Andy 60s Music Visits Dr Tan Licia At SNEC: You Can See "Eye To I".

The Singapore National Eye Centre next to the

Singapore General Hospital at Outram Road.

In the middle of what I knew would be a pleasant eye surgery, I tried to share my joy by mumbling my thoughts during sedation at the operating table with the friendly team in the theatre. And what did I tell them? I revealed to them that I have a music blog. 

"Crazy man crazy, crazy news!" [Bill Haley]. 

And it all happened while I was under anesthesia because that’s when the mind became relaxed and euphoric. Because of the state I was in the incident was totally out of my mind afterwards. Even forgot to tell my wife who accompanied me for the appointment.

A week later when I met my soft-spoken and charming lady doctor, TAN LICIA again for a post-surgical appointment, she mentioned that she checked this blog. 

Oh my, Dr. Tan.  "Goodness, gracious me!" [Peter Sellers].

I was totally surprised but thanked her for reading it. We got to talking as she revealed that she plays the piano with a family that loves music. Hubby too is an avid guitarist with their own children in audience. 

An AI illustration of eye surgery in an operating theatre.

Dr Tan is kind, friendly and as she gently snipped away the surgical stitches near my eye, she explained what I needed to do for aftercare. A professional surgeon indeed! And she mentioned, in all seriousness… “We need music in life.” 

"Thanks for all the joy they're giving

Who can live without it? I ask in all honesty

What would life be?" [Abba]

Before leaving I asked for a picture together. Wait. Was it allowed? The nurse had to find out about hospital protocol. She came back with a positive smile and took us.

Again, thank you Dr. Tan for the successful surgery; your pleasant ways; for reading this blog and for being a music lover.

Here's one doctor any patient could see, "👁 to I" with.

Comments are welcome.

With Dr. Tan Licia.

Disclaimer: 

Post is not written to promote any medical institution nor professional.

Images: Google, Meta AI, Andy.

Johnny Nash - 'I Can See Clearly Now' (Official Audio)

YouTube Video By: JohnnyNashVEVO

 

Andy 60s Music Celebrates Moon Cake Festival 2026

To all my wonderful readers, friends and 

contributing writers, enjoy your mooncake cheer.

But remember to eat healthy and stay safe.

*😎

Strange though; the mooncake-presentation boxes are getting

larger but the mooncakes inside are getting smaller.

And the ones with egg-yolk inside, cost a bomb!

Beethoven (Moonlight Sonata) 2 Hours

YouTube Video by: Rain Whisper Classics.

Thank You.

Beethoven — Moonlight Sonata Adagio 432Hz | Calm Piano for Sleep & Relaxation (2 Hours)

"Do All That U Do.

Best, To Do It In Moderation.

Be It Food, Drinks, Enjoyment, or Medication.

Do We, Eat to Live or Live To Eat. 😊

Please Stay Safe, Healthy n Remain Strong 

Like The Bright Autumn, September Moon.

[Merlin Lim] 👏🏻👏🏻😘❤️"

"Andy and Family. May your blessings be as full

and perfect as the Harvest Moon. Have a lovely

Mid-Autumn Celebration. 中秋節快樂! [Tan S.L.]"

Would be a peaceful world with the US and China 

together again. Cheers to Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi.

Moonlight greetings from lunar lovers.

Thank you all very much for 

MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL greetings:

Merlin Lim 

Fabian Foo

Chen Jen Tock

Steve Ho

Joey Koh 

Mark Quek

Jerry Saram 

Jimmy Chng

Chew Hee Hong

Ivor Lesslar

Cedric Cork

Vincent Tan

Anna Law

See Chun Sung

Richard Tham

Dr Phil Chan

Michael Bangar 

Jenny Bangar

Tan S. L.

Lim Kuan Min

David Wong 

Tan Soo Khoon

and thanks to many readers and friends who 

have been keeping in touch on SMS via WA daily.

.: Mooncake Festivals

Click connection to read.

Andy 60s Music Blog Reaches 6 Million+ Views In September, 2026

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@ 1.31pm on 23 September, 2026

but now...

andy 60s music blog 

has reached

6 MILLION+ views

@ 1.35pm

WOW, THAT'S

SUMTHIN' INDEED.

