My Longkang

I can still the remember hearing on the radio of the death of John Lennon. John Lennon was one of the founders of The Beatles. He later branched out solo.
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Actress Farrah Fawcett died of cancer on Thursday (25th June) at 9.28 am (1628 GMT) at St John’s Health Centre in Santa Monica. Her friends and family were at her side when she took her last breath.
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Like many others I was totally stunned when I heard Michael Jackson had passed away. I will remember the moment as well as I remember the moment I heard Princess Diana had passed away. Michael Jackson after all was the man who defined music for more than a decade.
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David Carradine : The passing of a legend 1936-2009

David Carradine :

What happens in a man’s life is already written,
man must move through life as his destiny wills,
yet each man is free to live as he chooses,
though they seem opposite, both are true

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Met Lerry Silas at the longhouse. I have heard he is the hottest sensation in Sarawak at the moment. He has just made an album. His most famous song is Kaban which he wrote himself, music, lyrics and all. He is a very talented man and much loved by the Iban community.

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I first came across this post on fishman He raised an interesting question in my mind. Do I prefer Fish Leong or Fong/Foong Fei Fei as a singer. Listen to both tracks. Who do you prefer? If you had only one ticket to a concert, whose concert would you go to?

Personally I would prefer Fong Fei-fei.

Born in Taoyuan County�s Dasi Township, Fong Fei-fei, the stage name of Lin Ciou-luan, started her legendary career by winning the first prize of a radio station singing contest in 1968 when she was a junior high school student. She then moved to the capital to become a restaurant and dance hall singer and eventually acted in television dramas. In the 1970s, Fong became one of the most popular singers and TV variety show hosts in Taiwan. She was at the forefront of the latest technological breakthrough in television–live-broadcast shows–which brought her singing and entertaining talents to the fore, like no other celebrity before her.

Fish Leong or Li�ng J�ngr�; born June 16, 1978 in Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia with family root in Shunde, Guangdong, China) is the stage name of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian Chinese singer in the Mandarin pop scene who has had much success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan. She is best known for her love-themed ballads, many of which have become popular KTV hits.

I woke up this morning and saw a familiar face on theStar:Tan Choon Hoe. Tan is of one the country’s foremost experts on his mother tongue, Hokkien. He has come up with a new book on how to speak the dialect.

It is a must buy for all Hockkien dialect enthusiasts. He explains it this way:“I wanted to preserve my mother tongue and see it used by as many people as possible. In these days of the Internet, I see parents everywhere speaking to their children in ‘international’ languages. I don’t dispute the value of this, but we should still try to keep our dialect alive.”

The books are available from most good book shops. From now till Oct, 30% of all sales will go to the Penang Adventist Hospital’s Fund for Needy Patients. If you would like to sponsor a certain number of books, PAH will re-sell the books and donate everything to the fund. For details, contact Tan at 012-482 0038.

Personally, I am hoping his book will be available online soon. I haven’t seen a copy of his book in the local book shops.