SPECIAL UPLOAD

I'm LATE TO THE PARTY AGAIN. 

Man, sometimes I just hate myself for not being visionary enough. Remember that time when Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale movie was the hype? I should have just made a video of it then. zzz...

Oh well... at least I did fulfill my own promise to make an arrangement of it, and being one of the bigger anime songs attempted after my rather failed Your Lie In April arrangement, I'm quite happy with the results of this SAO arrangement =D

Moving on, SAO Ordinal Scale Catch The Moment is a special upload to commemorate my first year in YouTube. I haven't gone far, but I did find some happiness/satisfaction in this hobby of mine: it has given me some sense of achievement, albeit a small one, and has pushed me to do things I have never done before. Making sheets is one of them. I really didn't think of developing a habit to make sheets when I just started, but one thing led to another and now I'm making my own sheets whenever I can. And for that I'm very grateful to found a new discipline to follow.

Speaking of sheets, I know I haven't been making them recently. I'm getting bogged down by studies till I don't really have time to practice properly. I really wish I could get my own doppelganger. effectively doubling my available time everyday.

A final note: Thank you for the support over the past year! I'm inching very slowly to improvement, but a progress is a progress. I hope to be able to go even further in this coming YouTube year and see that I can surpass people's expectation of me. I hope you'll still be here, and thank you for being with me for the past year. Love you~

- DrewyJin - 

PS: Lisa looks so pretty here! 

Here's the SPECIAL UPLOAD: Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale - Catch The Moment Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki53FzemtUw

I Have My Dreams. Am I Worthy?

I guess there are just times when things around you just get to you...

So a week ago, I had my first anime performance in Uni. Everything and all went OK. You can check out the videos on the event to have a look at what took place.

Sigh... It has been a year since I officially got onto YouTube and had my channel properly set up. I remember being so active last year: I was sourcing music to learn, techniques to modify and just looking for inspiration to let me go all the way to make my account the best I could. Along the way, I'm kinda sure that I was being a nuisance to my Friends on Facebook, cuz of my trying to get the support XD 

Indeed... I am VERY CONCERNED on how I appear to people. I fear that by persistently sharing my work, which I am always trying to improve, people might think of me as one of those "Online Wannabes". =( 

I can always deny this, but I can't deny the fact that I cannot change their minds once they think of me like that. I just hope that I can prove it to them otherwise, if perhaps, I can be given the chance...

That's why I keep this blog. I'm sharing my views here so that if anyone sees the posts I'm making, they can know me more, and not just assume I'm some attention seeking baby. Further more, I even make my personal FB account public to all, just to allow a greater degree of knowing me and contacting me for sheets or stuff. 

Personally, I have my dream to achieve on YouTube (cliché AF). How I actually got this dream was a result of many lonely moments in high school, when my "friends" were more interested copying my work instead of letting me be part of the gang. I was rather lonely back then. There were days that I was just so depressed seeing how people around had their own big gang while I was never really a part of any gang at all. And I had a certain aura that no matter how hard I tried to make an impression on a new friend I just made, they just wouldn't remember my name. ==""

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a recluse. I enjoy having the right company around! But I just don't know what sort of aura I had over my head that prevented me from being part of any real clan in my class... I didn't start YouTube at that time, so it definitely wasn't being nosy around with my videos and all. 

So during one of those low moments, a thought came to me and it has stuck to me ever since: I'm rather lonely. How nice would it be if I had people who knew me, people who looked up upon me. How nice if I were famous....

Whoa. Famous? Me? You've gotta be kidding. I've got no talent! My music skills back then, even now, are just not enough to WOW people. And I was a jack of all trade in sports.. (HAHA that sounded too good. I was just OK in sports. Could play any sports basketball football badminton etc with some mediocre skills, but not the school team standard) I couldn't possibly be famous!

No matter how I tried to shake off that thought, whenever I see those friends of mine having some great laugh while I was doing my work at the back of the class, the thought would just keep banging into my head... (Did I ever mentioned I was a back row student? Haha random fact!)

So it wasn't until some years later after the inception of that "Being Famous" thought that I finally decided that I wasn't going to bother about any shit about myself, and just try my best to achieve it. Because even after graduating from high school, I was still being tailed by that certain aura that just couldn't have people remember me!  (There are many times where I made new contacts in college, and I remember their names, but 5/7 would return and say "Oh I'm sorry. What was your name?" GRRRGGRGRGRGRGR!!!!)

Why wouldn't you remember my name?? 

 Those events added a bit more motivation into putting that "Being Famous" thought into action, cuz even if you're famous, people still might not know you personally, but hey, they remember your name, right? 

