快手快脚

Very amazing drummer! The hands are so fast! And she can switch her hold on the drum sticks while playing!

This pop/contemporary style is so different from its symphonic counterpart. It does resemble the ethnic percussion tradition where the music structure goes through cycles.

Tempting!

Excuse me, did you lose something?!?!?

One of those hectic days where I did 3 heads in school today. 1 perm and 2 cuts. Plus yesterday's perm, that makes 4.
My friends in school are very supportive and many'd say I did quite a decent job. Anyway, here's a video I found while trying to get sneak peaks into Desperate Housewives. I find it hilarious.



Notice also the nice-sounding tango that goes with it. Passion!

Faster faster!

I went to ballot for the rehearsal slot at the Singapore Conference Hall for the SYF next year, and must say I'm quite amused by the way they did it.

At the lobby,
1. Queue up to take a balloting slip. (about 150 school representatives)
2. Write your school name.
3. Dump it into a box.

In the hall,
1. short briefing (10 min)
2. One person starts to draw out the slips. School that is called comes up to choose their preferred slot.
3. Head downstairs to make payment of deposit of 200 cash or cheque.
4. Queue again.

Well, this took about 2 hours???

There must be some way to make this happen in less than an hour?

Korean Joke

This goes out to Celine Wan.

Hope you don't sing like this after you get proficient on Korean.



Should have done this for Wulang's wedding.

Boston Brass

The brass concert, featuring the Boston Brass, was inspiring. Now we really know why the standard orchestra don't need so many of them. With about 4 to 5 from each section of brass is enough to blow your brains out, literally.

The highlight of the evening was of course Boston Brass, who clearly showed that musicianship should not be restricted to the instrument itself. I was very impressed with how much they could do outside their repertoire and instrumentation.

I do hope they come every year!

Out of the frying pan!

Is NUS that busy these days? I see many of our ensemble juniors face green green lidat, esp. the year twos.

Uni days were one of the periods I didn't do much leh. Hmmm... besides skipping lectures and tutorials, I spent quite a bit of time at YIH study room surfing. Of course there were terrible periods when assignments were to be handed up, but the images are quite forgotten. Selective memory I guess.

Anyway, I'm glad that I'm out of school. I sometimes miss the carefree days then, but I am also reminded how carefree I am now too. Working is still better lah, and with my job, it's really quite miraculously enjoyable.