Music on Fridays

Cant imagine a world without music. Every Friday seems to be a routine lately. We have been jamming for the scout's project. Kingsley called up to ask me and jocy to participate in it. Every session I seems to be exposed to a new type of genre. The last few times was oldies, rock and roll, and some latin stuff (bossa nova, beguine, cha cha, tango and etc.).



This time its old time scouting favourites ranging from evergreen songs, 1920s an 1930s songs, broadway feel songs, campfire songs and etc. Its a lil project for the scouts. Its cool that so many generation of scouts are working together in this thingie.

Above we have our chief commander, uncle Kwai Chung, followed by Kingsley and Justin (who retreated recently due to school stuff). Picture below is our lady guitarist, Miss jocy!

And then me on the keyboards :)

That's what' s up for these few Fridays, till then ..signing off!

I happen to glance above...

Sometimes when we are so drifted with the traffic and even life, things looks grey and gloomy and dusty. The soul feels weary and tired...

Somehow, if we happen to take a step behind and sit down on a quiet spot. And somehow, we happens to glance above or look beyond the horizons.....

We are not trapped after all.....

Life is as wide as the sky.......

It changes like the weather , from stormy, cloudy, sunny and so forth...

It's just the way things are :)

Hahaha, enough of Lilowism and I am just publishing what came across my mind when I happen to glance above when I took these picture :P

Cheers!

The Future Cook

Here's a story of our budding cook in our bloodline: Tadaaaaa! Presenting Ms. Wong Sy Yun or affectionately known as Yuar :)

Here's an image of her at work, cooking with love and patience (despite having taken some medication yesterday night). What she's frying on the hot plate is the Honey german sausage...

And oh no.........that's not all she can cook. Anyone can easilly fry two pieces of sausages. Below you will witness her work of art :

DISH 1: 'Chiabatta with Tuna and Bologna'

I think that's how you spell it. I've been hearing the word 'Sha-Bat-tah' the whole way since I arrive at her home. The tuna filling is well made and its sandwiched between cheese and slices of chicken bologna :)





Dish 2: Yuar's Caesar Salad


Its ingredient includes hard boiled eggs, black pepper bologna, lettuce, cruton and the dressing (Starbuck's style )





Dish 3: Little Squares

This is made from tiny jacob cheese crackers, with a tinge of creativity :) basically is tuna with crackers and cucumber.




Well, that was breakfast! A marvelous one :)


Signing off, Lilow reporting from Cheras..ahhahhahaha Will be back with more news on 'The Future Cook'

Feeling Sick

It's been a week. I am experiencing back ache, lethargic, flu-ish and currently the soar throat feels like it's about to kick in..This morning I woke up with a strange pain in the middle of my stomach.

Am I too exhausted? Or is it the bloody haze? or is it cause of my sinking bed? Ahhh...Sleepless week due to the mosquito attack every night. I tried the mosquito repellent one evening, then I woke up feeling sick and my sense of smell went numb. I realize my room is too small and the smell consumate the whole space. Basically, I'm choking silently in the room despite being free from mosquito attack.

Other than that, the piano seminar..hmmm , Response aint that great in the end.But it's finally over. My first ever event I ever run. I've got another one coming up for the school, its a psychology talk for Musikgarten. Still have to get more info on it. I shall not blog bout work. That';s for the week since I last blog.

TOday would be brilliant, goin to Neway with cousin and possibly Times Square later :) Too bad that I'm not feeling as great bodily but mentally i'm thrilled! Till then! TAdaaaaa!

Mooncake Festival 2006

Well well, Yes von, I realize i have gone worst than you...ahhaha. Updating blogs only a few months once. I have no idea how much impact technology has on us. I can proudly say, 'Without Internet, I'm Living in the Ice Age'. Not only Ice Age, 'Outdate' and etc. First of all, I would like to thank my music school for giving me some excitement in my life by allowing to go online to check my mail and blog occassionally when there is nothing to do. Since my comp died last week, I'm more devastated than ever, no more daily animes when I go home or any dvd viewing *Sobs*

Anyway, that's the topic of this post. This is about Mooncake Festival! It just passes 2 days ago. I celebrate it with my cousins on Friday the 6th, 2006. Great fun indeed, but a bit cold in this big city. We took a stroll around her housing area with lanterns. Imagine, 4 big girls aged 23-26 carrying lantern and shouting 'Happy Mid Autumn Festival' whenever we see a house with lil's kids lighting candles or houses with ppl eating mooncake outside. As expected, no response :P I wonder if Taiping Lake Garden is still as merry as I last remember. The whole lake area will be filled with families and resembles a morning market.

I havent got any pics from last Friday yet. HOwever, its Aidan's first mooncake festival. Besides that, its also a night where we big gals reminisce about how we used to play lantern last time. For instance, burning pandan leaves and anything we can see, next door neighbours and the gang we formed and etc...

The joke of the night is when we started to ask 'Why does mooncake symbolizes and the purpose of it?

Answer 1 (Tuar)= To throw into the river (Champion)
Answer 2 (Lilow)= Used as secret weapon (what i meant to say was as a way to pass secret messages during war, but i used a wrong word to describe it)-(1st Runner Up)

We started laughing so hard about it. LOL.Well, I guess the newer generation these days do not even understand the purpose of the festival. Other than the super commercialize mooncake being sold in the malls. Its amazing to see how much have mooncake evolved. Traditionally, it has red bean filling, lotus bean filling, the nut one. Today, we have durian flavour, coffee flavor, tiramisu, Ice cream ones and jelly ones as well. Whoahhhhhh! Power!My all time fav is the traditional snow skin (Ping Pei in canto) mooncake with bean paste.

As for the legend of mooncake festival, just click on the link below, am too lazy to tell the grandma story :P

http://www.familyculture.com/holidays/augustmoonfest.htm

Hmm that's bout it for now! Signing off! :)