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Hachi (Movie)

2011-10-08T21:57:00.001+08:00

I've watched a movie entitled Hachi, which portrays the life of a dog (Akita species) with it's owner. The reason I watched it was because I saw the rating of the movie is very high (9.8/10). But after the movie running for some time, I got bored. The story plot is just very flat and not surprising. I must say it's highly overrated! Have wasted my time watching this kind of movie, c**p.

I think the original intention of the movie is to convey a message of the quality of humanity in an animal's heart. Sometimes, animals are more caring than human does. And I'm very sure it has an intention of making the audience cry, but..... it just doesn't work on me. (or I've lost my compassion?)

Anyway, I'll give this film a 5/10 since they've trained the dog so well. ^^

Oh, my blog!

2011-10-05T21:43:00.002+08:00

It's been a long time since I wrote my post on my blog.

Erm.... what to say? I'm currently quite fascinated by what I'm doing in Shanghai - finally be able to study properly in a conservatory of music.

I always wanted to write something and post it here, just that no words came to my mind. So sorry to my fellow readers (but do I really have?hahaha....)

Today, I've practised more than 4 hours! Well, it's actually still not enough for me, since I'm 21 (oops.... I've revealed my true age..haha!) already, and most of the first years are around 18-19. I hope my passion can push me further to practise more and more to surpass the standard level of technique of most of the first-years' .

Currently I have one major piece to master, that's the Moto Perpetuo by Paganini. It might be very hard for erhu to play it, but it actually helps me a lot in improving my fingers technique and speed~

Ah, speaking of Moto Perpetuo, let's watch a video to get an impression of what that piece is like, and how hard it might be for erhu~.

Master Class of Chinese Traditional Instrument

2011-06-17T19:56:00.007+08:00

Oh, yeah, I'm going to Shanghai again to participate in a master class of chinese traditional instrument for foreign students. From the words "foreign students", you can predict that the class won't be too deep for us, since learning their instruments is quite a challenge for us, as we don't have much teachers for that field around. Even we do have, the quality isn't promising.

Also, there'll will be a solo competition during the master class for us to compete within the students in order to select a few winners to perform on stage in the end of the master class. Well, all competitors will certainly try their best to win it, me either. I hope not to lose the competition, I want to win. Kakaka~(grin)

Wish me all the best :)

Hmmm...let me share an erhu concerto here. (It seems I've never shared any erhu music here ever since I launched this blog.... maybe a few, but not performed by the real professional erhu soloist.)

Here it is, First Erhu Concerto - 2nd mov, performed by Yu Hong-Mei

P/S:Oh oh oh, wish every father in this world a very Happy Father's Day ^^.

Personal Diary No.#

2011-06-11T22:25:00.002+08:00

It's been quite a long time haven't back here to write any new post. Quite busy for the past few days, but it was fun~

The most happy moment would be performing solo with Henry Yew.

Haih.... don't know why, lazy to write anymore for the time being.

...

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

2011-04-17T18:46:00.005+08:00

Today, I signed to my Youtube account, looked through the subscribed channel's new videos, and a video (or a set of videos) had caught my attention. And here they are:

First movement : Allegramente

This piece kind of gives me energy~ It's like children playing together, so cheerful, cute~

Second movement: Adagio Assai

Beautifully played, soothing~ I feel comfortable both listening and watching her playing. :)

Third movement: Presto

It's like there's no limit in the sky, naughty little angels flying here and there, playing~ A very enjoyable environment~

I must admit that the piano soloist is extraordinary and her skill is just perfect :)

Opposing large-scale primary school.

2011-04-16T15:33:00.011+08:00

Well, by referring to the title above, it's very clear that I'm going to shoot the human-made phenomena that happen around me recently.

I'm a music teacher for chinese orchestra, especially string section, and sometimes I teach music theory too. I've taught students who are below 12 and from large-scale primary school, and I found that there's a lot of flaws in the school education system.

Firstly, as generally known, kids are creative, active, curious, cute, pure and sometimes, annoying. I my case, for the class I was teaching. The kids are from different classes and of different ages. Problems come, they have different characteristic as built in their growing environment especially home, and they are mostly affected by the behaviors of the adults they have most frequently made contact with, most probably their parents. I can see, more or less, how much love or attention their parents have given them. I would like to voice in my own perspective that, most of the parents didn't and don't give much attention to their children.

There are many parents think that, using any methods to send their children to a school with so called good performance (that is, have cultivated students with full As in the UPSR, that is, government assessment for primary school students which the school authority refer to when applying for the secondary school) is the best and they will get few problems and can relax a bit. Boom, parents, you are wrong. Sending your children to such schools will just give your children pressures, pressures, more pressures and bad mental growth and nothing more.

As the saying goes, "birds of a feather flock together". We cannot abandon and ignore our human's gifted properties that we'll only find persons with the same characteristic and same interest to be friends. And it also applies to children, they will only play with the friends they like. After sometime, they will eventually form a group of their likes. But the thing is, most of them are still naive, curious and confused of themselves in choosing friends. They might choose wrongly or correctly depending on luck, perhaps, as no proper guidance is available. And when the groups are formed, what will happen to the left-outs? They get the pressure.

Generally, the many the people, the many the problems, as the saying goes, "Too many cooks will spoil the broth". This is true. It might be easy to control the adults than the children, if they were well educated academically, physically and mentally during they young time. But no, I can see now more and more adults are hard to be controlled, I mean working together, as they have experienced terrible childhood. And I think a much higher in number of them might be from large-scale primary schools. After every exam, they will compare with each other, envy the very good ones, and look down on the very poor ones. We cannot assume that: "Aiya, kids are very simple, they won't think like that". Boom, wrong, they will and you will not see that until they make their move, most probably discriminate the two extremes, very poor ones and very good ones. If the two extremes don't know to cope with that, even their parents were not aware of that, then there's no doubt the children will struggle in their mind. The good ones may think of whether to keep a good results, or let the next exam result lower a bit so that he/she can still be the normal-results' friend. For the weaker ones, oh, they might probably just give up and never be able to work hard anymore as they might think that their learning ability is weaker than the others and there's no point to work hard as they can never catch up with the others.

When conducting a lesson, shouting like: "Teacher, his/she pushed me!" , "Teacher, that boy hit Ah Beng!", "Teacher, he stole my pen!", "Teacher, they are running here and there, please punish them!" , "Teacher, how old are you?", "Teacher, he's pulling my hair!" and ETC. And these happened when I turned to the blackboard and tried to write something. You see, I didn't even know who's voice was that, just how could I carry out the teaching smoothly? I wanted to solve their problems, but I couldn't just leave the lesson behind as time is limited, right? That's one of the problems I faced when teaching a lot of children at the same time.

As when I look at the children(about 40+ of them) I was teaching, I don't think most of them will be successful in the future, probably a few, with good home education. The rest, I think no, even they have scored very good results in the school, but without adults' attention to their needs, the consequences might be catastrophic. I think personally that, what the children need is the attention and the caring from the adults. They want to be noticed, same goes to the adults too, and don't like to be scolded, and no adults like to be scolded, me too. I personally suggest that, if any parents want to ensure your children's better life in their future, please pay attention to your children, whenever they need you to. Better life doesn't mean to be a millionaire, but a life that's filled with loves around. Money is very important, but love is even more than that. One precaution is, many parents who don't know how to educate their children might probably spoil them, must be careful. How does it happen? Well, if you buy anything for you children without studying the things that you buy whether they're good or bad, then your kids might think that: "Oh, mummy is going to buy anything for me, so there's no worry, I can have anything!". Oops, then your child is more or less, spoiled.

Putting spoiled children into a large-scale primary school might just worsen the situation. You see, there are many students in the school, and one teacher has to take care of so many students in a class. Do you think the teacher will put their efforts on the spoiled ones? No, most probably not, because normal teacher will see them as an obstacle to their teaching.

Don't blame school teachers. sometimes they just don't have the time and energy to educate your children, because there's a lot more children waiting to be educated! And if you don't know how to choose the best school for your children, they might be getting bad education too, as the quality of the teachers in the school is poor! Generally bad teachers are: not well educated and bad in conveying messages to children. And bad news is, bad teachers are increasing...

Choosing the right school of the children is a hard process. We have to look into many aspects before making a decision. But, what I want to say is, large-scale primary school is definitely not a very good choice, unless you're confident enough that your children are going to be alright and can have a good education there. And be also aware that, your confidence won't guarantee anything, if you are s..p..d.

p/s: I did my best when I was teaching, and teaching a lot of children at the same time was very tiring. That's why I have these thoughts coming out of my mind.

全民最大党之朝鲜新闻又来啦！

2011-04-10T12:35:00.002+08:00

最然火力似乎没刚开始制作这单元时强了，但是还是令我爆笑！

Bad Car Air-con

2011-04-08T21:33:00.007+08:00

Today, on the way going to Penang, I sat in a super very uncomfortable car. Why? Because the air-con wasn't functioning!! I must admit that I had a bad mood throughout the whole journey as the hotness and the stuffiness in the car was just as unbearable as running on a dry quiet sand with the sun directly above the head. Even though the windows were lowered, the wind entered were dirty as it was mixed with the petrol residue from the cars' exhaust pipe, and I guessed it also contained a high level of CO.

The driver wasn't in a good mood too (well, that person is always like that), but what could I do? I didn't realise at first until that person told me that the air-con wasn't in good condition, and at that time we were already on the road. Otherwise I could just drive my car instead. Haih.....

Reaching the destination, it was such a relief that I could leave the car and have a deep breath of fresh air outside! Fwah! Siok!

I swear not to sit in an air-con-less car ever again.

And this day was my best friend, Henry Yew's birthday! Wish him happy everyday!

Mind rests, thoughts come out

2011-04-07T11:55:00.021+08:00

Have deactivated the facebook account, reduced the frequency of using Windows Live Messenger, just to rest my mind and give it some space and time to think back what've been done, and among them, which is wrong and which is right from my own perspective. Everyone has to go through different stage of life, and in my opinion, I think spending time in this social network and using this kind of communication technology would somehow used up certain time of mine from doing other more beneficial things. I must admit that I don't have a very good time managing ability, therefore the spending of time in these is getting uncontrollable.

I must review back myself as a facebooker and my role in the social network. Seeing others doing all kinds of things and posting on borderless moral and thinking discipline basis sometimes just kinda make me vomit,and they are terribly annoying. Some posts are just mind twisting and they have no benefits at all for the sicked society of the world. They just make the society worse. Just a few years over since the introduction of facebook in Malaysia, the rate of suicide happening, divorce cases, gangsterisms, cyber bullies and such social problems increases at a speed of "light". Within 2 years, not less than 2 cases of youngster suicide and countless of divorce cases because of facebook related evidence had been reported and even on newspapers, they can been seen.

