PASSION PROJECT – #2 Chinese Dish: Sweet & Sour Pork Ribs

I was craving for some homemade dishes that could remind me of home these few days so I decided to make sweet and sour pork ribs since it's easy to make. There were a lot of recipes with either English subtitles or English instructions online and on Youtube. I only used the recipe as a …

PASSION PROJECT – #1 Main: Steak

I saw this video about how to cook a cheap steak so it would taste like expensive steak and I immediately decided that I would try it because I am a poor uni student:'( The first half of the first video teaches how to cook the steak while the second video has oral explanations to …

Shift in musical and professional identities #2

I have so far done eight blogs on my musical growth plan about learning how to play jazz trumpet. I honestly didn't expect it to go so well as I haven't touched my trumpet for at least four years. Due to previous experience, I have had a sense of insecurity playing the trumpet and I …

MUSICAL GROWTH – #8 Final Piece

For this final blog/ lesson, I learned to play my all-time-favorite jazz song, L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole. I found a trumpet solo transcription alongside with an acoustic bass part. It was from a website which provides free interactive music sheets that had audio over the whole song and could directly play a specific part …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #7 PE Micro Teaching

We have been doing a unit plan in partners for our EPHE course and we got to share them in class. Each of us would have 10 minutes to teach half of the class the activities in our unit plans. My group worked on the topic of yoga and meditation in an outdoor education setting. …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #6 Leading Teambonding Activities

This week, our fellowship held a team bonding session on Friday and I was one of the people in charge of the event. Three of us met a few days before the event and brainstormed games that we could play with the group and what message we would like to bring out in the games. I …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #5 Leading Worship

I get the opportunity to lead worship this year as a committee member of our fellowship. However, due to the issue of respecting the situation, I couldn't record the worship sessions that I led. I was really anxious the first time, luckily, one of my friends who was also a committee member agreed to stand with …

MUSICAL GROWTH – #7 Concert C and F Blues solo

For this week, I was learning how to do solo and improvisation on Concert C and F blues. The tutorial videos that I followed were similar to the ones last week (which were about B♭ and concert G solo). I felt like I did better in this practice because the tutorial videos specifically introduced and …

MUSICAL GROWTH – #6 B♭and concert G Blues solo

This week, I learned how to do solo/ improvisation over B♭ and concert G blues. It was actually a lot more difficult than it seemed to me. I was very used to following exactly written on the music sheets and had never done any form of improvisation previously. It was quite a challenge having to …

MUSICAL GROWTH – #5 Licks

On the plan, I said I would learn how to do trumpet licks from "Dizzy Atmosphere," however, I just realized that there were too many high notes in the song that I often found myself focusing on reaching the notes instead of learning the lick skills. That's why I chose to follow through another tutorial videos …