So all those mentioned experiences were my initial motivation to start off YouTube-ing. I just want people to remember my name... And perhaps, I guess to make more friends?

So there you have it. This is my reason for continuing my YouTube efforts, even though my account growth is just soooo sloooowww... It's a promise I made to myself to improve, and to keep improving until the end of my time, because I have no talent, but I want to have the talent of playing beautiful music, because that's the only thing that I love doing! (I got onto YouTube without much love for playing or making music, but after I got onto it, I realized how much it meant to me, and I wanted to make something out of it after learning music for so long. More on this in my next posting.) I could just sit at the piano whole day to force myself to learn some arpeggios scales techniques and run my fingers through my arrangements to be ready for a recording session. I just want to improve. I want to improve until I don't cringe at my own music... 

Lastly, I have nothing to hide. I don't want to be viewed as those "Online Wannabes" or some attention seekin baby. I wanna lose this loneliness that's been stuck with me for years, the sense that I have no where to belong. I don't want to put on a mask and be with the wrong people, and be tolerant to groups that just isn't my group. 

I want to belong. I want to feel accepted. I want to be acknowledged for my skills. And I hope you can help me in achieving my dream, because I cannot succeed without a community supporting my growth. I wish you will be part of my reason to success, and I wish to have you as a part of my story.  

Thank you for staying.

Here are the corresponding links:
Event summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qexAzN734

Event Performance DrewyJin FULL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCf3iSWYto

Final Fantasy XV and FIRST Anime Performance!!

ALRIGHT LET'S SET THIS UP AGAIN.

Close to a month without any content... An eventful month it was.

I think my last post was just after CNY? Yep, so that makes it close to a month. LET ME SHARE WITH YOU SOME AWESOME STUFF THAT HAPPENED.

First: I GOT A PS4 AND..... FINAL FANTASY XV! The bill was split between my sister and I. BUT here's the sad part of it. We didn't know the game disc was region locked, aka the disc had to match the address of your Sony account to get the DLCs and all. My Sony account was under the Asia region, but the disc was a European disc. AND, the vendor conveniently left that information out. F*** HIM 99. That bitch did unethical business. I ended up trading in my disc at another mall which I felt had better service, and had a nice chat with the shopkeeper there haha. I went there one day, asked them about my being unable to get the Chocobo Carnival and all, and they did some awesome clarification hohoho. So in the end, I went there the next day to trade in and issue solved, albeit with more money spent... Sigh... But,  it is playable now ^^

No kidding dudes. I love the FF series~

ALRIGHT NEXT STORY.

I recently had a performance for my uni's Japanese Festival, or Bunkasai. And it was my first performance playing anime songs~ which I kinda enjoyed~ All the while before, whenever I performed pop songs and all (Eng or Chinese), I always felt that they were lacking something solid, like there's a connection missing or something. This time, performing anime songs was kinda like having the mountain breeze sweep your mind away, and having the sound of the sea waves gently singing to you... Something like that hahah... 

I will be making a video about the event, and SPOILERS: YOU GONNA HEAR ME TALK. Crap, my voice sounds so darn deep on camera, I cringe every time I listened to it. BUT let's just do something different, Cuz I did say on my channel that I do videos other than music arrangements, so I guess I'm sticking to my word for it. @@

Here's some pics from the event. 

Cafe doorstep doll. 

Yea, it was an open event, and the stage wasn't in a hall. But I have no issues with that =)

They even have their own shirt!

Ohh, my babeh carrying my name... Muacks

Hehehehe... this cute Origami chicken I did!

Some waifus display...

MORE waifus display...

Whose waifu is this? Anyone? I'm sure she belongs to many,,,

THIS. IS. MY. WAIFE~

Hello Jeanne. I haven't watched Fate Grand Order yet, but I'll do so one day.

Games arena...

Performance going on. This vocalist had a very nice voice~

Some stuff on sale...

Kuyt kitteh banner!

This, is, an underrated attraction. How could anyone not be amazed by his/her costume??

OK. I REALLY COULDN'T TELL IF HE/SHE WAS A DUDE OR A GIRL underneath that amazing work.
If he/she ever sees this, do know that YOU'RE AWESOME. The organizers should have taken more photos of you for
promotion purposes next year...

  

And here's the untalented me, who is trying to look talented, but knows he can't cuz he's a noob.
LOL.

I do have a video of myself performing, but its just too long to be shared here. I'll be making a video of the event anyway, so in it I will just show some parts of the performance. So once I'm ready the video will be here somewhere~

OH OH  I nearly forgot, Here's the corresponding video for this posting! Theme of King JJ!

