Featured Artiste of the Week: Randy Cheong
May 14th, 2009 by CCA PRO
1) Tell us about how you feel about the CO’s latest achievement on clinching the coveted Gold with Honours award at the recent SYF just last week!
On one hand I’m really glad that we managed to continue HCCO’s tradition of excellence, but on the other it was really pleasing to see how all of us in the CO put our heart and soul into our music on the 15 minutes on stage. We literally felt each other playing together, producing something so extraordinary, something that could not have been possible without each other. The feeling was addictive.
2) How was preparation for SYF like? I’m sure it must have been a very tiring yet satisfying process.
Definitely. With only 2 weeks left, our CO’s standard was far from satisfactory. The period of around 13-15 days left to SYF was the most stressful and mentally draining because our morale was at the rock bottom – every practice did not seem to go well. However, we worked hard together, coming to school early in the morning for practice when the sky was still dark, gathered after lessons for more practices, and eventually left school only at 8+, when the sky was dark once again. It was a trying process. Closer to the actual SYF date itself, we only got better and better. Our music transformed into something that we all started to enjoy, and with each practice, we challenged ourselves to be better, to attain perfection. We did it on 6th May 
3) What instrument do you play and how did you start learning it?
I play the Erhu, or also known as the Chinese violin. It is a string instrument, and is the most common instrument in the orchestra. I started learning it in Primary 1 (when I was young and innocent), when my mum brought me into my Primary School’s CO room to try out instruments. The first instrument I touched was the Erhu, and I never looked back ever since then.
4) Do you intend to continue playing your instrument after stepping down from CO?
Yep! Music has become a part of my life, and even if I don’t pursue a music career I’ll still play the Erhu to fuel my passion for music
5) What kinda music do you appreciate besides chinese music?
I appreciate lots of music – from English Pop to Chinese Pop to Western Classical
6) Any last words to aspiring musicians or your CO mates?
To all those music-lovers out there, let’s make the world a better place with our music;
To my CO mates, thanks for all the times we’ve been together! It has been really hard but we’ve done it and its time we enjoyed the sweet fruits of labour.
7) Single and available or..? 
(Oh man tough question) HMM I guess im not available 
Do catch Randy in action below as he competes in an Erhu Competition in China on Chinese CCTV4 television program and scores an incredible high score of over 98 points to emerge champion!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGyj7-jlIBU&feature=player_embedded
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haha beautiful, i loved the part where he watched the video and started playing. =D
RANDY IS MY IDOLZZZ.
HCCO LOVES RANDY x101010101010
Eh Randy look wrong direction la… Turn your head 150 degrees to your right.
woots
The song that Randy chose to ban zou for the video is super super nice…he chose the right song..when I look at the video with his song, I really can feel the gan jue..it is so nice^^