Putchon yo Dancing shoos!

My recommendation: Watch the previous video first.


ULHS 2006 Charleston Finals. Here's a modern take to the Charleston and Lindy Hop. I wish I was cool like them...

Best Vid EVER!!!!

I've watched this vid about 6 times now ever since I found it on Twiboo. The Charleston looks amazingly fun to dance. Shitty that I'll never have so much coordination to even square-dance...

To be mediocre

Mozart was born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a comfortably rich family in Salzburg, Austria.
Leopold Mozart, father of Mozart was one of Europe's great musical teachers and had entitlement to a successful career as a composer of instrumental music. Mozart's exceptional musical talents surfaced when he was a mere age of 3 years old - a toddler.


230 years later, a little girl sits on a piano seat with her little brows knitted and facial features contorted. As she gingerly presses down the keys, down comes a powerful swing of the cane as it strikes the innocent fingers that bore the consequences for the guilty finger that hit the wrong key.

I suppose its easily comprehensible to see where my aversion to playing the piano stemmed from. I can reminisce those moments where my mom urged me by the shoulders to play a tune to those where I could not overcome the upheavals in my stomach as sat by the piano in the examination room. In retrospect, I whole-heartedly regret my silly decision to quit piano after the third grade, pondering over my inflexibilty to absorb the skill at my age of 23. Yet my heart yearns so as I listen to the prodigies of both Classical and Romantic composers.

Mozart revealed musical talents when he was 3. I struggled to keep up at 8. Sometimes I can't help but feel retarded.

Spanning from the 19th century till the 20th century, both Western and Eastern Europe, typically cosmopolitan Vienna, fostered the blossoming popularity of instrumental music. Composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky recieved musical influences from their parents. But I'm sure genetic predisposition must have played an integral part. What ever happened to that kind of fostering in this modern period?

At times I secretly wish to be born in that era and location, to meet these people. Did you know that Tchaikovsky was of the Romantic period, so was Gustav Mahler. He married Alma who was 20 years his junior also a brilliant composer. They had a bad marriage, Gustav tried to sort our their problems and visited Sigmund Freud in his Vienna office. Alma ended up having affairs with Walter Gropius and more famously with Oskar Kokoschka. She outlived Gustav by 50 years! Alma also knew Gustav Klimt and gave him him her first kiss!

On a side note, Tchaikovsky was only 53 when he died but from pictures he looked the age of a 70-year old man. I have problems looking my age. Last spring I went to my long awaited visit to the dentist. She commented that I hadn't visited in a long time and asked if I was having too much fun on my spring break. I answered: "What spring break? I don't have a spring break." She said in a surprise: "Oh, I thought you were in high school!"


Sources: www.geocities.com/tacphotography/piano.jpg

Me at Work

How do people actually find these crazily cute animals?


Boredom is a real kicker when you look at statistical numbers all day. I sent out a test fax the other day to myself and addressed it to 'Poopoohead'.