Welcome to The Art of Music!!!

Hi everyone.. This will be the first of many postings Celine Lao Shi and I will be putting up at the website. So team AOM members, do put your comments in here cos we wanna know how you feel about the issues that we talk about.

First of all, I wanna thank Team AOM for their efforts in the recently concluded Dumpling Festival and the Kampong Ubi Family Carnival. You guys were great and I am really proud of all of you. Some of you really took the oppurtunity to show me what you can produce.

It is really satisfying to see everyone improving. I wanna raise Benedict as a specific example because I think he has shown tremendous progress since the first day I started teaching him. I can still remember the first time I taught him, he was a shy little boy refusing to even do a simple self-intro in front of his singing class. He made the whole class wait for him for almost 10mins (because I refused to continue the class to force him out of his shell) before he decided to step up. Oh boy, his 'mei lan' song one month ago brought the crowd to their feet and even impressed our artiste management team. Terrific.

The news of Meryl leaving Singapore Idol comes to a shock to everyone who knows her, and almost everybody here at The Art of Music. I know many of you are wondering why Meryl quit. I have spoken to her and I would say I respect her decision to do so. I shall not divluge her reasons but we all wish her well! Hope to see ya soon!

Last but not least, The World Cup is coming to an end. Hahaha.. that would mean no more staying awake to struggle through the games for me and Amos Ang. Better start preparing for exams!! And for those out there revising for your papers, all the best to you!!

Love,
Kok Leong