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The Band
I stared around nervously. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this anxious before. With a racing heart, I started pacing around the rehearsal studio, looking at the door, waiting for the others to arrive. I stopped and looked down to my keyboard. I tried playing some chord progressions to calm mysel...
added: 05:21pm, 7 Dec 2009
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The Big 4-0.
I’m approaching the big 4-0. And I’m wondering how to feel about it. People say that life begins at 40. I guess what they mean is that one should have experienced so many successes and failures throughout one’s 40 years of existence that by the age of 40, one should already know how to live li...
added: 05:21pm, 30 Nov 2009
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Tun Mahathir And Me
I was feeling very lucky. There I was, seated next to Tun Mahathir, while we all had breakfast in the Executive Dining room at Sri Pentas. I was beside myself with excitement, I mean this guy was THE guy that dragged Malaysia, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century. I had so many questions ...
added: 05:20pm, 27 Oct 2009
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Write, O Young Soul
Write, o young soul. Write with reckless abandon. Strap on your guitar, put your hands on the ivories, purse your lips around your horn, and make music. Make music without any rules, precedent or guidelines. Make music to surprise us all. Make music to show us the depth of human emotion. Make mus...
added: 05:20pm, 29 Sep 2009
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FAIL.
I’ve always been very proud of my children. I am especially proud that I have been lucky enough to be able to expose them to many different experiences, cultures and environments.
I really think that at their tender young ages, the best thing a parent can do is to simply fill u...added: 06:32pm, 4 Sep 2009
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Get Out Of The Way (2009)
I looked at my 8-year-old son as he slept peacefully and smiled as I remembered our conversation as he fell asleep. He said he wanted to become a paleontologist who hunts for dinosaur bones using a futuristic hoverboard.
The young will always have the most vivid of imaginations...added: 05:18pm, 25 Aug 2009
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Is It Cold In Your Office?
I felt good.
I was on my way home and in high spirits. I was coming home from a really good meeting and felt great.
I knew I had done a lot to get this particular deal done. I did my homework, came up with creative solutions and everyone was sure the result will be great...added: 05:18pm, 13 Aug 2009
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Embraceable You (2009)
I was driving back late one night. It was a nice and lonely drive, you know, the one where you are totally alone with your thoughts, lost to music in the background while the pulse of the city streets and flickering neon lights dance before you in the treasured sanctuary of your car.
...added: 05:17pm, 16 Jul 2009
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Panic!
My fingers froze on my keyboard. With more than 30 pairs of eyes looking on expectedly, I started sweating bullets.
Now I am somewhat of an alright piano player, who can bluff his way through songs upon hearing them. It’s a nice skill to have as it clearly has mystified ...added: 05:16pm, 24 Jun 2009
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I was 13...
I was 13. I was in Form 1, in a new school, and I was struggling to find time to practice the piano. Heck, I was struggling to FIND a piano. I wasn’t hopeful. Being in a boarding school, I enrolled with the expectation that music was probably quite a low priority, maybe even a non-existent ...
added: 05:15pm, 27 May 2009
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