Well, maybe that happens too when there's no facebook around. But think about this, the action of the suiciding and divorcing had been amplified with the help of facebook, what would the vulnerable young mind think? It's worse now that even kids below the age of 13 are using facebook. Before they knew it, they had learned one bad habit, that is, cheating. It's known that facebook had set up an eligible age of using the service. But, do you think that kids will be that honest? That's too naive. In my account, I already have more than 10 kids who are less than 13 years old. Who will know if they go to add or receive people who they don't know and that person is holding a certain purpose such as cheating or child abusing?

It also should be known that the moral education in Malaysia is still in a very weak stage. Which even the adult's minds are easily affected and influenced especially for those who live in rural area. And I don't know how they were taught when they were in the school. The introduction of internet services with total freedom for every user in Malaysia is just not so right, considering the mind of most people is not mature enough to tell what is right from wrong. Although the services are not so cheap, but the government is now giving incentives to encourage people to access into the internet, which makes things worse. Now the the people's mind is getting more (I won't say it's complex, because they are dumb but with certain knowledge which is wrong from the internet) twisted and uncontrollable. They are motivated by deceiving information in the internet to do indecent things which lead to social problems, because of the absence of strong moral mind and the lack of knowledge.

Besides, some facebookers have posted videos with nudity and violence. I don't think they know the consequences the videos will bring to the human's (especially adolescence and teenager) mind. Well, some will say: "Awww....What era is now!? Don't be so conservative!" Well, I bet this person's mind is probably already poisoned. If the spreading of the so-called "open-minded" concept is not properly coordinated by mature adults or experienced psychologists, the information interpreted in the brain of the people regarded will probably be twisted. In worse case, they probably will commit crimes as there have no boundaries in they mind after experiencing such culture-shock. They are confused, but yet they are very confident that they aren't.

Worse thing is, some of the users (who are increasing in number lately) don't even realise what they don't know, that is they don't know what they don't know and do things which are worrying sometimes, such as spreading fake information. They believe it's true, but the truth is it's fake, and they never realise it and keep spreading, and more and more people are starting to believe it. Sigh... there's a proverb in Chinese:"Gossips stop in the mouths of the wise" . Question is, there are how many wise people out there using facebook? For the companies that just think about how much profit margin they will get, like they care about the morality, what they really want is money.Wake up! Facebooker! Please don't be deceived anymore.

There's another worrying situation, the parents of the young facebooker don't know how to use it. Then they gave up, without realizing how serious their kids were affected by the information in it. They will say: "Kids nowadays are very complex and we have no clue on what they are thinking." But then they allow their kids sitting at the computer facebooking without trying to understand what the kids are doing on it. Parents! You are too irresponsible! How could you say like that? You shouldn't say: "I'm too busy, no time." that's a really bad excuse. If you don't really have time, then don't give birth to your kids, so as to avoid creating social problems and giving no contributions to the countries and the earth. I am saying this seriously.

For older parents, the internet communication technology for them is like an alien knowledge and they just couldn't understand how it works. (Well, for the parents who are not very well educated). They keep blaming on their age for not able to store any more knowledge in their mind, this, in some degree, it can be accepted, but that doesn't mean you can just give up. Maybe you can still make a lot of money, ok, that's fine if you are happy with it. But please don't encourage other old people not to learn. Knowledge are precious, you don't want to learn, maybe you think that you're rich enough in terms of money and don't have the necessity to learn anymore. This is so wrong, do you ever feel the richness of being knowledgeable, despite getting the satisfaction of having a lot of money? If you are not knowledgeable enough, you won't get it. That's what you don't know what you don't know. Learning is a life-time process, it shouldn't be stopped even if you've graduated from Harvard, or you are already at the doorstep of the death. Our brain works like this (A student of neurology told me): When we don't use the knowledge or information in our mind often, and if it's very very seldomly used, the information will automatically be deleted from our brain. Sometimes, the human's memory is very surprisingly fragile, which means we tend to forget things untimely sometimes, no matter what age we are at.(Although we tend to forget things more often when we get old.)

I do not oppose the use of facebook, just emphasize things about the wrong way of using facebook. But I do oppose kids below 13 to use it. Maybe there are some little number of exceptionally intelligent and mature kids are encouraged to use, but not the ones who grew up in an not-well educated environment. I must admit facebook is a very good platform to promote things, your thoughts, sales of products, and almost everything. Because it will reach to your friends or "friends" almost immediately if they are also heavy facebook users. But the thing is, the extreme information whether it's good or bad are being spread. Well, there's a saying that there's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Yes, our mind after experiencing centuries after centuries of human development, we did, generally have classified a lot of things as good or bad. Like, killing people is bad. But with the twisted information being spread at a speed that we cannot imagine, some weak human minds would somehow, at some point, starts to believe that killing people is nothing wrong! (well, this is just an example).

Facebook gives almost total freedom for the users to post anything. I urge facebook to set up certain obstacles so that kids below 13 won't be appearing in it. Probably set up a system that will require new user to provide identity card numbers or such things to make sure one person with eligible age can only have one account. I know facebook also want to earn money, also want to feed their workers and their family. But there are still so much people out there in the world, please don't harm their mind. In the case of kids below 13 who use facebook, should any people want to blame, blame their parents for not supervising their kids. Children are innocent.

Dearly Beloved

2011-04-05T21:13:00.005+08:00

Wanting to express one's love to someone and let that someone accept and appreciate that one's love is really difficult. Hmmm... it's not easy, really, not easy. Maybe that's why unrequited love is so great.

Dealy Beloved....

The Interruption of Facebook Feature to My Eyes.

2011-04-02T00:04:00.006+08:00

Well, Facebook is vast social network that connects people together. It helps people to connect back to their old friends and to find new friends with common interest and so on. But, it lacks for one thing, when I'm trying to forget a particular person but to remain him/her in my friend list, it keeps showing his/her profile picture on the "friends to chat" corner. That's annoying, and the feeling is very complex, I don't know how to express in words. I just hope that Facebook has that particular feature that allows me to organize who will I see in that corner.... Hmmm...

Shanghai, on the way.

2011-02-14T06:42:00.000+08:00

Yes, I'm going to Shanghai again this year, taking the same exam held by the same music conservatory - Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Well, everything is hard to say, since I've failed once. So.... I'll just try my best and see what the outcome will be.

The first time, I really want to pray,

包庇包庇包庇包庇包庇包庇包庇哦～

包庇包庇包庇包庇包庇包庇，啊啊～

but sincerely, hope I'm blessed.

Chinese New Year

2011-02-03T22:54:00.006+08:00

This is the most epic picture in my family, which the whole of my family members: sisters, brother and parents are in the photo!

Oh, I was half squatting. Why? I guess it was because I was the tallest in the family and I hope the overall view of the photos would be a bell shape.....hahaha! How lame I was.

Anyway, today was a very happy day, almost all the relatives came to our home to celebrate the Chinese new year. We even gambled! But I was quite unlucky, lost a few tens of ringgit, pooh....

The two of my nephews were very cute! One's my sister's son and another one is my brother's son. And the one standing beside me is my eldest nephew, *eldest nephew*.... quite handsome, one of my female friends likes him very much. Hahaha!

Oh, then I performed in an Tekka annual event in Alor Star, the performance didn't go very smoothly, cause' the mic went mal-functioned, I have no luck at that too, haiz... but the second performance went smoothly cooperating with Kai Xian, a dancer friend and he danced very spontaneously and.... spontaneously XD

Then on reaching the midnight, I typed out this post. hahahah! Very linear this post is. I really need to improve my article composing skill. :)

Music of the day: Twilight Over Thanalan , Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

Happy Chinese New Year

2011-01-15T20:12:00.004+08:00

2011 Chinese New Year is drawing very verY veRY vERY VERY NEAR!

(actually it's next month 14th of FEB... just to do some effect, and that effect seems very not effective,and pointless, haha...)

So... I have a New Year "present" to everyone, it's a music video recorded by myself and played by myself, it's title is "The Spring Scene of Jiang Nan" (江南春色).

I've never been to jiangnan, and I just did some reference on other erhu soloist's performance and made the music interpretation myself on that piece.

I put inverted commas "" between present as it might sound differently to different listeners. You might find it awful, or you might find it beautiful~ cake if it's good, shit if it's bad,haha. So I hope the audience that find it beautiful will be more than the contrary la.

Here it is, The Spring Scene of Jiang Nan (Erhu Solo Unaccompanied)

Janine Jansen's latest album - Beau Soir

2011-01-09T20:42:00.004+08:00

The album is available for download!!!!

This is her first album of recital recording, great one!

There's nothing much I can introduce about her, she's just the goddess of violin in our era.

Support her and buy her album!

(Seems not convincing, since I've violated the copyright legislation to share the download link here, paradox...)

Details of the file:

Format : mp3

Rate : 320 kbps

Password: elhenry.MusicIsTheKey

Janine Jansen - Beau Soir

这几天对音乐的体会 II

2010-12-19T19:41:00.012+08:00

由于在不久前忙于音乐活动，所以未能在最短时间内完成前一篇文章未完成的内容，深感抱歉。

说回去，我说到对乐曲的熟悉度，对。

对乐曲的熟悉度，是让你能否掌握该乐曲的灵魂的关键。很多人看着谱演奏，或许还是可以奏得飞天遁地，快速换音也奏得淋漓尽致、干净。但是，不管乐曲有多难或容易，只要你有把一丝的注意力放在谱子上的音符时，你就无形中制造了一道防止你“跳进”音乐的隔墙。这是为什么呢？虽然我不能用专业术语来解释，但是可以用些例子和亲身经验来分享。

我们说：一心不能二用，在某个程度上，是对的。这里我说的就只局限在音乐表演里。当我们在看谱子演奏时，心里想的是什么？是不是音符在哪里？要怎么发出那个音符的声音？一般人能做到的只是这样而已，当然有些超级头脑可以顺便分析好音量、张力、呼吸口、装饰音等等。单想着要怎么把音奏出来，基本上已经用了很多脑容量了（对一般人来说），所以根本无法去体会那音乐的境界。

音乐老师时常说，演奏谱子里的音前必须向视唱过一遍，这对很多很多很多人是极难的过程，十个有十一个做不到。要不是有音乐天分或经过训练，是几乎不可能的事情。如果一个普通人的音乐造诣可以到Level 45 ，那么会唱谱的人的音乐造诣就可以达到Level 100. 为什么那么说呢？

第一，会唱谱的人是用我们人天然的乐器（声带）把音奏出来的，声带每天跟着我们，没用它一天就好像会死掉一样，不说它和我们的关系如何，就说我们用它的频率就远远超过我们使用乐器的时间了。所以呢，我们的人声能更容易地把我们带进音乐里，用最本质的思想去理解它。*最常用声带

