18th Dec Friday…
7:00am My dad, mum and brother were all so busy washing and splashing the floor, keep every corner nice and clean so that all the children could have a comfortable place to spend their whole day.
8:00am children started to come in. All were quite punctual and very shortly we started with grouping game. I’ve gave out a small slip of paper with a note with different Key-signature to each of them “Children! find your group friends in the same key as yours… 3 minutes GO~!”
After that they’ll had to think of their group name and cheer. Apple’s group was discussing very seriously and they came out with nice name and best cheer of all. ~Red Apple Angel~ using the pink panther opening.
What were they doing?
Let’s listen to your group cheers~!
We’d got Red Apple Angel, Silver Mango, Pyramid and Black Angel.
Maybe all the brain haven’t really wake up in this early morning so the cheers were a bit scattered and lifeless. Oh well we got better program after that, I’m sure they’ll be wide awake in no time.
Let’s move on with the first group class hour performance. The most beginner students will start first.
Ssshhhhhh~~ please respect the performers~!
It didn’t take long for 12 of them to finish their performance. I started to guide my fellow assistants to guard each station for the station game. We got a station which was passing a hula hoop without letting go their hands, passing water with a clothe from one pail to the other, picking up beans with chopstick from one side to the other and blind fold one of their group member to look for the marks on the wall. 10 minutes for each station and we added up each group’s mark after that.
All done and time to reveal the score~~~ Black Angel team got the highest score~
Singing time~
We were singing <Laughing Singing>. I was trying to do cannon in 2 group but their pitching were really bad, turn out to be so horrible, so we decide to just sing unison.
Then another 2 part song <Black Birds> which the boys sing the lower part and the girls higher. Boys got to do the easy job cause it’s in ostinato, but they got to count how many time they were the ostinatos with their fingers. haha~
Both songs were short and easy so it didn’t take long for them to get familiar with the verse and tune.
It’s 10:30am we started another group of class hour performance.
Some people were getting hungry at such early hour, but lunch was not ready yet, so my mum and the other “chef” assistant got ready some refreshment for them to fill their tummy temporary.
Cold orange lime juice and chiffon cakes.
Happy to have their tummy filled~
Red Apple Angel team got the best cheer, so Teacher Apple suggest that everyone do it together. Let’s move~
11:30am, while waiting for the lunch to come I decided to arrange them into choir position from the shortest to tallest. Just after we finished arranging everyone in position someone was saying “oo… taking group photo…” ahh.. I almost forgot about that. Yes we should take this chance to take a group photo.
say cheese… make funny faces… yay~!
Picture time over, now let’s rehearse the two song we’d sung just now. Turn out to be horrible as well cause all were shouting and screaming to sing… yyyeeeee~~~
stop stop stop….
Children~! just sing lightly… don’t shout~!
12noon lunch not here yet, so let’s play a game. First person will get the clue and act it without saying it out to the 2nd person, after my whistle the 2nd act it out to the 3rd, and go on until the last person will have to tell out the answer of the clue.
Lunch is here~~ thanks to Jordan’s grandma volunteered to fried vegetarian beehoon.
While everyone dig in their food, my friend Weimun, the future pastry chef, started to prepare for the biscuit dough.
We are going to make the “Famous Amous” flavor biscuit. I told them it’s a branded biscuit we are going to make, all were so excited.
While 2 groups were busy shaping their biscuits, the other 2 groups were with me, learning how to make a simple paper bag.
Yay~! cookies to take home~!
But some finished up before the end of the day, cause it’s irresistible~ haha!
Story time~ I was telling about Franz Schubert, a famous composer’s story, with self drawn pictures.
Everyone really pay good attention, cause there’s quiz to put in additional mark into their team.
Congratulation who’d completed the stamps chart for memorizing certain amount of pieces. Kids… work harder to get bigger prize~!
Let’s do one last time of the Red Apple Angel team cheer~
Everyone loved the shake.
