<![CDATA[Music?]]>Just wondering, what sort of music do the kiasuparents here listen to? 😎

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/2808/musicRSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 20:38:30 GMTTue, 21 Apr 2009 05:31:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:33 GMT]]>

phankao:


So how did dd like it?

When I bring the young ones, I always look at the program 1st and if the item they are interested in, is in the 1st half, I'd b prepared to leave at intermission, for eg.
To my delight, she loved it. πŸ™‚

If it helps, here was my complete strategy:

1. I picked her up only after she had her afternoon nap at childcare. Very important otherwise by the intermission she'd probably be tired = very cranky.

1a. As we arrived early at City Hall, I brought her up to Robinsons and bought her a toy. (This step only if you feel like it lah).

2. We had a nice dinner before the concert at Ichiban Boshi, Esplanade. Surprisingly her meal of half-udon + 1xsushi + drink only cost me about $10. Less after $10 voucher from my fuyu loyalty card...

3. Make sure she pees before concert.... (twice).

4. I bought two seats at Balcony (E) - because I believed she would not appreciate sitting still in the \"crowded\" foyer. The nice view helps, as does the fact that she won't disturb others seated nearby.

5. Communication is important - but since you can't talk during the concert, I brought along her favourite notebook and a pen, and we scribbled messages to each other during the concert. She wrote her reactions to the orchestra, music, etc. Also produces a nice souvenir at the end.

6. Finally of course, realistically friendly programme. I was a little concerned at the long 20-minute first movement of the Emperor, but she enjoyed both pieces.

Me: \"would you like to come again?\"
DD: \"YES!\"

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/26513https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/26513Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:57:35 GMT]]>

sashimi:
I'm bringing my DD to her first serious classical concert this Friday at the Esplanade. The SSO is playing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony. :).

So how did dd like it?

When I bring the young ones, I always look at the program 1st and if the item they are interested in, is in the 1st half, I'd b prepared to leave at intermission, for eg.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/26487https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/26487Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:57:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:45:55 GMT]]>I like almost everything. From Jay Chou to Rihana to soundtracks (I love Twillight) to Qi Qin to Hong Kong singers (Alan Tam, Andy Lau) to Jose Gorban, Jason Mraz (I love Jason !), Rod Steward ..... My ipod is full of rojak ! But most importantly, I try to listen to what my girl is listening to and like what she likes. πŸ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25438https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25438Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:45:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:16:15 GMT]]>I'm bringing my DD to her first serious classical concert this Friday at the Esplanade. The SSO is playing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony. πŸ™‚


I listen to \"classical\" music, but my tastes range from the Early Music era (circa 11-14th centuries) to about the mid-1950s. In my opinion, musical genres are not always helpful, since, for example, Early secular music was the \"pop rock\" of its time, and Handel's oratorios were the British 18th century equivalent of today's musicals, plus today's cinema scores are often composed in \"classical\" style.

I also listen to J-pop/rock a lot.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25431https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25431Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:16:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:57:14 GMT]]>

MLR:

Can only listen to classical/instumental when DH is not hime, he can't stand it :roll: Don't quite fancy class 95, cos don't like one of the DJ, she just too much of herself, when on air can't stop talking about herself and worst is that she like to share stuff thats just too personnal for me :shock: (my apologies to all her fans here, strictly my personnal view).
Ha! In fact we only listen to Class95 occasionally now, don't know who the DJs are. It's best to tune in after 10pm, solely songs.... go best when the MJ game's on. 😎

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25363https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25363Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:57:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:04:29 GMT]]>Speaking of overseas radio channel, there are a lot of good internet radio channels out there. Personally I would recommend DI.FM


http://www.di.fm/ they have LOADS of channels catering to different tastes, running 24/7, so I daresay listeners really spoilt for choice. Personally I favourite the Eurodance channel :lol:

p.s. who's the 2nd person who voted for techno? :oops:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25266https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25266Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:04:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:58:58 GMT]]>

thebusybee:


MLR
I guess we belong to same era πŸ˜„

DH discovered the new station FM96.3 with nice music interlude, all of us love it. Since birth, DS fall asleep in the calm and serenity music at night.

Not forgetting Class95 though, our all-time fave. 😎
:celebrate:

Can only listen to classical/instumental when DH is not hime, he can't stand it :roll: Don't quite fancy class 95, cos don't like one of the DJ, she just too much of herself, when on air can't stop talking about herself and worst is that she like to share stuff thats just too personnal for me :shock: (my apologies to all her fans here, strictly my personnal view).

