Choices

15 days since the 1st of July and it feels like I have not exactly remembered how those 14 days past have flown by. Like the strong gale of wind that thrusts the torrent of ventilations whizzing past your face, the speed of events have whizzed by me giving me akin references to Lightning McQueen in the Movie "Cars" - Speed.

Now the last recollection would probably be linked to the enjoyable night I had with Valerie and her Blast Peepz @ Butter Factory. After the offers I mentioned with AppleOrchard and the "supposed" interview at Fuji Xerox Towers, I attended a couple more interviews mainly with Educational Centres like Integrative Learning Corporation Pte Ltd and Guilford Training Centre Pte Ltd. Integrative's situated at Clarke Quay area while Guilford's located at Anson Road [Tanjong Pagar]. Both have offered me relatively attractive career prospects though they are a shadow of what Pathfinder Alliance [Fuji Xerox] have offered me. Can you imagine earning an income bracket of $100K per annum? Not exactly achievable for most people in their lifetime.

That brings us to a little question which the Director Mr Raymond Tan posed to me during our final interview - How hungry are you? Reflections back to his question made me realise I'm hungry but not for money but for satisfaction. For success. Success to me is being able to fixate a stable income which can feed a family of four maximum. Having struggled through these years earning money to support my own living expenses and my University Fees have made me realise indeed the omniportance of financial freedom. It also made me realise the joy of a balanced worklife. Given a choice I would have wanted to travel back in time and correct a wrongs, I do carry a few regrets in my life but looking forward. I am also glad I have travelled this path for it brought me a whole new perspective which strengthened my communication skills tremendously. To be empathetic with most people because I can understand their difficulties in life yet at the same time understand myself well enough to know when I can help and when I need to push them to stand on their own.

Success to me perhaps is being able to achieve financial freedom with an ease of mind.

In theory it sounds absolutely tempting. In reality, we struggle like dogs for the bread and butter issues. Unless you are the talented few who have chartered your path well and focused on it from a young age then, when you have reached the dreaded 30, you will already have the next 30 years of your journey spread out on a red carpet. You might say we pay the price in our working years for the deviance of the years we spent during our education years be it University, Polytechnic, Junior Colleges or even Secondary School years. Is it any wonder why parents thus push their kids so hard to make them achieve the desired grades? Not for fear of loss of respect from other parents but simply from the fear that their children will spend the rest of their working years paying the price for their deviance of the education years as well.

StageArts NYP have recently completed their assessment for the Juniors. Overall Peter seemed pretty pleased with their progress though there were misgivings about some juniors in particular. From the feedback I gathered I believed attitude plays an important factor. Well, its a general theory which applies everywhere. But there were a few who surprised me with their progress indeed. To name a few - Mei Xian, Paulin, Wei Lin and the "senior" juniors Joscelyn. Have gotten a lot closer to them since the assessment and the test of their chereography skills. No doubt they are still not able to show the chereography that can be put forth on competitions but they are at least showing the dance sense of it. Did stress them out slightly when on hiphop assessment I gave them the remark "I trained much more with you guys so I expect much more from you all than the new juniors" haha.

Time to train myself to a new level. I should start going back to Dance Studios to learn new chereographies so I can have new ideas. Argh, with the new tuition jobs I have taken up the time is limited though. A little breakdown of the schedules -

Monday ~ free day
Tuesday ~ SA Hiphop Training [May soon juggle between DreamWerkz as well]
Wednesday ~ Tuition at Edgefield Plains till 9:30pm
Thursday ~ SA Jazz Trainings
Friday ~ Tuition at Potong Pasir till 8:30pm
Saturday ~ Perhaps practise in Mornings
Sunday ~ Tuition at 4pm and 7pm with the dance classes slotted in mornings.

Hurray. When I start work. I will become the master of jugglers. Not to mention I have yet to register for my driving lessons.