Music of my Heart

Saturday, November 07, 2009

It has been 10 thousand years since I last blogged!!!!!!! No Jiayu's not dead! I'm still alive yaw! =D Pictures in chronological order shall do the talking ok! =D

Daddy's 49th Birthday! Jumbo@ Safra

Lim was invited too! Yay!

I think this picture looks super duper nice! If I have an instrument case I'd definitely paste it inside! Ok I do have a violin case but it's been untouched since my schedule got so packed. =(

Daddy is not unhappy I promise!! The camera person took too fast before he could smile! I can prove it in another picture later!

Everybodeh!

And since I dunno when, jiayu did not have to peel her own crabs and prawns anymore. =p
Ok actually daddy does it for me too. Just that there's one more person to do it now. Haha!

And then...

Jiayu got her iPhone! And this is the first picture that i took in the car! Ok I know, a bit pointless. LOL!

RaRa OpeRa by NAFA@ Esplanade!

5 Grisettes without Evelyn in our Choir attire...

Only Stella came to watch me... Emo or not?! Haha! But thanks again girl!! That bouquet was from her too! =D

Cool or not?! =D

Stella's gift! =)

Opera scenes preparations + Open rehearsal + Actual performance

Preparations...

2 trumpeters and 1 flautist waiting for their turn to play...

First and Second ladies without make-up and hair.

Papagena without make-up and hair.

Evil First lady with Alice the violinist.

Armida (eh?! was Evelyn singing Armida ah?!) and First lady.

First lady and Papageno.

They took a picture of me and said I look like Maria Callas at this angle.

Got meh?!

Papageno's pan-flute that Yolanda made!

Pamina and Papagena!

Okay now Meng Jia and I! =D

Quintet, Wie, Wie, Wie!

Pa... Pa... Pa...

Mozart's Curtain Call!

Grisettes!

Love Unspoken.

Last pose!

After much (more than just much) persuasion, my whole family really came down! =D
Lim was entertaining them after the thing while I was rushing everywhere. =)
And see! This proves that Daddy is not unhappy with Lim! HAHAHA! =p

Mel and Ying came down to show their support too!!! =D

Stella came down AGAIN! Thanks soooo much for your support! And the chocolate puff thing! =D

And I think Lim is super duper sweet. He was performing too but still bought me this! =D =D =D And he lied that it was from his mother cos she came down too. And being the very gullible me, I believed him. -.-

Jiayu the flautist attempting to play Happy Birthday for the real flautist. LOL!

Lim's 20th Birthday! 031109

I know they're quite ugly but it was my first time baking muffins ok.... It says: Happy Birthday Flute!!
If you count, that makes up 20 muffins! Cos he's 20 this year! =D
The verdict (from everyone in his family): Very nice! This one domestic. HAHA! =p

The ice-cream man whom I should learn making ice-cream and not water-cream from. heh...

Silas the meow meow is the one and only meow meow in the whole wide world that jiayu accepts and dares to touch. He must be thankful! =p

There was Gamelan platform somewhere in the middle of the busy month of October as well. Clare the violinist had some compliments that made my day! (Absolutely nothing to do with my gamelan playing. heh!)

I love Isabelle my student and her younger sister Clarissa!!! Isabelle's the one in pink! Absolutely adorable!!! =D

Finally!
Us in the different occasions this month!

Choir + Orchestra concert in school.
Aha Tweety bird! =p

At Esplanade.

Backstage before Opera scenes.

Intermission between Mozart and Lehar!

I AM FINALLY DONE! For more pictures on Opera Scenes, go to my fb page!
Goodnight everybodehhhh!
I'm missing a lot of my dunman friends yaw! So sorry we're not meeting up cos I've been and still am very busyyyy! Sooooon! Please! =D

i sang at 10:24 PM

Sunday, September 27, 2009

shall update again! this time with random pictures! =)

Shaune was very sweet - he bought these 4 figurines for the 4 of us from Japan! one season each! aww! =)

now that i have my new specs, it's easy to look stulut. heehee! that man behind is a spoiler. =p

just look at Yolanger!!! see i told you i will blog this picture. HAHAHA! guess what was she doing!? this was an all-natural pose ok! =p

i have a collection of flowers in my balcony now. that means i actually have quite a handful of performances recently lah hor? but thank you ling! =D

i think i am very nice too. =p

okay! those pictures are rreeeeeaaaallly random! =p we've got pics from my belated celebration. but nobody's sent me anything. Inez's very busy with school i presume, and woman hasn't sent me pics either. SEND IT TO ME AFTER YOU READ THIS! =)

visited Iffah's house for raya with Zer and Riffin yst. i'm falling in love with home-cooked malay food! it's damn good! woman's relatives and mum and Iffah's mummy can cook superrrr well!!! =D this is my first time tasting rendang cos i've finally started taking beef after accepting Christ and it's imba delicious! =D Zer had to be served by me most of the time. can you believe it? i'm serving her?! HAHAA! =p but well. she was sweet and started singing this:

