write stories and make music
A few years ago I wrote a simplified version of Für Elise for a very young student. I used the scorewriter MuseScore which is free and open-source, and uploaded my version to its online score sharing platform. Today they sent me a reminded to look at it, and I saw it had 5,759 views and … Continue reading My simple MuseScore Für Elise has 5,759 hits, 44 ♥️
Am probably the last person to discover bujo art, but now that I have, I wanted to try. Picked up some IKEA watercolour pencils and this is my first painting entry in my journal. Luckily the paper is thick and absorbed the water well enough. Love this kid in Code Lyoko, she’s got the haircut … Continue reading Bujo – Code Lyoko
Thank you Emmanuel “Nuk” Chee for sending me this photo. A new library has just opened up in the Tanjung Aru area of Kota Kinabalu. Nuk saw the SabahSongs book on a trolley. Let’s hope they place it where everyone can find it! Yay! Thanks again Nuk ♥️🤗
[Excerpt from: Funk, Joanna. SabahSongs: Contemporary Music in Sabah. Kota Kinabalu: Opus Publications, 2013. 11-13. Print.] DATUK PETER PRAGAS The grass cutters sang their folk songs; I imagined what it would be like to embellish and make extensions to this native music. Datuk Peter Pragas. November 2 2009, Kota Kinabalu. When I first visited Datuk … Continue reading Excerpt: Datuk Peter Pragas
I heard that my student Tom broke his wrist last week and wouldn’t be able to do lessons for the rest of the term. So imagine my surprise when he rocked up to his lesson saying: I broke my wrist but my other arm is still alright. Can I still have my lesson? I’m soooo … Continue reading “My other arm’s alright, can I still do my lesson?”
Gone! The flower beds are bare. The shrubs were young and not tough natives. There hasn’t been rain for months, and I just cannot keep watering everything. So I moved the roses – one under a tree, and the others into pots. The one under the tree may have had it. It’s in total shock! … Continue reading Bye bye plants
My neighbour Niven feeds our local birds. Now this kookaburra visits me when I put out the laundry. “Kookaburras kill snakes,” Niven said as he placed small chucks of minced meat on the wall. Kookaburras, magpies, and some others (maybe butcherbirds and plovers?) swoop down. So the idea is that if they’re around, maybe the snakes … Continue reading Snake killer
