Thursday, July 27, 2006

Civil Service shit

The she-borg brought in a public service division officer to give a talk yesterday. Unbelievable, she actually went on and on on how the civil service selects and grooms leaders. Unbearably boring. And the irony of it is when she said that several civil service sectors actually make their employees do compulsory National Education courses; high flyers are also required to do community service so that they don't forget the grassroots. Hilariously absurd. Don't you think it's totally wrong?

I'm really starting to see why that she-borg behaves that way. MOE HQ is a alien hive.

Interested to lose your humanity?

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

gitchy gitchy ya ya?

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return."

怪人

Why does she have to use the word “truly” in more than 50% of her sentences?

My VP is a cyborg. Ok, fine. It’s a she-borg. A typical robotic speech from her at staff meeting goes:

“This is truly an educational experience and truly our job is to nurture the young, so that they can develop to their best potential. Truly, I wish to…..”

You imagine the agony of listening to this kind of lousy talk, puts me into a drowsy state without fail.

She also needs to dish out MOE directives which I suspect she’s been eagerly memorizing every night at the expense of her husband’s libido.

Yes, typically she’ll work out some shit like “the classroom is a protected space for teaching and learning to take place.” I mean, please lah, who speaks like that? It’s like saying “the bedroom is a protected area for copulation to take place.” Geez…

The tone is simply cold and corporate-like.

She’s one absurd personality in school I simply can’t stand or have enough of. Why? There’s something about her that is seriously wrong, mentally or conceptually. Sorely lacking in the human spirit and compassion. She’s all about hype, directives, circulars and education in the very primal paper form you can find it. Just to reinforce my point, she was working at MOE HQ prior to this. I think the HQ smells fishy. I think they clone you, inject control microchips into the clone and send them back to schools. As for the primary clone subject? Sent to the nearby Biopolis for genetic alteration.

I suspect she gives a certificate to her husband for his sustained achievement of staying married to her.

I’m betting on it.

Prelude

Heard from Raj that Robert Casteels is going to be our new music director. It’s quite exciting, since this is a conductor who I do not have a pre-concept of prior to joining us. As with Domy, he was already blacklisted in by cerebrum when he threathened to use Thumboo to join the ensemble.

Supposedly brought Philwinds to WMC 2005 and brought back a gold medal in the 1st division. Or was it gold with distinction? Well, Genus is not a wind band, so I believe it’s very much going to be a brand new experience for him and us. I think I’m going to enjoy the sessions, especially after Domy’s dark reign.

I recall years back he wrote a Sonata Profana for some CFA group collaboration item which Terence Choo played in. I remember seeing the guitar part scored in Bass clef and with some annoying long notes. Hey! We might want to get him to work on some Guitar concerto for us to premiere in our concerts.

Genus is finally “normal” again after the Jap group returned. The turnout was pretty good this Sat, at least not relegated to the remains of quintet or quartet numbers. I spent some good time looking through the loot and treasures sought in Japan, temporarily plundered a couple of things. Moh was really nice to have brought back a Yamaha flute catalog to show me. Thanks pal!!! Really appreciate the thought. I should have asked him to see if he could visit the Sankyo flutes and hopefully check out prices, models. Ha ha, just kidding. Ok, trip to Japan next time, sell old flute buy new flute!!! (if the wallet permits)

Friday, July 14, 2006

红拂女


I always thought 舒淇 looked odd in 古装. Facially rather square-like, I think it is quite the opposite of what the ancient Chinese who have thought to be a beauty, not to mention that she's quite skinny and all. I think she sports a very modern look, with decadent sheepish eyes, doesn't really occur to me that she's the 慧眼识英雄 type.


Look at how odd they look together. Obviously, the lady looks so much more devious and 有心机 than the poor chap who is supposed to be 文武双全.

张翠山,殷素素?

Nonetheless, the 插曲 for the show is superb.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

被撇下的第七天

仍是踌躇不定.

想着, 如果去了日本又会怎样. 不知道自己的选择是否对了.

因为放不下自己的学生而放弃了赴日的机会.

好象有一点笨. 只是一群工艺班的学生, 少教几天又有何方?

