Nara Frankenstein 99

In case you're wondering what happened to Nara's Playground since last October's acoustic gig.

No, we've not disbanded... Choi!

We're simply in hibernation.

yes, you know when bears go to sleep in winter and wake up when it's spring?

Yup, that's what we're doing right now.

And we've found a cosy little place to hide and work on our songs.

To record our songs, we have assembled a hideous contraception straight from the depths of a mechanical scrapyard.

Here are some pictures of our monstrous creation and secret hideout.





check out the blinking lights and swiveling heads!

I tell you... we're making Frankenstein here!

Nara Frankenstein!!






and that's dylan and daniel rocking hard to keep the machine running so Nara Frankenstein can stay alive!

The guy with the cable? That's mun, plugging in the telephone cable so electricity can course through Nara Frankenstein.

"SHE'S ALIVE!! SHE'S ALIVE!!"

We promise we'll bring you Nara Frankenstein soon... :)

the New Chopin

My bro broke his collar bone last week.

But no, that's not the story that I'm talking about in this post.

It's my niece.

We went to visit him at his place.

My mum and I were treated to a piano recital by my niece.

She's 8 and she plays the piano.

She just finished her piano exams.





that's my mum at the back sipping a pack of green tea.

Look at the way her fingers fly!

She's gonna be the next Chopin!



After that, she dragged me to play Monopoly with her. The Junior version. I don't think I can handle the STANDARD version of Monopoly these days... and I really can't remember when was the last time I touched Monopoly... sec school? man... that's eons ago... when there was no Internet...

*horror music plays!!!

Good Old Times

Basia and I had a day off on Monday so we decided to visit the National Museum.

We're suckers for old stuff and looking at things that dead people used.

Here's before we start.




You must be wondering what the headphones were for. Well, the National Museum has gone so high tech that you actually carry a mini video device along with you to listen to commentaries while you browse the exhibits.

amazing... but it was a little cumbersome though.

the exhibit that really caught my attention was an old 1960s broadcast of our founding father Lee Kuan Yew making a rally speech during an election. He was truly visionary in his speech, exhorting Singapore to embrace industrialization in a time when our neighbors were still tilling the ground and growing rice to feed themselves.

"We must make our own televisions! Our own stereo sets! Why must we be using other people's products! Let other people use OUR products!" was what I paraphrased he said. Well, we did end up making televisions and stereos, but we were making them for our past colonial masters and invading occupants (Sony, Panasonic)

How did Basia fare on the excursion? She was so spooked by a Chinese Funeral Procession exhibit that we had to steer clear of it. Hahaha...

Here's us after we came out of the Museum. Some evening shots of the Museum's facade :)





hehehe.... the lights on the building are nice right?

If you haven't been to the Nat Museum in a long time, it's worthwhile to give it a visit :)