Thankful! for my BRAIN!

Today is another good day! =) How was yours?

Spent the morning working on cleaning up the vocals for B-I-N-G-O which were recorded last week, but I didn't get to finish it as I wasn't feeling well all week..... So it was good I managed to get it done today. Did I mention I had been trying to release a TCI kids CD for 4 years???

Well, I think this is the year which the first CD will be released!

Alexias and Serena's voices have matured abit but still sounding cute and fun! Gosh, listening to my very first composition of ABC, their voices really sounded so young and so sweet! I am glad our sound engineer, Dave, LOVES...... our 'Three Blind Mice!!! =) We've sent three songs to be mixed. ABC is done, next will be TBM and the third one is Twinkle Little Star! Did you know originally it has 7 verses? Well, it's not that long and Alexias did a great job singing it, 4 years ago!

The past few years I had been teaching and rearranging the music for some older classic pop songs, like Everyday People, Happy Together, a couple of Canton pop songs, like, I Really Love You, A Thousand Suns, which needs to be redone and vocals added. I still liked the arrangements for the English songs, but the Chinese ones need some more work.

In the meantime, I do have 3 new songs which were written just the past 2 months and I am so excited to work on the music! I Like Colours, Adorable Me and I Like My Brain!

I LIKE MY BRAIN!

One day during the younger kids' class, I asked the kids which part of their bodies do they like the most and the first kid quickly said 'I Like My Brain!' and another kid followed with ' I Like My Smelly Feet!' Of course I said it's hard to think as quick as they can, on how to incorporate 'smelly feet ' into a song..... mmm....

So, right there and then, I started to play the notes to 'I Like My Brain!'

I LIKE MY BRAIN, I LIKE MY BRAIN

I LIKE MY HAIR , I LIKE MY EYES

I LIKE MY HANDS, I LIKE MY HANDS

I LIKE MY MOUTH, I LIKE MY EARS!

The kids loved it!! I went back and asked TV, my oldest daughter, who was visiting last month, to help me finish off the song, with notes which Serena wrote down from the kids on what they said during class!!! =) So much fun!!

When we got back home, TV said it was so easy, she wrote the song in 20 minutes!!!

continued from above, by TV:

EVERY FINGER EVERY TOE

EVERY TOOTH, AND YES, MY NOSE

BUT ONLY MY MOMMY LOVES MY SMELLY FEET!! =)

I LIKE MY BRAIN I LIKE MY BRAIN

I LIKE MY CHEEKS I LIKE MY TUMMY

I LIKE MY KNEES I LIKE MY KNEES

I LIKE MY ELBOW I LIKE MY CHIN

BUT MOST OF ALL I LOVE MY MOMMY AND DADDY

AND THEY LOVE ME AND MY HEART

BUT MOST OF ALL I LOVE MY MOMMY AND DADDY

AND THEY LOVE ME FOR MY HEART!

Thanks to my lovely TV, not just for this song, but for the Spanish version to the same melody AND another Spanish version with a choreographed DANCE!!!! YEAH!! Will post the video of their rehearsal and the lyrics to the Spanish version soon!!! TV is a genius!!! =) And also much love to my little TCI kids for their inspiration! This song is for you all.

So thankful!

I remembered someone told me a long time ago..... when you are looking for answers, you don't have to look very far, as it's really so close that sometimes you don't realize it's right in front of you! ^ ^

Have a lovely day and keep smiling! =) Someone out there loves you!