He's here...
He's there...
He's everywhere!!!!
Even on the streets?!?!
Yeah that's right, the whole of Austria seems to be a shrine for Mozart. You cannot escape from his images. But seriously, Austria does really feel like a land of music like everyone is talking about. There are street performers everywhere. And they are not the half fucked kind. They are very very good. Especially this guy:
I think the picture is too dark but I just had to post it. He performs near the Hofburg and his music was really VERY VERY moving, at least to my untrained ears. I found myself just wanting to stand there and listen to him perform all the way. I wonder if I am looking at the future of some of the MOE music scholars..haha.
Ok another performer who impressed me was this guy with a puppet near the St Stephans Dom:
He is wearing different clothes coz I took the photos on different days. Basically he had a fake piano for the puppet and had a music player inside. And he was able to control the puppet such that it looked like it was playing the piano and singing along. He was really very good, the puppet looked like it had a life of its own under his control. Whenever somebody gave him some money, he would immediately change the music. For example, if it was an old lady the music suddenly changed to some "oh Mama..." tune. If it was a chio bu, the music changed to "Sex bomb", which was really funny (cool way of flirting too!). He also had a tune which went "Oh money, oh money money" and he would make the puppet look at the hat in front and shake his head in sadness at the lack of money, which again is really funny.
However the best has to be if a dog comes around. He even had a track which is a dog's bark and he would play it whenever somebody's dog came around. That would attract the attention of the dog. He would then make the puppet stick out his eyes and his tongue and completely freak the dog out. The white puppy in the second photo was a victim. It was damn hilarious.
Anyway on the second night when I was in Vienna, I watched a concert. Ok I know some of you are sniggering away at reading that. Shihua trying to be arty farty and watching concert?!?!?
YES I DID.
After all I didn't have anything to do at night and I was in Vienna after all. Some pictures:
The Kursalon, where the concert was held.
There were various kinds of performances in the concert. There were performances of Johann Strauss' and Mozart's music pieces, ballet and opera items. I can't say I didn't enjoy it, but throw a football match my way anytime.
Anyway made some interesting observations during the concert. Ang mohs are as fucked up as Asians when it comes to manners and all. See the second photo? It is blur. Why? Because I did not use flash. The steward already said loudly to someone just before the concert started that you can't use flash to take photos. Everybody at my side can hear it. But throughout the concert people were still taking photos with flash and it was extremely annoying. Can't be so many of them don't understand English or don't know how to turn off flash right? So ang mohs don't necessarily have good manners.
Anyway there was a group of 4 rather old Italians who attended the concert. The tickets for the concert was divided into 3 categories and they bought category B tickets. When the steward showed them to their seats, one of the old men asked why they can't sit in the empty seats further in front. DUH! Coz you bought cheaper tickets lah! The steward also answered them rather sarcastically. Anyway they came pretty late so was in the last row of category B. When the concert started, some of the category A seats were not filled. So guess what? The same Italian man went to sit down in the category A seats and his other 3 friends also joined him after the interval. Hmmmm....seems like not only Singaporeans are kiasu right.
Anyway my point is this: Ang moh fart is not fragrant! Some of them are just as fucked up as Singaporeans, perhaps even more so.
Like smooching your way through a concert like the couple in front of me. I wonder if they are there to observe each other's ugly faces under the chandelier lighting or to listen to the concert. Throughout the whole night they were looking at each other, kissing or whispering. AND THE GUY'S HEAD BLOCKED ME COMPLETELY. God damn it. But lucky I liked the music more than the dancing actually.
Anyway during the concert my crappy mind got to work again and thought of a way to propose to a girl, Viennese style.
First of all, note that there are a lot of horse carriages around Vienna:
This is just one of the stations outside Hofburg.
Then you would have to hire a street performer to play nice soothing music in St Stephans Dom platz at night:
Now make sure that when it is 12 midnight, your horse carriage driver brings you to the place with the music. Then when the church bells go off, tell your girl this:
Dear, when the clock struck 12 midnight, Cinderella's pumpkin carriage disappeared and she changed back to her original status and she had to be separated from her Prince. However, I don't want to be separated with you ever, do you agree to be mine forever?
(ok I know the words are extremely lousy but you get the idea....horse carriage, nice church, nice music...)
OR you can just bring her to a concert which both of you are not paying attention to and kiss each other and slip a ring on her finger and annoy the person sitting directly behind you.
But yeah you get the idea, Vienna is a really nice place for couples and in my opinion much better than Paris which is over rated really.
So who wants me to be their travel agent for their honey moons?
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