One of my colleague who observed my iPod song collection put it a truly spot-on comment: “Ben, I noticed you shut off your musical exploration after early 90s”. Indeed. When the alternative/grunge music started to conquer the rock scene, leaving the long haired metal bands as trend of the past and omitting guitar solo on…
Category: Music
‘We Will Rock You’
Pardon me for being too ignorant with the opera for all of this time. I never watched any single play in an opera, I am never interested with the likes of “Hamlet”, and I found opera is too “sophisticated” for my liking. Until last Saturday. I was in Singapore last weekend with my wife (Elok)….
iPod Helps Rediscover My Hobby
During my high school and college years, one of my favourite activity on my spare time was listening to the music. Listen with capital ‘L’. I dug the songs so much, listened to every bit of snare drums, guitar riffs, and keyboard chords while reading the lyrics and other musical information that came with the…
My Top 10 Rock Albums
I grew up listening to rock music. I and my brother once had hundreds of cassettes collection, ranging from Hard Rock, Heavy Metal to Thrash Metal. We placed Kiss, Van Halen, Motley Crue posters all over our room’s wall. When we were in college, we tried to mimic our idol by sporting long hair. I…