23 September 2026

THANKS VERY MUCH

 READERS, FRIENDS &

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS.

Images: google, ai.

comments

from you:

JOHN bt tan:

means all living in SG saw your blog.

👍👏👏

jimmy yap:

heartiest congratulations 6 million

viewers dear andy young.

john bt tan: 

we need to average out numbers.😋

george chew:

👌👍

steve ho;

thank you, sir, and congratulations!

Victor Lam:

congrats andy!!!

RICHARD THAM:

FANTASTIC AND CONGRATULATIONS

TO YOU ANDY.

danny koh:

Congrats andy

👍👏👏👏👏👏👏

charlie yap:

👍🌍🎶

merlin lim:

bravo andy. 6 million n counting.

feels like a speck of dust, amongst

the ocean of music lovers. 

thanks bro.👍👏😊

anna law:

wow... great job, andy!

 congrats!!! 👏👏👏👍👍👍

alvin goh:

wow u r fantastic man... 

glad to know... happy for you too.

paul ibrahm:

wow !!!

richard tham:

fantastic and congratulations to you andy!

ricky wong:

Wow, kudos to you. great news.

😍👏👏👍

ivor lesslar:

Congratulations!

WILFRED LIM CHENG HOCK:

Well done Andy. There is none other 

like your unique BLOG. GOD BLESS.

FABIAN FOO:

VERY GOOD ACHIEVEMENT INDEED...

CEDRIC COLLARS:

CONGRATULATIONS ON ANOTHER MILESTONE.

👏👍👍🙏

OLIVER BALASINGHAM:

CONGRATS ANDY!

ANDY;

THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES.

APPRECIATE. 🙏🙏🙏 

IRENE YAP:

i WAS RACKING MY BRAIN THINKING 

OF A WORD BIGGER THAN AWESOME, AND I GOT IT: SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS! 

CONGRATS ANDY.

mohd. jalani:

👍

jimmy chng:

Congratulations Andy! you've

officially become ' the six million

viewers man' !

JAMES HO:

👏

john cher:

heartiest congratulations 

😀👏👏👏💕💕

RICHARD THAM:

What a marvellous milestone achievement my dear Andy!

You truly deserve it.

LAWRENCE LIM:

A SATISFYING ACHIEVEMENT.

WORTH YOUR TIME AND EFFORT.

👏👏👏

YEN CHOW:

Andy, my heartiest Congratulations on hitting 

another milestone 6 MIL viewership! 

Awesome. Keep it up! Yen :D

ANONYMOUS:

What a marvellous milestone achievement my dear Andy!
You truly deserve it!!

ANONYMOUS:

Well done Andy. Congratulations for your hard work. 

I salute you👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

AND AFTER JUST ONE DAY, AT 3PM ON 24TH SEPTEMBER, 2026

BLOG REGISTERS @

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Andy 60s Music Discovers Korean Band, 'Rolling Quartz', Performing 'Bohemian Rhapsody.'

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody by Rolling Quartz 롤링쿼츠 

for US & Canada Tour 2026 미국 캐나다 투어 기념 

YouTube Video By: ROLLING QUARTZ official and Rolling Star TV.

While checking out for other cover versions of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' I found this one on YouTube. No, they are not BlackPink but another fantastic Korean Pop group that could interpret this hit so well I thought they deserve a posting accolade. Love them; hope you do too! 
💖

Glamorous group indeed.

Some comments would be nice!

South Korean Rock Band

Rolling Quartz is a South Korean rock band that made their debut on December 30, 2020. It consists of five members: Arem (bass), Iree (guitar), Hyunjung (guitar), Jayoung (vocals), and Yeongeun (drums). They were originally formed as two separate bands, Rolling Girlz and Rose Quartz, but merged into a single group. They have toured America, Canada and Europe.

Singapore Haze: Amazed! Dazed Neighbours Still Fazed About Haze

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     29 COMMENTS     

The big haze:

It all started in 2015 when this post was written 

and reposted in 2016 and 2019. 

We thought it would trouble us no more.

But it did come again in 2023.

Now it's here once more, in 2026

11 years on!!!

From 2015, 2016 and 12 September 2019 [above image] 

the haze came Home. 

Hazardous and horrible!