第二，用口发音时，我们不得不听自己在做什么，因为我们很自然的会去听我们在做什么，不会自然去听自己在说/唱什么的人就会语无伦次，五音不全（普遍的说法）。用口发音时，你一定对你说过的话有印象，除非是有失忆症，那就没话说。*不能不听自己的声音，加深印象。

第三，会唱谱，就会哼谱；会哼谱，记得弦律的机会比较大，重复复习的机会也比较大，接下来会发生的就是，哼谱次数变多，分析乐曲的根据越来越个人与本质，最后变成自己的版本。我们人的思想都是相通，否则就不能互相理解，结婚生孩子啦。*重复次数多，分析的机会加大，越本质。

所以我要说的是，同样的音乐，不同的版本，也能与其他人产生共鸣，只要你的分析是本质的，不是人所不及的奇怪的思想。至于产生共鸣的人数，会跟个人的兴趣、智慧有关。风靡全世界的流行曲，还是会有人不喜欢；很莫名其妙，让人摸不着头绪的乐曲，还是会有人喜欢，只是喜欢的人的特质不同，可能是年龄啦、性别啦、成熟度啦，等等。

（这一段已离题）我觉得最有趣的分别音乐口味的是智慧。现在在市场上我们进去光碟片时应该都会不小心看到什么莫扎特效应、婴儿贝多芬之类的光碟。不奇怪，因为有学家研究出莫扎特、贝多芬等（尤其莫扎特）的古典类音乐可以快速的开发一个婴儿的头脑，让孩子更聪明。这并不是荒谬之谈。音乐是天赐给人类最宝贵的礼物，是无国界的语言，是人类的特征。说到语言，教小孩子就是用语言、动作来教的。灌输的是什么呢？无非是思想和生存能力嘛。思想方面，刚才说了，人类的思想是相通的，区别的是程度及合理性而已。莫扎特，就算你不认识他，也会时常在任何时候、任何场合听过他的音乐。他，是个聪明人，同时拥有超强记忆力，这是无可否认的，历史书籍里都这么写。所以，他所注入音乐里的音符当然也就充满智慧咯。我要说的是，我们这个世界上有很多很多很多很多人，不是每个人都一样聪明有智慧的。做个比较，如果一般人的的智慧是Level 30，那么莫扎特的智慧可能是Level 75，他的作品，可能少一点（因为每个人都不能完完全全表达心中的思想，最多靠近思想的程度。就好象我们不能快过光速，只能逼近光速），Level 70。当然，有些超级家长（智慧超过Level 75的），或许不需要靠莫扎特效应来教育孩子，自己来就行。给一般家长来说，给孩子听莫扎特的音乐就会让孩子变聪明（因为隔壁王嫂说的），虽然自己不喜欢，但是就是要硬硬买来播给孩子听，天底下的父母有谁不希望孩子聪明呢？有，不希望孩子比自己聪明和冷血的父母。关于音乐心理的课题我在以后再写文章分享，因为我离题了。哈哈哈。

所以，视唱谱子能加深你对乐曲的印象，促使你去分析他，不管合理不合理，只要你拿起乐器去奏它奏，它绝对是活的。可能很奇怪，或者少了什么音，多了什么音。但是，刚才说过了，再奇怪的音乐都会有人喜欢，如果那个人与你的演奏产生共鸣的话。有时候，多出音或不够音反而会让乐曲更好听，更吸引人。

当你对乐曲熟悉了，在演奏时做出任何自己想象得出的技巧更能得心应手，因为你的动作与你的思想是同步的。如果不能同步，你的演奏可能到位，但是缺少了灵魂，或者令人混淆的灵魂，同时也对演奏者本的身躯体与精神造成负面的影响。想与做不协调，是很恐怖的。

如果用一个动画来形容对乐曲的熟悉度的话，我会用Naruto来做借代对比。灵魂就像藏在身体里的Jinnjuriki（神兽吧。。。大概是这样的）。你不去探索它，驾奴它，是不能得到更强大的力量（音乐本质）的。Naruto驾奴它的方式是把它召唤出来打败它，把它变成自己可以随心所欲使用的无限力量。那么追求音乐本质就是把它唱出来了解它，让它变成自己可以与其他人产生共鸣的能量。

在这里我想分享一个知识。。。算知识吧。音乐的演奏说穿了就是“活用技巧”。有些人认为，技巧不重要，感觉才重要。我认为这是给发疯的音乐家才会觉得是对的。想一想，一个长音，没有技巧，好听吗？就算你心里澎湃、风情万种，没有技巧，会是什么后果？音不准，额。。。我觉得。技巧与感觉是互补的。有技巧就会有感觉，有感觉就会有技巧。但前提是，没有技巧，肯定没感觉，有技巧，至少感觉不是零，而感觉产于技巧。很多人把技巧局限于速度，手指灵活而已，其实还有长度、音量、音高（有时候要偏高一点，有时候要偏低一点）、张力等等。

P/S:在这篇文章的第九段我把写作与演奏混为一谈，因为我个人认为在那段里写作与演奏所呈现的过程是相似的，希望读者见谅。

Music of the day: Schindler's List - Janine Jansen, accompanied by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. (Britain)

这几天对音乐的体会

2010-12-04T21:39:00.016+08:00

总结起来这几天的音乐体会，我发现到两个很重要的点，第一：时间点，第二：对乐曲的熟悉度

先说时间点，我们住在这个世界上，总是离不开时间，也不可能离开时间，永远静止。就像我们的身体，心脏一直不停的跳动，而它的跳动，是有规律的，除非你有心脏病或忧郁症，就可能会有些紊乱。

这里我只讲给心脏正常跳动（呼吸正常）的人。一般上，在流行乐曲（这里指所有在四分钟左右就结束，以本来的音质来唱的歌），我们听到的拍子是死的，在曲中是没有变化的，但是这并不意味着不能有音时变化。快歌不说，因为能在每拍里做出变化的可能性很小，而且也非常不容易。说说慢歌，拥有同样唱功及极相近音色的两个人，为什么其中一个会唱得比另外一个更动人呢？问题就出在时间点了。

什么时后开始，什么时候结束，这是非常非常重要的，而注意程度要放到每拍之间，甚至是相邻的两个音符之间。什么什么时候开始，什么什么时候结束呢？这不只是发音的开始和结束，还包括震音、渐强、渐弱、重音及其它技巧。唱歌部分我用Olivia来做例子。

她的唱功平平，暂撇开音质，他的时间的掌握非常到点，自然了又符合人类心理学对音乐的趋向。这是非常可喜可贺的，让她红遍日本，还被评为日本十年内最杰出的Bossa Nova女歌手。

现在到乐器部分，除了音准，尤其拉弦乐器之外，接下来最重要的就是时间点了。学会了所有技巧后，时间点就是在接下来的音乐生活里非钻研不可的项目了。什么时候揉弦，什么时候收，什么时候放，还有等等等等。。。。。

这我就用Janine Jansen的视频来做例子。

如果看看这首曲的谱子的话，或许会觉得很容易，但是由于她在这方面下了很大的苦工（也不是苦功啦，应该说深入的体会音乐本身的特质），所以她的演奏往往扣人心弦。

刚在在文章的开有提过了，我们的心脏的跳动是有规律的，有速度的，那么时间点的重要性就有迹可寻了。一般上我们对节奏/拍子速度超过100拍/分钟就会感觉到快，超过160的对我们的耳朵来说就是超速很快很快了。有些人由于不常听这些速度的音乐甚至抓不到那在表演的音乐家在做什么。

回来说说我们的心脏跳动，一般正常大人的在静止的情况下的心脏跳动的速度是在60-80之间。所以我们在累了，想要休息情况下，对慢的速度的音乐比较有趋向感，也就是说会比较“喜欢”。相反的，一个人在无所事事，突然要干些事情(需要动身体的）的时候，速度较快的音乐是比较被喜欢的。所以我要说的是，一个好的音乐，是能把你带到它的“速度”里去，与它一起进行的。

以上的说法不包括音乐的情绪，就是说当作那音乐是某个情绪的，只是不同的速度。这只是我个人的假说，没有经过任何音乐书籍的参考，纯粹个人经验，赞同或不赞同我的读者可以在下面的意见栏发表你的意见，我们来分享分享个人的体验。

接下来的对音乐的熟悉度的点我在下一篇文章才解说。

欢乐～

Final Fantasy Versus XIII - Somnus - Erhu Solo

2010-10-21T11:55:00.003+08:00

As in the title, the Final Fantasy Versus XIII is coming soon on 11th January 2011!

Love Yoko Shimomura's Music ^^

Eternity Memory of Lightwaves

2010-10-18T20:27:00.003+08:00

A music piece that brings back my memories~

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collection

2010-10-13T16:59:00.009+08:00

Wow~ again my favorite game Kingdom Hearts is having it's own piano collection!!!

Download link of this album

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collection

Definitely worth it ^^

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Thank you very much~ enjoy viewing my blog~

胡言阮语（Hu Talks Ruan Speaks) Music Concert

2010-10-10T17:16:00.008+08:00

The concert is over! Although I wasn't quite satisfied with my performance, but by knowing my math teacher Pn. Teoh Hai Cheu was coming to watch my concert, the happiness in my heart is indescribable!

Thanks to all the supporters and all helpers and the most important person, Mr. Goh Suk Liang, who was always helping us in solving problems regarding the concert and giving us precious ideas and suggestions in performing art.

In short, it was a good concert... in my opinion, hahaha!

Here's the main piece of the concert: Ballade of Lan Hua Hua

The sad thing is, there was one child under 7 years old in the concert, making sound which was uncomfortable to me. Besides, there were a lot of camera sound, did did! kacha! I've tried my best to cancel the sound, but seems the sound produced by the camera was very sharp, you still can hear the dididkacha sound. Haha.

Enjoy~

Symphonic Fantasies

2010-09-22T23:39:00.013+08:00

Another great album to recommend to my readers!!

This time, I'll share an album of orchestral game music, including music from Kingdom Hearts, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy, which are all what this album is about, haha.

This album is recorded live in Cologne, Germany, performed by WDR Radio Orchestra , conducted by Arnie Roth and remastered in Abbey Road Studios in London. Why it needed to be remastered? One of the obvious reasons is in the video below. Of course there are still many other reasons like balancing out the sound projection, "polishing" the sound quality and so on.

At 3:10...Hahaha, do you get it??

Here is the album cover:

Creative huh.

Full Track: Kingdom Hearts Medley

Here's the link to download the album

Symphonic Fantasies

The download speed is rather slow, but I guarantee you, game music lovers, it's worth to wait. And I would like to buy it if it's available in my country, unfortunately it isn't.

Benyamin Nuss

2010-09-14T20:15:00.004+08:00

This is guy is.... really good in playing game music! I'm not going to write anything about what I think or feel about him. You just need to open yourself to the music he plays and you'll get it.

