First Recital for Him
The Princess and Prince (8 y/o and 6 y/o) has a recital few days ago. This is counted as the third recital for Princess and first time for the Prince. All I can said is, the Prince played very well despite taking up violin lesson sometime in April. We are very proud of him indeed.
Just before the recital started, as usual the mischievous boy can’t sit still. He was seen here turning his violin into a Cello!
And he have to irritate everyone in the room with that streaky sound from the string instrument. The Mummy will have to go sheesh… sheesh…. or gave him the deadly stare.
The Jie-Jie is nothing but a Princess. Other than her chatty mouth (which girls wouldn’t) I do not have to nag her to sit still. But this girl wouldn’t want to take any pictures. Duhh!
As usual, 7.30pm is too early for Daddy to leave the office. He is giving this a miss. Again! The show was delayed for 30 minutes as many musicians turned up late. Prince got impatient and wanted to call his Daddy.
He is asking why his Daddy is not here yet and asked his Daddy why he doesn’t want to come see him play. Scout swear – I did not ask my Boy to called the Daddy. The whole night I was busy with my camera and I thought he just wanted a chat with his Daddy to kill time. The kids does that all the time at home when the Daddy comes home late. And the last picture here you can see my Boy almost in tears.
My Boy is very very close the the Daddy. He still cling on to his Daddy like a Koala bear. I almost forgot the phone was on speaker mode! Now the whole audience knows that the child’s father is not supportive 🙁 . I heard Daddy said something like… “pass the phone to Mummy” and I quickly took over the phone. And guess what? Daddy is almost reaching home and I asked him to detoured to join us since the show hasn’t started yet. Of course my Boy was so thrilled to see his Daddy walk in and deserved a big bear hug!
I love this picture of the girls and their violin.
This was shot using a 50mm lens. This is what we called synchronized!
Princess is always duetting with this girl (sorry don’t know her name) as they are of same level.
And the Prince…
I was so proud of him, the moment we reached home I marched to my Sis’s house and show the video to Uncle Kimmy, “Uncle Kimmy, come! Nah, show you something. The child that never practise at home can played so well.”
Really! My kids hardly practise their violin at home. Haha! You may ask why. To me, I never like to forced my kids into anything and if I were to give myself a new chore like nagging the kids to practise this and that, you think it is worth it? I was fortunate as my kids was showing interest and naturally accepted it. Even without the daily practising, they still did well. I am not a perfectionist and I don’t expect to have one. They are what they are, the God’s given child.
jazzmint said,
August 21, 2008 @ 11:36 am
bravo bravo…looks like both of them are future great musicians. apa uncle kimmy say 😛
The Queen says: Uncle Kimmy jaw dropped to the ground. I have to pick them up and fix it for him 😉
siechoo said,
August 21, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
ahhhh … princess 8 years old .. same age with my misha 🙂 but misha cannot play violin hehehe
debbie said,
August 21, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
wow…future musicians le!!!
Kyels said,
August 21, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
It’s good that they did well in the recital. I agree w/your concept of not forcing them to do something. If they did it w/their own free will it’d be way better since improvement can be seen from there.
😉
Selena said,
August 21, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
well done Princess & Prince Hijack!
eh, HRH HQ, got video to see or not?
sue said,
August 21, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
Well done to both of them 😀 The look like pros… Hey, did they request for the lessons or did you offer??
Hui NIh said,
August 21, 2008 @ 10:22 pm
Congrats for having such talented children! My little one is just ONE year old and hubby starts looking for potential piano classes for him .. aiyoh! U know, I am not the forcing type mum too 😛
athena said,
August 22, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
hahaha… there can be no happiness without forcing 😛
Shooi said,
August 22, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
Wow u must be so proud of your kids! 6 yrs old can give recital liao.So yau yeng leh!
Btw, are all the photos taken with 50mm lense?
Sorry, I just started to dabble with photography, so have to ask stup*d questions here & there.
The Queen says: Yup. I prefer using 50mm lens for portrait shots.
Eden said,
August 27, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
so did daddy turn out?
sila said,
September 20, 2008 @ 3:38 am
congrats princess & prince! tambah minyak, ya!! 🙂