Database.

I spent the whole day working at home. I was working on ASP.NET and databases – MySQL and Access to be exact. Normally I wouldn’t be so hardworking to work on a Sunday, but I realised that I need to really know much more than what I normally do in order to teach the kids better.

As such, it was a long day battling with programming codes on my MacBook – and suddenly I realise how much I appreciate having Windows on my MacBook.

I only have to work for 2 days this week because of the Easter holidays, so after Monday and Tuesday I would have a week of holidays which is good for me to recuperate. But after that week of holidays, I’ll have to slug it out until the end of semester – June to be exact – without the luxury of this kind of week-long holidays.

Back to work tomorrow – hope everything would turn out to be OK.

Concert.

I went for Janice’s concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum this evening and for a music event, I don’t think I can complain much because Janice really can sing. She’s got a great voice to start with and her performance was top-notch. But as a concert, I don’t think satisfied would be the word I’ll choose to describe the concert because the whole thing felt as if a massive karaoke session, just that there was only one singer (or two, if you include Jill who appeared as a guest) in the whole show. In other concerts you would have a group of people who would do the backup voices to the artist, but there wasn’t any in Janice’s concert this evening. Also, probably because this was Janice’s first concert, she doesn’t seem to know how to react or conduct herself in the concert, so there were a few points in time that the concert actually felt boring. Thank God Janice has got a great voice to compensate for all these apparent shortcomings – at least I don’t have to endure to some Hong Kong artists who can’t sing and yet are churning out concerts like nobody’s business.

I even got a few good pictures of Janice during the concert!

Well those pictures weren’t really taken by me – I got them outside the Coliseum at the end of the concert (for $30 I got an A3 picture, a couple of smaller ones and a CD of about 40 pictures – and that was a decent deal). But then I didn’t leave empty-handed as far as taking pictures are concerned. I know my camera was not equipped to take pictures in the dark, so this was the best effort that I made:

At least I can see Janice in the picture – but this only made me feel more hard done by because if I had a better camera, I would have gotten a lot of better shots, considering that when Janice was at her nearest point to me, she was just about 10 metres away! Another reason to get a new camera then.

Next week I’ll be at the Hong Kong Coliseum again for Ayumi Hamasaki’s concert! Certainly looking forward to it!