Show me the money!
My book! One of my (secret) dreams after I started teaching and lecturing 12 years ago has been to publish something. I’m not quite sure where that came from, but it was sort of at the back of my mind.
No chi-na food for our household…
I’m sincerely serious about this. I was at NTUC (Hougang Mall) to buy fruits today and deliberately steered clear of China Fuji apples and China yellow pears. I bought Ipoh’s Tambun pomelo (this is sweeter than the Thailand varieties), Australia’s navel oranges
Switching sides
Yang has acquired some of my preferences for food after we have been married for about 22 months. *victory sign* :P That means we have more things in common and can enjoy the same things together. When we started going
On the 25th of September my true love gave to me…
One dozen roses One digital photo frame One Starbucks coffee mug One digital compact camera One coffee table photo album with 4 years of photos taken together My darling’s so sweet and thoughtful.:) Each present was carefully selected with me
Birthday post
Ling can sure say the funnest things. In view of the latest food scandal, she came into the workroom last night looking very resolute (I was browsing music compositions on eMusic): “Darling, I’ve made a resolution. I’m going to completely
(Un)lucky numbers
Here’s one of the most thought-provoking, if unintentionally hilarious to some readers, letter to the forum page in the last few days: Sep 20, 2008 Baby’s birth cert reverses parental joy THE arrival of my newborn daughter was a source
Sinfonia Concertante
Mozart wrote concertos for a large number of instruments: like his 4 concertos for Horn, 27 concertos for piano, 2 for flute, 1 for clarinet, oboe, bassoon each, 5 for violin etc. In his list of compositions too, there are
A Little Wedding Music Part II
Here’s the funny thing. I’ve been keeping an ear out for wedding music for as long as I’ve been listening to classical music, so the feat of selecting the right music wasn’t all that difficult. By the time we’d fixed
A Little Wedding Music Part I
It’s funny that it’s taken nearly 2 years for me to finally get round to writing an entry about the music I chose for our wedding in 2006. Perhaps it’s that of late I’ve felt the urgent desire to write
Marriage, Mozart and da Ponte Part II
One of the strange things I’ve never quite understood is our love for musicals. Yep I’m referring to the popular and widely-performed musicals by current composers like Claude-Michel Schönberg and Andrew Lloyd Webber, of which Les Misérables and The Phantom
Marriage, Mozart and da Ponte Part I
Here’s another multi-entry post about Le Nozze di Figaro, or The Marriage of Figaro. Yep, that favorite opera of mine for years now.:) Now, how I got acquainted to this opera by Mozart is a bit of a story. In
A Classical Revival: Part II
In the old days in the mid to late 90s when we were still using portable CD players, I had a CD wallet alongside the player in my haversack. I was commuting from Yio Chu Kang station where home was
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