"Shi shang zhi you MENTOR hao, you mentor de MENTEE xiang ge bao.."

you know?! the mummy is the best mandarin song?! she changed to lyrics to suit it for her mentor. awwww! =D

and this is extracted from her blog:

'Anyway was really happy to go visiting and got to eat so much awesome food in which jiayu had to serve me cause i was clueless to how to eat the malay food.
First time so many home-cooked malay food in front of me, a bit stun ar. hahaha..
HI JIAYU U KNOW I LOVE YOU :D'

aww! haha! =) it was very nice that Iffah remembers and invited me to her house too! it'll be awesome singing together again cos she'll be in the alumni thing too! =)

next, weekends always past damn fast. =( i've been enjoying my weekends a lot, being a happy girl, and before i know it, it's monday again, with History lessons to start with at 9.30am, chorus for 2hours, MOVEMENT CLASS for 2 hours and SSC ending at 10.15pm, with PS the next morning. KILL ME! =( of cos, the only thing i enjoy on my mondays are the SSC pracs. heh.

Services at church these few sundays have been very meaningful too. =) young children made me tear today. =) and they make me smile everyday! haiz. i have strong maternal instinct. and i'm only 19?! oh no...

ok that's about it lah. there's winnie the pooh for me to write down things nowadays. =p blogger shall be to briefly update the world around me.

goodnight world! God bless this week because i'll be super busy! =(

i sang at 10:08 PM

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

it's been a super super long time since i blogged!!!

many things have happened...

- blissifying things.

- Mahler 2nd Symphony with SSO!!!

- meet up with woman at Bedok 85 with lim there as well.

- meet up with Inez at the Kopitiam near both our schools.

- meet up with Angie at White Sands Mac.

- Lim's gig at Ion Orchard.

- YING things (she asked me to put one! she's right beside me!).

- MEL things (she's beside me too and i think she's jealous although she said she never ask me to put).

- YOL things (she's not beside me but i think she'll be jealous too! =p)

- meet up with Andre, woman and Inez in like 98759246 years! shing chun wasn't part of any plan at all. rather sad. heh...

- me falling sick.

ok i really don't remember what are the other things that happened!!!!!!

but it has been a very very happy and enjoyable few months! it was great meeting up with my dearest dearest friends listening to one another's stories too! and of course, God is still part of my life. He answered my prayers once again, taking my fever away, making me healthy enough to come to school. Praise Him!

okay i gotta go be a page turner now! goodnight world! promise pics will come up soon! =D

i sang at 8:43 PM

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Sometimes, people just gotta learn how to take some initiatives, or at least learn how to be appreciative. If not, at the very least, don't be a wet blanket, burying all the efforts, no matter how big or small it may be.

Scheduling would be helpful too.

hols have flew by. school sucks, it really does. hols have been sweetly spent though, thanks. =)

bye!

i sang at 8:57 PM

Friday, September 04, 2009

I CAN FINALLY UPLOAD PICTURES TO BLOGGER!!! there's lots to update so here goes!

the 4 of us decided to wear our music tees again on i-have-no-idea-which-day-it-was-cos-so-much-has-happened-and-i-can-only-upload-my-photos-today

this was year 1.

year 2...

year 3! see how our eye bags and dark eye rings have increased?? but i look healthier than year 2 lah that's a good thing. =)

and this is the 3 of us taken with korkor's comp.

i was domestic for a few days in August. heheh! =p

i think my little brother is so cute! cos i've been coming home rather late for more than a month alr and we don't get the chance to see each other so we leave notes on each other's table if there's smth to say!

Vocal Platform - 19 Aug.

i love my best friend who tries her best to support almost all my performances! =)

see how these friends ostracise me. huh... =(

ok no, they love me. i love them too... =)

Brahms Libesliederwalzer people with Meng Jia! =)

and jiayu woke up at 6am that day to make this!

i drew this in history class! our group had to visualise what the reading described the concert hall to be like and i drew! haha!

this was part of dinner with The Family (not mine) and this was a historical moment. cannot make out what it is right?! =p

27 August Exchange Programme

Brahms Libesliederwalzer No. 6.

Musim Buah-buahan! =D

yolanger and i. =)

lim!

Meng Jia, yolanger and i. =D

jordan loves mj. HAHA!

Year 3 vocalists! =D

Mvmt class laoshi. whom we get our orh cehs from! but he looks nice here lah. ok he IS nice, except when he's teaching.

Hutch walked all the way to Arab Street just cos he was COMMANDED to go buy yol and mj's kerongsangs.

drama-mama Gab.

Guo Yang looks like the Chinese Muslim people!

