Do Re Mi...

over the weekend, we had our usual choir practice. some choir members expressed their preference to learn their tunes by solfege. the syllables actually helped them remember the tunes better. The thing with some of the hymns we sing is that it also has sharp and flat keys.
I know that in # notes, the trick is to make it 'ee' ..for eg, Do is Di and Re is Ri and Fa is Fi but what about flat keys ..we get the odd flat notes..

That prompted me to google 'solfege' and I found this helpful chart from the American Choral Director's Association.

I will be conveying this to the choir member in our next practice ;) EHHEHE.

birds of the tree

my workplace has several big tress. of late, i notice a few of them (same species) are bombarded by flocks of birds. they were extremely noisy in the morning and late in the evening.
and they have pooed so much that the poor trees are covered in white.

anyways, not only do they made a lot of noise, the poo they produce is extremely smelly.
they reminded me of.......Sibu in the evening when the birds are hovering above the skies and the white spots on the road.

sawadee - part 6

still on my travel log :P i am determined to finish blogging about it given that i was so slack with my US trip.
we were on day 4 of our bangkok trip. it was early in the morning and we went out to find our breakfast. was walking along Silom road and noticed most of the big building will have their own shrines at the front. (see pic above) i was very intrigued to see there is even miniature people and animal placed on the shrines.

the two pics of the road and sign is of coz shot by jake. being a traffic engineer, he observes all sort of things to do with traffic. he is adamant that that was a sign to let the public know of the condition of important roads in the area. Ie green means free flow, orange means slight congestion and red is probably a traffic jam. but for a non-traffic engineer, all i saw was the moving bilboard on the sign, the guy who 's doing a kungfu pose and pays absolutely no attention to the traffic sign on the same sign.

we found this market in one of the alleyway. it has stalls selling clothings, batteries bla...
but most of it is like a big canteen. we had a couple of things since the servings in thailand is very small and we justified that we can pig out on all the food":P i tried the wonton noodles, while jake tried the 'zak fan'. i especially liked how they cook long beans with the pork belly with lemon grass. hm...that's innovative cooking. i never considered flavouring long bean with lemon grass. then i spotted the pad thai guy. he cooks on a big flat 'pan' thingie. i ordered one pad thai and one hodthoi (the oyster pancake thingie) we 'ta pau-ed' the two items and continue exploring silom area.


back in the hotel, we showered and have our tap-pau-ed lunch since we need to check out and head to the airport. i had pad thai with prawns while jake had the hot thoi.


most of the pics here were taken by jake since you see that it's all to do with traffic gantry sign and so on. i was falling asleep in the cab . we reached the airport after about an hour in the cab. while i looked after our luggage, jake was everywhere, and he took heaps of pic of the airport.
i was particularly impressed with the landscaping of the airport. very majestic and had good use of colour. not only that it was meticulously kept..the two standing square things were air conditioning (3rd row, 2nd from left) i was particularly interested at the statutes which depict the story of buddha and some heavenly and demonic creatures. (last row ,1st pic from the left). then it was the pic of the King and his guests at his 80th birthday and where they are seated. i was particularly interested to see all the monarchs around the world.finally we reach our gate on the way to KL.
At about 8 30pm Thai time, we said goodbye to bangkok..

LOST and FOUND

couple of days back, i rang home and spoke with my mom.
and she broke the news to me...my fav undies that went missing has been FOUND!!!
i never packed it in my bag on my way back... :D