An album entitled " Benyamin Nuss Plays Uematsu" will be released on 17th of September 2010!

And you can download it here!

Nobuo Uematsu is appearing in this video!!

The first video of him that I watched, and that's amazing!

Janine Jansen - Beau Soir: Janine Jansen plays Après un reve

2010-09-14T19:56:00.001+08:00

Simply beautiful～～

The Lark Ascending .avi

2010-08-24T02:01:00.002+08:00

If anyone wants to download the video of Janine Jansen playing The Lark Ascending, this is your chance!

THE LARK ASCENDING (Megaupload)

Or you can watch online at here.

Enjoy~ Support Janine Jansen!

Asian Dream Song

2010-08-22T12:57:00.006+08:00

Randomly picked a music video from my super messy folder to watch, and I've chosen the music concert of Joe Hisaishi and Nine Cellos. Initially I thought it would be boring since I've watched it millions of times once upon a time. But what made me surprised was, the music in the video was still able to give me goose bumps~ woo.....

The title of the song is "Asian Dream Song", undoubtedly the most emphasized word is the word "Dream". In my case, I still have a dream, a dream to become a professional music performer, preferably the soloist, in any instrument, and I still have tiny chance to achieve it. But I guess out there, especially the white collars, maybe restricted by their working time and not able to manage to pursue their dream. They maybe have satisfied with their lives. But thinking of that kind life, I might just merely like a computer...or a machine to do never-ending tasks and projects, no spirit, as good as a dead man. They may have earn a lot of money, but, do they happy with that money? Well, some may, but some may not. I'm not sure what kind of person I am, as I'm just 20, people will change over years of experience and environmental influences. I dare not to say what kind of person I am, but what I'm sure is I'm certainly not going to be a murderer, but I do have thought about what will happen if I did kill a people??? What will I be after that? Nah, just kidding, haha. I got you^^

Back to the topic, the Asian Dream Song is... not a song, but instead, it's a music piece.

The description from YouTube is below:

Asian Dream Song from - Winter Olympics in japan in 1999
Joe Hisaishi & 9 Cellos 2003 Etude & Encore Tour. Performing at Tokyo Opera City concert hall in 4/16/2003

Do you see the word "Olympic" ? Wow, despite whatever kind of Olympic it is, this is certainly not play play one. Haha

So... What I felt from that piece was, I still have hope to achieve my dream, that simple. If I continue writing on what I felt, I guess it'll be tedious already.

Enjoy!

Janine Jansen - Mendelssohn & Bruch

2010-08-18T10:56:00.007+08:00

Janine Jansen is the best!

She made every note fly!

Here is one of the pieces in the album:

3rd movement (finale) of Mendelssohn violin concerto.

Witty, lively, unsettled a bit at some phrases, light, happy ending~

Janine Jansen - Mendelssohn & Bruch (mp3) ~320kbps~

Password: lovejaninejansen

王力宏 - 十八般武艺

2010-08-16T15:51:00.011+08:00

喜欢王力宏的朋友们，你们有耳福啦！

在这新的专辑里有更多的国乐（华乐）元素。算是突破吗？额，应该只能说是进一步发展吧。呵呵。

这里提供128kbps全辑完整试听（对不起，王力宏）。如果想要更好的音质，请到全国各大cd店买正版的吧。

From Drop Box

曲目：

1. Dragon Dance 1.39

2. 杜 U love Me 3.15

3. 十八般武艺 3.50

4. 你不知道的事 4.38

5. 伯牙绝弦 3.47

6. 柴米油盐酱醋茶 3.52

7. 美 3.27

8. 需要人陪 4.11

9. 天涯海角 4.37

10. 你不知道的事（宋晓青版本）1.06

11. 自己人 4.26

本人还蛮喜欢柴米油盐酱醋茶的，弦律简单，朗朗上口。

柴米油盐酱醋茶

王力宏 - 十八般武艺（mp3）（下载后请留言说谢谢，给本人爽一下^^）

Another weird dream

2010-08-15T18:00:00.002+08:00

Had an one-hour nap just now, a dream appeared.

This time, I was conducting an orchestra. There were 2 percussionists whom I recognised playing at that moment. One of them just played unwillingly and did a lot of mistakes. I scolded him, another percussionist suddenly appeared behind my back (??!!). I chased the one that played awfully and somehow was holding a pile of clothes (his clothes) along a very luxurious hall way. I fell down... Then woke up.

hushhh....

Why was I having such a weird dream?? Maybe I've slept too much.

Music of the day

The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite: I. Overture (composed by Vaughan Williams)

Grandmother in my dream

2010-08-14T08:27:00.006+08:00

I've dreamt about my grandmother last night. It's not a good one... somehow I pissed her off, ran out of home and hide in neighbour's house behind a small bag at the corner of a cuboid-shape table with a sewing machine beside it. She chased me, found me and tried to beat me with a roll of old newspaper. Her face was very angry. Then I grabbed on the papers of her hand and said: "Why do you want to beat me? Has I done anything wrong? Of course I'll try to defend myself if I've done nothing wrong..." Suddenly, her face expression changed. She stepped back to the TV in a room which looked like my old home (I should be in neighbour's house??) with her back on the TV screen and something extraordinary happened - The TV screen shined and blinked some words appeared: A lot of Chinese-calligraphy words and all I could identify were other relatives' together with my one-word names in gold and with red backdrop. Then she fainted and died (I forgot if she really died in the dream as I forgot to checked her heartbeat, sounds so self-controlled, heh). I somehow carried a baby (didn't know whose baby) to my mom (but I didn't see her face) and cried devastatingly and shouted: "Grandma is gone! grandma is gone..."

Then... I woke up... that dream I had just now was just so real. It reminded me about the movie " Inception". How did the dream happen, when did it start? What I've done to piss my grandmother off? What does my brain want to tell me?

The music I heard in the dream was the greensleaves from Vaughan Williams... so strange. The music piece I'm going to share to is "Estevez, Mediodia en el Llano", performed by Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, which, more or less has the same mood with the one composed by Vaughan Wlliams.

为人着想

2010-08-10T21:45:00.004+08:00

什么是为人着想？相信很多人都明白，并且也能做到适中而又不过分。我。。。不懂。。。什么是为人着想。字面上解释很容易：设身处地站在别人的立场想。但是在日常生活中，如果满分是一百分的话，相信我只有40分。我要学为人着想，因为我有了这个觉悟。以前的我霸道至极，现在也没好到哪里去，但是我的确做了改变。

以前的我，反映了一个人，一个时常在我身边的人，话说吃盐比我吃饭还要多的人，但管他放屁是不是比我呼吸多，他做人的态度，是不能融入这个社会的，对内与对外的态度两回事，对熟人和对陌生人也是多面的。以前我不懂，困惑，现在略知一二，至少不会不分青红皂白。

我要逃离他的影响，找真的自己。人之初，性本善，我要回到这人类的本性去，再走出来，做个全新的自己。也要感谢他，我的脾气变得很好，管他讽刺我离家活不了，还是永远不会成功。。。去他的，不关我的事。可能他要说完才会气消吧，但是老实说，他的用词，有时还真是让人受不了。不管怎样，我的任务就是学习放下，再往前冲。

心情低落的我，听听Final Fantasy VIII 的 The Oath，让我感到安慰许多。在这个世界上，有音乐的陪伴，真是很幸福的事。

写到离题了，就此搁指吧。

Music of The Day: The Oath from Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy XIII Piano Collection

2010-08-09T17:59:00.013+08:00

The Final Fantasy XIII Piano Collection is finally published! Well, this time all the pieces in this is album are composed, arranged and produced by Masashi Hamauzu, soloed by Aki Kuroda, who is also the pianist for the Final Fantasy X Piano Collection. Actually, I'm confused between "Piano Collection" and "Piano Collections" since the word "collection" is a collective noun, grammatically shouldn't be a "s" at the back of "collection" since it already showed there are more than one piano piece in that collection. Hmm... whatsoever.

As a fan of Final Fantasy series, there's no doubt that I would say this album is quite an epic in the FF series.

But what I want to say is, the pieces are getting more complex and difficult and sometimes I don't even know what is she playing, the arrangement of the pieces are quite odd to me. Not able to track Hamauzu's music pattern first time listening to it.... To me, it's like the themes and motives and accompaniments are "bombing" here and there. The mood, tempo,and rhythm in any of the pieces change quite suddenly, almost secondly (that's quite insane). And the way he puts the notes together are not quite usual too. ermm... maybe it's the pianist's unique interpretation, haha.

Good thing is, the pieces are quite extreme, which I like. Sometimes very quiet, sometimes very LOUD; sometimes very calm, sometimes very UNSETTLED; sometimes very relax, sometimes very TENSIONED. It does charge my brain and I feel more energized.

Simply listening to the music without imagining the scene of the game is not a problem, the music itself is quite creative and imaginable.

Overall, I think it's a good album worth enough to listen again and again and again. I would want to buy the original CD some other time~

Below are the covers of the album, pure~, isn't it? It's wonderful, isn't it?

You can download at here

Or you can buy it at some music stores...

Here is one of the pieces in the album

Title: Final Fantasy XIII - The Promise ~ The Sunleth Waterscape

Janine Jansen - The Lark Ascending mp3

2010-07-19T23:59:00.005+08:00

Have found Janine Jansen's "The Lark Ascending" mp3 recording. Just...so excited!!!

Wanna put it here so much! There are still some other fantastic music pieces like Schindler's List, Rondo and Capriccio and Tzigane in that album, but today I just want to share this particular piece, as it's the one that I want to acquire so much. hehe.

Here it is

Music of the day: The Lark Ascending; Soloist: Janine Jansen; Accompaniment: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

As for you to watch how she plays, click here

To listen to all the music pieces in that album, including what I've just mentioned above, just follow this link and you'll have it!

Mood Diary 2

2010-07-17T00:06:00.006+08:00

Woke up neither late nor early in the morning, went to school for huayue practices.

Was wondering how to boost beginner performers' skill to be able to suit the luxuriousness and standard of DFP... What is DFP? DFP stands for Dewan Filharmonik Petronas. Hmmm, lame.

What I can do is.... work hard!

Have watched some videos in youtube and they were very very very funny!!! hahahahaah!

ok, I've chosen the funniest one (to me), enjoy :D

Music of the day: Vivaldi 4 seasons - Winter III Allegro.

Mood Diary 1

2010-07-16T00:51:00.003+08:00

Again, a non-resting day it was. Early in the morning got scolded by dad and have a bad mood, whatever it was, it's always some tiny little thing and the big fire will come, like "hell fire" cast by Ifrit in Final Fantasy series.

I always remind myself of the word "control" . It's a very meaningful to me, as I was always out of control. Playing music needs control, talking needs control, handling task needs control, almost everything in and from me needs control, otherwise something not happy might happen anytime.

