Sunday, March 20, 2005

Hacken and Alan in SG - 16th March 2005 (Updated)

Oh yeah!!! I saw Hacken again on Wednesday at Indoor Stadium! It wasn't a 7-year wait after all. The seats were 90% filled!!




With all the 4 sides filled and the top seats all opened for purchase!

It was a fantastic concert! The audience were more energetic this time compared to the concert in November 2003. The costumes were not all repeated from the HK one. Even the songs were not similar, with a Mandarin songs medley at the start, for eg. Huang Pin Yuan's Xiao Wei and Na Ying's Zhen Fu despite our protests. Haha! Hacken also sang one of his hit song in the lastest album - Kong Zhong Fei Ren. Alan sang two of his new Mandarin songs. They had Mandarin conversations for a while, and I thought that their Mandarin had improved!!

The fan club actually had a gathering with Hacken on 15th March evening at Goodwood Park Hotel. All of them took personal photos with Hacken. And they told me Hacken was very friendly that evening and answered all the questions they asked him. I'm so envious!!! I couldn't go because I had SE practise that night and had quartet practise for the Lunchtime performance on 16th March afternoon. (The performance was quite ok, except for some out-of-tune parts from me.) I was really stressed out that day, because I only got the scores for the quartet piece on the day of practise itself. Furthermore, I got back my FYP thesis and had to make some changes. My supervisor said I could only get a C with the thesis now. He said I should do a bit more to push to a B. As a result, I was so stressed out that I didn't have appetite to eat.

Hence, my mood before the concert was not very excited. The feeling was very different compared to the Nov 2003 time. That time was full of anticipation. I took a cab down to Indoor Stadium after lab. I brought camera there, but they checked my bag and told me to put into the locker. The always obedient me, listened to them. After which, the fan club members told me they also kena but they ignored the security and went in. Sigh. Next time I will know what to do! Haha! Regardless of this, I also brought along my mp3 player to record the whole concert. But the quality came out to be very bad because the music was too loud and too bassy. Hence, sighs.

The fan club prepared a lot of gifts for Hacken. Most of which were given to him backstaged. I only shared in a small part of it. We wore Hacken's tee-shirt which we printed ourselves, together with Hacken's fan club white windbreaker. They even did sign-boards, bought light-sticks and whistles.

This time, I didn't observed what Hacken wore. I really observed fully for the Nov 03 concert. However, the concert this time was "new" to me because I couldn't expect what is next, unlike the Nov 03 one, where it was similar to the HK one. Hence, after 2 hours, after thanking the sponsers, Alan and Hacken bowed and went off-stage. I was feeling really disappointed because I really thought everything was over - with only a few songs and no special items. Some of the audience were already getting up from their seats and leaving. However, the rest shouted "Encore" and shrilled the whistles away. Then I realised it wasn't over yet!! Together with them, I blew my whistle and stomped our feets. After about 5 minutes, they came back with the drums item. Haha!! It was another 1 hour of good songs and dances!

Towards the end, Alan and Hacken came down to shake hands...




And I could only manage this poor picture of Alan... didn't even manage to touch their hands. Worse, can't even manage to take a picture of Hacken!

One of the fan club members snail-mail me the photos in a cd. She even remembered to burn the Hacken and Joey's live concert audio cd! She's so nice!

This is the picture we took after the concert:




I shall look forward towards his new Mandarin album. Hopefully, he will come to Singapore to promote it. Way to go, Hacken!!

Oh ya... took this picture when I was in Bugis last Monday with my mum. This poster is stucked behind the bus-stop "stall".





Hehe...

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Found the Passion

The interview went on fine!!! This poster at the MOE headquarters gave me inspiration!!



I was sitting on the sofa, thinking of what to say... and taa daa!! I saw this poster on the wall... and it reminded me I could talk about serving my secondary school after I graduated!! Those Leadership Training Camps I had been organising!!!

Haha... The interview was really fine... The questions were like: Why did you choose teaching over an engineering career? What makes you go for an engineering degree? Why not the Faculty of Science in NUS? What major problems do you foresee you will face? How would you teach these kids?

I was so glad after I walked out of Room 23. I only went in for a brief 5 minutes compared to 15 minutes to the one before me. I told them I was surprised I was given Chemistry as a teaching subject... and they changed it to Physics. I said I preferred Mathematics, but they said they have enough supply of Maths teachers.

Well... hope good news will come.... Right now... back to FYP!!

Finding a Passion to Teach

Less than 10 hours before my interview. I am here thinking of some reasons to answer this question: Why do you have the passion to teach?

*cracks my poor head* Oh by the way, my advanced biomaterial lecturer said that brains cells are not replaceable. So... watch out!

1. Teaching has always been my childhood ambition. My aunt is a teacher, and has been one for almost 30 years. She is my insipiration since young because she always has her way around things. She is patient and I always have been looking up to her. Hence, I want to be like her.

2. I have been actively involved in student activities ever since I was in primary school and till today. I never thought CCAs were a waste of time. In fact, they have served as enrichment courses for me. I would not want to loose touch with student activities. Being a school teacher does not mean only teaching, but also means learning from the student too. Hence, I want to teach.

3. I have gone through the hard way of learning. I wish to be able to do my part for the next generation. Furthermore I enjoy interacting with kids and believe in educating the next generation. Hence, I want to teach.

So fake right? Sigh.

4. From Linus: if I'm here today, definitely I have the passion to teach and the best is that I love teaching and I enjoy interacting with kids.

5. From his gf:
(i) passion to teach because I CAN BE HOD AND SHAKE LEG IN FUTURE
(ii) because I forsee myself in your position next time interviewing

HAHAHA!!

Whatever it is, I hope I will have a straight tongue... not be tongue-tied! Hopefully, will think of a better answer.

Oh ya... need to take out my multiple ear-studs!!