It's week 12 - the final week of the semester! Gosh, semester 2 always passes so fast! And exams (yikes!) are in about 2 weeks' time! I should really get crackin' and start studying very very soon - I feel really prepared for my piano exam (thanks a billion, Anna, for your wonderful sound advice!) although I don't know the exact date of my exam, but for the other subjects...uh oh...... *plays opening to Beethoven's 5th symphony*

Exams aside...I just visited the kitchen garden again today, and our garden beds are looking really good! The veggies are growing really well, and some of the garden beds actually look really crowded! Ours isn't so crowded though, but it'll be, very soon.

Just a few weeks ago, our veggies were this small, consisting of just a few leaves and shoots here and there:

And when I went back to water them today, some of them looked like this:

And some even had fruits!

And of course, our dear college cat, Aggie, was lovey-dovey as usual. She actually went on one of the garden beds and had to be carried out of it. She wasn't too impressed, but was pretty ok about it later on. I've got lots of pictures of her.

I've also got pictures of our college production, Guys and Dolls. Guys and Dolls is a 1950s Broadway production by Frank Loesser, based on the book, The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Rumyon. It's generally about a bunch of gamblers and mission dolls, betting and of course, love between a gambler and a mission doll. Other subplots also follow, such as crap shooters (dice games) and a couple who had been engaged for 14 years.

Setting the scene at the very start of the show:

The second guy on the right plays a local policeman, while the rest of them are gamblers.

The mission dolls and one of the gamblers, Sky Masterson - the main character of the show. Sky Masterson made a bet that he could bring "sinners" to the mission, such that the mission would not close down, but Sarah Brown had to go on a date with him.

Yet another main character, Ms Adelaide (a cabaret dancer) with her Hot Box girls. Ms Adelaide is the character who has been engaged for 14 years - to a gambler, Nathan Detroit. She constantly laments about his inability to quit crap shooting, and often gets annoyed at him for not quitting. But she still loves him nevertheless.

The mission again, led by Sarah Brown, the mission doll who fell in love with Sky Masterson. She did go on a date with him, and ended up drunk, and escorted back to the mission by Sky.

The scene in which all the "sinners" - gamblers, crap shooters, Hot Box girls and so on, turn up at the mission office, which was in danger of being closed down. Sarah Brown eventually realised that Sky Masterson was merely betting to achieve his goal, and was highly annoyed at him, refusing to see him again. However, they were both in love by then, and Sky had to make it up to her by fulfilling his part of the bet:

Ms Adelaide and Nathan Detroit finally tie the knot...after 14 years. And so does Sarah Brown and Sky Masterson, who eventually opened up to each other, and also married, with the help of one of the older mission dolls.

The closing scene for the night:

On a side note: a sculpture I made from clay quite a few days ago:

Right, I'm off to study now!