New hobby
Dear Blog,
I am so sorry that I have neglected you all this while, and have been spending a lot of time with Facebook:) Do you know that Facebook is such an interesting site. Not only that it allows me to update my everyday "happenings" and upload photos to share with my friends, I can also view my friends photos and play tons of games in Facebook:) I think, what is very appealing about Facebook is the trend that people don't write too many words there. So, adapting to the trend, I have become very lazy in writing.
My last entry here was in Sept'09, and so it has been 7 months I have not returned. By the way, Blog, I have changed my hobby again. I am not into drawing anymore, but I am sure one day I will pick that up again. I am now into windwood instrument:)
My interest in windwood instrument began 3 months ago. Together with Daniel, Daven and Chan, we travelled to Taiwan for a 6 days trip. On one of the days there, we went to a beautiful place called Jiufen. There are a lot of shops there selling things that I have not seen in Sg, and I was (not sure about the rest of them) overwhelmed by the joy of having discovered this place. And while walking from shop to shop, I suddenly hear a melodious tune being played on an instrument, and it came from one of the shops nearby. Out of curiousity, I went in together with Danile and company.
I later found out that the instrument that was played by the shop owner is called Tao Di (ocarina), and his shop is selling nothing, but Tao Di. So fancinated I was with this instrument, I spent quite a while of time in this place looking at the Tao Di and talking to the sales person to get more info on this instrument. And before we left the shop, I bought one tao di which costed about $15 Sg dollars. It is a 6-hole ocarina.
My interest in ocarina didn't bloom from there, but it was only after one week when I have returned to Sg. I was feeling rather bored at home and I suddenly remembered about the ocarina I have bought in Taiwan, and I took it out and played some notes. And the rest is like magic! I fell in love with it immediately!
About a month later, after searching everywhere in Sg for a better ocarina and couldn't find one, I finally made up my mind to order a better ocarina from overseas. That has actually costed me about S$200++ (including shipping fee)... Very heart pain, but when it arrived, the quality and the appearance of the ocarina dissipated all the pain over the cost. The name of this ocarina is Focalink Alto C double Chamber:)
I have been practicing with my double chamber for 2 months plus already, and though I am still not very good at it, I am better than when I first learnt it. Recently I have just received a bonus, and with a little extra cash in hand, I started thinking of buying myself a present (but it turned out that I bought myself more than one present...)
As of now, I have placed an order for 2 mountain ocarinas (with songbooks), one irish whistle (with songbooks too), and have asked my sis to buy 3 ocarinas from China. So altogether, I have spent close to S$500... Now, my heart really ached, I think I have overspent this time...sigh...
Anyway, all the items have not yet arrived. Hopefully they will be here soon...
Ok, Bloggy, that's all for now, will try and visit you more often:)
I am so sorry that I have neglected you all this while, and have been spending a lot of time with Facebook:) Do you know that Facebook is such an interesting site. Not only that it allows me to update my everyday "happenings" and upload photos to share with my friends, I can also view my friends photos and play tons of games in Facebook:) I think, what is very appealing about Facebook is the trend that people don't write too many words there. So, adapting to the trend, I have become very lazy in writing.
My last entry here was in Sept'09, and so it has been 7 months I have not returned. By the way, Blog, I have changed my hobby again. I am not into drawing anymore, but I am sure one day I will pick that up again. I am now into windwood instrument:)
My interest in windwood instrument began 3 months ago. Together with Daniel, Daven and Chan, we travelled to Taiwan for a 6 days trip. On one of the days there, we went to a beautiful place called Jiufen. There are a lot of shops there selling things that I have not seen in Sg, and I was (not sure about the rest of them) overwhelmed by the joy of having discovered this place. And while walking from shop to shop, I suddenly hear a melodious tune being played on an instrument, and it came from one of the shops nearby. Out of curiousity, I went in together with Danile and company.
I later found out that the instrument that was played by the shop owner is called Tao Di (ocarina), and his shop is selling nothing, but Tao Di. So fancinated I was with this instrument, I spent quite a while of time in this place looking at the Tao Di and talking to the sales person to get more info on this instrument. And before we left the shop, I bought one tao di which costed about $15 Sg dollars. It is a 6-hole ocarina.
My interest in ocarina didn't bloom from there, but it was only after one week when I have returned to Sg. I was feeling rather bored at home and I suddenly remembered about the ocarina I have bought in Taiwan, and I took it out and played some notes. And the rest is like magic! I fell in love with it immediately!
About a month later, after searching everywhere in Sg for a better ocarina and couldn't find one, I finally made up my mind to order a better ocarina from overseas. That has actually costed me about S$200++ (including shipping fee)... Very heart pain, but when it arrived, the quality and the appearance of the ocarina dissipated all the pain over the cost. The name of this ocarina is Focalink Alto C double Chamber:)
I have been practicing with my double chamber for 2 months plus already, and though I am still not very good at it, I am better than when I first learnt it. Recently I have just received a bonus, and with a little extra cash in hand, I started thinking of buying myself a present (but it turned out that I bought myself more than one present...)
As of now, I have placed an order for 2 mountain ocarinas (with songbooks), one irish whistle (with songbooks too), and have asked my sis to buy 3 ocarinas from China. So altogether, I have spent close to S$500... Now, my heart really ached, I think I have overspent this time...sigh...
Anyway, all the items have not yet arrived. Hopefully they will be here soon...
Ok, Bloggy, that's all for now, will try and visit you more often:)
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10:12 AM
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