Will it ever end?

Then when

it was 2023 August, we thought

that was the end.

As usual the young school-going children were also 

badly affected... 

when it came back one more time... in 2026.

THE HAZE IN SINGAPORE: CAUSE AND GLOBAL CONSEQUENCE

Is It Clear?

Fourteen million plus hits on Google when you type, "Haze in Singapore." 

Call it what you may, haze or smoke which has been polluting this region for weeks now is not created by Mother Nature but by Man himself.  One thing is clear; our air is so foul and "poisonin' my oxygen" that it is frustrating everyone in the area.  Worse, it is making every creature, great and small, sick.

Every day fires are destroying the beautiful forests of Indonesia's South Sumatra, Riau and Kalimantan and simultaneously endangering the health of its own people and surrounding neighbours and little red dot, Singapore [written in 2015].

I'm a hungry planet

I had the bluest seas

Oh the people kept 
Choppin' down

All my finest trees (1).

The lyrics above were written by The Byrds way back in 1970 and described a situation that is still persisting today. Hungry Planet is one of many songs that deals with an on-going ecological disaster and the problem will never be resolved unless a certain country follows its own laws which forbid the use of fire to clear land.

Or Still Unclear?

Another thing is clear; we can't do anything because Singapore is like a David standing in front of a cigarette smoking Goliath. We have to inhale what Goliath exhales, and the *problem has persisted from as far back as 1972, more than 40 years since. 

The country in question has promised it will enforce its laws but nothing's been done so far [written in 2015]. A pop group from 1970, The Moody Blues, reminds us of the foulness in the air in a composition called, How Is It:

How is it we are here on this path we walk
In this world of pointless fear filled with empty talk
Descend from the ape as scientist-priest all think
Will they save us in the end, we're trembling on the brink (2).

Responsible Lyricists:

Like The Byrds and The Moody Blues, many famous pop composers and lyricists get serious and write about how Man has savaged and ravaged Mother Earth. So while some readers  think that the West are only writing frivolous rock and roll music these same pop stars are doing the world a favour by warning how our selfish attitude towards the environment is destroying and killing it:

Now the sun has come to earth
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death
Death comes in a blinding flash
Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash
And the sun has come to earth (3).

Only last night (5th October 2015), I saw our local news headlines on television feature young children in hospitals with asthma and with some seniors suffering from a skin ailment agitated by the haze. The Byrds lamented in the same song that this condition is:

Diggin' into my skin

Taking more out of my good earth

Than they'll ever put back in

I"m a hungry planet... (4)

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the established folk rock super group from the 70's stated that Clear Blue Skies were not much to ask for. They were here before creatures roamed the earth. Question is, "Will they be here when we're gone?" (5)

Optimism:

According to an **article, two-thirds of the fires in Indonesia occur on peat wetlands. It is not widely known that Indonesia has the largest tropical peat wetlands in the world but these places are definitely rich in biological diversity. Imagine the devastation going on at the moment with the fires in full force and its outcome afterwards.

Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas
Fish full of mercury
Ah oh mercy, mercy me
Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no
Radiation under ground and in the sky
Animals and birds who live nearby are dying
Oh mercy, mercy me. (6)

How long more do we have to take the haze and the continuing saga of earth's destruction? I remain optimistic so let's leave the last words to Tommy James and the Shondells:

Maybe tomorrow

When he looks down

On every green field, ooh ooh

And every town

All of his children

And every nation

They'll be peace and good brotherhood (7).

FOOTNOTES

Other Earth Songs:

Mother Nature's Son - The Beatles

After The Gold Rush - Neil Young 
Where Do The Children Play - Cat Stevens 

Big  Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell 
Don't Go Near the Water - The Beach Boys
Hole In The Sky - Black Sabbath

The Trees - Rush 

Calypso John Denver
Nobody's Fault - Aerosmith

Earth Anthem - The Turtles
Every Day Every Day Celebrate - John Denver
Sweet Baby James -James Taylor

Traffic Jam - James Taylor

Goodbye To A River - Don Henley

The Eagle and The Hawk - John Denver
Down By The River - Albert Hammond

Quoted Songs Are:

(1) Hungry Planet - The Byrds 

(2) How Is It? - Moody Blues

(3) The Sun Is Burning - Simon and Garfunkel

(4) Hungry Planet - The Byrds 

(5) Clear Blue Skies - Crosby Stills Nash and Young

(6) Oh Mercy, Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye

(7) Crystal Blue Persuasion- Tommy James and The Shondells

*Straits Times Press report and image: 13/10/1972.

