Lunch at San-Kai South Bank, Brisbane (布里斯本南岸公園--山海日式午餐)

San-Kai Japanese restaurant has opened for over just a month or two.  When it first started the waiting period during the lunch rush was too long to bear.  It was not caused by the amount of people waiting, but the slow service at the counter.

威爾第晚期大作-阿依達 Giuseppe Verdi-Aida

托同事的福, 昨晚去看了 Aida 的閉幕演出.  Grandioso, Brillante, Maestoso.  這幾個音樂術語不自主跳出來, 拿來用在 Aida 上真是再合適不過.

Max Brenner-South Bank Brisbane 布里斯本巧克力專賣店

The Counter-Brisbane

The word-wide chocolate brand Max Brenner now opens a new cafe at South Bank, Brisbane. For Brisbane people that's an exciting news.  More dining out choices around town with an expected steady standard will not do any harm.

Facilitating skills

Have been looking for facilitating resources after the workshops.  Spotted 2 books yesterday, although not ideal, it did have a noteworthy list of facilitating skills.

"2 in 1" Japanese Bakery, Adelaide Street, Brisbane-part 2 布里斯本日式烘焙坊

Have been to this Japanese bakery a few times now since it opened.  The cake & sweet selections are very nice.  Here goes some of my favourite.  Mousse cakes are generally delightful.

Adjudicating & Forum

Started working by 8am on Sunday, fortunately it was still cool in Brisbane.  No cars nor people on the street.  Went to the awards ceremony with the boss, just a few things to jog down for future references.

• When giving comments, be general and positive.  Address the attendees and prise the effort.  
• Short comments on the prize wining work (in another word, note down the qualities could be mentioned while examining).  
• Is there a general movement or feature?  Isn't there?  The reason?  any deduction/induction from the signs?
• breaking down the phrases' regularities by giving pre-set number of beats/notes.  random numbers e.g. phone no#.
• practice the establishment of tonal centre use the same scale.

After Workshop

戰戰兢兢的上完今天學生的大班課, 讓我想起剛入國中時, 在眾人面前發言就會緊張臉紅的往事. 據說因為微血管靠近表皮的關係, 臉紅又快又明顯. 這件事若講給國中後才認識的朋友聽, 大概沒幾個人相信吧.

"Garrick Ohlsson On Technique: Mastering the Paradoxical Element of Control" by Kathleen Riley with John Chong

Picture taken from http://www.claviercompanion.com/access 9 Oct 2010 Clavier Companion September/October 2010 Vol 2 No 5

The cover of the latest Clavier Companion September/October issue had "Garrick Ohlsoon Talks Technique" printed bold and large with his photo.  Ever since I went to his concert last July in Sydney, my curiosity of this great pianists floods by admiration.  This article claimed to reveal Garrick Ohlsson's playing magic by measuring his muscle tension and biomechanical movement.  Sounds just too interesting to be missed.