birthday month 2024

After Daniil Trifonov's concert in 2020 and Seong-Jin Cho's piano recital last year, my children and I went to Evgeny Kissin's recital this month.

My mom arrived the night before my birthday and stayed with us for three days. I took the opportunity to give her more meat for protein. It's a blessing to have her spend my birthday with me after I get married!

choir competition

Each choir sings one of compulsory elective songs plus an own choice piece.

Nov. 13, 2012

The school choir took part in the yearly music competition this morning and finally got a good result again! It's especially gratifying to be acknowledged for our efforts.

Nov. 14, 2013
The judges gave pleasant ratings this year. We continued to get a good result.

Nov. 10, 2014

On my birthday this year we took part in the music competition and continued to achieve a good result again! Our compulsory elective song was Jubilate! Sing Out A New Song, and followed that with 魯冰花 as our choosing. It's our first time to sing a foreign language song!
below are videos shot Oct. 8 morning (1 month before the competition)

魯冰花

 魯冰花

 魯冰花

 Jubilate

Nov. 10, 2015

We have two student teachers, who majored in Chinese music, this term. Both are 13 years younger than I.

What a coincidence! On my birthday, the same date as last year, we took part in the choir competition and sang two Taiwanese songs: 問田蠳 and Stars in the Sky (天頂的星). We performed in front of the school on the 5th morning before this competition. Good experience for the children.

Nov. 15, 2016
We're the number 10th among 17 schools. It's our best result for the past 13 years! We sang She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain and 小小的果實.

Nov. 13, 2017

We sang The Happy Wanderer and 本事.

Nov. 20-21, 2018

We sang a Mandarin song I Miss You, Mama (我想念妳媽媽) and a Taiwanese song 鯽仔魚娶某 on Nov. 20. Felix's one of the singers this year! A student teacher and a Malaysian intern went with us. We took part in the yearly folk song competition for the first time and sang two Taiwanese songs 鯽仔魚娶某 and Stars in the Sky (天頂的星) the next morning.

Nov. 18, 2019

We sang Autumn Vesper and 小小的果實.

Nov. 24, 2020

We have two student teachers this term. One majored in Chinese music, and the other majored in vocal performance and conducted the school choir on New Taipei City Music Competition this year. We sang 牧童之歌 and 聽泉 (Listening to the Spring Water).

Nov. 22, 2021

We sang 芒草香 (Silvergrass) and Australian ballad Waltzing Matilda (快樂的流浪漢).

autumn 2024

 I attended my children's parent-teacher meetings on two Saturdays in September.