When the Conductor Meets the Chaos: Maestro Lim Takes on MuJong

Today was no ordinary MuJong™ session. It was a momentous encounter between Maestro Lim Ni Ta, principal conductor of the Addo Children and Youth Orchestra, and his long-time student — our young CEO and Mujong inventor, Kiki.

Maestro Lim has mentored Kiki since she was five years old through competitions and her ABRSM Grade 5 violin exams. His baton has shaped many young musicians, and his support for MuJong carries great meaning to us.

But today, it was baton down… and tiles up.

Kiki, ever the playful strategist, decided to open the game with bass clef, a friendly ambush aimed at challenging her treble-clef-trained teacher. Maestro gamely played along and navigated the first round smoothly (apparently Kiki for forgot that conductors are supposed to be fluent in all clefs 😏)

Then came round two.
Kiki flipped it back to treble clef, but this time, she activated the MuJong Time app. Tempo set at Adagio.
Panic set in. The shift in clef, coupled with time pressure (even at adagio… I repeat… adagio 😏), threw everyone off — including both her parents and (allegedly 🫢) Maestro Lim himself.

In the ensuing apocalypse, her father became the first victim of the dreaded Skull-Soul Death™ — all because he couldn’t discard a tile in time.

One clef to rule them all. One timer to doom them all.
(And yes, Daddy got doomed.)

But behind the laughter and light-hearted teasing was a poignant moment: a student challenging her conductor, not out of defiance, but out of admiration and joy using a game she invented.

From a little girl once demoralized by sight-reading to a confident music gamer outwitting her own mentor, the session reminded us just how far Kiki has come.

Of course, her recent speed boost in sight-reading might have something (okay, a lot) to do with weeks of MuJong intensives, much credit goes to Maestro Lim’s unwavering patience and his steadfast encouragement over the years.

Thank you, Maestro Lim, for shaping not just musicians, but minds that dare to create.

Tiny Tiles. Big Brainwaves.

Indeed it was.
🎹💡 Tiny Tiles. Big Brainwaves.