我有些明白妈妈说过为什么有了我之后, 她就再也没有出国了.

怎么衡量值不值得? 也许已经不是值不值得那么简单.

随心而定吧.

不入虎穴, 焉得虎子.

可能会是我人生中最愚蠢, 最有人性的决定.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

最近耳边的歌

1. 蔡依琳-舞娘 (觉得词写的不错, 虽然是舞曲风格.)

2. 张韶涵-真的 (词也不错, 有点反复, 不过旋律还蛮幽美的.)

3. 周华健-爱情路 (民歌风格, 清新爽朗, 觉得词蛮有意思的,押韵有点过火吧.)

Thursday, July 06, 2006

慢半拍

觉得好象有一点过时了. 哈哈.

最近才觉得"屋顶"很好听. 不是以前没听过这首歌, 只是突然耳朵觉醒了.

后知后觉吧.

霍霍霍霍霍霍霍霍!!!!

To all of you who are heading to Japan,

give them a KICK ASS performance!!!


Don't forget to ask Koyama or Manji to visit us for music camp!!!! Haha!!!

Have a blast of a time there!!!! Bon Voyage!!!

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

武侠与伦理

最近重看了漫画版的神雕侠侣, 顿时觉得焕然一新, 仿佛新一般的体验.
想了想, 应该是在电视上看了太多烂的武侠剧, 金庸的反而显得有些深度, 多了一点人性.

潜藏了许多伦理, 是蛮有教学意义的.

Monday, July 03, 2006

天官赐福? 飞来横祸?

When CFA rang me up and asked if I were interested to be GENUS’s next Music Director, I was really very apprehensive about it. Being not exactly qualified for the job; I have no music degree, not even a Guitar Grade 8, for that matter. I only picked up instrument playing at the age of 19, and yes, that makes this year the 10th anniversary for me. I mean. Compared to those who have studied Piano or whatever since pre-primary school, my number of years in meddling with music is insignificant and late.

Anyway, I sort of just sat on the issue, and waited for some divine force to steer the way.

豪子说: “他们敢 offer, 你就 take up loh.”

Ok, so I decided to give it a shot and proceeded to meet up with the CFA staff/tutors for an interview/discussion. I was also supposed to send in my CV three weeks ago from now, which I have gallantly procrastinated and ignored till now. Jianqun told me I probably don’t have to send it in anymore since he heard some news that CFA has already decided who to hire.

As this juncture, I must explain that the main reason why I’ve not submitted the CV is that I don’t have much to write and I am too lazy to go about it. Nutshell, it’s a chore to me. I felt that I had already said all I wanted to say and informed the CFA staff of my relevant experiences during the interview. So there.

Anyway, there are many concerns I have in my head. Firstly, of course, is that I don’t really represent well in terms of qualifications for GENUS. I mean, Raj is like guitar diploma holder and the MD is a Yamaha grade 6??? Er… like 怪怪的. Well, personally I don’t mind lah, cos I don’t care what others say, but it may make GENUS look like it’s now headed by imbecile. Oh well, I dispelled that, telling myself as long as I make good music with the group, it doesn’t matter.

Secondly, it’s of course the fact that I have to take the main ensemble(everyone) which I know will not be as fun and rewarding as taking EXPOSE. Fact is, I will have to re-adjust my expectations. Not too difficult to do, except that it may take up more time and disrupt my schedule, EXPOSE practices and all. Well, I thought, nothing can be worse than teaching Sec. 1 Normal Technical students guitar right?

Scores is the third thing. I’m not exactly doing a full-time music career. I may not have time to constantly produce scores at an efficient rate. Main ensemble needs pleasant and easy music, EXPOSE needs challenging and rewarding music. Sheesh…

And then there’s Guitaresque and MASAK. Rehearsal times for the former is alright, but the latter is currently in a state of lull, partly due to the Japan trip, EXPOSE practices and performance avenues. Weekday practices are not exactly fruitful for working people unless there is an immediate goal, so practices are best kept to Saturdays.

那就这样吧!!! 再爱也无需挣扎!

If I get the appointment, I’ll just have to work a bit harder.

If I don’t, I’ll have more time to play badminton with my students!!!

顺应天命!