Food for the soul

Tonight we attended a concert presented by Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) at Singapore Turf club at Kranji. The hour long free performance for the community is very entertaining. The kids love the 'Nobody' a popular Korean pop song and 'The moon represents my heart', a very popular Chinese folk song.

Few thoughts went thru me while enjoying the performance. Firstly, the good effort by the conductor (Quek Ling Kiong) to get the audience involved in the performance. It's very interactive, fun and informal. He has successfully brought a 'high class' Orchestra to the mass community. Just like the ADT director always challenge us. To translate and simplify a complex and technical problem to a simple and common layman language for everyone understanding. Secondly, the role of the conductor within the Orchestra. Every instrument is unique and each artist is an expert on its own. Only thru careful coordination, the conductor can integrate every artist/instrument together to produce a good piece of music. As in every organization, the top man has the responsibility and challenge to integrated every department/section/module together to maximize the gain for the company. A poor leader will break it. Just like a Orchestra without a conductor. Individualism will kill a good piece of music. A organization without a clear direction and full alignment will cripple the growth and eventually the failure of a company. And lastly, all work without play make a dull Jack. I started to realize that my soul has been starved for years. Religion, art and cultural need is the food for the the heart and the mind. And a good balance is required to have a healthy and happy lifetime. And of course, we need constant exercise to maintain our physical health. Cheers OKY

Mid autumn festival

Today is the mid autumn festival. On this day, we'll have full moon which signify family reunion. As a tradition of Greentree, Cordelia has night class that started at 3.30 pm. Since Filomena is an old girl, she joined her sister for the evening class. This is a very special day where the kids looked forward to. As usual, the school prepared mooncake, pomelo, chrysanthemum tea and lantern. And the story of Chang E and the rabbit. And followed by the lantern parade around the neighborhood together with the parents. Our family has never missed a session since the kids joined this school 5 years ago. And how time flies, Filomena is already in primary 2 and soon Cordelia will start her primary 1 next year at Endeavor primary school. The kids grow fast. And being the parents, we want to be involved and be part of their grow up. We enjoy this process. We love and choose to go thru our life journey as a family. Cheers PaPa

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Winning formula

My wife called that she has won the $1000 cash from Class 95's Class Tee Contest presented by Lenovo. It’s Class 95’s 20th anniversary! In honour of that, Clss 95 is giving away $20,000 in 20 days!She was very excited and happy.

It started with Filomena picking up the lucky-draw ticket from the 'Movie in the park' at Fort Canning park which is organized by Class95. The lucky-draw box is big enough for our girls to peep thru. Filo picked up a green ticket while Delia picked up a pink card.

It's was passed 6pm and the park was almost packed. We managed to find a small corner and tucked in our hotdog sandwiches for our dinner. First movie was 'JI Joe' which started at 7.30pm. The movie was too violent for my kids to appreciate. Cordelia started to whine. She was tired as it already passed her 8pm bedtime. Mummy whom is enjoying the show so much, managed to coax her to stay on till the end of the movie.

It happened that we got a free Class95 T-shirt for the green ticket. Filomena was so excited. Each T-shirt came with a four digits serial number. Papa queued to pick up the T-shirt. We didn't think much about it after that, until my wife called that we won the $1000 cash. It's lucky that she managed to overhear the radio announcement of the lucky number (1880) when she step back into the house, after her morning coffee with her "Kakis". And was just 10mins to 11am before the time was up and she would have been disqualified. She was lucky. Filomena and Cordelia was very happy when mummy broke the good news.

Looking thru the sequences of events. It really took the combined effort of the entire family to win the $1000 cash. I guessed together as a family, we're lucky. Cheers papa