School Band - The yesteryears
I started taking up piano lessons when I was 4 in a Yamaha Music School. I hated it. At each class, I would turn off the volume on the electronic piano (Electone) so that no one would hear me play garbage. Whenever there were exams, our teacher would give us private one-to-one classes. For me, it would be a whole hour of crying as the teacher would hurl hurtful words at me. My mum realised those group classes weren’t for me and got me a private piano teacher. I didn’t enjoy it either, but was made to stick with it. I was exposed to the performing arts while I was very young. I joined the church children’s choir when I was 4 and then the school choir when I was 9. I had the opportunity whilst a very young child to sing in front of large crowds. I was in a large stage production called “Oh My Stars”, a Christmas musical, which was performed in an open air amphitheatre in Sentosa. I was in Kindergarten. Then when I was 10, I was in a large school concert for the school’s 60 th ...