Children's Rhyme, Class and Ceremony

Smlm sempat squeeze utk Aisyah gi Nursery Rhymetime dekat Central Library Plymouth. Sbb masuk2 dah start 5 minit, maka duduk tepi2 gitu. Ramai org dan penuh dah biliknya. Note: Next time harus dtg awal2, supaya Aisyah bole main dlm circle dgn budak2 baya dia.

Actually, for first timer mcm Aisyah ok gak kot gi lambat, sbb x de la dia overwhelmed sgt, duk di khalayak ramai jd centre of attention gitu. Budak2 yg dah biasa tu aku tgk dok swimming kat tgh2 bulatan (parents duk dlm bulatan), sambil nyanyi2. Ramai yg masih baby / newborn yg x tau apa2 lg, tp parents bawak juga n dukung2, just saja nak exposed kan kpd environment luar kot. Aisyah masa awal2 tu had still been clinging to me, pelik kot tgk ramai2 nyanyi2 kuat2, tp by the end of the half hour session dia dah senyum2, tepuk2 tgn dan mula panjat2 Ibu dia nak tgk budak2 lain.

Ok, konfem next week kena bawak lagi. All the while, Hubs dok belek2 buku kat reading area library tu. Ada ke patut dia kata segan nak join? Ada je bapak2 dlm tu, tp sgt minority la. Ala... org pregnant belom ada anak pon ada je pergi, so xde masalah sebenarnya aku rasa.

Aku yg blur2 ni dapat la ikut ujung2 nursery rhyme tu. Kebanyakan yg familiar mcm 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' or 'Old McDonald Had A Farm', 'Incey Wincey Spider' or 'If You're Happy And You Know It...' tu, bole la aku nyanyi sepenuh hati mcm nyanyi bawak lagu kat karaoke kan. Tp ada a few yg aku x biasa dgr, aku rasa British-based, hence kita2 masa kanak2 x exposed sgt, sbb Msia ni media dia feed directly from US, (x caya psg la Channel Disney, semua slang US, x de yg slang British sgt), haaa... yg ni kira miming je la ye.

X pe, yg penting join. Aku dah dig out kat YouTube dah, and nak tepek kat sini, supaya lepas2 ni aku n Aisyah bole karaoke berduet kat umah, and bole sama2 join kat Nursery Rhymetime kat library tu lg. X de la nmpk outcast sgt kan... Also, supaya kalo Ayah Aisyah free2 ke, sila la hafal2 kan ye lirik ni. Maybe after this, korg leh gi berdua je ke library, idak la perlu Ibu temankan every single time... (took my time out of lab tuh, tp anak punya development punya pasal... setengah jam seminggu x kan la nak berkira kan?) :P

1) Wheels on the Bus

2) 5 Little Ducks

3) The Bear Went Over The Mountain

Ok cukup la tu utk minggu ni. Byk lagi dia nyanyi, tp x ingat semua. Btw, smlm ada dia suruh vote utk nursery rhyme paling popular, aku vote 'Incey Wincey Spider'. Ni faveret aku (bukan faveret Aisyah -- apo la Ibu excited lebih nih!). Anyway, the survey had been conducted nationally, and the result was, 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' rupanya yg paling glamer. Oh well...

Ini dia piccies of yesterday dpn library. Lps sesi rhymetime smlm ada dpt 3 bijik buku free. Tp tggal dua je sbb suruh Aisyah pegang satu on the way balik umah, tau2 dah hilang. Terjatuh la tu kot :P

Aisyah masam sbb panas n silau

Aisyah posing ngan buku2 free. Punya kerajaan dia nak tanamkan minta membaca kan, pegi sesi rhymetime je dpt buku free dah 3 bijik

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Ok, tukar topik sket. Memandangkan ini hari Jumaat, and usually Jumaat is 'post-your-bahan-ilmiah' day (lanjutan meeting Sv yg sokmo pada hari Jumaat), ini dia post ilmiah aku hari ni.

Prof aku bentang seminar ini hari, tajuknya Artificial Life for Music: On Making Music with Computer Models of Living Systems.





Kacak x Prof? hehe..

Pergh... gile best. Bidang aku ni basically about taking in inspiration from living things and evolce it through computer music modelling, i.e. study the plants' recursive growth patterns and make music out of it, or to study the swarming patterns of bees generate automatic composition from it... Mmg inspired la dgr seminar td. This exploitation of living beings' pattern is also called Cellular Automata, and can be used not only is music, but in formation of crystals, gasses, reaction-diffusion in chemistry, formation of insect colonies, ecosystem, development of organisms, traffic, urban growth, and spread of diseases... mcm2 bole....!

Things yg aku suka dgn seminar ini ialah:

- diorg x tekankan equation, codes, etc, but they want to get the audience to understand how they derive at it, pendek kata, diaorg akan sungguh2 explain what had inspired them and all the methods they had done, in the most basic English as possible, without drowning their audience into formulae yg ntah apa2. That I like, sbb it appears that layman person yg neither musician nor programmer mcm aku pon bole paham.

- slides sket n words pendek2 je on screen. It's the explanation from the heart yg diorg slalu bg. This I am very inspired and awestruck, sesuatu yg made me relaize that I need to change my style of presenting sbb terlalu factual so far, x de ulasan2 from personal experience, etc.

- xde org yg suka tanya soalan yg condescending. Selalunya soalan diaorg genuine, bkn soalan menduga akal

- start and habes on time. This I also gotta learn to select the most important bits from my slides la (I have a presentation coming in November -- panic!)


Tp still, skurg best tang makan2 afterwards. Sini x de makanan langsung, not even a lousy bagel and coffee pon :(


Ok la, pjg giler entry today. Sbnarnya byk lg yg rasa nak share drpd hasil seminar td, tp nak get cracking on coding la plak.

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Satu lg, nak ckp, my bro Abe is getting engaged tomorrow (Saturday - Msia time). All the best to him. How I wish all of us could be there, tp apa bole buat. Actually, last week, my BIL baru got engaged jgk (adik Hubs), so mmg dua2 belah pon satu-sama la skang, x dpt balik utk mana2 pihak. Sedey la jgk sket2, tp x kan la nak suruh org put a halt plak on their lives sbb kitaorg kat sini kan. Btw, percaturan ni semua pon kuasa Allah, before kitaorg dtg UK, dua2 pon (my Bro and BIL) masing2 ngakk berpunya lg. Xde angin, x de pokok, tiba2 masing2 bertunang slps raya. Kitaorg bole kirim doa je la ye smg majlis berjalan lancar, dan ikatan suci ni direstui Allah, (tp ikatan ni bukan lesen Agong tahu?). Cepat2 la halal kan, baru la selamat.... Insya Allah...