I recently completed a new song for my church’s children’s choir in preparation for Good Friday. I believe this is the first song I have written this year. I haven’t been doing too much songwriting lately, only picking up the pen when the situation calls for it. I love the whole process of songwriting. It’s [...]
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Writing A New Song
Thursday, 23 February, 2012
“I Won’t Last A Day Without You” by The Carpenters
Tuesday, 21 February, 2012
Nice song. I learnt about this song when I was watching the play “Singapore” by The Necessary Stage. Great stuff. The verses are OK, but the chorus is killer. The Carpenters never disappoint.
Free Music
Sunday, 19 February, 2012
I think I sort of figured it out. The “problem” with music nowadays is that it is so freely available. (I say “problem” in inverted commas.) Any band that releases a new single would probably first put it on YouTube. You can listen to all of Coldplay’s new singles on YouTube. You can listen to [...]
RIP Whitney
Monday, 13 February, 2012
You always remember exactly what you were doing when you hear about the death of your favourite personalities. I remember when I first read about Michael Jackson’s death, and I will always remember how I heard about Whitney Houston’s death. Let’s just focus on her career for now. I consider her to be one of [...]
The “Big Two”
Monday, 16 January, 2012
This is completely random, and it might not even make sense to anyone, but in my opinion there are some bands with what I like to call the “big two”. This means that the band has two extremely big hits, usually in the same album, and I can never decide for myself which one is [...]
The 3 Degrees Of Handphone Sins
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Ah, handphone etiquette – one of my pet peeves! I’ve got a lot to say about this one. I stumbled upon this very interesting article today from the New York Times (here), about how an entire classical music concert was abruptly halted by the conductor of the New York Philharmonic because of an inconsiderate concert [...]
The Thing About Concerts
Monday, 9 January, 2012
I’ve finally decided to buy tickets to the Roxette concert. Woohoo! Well, actually my going to the concert was never in doubt. It’s just that I needed to lock down a friend who would go with me, and I finally managed to do that today. Roxette here I come! As far as I’m concerned, there [...]
Best Band Discovery of 2011
Monday, 26 December, 2011
I know I’m a bit slow, but my best band discovery for this year has definitely got to be The Script. I’ve been listening to their eponymous album, and I absolutely adore “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved” and “Breakeven”. I think they just might be the greatest band to come out of Dublin since [...]
Songwriting vs Film Scoring
Tuesday, 20 December, 2011
Recently in Life! there was an article about local film composer Ricky Ho, who had won a Golden Horse award for “Best Original Film Score” for the film “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale”. This was indeed a remarkable achievement, and the article basically chronicled his life and described how he got to where he [...]
About Adeline Chia And K-Pop
Saturday, 10 December, 2011
Whatever happened to civility these days? I guess the “Adeline Chia vs K-Pop nation” saga needs no further introduction. Basically she penned a column in Life! on 8th Dec slamming the artificiality of the whole K-Pop industry, and naturally incurred the wrath of K-Pop nation. Her one single status update on her Facebook page (“SHINee [...]