Have practised for a while, suddenly, I realised my piano was very out of tune!! Oh my god... but what can I do? The tuner is in Alor Star and I'm in Kodiang, so I have to arrange an seemingly-no -going-to-happen appointment with the tuner and all I can do is wait and remind him and wait and remind him and wait....

Teaching children and old people together, in a cramped room was making my brain explode. Haha, children ah, really ah, don't know how to say. They were cute sometimes, like angels, but that happened very very rarely. Usually, they are devil~ jumping here and there, shouting nonsense, and you know what, their sound were at very high pitch! ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! (high pitch, shout yourself)

Then, the Tekka Chinese Orchestra practice. Ohh.... that's haiz.... as usual, I closed my ear and my brain and let my spinal cord do the job. hahaha.

乐音·噪音

2010-07-13T10:33:00.007+08:00

什么是音乐？在物理学角度来看，音分成两种，一种是“乐音”，另一种是“噪音”。

乐音是由物体有规则的震动，有固定音高的音所制造出来的，而噪音这是由没有固定音高的音创造出来了。音乐，是由乐音与噪音相互结合构出来的，当然还有包括音高、音质、音长、音量、休止等等等。

在一般欧美西乐里，我们听到的都是乐音占大部分，甚至纯乐音的音乐。而在东方音乐中，尤指中国音乐，由于各种民族文化的关系，为了表现某种自己民族的特性或想表达及传达某种讯息，故使用一些特殊性质的乐器（一般在于打击乐器）来表现出来。

在音乐里，乐音当然是比较多人喜欢的啦，毕竟“乐”这个字听起来就比“噪”好听多了。我们人类都是有一定的潜意识的对乐音的认识，这方面就牵涉到音准了。有些人节奏很好，但是音准一塌糊涂，我们会说他没有音乐细胞。但是有些有音准的，却拍子节奏烂到极点的，尤其那些在婚宴里唱“路边一棵榕树下”的安格们，我们却不会这么说，只会说他的拍子不好。这是对那些节奏好却音准烂的人实在太不公平了。但这也不能怪任何人，我们人类本来就被设计对准的音比较感兴趣，呵呵。所以给烂音准但又对音乐充满兴趣的人，如果在怎么练也练不好音准的情况下，可以选择学习不需要听音准的乐器，如噪音乐器（敲击类）、有屏的弹拨类、钢琴等。当然不会听音准的话也是个问题，就是钢琴走音了都不知道，所以要定期请调音师来调音。

节奏音准等其他音乐元素都是一体的，是不能分开的，也就是说，所谓的音乐细胞，不只是指音准或节奏，而是对音乐的总体的认识与发挥的细胞。

顺带一提，音准烂，是没有错的，经过训练就会进步。音准的好坏一般还是因为环境的影响啦。听久了不准的音，会觉得那音是准的，但我们的脑袋其实都潜藏着对准的音的意识，因为当我们听惯了不准的音后，去听准的音时，会觉得无比的舒服。其实还有另一种情况，就是耳水不平衡所造成的。这些耳水比平衡的人一般对音准毫无概念，准的音觉得准，不准的音也觉得准，但这是很痛苦的，因为这些人会无故晕眩和耳鸣，严重的话还会失聪。

其实噪音在音乐表现中也是占有一定的地位的。比如说，华乐演奏里的许多具有强烈民族特性的乐曲如《湘西风情》、《西北组曲》等等强烈的鼓声钹声都属于噪音。虽是噪音，但是很有特色。值得一提的是，现代流行音乐里如摇滚乐里所用的电吉他及套鼓都属于噪音的一种。当然电吉他不一定所发出的声音都是噪音，只有在某某技巧展示下如厮杀声才算是噪音，因为那是没有规则的震动所发出来的声音（当然不是完全的）。

好啦，结论是，无论是噪音还是乐音，它们都是主要构成音乐的元素。

下面奉上vivaldi 《四季》中的Allegro（快板），领奏者：Janine Jansen，所使用提琴：Antonio Stradivari 的 “Barrere"

Testing 2

2010-06-08T22:51:00.000+08:00

2010年全国华乐齐奏重奏赛T-shirt。

Uncle's Wedding (Photos)

2010-06-08T21:45:00.010+08:00

This is my first time using DSLR camera on photo shooting. Have enjoyed very much! Hehe. Here are some photos which I think are just ok. The rest.... errr.... you know la. Haha.

A bouquet of flowers

One rose plus....flowers and leaves

Flowers have become the main focus,haha.

Family

What motive is this?

The Bride

Was she thirsting for something? Awww...

My...photogenic sister

I like this pair of son and mom

My uncle and his wife...happy ever after~

Harvest Festival (丰年祭)

2010-04-07T14:33:00.002+08:00

Another Mandarin article. Below is the link.

丰年祭

It is indeed a nice chinese orchestra music piece.

Enjoy~

Evening Nap Surprise

2010-04-04T20:34:00.003+08:00

It's a Mandarin article, below is the link

午覺驚喜

Actually I wasn't having a nap, just that I couldn't find a more suitable word to describe a 1hour and 30min sleep. Hehe

An Unforgettable Water Splashing Festival

2010-04-04T11:58:00.009+08:00

The title of the article is the title of a chinese orchestra music piece. It's original name in Mandarin is 难忘的泼水节, so, translate to English, it would be what you see atop.

I had the opportunity to play this piece (erhu section) at my 14. That's when I followed our school's orchestra with De Jiao Hui (德教会) orchestra to had a performance circuit in Taiwan ( Shin Zhu and Taipei ). I was so grateful to be able to join the performing group, as two of my friends and I were the youngest among them. Really, so grateful.

The melody of this piece is very beautiful. Thanks to the composer, Liu Wen Jin(刘文金) who was able put the chinese instruments together and make them sound so harmony. The music video I'm going to post here is perform by Central Chinese Orchestra (中央民族乐团), conducted by Pu Dong Sheng ( 朴东生). The performance is not very well polished, otherwise it would be perfect! I like the soprano very much! So beautiful (I mean the voice)!

Oh, before I forget, the composer Liu Wen Jin is also the composer of the Great Wall(长城随想曲), Capriccio of Shan Men Xia ( 三门峡畅想曲), The Memorial of Yu Bei ( 豫北叙事曲) and etc. Most of his works are considered master piece in chinese traditional music field. Let say 长城随想曲，it's compulsory for every erhu profession to be able to play it, and it's also a very famous piece in erhu field.

Among the works of Liu Wen Jin, I like this piece the most.

Here's the video.

Enjoy~

Jake Shimabukuro - Ukulele

2010-04-01T08:36:00.002+08:00

I've found this guy's video on Youtube somewhen, very long ago. The reason why I could find this video was because I've watched Ranma 1/2 (A Japanese Animation) and curious about the instrument that was always played by Ranma's principal. Although his playing was awful, only a few strumming can be heard, but I was attracted to and interested to know more about that instrument as the quality of the sound is so gentle, so harmony. Knowing the name of the instrument was very easy, as everytime Ranma's principal appeared on the screen, he would frequently mention the name of the instrument, that is - Ukulele. So, without a second thought, I ran to my computer and searched for Youtube, and the first video under "ukulele" was this...

Here he is, Jake Shimabukuro, the god of ukulele!

Below is the link to download the mp3. It's a studio recording, therefore a better sound quality, and there's a slight difference from the video in terms of notes and structure.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Enjoy ^^

21st of March

2010-03-22T11:21:00.008+08:00

21st of March, to me, it's a very special day - my birthday and my mom's most torturous day. At the same time, it's also a lot of people's birthday. Among my friends, there are more than 4 people who have the same birthday as mine, they are Geh Cha Yong, Teoh Zhan Huai, Zhu Jun Bao(direct translate), Johnny Tan Wei Kweng and some more whom I'm not very familiar with. Quite a lot huh? My mom said there were a lot of 21st of March babies in the clinic when I was born. And I feel so lucky to meet so many same birthday friends, haha.

Received many birthday wishes from friends in Facebook. But I would like to thank Facebook the most as it reminded them about my birthday. I bet they don't even remember if not because of it. Have a seafood feast at the night with my family... delicious. All day long I was waiting for one particular person's birthday wish, but it never came. Guess who? I don't know either~ (talking nonsense)

Hmmm.... no idea to continue writing. That's all about my birthday. Haha

Here's a piece of music dedicated to my birthday wisher, Dustin O'Halloran - Prelude 2

Shanghai - China - In my point of view

2010-03-15T21:52:00.010+08:00

Well, it's another failure in my life - I didn't pass the intake exam. I felt so sorry to my family, especially my mom, who had supplied me most of the financial aid to get to Shanghai to sit for the intake exam. A big number it was, a big dept I owe my mom. I've disappointed my teacher, who always believe that I can pass the exam, and my friends, who always believe that I would excel in the music field. But the truth is, I was just not ready yet. There are still a lot of music theory knowledge that I don't know and hearing skill and sightread oral singing skill that I don't master. It was really a serious but good and precious lesson to me. Have learned a lot in this journey, especially the culture and the music spirit.

Ended the exam part, comes the travel part.

Shanghai, a super big city, a very dense city. It has a population much more than the total population of whole Malaysia. Therefore, basically there's no place to hide in Shanghai, if you wanna commit crimes, do in Malaysia, haha.

About the traffic, phooooh~ super..... ermm.... don't know how to describe. Being a pedestrian, I always have to be very careful even when I use the pedestrian traffic light as the vehicles are still allowed to turn right. Weird? Hmm.. I don't know what about the other countries' traffic.

The roads are quite complex, but are organised properly, although you'll see a lot of fly-overs criss crossing each other, haha. Why did I say so? Because, the guideposts are accurate, they won't mislead you, unlike Malaysia, lousy traffic, lousy guideposts, you don't even know you're lost.

Drivers, huh, super rush and not patient. I almost threw out for the first time taking the bus - pick up very fast and stop very suddenly. But the good thing is, they usually don't overspeed slower vehicles, what they do is... guess what? They honk, haha. It's almost impossible to overspeed any vehicle as most of the city roads are very narrow, and they are two-ways roads. I still remember that there was once the bus driver pressed and held the honk until the vehicle in front increased the speed, haha. Although it was rude and causing sound pollution, but through honking, the so called "tortoise driver" will be forced to drive faster and therefore increase the smoothness of the traffic. Basically there are three occasions when they will honk. First, the vehicle in front is too slow; second, any vehicle ambushes from the lane beside the main road or from the corner; third, "blind" pedestrians crossing road without using zebra crossing. However, they won't honk when there's a real traffic jam. Although the honking is loud and unpleasant, but it actually helps increases the smoothness of the traffic, I kinda agree with it, in this aspect. In order to decrease the sound pollution and protect the city image, the Shanghai government had set a rule to gradually forbid honking, corresponding to the coming World Expo.

