Hello, everyone! Let me just start off with my name. I'm Justin Tjoandi. Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia for 17 years. I am the last child of four: two older sisters and one older brother. From kindergarten to the third grade, I was home-schooled by my parents. In the fourth grade, I entered Morning Star Academy in Kuningan, where my mother becomes one of the principals. Presently, I had just graduated high school and applied for York University in Toronto, Ontario.
My passion for music, sports, and writing is quite extensive.....
I started playing the drums by the age of 5; however, I didn't have any proper training. Not long after that, my interest in drums faded. By the time I reached Junior High School (a.k.a PUBERTY), I re-developed a desire to be able to play drums. My mother decided that I should focus on that instrument. She placed me in a drum ECA in school. It was not until the 9th grade that I was allowed to play in morning devotions and sunday school at church. My brother was also a drummer. He plays for the church service, youth services, and also morning devotions. I think I was quite jealous about that back then, which is why I agreed to take drums too.
Being in the music team helped me notice other instruments as well. I decided to take up the bass guitar (initially because I thought it was easy and that a slight mistake can't be heard clearly on stage. Boy, was I wrong...) By the second semester of 10th grade, I obtained my first bass. I was autodidact all the way, learning by experimentations and watching other bass players play. At that time, my main musical interest are Hillsong's songs. My fellow musician friends encouraged me to look more into other genres and bands. The first genre I moved to out of Christian rock is metal. That is where my interest in the guitars developed.
Unlike most bass players, I knew how to play the guitar AFTER I took up the bass. By the first semester of 11th grade, I learned how to play the acoustic and electric guitar simultaneously. I discovered my dad's 20 year old acoustic guitar and began dusting it off and re-stringing. I practiced the electric guitar by borrowing one of my friend's guitar. My grandfather must have felt sorry for me, so he bought me a nice electric guitar in the beginning of the first semester of my senior year. My mom saw the passion I have in guitar and encouraged me to pursue it by putting me in a private guitar lesson with one of the church's guitarists. Throughout the rest of the year, I attended both guitar and drum lessons.
For sports, my supposedly main goal was basketball. However, an incident happened when I was 12 that made me change my mind. I was in one of the competitions and one of the opponents tackled me down and I had a sprained arm for a week or two. Because of that, my parents didn't let me continue. So I decided to take something with less body contact. That is why I ended up playing badminton. I have taken classes for 3 years and had been in a number of competitions (both for the school and for the club).
I had also taken an interest in soccer/futsal recently. The South Africa World Cup fever and the AFF Cup hype got me, and I've been playing futsal ever since.
Finally, I love to write. In elementary, we used to have journals and writing assignments describing a particular random subject. I have grown to love those assignments, and I brought it to high school. However, the journal assignments changed to be more specific and rhetorical. Don't get me wrong, I still do love writing those "hard" assignments more than I like doing calculations and formulas, but I just love writing about random things. This is the reason why I created a blog...
When Facebook had a new feature called "Notes", I took advantage of it to post my personal experiences there. I wrote about my first experience in a badminton competition in Sekolah Pelita Harapan Cup (SPH Cup) to the slightest detail. I had many compliments about my writing. Then, I used Facebook "Notes" to just express my thoughts. I entitled it "In My Mind...(number)"
My main goals in writing these blog entries is simply to express my opinions openly, record my memories of experiences, and glorify the One and Only God in the process. May God help me find the right words to say as I begin my blog. Thank you for taking your time in reading this...
God bless you always and forever,
Justin Tjoandi
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