Thursday, October 22, 2009

P-a-s-s-i-o-n

This was the very first Mandarin pop song I tried to learn on the piano, even before I bought this digital piano. Hee. Previously, I had this smaller, kind of like a toy piano that we bought from Isetan. And guess what, it didn't have enough keys for me to play this song. Haha.

So, maybe that inspired me to go and learn to read chords and subsequently buy this quite cheap but good enough digital piano to keep me company when jw was not around. I also don't know what made me endure that period, with my full time media job from Mon-Fri, my teaching job on Sat, and then learning the piano on Sun. In addition to planning for my ROM and wedding day. All without jw by my side.

Probably passion goes a long way. When you have passion for something, fatigue is out of the equation somehow. You don't feel tired, you don't feel bored, you don't feel sleepy (well, maybe sometimes), you feel energised more than anything.

It's just like how I like art & craft, and making videos and photo albums, so I can spend endless days and nights immersing myself in all this. When I did my wedding videos, I knew I couldn't make it too pro looking, but when I burnt them into wedding favours for the guests, the sense of satisfaction was something I couldn't describe. I mean, no matter how lousy something may be, as long as it's handmade with sincerity from the heart, it still has the power to make you feel gan dong somehow. For example, if you receive this really ugly looking card, with terribly scribbled words and a drawing of you that looks more like a monster like anything, BUT if it was made specially for you by your niece/nephew, your student, or not to mention your own kid, this card will probably be kept and cherished as a treasure for life. Right? Anyway, much as I was happy and relieved when my wedding was over last year, sometimes I miss those late nights of doing art & craft and coming up with ideas and then putting them into action. Yeah, I already said this before. Maybe I'm weird. I just don't like to have nothing to do, somehow.

Back to passion, well, it's like how Serene has an interest in and enjoys cake baking, she can do it everyday relentlessly with so much patience! Fwah. Her princess cake for rachelle was so amazing! I can imagine the time and effort she took to come up with it. To think within a couple of years, she's now quite a pro at baking cakes already!! Maybe sometimes passion strikes you at the most unexpected timing too. Like if we didn't come to sweden, maybe she wouldn't have discovered her passion and flair in this area too. So, maybe it still takes abit of fate to find your passion in life.

Well, rome wasn't built in a day, and thus passion can't be short lived if you want it to last. If not, everything just fades away sooner or later. Even up till now, I still don't know what's my srongest passion. Is it in teaching kids, in piano, in art & craft? I have interest in them, but to term it as a strong passion of my life seems too extreme still. I don't know. Maybe I'll figure out someday. =) May you find your passion in life too!