christina!

As I was discovering mouth muscles I didn’t know existed during my Thai class, my phone rang. It was my cousin; he was at the Christina Aguilera concert; he could get me in for free. I would never have bought a ticket myself, but I would never say no to a free one! I apologized profusely to my Thai teacher and rushed out of the building. It was seven pm and the concert was starting at eight.

I hailed a cab and surprise, surprise, we got stuck in traffic. *Sigh* Anyway, I finally made it to the concert and had a blast. Christina Aguilera has lungs (and she has big legs but never mind that. She’s also supposedly pregnant, poor baby). The woman can sing. Because I’m so not up-to-date, I didn’t recognize most of the songs she sang…and to my disappointment she didn’t sing “Genie in a Bottle.” Hehe. But she was good. She sang some 20 odd songs including “You are Beautiful” “What a Girl Wants” “Lady Marmalade,” etc.

Though the singing was good, the overall production in itself was, in my humble view, extremely underwhelming. I’m not sure what “Back to Basics” as a theme is supposed to mean but the concert didn’t seem basic to me. It was a mishmash of vignettes which did not quite fit together: American navy, twenties bordello, showgirl, circus, etc.

The best part of the concert though was that I was seated in a private booth with two beer girls handing out free beer throughout! Plus, and this is key, we had our own private bathroom!

After the concert, more beer while we waited for the traffic to thin out, and then off to a picturesque food stall next to a small manmade lake where we sat on mats and ate yummy seafood. And finally off to bed humming “You are beautiful…” for the first time ever in my life…

p.s. I wanted to post low quality videos up on You Tube for your viewing pleasure. Unfortunately You Tube is banned in Thailand so you will have to wait until I travel out of this country again...