan can’t go. She had to travel. Bummer! What the hell? This is not fair. If I had to suffer, she has to as well!

“That’s ok lah. Watching the kids enjoying themselves will be worth it.”

But then we had another problem! The biggest blow of them all. The kids can’t go!

Apparently, for my two older nieces, their aunty from their mum’s side had tickets for them as well. Different show time but on the same day! And their aunty booked them first. So now, the two girls, the reason we were all going to the show won’t be there! Nice!

But we did go. My younger niece and his even younger brother love HSM too. They won’t understand much but they will enjoy the songs, the fancy lighting, the jumping & spinning.

Well, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. All the songs were freakingly familiar. I have no idea how I knew the songs, but I did. There were nothing special with the skating though, and the lighting show itself wasn’t impressive. For me they totally depended on the brand hype, the popularity of HSM the movie.

But the kids enjoyed it very much and I guess that is what matters. So if you can, just catch the show for your kids’ sake. HSM is big, it’s the ‘in’ thing. Don’t deny your kids the show just because you knew nothing about it. I’m glad we didn’t.

Oh yeah, I did get to see my football game. We got back just in time for it.
And we ended up wasting two tickets. Can't find anyone to tag along at the last minute. What a pity!