家

星期天，一位姐妹問我甚麼時候回家。我不加思索就說，下午吧。原來她的意思是我何時回香港，但我的家現在是在美國。這幾天再想想這個問題，究竟我最渴望的家在哪裏？神的家，還是未來的天家？我的家在哪裏，我的心也會在那裏。

5 minutes singer

I am going to present this in Toastmaster some day but let me capture the points before I forgot.

The 3 important aspects of singing are Breathing, Pronunciation and Tone.

Breathing
1. Stretch your body and rib cage just like you warm up before exercise (I cannot illustrate here).
2. Breath in down to your stomach, not to your throat. Your throat must be relax or you will not sing in tune. You will feel your rib cage expanding on your back.
3. Sound is produced by splitting air. (Take a look at recorder or flute). Your soft palate serves this function. To learn direction air to the soft palate, try closing your lips with teeth not touching. Pronounce the sound "Hmm".
4. Your vocal chord vibrates but the sound resonance in your head through air flow. To keep the air flow and best resonance, keep your tongue forward touching your teeth and drop your jaw.

Pronunciation
1. Your lips and your tongue changes the pronunciation, not your throat.
2. You pronounce some words differently in singing. For example, Angel, Sing.
3. Pronounce the v sound in valley by bitting your lower lip.
4. The Wh sound in where should be pronounced as "Hware". The H sound starts the air flow for the word.
5. Be careful of the Th sound in Thy. It should never sounds like Die.
6. If the word starts with a vowel, you should add the consonant of the previous word. For example, Mary's (s)asleep.

Tone
1. Never tighten your throat or your will not sing the correct not. A tighten vocal chord gives you a different frequency of vibration.
2. Hear the note in your head before you sing it out. Do not try adjusting the tone
with your throat. Sing it correct the first time. If you know the note is out of tune, do not sing it. Do not settle for the wrong note.

Even though I can tell you how sing in 5 minutes, you have to practice on your own everyday to see improvements.