Friday, July 20, 2007

Fitness X-plosion

Yesterday quite fun in ITE Mac

I got to play all 3 events. First was sit-up, second was shatter run and last was long jump.

We get to challenge with other campuses like Ite Mac, Bishan etc..
Each team must find 6 of our campus friends to take part in every events. We had roughly 9 to 10 over gals. So each event we'll get to rotate to take turns to participate if she wants to play for that event or not.

We were shock when our first events was sit-up and it was not the normal sit-up we do. We need to grab a wooden bench on our hands and put it near our chest and do our sit-up. For girls and guys the position of holding the bench are different. Can see from the pic.





We thought it would be hard and heavy to lift up ourselves and the bench together. We still need to push ourselves up at the same timing too. We kinda tremble at one corner when we wait for our turn.
Haha! our turn, before we get started we gave encouragement to build their confidence to our team members that we can do it and push all our energy to lift ourselves up. We had Rabelle, JieXi, Daphene, or Amy , Cherylyn, Me and Ayu.
Cherylyn onwards, we are quite small in size but we had lots of strength and quite good in sports. Starting we had two times of trial test see whether the postion and everything was ok. So we did our first sit-up and HEY! quite easy and light. Maybe 6 people lifting up together so we don't feel its heavy.

Second even was shatter-run. We dint made it because my friend Xiuru fell down when was her turn to run. Ouch!>_<"

Last event long jump. We need to jump from the starting point to the end. See how many jumps you made to complete. In order to win, you need to get the least jumps in total. We got the first in long jump total was 46 jumps we made. Other campuses teams got 49.

We dint get any prices because the teachers accumulate the marks that we had and the total scores were not enough to win other campuses scores. But we did had a wonderful time and had better relationships with one another. We had the team spirit to work together as one.

Nobody were disappointed because we only participate for the benefit of NO NEED TO JOIN SPORTS AND WELLNESS FOR 3 WEEKS plus NO NEED TO ATTEND THURSDAY LESSON FOR 4 HOURS OF 3D MAX CLASS. YAY! hahaha...

But my body is aching pain now. We dint warm up before the event. :)

Monday, July 16, 2007

My Uncle's Concert

Yep today I went to watch My Tan Shu's Concert at Shanton Way Conference Hall.

He always impress me with his hilarious jokes. After he got married, he moved to Taiwan to stay with his wife and now he has a maybe 8 to 9 years old boy. My Tan Shu's name called Guo Jin Cai and he was born in 1966 in Singapore and plays the Saxophone, Suona, Guanzi and Oboe.
As a child, he learned percussion instruments in Chinese folk opera from his father and under the influence of his grandfather and father, developed a keen interest in the suona. In his high school years, he began to gain extensive exposure to Chinese folk music.
In 1982, He started learning the suona under Mr.Yang Xiuwei and the Oboe under Mr.Joost Flatch and subsequently obtained ABRSM Grade 8 in oboe performing. He joined Kaohsiung City Chinese Orchestra (KCCO) in 1989, and is currently the wind sectional leader. He is highly experienced in performing, possesses beautiful tonal control, as well as fine technique and interpretation.

Personal History

1983~1989. Actively performed in Singapore. Also performed in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Brunei.

1989: Invited by KCCO as guest soloist in a special concert and joined KCCO in the same year.

1990: Performed as guest soloist with Taipei City Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra.

1991: Toured USA and Canada with KCCO

1992: Held a solo concert in Singapore Conference Hall on invatation from NTUC Chinese Orchestra.

1993: Held a combined suona, erhu and yangqin concert in Singapore.

1993: Performed in Poland, Belarus, Moscow, Latvia and Czech Republic with KCCO.

1994: Staged a suona and dizi combined recital on invitation from NTUC Chinese Orchestra.

1996: Travelled to Beijing to study the Hebei style guanzi performing under renowed guanzi perfomer Mr. Li Guoying.

1997: Performed in Hong Kong and Beijing with KCCO.

1997: Recorded a solo disc with KCCO titles "Hua Mu Lan" under Hugo.

1997: Invited by Taipei City Chinese Orchestra to Perform at the Taipei Presidential Building Concert.

1998: Staged a solo concert at Kaohsiung Chung Cheng Hall.

1999: Toured various cities in China with KCCO.

1999: Recorded a disc featuring Hakka folk songs with Jiao Gong Ensemble which was nominated for four awards at the Golden songs Awards.

1999: Began to study saxophone performing techniques and staged a suona, saxophone and erhu combined concert at Kaohsiung Chung Cheng Hall.

2000: Participated in the first Taipei World Music Festival with the Jiao Gong Ensemble. The earlier recorded Hakka folk songs CD was won the award in the "Non-Pop" category.

2001: Participated in the World Music Festival held in Belgium with Jiao Gong Ensemble and also toured France and Czech Republic.

2001: Composed the suona and guanzi concert "Ethnic Sights of Minong" based on Hakka folk tunes. The work was pemiered by KCCO in Kaohsiung.

2001: Performed in various cities in China with KCCO. "Ethnic Sight of Minong" received critical acclaim in Heilongjiang.

2001: Collaborated with Jiao Gong Ensemble in "Taipei International Song Festival" and a music festival held in Macau.

2002: Recorded a second disc with Jiao Gong Ensemble which received the "Best Pop Ensemble" award at the 13th Golden Song Awards.

2002: Staged a second saxophone and erhu recital in Kaohsiung.

2002: Performed in Switzerland and Italy with KCCO.

2002: Invitd by Hakka Association to perform with Jiao Gong Ensemble in "taiwan Cultural Festival" in Canada.

2003: Invited to perform in Esplanade with Jiao Gong Ensemble in the "Chinese Festival Arts."

From 2003 to now 2007 still have records that never state in the booklet.

Yup! somebody invited him down to Singapore to have the concert at Singapore Conference Hall. He stayed in Taiwan right now with his family. So he invited us as we still need to buy his tickets for $10 each. If i'm not wrong he went to my house just to visit us last week. So my mum fetch him from Seng Kang Mrt to my house. Although I don't get to see him so often, but when he talks to me I still feel quite close when we have our conversation. My mum brought out old photos when there's him in it. It actaully brought back alot of memorise when My uncle and my mum sees the photo together. I use to see his concert when I was a kid. I remembered when I was a kid around 5-7 years old, during his concert I slept at my mum's shoulder. Ahaha! (some of my relatives knew about it and I think my uncle knew about it too.) Shy man >_<"

Quite happy to see him in Singapore again. During his concert, he played few Taiwanese folks songs and he played Kenny G's Dying Young and Titanic with Hsinghai Art Association Chinese Orchestra. He got super long breath. He can blow and walk around the stage without breathing for 1 to 2 minutes. I'm super impress by him that time during the concert. The audience and the Chinese Orchestra team too.




old pic of him. sorry I only took his side view and his son.


We did took family pic but we us my uncle's sister's boyfriend's camera. ;)