The blog is to serve as Shenny's diary. It records funny things that Shenny said and did, people that Shenny spent time with and achievement that Shenny made.
Shenny was in the 11th Aloha Ukulele Festival held at the Contennial Hall, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea on Saturday 20 August 2016.
Thanks Professor Changsoo Kim for giving Shenny such a
golden opportunity to perform at the 11th Aloha Ukulele Festival in
Korea. It was an eye-opener for her to be able to perform on the same
stage with other talented ukulele players from Taiwan, Philippine, Japan
and Korea.
Below was her performance on that day:
p/s Thanks teacher Stanley Chin for the guidance. Thanks teacher Kelly Teh for the support. Thanks Mr. Tang for wonderful video recording.
Shenny had her first solo recital at her music school (Ideal Music). She played piano, ukulele and sang songs.
We had about 75 audiences and the sale of tickets is donated to an orphanage.
Poster designed by Shenny
Here is the compilation of Shenny's performance on that evening:
A klpac Orchestra's Summer Concert is coming up on 3 Aug 2013 @ 8.30pm (Saturday) and 4 Aug 2013 @ 4pm (Sunday) at The Actor Studio in Taman Tun Dr. Ismail.
Shenny and her Ukulele Sunshine Group (kids & adult) are invited to perform as pre-concert event for the concert. They will perform around 7.45 - 8.15pm on Saturday and 3.15 - 3.45pm on Sunday at the lobby. Their performance is open for everyone to watch.
The venue of The Actor Studio is as below:
Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail,
60000, Kuala Lumpur, WP
Shenny and her Ukulele Sunshine Kids have a mission to achieve during this school holiday. They are going to perform in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on 1 June 2013.
This is our official concert banner used in Sabah.
It is designed by Teacher Kelly's husband, Mr. Tang.
And, this is one of songs which Shenny will perform solo there:
春がきた Spring has come
Glad that Shenny's papa will be joining us for this round.
Shenny was invited as special guest to perform at a graduation concert organized by Ideal Music on 18 April 2013.
She performed two songs using ukulele as described below:
1) El Condor Pasa
2)You Are My Sunshine:
(P.S. There was a different between these two songs. The
difference was that Shenny had performed "You Are My Sunshine" for numerous
times on stage while "El Condor Pasa" is the FIRST time. Though there was a slight hiccup at "El Condor Pasa", but mommy felt very proud of her attempt. Also, she spent less than 3 days to practice the song.)
Shenny and her friends ranging from Age 6 to 8 years old, started to learn ukulele since August 22, 2012, barely 3 months ago and they get to perform for their first Public Performance on STAGE at The Actors Studio (at Lot 10 - Rooftop), Kuala Lumpur for Halloween Concert by KLPAC Junior String Ensembles conducted by Mr. Takahisa Ota on 30th and 31st October 2012.
This was a surprise performance for the audience as it was not listed in the performance list. And the organizer was glad that the audience loved it.
Before the performance, the Emcee approached Shenny and luckily she was able to introduce the songs confidently.
Two performance song are Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in three languages and Pearly Shell.
Another performance song is You Are My Sunshine.
And their next coming up performance will be at KLPAC on 17th November (8.00pm) and 18th November(2.30pm). On that day, they will perform more songs with the Ukulele Sunshine Adults. They will perform at the lobby before the KLPAC Orchestra "Winter Concert 2012" begins. For those interested, you may drop by KLPAC either these two days.
And their next next appearance will be at Wisma Bentley Music, Mutiara Damansara on 24th November 2012 for "Love Is Hope" Charity Concert.
For those interested, you may drop by the venue and purchase the ticket (RM 30 / person) on spot.
Shenny took part in her school English Story Telling Contest on 5th September (click here).
And she was rewarded a medal at her school Children Day.
She had won 4th place in that contest.
Shenny went up to stage to receive her reward with her performance dancing constume on.
Shenny was happily posed with her 1st medal won at primary school.
And a few shots of her dancing at Children Day. In fact, Shenny and her group had performed the similar dance at a charity dinner which had raised scrumptious donation for her school.
Shenny and few other friends were picked to perform at Japan Club Kuala Lumpur on 18th February 2012.
