Strange as it may seems to be posting this, after reading Jing Ying’s blog i felt that i too, should reflect on my life; what have i been aspiring to become all this time.
As you all know during kindergarten, i was in “Kinderland”, a school set up by Yamaha to develop young musicians. I would take piano lessons at school daily, two times a week for piano tuition and once a week for piano class at Yamaha. I could still remember the good times when i would go to Toy’R'Us after piano lessons. i wanted to be a pianist at that time.
In primary school well o well, i wanted to be a teacher, taking everything out on the poor innocent and meek students. I too wanted to be a footballer, but i found out that i had neither stamina nor speed. Then when i was introduced to science, i wanted to be a scientist, discovering new things all the time.
At the later part of my life where reality seems to have quietly crept into my mind, i wanted to be an engineer, taking the daily 9 to 5 job, keeping bread onto a table; what happened at this point that made my dream seem so small and insignificant? The drive in me was no longer there. But during secondary 1 it struck me again to be a musician once more, after joining the CO, i’ve come to realize the inner potential in me for percussion. I always had the mindset that percussion would be the easiest but boy i was wrong.
My love for percussion grew even more when i began to learn different elements of percussion myself. The beat, tempo, rhythm kept going on. I could’nt stop tapping to beats, keeping tempo nor playing rhythm, it was simple breathtaking. It was like August Rush discovering the miracle of music, just that im not as fast as him. Even till today, my love for percussion has been flaming on. When reality creeps in, it just burns brighter.
