Music
Performance @ Ping Yi Primary School
Piano Highest
1993: ABRSM Grade 8 Pianoforte (Teacher's Grade)
1997: ABRSM Grade 8 Theory Of Music (Teacher's Grade)
Organ Highest
1996: Yamaha Electone Grade 5 (Teacher's Grade)
1996: Yamaha Fundamentals Grade 5 (Teacher's Grade)
1993: ABRSM Grade 8 Pianoforte (Teacher's Grade)
1997: ABRSM Grade 8 Theory Of Music (Teacher's Grade)
Organ Highest
1996: Yamaha Electone Grade 5 (Teacher's Grade)
1996: Yamaha Fundamentals Grade 5 (Teacher's Grade)
Music Scholarship
Yamaha Electone Festival 1996
1987 - 1993: Yamaha Music School Electone Scholarship
(Applicable only to Yamaha Electone students of age 16 & below.)
After I was awarded the above scholarship, Yamaha Music School paid fully for my electone lessons at Marine Parade Branch. On top of my normal lesson, I had to attend another weekly lesson specially designed to train us scholarship students. During these six to seven years, I had to perform and compete regularly on the electone.
(Applicable only to Yamaha Electone students of age 16 & below.)
After I was awarded the above scholarship, Yamaha Music School paid fully for my electone lessons at Marine Parade Branch. On top of my normal lesson, I had to attend another weekly lesson specially designed to train us scholarship students. During these six to seven years, I had to perform and compete regularly on the electone.
Electone Competitions
My competitors Reginald, Felix & Melvin
Singapore Electone Festival 1990: 3rd (Junior Section)
Yamaha Electone Festival 1990: 2nd (Intermediate Section)
Yamaha Electone Festival 1992: Zone Finals Winner (Intermediate Section)
Yamaha Electone Festival 1993: Zone Finals Winner (Senior Section)
Yamaha Electone Festival 1996: 1st (Senior Section)
Dance
Open House 1985
Ballet Highest
1988: ISTD Grade 4
Line Dance Highest
2008: FATD Associate
1988: ISTD Grade 4
Line Dance Highest
2008: FATD Associate
Ballet
Open House 1987
My mum registered me for ballet class when I was three going on four. I have no idea how I got by then with my minimal communication skills as I have not started attending school. I think it was more of "monkey see, monkey do". I stopped ballet lessons when I started my secondary education. I was coping with two organ lessons and one piano lesson every week, not to mention that I had frequent performances and competitions to take part in. It didn't help that I was in an elite secondary school and was in Military Band, a very time-consuming CCA. The practical me decided that ballet should go. Being admitted into the Music Elective Programme also reinforced this decision.
Line Dance
Fooling Around At Home 1988
I started line dancing quite by accident. My family walked into a line dance jam while we were out for dinner one evening. My mum was intrigued, signed up for line dance class and regularly sought my advice regarding the line dance steps even though I was not even taking lessons. Then I started to teach myself (and my mum) line dancing and choreographed line dances for fun. Someone suggested that I should get certified to be a line dance instructor and so I did. However, we are not line dancing as regularly now as there are simply too many other important things to do in life. I teach line dancing part-time merely as a hobby as it definitely does not fetch much compared to my other activities.
