I don’t even remember when was the last time I updated the page. Due to the publishing of Fiona’s book “Tulit luokseni kutsumatta“, I decided to work on the page again. I am not sure whether I still remember the technicality of updating the page but this is too good and huge an event not […]
It has been a while since my last update. The trip to Tonga went very well and it was good to visit home especially to see my mother and relatives in Auckland and of course the rest of the “kainga” in Tonga. In addition to my partner, Kirsi, my daughters Fiona and Tahine, and Ipu
Last night I finally put up to YouTube the Lord’s Prayer singing by our choir, Ora in Tongan. I think, we did ok :-). We have sung few other songs in Tongan and last month we had the multicultural service at our Herttoniemi church where we sang also some of the songs from the Tongan
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I just uploaded the “E Tamai e” to facebook and am very satisfied that is done. There are still others of course but at least this one is done :-). I am not sure whether I mentioned already that I am planning to visit Tonga in the autumn in order to take the hymn books
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I finally finished the video for “Haleluia”. It has been sitting in my file for a while. Am glad is done and over with, :-). Will try to work on the next one soon. It seemed the work is piling up as days go… I am already started to work on the next year trip
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Malo e lelei everyone! We have enjoyed a lovely warm and a long summer here in this part of the world. I have added two more YouTube videos of the songs, what an achievement on my part. Am more excited about my learning process than the result :-). Am not so sure about the result
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On Wednesday, I uploaded the first YouTube video of the Hymn Book after working on it for few weeks. First trying to figure out which program to use… I finally decided to go with the Davinci Resolve 15. It took a while before I learnt the basic and on Wednesday uploaded the my first video.
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Last week the hymn book was sent for printing. I am waiting eagerly to see the result. It will probably ready on Friday. After many years, it is finally done, hallelujah. Soon, will start thinking about getting it to Tonga. Anyway, it is another day’s problem. Will celebrate first then continue with the next stage
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I have talked with Marianne who wanted to help with the lay out of the hymn book. I was so happy that she was willing to work on my project. I met her yesterday at Antti’s place, they had a band practice, she is one of the Umba‘s players. I sent her the materials and
I have been working on the page for a while but I have not publicized it yet even it has been online already. I want to publish the book first then share the page and perhaps all the ideas for the page will be ready. I have got few offers about printing the hymn book.