Watched the T’ang Quartet perform for the Chamber Music Festival at the Esplanade and it was great. Apart from it being a string quartet, the pieces they choose were rather modern and I think Cheesecake and Percy found it fun and exciting too, considering that they aren’t really into classical music. Modern classical music is rather “noisy” and made exciting with the different ways string instruments can be played - bowed, plucked, slapped; left-hand pizzicato interleaved in the notes, intentional dissonance and “wolf tones” screeches, it’s just an amazing show. Short introduction to the second piece by the cellist which was quite entertaining as well. Got enough applause to get a chinese folk encore which I think they did deserve, though nothing more.

String quartets are the best. So much more fun than the piano concertos or the entire ochrestra. Chamber music is so fun. Ahh… Masterclass recital concert on Friday and Australian String Quartet on Saturday, but no $ to go. Anyway T’ang Quartet will be performing again on 15th May in The Bohemain Affair. $10 only for students. Anyone wanna go?

An interesting event in a webcast Math lecture caught on camera. I’m amazed but can’t say surprised that some guy would of a stun like this. Just seems weird to me that the girl doesn’t know. Thought such things only occur as marriage proposals.

Excerpt of the video: High quality AVI (12MB) | Low quality AVI (2MB)

This must be the most watched webcast lecture in NUS. Had 1200 hits on the day itself.