Happy Halloween Day! 31 October 2006
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Last June at the YouthBeat LEAF Camp, Hina played with her phone. While doing this, she saw something strange!
What do you think it is?
Happy Halloween Day!
At Ben & Jessica’s Wedding Banquet 18 October 2006
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At Ben & Jessica’s wedding banquet…
Alvan took shots of my friends & me…
With my Nokia 6600 phone…
HOORAY! I PASSED!! 17 October 2006
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HOORAY! I PASSED!!
I’ve achieved my goal in getting ABRSM Grade 5 in Concert Percussion! Now, I’m taking another step: ABRSM Grade 6 in Concert Percussion in March 2007.
I’ve got to work harder to get money to pay for its exam and lesson fees. Hope this problem will be over soon. I must tide over it!
My Last Time with Everything 15 October 2006
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All the while, I had been doing the Sunday sign language assignment since 8 October.
I have drumming trainings from Mr. Kelvin Kew of Lila Drums and coincidentally, they commence from 29 October to 2 December. Every Sunday afternoon from 2PM to 4PM. This clashes with my sign language assignment’s schedule.
It gave me a lot of headaches. I thought and thought…
So, I decided to sacrifice this income source for drumming trainings. I hope to give my last percussion performance with a group of deaf youths for the Deafinitely Boleh event this time.
I believe that it will bring me some sense of happiness and achievement since it’s my whole last project under XTOMIC.
For song-signing with XTOMIC, it’s over. But somehow, I have a caroling project to do and it will be the last one with SADeaf.
My Real Me? 11 October 2006
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Yesterday, I went down to LASALLE-SIA for a discussion meeting. My needs were discussed: note-taker, aural/ear training and performing with students. I will face alot of problems with transcription that will be mostly used throughout music courses. This means I’ve to write melody while listening to it.
I was informed that I need to go for an audition again and it will be in March 2007. If there is any improvement on my aural skills, they will consider taking me in. And, I’m informed that a music course in World Music will be removed from their system soon.
Now, I look at other course options at LASALLE-SIA:
BA (Hons) Jazz, Popular Music, Classical Music or World Music
This programme focuses on a range of current music practices from “East and West”, including improvisation and notation, and broad stylistic awareness, reflects a changed musical environment that values diversity in the skills of its composers and performers. The programme reflects Singapore’s unique situation – placed geographically in the heart of Asia, demographically with a diverse multicultural population and with a long history as an international meeting-point of cultures. It presents students with a unique opportunity to experience a broad cross-section of
today’s musical practice in a single integrated structure. Blending vibrant cultures and diverse concepts found in Asia with a western music discourse, students in the programme undertake a focused study in one of four pathways – Jazz, Popular Music, Classical Music or World Music.
The curriculum allows for a significant degree of flexibility for students to integrate issues and topics across the four specialisations. The programme has a regional artistic focus in each of its pathways with an emphasis in the areas of cross-cultural, cross-art form and cross-genre collaboration preparing graduates for broader professional situations in the creative industries in Asia and elsewhere.
BA (Hons) Music Technology
Music Technology is an exciting field that has led graduates to various career paths. From Rock Musician and serious Composer, Sound Designer to numerous careers in film and television, this programme is designed to give the sound and music skills needed in the 21st century.
Designed for students who want to work in the music and media industries internationally, the programme modules include two categories – the teaching of technical skills and the development of creative applications for those skills. You will learn the technical skills of sound recording, mixing, audio post-production and sound design for live productions and multimedia projects equipping you to work in the recording and broadcasting industries in careers including sound engineering and sound editing. Musical skills are also developed through training in music theory, composition, aural dictation, improvisation and sight reading, providing you with the capabilities to work on professional music productions. Through ‘real world’ projects and collaborations with students and professionals from the dance, media, theatre and visual arts industries, you will gain the experience necessary to compete in the job market upon graduation.
CAREERS: CAREERS: Music Technology Professional for film/theatre/TV, Educator, Music Arranger, Music Director, Music Reviewer, Performer, Producer, Sound Designer/Engineer.
BA (Hons) Musical Theatre
This performance-based programme is designed to equip you for professional careers in not only musical theatre, but plays, cabaret, film and TV. This comprehensive programme is based on the techniques of Singing, Music Skills, Dancing and Acting. In addition to classes, students will work on a series of workshops and productions of existing and original works. The final year will operate as a Performing Company offering public performances in genres such as musicals, cabaret and plays at a professional standard in the new theatre complex of the New City Campus of LASALLE-SIA.
Lecturing staff, directors, choreographers and visiting international artists will be drawn from the established theatre industries of UK, Australia, USA and Asia to provide you with a truly exciting opportunity for a cross-cultural learning experience.
CAREERS: Performer for Musical Theatre/Cabaret/Radio/TV/Film, Choreographer, Educator, Musical Director, Theatre Director, Composer, Choreographer, Playwright, Pop Singer, Producer, Vocal Arranger, Vocal Coach, Writer.