How did they get chosen? A musician from Japan Club came to Shenny's music school to do auditions. There were about 10 students enrolled for audition but only four get chosen, ages range 7, 8, 12 and 14. Shenny was the youngest.
Before performance, Shenny and her friends were all nervous a bit. Mommy was a bit worried too because Shenny was the first one to perform among her team. Luckily, her performance was very smooth, so do the rest. Phew!
Below was the agenda of the event:
The Jumping Bean
In the Eyes Of A Tiger
Study C Major Op599
Shenny and others with her music teacher, Nicole and her husband Stanley, a guitarist.
>> Shenny and friends performed Grease Lightning. The group comprise kids ages ranges from 4 to 7 years old.
It was a very exciting dance, everyone really had their heat at rock and roll.
>> Shenny and friends danced on this piece of song entitled Balaio which is a piece from South America. Teacher Kelly had turned this folk dance into a fruit basket dance for her girls age ranging from 6 to 7 years old.
Teacher Kelly held her Musikgarten Concert every three years. Shenny last attended the concert was her age at 3 year++. And she get to do group dance on "Do Re Mi" at that time.
After few years of nurturing under teacher Kelly through Musikgarten program, Shenny and her friends get opportunity to do numerous performances (group and solo) in the concert.
As this is Shenny's blog, mommy would only put up those Shenny take part.
Teacher Kelly taught Shenny to sing "Somewhere over the rainbow" during the Music Camp.
Here is the video clip of Shenny rehearsing for the concert:
Apart from giving welcome speech and drama play, Shenny also get to perform "You Raise Me Up" with her classmates in their graduation concert.
Shenny was very excited to be part of performers and looked forward to the day to come. Actually, she had been waiting for this opportunity for years after her last experience stage performance when she was 4 year old (Shenny's 4 year old performance).
Thanks for her class teacher, Garren for diligently practiced with them for weeks before concert. And they had performed well on stage and captured every audiences' heart.
Here was part of video clip taken by papa:
And below was the recording of Shenny sang the song to her music teacher, Kelly.
Finally, Shenny brought back her graduation and class photo on her last day at school. This also means Shenny had officially completed her 5 years school life in GCC.
The day before farewell, Shenny used paintbrush tools to make a farewell card template, and then printed it out. There were total of seven teachers Shenny would like to give the card. To make it special and unique for each teacher, Shenny wrote her personal message on each card.
Below is the farewell card template:
She drew the card by herself except her face (which was helped by her papa). In the card, Shenny wore GCC uniform and bid farewell.
Below was one of actual farewell cards, Shenny gave to her teacher.
Shenny wrote a personal message to her class teacher, Garren, who is the only one speak mandarin to her in school.
On her last day in school, mommy was told all kids cried to bid farewell to their teachers, that their crying sound could be heard at another floor. Kids hug each other and their teachers before they left school.
Shenny told mommy that she felt so sad when her class teacher, Garren spoke to her. Her heart was heavy and sour.
Below is Shenny's graduation portrait and her class members:
Class photo
Among hundreds of graduates stood on stage, mommy and papa were having difficulty to find Shenny, luckily she kept on stare at us and and not forget to wave her hand, and we immediately spot her.
Thanks Lynn (Qin Yii's mommy) for taking below photo. Lynn also had difficulty to find her daughter and what she did was to shoot every corner of all kids.
Here is the photo:
Could you spot Shenny?
This was the first time mommy saw Shenny in graduation gawn. The moment mommy saw her in this gawn, mommy's tear uncontrollably came down. Mommy's heart was so heavy to think about time flew real fast, and my little baby had officially completed her 5 years education in the kindergarten. And she would move on to another life journey in primary school.
Here is another photo of Shenny took with papa on her Graduation Concert day.
This is a recording of Shenny and her friend, Qi Xuan practicing for upcoming musikgarten concert. Qi Xuan played the keyboard while Shenny sang the song.
Thank you, teacher Kelly for giving Shenny opportunity to involve in her concert.
Shenny and her two classmates (Josiah and Yong Kai Xiang) were
chosen to give Welcome Speech and to present One Malaysia drama at their Graduation Concert 2011.
And their principal, Alex Tan had diligently practice with them for a few weeks before the concert. Luckily, the three kids did not disappoint his effort in front of hundreds audiences.
