PSY’s Gangnam video reached a milestone that’s hard to catch up

A few days ago, in YouTube history, Gangnam Style has become the most popular YouTube video and it has outpaced Justin Bieber’s Baby (804 million views) last Friday. To date, PSY’s Gangnam Style has reached 825 million views and at the rate it is going, they have predicted that it could reach the 1 billion mark before the year end.

Now that’s such an amazing feat and it has an average of 6.1 million daily views.. How I wish that’s the statistics for my website *lol* Sorry to Bieber fans though it’s not such a big deal, right? Well done, PSY.. Now the question mark remains… will his next song or music video bring the same attention?

 

A message from Lily Chiam, owner of Expression Music
 

Expression Music Academy took centre stage yesterday at ‘The Heart Sings’ charity concert, held at the atrium of the Airport Mall in Berakas.

The venue was packed with fans some even watching from the balconies of the second floor eager to hear the musical talents of students of the academy.

Among those present at the concert were Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Datin Paduka Hjh Adina Othman, Expression Music Academy owner Lily Chiam, Assistant Managing Director at Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Hj Puasa Hj Jumat, Executive Operational Trustee of Pusat Ehsan Pg Datin Hjh Noraini PDNLDR Pg Hj Abd Momin and other event partners.

The audience were entertained by a number of performances, including a song called Triumphant Lead written by Lily Chiam herself, and performed by a group of female violinists.

As the event was organised for charity, Datin Adina presented cheques worth $1,500 to both Pengiran Muda Mahkota Al-Muhtadee Billah Fund for Orphans and Pusat Ehsan, which was raised from concert proceeds.

In her speech, Datin Adina emphasised that music is more than entertainment, and that music can be a tool for education as well as a great avenue for creativity.

She also added that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports supports the promotion of arts, culture and music that benefits the country and believes that with proper guidance, young music students can be developed to become great performers in the future. Text and images courtesy of Anwar Rosly of The Brunei Times.

Expression Music Academy’s violinsts performing yesterday

   

Woww!! Amazing numbers… There have been dozens of runs this year in Brunei alone and I’m not sure if any of the regional countries are as active as Brunei when it comes to hosting running events. Three banks organised three big ones respectively, followed by other organisers and the numbers have so consistent for the past few months.

Yesterday more than 5,000 people took part in the first ever “Larian Bandar 2012” to mark the 42dn anniversary of renaming Bandar Brunei to Bandar Seri Begawan. The event was organised by BSB Municipal Department in cooperation with CityNeon and Armtrix Enterprise Company.

The guest of honour was Pehin Datu Lailaraja Major General (Rtd) Dato Paduka Seri Hj HalbiHj Md Yussof, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs. Also running was Her Royal Highness Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah and Pengiran Seti Aminah Pengiran Othman. 

For those running the 21km, the timing chip results are out on www.larianbandar.com and well done to the organisers as well as the participants who took part.