Week 16, 2020 - MCO lagi leh

The MCO would've ended about a few days ago, but here we are, back for another couple more weeks.

• Apparently this year's UPSR and PT3 are cancelled with the other major exams postponed until next year. I dunno about those kids, but I would rather get the exam over with than to have to prep for it for few more months? My question is: how the 12 and 15 year olds are gonna move forward? Am I glad I don't have kids, let alone kids with major exams. 
• Good luck trying to stop people from leaving town for Raya this year (no interstate travel HOR)...? Bazaars are also supposed to be cancelled, but different states are trying to go around it by having virtual ones, which I can't fanthom how that's supposed to work. 
• New season of MasterChef Australia started this week. It'll be interesting to see how the season progress as COVID-19 affects the production. I wonder if they get to crown a winner. At least from reading this, they're no longer living in frat-house like situation, being the creme de la creme of the contestant pool that they are. I dunno if it's a coincidence that both this and Top Chef are having their all-star seasons going at the same time. 
• Am sort of excited that there's gonna be a TV mini series of Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, cos a movie cannot do that book justice. Dunno when it'll come out, but still early days yet. Because Sam Taylor-Johnson is attached to this (she who does not shy away from the raunchier material), I'm not sure how I'll feel if she somehow gets her own husband in this. 
• There's a lot of new-ish content out there, but I'm not bored enough for any of it - I still have the same shitload of podcasts I haven't caught up with yet. 
• Apparently a 2011 live recording of some Phantom of the Opera production is up on YouTube as a fundraiser thing now, but not for long (might be taken down by the time you read this). I always say that the best musical is a free musical I don't have to buy tickets for (or some version of this), but it's not like I don't know how Phantom goes. Musical theatre not really my jam lah. I say this as someone who tends to drift off during a comedy show that I also paid money to attend. Also, musical tickets are more expensive than the tickets I'm comfortable spending on.