Cheng Jin=Smile For Life, For Ever!

A WELCOMING SMILE

Hey! I am Cheng Jin and welcome to my blog! All you readers out there are free to tag the tagboard yeah! :) Smile for life and be happy! =)
Best friends are forever loved. I love MUSIC, ESPECIALLY CLASSICAL MUSIC AND SOME POP MUSIC.
Loves K-pop too, and singers like Taeyon from SNSD, Kim Ah Joong, and more.
Hate me?click here & get lost!
My motto is, always help others and give the most to them! and be happy :)
"Do not judge others easily, for we don't have the time to love them." - Mother Theresa. <3

♥ Credits = DancingSheep

The One And Only Koh Cheng Jin.

HELLO i am Koh Cheng Jin. I am currently turning 15 this year. I am a girl, from SOTA's MUSIC FACULTY :D and SNYO's V2/V1.I love God and Life, and friends are very important to me. I love Beethoven and Plum blossom too. Plum blossom thrives in winter, and I admire their endurance, like those of Beethoven's. :)

Current favourite composers:

Mozart: Music that allows my soul to wander around, (joyful music) always never fail to put make me happy, (dark music) never fail to make me ponder about Mozart's other character which is not commonly seen.
Beethoven: Music that allows me to know him better, and to see how music is the best form of expression that should be hold in high reverence.
Tchaikovsky: Music that allows me to realise that...life= music, and romantic music are not always mushy like korean dramas' music. It can be dark too.
Bach: Music that (similar to Mozart) allows me to experience a roller-coaster ride and being in a forest with polyphonic animal/nature sounds.
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A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown

5:24 PM

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

BACK FROM OIP!!OMG. YUNNAN'S A FABULOUS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY <3 I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!

DID SO MANY FIRST TIMES...almost got pick-pocketed too. I remember that guy's face. He was smiling when he denied taking my wallet. Should be a futile attempt.

hmph. BUT the feeling's quite cool when my oip friends crowded around the man to prevent him from escaping. :D thanks everyone :) :) you guys are really a bunch of awesome OIP groupmates <3 Especially Min Ying. thanks for being so observant :D

Celebrated my birthday there too! 15 candles! It's been so long since i've so many candles, and with such a mega big delicious awesome cake :) and so many people (30+) celebrating it with me...thanks everyone! I really enjoyed 16/10/2011!

Xavier gave me an awesome Beethoven movie DVD, Keryn Liyan and Marissa gave me a pink rose with nice scent ^^, danielle gave me awesome music shoelaces(can wear together with my music epicsocks :D), 2 guys(if I'm not wrong, ryan and someone else?? I didn't see who because i kept my head low when they gave me the present-i was shy lah -.-) gave me a bracelet(hahaha), and Pingyu gave me a handmade DOLL! she sewn it herself..^^ Thanks everyone =D =D =D

I also made my first yangqin friend in the Yunnan Arts Institute! her name is Lee Yong Ting :D She's 18 years old and she's ALSO the ONLY Yangqin student in the sch! She has stayed 6 whole years in school already...and she said she really wish that there'll be another yangqin student to join the school. Ah she echoes my thoughts! <3 <3 she's really nice and friendly and we had such a great time learning from each other!At the end of the day she gave me a very very very touching letter...:( :( sobs....!lala I also made some Chinese instrumental friends, like the 2 dizi guys, the friendly erhu girl, the quiet pipa-turned-piano girl. And since pingyu and I helped Dr tan to translate during her masterclasses, I also made friends with 2 piano students, 18 yr old Huang ting chun ni(4 syllables name XD) and 16 yr old Yang Yu Ting!! :D :D And they taught me lots of Kunnming dialect....:D :D HAHAHHAHAAHAHA

Needless to say, the scenery in Yunnan is breathtakingly spectacular! Autumn and Winter scenery! Saw a real rainbow for the first time live!!!Saw such colourful shades of trees and mountains(gold red white green yellow brown all mixed together) for the first time!!!Saw and touched snow for the first time! Experienced 0 degree weather for the first time~ I love Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, and Shang-ri La(Diqing, Tibet)!!!!

All the other descriptive stuff are in my reflections :D :D Shall leave it there :)

Btw I created a QQ account! Ping Yu too!!! HAHAHAHHAHAHAH
Added Yong Ting and the erhu friend already. And PY too. hahaha.

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Back to school!
Okay..so we...got back our....EOY results...since i always have the habit of posting my results here(regardless good or bad -.-) i'll just have to do it again...sian

From lowest:

Math: 69/100 (=.=". I am never good at math)(highest in my class is 95. Deborah+Phoebe. Deborah may get one more mark. Then mine will be a direct inversion of her marks -.- i don't like math!!bleh)
Biology: 78/100 (-.- But atleast there's still a Well Done there..ok lah)
Chemistry: 79/100 (i deliberately skipped 2 1-mark questions just because i didn't feel like doing them XD I regret them now :D)
IHSS: 19/30 (:) My econs essay went okay :D the population essay like PS)
Chinese: 30/40 (after minusing 2 marks for wrong words)
ARC: 33/40 (:D yay okay lah. I prepared most for ARC and neglected other subjects most of the time)
Lit: 35/40 (XD I didn't study/read Island Voices at all.heheheMy R & J pulled me up. Thanks :D :D hope you have a peaceful reunion in heaven, R and J :D I can still recall me failing lit in term one..glad i improved...)

