Autumn Leaves

Found this under suggested play list in my youtube...

It's like there are so many jazz experts online, and even though they posted the playing with the full score playing...u still can't catch so MUCH info they have posted coz the music is going pretty fast (tho u can pause it), but to learn and properly digest the logic behind their improvisation, it really takes sometime....Sigh......im like when can i play like them everytime i watch them play...Learning is a lifetime.

Found it to be very intelligent playing, lots of ...Read more

random thang

Realised have not been  blogging lately. Guess will just tok about random things

Movies:

Caught Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince. The movie didnt really explain why Prof Snape was the Half Blood Prince...any readers of the book care to enlighten? And i dun understand why Hermione would fall for Ron, tot she would like Harry Potter since they're more similar...and also wonder why there are Gollum like creatures in the movie too...and the uncanny similarity in dressing of Prof Dumbledore and Gandalf in ...Read more

My 1st formal jazz lesson

Guy asked me to play some songs for him to hear me out. Played Over the rainbow, Autumn Leaves and One Note Samba . His words "Very good"; "You sound great"...

Then i was thinking, mm...i wanna hear him play obviously. So i asked him to play Giant Steps (highly difficult song to improvise due to its constant and fast chord changes), he played at a slower tempo than i expected, but when come to improv, he did not disappoint; saw him use a series of same patterns of impr...Read more

Finally taking formal jazz piano

Finally tomorrow, i'd try out formal jazz piano lessons at my own school.

I'm pretty excited as this means a lot to me, it's something i always wanted to learn properly. The thing is whether the teacher is good enough and suitable for me. From what i enquired, the admin staff portrayed him to be an advisor in jazz education in the school, and has masters and diploma in both classical and jazz piano. And from what she says, he seems pretty enthusiastic about jazz too, which is good.

It's pretty ...Read more

Piano tribute to MJ

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhdxJPILBbY It's been a long time since i recorded a song, hence did a very short piano rendition (coz uploading takes long) of Michael Jackson's You Are Not Alone . Camera video seems blur today dunno why...

Goldfish sashimi

During my tiring busy weekend, had a very distinct weird dream...

Dreamt tat a goldfish was sashimi-ed and the shell head was tugging at my skirt.  A bit traumatising duncha think? Especially after when u see salmon sashimi, u get reminded of that mild nitemare...

Any interpretations? i saw one...

Which Michael Jackson song are you?

Took this test since i was a bit bored and tired after a long day of work...

WHAT MICHAEL JACKSON SONG ARE YOU? woot

Sorry, this link is from Facebook, so...

http://apps.facebook.com/what-michael-eighhie/?target=result&h=9ba78af915b2bb6bdab43d017947de...Read more

Celibate or Celebrate

The New Monk

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone ma...Read more

Planning for Stariel's 1 year old birthday

Today's 7/7, which means, just 1 mth plus more, Stariel will be turning 1. How fast...

And it means i have to think and plan her birthday. We have already decided it will be held at the community club below my in laws' place at the karaoke/function room. It will be buffet dinner catering. The thing is, besides my family, i have to think which friends i should invite....to keep it a close intimate affair which is very appealing to me, but at the same time, i dun mind inviting more friends....well ...Read more

Secret & Cougars

Tell you a secret, im a cougar...

Heh, just twisting the topic words.

Recently we got Mio TV which is a package bundle of internet, phone and TV which has a series of movies to choose (videos on demand) from on top of additional channels like cable tv.

Started browsing movies and season shows...watched a very old movie by Jay Chou called Secret. It turned out fine, better than expected. Melancholy but a happy ending. Anyway here's my copying of one of the songs played in the piano duel, long time ago...