A Magical Evening with Glenn Gary

Over the weekend, I surprised Uncle & Auntie, Arul and Janeni to a magic show in celebration of their 21^st wedding anniversary.

We went to The Parlor Magic Show by the famous magician Glenn Gary at the Westin City Center Hotel in Washington, DC. The unique part of the whole show, it is limited to per reservation basis, hence, you can expect a smaller crowd, more of a personalized attention and audience participation.

A quick bio about the magician (extracted from his webpage): Glenn is a masterful magician who performs sophisticated, classical, state-of-the-art sleight of hand conjuring and mind boggling feats of magic. Glenn has been a student of magic since the 10th grade, when he discovered magic while working at a theatre. One week’s salary was spent to place his first order for magic tricks. His mother was furious with him for spending all his money on what she called junk. Within a year, Glenn was performing his first amateur show and his magic career took off. He was awarded twice as the “Best Manipulation Act” and “Best Act of Competition” by his peers, fellow magicians themselves.

And I truly agree to that! He was simply magnificent; he made sure each and every audience member had their equal share of participation in his tricks. As part of the anniversary gift, he asked Auntie to tear a huge paper into pieces and he magically turned it into a cute little hat for her.

Each of his act just mesmerized us, being the act of disappearing egg in a bag, the never ending handkerchief joke, the bunny family (although it was a little sad that there were no real bunny used), the ripped...or maybe not newspaper trick, the disappearing $100 bill act or even the linked chains trick. Even his white pigeon Toby (or shall I say pigeons) was very well trained to participate in Glenn’s tricks.

I must say I was stunned with his grand finale act of the "floating deck card box”or the show-stopping act as his critics call it, an original masterpiece originated by Glenn himself. According to Glenn the pixie dusts made the box to fly. I would never know what is the logic or magic behind it, but it was truly Magical!

Glenn Gary’s website : http://www.glenngary.com/index.htm

Glenn's Blog: http://glenngary.blog.com/

Feel the Rain

Reminds me of the song by Natasha Bedingfield “Feel the rain on your skin as no one else can feel it for you”.

For some reason watching the weather changes is really interesting, from 3-4 months pure bitter cold months with monstrous piles of snow, we finally saw some sunshine and the weather was in 60s last weekend. Then came another change in the weather pattern, rain just rain almost 2-4 inches. As much as I have missed the sun, I did miss the rain too! (The strange part is we do have month longs of monsoon season in Malaysia but it never really bumped into me the beauty of rain till recently)

I am kind of lost of words to describe the experience of rain, it really has a very different feeling (some might say it feels like falling in love again), a little cold and each rain drop not only gives you the chill but also the tickles sometime!

You might have go out and feel the rain on your own skin to comprehend what I’m saying, till then I'm going to look a big puddle of water to jump in!