No, I'm not referring to Japan winning the Thomas Cup for the first time ever! But one thing it has shown is that no one country is invincible in badminton, be it Malaysia, China, Indonesia or Denmark, during their glorious years.
No, I'm not referring to Ramkarpal Singh's victory at Bukit Gelugor by-election, which everyone would have thought to be a certainty (especially against a new party and some Independents).
I was actually going through old emails sent to me and saved for future reference, and found this, sent by a friend, BH Yap:
Music To My Ears
Answers To Test Questions Compiled By Music Teachers From The Missouri School Music Newsletter (highlight and those in italics by me):
Refrain means don’t do it.
A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good.
Henry Purcell is a well known composer few people have ever heard of.
Aaron Copland is one of your most famous contemporary composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.
An opera is a song of bigly size. (influenced by Pavarotti?)
When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrums. But if he is good, he knows how to keep it from hurting.
Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.
I know what a sextet is but I’d rather not say. (thought it has something to do with sex?)
Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and McCoys.
My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby.
My favorite composer is Opus.
A harp is a nude piano.
A tuba is much larger than its name.
A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.
When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody.
A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard.
Last month I found out how a clarinet works by taking it apart. I both found out and got in trouble.
Question: Is the saxophone a brass or a woodwind instrument? Answer: Yes.
The concertmaster of an orchestra is always the person who sits in the first chair of the first violins. This means that when a person is elected concertmaster, he has to hurry up and learn how to play a violin real good.
For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music. You just watch.
Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the conductor.
The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.
Musical instrument has a plural known as orchestra.
It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck and shake him in rhythm.
Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed.
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No, I'm not referring to Ramkarpal Singh's victory at Bukit Gelugor by-election, which everyone would have thought to be a certainty (especially against a new party and some Independents).
I was actually going through old emails sent to me and saved for future reference, and found this, sent by a friend, BH Yap:
Music To My Ears
Answers To Test Questions Compiled By Music Teachers From The Missouri School Music Newsletter (highlight and those in italics by me):
Refrain means don’t do it.
A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good.
Henry Purcell is a well known composer few people have ever heard of.
Aaron Copland is one of your most famous contemporary composers. It is unusual to be contemporary. Most composers do not live until they are dead.
An opera is a song of bigly size. (influenced by Pavarotti?)
When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrums. But if he is good, he knows how to keep it from hurting.
Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel.
I know what a sextet is but I’d rather not say. (thought it has something to do with sex?)
Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and McCoys.
My very best liked piece of music is the Bronze Lullaby.
My favorite composer is Opus.
A harp is a nude piano.
A tuba is much larger than its name.
A trumpet is an instrument when it is not an elephant sound.
When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody.
A bassoon looks like nothing I have ever heard.
Last month I found out how a clarinet works by taking it apart. I both found out and got in trouble.
Question: Is the saxophone a brass or a woodwind instrument? Answer: Yes.
The concertmaster of an orchestra is always the person who sits in the first chair of the first violins. This means that when a person is elected concertmaster, he has to hurry up and learn how to play a violin real good.
For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music. You just watch.
Anyone who can read all the instrument notes at the same time gets to be the conductor.
The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose.
Musical instrument has a plural known as orchestra.
It is easy to teach anyone to play the maracas. Just grip the neck and shake him in rhythm.
Just about any animal skin can be stretched over a frame to make a pleasant sound once the animal is removed.
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Great to share such pieces with someone who appreciates the many shades of the English Language, KS. :)
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