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Welcome! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Welcome to my little Den! Here you'll find all sorts of things- mostly blog challenges, but mixed in, you'll notice:  I'm a bit of a fangirl  My life is very busy I enjoy using emoticons  I don't tend to swear, but stuff happens. |
| Write about a fear you experienced as a child that you have since overcome. My first reaction here is to say, "I wasn't actually scared of much as a child," because I really can't think of anything I was scared of.  BUT, upon further reflection, I suppose I got over my abandonment issues? They weren't necessarily abandonment issues, but I'd cry every time I got dropped off at preschool. That stopped in kindergarten, though, and I think it also stopped when Sis started going to school with me?Other than that, yeah, I was a pretty outgoing and bold child. Sis was the timid one who liked to take things slow. Me? I went headfirst into everything and I'd get scrapes, bruises, and cuts everywhere. I'll call them my battle scars of physical development.  That also means that there isn't much to write about for this entry, unfortunately.  |
| Share three pieces of advice you’ve received through your life that you wish you had heard earlier. Y'all probably thought I gave up.... I almost did, considering my head hurt so much at one point when I was staring at a screen all day. But I've been better these past couple days so I thought I'd try catching up. So advice 1: To be actually good at anything, there are 3 factors- talent, passion, and some luck. For some people, talent is born. My cousin was born naturally talented at the piano. He has the passion for it. And luck comes in to play with biology- he has large hands to cover over an octave on the piano. As for me, I didn't quite have the talent, I had some passion (which fizzled out with Mom's helicoptoring) and not much luck biologically. Sis, on the other hand, had the talent, did NOT have the passion, and definitely has larger hands than I do.  She also had the talent and passion for tennis. Luck, not so much. Being Asian, we're not as long-limbed, so our reach isn't that far, which is definitely a detriment to her. I had some talent for tennis- apparently, I was good at "social tennis," according to this coach from after-school tennis in 6th grade. And even then, Mom didn't get the hint that, "tennis isn't the sport for Dragon" We struggled another 4 years before I eventually quit and moved into dance.  In her freshman year of high school, Sis had to take PE Dance for half a year when her tennis was out of season. The teacher wrote in her yearbook, "you're a great athlete". Subliminal message: Stick to sports, not dance. According to sis, she (Sis) would make a grimace-frown-like face whenever she was turning. Painful for all parties. I would say I had a semi-talent for dance, which was definitely something I had to work very hard to achieve. I got lucky in the sense that the beginner's class I was in only had 2 students (including me) and since the other kid was in, like, 3rd grade, she sometimes wouldn't show, which gave me private lessons for the price of a group class. Therefore, I progressed quite quickly through the levels and the instructor sent me to level 4 in about 2-3 months.  Advice 2: It's okay to use a knife and fork to eat everything. It's so much easier, and cleaner! Sure, you'll get weird stares, but at least you won't have greasy hands the rest of the day.Advice 3: Dreams may be far-fetched, but they're never dumb. This one is actually a lesson I learned from Jumpstart last year. Since day 1 of Hi-5's inception, I'd sworn up and down to myself that one day, that would be me up on that stage, performing with the cast- singing and dancing with little kids. In 6th grade computer class, I actually started looking into what it took to become an entertainment figure in Australia. I was dead-set on it! And since nothing else truly interested or excited me the way Hi-5 did, I always thought it'd be a natural choice for me to enter showbiz. Except, as we grew up, you could pretty much tell Mom wasn't all for showbiz. I had a classmate whose father owned the Staples Center, which is where American Idol was filmed at the time. I remember mentioning it to Mom, and also asking her something along the lines of why we didn't go out to concerts, and she probably said something along the lines of "because it's full of negative energy," but using more Buddhist and Chinese terminology. Like, my classmates were going to see the Jonas Brothers (wasn't too interested) or Hannah Montana (definitely would've wanted to see), and in middle school, Taylor Swift was definitely all the rage. So yeah, that kinda put a nix into my dreams of becoming the next Hi-5 cast member, but after doing Jumpstart, and figuring out what I was doing with my schooling and life and such, I realized I could take all this knowledge and experience and apply it in a different way- as an educational consultant. So after Jumpstart was over, I had said if I got the chance to become some sort of educational consultant for the show, OMG would I take it. For now, I'm teaching preschool and Mommy & Me music classes around the area, which, honestly, isn't too far of a grasp from what I was saying I would've liked to do for Hi-5. Dreams evolve as you evolve- so never let them go, because one day, it may turn into the next great thing you do. |
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