The Malaysian Youth Orchestra

Held at Sunway Pyramid Convention centre. Now I have two bones to pick with this place. One ( the more important one ) is the non-existent sound-proof walls for the rooms. IT's terribly unfair on the participants to slog for weeks for a recital only to have their music drowned by the piano playing from the next room. It messes your song up. The second is the nose-numbing air condition which I'm almost sure they bung up a notch or two midway thru the performance. This made the boy to my left sneeze continuously during intermission. H1N1 protocol dictates he cover up his sniffles. Sadly, he didn't and proceeded to shower many little droplets to the front, and I suspect to the sides as well.

The music was DIVINE tho. SO if in 6 days time I develop myalgia, and the sniffles, I guess it would have been almost worth the while. Tamiflu here I come!!

Picture taken with the CANON G10.

Musical Merdeka Weekend

This was a first for me, a music-filled Saturday....spent at the Malaysian Youth Music Festival. There were proud mamas and papas, I spied a few maids looking unimpressive and bored to tears. And there were stern looking teachers over-seeing their students...and there was me. I recommend this to anyone aspiring to be musical and inspired. Pushy parents beware...you may find yourself way out of your depth. Some of these child prodigies may just ace your own little prodigy leaving you disheartened. Play because you love music , not for the prize or medal. 9/10 for the Saturday. I'm taking one mark off cos they left us practically no time at all for lunch...as a result I had lunch at 8:14pm and am now a proud owner of a super-nagging one-sided migraine. Which has just threatened to up it's pace just a minute ago. BOOOhooohoo