Igudesman & Joo performs theme of James Bond and mixed with Mozart. I say it’s brilliant!
Here’s another performance by the same duo:
To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo “A Little Nightmare Music” visit their website. Great humor.
Hip hop song of hamster eating popcorn on a piano. Quite a cute one, isn’t it?
This guy is crazy! He plays Mario not on the Nintendo but the piano. And he’s damn good at it.
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It’s a 10 minute video. And the last 1 minute is the really crazy part. He must’ve been a real big Mario fan. Also in my blog, Vamoâ?? Alla Flamenco played with piano.
[via ExtraLife]
I really like this piece in Final Fantasy IX in the Sony Playstation. It’s called Vamo’ Alla Flamenco.
View through YouTube if you can’t see the fast fingers.
That’s like one of my favorite songs in the game. And he plays really well too. I’m envious, I wish I knew how to play the piano.
When’s the last time you heard someone slot in their own lyrics into your favorite Billboard song? Today, at least for me. Check out Pat Helland’s (Architect, Enterprise Architecture Team, Microsoft) version of Don McClean’s American Pie at TechEd Europe 2004. Don Box (Architect, XML Messaging, Microsoft) is on guitar and David Chappell is on piano. Take a listen (video included) at Channel 9.
Channel 9 just update their site design too. I can’t say it’s extraordinary, but it’s better than before. More videos please. 
Mr. CIO Guy – A Speculative Retrospective
VERSE 1
A long, long, time agoâ?¦
I can still remember how that software made the business play.
And my dream that I held so dear,
And worked on for my whole career,
Was that the information could pay.
But Harvard reached into its quiver,
And to the boardroom did deliver.
Cutbacks on our spending,
The IT boom was endingâ?¦
I canâ??t remember if they laughed,
As our department was de-staffed,
And lost the knowledge of our craft,
The day that I-T died.
Soâ?¦CHORUS
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource â??til the business runs dry.
And MBAs count the beans going by and singing
Thisâ??ll make the P-E go high!
Thisâ??ll make the P-E go high!View the video at Channel 9. (Streamed with Windows Media 9)
Read the full lyrics at DevHawk’s weblog. (Source for this lyrics)
Absolutely geeky.
In Singapore, every parent wants the best for their children. Hence, kiasuism is practiced. I don’t know how to spell it, it looks better as “kiasu-ism”, it’s pronounced as kya-soo-ee-zum. Kiasu-ism is the culture of Singapore, it’s about being excessively competitive.
So these poor kids, possibly inclusive of me, went to enrich themselves with all sorts of class.
The class that Singapore kids (or rather parents) love:
* Swimming
* Piano
* Violin
* Wu-shu (Chinese martial arts)
* Ballet
* Abacus
* Guitar
* and obviously all the tuition classes.
It’s this I-want-the-best-for-my-child thinking that made kids suffer through their childhood. It has become some sort of a culture in Singapore already. The kids don’t choose what they want, the parents do it for them. Not that this is a bad method or anything. I mean the kids can’t possibly choose these wisely.
My mother did pretty much the same, she threw me into the water and got me to learn swimming. I never really like swimming as a sport though. The reason is simple: In swimming, you basically go one lap, return, go another. Well, at least I can keep afloat if in water.
I have abacus class too, if you don’t know what the hell is that, just stick with your calculator. I find the calculator much useful though.
And tuition class is a must. I can imagine my mother saying, “I second that”. Possibly 95% of the students have at least gone through tuition once. My mother says, “It’s not the best way to study, but it delivers”. [By the way, my mother speaks can't speak English, I translated.]
So perhaps the tuition can be explained, but I don’t think the swimming, piano, ballet or the whatevers can be. Why enrich the child? My aunt says, “It’s to give him an extra route to proceed too if his academic career is performing none too well”. [I translated my aunts words.]
I can’t deny that too, but my cousin went to abacus, guitar, swimming and piano (not forgetting tuition too of course) before. He is one busy man. I’m sure he’s not the only one going through so many enrichment course.
It’s a culture thing I guess. [By the way, if I were to back being a kid, I wish I learn a musical instrument. Something like piano or violin.]
