Meanderings of an opera obsessed mind...

I'm feeling rather down at the moment for a couple of reasons, one of them being related to Stephen Fry. He's apparently left Twitter (again) over some horrendous misunderstanding over an interview and alas, we haven't heard from him since October 31st after saying 'bye bye' on his Twitter, replacing his profile pic with one of what looks like his living room floor, changing his profile name from 'Stephen Fry' to 'S Fry' and saying all in his bio section that it's 'no longer in service.' Not only that but he was recently asked by Warner Brothers to take down a couple of pictures he took of the Harry Potter set while he was filming his role as Mycroft Holmes in the sequel to last year's film, Sherlock Holmes from his Twitter account. That wasn't the most wisest of moves on Mr Fry's part (the uploading of the photos, I mean) but yeah, it's been a pretty bad past week for the fellow.

As one blogger put it: 'Has Stephen Fry gone to the Twitter equivalent of Belgium?'...I seriously hope not. I can obviously see why his comments in the interview has caused such a furore but I think the most important thing now is to check whether the poor man is all right seeing that he does, despite his status as being a national treasure, have bipolar disorder. And no, I'm not saying that just because he's bipolar means that he has a right to say what he did (which might not be the most politically correct of statements) but I do hope the numerous people bashing him give him a little bit of a break. And I'm wondering why his friends like Emma Thompson or Hugh Laurie haven't said anything yet...are they in the dark as much as we are as to how he's doing? *crosses fingers that he's all right*

But I am rather glad to know that TA's Figaro at Scottish Opera which he's directing has so far been receiving great reviews! That cheers me up quite a bit, I must admit. Plus the production looks so gorgeously traditional (have I mentioned that I love traditional opera productions most of all? XD) that I really want to just go over to Scotland just to watch it to be honest!

I finally have an iPod Touch! Yeah, after years of unintentionally 'boycotting' Apple goods, I've finally given in. Stephen Fry would no doubt be proud. XDD

And it's all due to my mum going round the shops of Windsor House asking for it that she finally got one for me while I was at work doing my internship. She tried two without luck and managed to get one at the third shop she went to and it seems to be that she also got the last one left...O_O

Just trying to figure out what the heck to do with it at the moment though...I'm going to have to download iTunes first it seems...and then I'll just go from there...

Well, the countdown to seeing Stephen Fry and Andrew Roberts in the flesh in Hong Kong has started and hopefully if this typhoon/thunderstorm dies down, I should be able to see them in about 24 hours...

I just hope that we'll be able to take pictures...not necessarily a picture of me with them but just pictures OF them are enough for me (oh, and yeah...maybe an autograph or two!)