Okay..basically what I need to improve on is...

MATH.

One word syllable subject. yet with so much power and look how it ignites the Fear in me.

And maybe the 2 sciences. I'm considering taking Chem HL, Chinese HL and Lit HL in year 5! My three most favourite subjects..Bio...maybe. But the practical will be really hard!!>.<
I'm generally quite satisfied with my results, and I'm already very thankful that I've passed MATH.-.-

Now, there's only MILP results left. Fearing for the theory section. Critical listening went okay I guess.
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OKAY SO NEXT TRIP: TAIWAN BILINGUAL TRIP 3-13 DEC
CAN"T BELIEVE WE're HOMESTAYING!!!!FIRST TIME HOMESTAYING :D SHOULD BE SO FUN :D but only 2 days!

we've also got a presentation to work on!(for the trip-to present on Singapore's culture diversity o.o) YAY finally back to work! I miss working!!!nowadays slacking at home..sian..

AND SAC GOTONG ROYONG IS UP!!!15 nov! we're going for it!!!

AND fuchun performance!!!!the score..still arranging. ALMOST FINISHING, GUYS! look forward to having rehearsals with this unusual string-quintet XDXD

BYE HAHA NYAHAHAHA

8:15 PM

Monday, October 10, 2011

Okay. So..EXAMS ARE OVER WOOOOOOOO

math paper 2 was so much easier. :)

TOMORROW. OIP!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I still remember how i was so envious of the yr 3s 2010 for going OIP
LOL
One year has passed! How fast.....so fast. I think time has really been going really quickly from p6 onwards...

Glad that my Headtalk is getting better! Hope i won't make mistakes....so excited ^^

lalalalalalala.
AM REALLY EXCITED HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHA
i siao already

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVGENY KISSIN PRODIGY PIANIST AND NATIONAL DAY TO TAIWAN :) 100!!!

EVGENY KISSIN WHEN HE WAS 12

My current favourite pianists: MITSUKO UCHIDA, EVGENY KISSIN, VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY AND MARTHA ARGERICH. oh and LANG LANG TOO!!!(i think he's really good despite what ppl say about him..close your eyes and u can feel his passion!!)

:D :D :D LALALALLA
haven't packed finish yet....luggage almost full already.. my luggage is SO BIGGGG

BYEBYE!!! ^^ :D :D

5:01 PM

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Yeah, I felt that I've achieved quite a deal.

ARCMTBIOLITMILPCHEM ARE OVER.

Tomorrow is the final day of my biggest most feared paper of all. Yes. It's 數學。

I like math, but I can't do math.
I tried, and kept racking my brains to squeeze out answers
But when it comes to marking the papers
I would always find out something that I've never thought of,
and that's where I lose marks.

There was once I blamed it on my genes
or my left brain
but I realised that genes really don't make any big difference
the difference lies in you.

Today as I was going home on the mrt, my ipod started playing Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, 2nd movement (Andante)
And then this lady came in with a carriage and her child inside, and her child was quite young
Throughout the journey the child kept looking out of the window and smiling and laughing
with those big big sparkling eyes of his

It really made me think about life, especially all the world-ly aspects of life

I mean, I would really prefer it if the world is governed by babies
At least there's pureness and innocence to it

In my opinion, I feel that when people are of mature age, they start to be really critical and outspoken about their views. To the point that they start to create a world that is all about themselves, all about their energy, all about their effort, all about them. This world then start to draw other people in and the debates get more and more heated, with each person trying to prove their so-called worthy existence in this world.

Did the child-like essence that they once had, gone once and for all?
Once that should "righteously" be gone because they are of the age where they should be mature?
I wouldn't want the world to become such a place.

I think the world is beautiful.
When I was walking towards my house today, I passed by the usual nature-like spot with the nice slope and trees and plants and leaves
But today there was quite a sight that I haven't seen before, or even taken much notice to.
I saw an old man walking slowly, really slowly under the shadow of the trees that are lined up on the sides of the slope. He was holding a newspaper and was trying to block the sun-rays.

However the sunlight still managed to streak through the almost-translucent grey papers and shone on his face.
His face, the collection of time and history
Wrinkled like a piece of paper from a diary, crumpled.
What a contrasting sight to the sparking eyes of the baby on the train.
It made me think about so many things.

In ten to twenty-years or so, the old uncle most likely wouldn't be around anymore. I'll be around 30+ years old then. Would the slope bear the historical footsteps of this old man? What would I be and where would I be in twenty years to come? Who are the old man's families and are they still around, still thinking of him, still missing him? Are the newspapers he once read and held, still existent?

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We can't answer.
There's no answer.
Because we haven't seen for ourselves.