We headed straight to Bondi Junction (after much gasps from Steffen that I hadn’t been there! It’s only like the biggest mall around!) So there we were, looking for a jacket for myself.Bvlgari has a new scent, Aqva Marine, and it smells really good. I miss my Bvlgari Aqva. And since I wasn’t going to spend $80 on a new one, I went to the counter and asked for a sample. Again, the Singaporean emerges.
I was also going to meet Craig, who studies medicine in UNSW. Steffen wanted to leave us alone to hang out, but I insisted he came along since we were just meeting for coffee. We had drinks and some tea, Steffen a chai latte, Craig a café latte, and myself the usual hot chocolate. Mmmmm. Only Steffen and I had something to munch on though, he a strawberry tart and what else but a lemon tart for myself.
In the evening we decided to go to the German Film Festival, and after a few bumps, we got to the theater about 10 mins before the start of the film, Keinohrhase or Rabbit Without Ears. As you could predict, the film was sold out. Normally, I’d probably give up hope (there were signs EVERYWHERE saying it was sold out) But not Steffen. We queued, and when we got to the cashier, he asked her pretty persistently, but nicely, if she could squeeze us in the back. In the end she gave and told us to wait until everyone went in and took their seats, then she’d try to help us. What an angel.
She came to us when the crowd was comfortably in their seats and brought us in through the side door. Surprisingly the first row was empty so she told us we could sit there but then came back a few minutes later telling us to sit on the steps first because there were late-comers and when the film started we could just slip in the empty seats.
We eventually got pretty good seats somewhere in the middle though we weren’t seated together.
The film was great, and while it had a pretty predictable storyline, a good first German film. It was a about a celebrity gossip writer who is sentenced to community service or face jail term. He is sent to a kindergarten, where the head is a girl from his younger days he used to bully. Of course they fall in love, but it was a nice take on it, since he’s a player and she’s this sweet schoolteacher. Or at times "an animal in bed", as she put it.
There was a gem in the movie, little Cheyenne-Blue. The weird name because her “mum’s an actress and her dad’s an arsehole.” She said that! And that her “mum goes through many men, but only I get breakfast in the morning.” Her real name is Emma Schweiger, but I can't find any pictures of her adorable face online.
She really is super adorable. (If you watch the below videos, she’s the one who sticks her tongue out in the rain while on the tricycle with Ludo)
The official website (though you probably wouldn’t understand a word): http://wwws.warnerbros.de/keinohrhasen/
And there’s a Youtube link, though the English subtitles are all crappy, it’s good enough to understand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmalF-6QQec
After the film it was still relatively early so we headed to the Sydney Opera House (More gasps that I hadn’t seen it.) It was beautiful and because it was not crowded with tourist you really get the feel of the place, and then I realize why it’s world famous. Pictures really don’t do it any justice and you really have to be
there, standing on the long and wide expanse of the steps, looking up at the sail-like roof of the opera house do you then get the magnificence of the building.I also learnt something new – the roof is not smooth, like it looks in the pictures. It is actually tiled, and from up close doesn’t look smooth at all.
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