**Straits Times Press: S. Jayakumar and Tommy Koh; The haze, international law and global cooperation - 6/10/2015 - Pg A20 Opinion.

**Straits Times Press: Bustar Maitar; Instead of pointing fingers, start restoring peatlands - 7/10/2015 - PgA21 Opinion.

You Tube Video: Crystal Blue Persuasion- Tommy James and The Shondells

Images, Chart and gif: Google.
http://weather.asiaone.com.sg/weather-airdetails.php?d=&m=pre&area=

SAVE THE EARTH CAMPAIGN

SLIP NOTE: 11th October, 2015.

Exhilarating news piece that Indonesia is finally getting help from some countries to help douse out the fire and according to The President Mr Jokowi, it must be effective two weeks from today.  Hopefully, we get fresh air again and also save "all creatures great and small", which include the orang utans too. 

TODAY 26TH AUGUST, 2016. HAZE STILL HERE.

Disclaimer: 

There is absolutely no intention to criticise or point a finger at any country regarding the haze situation. This article has been written in 2015 and in the daily newspapers these days, reports of another haze occurrence is possible [3.6.2023].

Back again Mr. Haze in September, 2026.

Mask Up Everyone !

It is debilitating. 

Hope she wins...

Andy 60s Music: Passing Away Of Aloysius Soh: Tribute By Michael.

 

Dear all,

It is with great sadness that I share the news that our dear friend, Aloysius Soh has passed away peacefully on 3rd Sep 2026.

This is a very difficult time for all of us who knew and cared for him. He was a wonderful friend and will be deeply missed. We will always remember him for the good times we shared, his kindness, and the memories he gave us.

Please keep Aloysius and his family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

May he rest in peace, and may his family find strength and comfort in the days ahead.

With deepest condolences,
Michael.

5/9/2026.

Thanks, Michael for the tribute.

Aloysius Soh is on the far left of picture.

Goodbye Aloy. May you Rest In Peace.

He was with this group LOCOMOTION and

other pop guitar groups too for many years.

Aloysius accompanied blogger during a 

show at the Esplanade in 2010.

Click Below To: 

.: Search results for Aloysius Soh

FROM WA:

CHARLIE YAP:

Aloysius' original band was Woodlanders,

initially managed by his dad and later by

his elder brother, Charlie Soh. Aloysius brought me

into Woodlanders, and I later invited him to join 

LOCOMOTION. He was the best lead guitarist we ever had.

IVOR LESSSLAR:

Deepest Condolences To All In The Family.

It's very sad to see one that we know going 

one by one...

RICKY WONG:

Good morning Andy.

RIP Aloy.

I attended his wake last night.

BORHANUDIN SALAM HANS SOLO:

GOD BLESS HIS SOUL.

JOHN CHER:

Aloysius was a wonderful 100% guy. He was a 

Master of his craft and unlike some of his friends,

he never had to prove anything. He was the lead

guitarist of arguably the best dance band in Singapore,

CHARLIE YAP LOCOMOTION. His special sound will be

sorely missed. May perpetual light shine upon Aloysius Soh.

JIMMY PRESLEE:

RIP.

PATRICK TENG:

Rest In Peace Aloysius Soh.

OLIVER BALASINGHAM:

RIP Aloy...

*ANDY:

Thank you all for sending your condolences through 

this blog. I knew Aloy when we were on stage together

at the Esplanade years go. Quiet and a truly dedicated

musician, he was serious with his craft. May Blessings 

keep you at Rest my friend and in Peace.

JIMMY CHNG:

I do not know Aloysius, but I've heard of the band

LOCOMOTION. Sad to learn of his passing. 

May he RIP.

CEDRIC COLLARS:

RIP Aloysius and may you have your heavenly peace. 

My condolences to your family and friends.

BERT CHEW:

Thanks for the music & the time we had together 

with Locomotion. Rest in peace brother Aloysius.