Let’s sing to the parents~
Final group of Class hour performance and prize giving to distinction scorer.
The youngest participant of all for the ABRSM practical Grade 1 exam, 5 years old, and he got a merit.
5:00pm Another group of 6 years old and below kids started to come in, and we proceed with their simple class hour performances.
5:30pm It’s their turn to have fun. We sung a series of song that form by 2 notes only: Seashell, Pie Song, Neighbors, Tread follows needle, Snail snail, Above Below…
The last kid, Benjamin, he was unwilling to perform in front of audience. At last we got him to play when there’s no one left.
And that marked the end of our hectic but wonderful day.
Happy New Year, see you all again next year~!
侯老师跟她的爱徒Joanna Wong 四手连弹 Mozart’s Sonata KV521 in C (1st movt) --->
侯老师最成功的学生ChinLee：Debussy’s L’Isle Joyeous
JB有名的胡志强男高音演绎了：中国的土地……和在曲中让人印象深刻的豪迈大笑：杯底不可饲金鱼。---->
新山室内合唱团JBCC献上了N年前我听他们唱过的：摇篮曲……和……星夜行程。 
中场休息时终于在后台看到王立达，穿着长褂印度装……侯老师很surprise的说：“哎哟怎么你穿成这样？” 
衣。还一直问这样见到和尚会不会失礼，Tan San 说她不要半夜起来敷脸吓和尚就可以了……（受不了）
们的是今晚我们寄宿寺院【遍照光院】的一位出家人，释光洋。不到10分钟就到达奥之院外的停车场。天气阴霾，好像要下雨似的。阿Gwen为大家准备了很多雨伞，光洋法师也自己带了一支。在等待大家上完洗手间的当儿，我试图跟光洋法师聊聊，还怕会鸡同鸭讲的，还好他开口说英文。他自己先声明英文不是很好但还能说上几句。他说他出生于Hiroshima，之前是做公务员，后来读修文化宗教历史学，如今已出家三年了。 高野山上气温稍冷，但法师只穿了一双白色短袜和木屐，好清凉~
奥之院，许多日本大公司都在这里立纪念碑以吸取这里的灵气。进入奥之院的范围之前要在入口处顶礼。光洋师带领我们以日本佛教方式定礼，只需合掌半蹲两下然后鞠躬就可以了。 
Tan San 说这里空气特别清新，大家可要珍惜这一次的机会深呼吸，但…可千万不要放屁…（炸到） 
爸还是失败。石块表面平滑而且形状不规则，很难找到握角。之后其他男士们都一一尝试……ei~~大家都成功嘞~~大家都把石块推到角落然后借力将石块推上台阶，聪明哦~ 
嘿嘿~ 火箭墓碑~ DAP 万岁~ 哈哈（只有马来西亚朋友知道我的意思吧） 
迫不及待的下车，感受雪降到手心的感觉。犹如小棉球，一碰到手心就融化了。对生长在热带的我们，这是无比的振奋！ 
住持有说有温泉，天气冷，泡一下可以避免感冒。冷到快要变冰了，衣服外套完全不舍得换掉……敢出外泡温泉的人真能耐，真好奇谁会去。
看过高野山的纪录片，听说过这里的精进料理是道地特色。更加不能错过的就是这里的手工豆腐。这里的食物都由这里的男法师处理，连豆腐都是亲手磨制的，而且是灌用高山泉水~~~~~~
吃饱饱，拖着脚步回到房间。哇~！床铺铺好了？！可是没看到人影在众多房间中窜来窜去，手脚可真快。到底是哪一位法师在背后默默服务呢？
When night comes… my dear student Jordan wanted a last minute birthday bash~! 
gasless juice was left in the store room since new year. Don’t know why everyone started to dip the mango into the juice. Yummy?? 
Choir rehersal conducted by Ms.Hau.
I didn’t get to take any picture of myself… because I’m the camera woman of that night… sob sob…. 
