Yelling
I have to stop yelling at my son, especially when he played with my CDs! But I don't know how, because I would be really mad every time he played with my CDs!!
posted by Andy at 6/11/2008 08:38:00 PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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9 Comments:
then don't let him to play :P
of course we tried, but it is not always possible, if you know what I mean.
how about locking them up?
Not too sure about your home setting, but there are lots of locking mechanisms that you can use.... even a velcro type would save you a lot of yelling.
Or better still, hide all your CDs away!
I have more than 4,000 CDs and they occupied half of my living room's space - can you tell me how to lock them up?
storage... I mean seriously. Mini stores... for about a few hundred a month, you can keep them away from your home. Get them out for display again when the kiddo's older (which will be like no time).
Hi there,
I just happened to bump into your blog when I was surfing to find any comments on HKPO's Leningrad last night. I don't have any kids at home now but I once did have to put up with my baby niece for 2 years when she was being looked after by my mom. My collection of classical music wasn't exactly worth bragging about at that time but WE all cherish our collections great or small regardless. I never like yelling at kids as it never does anything useful except to vent out your frustrations. What I did was to replace the the bottom 2 shelves of CDs with empty dummies and after a while the novelty and wonder of flipping open each empty CD case became such a bore that she no longer pay any more attentions to them again. This didn't turn her off classical music though-now she has reached performance levels in piano and flute and has also taken up singing while still having time to study and run experiments in her lab. I often attributed my part in her cultivation when I got her interested into Mahler's Wunderhorn cycle when she was about 4. She liked that song about the Donkey the most and I have to say Thomas Hampson's rendition was quite accurate there.
With iTune and iPod, I don't need the CDs anymore. Of course, still want to keep them but no need to display them conveniently so that I can get any of them when I need it.
Understand you are proud to display your CDs but does it worth ruining the relationship with your son? Like what aulina said, store them up until you son gets older.
Thanks for all your advice. I don’t think it is practicable to store all my CDs, because I have to listen to them on a regular basis. What I am currently doing is to make it difficult for anyone to pull out any CDs on the bottom four levels of the shelves (to make them as packed as possible). But then I guess I’ll have to live with the fact that kids would play with my CDs for another few years.
BTW, the Leningrad Symphony under Atherton’s baton was just overwhelming. I had the intention to attend the Sat concert after attending the Fri one!
"The French horns sounded exactly like an elephant blowing its nose with the dirty vibratos save the snot." With an impression like this that blighted my experience with Artherton's Sibelius Cycle last year I attended the Leningrad concert with a sense of foreboding. Not a very good start.
The start-off featured the slender soloist whose slight frame instilled not much confidence into me-a voluminous thorax is a must to blow a trumpet with any degree of virtuosity. Her technique may be good, I'm no expert here but at least the distinct lack of sonorousness in most passages and particularly in the last movement seems to justify my view. By the way, she looks better when she wears her blond hair in a bobtail-she has a graceful nape, why hide it from view?
After the intermezzo, the seats seemed to be better filled-or was I just imagining? The opening applause was more energetic and Artherton took his baton with more form this time and the lofty theme that began this barbarous 1st movement soared. The truculent theme, masquerading at first like a fanfare, pays homage to Bolero was remarkably well played by each section of the orchestra and particularly the strings-very rich and sweet indeed. The percussionists did extremely well through out and the build-up to the crescendo was simply a tour de force. The ensuing anticlimax was also well paced and played.
The 2nd movement and 3rd movement both saw the best quality of the string section of the HKPO that equals to some of the best orchestras in the world. I could be mistaken to be listening to the Philadelphia under Ormandy. In fact, the preceding movement was really a warm up to what lied ahead, it seemed.
The last movement was a slight let down, it was rendered too transparent, too crisp without the usual heaviness that normally makes the transition more powerful and moving. It was still a triumph of sound nonetheless, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The elephant must have taken a heavy dose of decongestant as my foreboding didn't materialized. The brass section did lived up to expectations.
How was your 2nd night of concert? Did the warm-up help to deliver in the same calibre again?
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