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Bought two tickets to Shaolin: Wheel of Life. They're up in the lower balcony, but that's fine with me. I'm a bit curious as to what this 'convenience charge' is on the tickets I ordered online; would it have been cheaper to order by phone or something? Mneh. Kin-Hon, meanwhile, is unsure about whether his schedule will allow him to go. Ah well. Either he will, or one of my other friends will, or I'll sell the ticket to some poor schlub on the sidewalk. The important part right now is being able to take someone with me.

It has just percolated through my memory that I have never bought a ticket to a musical event, or to a theatrical one, on my own before. Oh, I've bought tickets to things like The Lion King or QED, the essentially one-man play with Alan Alda as Richard P. "Coolest Physicist EVER" Feynman, but those were because my parents were sending me to see the events as gifts. Heck, the one non-classical concert I've ever really been to - wait, no, that's not true. I bought my own ticket to Da Vinci's Notebook when they were in Manhattan. So that basically means my buy-your-own-ticket-to-live-entertainment record consists of them and the monks. I have been to one insanely popular concert full of screaming people who sang along with the music and jumped up and down with glee at being able to see their pop culture idol, but that was Garth Brooks' free concert in Central Park, and I was so far away that the man looked like a Rice Krispie.

This should be good.

What the Hell is This?, Round 5

Hallo! And welcome to the latest round of What the Hell is This?, a monthly-ish trip through the snack food aisles of Top Quality Food Market and/or Kam Man Foods, two Asian markets in lovely northern New Jersey. Today's round features four entries:

Team Philippines, fielding Ovalteenies brand cocoa candies;
Team Vietnam, fielding Banh Men nuoc cot dua - I can't reproduce the accents, but they're a type of cookie;
And two from Team China, one from Taiwan and one from Shandong. Taiwan's contribution is I-Mei Choco Roll Cookies (Taro flavour), and Shandong's is Chun Xing brand haw flakes.

( Let's begin, shall we? )