Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Here’s another series of posts about an interest of mine for two decades now. No, it’s not about photography (again :P), but about classical music. Just prior to our Bali trip I’d blogged about my discovering Classics Online. One thing
My apologies all round for the long lag time between part III and IV of our Bali notes.:( Strangely, dining in Bali had both its ups and downs. We sampled some excellent food, but in other places it was near
On our first day in Bali, we had hired a driver to fetch us from the airport to Tepi Sawah Villa, our pre-booked accommodation for our entire 6-day vacation in Bali. On our journey to Tepi Sawah, I kept seeing red
The natural sights in Bali was really what I was keen on visiting. There were several new filters I’d acquired in the months before the trip that I was eager to try them out on landscapes, and specifically the graduated
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