Cheng Jin=Smile For Life, For Ever!

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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.
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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

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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

1:16 PM

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Realised I haven't been blogging for a long time.

Alot of things happened- the YCP at Cleveland Institute of Music, new composition assignments, gettingchasedoutofclassfor45minbymrstrombergfordoingmath, the SNYO Berlin trip (:D)....

The YCP post is on my wordpress, if anyone cares to look..
Berlin Trip is just fantastic. FANTASTIC!
Great music, great people, great company, great conductor, great hotel, great weather, great buskers(^^), great architecture, great plane travels..

Photos are all on facebook! I love Berlin, and i really miss Berlin. Back to sad reality of homework homework and homework.

I really wish there's more time to do the things I love, such as music, and music, and basically just music. If I had known earlier how much emphasis this school places on the IB and the product and the academics I wouldn't have joined. Really. I would rather have joined a mainstream school that ends school 3pm in the afternoon and I could use the time to do all the music I want. I would rather have joined a mainstream school that has compulsory CCAs like string ensemble to play music together once a week without missing rehearsals. I would rather join a mainstream school that focuses on O levels and be in the MEP so that i can perform chamber with my friends for O levels and after O levels I'll be able to relax and do more music.

Now, I am so busy with all the regular assignments that I've made a secret promise to myself- I don't want to achieve good grades anymore, and I don't want to be a good guaikia in school anymore, and I don't want to be one of the top students who teachers can count on to be independent. I will navigate my attention to music from NOW onwards, and I will be already grateful if I can just pass all my subjects. In the future I would rather be in the worst academic class and be thriving in music's company than to be in a competitive class where everyone strives for the best grades with all the pressure from the over-achievers. I don't care if I flunk my subjects.

But ofcourse, I know, I can't do that.

I would rather drop music than to be in a music environment with pressure from the authorities. I would rather drop composition than to be obliged to create post modern atonal works that would please the teacher. I would rather drop IS to pursue what I really love- Composition and western music. I have discovered my real passion this year, and I seriously will contemplate the idea of not doing HL music because i hate it when music has to be graded. I would have gone overseas to study in sept with my best friend if not for the chinese competition that I've sworn to attain 1st this year to fulfill what I wasn't able to fulfill two years ago. That's the sole reason. If not, I would have been happily pursuing composition, violin and piano in London and do what I love everyday for 90% of the day. Which is so vastly different from here. I once told the head of composition there- I wanted to join your school because music flooded the corridors. yes. and the school is made of corridors and corridors and music and music.

And now, within a week from now, my best friend is leaving. Yes, she is leaving this pressurizing environment to pursue her dreams. She is leaving the homework-stressed haven to do what she loves. She is leaving all this discrimination and highly-selective membranes of this school to a world of music and enjoyment.

I am very happy and relieved for her, but at the same time I'm upset because that means no one will have lunch/break with me anymore, no one will share hilarious moments with me, no one will laugh together with me, no one will be so Mozart-Mahler-crazed anymore.

Really very upset.

Many people are leaving the school already, but the authorities view it as a 'giving up' process where people stop halfway in this 6-yr journey and exit into other schools. No, it is not giving up, neither does it show the lack of perseverance. It is an act of courage, to bravely step out from all this hectic mess to achieve something innate that has been calling out to us since long ago- our passion. The passion that drives us to be brave, to briefly take ourselves off this moment and to pursue our real dreams.

Anyway, Lerler, all the best in Menuhin. Be the best violinist and musician you wanted to be since young :) Be yourself, and be integrated into the passion of music. As i've always wanted to be as well. I am very sure in the future, where we've overcome all the obstacles, we'll stand beside each other on stage and present ourselves to the greater world of music.