About the food, it's undeniably delicious! For the time being in Shanghai, I haven't eaten any bad taste food, and the price is quite reasonable! The cheapest food I've ever eaten is Hunan Ramen, only 6 renminbi per bowl, upsized one. Normally the price of one meal is around 10 to 20 reminbi per person. But if you want to eat expensive food, you can go to any high class restaurant and you'll have to prepare at least 1000 renminbi before entering, haha.

During the interchange between winter and spring, the weather is just quite unstable or can be considered "crazy". The first day I was in Shanghai, the temperature was around 10 degree Celsius, then the temperature dropped gradually for a few days. Suddenly, the temperature raised until 20 degree Celsius when just 3 days ago was having minimum temperature of -2 degree Celsius, and snowing somemore...

Have heard rumors said that China people speak very loudly and spit everywhere. Well, this statement is only true on the elder citizens. The younger, modern and educated citizens won't do so. They are actually quite civilized, speak gently, queue whenever they have to, and give seat to old or handicapped people in public transports. That's what I saw, we actually have to learn from them. Nowadays, Shanghai is composed by many different types of people - different countries, different states, different colors, different mother tongues, and different background cultures. However, the only language that can be used throughout Shanghai is Mandarin, and the most frequently heard language is Shanghai native language. English... hardly any Chinese can speak.

Shanghai's security is very good, you'll be safe walking on the street, swinging your Louis Vuitton bag and counting your money, as there are CCTVs everywhere, every road, every corner. No one will rob you, as most of the people there are rich, there's no need to rob. Hardly see any beggars and suspicious looking person, haha.

About the bad side of Shanghai... the water quality is very very bad. If not filtered, you'll see white spots in the water. According to one of the Chinese living there, the spots are actually bleach and the unfiltered water contains over standard concentration of chlorine! (don't know whether is true or not) If you don't filter the water, it is toxic!

...

Overall, I like Shanghai~

I'm going to use this music piece, entitled " Shanghai Capriccio" to reflect Shanghai's life and beauty.

Enjoy~

Pictures of travelling in Shanghai are uploaded in Facebook, welcome to view~

Dilemma

2010-02-25T20:54:00.008+08:00

Just got the STPM result. Not to mention the A, my result just sucked. And I swear to take the second time, as I'm very not satisfied with my result which is caused by my laziness.I thought I would feel nothing as it's expected, but after I've thought for sometime, I did felt regret and to be honest, sad to the deepest. But speaking of regret, I don't know what to say, I would just say I deserved it, and I should not keep regretting already. Really, so sad now.

Shanghai.... is fulled of sound. The drivers here just liked to honk. Honking here, honking there. Hard to believe that they are going to organize a world class expo This is terrible, I don't know whether I can stand with it or not. But hopefully, I can, no matter what.

I'm missing home now, the home with nature beauty and... quiet environment. And missing family and friends.... yeah.

I wish I will pass the exam and quickly go home. I'm starting to miss the hot weather in Malaysia already. Haha.

I've been to the conservatory, just yesterday, thinking I can get used to the environment there more easily compared to my relative's house, as it's quiet.... at least not many cars there, therefore less of honks.

Hopefully everything will go smoothly... I must keep going.

Some parts of this article have been removed, since they involved moral and privacy issues.

Great Firewall In China

2010-02-24T09:52:00.007+08:00

Well, I think most of you have heard of "China doesn't only got Great Wall, but also Great Firewall!". This is certainly true, but you might be curious on how I'm gonna post an article in the Blogger, which is also in the block list of China Great Firewall when I'm in China?

The trick is here. Visit http://thefreevpn.com/ and download the VPN.

What is VPN by the way? Erg hmmm.... It's Virtual Private Network, which somehow will hide your IP and slip through the Great Firewall. I'm not quite sure of my explanation, maybe you should check out at here. It's very unstable though, and it's not tested virus free, so you have to run it at your own risk. If you wanna get yourself online on windows live messenger, you'll need to close the execution of the VPN program, as windows live messenger requires DNS.... or something like that.

I'm not sure of what I wrote is correct, to know more about the details. Search on google by yourself la. Haha...

See ya...

Going to Shanghai

2010-02-21T23:52:00.003+08:00

I'll be departing to Shanghai on 23rd of Feb with purpose to take intake-exam for Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The chances are very slim, but I still want to give it a shot, since it's my dream, my interest.

This blog will be abandoned until I come back from Shanghai as China's Great Firewall is very effective on blocking website, including Blogspot.

View my previous posts, if you have free time and are interested. Comments are welcomed~

Before leaving this blog, I would like to share a song with you, entitled "This Is Home"

Me Singing

2010-02-21T00:52:00.006+08:00

I have recorded one voice clip yesterday, and I wish to share with everyone who view my blog. It's definitely not a good one, but I hope you will listen and give comment, might be "bullshit or what the..."

I did this in order to boost my courage on singing, although it's not real public, but more or less will create some effect, as the intake examination I'm going to take in shanghai including oral test. This is my first ever music test!!!! Damn nervous!!!

Before listening to this voice clip, prepare a disposable plastic bag, just in case. You know what I mean la.

心跳（王力宏） solo

Please, leave your comment here, whether good or bad, it shows you've listened to it. I want to extent my appreciation in advance for allowing my voice to torture your ear... Erm... you might find it good too, who knows? hehe....

Gathering

2010-02-19T13:06:00.002+08:00

I've written an article about this title in chinese in my chinese blog.

Here's the link

Click here 相聚

Thank you for viewing. ^^

2009 The Thirteen Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Webcast

2010-02-18T11:43:00.009+08:00

Do you want to see how a piano competition being held? Well, here's the golden chance, you can witness almost the whole competition flow, including interview, practice, rehearsal and of course, the performance via internet. In this competition, one Chinese and one Japanese had emerged as gold medal winner (tie)! The Chinese is Haochen Zhang, he is currently 20(2010), who is same age with me and the youngest participant in the competition!!! And the Japanese..... I forgot what's his name already. He is also a very young pianist - one age older than Haochen, but seems he has speaking difficulty, couldn't talk properly.

Because of Haochen Zhang, I discovered the composer Sergei Prokofiev and his work Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor. His performance is breathtaking, very controlled. He is my idol.... yes, he is.

Here's the link

The Cliburn 2009

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Metal Gear Solid 3 Theme Music

2010-02-17T11:25:00.005+08:00

I haven't played this game before, and I've forgotten where and why I found this soundtrack. Composed by Harry Gregson, a magnificent piece it is. When listening to it, you might feel the urge to battle in a war. This piece starts with big sounds, depicting a big situation - going to a war. In the middler part, as if the soldiers camouflage themselves and move carefully in the jungle. Then, they encounter the enemy and start a great fight. In the end of this piece, the melody goes to a soft and touching one, soloed by acoustic guitarist, full of passion. And be thankful for the soldier, who had sacrificed their lives in the war.

This music piece is listed in the music jukebox at the top of this blog.

Titanic

2010-02-15T12:07:00.006+08:00

Parental guidance is advised for children viewer.

Still remember the movie Titanic? Well, it surely was a romantic one. I hereby intended to introduce you the orchestral music of this movie, entitled "Titanic", performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Original theme song (not embedded here) sung by Celine Dion - She is gorgeous, and has nice voice too!

Well, I watched this movie when I was 7 years old, I guess the most attractive and curious part was when Jack sketched Rose-wearing-nothing and when they entered William Carter's Renault(car's brand) and have ... in the backseat before moving to the ship's forward well deck.

And the most touching and romantic part... Well, I guess you all already knew, even if you haven't watched the movie before. Hehe.

(I guess my family members will be very shocked if they see this, haha)

Enjoy the music!

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

2010-02-13T23:23:00.003+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!!!

The song I'm going to embed here is entitled 一見你就笑 (smile at the first glance at you) sung by Leehom Wang, featuring Teressa Teng.

This song is dedicated to you, my honored viewer. ^^

*The talking part can't be removed, apologize in advance.

Schindler's List

2010-02-13T14:36:00.014+08:00

I've just watched this movie via PPstream yesterday. Wow, I couldn't control my tears to flow down my cheeks during the climax, this movie is seriously very good!! (And I think it is better than the current block buster Avatar, sorry to Avatar fans). It's creative, educative, thankful and most importantly, humanistic. This is a movie screened in 1993, directed by Steven Spielberg (also the director of Transformer and Eagle Eye). I don't know the names of the actors, but I'm sure that they are all fantastic ones.

" The film was a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score, as well as numerous other awards. In 2007, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time (up one position from its 9th place listing on the 1998 list).

-Quotes from Wikipedia- "

Plot

This story starts from 1939 with all the Jews from Krakow and surrounding areas being relocated and crowded into an area of only 16 square blocks (walled Ghetto) by German military in World War II. A man named Oskar Schindler, which was a German businessman lavished bribed the Wehrmacht (the name of unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945) and SS (a major Nazi organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party)officials in charge of procurement. He ran a army mess kits factory with the help of Itzhak Stern (an outstanding Jewish accountant who is familiar with the black marketers inside the Ghetto), sponsored by the military. Opening the factory, Schindler pleased the Nazis and enjoyed his newfound wealth and status as "Herr Direktor", while Stern handled all administration. Schindler hires cheap Jews. Workers in Schindler's factory were allowed outside the ghetto, and Stern falsified documents to ensure that as many people as possible are deemed "essential" to the German war effort, which saved them from being transported to concentrated camps, or being KILLED.

SS Captain Amon Goth arrives in Krakow to initiate construction of the new Plaszow concentration camp. He was a cruel man, killed Jews anywhere, anytime arbitrarily when he was slightly pissed off. He was too bribed by Schindler to supply Jewish workers in order to get benefits financially. He fell in love with one of the Jewish girl, but he as a German was prohibited to develop any relationship with the Jews. He must treated them as slaves, as servants. Therefore, he beat her up oftenly, but never killed her, as he was attracted to her, but was burdened by his status and his race. This was a case which a lot of confusions emerged. Schindler, on the other hand, had documented a list of workers' names of which the names in the list would be secured from the life-threatening massacre launched by the German military. Initially he didn't care about the lives of the Jewish workers. No matter how many workers had expressed their gratitude to him, he didn't appreciate it, although he replied with smiles. But somehow and somewhen, he discovered his inner self and began to really show his gratitude to the workers working for him.

