Entry: What Am I Passionate About Friday, September 05, 2008



Human being has been living for billion of years. It is a nature that human living needs language to be spoken and to be understood in order to keep on living in a community. Language represents the culture of a society and apart from language is music. With the existence of language and music, it has made one’s life easier and more relax. There are three things that I am passionate about and those three are language, music and Korean entertainment.

 

          Language is the medium of communication and without language there will be no single community that ever exists in this entire world for the past billions of years. God has created human with a pair of lips, teeth and vocal tract that produce sounds. The organ, which is mouth that consists of oral and nasal cavities, is a great creation that shows to us how great God is. The logic of sounds and language is that the world has more languages than sounds. That means Malay learns other languages because there are no much differences between Malay language and other languages.

 

          Each part of the world has different preferences of sounds in their language. The differences of sounds combined to form a word and also sentences have made me realize that all languages in this world are special in their own way. They distinguish themselves from one another in order to form a medium that unites the society or community, or to show the power of their excellent kings or rulers. For instance, in Korea, before the rule of the Great King Sejong, most Korean used ‘Kanji’, the same language in terms of sounds and character in writing with the Chinese and Japanese. During the years of the Great King Sejong, he created a language to distinguish his people among the others from Japan and China. Today’s ‘Hangul’ character and sounds are the evidence of his excellence ruling era that made him the only King of Korea that deserves the title “Great”. Histories behind ones language existence too has managed to grab my attention and made me passionate for knowing even more languages and to learn more languages so I could understand and I can speak those languages with the additional knowledge such as its culture, people and tradition. In conclusion, by learning only one language, it is like a package of knowledge that consists of the history and civilization, culture and tradition and the people who speaks the language.

 

          Next is the importance of music in the existence of civilization. Music may start off as something to make someone relax and as a hobby. There is numerous numbers of instruments that exist in this world. There are piano, guitar, violin, organ, trumpet and lots more. Music can be played during anytime that one person likes and the most important thing is music is always something unique. I took music classes when I was young at the early age of 7 and back then there were less Malay children were sent to take music classes. My grandfather is a big fan of piano and he was the one who supported me to take piano classes. There is a research that says people who plays music since they were young, has better brains compared to the others.  The passion I had for piano is extremely poor at the beginning. It was due to the fact that I received a bad instructor and my mother changed my instructor. Since then, I worked really hard in order to play the pieces without any mistakes and played it smoothly.

 

          The passion of music did not just end on piano. I tried learning violin in order to expand my ability not only on piano. My younger brother and my sister gave up on music when they had to take UPSR and SPM examination respectively. Since the two of them gave in, I promised myself to continue adding up music skills. After my UPSR exam, I was promoted to a boarding school in Labu, Negeri Sembilan. Even so, I did not give in. I continued having piano classes once a month. Even though there was only for once in 30 days, but I still do my homework and practice. Whenever I play the piece, if there is a single flaw even towards the end of the piece, I will definitely start playing again from the start. Now, my younger cousins and one of my aunts are taking music classes. Music make my life seems better and refresh with the rhythm and melody produced and that is why I am so passionate about learning more and more musical instruments and its skills.

 

          Lastly, I am very passionate about is Korean entertainment. With the presence of language and music, they create a great and fabulous combination which is entertainment industry. Since I was young, I was brought up with a lot of western entertainment. I rarely wanted to know about Malaysian and any Asian countries entertainment world. But with the help of internet access and the technology of today’s world, I managed to be very passionate about Korean entertainment. It started off with the liking on Taiwanese drama series where a lot of good looking actors were in it. I still resist watching any Korean drama series but then, because of the love of music I tried to watch Super Junior, a Korean boy band that consists of 13 good-looking males around 18 to 23 years old.

 

 

 It is not just because of these guys are good-looking, but it is more towards the music and culture of music that they bring. The culture of Korean entertainment is way too different from Hollywood and South East Asia region. A singer or a group will have an established fan clubs with registration and fees to be paid. They even made rules to be a part of the established fan. Besides, the fans are not like Malaysians or any other counties. Singers are trained in a company for more than a year to prepare the singers with all sorts of knowledge of becoming an entertainer. Company that started this culture of training the singers since they were only in 12s and 13s is SM Entertainment by Lee Soo Man, a former famous singer in Korea back in 1970s. It is the first company to start having trainers and trainees to prepare for the entertainment life, followed by JYP Entertainment. Where ever they go, they will always have fans to welcome them and to support and cheer for them. For instance, Super Junior came to Malaysia on the 31st of July 2008, recently, for the MTV Asia Awards was welcomed by hundreds of fans from all over Malaysia. Super Junior are Korean and we hardly see Korean songs or talk shows aired on our broadcasting companies, but yet, they still have thousands of fans in Malaysia, a country that has less information about Korean entertainment compared to Western entertainment.

 

I am really passionate about Korean entertainment and I have made a decision of my future. I want to work with any broadcasting companies and promote Korean entertainment that is much better than Western entertainment that only provides entertainment that gives bad influences towards Malaysian and Asian culture. Thus, with these aspects and great entertainment changes that Korean entertainment industry has made, my passion about it grows stronger everyday.

 

In conclusion, people may think that it is impossible to speak all languages in the world but it is not impossible since all sounds produce are merely same with one and another language. Music that helps to refresh brains and stimulates one’s creativity is a must in ones life. The skills to play an instrument need to be sharpened or else it will fade away from human’s right brain. Even if it is only to listen to music, it can make one’s body lighten and lighter too. It smoothen the ease in our brains so that we will feel more relax and peaceful. The last thing is Korean entertainment that has its own uniqueness and culture that manage to grab millions of people around Asia to fall in love with its culture of entertaining. Korean entertainment has become one of the top rated best entertainment industries and it is just the right time for Malaysia to expand their wings to get involve with other people’s culture to produce a well-produced entertainer. My passion for these three things will never change and it only grows stronger in my heart and I become even more passionate than ever. It helps me to keep on living a fun and cheerful life.

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