My Grey World

Some days ago I wrote to my fellow choristers that people can help them sing better by singing the notes to them, giving tips and tricks for better sound production, making recordings/midi files to listen to, but no one can magically transform them into a songbird overnight. And I thought, heh, isn’t it also relevant [...]

This is the current hit song in my choir (SMU Chamber Choir). You Were There by Libera. I hope I’m not the only person that thinks the video is cheese sandwich. I mean, ugh. It’s like somebody just took their pictures and tinkered around with iMovie or the likes (Windows Movie Maker? Eeks). But it [...]

We’ve heard a lot of cliches around this : you are what you eat, you are what you wear, you are what you do, etc etc. But are you really what you listen? And do you define what you listen by how you define yourself? I’m pondering about this since my choir (visit SMU Chamber [...]

  White Night in St Petersburg (10 PM). Photo by Becky Sullivan. I’M SO EXCITED.   Yup. Last year my choir SMU Chamber Choir went to Sopot, Poland to participate in a choir competition. (I know, I haven’t churned out the blogposts! Please search for my photo albums on facebook) This year we decided to [...]

I am currently down with flu. I started coughing on Thursday afternoon. I thought it’s just a normal coughing, but due to the recent paranoia over H1N1 coming to Singapore shores, I decided to check at the school doctor. I didn’t go travel anywhere over the few weeks so he dismissed the possibility of H1N1. [...]

I know it’s been so long! Nevertheless here’s my entry! 24th of May, the last day of our competition It was the folk music category.. Songs that we sang: Sohran Bushi (Japanese) Xiao Huang Li Niao/小黄鹂鸟 (Mongolian folk song, sung in Mandarin) Mamayog Akun (Philippines) Dayung Sampan (Singapore, with melody adapted from a Chinese song) Now [...]

  This term, Tuesday is my longest day ever. I had one Monday about 2 terms ago that was also so long because I had 3 concurrent courses at one day. This term’s Tuesday doesn’t have 3 concurrent courses, but equally, if not more, tiring.   So I have a morning class at 8.30 AM. [...]

  And so NaBloPoMo starts. Here I am with the first post for this month!   It was, like usual, a busy day. I’m always busy on Saturday. Choir at morning (which I attended late because of my stupid morning stomachache that made me go to the toilet back and forth). Sang 2 tango songs. [...]