He started to protect them with all he got, i.e. money and his persuading eloquence. Because of the list, he was able to move his workers from Krakow to Zwittau-Brinnlitz (Schindler's hometown), away from the "final solution". Almost all the people on Schindler's list arrived safely at the new site. The train carrying the Jewish women was accidentally redirected to Auschwitz (another site for chemical factory) due to paper work mistake. There, the horrified women were taken to what they believed to be the gas chamber, but weeped with joy when water fell from the showers (since it's winter and they couldn't get any drinkable water as they were kept in the waterless crowded train ). The day after, the women are shown waiting in the line for work. In the meantime, Schindler had rushed immediately to Auschwitz to solve the problem. Intending to rescue all the women, he bribed the camp commander, with a cache of diamonds in exchange for releasing the women to Brinnlitz. However, a last minute problem arrised just when all the women are boarding the train. Several SS officers attempted to hold back the children and prevent them from leaving. Schindler, however, insisted that he needed their hands to polish the narrow insides of artillery shells. As a result, the children are released. Once the women arrived in Brinnlitz, Schindler instituted firm controls on the SS guards assigned to the factory, forbidding them to shoot or torture anyone. He permitted the Jews to observe the Sabbath. In order to keep his factory workers alive, he spent much of his fortune bribing Nazi officials. He ran out of money just as the Wehrmacht surrenders, ending the war in Europe.

As a Nazi Party member and a self-descibed "profiteer of slave labor", in 1945 Schindler must flee the advancing Red Army. Although the SS guards have been ordered to "liquidate" the Jews of Brinnlitz, Schindler persuaded them to return home as men but not as murderers. In the aftermath, he packed a car in the night, and bade farewell to his workers. They gave him a letter explaining he was not a criminal to them, together with a ring secretly made from a worker's gold dental bridge and engraved with a Hebrew quotation, " Whoever saves one life saves the world entire". Schindler is touched but deeply ashamed, feeling he could have done more to save many more lives. Weeping, he considered how many more lives he could have saved as he left with his wife during the night.... Numerically, he saved approximately 1100 lives, with his power alone.

( You might find the plot above is composed of different levels of English. Well, it's because some of them.... most of them are copied from Wikipedia. Hehe. Otherwise I myself am not able to construct such good sentences. )

The running time of the movie is about 195 minutes. Black-and-white color only. And viewers below 18 are advised not to watch this movie as it contains nudity. But if you insist to, please have your parents accompany you when watching.

One of the most well-known soundtrack of this movie is the violin solo piece " Schindler's List" (Actually there's not much soundtracks in the movie, haha). The original "Schindler's List" was played by Itzhak Perlman. I have the recording but the sound quality is quite awful. Hence, I embed another version of this music piece in the player below, performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, soloed by unknown violinist.

There are a few dialogues in the movie which I think are meaningful.

1. "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire"

Schindler: "Is that why they fear us?"

Amon Goth: "We have the fucking power to kill, that's why they fear us."

Sch: "They fear us because we have the power to kill arbitrarily.

A man commits a crime, he should know better. We have him killed, and feel pretty good about it. Or we kill him ourselves and we feel even better. That's not power, though. That's justice. It's different than power. Power is when we have every justification to kill and we don't."

Am: " You think that's power?"

Sch: " That's what the emperors had. A man stole something, he's brought in before the emperor, he throws himself down on the ground, he begs for mercy. He knows he's going to die. And the emperor... pardons him. This worthless man. He lets him go."

Am; " I think you are drunk."

Sch: " That's power, Amon. That.. is power"

(Don't be misled by the dialogues...)

You can watch the whole movie at PPstream.

Trailer at here.

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I haven't been through a war. And I have no idea of what a war was like. But through the movie, I think more or less can feel the situation and the thoughts they were thinking.

Enjoy! ^ ^

EXTRA

My playing.... on Shindler's List

Bad sound quality (mono) plus bursting sound. Got video, hehe.

Better recording quality, but no video...

The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Janine Jansen

2010-02-12T14:10:00.004+08:00

Wow! Another master performance by Janine Jansen! The whole piece is of slow tempo and mostly pentatonic scale. So harmonic, so touching, so beautiful, so soulful.... She instilled her every feeling into every note! She really is rare and I'm so grateful to be able to listen to her playing (although it's not live) in my life time! Hopefully some day, one day, I'll be sitting on the best seat in a best concert hall and listen to her best performance!

Oh~ I'm melting.

Balls (sports)

2010-02-11T11:13:00.017+08:00

I'm confused. Why most of the people like to watch and play football and basket ball, especially male but I don't? Maybe I'm "kaki bangku" (kaki means leg, bangku means stool, which means people who don't know how to play football)? Or my gene is more to feminine characteristic? But some of my female friends also like to watch football games... Oh, whatever. The point is, I just don't like, or rather I'd say "not interested".

When I was at the age of primary school, I once played with my neighbors and accidentally kicked one's leg and surprisingly, I was not hurt, but he was sent to clinic. That was the first time I found that football was quite a dangerous game.

My football skills really suck. Seemed I really seldom played football, I couldn't shoot the ball accurately, usually it would fly nowhere and my teammate would give me "haiz". I hate to disappoint people, but I just couldn't make it, as I'm not born to be a good football player. Eventually, the term "football" became my nightmare. As I'm not interested in football, I began to have some bad thoughts about football, such as "I can't kick the ball, but the ball kicks me", "Is there any fun 2 groups of players chasing the only one ball to death just to kick it into the net?" and "I bet the audience are just wanted to gamble on who-will-win, they don't really like the game, but just like the money they'll get, otherwise how come they are willing to argue and even fight each other for the injustice of the judge? It's just a game, ok?" It's a money-influenced game, I thought. And from this aspect, I'm quite disagree with. The player just wanted to play to their best, not to play for the audience's richness!

Ok, maybe I'm extreme and maybe I'm wrong, but this is just my perspective on the football games in the present day. I must admit, I don't play football not because I hate it, it's because I hate myself who couldn't even shoot the ball accurately. I was invited to play before, but I really couldn't resist my "dont-want" thought. Haiz, now 20yr old already. Don't know if there's still any chance to play?

Speaking of basketball. Yeah, I'm quite sucked too. I hated to be knocked, and I also hated to knock people when snatching ball (as I'm not professional, so play very rude) and felt weird when having skin contact (but now used to it and like it somehow, weird person, huh). In primary school, I was once hit by the ball right in the face and my nose bled. It was REALLY HURT! I was quite "没种" (coward?), laughed by my so called friends and even the canteen's aunty laughed at me and I began to cry. They have no sympathy at all! Kept laughing at me. As I was so a good child(hehe), never fight back or speak any harsh words, cried myself to swollen-eyes, haiz.

Actually I really think that I was suffering from autism, but my family didn't notice and they thought I was normal. Well, now, when I recall back, I really suffered from autism(light condition). Didn't play in groups, seldom talked, very seldom shared my inner thoughts with anyone, including my family and didn't like to be in public, but didn't like to be alone (super confused).
But things went the other way round since I met Mr.Goh Suk Liang and Mr.Tan Boon Choon. They brought me out of autism, became more cheerful and confident. And felt relieve and happier when I met Henry Yew and Tee Shu Hui, didn't know why, just felt like "Ah, I finally have true friends". I would like to thank them, sincerely.

I like sports, can play badminton quite well and like jogging, except balls.

I would like to use this music piece entitled "The Oath" from Final Fantasy VIII to commemorate my past.

(Don't know what will happen if my family members see this..... whatever)

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major - Janine Jansen

2010-02-09T09:54:00.044+08:00

Well, when i first heard of this music piece in Youtube, immediately I was attracted to it. This is a piece which I think the rhythm depicts a situation where there's a beacon of light no matter how dark the sky was, how hard the circumstances were. And the urge to search for hope is getting stronger and fiercer as the piece goes on. I like the first movement very much as the melody is too beautiful! This violin concerto is in major key, therefore no matter how sad is the mood of that piece, there always exists happiness in it. Hehe. This is just my personal opinion, with my very limited music theory knowledge.

Janine Jansen (Netherlands Violin Soloist)

From Pictures

She is currently my no.1 violin soloist. I first saw her playing with Berliner Philharmoniker in an annual open concert (DVD) with more than 20,000 audience (you can view the video here - Janine Jansen playing Saint-saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccio.) Her stunning technique had allowed her to effectively express her feeling about whatever piece of music she's playing, and I like her feeling about whatever piece she played and her interpretation. She is very powerful, even more powerful than most of the male violinist (It's a shame, I personally think that, no offence). Her striking of bow on the string always gives me a "ngh!" feeling, and I really enjoy it! Hehe. She likes extreme, I think, from her playing on every piece of music. She can play super very soft, but she can play super very loud too! I love it!! She has a very good communicating skill (via music). I must admit it, as her playing really was able to stop me from doing anything but only listening to her playing. It's breathtaking, it's like hypnosis, and I like to be hypnotized by her (sounds like I'm crazy). Hehe.

Conditions of listening to Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major played by Janine Jansen:

1. You have enough time to listen to it. (38min 18sec) Shocked?Haha.

2. Your internet broadband speed is fast enough (1mbps is recommended). Otherwise you'll have to wait for loading.

2. Prepare a speaker with subwoofer, or at least a headphone or earphone which supports deep bass.

3. Make sure you're in a very quiet environment, except your heartbeat is heard.

4. Turn to the volume that resembles the volume as if you're listening to a live concert.

5. Clear out your mind (not thinking of unhappy things or anyhing, but thinking of nothing)

6. Play the whole piece sequencedly and let the music bring you to it's world. (This is how the magic/hypnosis works)

7. Imagine you're one of the members in the performing group. Maybe you can think of yourself as the conductor, the violin soloist, the concert master, the flute player, the percussionist, or even the doorkeeper(out of performing group). Hehe. Anyone or any character you can think of which most suits you. (Since our brain is sensitive to light, i.e. image)

8. Move your body as you like. This will increase the sense of reality.
8. If you feel sleepy, just close your eyes, the music won't bother you, it will bring you to the world of dreams. This is the specialty of classical music.(my personal view)

9. Breathe with the music. (Music is life)

10. Sounds very tiring hor? But if you want to get the best listening experience, you have to follow those conditions stated above. Hehe.

11. Of course if you want to get the better than the "best" listening experience, buy her album la. Hehe.

Below are some videos from Youtube showing how Janine and the conductor and the orchestra and the producer and the staffs cooperated and worked together to produce such a good album. They will also help you to get the pictures of how a concerto goes and how they rehearse. Couldn't embed it here (disabled by request), but below are the links.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

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Written so much above. Here's the main content of this article. :)

This violin concerto comprises of 3 movements.

First movement -Allegro Moderato

Second movement -Canzonetta (Andante)

Third movement -Finale (Allegro Vivacissimo).

The mp3 is of 200~250kbps. Therefore the sound quality is considered okay, in my point of view. If you want to get this piece in mp3 or lossless file (.flac).- If you can't download from divShare, contact me. :)

ENJOY!

HOT HOT HOT!