Right, time to head back to reality.... I'm such a slow learner sigh...

I forgot...

Whoops. My bad. I forgot to update this after I had uploaded my synthesia tutorial for Eric Chou's Back To The Day, 想回到那一天.

Chinese New Year has ended, and I finally have broken out of my semi-reluctant-to-go-back-to-school state haha. I guess it really is time to focus once more for another 13 weeks, and then I WILL BE ON SUMMER BREAK!!

Eric Chou 想回到那一天 Back To The Day Piano Sheet

Link above is for Eric Chou's 想回到那一天 sheets and tutorial. I tried to simplify it a little to facilitate coordination and to keep in time better. I sometimes rush a song due to the runs I try to put in, but this one doesn't have many at all.

Hopefully this post reaches far into the web, as there hasn't been one sheet made for this song.

So hopefully this helps those out there looking to learn this OST from Magical Space Time!

First Month Passes...

How was January? =)

"What do you like?" 

I believe one of the many things that I have learnt through my experiences in Uni now is really how to prioritize your responsibilities and play. WE all have, not just one, but many LIKES. We all like doing stuff that make us happy, and to be honest, it would be SO GREAT if we could summon Shadow Clones and do all our things, and share a 'connected consciousness' so that we can experience all the things the Clones do all at the same time. So if you sent one to play while the real you studies, you are actually playing and studying at the same time! 

So the common idea here is that we all have to prioritize studies over anything else. Let's say you're done with all your work, and wanna play a bit. Which of your interests would you prioritize? 

Uni life really is the last platform before stepping into society. If all the saying that 'University is the best part of your life bla bla bla bla...' things are all true, I really wonder if that statement applies only to TALENTED people... I think I mentioned this before, but I get really TRIGGERED when I hear the word TALENT. Maybe its just me being salty that I'm not as talented, or rather, NOT TALENTED in anything I do. Even this blog name says it. "I'M NOT TALENTED. I PRACTICE ONLY." (I could have made it proper, but it was with intention to name it as such...) I mean, how's one suppose to make sure one doesn't fail ANY SUBJECTS while looking for experiences to claim that the time in Uni is the best? It's even worse when you have to maintain a scholarship! All you think of is study study study... And some friends I've met in Uni just talk nothing but STUDY STUDY STUDY!!!! 

I find such people BORING. They wanna live the 'Normal' life: Graduate, get a job, and work work work work work (sing it in Rihanna's Work song haha). 

What are their dreams? What do they look for beyond the scope of their degree? 

Sigh... It's a real tragedy if one just lives his life out by only working... I don't wanna end up like that... I wanna live my dream. I wanna be different. I wanna be among the best, no matter how damn untalented I am. Rock Lee said this once: " I was not born with a whole lot of natural talent, not gifted like Neji ...but I work hard and I never give up! That is my gift, that is my ninja way!"  Or something like "Hard work always defeats talent." 

I remember it was when Sasuke first met Rock Lee, and they fought... 

"I am not talented, but I want to continue to improve, until I can be worthy to stand among the talented people. And when they ask of my talents, I will say: I am not talented. I have none. I just practice. "

That is my way. MY way.

Here is the video corresponding to this posting: 

Ice it babeh~

Hey fam~ I'm finally back in town and I've done a video~

Hm... I hope I did fine....

Here's a bit of story behind this piece: I actually had planned to upload it on Wednesday, but at the last moment, I noticed that there was a syncing error in the video. It was rather bad, and I had to work back at the raw files to try and sync it again. BUT, the more I edited, the worse it actually got. It got to a point that I didn't want to keep trying to 'make it look synced', and I just had to re-record the whole piece to get a proper audio/video sync. Luckily it was just TV sized opening, so I actually enjoyed playing the piece over and over again... Well, for now; since I'm just back from exams.... Not sure if I will have the patience to do this again....

Not related to the sentence above... Just look how cute he is~ <3

Chinese New Year is just around the corner already, and here's the video for the season: Yuri!!! On ICE OP History Maker. 

Small Hold Up

Hey Fam~

I know it's been rather quiet from my side, but just to pop some news. At the moment, I have some examinations to sit through, and didn't really have the state of mind to do a proper recording. I'm almost done with them, so a video or 2 can be expected by the end of the month. At least ONE~

Damn I miss my piano. I took my piano home when I last went back, then I came back to uni without it, cuz 2 weeks of examinations not gonna permit much time for practice anyway.

I hope I don't forget what I've arranged so far. So do stay tune, and thanks for dropping by!

- DrewyJin -