Shenny picked up this song from her teacher Kelly before the concert.
Teacher Kelly sang one time to her and then papa found the similar song in youtube for her. Then, Shenny learnt to sing the song and tried to play the song by ear based on her own understanding immediately after the concert.
Shenny, papa and mommy were invited by teacher Kelly (Shenny's 1st music teacher) to attend a classical concert L'Heure Musicale (means The Time Music) at Alliance Francaise De Kuala Lumpur on 27th August 2011, which teacher Kelly organized. It was a truly international evening as audiences are Malaysian, French, The Netherlands, Hong Kong and Japan.
This concert was very special because the performers were all teacher Kelly's teachers; Mr Joseph Leow as tenor, Mr. Fairuz as pianist, Dr. Takahisa Ota as flautist and Mr. Stanley Chin (Shenny's 2nd music teacher (Nicole)'s hubby) as guitarist. Songs presented were mixture of french and english songs. All were so heart-capturing, refreshing and relaxing.
It was an eye-opener for Shenny. As she could see tenor sang accompanied by various musical intruments separately.
Teacher Kelly also asked four students of hers (3 girls &1 boy, included Shenny) to present flowers to performers. Shenny was chosen to carry flower for Stanley.
Shenny jokingly told mommy that teacher Nicole told her ..."Teacher Stanley should carry me, instead of carry flower".
We truly enjoyed the whole concert. Thanks for teacher Kelly inviting us.
Here is the last song (Bird Songs at Eventide - Eric Coates (1886-1957) presented in the concert recorded by papa:
Shenny, papa and mommy were invited to attend Heart & Soul Charity Concert 2011 by her 1st music teacher, Kelly. She is a member of the Choir of the Philharmonic Society of Selangor.
In the heart & soul's leaflet, it said...the concert will tug at our heart strings and uplift our soul, with its toe-tapping, head bouncing, smile inducing musical line-up featuring favourites from the Bee Gees, Beatles, Michael Jackson and Enya.
As teacher Kelly would be performed in the concert plus it was for charity, as a sign to support both, papa and mommy decided to bring Shenny to watch the concert on 23 July 2011.
The concert was held in Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre(KLPAC).
Both papa and mommy decided to have dinner at the japanese restaurant (next to a lake) opposite KLPAC building before concert began.
The restaurant not only serves japanese food, it also serves western and asian food. After trying the food, mommy would not give a big 'hoo-haa' about the food served. Papa thought the food is quite pricey due to its location and beautiful scenary. Definitely, we love the restaurant's surroundings.
We ordered one japanese bento set, fried meehoon and fried thai rice.
Shenny happily posed in her beautiful pinky princess dress
Shenny really enjoyed the concert, mommy could see her move her head and body gracefully following music rhythm. She even sang some of songs softly.
After the concert, Shenny could not wait to meet teacher Kelly to show her pink dress.
Shenny posed with her beautiful teacher Kelly.
Here are a list of some songs performed in the concert:
Shenny's kindergarten had their annual graduation & concert on 12th November 2009. And Shenny had the chance to dance in the concert too.
Her class teachers (Teacher Ninie & Teacher Thevika) had those children who took part in the concert to practice dancing almost every day for 2 weeks in the school before the concert. Also, advised children to practice themselves at home over weekends with the given CD loaded with song. Shenny's class would perform Dragostea Din Tel. Shenny was very excited about the event and looked forward it to come soon.
Shenny and her friends were not afraid at all on stage. I would say all of them perform very well. This had proved that their teachers were serious and had really put effort to train them.
Shenny posted her dancing dress.
Shenny and her classmates waiting at backstage before their performance.
Dance 1:
Shenny smiled a lot throughout the performance. Mommy reckons Shenny was very happy that she was able to dance on stage finally.
Dance 2:
Mommy only found out Shenny had a 2nd dance performance when saw her appear on stage again, but luckily still able to record bits of her dancing for her remembrance.
During the concert, school also given out awards for some outstanding performance students. Ha...both Shenny and her cousin, Jie Hang are among of them too.
Shenny won the Best English Reader for her 4 year old class. Jie Hang won the Best Chinese Reader for his 5 year old class.