Class96.3 is cool, but most weekends DH prefers to llisten to overseas stations online, thats why we invested on some good speakers for PC πŸ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25250https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25250Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:58:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:54:51 GMT]]>I like Josh Groban. Not sure which category he falls into?


I like oldies and disco music too πŸ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25249https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25249Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:54:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:50:34 GMT]]>

nightsky87:
Just wondering, what sort of music do the kiasuparents here listen to? 😎

I have Symphony 92.4 on! And I listen to Western & Chinese classical ! Amazing huh? I never used to like either of these types of music. Used to like Richard Clayderman & Jazz like Kenny G, and other off-beat rhythms, but surprisingly these days I find music types like clayderman really shallow!

Somehow, the classics are what our kids like - don't ask me why. I didn't even bring them up that way. :? And I grew to appreciate them as well. :!: 10 years ago, if you ask me to watch/listen to Chinese traditional music, I'd be like *roll eyes*!. :shock: Strange, huh?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25248https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25248Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:50:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:55:25 GMT]]>

MLR:
My choice is music, no lyrics, so classical or just instrumental. My office radio would tune in to class 90.5 which plays more oldies. When DH is home, it would be more R&B, which is better than those rap πŸ˜› (to me, rap is like some nonsensical that was made up to legally rejoice swearing/cursing) that he loved so much when i first met him. To expose DS to his dad's culture, we would also tune in to radio stations online during weekends that plays parang/calyso/reggae. DS loves them, sometimes he would request and would dance to the tunes, which is really cute. :love:

MLR
I guess we belong to same era πŸ˜„

DH discovered the new station FM96.3 with nice music interlude, all of us love it. Since birth, DS fall asleep in the calm and serenity music at night.

Not forgetting Class95 though, our all-time fave. 😎

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25208https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25208Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:55:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:33:34 GMT]]>

mincy:
from time to say goodbye (opera?) to who let the dogs out?! (don know the name of the song...just ds like to sing along when it is on the radio)

Andrea Bocelli - Con te Partiro? Haha and the 'who let the dogs out' song is by Baha Men.. Very varied taste haha..

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25205https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25205Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:33:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:36:54 GMT]]>I actually listen to a wider variety than sashimi, even when we both listen to classical music, our tastes also vary. However, I love rock best but don’t get much of a chance to listen to it at home since sashimi doesn’t have a ear for it and we agree that we should play less rock and more, er, "ear-friendly" and "brain-friendly" music at home.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25186https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25186Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:36:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:20:11 GMT]]>My choice is music, no lyrics, so classical or just instrumental. My office radio would tune in to class 90.5 which plays more oldies. When DH is home, it would be more R&B, which is better than those rap πŸ˜› (to me, rap is like some nonsensical that was made up to legally rejoice swearing/cursing) that he loved so much when i first met him. To expose DS to his dad's culture, we would also tune in to radio stations online during weekends that plays parang/calyso/reggae. DS loves them, sometimes he would request and would dance to the tunes, which is really cute. :love:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25167https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25167Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:20:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:15:20 GMT]]>ha ha I listen mostly to oldies and songs are like are usually classified as retro now. We listen to occaional jazz and classical or whatever DS wants when we are in the car. When he is 2-3 he will go I don’t like this music! and we change …his taste can be really varied though. from time to say goodbye (opera?) to who let the dogs out?! (don know the name of the song…just ds like to sing along when it is on the radio)

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25164https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25164Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:15:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:12:29 GMT]]>Looks like I belong to the \"older\" group as listening to the classics of 60s-80s.... 😒

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25163https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25163Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:12:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:11:47 GMT]]>Same as Jedamum, I'm into oldies too.. even when I was in Primary Sch, I loved my dad's gen songs of Elvis, Frank Sinatra, etc..


OLDIES ARE GOODIES.. πŸ˜›

This reminds me..when I started my first job, we freshies referred to the seniors as 'THE AUNTIES' (in their 30+), now seeing the gen of 1980+ working together, I guess we realized we have become the 'THE AUNTIES' leow.. 😞

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25160https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25160Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:11:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:58:55 GMT]]>I wake up every morning to the music on class 95 (i think) playing songs by Beatles, Air supply, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton John (heard one of her songs this morning)... Very telling, isn't it?


When my girl is back, I will have to listen to all the J-pops... of which a few are my favourites too...

Good thing my son is not into music... :lol:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25158https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25158Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:58:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:47:51 GMT]]>Very true! when we're older, the music we grew up with becomes the new 'oldies' :lol:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25155https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25155Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:47:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Music? on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:40:15 GMT]]>I used to laugh at my parents when they tune in to the oldies.

Now I find myself tuning in to the oldies of my time... πŸ˜‰

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25152https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/25152Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:40:15 GMT