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From Australia, with Love.

"To our Tracy, Happy 24th Birthday. Love from your Aussie family - Pat, Louise, Gem, Bette" Brown fibres on paper are rose petals that dried on their 'flight' to KL. At this rate, I was shamelessly crying. These peop…
Life will never be dull with Hamish Blake, Andy Lee, and Adam Hills. Yous keep me smiling.
Berner Street - Tracy E. Wong copyright 2006 Recorded live at Indicine, KLPAC At long last, I found the time to do some basic editing on December 2006's This Is Acoustic Part 4 gig (thanks, Ian, for slotting me in). …
Thanks for putting up with me. I promise never to get this trashed again. edit. Apologizing to liver now.
You sure you just need 6?

Each player of this game starts out by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose …
Besides my mentors, I learn from my students. Everyday. The younger ones view everything around them in wide-eyed wonder, and they make me uneasy as I realise how jaded I view the world sometimes. Maybe uneasiness is goo…
Happy Australia Day

Thank you for giving me a home away from home. The only kickass Aussie thing (among others) that came to mind today has to be this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FnoADIkgW-A Watched the Melbourne International Comedy Fe…
Happiments

(as said by Adam) Little Yasmin made my day. The Russian-speaking 7 year old showed up for lesson with a flower for me. She's improved tremendously by her 4th lesson - I was told she practices 1 hour daily now. I don't …
If memories were in a photo album

Elvis & Bette. Elvis has gone missing since winter'06 (we say that 'Elvis as left the building'). Bette knows I'm a sucker for her sucking up to me. Newcastle 2006 Autumn'06. Hunter Valley 2006 The best 'me tim…
I have the most impulsive insane idea to hire Chippendale dancers for my birthday.
Wanted: Play Mates

Perhaps I'm getting restless and missing those Newcastle days of yore where non-pianist friends are in abundance. Getting an ensemble together to perform just because was only a phone call and a persuasion away. No askin…
How does one successfully arrange a piece of choral music for a choir that is 1/3 female and 2/3 male? My second night at ridiculous-o'clock (now), I really wish John Rutter, Moses Hogan, and Eric Whitacre were my g…
Very 2006

It doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wron…
Started gym again - need to release tension (since, as usual, certain other activities aren't on the menu). Hot bod, here I come. (I hope my 2.30-4.30pm expat kids don't drain me later or I'll be force to use drastic…
It is days like today that I wish I could come home to you.
How Sunday morning is spent

"If music, then, is conditioned by its environment, what sort of music should we expect to find in the torn and perplexed world of today, a world not only divided by race and language, as always, but by sharply opposed i…
Self clocked 2 hours of sleep last night. Started work today at an ungodly hour of crap-o'clock. Kids, I have to teach. "Any questions before we go on?" "Will you be coming with us to Pattaya for the competition? When's…
A note to first year B.Mus students

If you are new to the movable 'do' concept, consider yourself to be in a position lucky enough to realise that by the end of this semester, you'll be armed with knowledge of the fixed 'do' you are so loyal to as well as …
Short one from me

(10 minutes and counting) Barely started the new year, fresh into the workforce and already I am sick. But then again, the perks of being in this line of work includes the fact that every day is a new scenario. No routi…
I figured that 2006 has come, gone, been digested, circulated in my system, and produced a better individual for 2007. So no CliffsNotes for 2006. Let's concentrate on the here and now. .... (20 minutes looking at the s…
The Ipoh has landed

Perhaps it is a good sign that the speed of my internet connection in Ipoh was at a glacier pace. Coupled with the damaged cables caused by the earthquakes, my involuntary temporary abstinence from the cyber world has …