BA (Hons) Theatre Arts
This programme engages with contemporary intercultural theatre practices and development, contributing to the study of contemporary theatre arts, their diversity and modes of interaction. The international dimension of the programme helps in developing a programme that is outward looking and responsive to contemporary needs. The programme is aimed at students who wish to develop a broad-based understanding of contemporary theatre practice and explore the particular opportunities provided by its location in a multi-cultural environment. It is determinedly rooted in practice and concerned with developing the students’ ability to research and understand contemporary theatre in the context of the pressures of independent study. Students are expected to undertake independent work combining practical and theoretical research and are required to develop sophisticated approaches to theatre practice.
What if my application to music studies is rejected again? *pondering*
Perhaps, I will try to apply for other courses in Musical Theatre and Theatre Arts at the same time. Will make enjuries about their requirements soon.
Next year, when doing my full-time freelance arts education/performing work, I’ll be more into song-signing, poetry, story-telling, percussion and acting. So, what area shall these relate to? Deaf arts?
Whenever I watch percussion concerts, trainings or workshops, I somehow feel loneliness. This has been with me since I was ten years old. Perhaps, my deafness separates me from hearing people around me. There are none of my deaf friends (around my age) who shares similar interests as me.
Often, I ask my deaf & hearing friends out for these kinda of activities, they may not be interested. In the end, I’m doing things alone.
However, there is a Percussion Band at Canossian School. I’m very happy to work there to teach percussion music every Saturday. I love that feeling!
But somehow, sign language binds me to the people around me. It’s a nice feeling that I ever have… This also applies to song-signing that binds music and sign language together and form another style of performing arts.
So, I conclude that I like to work with deaf people. But now, what’s my real me when it comes to performing?
OUCH! 9 October 2006
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Just cut my left index finger… OUCH!
Deep in my thoughts, I accidentally cut my finger while cutting some fake dollar notes with a penknife for a student. So careless of me!
Now, I’m not feeling well. Headache.. It’s because of my three ear piercings that I had yesterday. But still, I got to go down to the NTU to teach sign language later in the evening.
GOD, please protect me…
Thoughts to Ponder 8 October 2006
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Just wanna share this with you…
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day, are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “YES”.
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things — your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions — and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter, like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else — the small stuff.
“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
“Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the vacuum cleaner. Take care of the golf balls first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a cup of coffee with a friend.”
This makes alot of sense. Don’t you agree?
Now, it’s a time for me to think again about my life.
Under the Light of Graceful Moon 6 October 2006
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Looking up, I see the bright moon in a hazy night.
Singing a song that no one hears.
Calling into the night and no one hears.
Only the moon shares the solitude with me.
Mid-Autumn Legend 6 October 2006
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The Moon Fairy Lady
Many years ago, there was a king in China. He was a brave man who did lots of belifits to the people. He admired a beautiful girl and made her stay in the palace so that he could see her whenever he wanted. But, the girl did not like the frightful figure of the king. She seldomly spoke a word in the palace. Each time the king went to her place, he used to show her some treasures and brought some gifts to the girl in order to make her smile and speak.
On every full moon, the girl would burned incenses and wax candles to worship the moon. People believed that there was a god lived in the moon that made the moon shine. Girls who wanted to be a beauty and have a handsome husband should worship the moon.
One day, the full moon of the eighth month, the king brought three herbs pills to show her.
“This is from the priest of the palace. If I eat them up, I can live forever.” He exclaimed.
This was the first time the girl stuffs he brought.
He continued, “If you and I both take one, we will both live forever. No one can take you away from me!”
Because the king afraid of the pills would have side effects. He forced the girl to take the pill first. If nothing wrong with her after taking the pill, he would take it immediately. However, the girl recognized that if she took all three of them, the king would hav left her eventually. Therefore, the first time, she spoke to the king, “Let me have a look of the pills first. Otherwise, I will not try at all.”
The king surprisingly the girl talked to him. So, he handed the pills to the girl. She did not say anything but eat all of them. The king was extremely angry. He wanted to kill her.
At this moment, the girl started to fly. She could fly because of the intake of the pills. The king could not catch her, but watched her flew toward the moon and disappeared.
After that, people believed that there was a beautiful girl stay in the moon with a little old man and a bunny. The old man was believed to be the god inside the moon and the bunny was his pet. Day after day, Chinese believed that there were people lived in the moon. Their movement made the dark spot when we looked up to the moon. People used to worship the girl to glorify her chastity. So, on every full moon of the mid-Autumn became a festival in order to memorize her.
Mid-Autumn Festival 6 October 2006
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is known as the Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival, or the August Moon Festival.
In Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia, it may be referred to as the Lantern Festival. It is a popular Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China’s Zhou Dynasty.
The Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Lunar calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian Calendar), a date that parallels the Autumn Equinox of the solar calendar. At this time, the moon is at its fullest and brightest, marking an ideal time to celebrate the abundance of the summer’s harvest. The traditional food of this festival is the moon cake, of which there are many different varieties.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Lunar calendar (the other being the Lunar New Year), and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Asian family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together. It is also common to have barbecues outside under the moon, and to put pomelo rinds on one’s head. Brightly lit lanterns are often carried around by children. Together with the celebration, there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense, planting sweet-olive trees, lighting lanterns on towers, and fire dragon dances. Shops selling mooncakes, before the festival, often display pictures of Chang’e, floating to the moon.
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