2010-02-05T12:45:00.005+08:00

Oh my God, the weather around these days were very HOT! Even the endurable ants that usually hide behind the walls migrated out to find some coolness! And this had given my family, especially my mom even worse problem - getting rid of the huge-amount indomitable ants.

Really, need to drink a LOT OF WATER to prevent dehydration. Otherwise we will .... "dry"

The effect of global warming is getting obvious and serious. Hope the stupid, "black-hearted", egoistic, selfish so-called "entrepreneurs" will stop their stupid and environmental-harm action, and try to reproduce and regain what the Earth had loss and damaged. This is crucial as the Earth is NOT YOUR property!!! The Earth is shared by everyone, every creature on it's surface, even under the surface - the microorganism, the minerals, the very Earth core. No greenish plant=no oxygen(only stupid doesn't know green plant will give out oxygen), no food(broken food chain), dirty water(no filtration) and toxic air(no filtration) - We can't live, so are YOU. Therefore, IT'S EVERYONE's property.

Love ourselves, love everyone else, love the Earth, love the Universe -> happy the Universe, happy the Earth, happy everyone else, happy ourselves.

Lets start giving love and have hope for the future!

A music piece entitled Miracle from Final Fantasy XIII. The miracle is waiting for us.

Final Fantasy XIII OST - The Promise

2010-02-04T11:09:00.004+08:00

I've heard of this piece about one year ago. It really pierced into my very heart and it always pop up in my mind. The touching melody, the soothing flow of rhythm, and the deep feeling of passion of achieving dreams or something that's beyond wildest imagination, . It's really inspiring, I would say. It's just a 1min 33 sec piece. Please, have a try to listen it, you'll sure like it. Have a nice 1 min 33sec.

This piece will be listed in the music jukebox at the top of this blog. Feel free to enjoy it anytime!

戰馬奔騰 Running... Wild Horses?

2010-01-30T14:48:00.000+08:00

This is my third "music video" (wow, sounds pro. haha), entitled 戰馬奔騰.

In my opinion, this piece is just about bringing the atmosphere of which a huge number of horses running (anywhere, everywhere, in group). So... couldn't ensure every note is in tune. I hope you will enjoy it. Hehe.

Music Sharing

2010-01-28T17:16:00.000+08:00

Hello! A "Music Corner" playlist has been embedded on the upper right corner of this blog. I hope to share my favorite music with everyone who view my blog. Enjoy!

p/s: My favorite music is more to classical, slow tempo, sentimental, new age, game(orchestral), chinese traditional and soundtrack. Therefore to those who don't like the music types stated above, just ignore the playlist, it won't autoplay. Hehe.

Summary for the trip to Singapore

2010-01-20T21:31:00.000+08:00

Well, back to Malaysia, means the vacation is off. During the days in Singapore, i did fill my time almost restlessly. Belows are what I've done through those days. Will write as detailed as possible, as I could recall back.

Day 1 11/01/10 Mon

Morning, took 8.35am flight to Kuala Lumpur. Coincidently i met one of my Keat Hwa friend, Hui Zhi. At LCCT(low-cost carrier terminal), she and her friend waited for the flight to Kuching at about 7.30 pm, which they have to wait at LCCT for about 10 hours! I was more lucky, as i just have to wait until 3.00 pm only, haha. In the mean time, i went to KLIA via shuttle bus, it costed me RM2.00 per way. At KLIA, the flow of people is very few, as compared to LCCT. This have shown that many people (foreigners or natives) would like a take cheap flight. Thanks to Air-asia, everyone can fly now, haha.

Arrived in Changi Airport, Singapore, I was confused by sky-train from city-train. Luckily there was a friendly travelers guider helped me to get out from the airport towards my sister's house. In MRT, as i was carrying a "suspicious" black duffel bag, the passengers looked at me suspiciously as if i have done something wrong. I brought the curiosity to my sister's house. When I saw a propaganda film showing a man holding a similar-with-mine bag walking into the MRT and walked out leaving the bag behind, it was a BOMB! Haha, no wonder the passengers were looking at me. I thought I was too good-looking until their eyes couldn't resist to lay on me. Hahahaha...

Met my "real" nephew for the first time, although have seen him virtually via internet, haha. He's very cute!! I liked him very much as he wouldn't scream unreasonably, like a typical baby. Walked into my sister's house, I was kinda like "whoo~ just like this?", haha. During dinner,that was the first time i found that my sister ate very few! When she handed over the rice to me, i was kinda shocked. Oh my God, that's mom's measure! Haha.

Day 2

First stop, Orchard. What i could say is there are many many many many buildings "spacelessly" lined up both sides along the Orchard Road. From a shopping center to another shopping center, the most thing i could find is fashions. Well, I'm not that fashion person. So to me, Orchard was kinda boring. Have lunch at Mc Donald. Sitting on a bench on the pedestrian

street and enjoyed the view, I found that the weather wasn't hot like in Malaysia. I guessed it's because they've planted a lot of big trees along the roadside. Plus, the total vehicles on the road wasn't many too. I saw a few very hardworking sanitation workers cleaning the streets, no wonder the street was so clean! I've spent no money in Orchard(except the lunch), as nothing was affordable, haha, and no use too.

Day 3

I've forgotten where I've gone to, maybe it's Chinatown.... Hmmmmm...ok, Chinatown it is (Sequence are messed up). Well, to be honest, i don't like Chinatown. Inside the buildings, all i could find were money exchange, traveler's agency, massage&spa and maid agency. I think the atmosphere was very bad. Just don't like it... Outdoors, just like a typical "Pasar" (market) in Malaysia. Although it's cleaner, but the variety of merchandise was too few, just souvenirs (key chain, Chinese seals, T-shirts, oldish ornaments, Chinese fan, chopsticks, paints and so on....).

Oh, before Chinatown, I went to Bishan to watch Avatar 3D. 3D movie for the first time! Well, I liked the concept and the message it wanted to convey, but I don't think it's very very very very nice that my friend told me. Stunning graphic... undeniable.

Day 4

Since I left this blog not-updated for a few days, so I've kinda forgotten where I've been already haha. I'll write briefly for this day onwards. Hehe. Ok, so forget about the day count.

National Museum of Singapore

What I can say is the museum is quite high-tech and well decorated. Yeah, that's all, go to see for yourself, you won't regret. haha. If you're a student, remember to prove to the ticket seller, otherwise he will charge you $25++ instead of student price, $5 for whole galleries package (History of Singapore and seasonly exhibition, currently "Quest for Immortality,The World of Ancient Egypt")

Science Centre

Hmmmm.... A lot of related-t0-science games to play. Really a lot, I wasn't able to play it all since I've not enough time to do so. There's seasonly exhibition too, currently "The human world"(same meaning, but probably different words)

Vivocity - Sentosa Island

Vivocity is located at "harbour front", while Sentosa Island is one-bridge away from Vivocity (directly). Vivocity is a very huge shopping center and it's suitable for everyone, from young to old, poor to rich. I like it very much. At Vivocity, I tasted hagen-dazz for the first time. Actually for me it's just ice-cream, nothing special, just more concentrated than normal ice-cream, maybe my tongue wasn't that sensitive, couldn't tell the specialty of it. Haha.

My friend, Hui Wen accompanied me in this vivocity-sentosa trip. Thanks to her, otherwise I wouldn't go to sentosa alone since it'll be very boring. The total entrance fees for the day is about $60, hmmm... very expensive. But it's only once in a life time, so worth it. We went to:

Watch 4D-Magix, what is it? Check this out

Underwater World

Tanjong Beach (southernmost of continental Asia)

Songs of The Sea (click here for more details)

Kingdom of Insects

Nature Discovery

and etc. haha

Nice trip it was...

Few pictures(almost all) are posted in Facebook. Hehe

Songs of The Sea

2010-01-17T09:53:00.000+08:00

This was my first time being in Sentosa in Singapore. It was a very joyful experience to me, especially the musical fountain show entitled "Songs of The Sea" ! The tickets fee was only $10 per adult, and you really worth it!

According to the description of the brochure: [ Songs of The Sea brings you a mesmerising show featuring pyrotechnics, water jets, brilliant lasers, captivating music and other dramatic effects ]. And it really was!

Its storyline was just a typical one, that is, a male( like prince ) wanted to find and rescue his dream lover ( a princess or someone like that ).

The fountain? Yeah~ it was really really amazing and i don't know how to describe it.

The video clip below shows the beginning of the show, which started with rhythmic fire balls shooting up. At live, you can really feel the heat! And that feeling is very "whooooo~"

The next video clip shows one of the climaxes of the show. Just feel appreciated.

Sudeki... dane? (It's wonderful, isn't it). Haha

2010-01-16T00:33:00.001+08:00

2010-01-16T00:29:00.000+08:00

First time blogging in blogspot

2010-01-15T23:09:00.000+08:00

Nothing to say, nothing to write.

Will update sporadically...

Hehe^^

M E P M

Hachi (Movie)

Oh, my blog!

Master Class of Chinese Traditional Instrument

Personal Diary No.#

Ravel Piano Concerto in G

Opposing large-scale primary school.

全民最大党之朝鲜新闻又来啦！

Bad Car Air-con

Mind rests, thoughts come out

Dearly Beloved

The Interruption of Facebook Feature to My Eyes.

Shanghai, on the way.

Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year

Janine Jansen's latest album - Beau Soir

这几天对音乐的体会 II

这几天对音乐的体会

Final Fantasy Versus XIII - Somnus - Erhu Solo

Eternity Memory of Lightwaves

Kingdom Hearts Piano Collection

胡言阮语 （Hu Talks Ruan Speaks) Music Concert

Symphonic Fantasies

Benyamin Nuss

Janine Jansen - Beau Soir: Janine Jansen plays Après un reve

The Lark Ascending .avi

Asian Dream Song

Janine Jansen - Mendelssohn & Bruch

王力宏 - 十八般武艺

Another weird dream

Grandmother in my dream

为人着想

Final Fantasy XIII Piano Collection

Janine Jansen - The Lark Ascending mp3

Mood Diary 2

Mood Diary 1

乐音·噪音

Testing 2

Uncle's Wedding (Photos)

Recently Updated

Harvest Festival (丰年祭)

Evening Nap Surprise

An Unforgettable Water Splashing Festival

Jake Shimabukuro - Ukulele

21st of March

Shanghai - China - In my point of view

Dilemma

Great Firewall In China

Going to Shanghai

Me Singing

Gathering

2009 The Thirteen Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Webcast

Metal Gear Solid 3 Theme Music

Titanic

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Schindler's List

The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Janine Jansen

Balls (sports)

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major - Janine Jansen

HOT HOT HOT!

Final Fantasy XIII OST - The Promise

戰馬奔騰 Running... Wild Horses?

Music Sharing

Summary for the trip to Singapore

Songs of The Sea

First time blogging in blogspot

胡言阮语（Hu Talks Ruan Speaks) Music Concert