Jordan loves making funny faces, we realised. HAHA! and my bird flying action was cos the Brahms No. 6 that we sang had a lot of Tenor solos and it was about a little bird.

nono, we absolutely did not bully HauTzeng ok!

Mammoth!!

With Evelyn and Kaixin and Kaixin's bf at the back.

with Gab, my 3 years-duet-partner.

Mammoths! =p

with our pianists Christine and Wendelin!

Flower! =D (as of now, my posting day, 4 Sept. 09, i have 5 flowers hanging in my balcony.)

BANANA! =D chill, jiayu's not retarded ok. banana is got meaning one.

and finally, my violin! =D

okay! done! finally! the laptop at home has been very irritating that's why i'm only posting now! IN SCHOOL! =/ (this post was drafted on 30/9/09 -.-!) i've got lots more new pics so let's hope i can post when i get home.

school's been very very busy. i rarely get to see my family. =( shall spend a good day with them tmr. =D the break next week is really appropriate cos we really need a breather from this irritating place. jiayu has been doing well, firstly thank God and secondly thanks to her pillar. =D

ok done! my 4 dear friends, we should really meet up soon alright?

bye!

i sang at 5:35 PM

Friday, August 14, 2009

blogger's being so irritating i cannot upload pictures again! =/

anyway, just felt like saying these today:
sometimes, life is just so unfair. some people don't work hard at all and they get everything. some people slog their lives off and don't get anything in return.

BUT

jiayu still thinks God and life is fair. people can be materialistically satisfied but i don't think their souls will ever be satisfied. with love, with joy, with peace, with domestic-sity (if you get what i mean. LOL!)

some may:
never have a wardrobe(s) full of clothes, a condo or 3-level private mansion filled with furnitures and antiques
never dine at a French, Italian or German high-class restaurant and kopitiams are never anywhere near the top few choices for where to have a meal
never own an LV bag/wallet or Ralph Lauren shirt (or anything along this line)
never own his/her own car/house
never own the latest (or even just workable) electronic gadget
buy new clothes only once in 3 months
etc.

BUT

they experience true love and care and have a sensitive heart filled with compassion, WHICH may even be mocked at by the first group of people. but well, the mind and soul is filled with satisfaction. in return, they get true and the most genuine and sincere care, love and acceptance... =)

those whose life is guided and filled with God experience even greater joy and peace they can never find anywhere. =)

jiayu has learnt a lot in recent years. especially this year. i learnt not to be a 'materialistic bitch' (quoting chun). i've been touched - by God, by sincerity, by patience, by genuine care. and because of all these, acceptance come easier. =)

of cos these applies only to certain things/people. there's still things that piss me off. esp when opinions aren't accepted, even more esp when the advices given are mostly crap. =/ ok that's enough vulnerability.

so. yes. it's gonna be an abrupt ending so...
goodnight! =)

i sang at 11:41 PM

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

it's been quite long since i last blogged and here i am today!

have been going home rather late nowadays. it's a bad thing! i (we) shall try to stop it! haha!

so. i've been super busy. with things. and with singing too. i've been singing for 4-5 hours straight since yst. cos of ensemble class for our upcoming platform. but. i'm either singing 2nd voice or subbing as a mezzo-soprano. =( nvm. my turn will come. =)

anyway, do come watch our platform next week. =) i'm doing some of the Brahm's Lieberliederwalzer, Mozart's Ah Perdona and Mendelssohn's i-forgot-what.

and today has been a super domestic day. not only at 7am. it started again from 7pm to 9.30pm too. i'm quite glad i have this skill lah. thank God for that. =)

jiayu's also hoping that these 2 to 4 days will fly by very quickly. =( =( it's probably the first time since year 1 leh! and. jiayu's been happy recently cos whatever she imagined or visualised to happen last time have been happening! LOL! domestic and family-ful! both sides! =) it's good telling mummy and having everybody know lah. =)

i know i'm talking weirdly. no choice. heh.

oh and. 'If Only' and 'The Notebook' are damn good movies! go and watch!!! it's erm... educational. HAHA! makes people realise certain things and learn how to treasure lah. =) it's nice NOT to watch alone too. =p

"She asks him if he thinks their love can make miracles, and he says that miracles are what bring her back to him every time. She then asks him if he thinks their love can take them away together, and he replies, "I think our love can do anything we want it to." Noah's last words before falling asleep are "I'll be seeing you". The next morning, a nurse finds them in bed together, having both died in their sleep, holding each other's hands..."

cool or not?!!? wapiang is emotional! but! too blissful to cry! haha!

i'm still talking weirdly. doesn't matter.

oh and! the 4 of us wore our music shirts again today! shall upload pics soon.
i shall attempt to finish my counterpoint soon. i'm damn tired! and i hope i didn't get the germs!

p.s. faster get well!!!!!!!! =(
goodnight!

i sang at 10:51 PM

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