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Hi everyone! Welcome to Angel*ne's (my) blog! :D
Basically, the navigation is via "1 2 3". You may or may not realise, but each number is a different section.
1=blog, 2=archives, 3=random things

Anyway, PLEASE CLICK ON MY NUFFNANG ADVERTS :)
I will be SO grateful even if you clicked once.
I have 2! One is in the profile box and the other is under my Random Stuff section (click "3"). SO PLEASE HELP ME CLICK CLICK ♥

Anyway, enough of my nonsense, on to reading! And clicking! 8)
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Creativity & Perseverance

I was gonna title this post as "Creativity & Success", but then today's speaker mentioned that we shouldn't be focused on attaining success in the sense of the world, which I agree with. Anyway, I'm having trouble trying to explain what I mean by my sense of success, which I assure you, isn't similar to what the world defines success as. Hence, I changed the title.

So, anyway, I find these 2 videos really encouraging to me.
The first one is for people who are pursuing stuff in creative industries! For me, I'm not a story-writer, but I write songs - so when the video talks about writing stories, I sub it with writing songs... Hope this encourages those who are pursuing creative careers! :D



As for the second second video, I only like the first part ('cause the second part doesn't apply to me, lol). I've been so busy lately & I'm feeling kinda tired & drained (ironic for a gap year slacker like me, eh?), so I feel lazy (or burdened) to do some things that I'd previously enjoyed doing a lot. And this reminds me to enjoy everything I'm doing, especially if it's related to what I love, which is singing and dancing. Don't be lazy & get going with the stuff you need to do, Angeline!



So, if you're wondering why I'm so busy here's a breakdown of the things on my plate at the moment:

1) Am choreographing for a Youth For Christ (YFC) Celebrating Christmas In Singapore (CCIS) dance item. I didn't struggle as much in the beginning, when it first started, but as time passed, the need to constantly squeeze out choreography has been making me feel very drained. But I'm encouraged by Steve Jobs, so I will remember to enjoy this & be thankful for this opportunity to choreograph!

2) Am studying Grade 6 music theory, because the school I'm planning to apply to requires that qualification for music students. Anyway, I'm so glad that I'm studying it now, because it has been a LONG, LONG time since I last touched theory (of which I stopped at Grade 5, thankfully). Gosh, the first lesson was SUPER embarrassing, realising the extent to which I'd forgotten my basic theory concepts!! Haha, thankfully my piano teacher is nice ^^

3) Other random miscellaneous things, including preparing for Saddle Ridge Ranch and starting work on the Youth Camp (Camp Justice) Camp Booklet.

The former is the Vacation Bible School for kids that KPC is holding. GOSH, my FIRST TIME "working with" kids! I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE I SAID YES TO IT. Haha. Can you imagine? All those years of my life, saying that I hated small kids & never wanted to do anything related to them - AND HERE I AM NOW! 정말!!! (Okay, I stopped hating kids recently, as a first step, 'cause I figured, IF I'm gonna be a mother next time, I'll need to love my kids. So, best to start loving/liking kids now!) Fortunately, I'm doing Worship, which is singing & dancing and teaching the kids the songs & dance moves - my safe zone. One baby step at a time yeah!

The latter is self-explanatory, no? Anyway, initially, I thought that this would be the first year that I wouldn't attend Youth Camp. I was so wrong. Guess God wants to continue pushing me to do more things that I wouldn't normally do, to help me to grow more! 'Cause, I decided to agree to being a group leader. Gosh. Cannot believe I'm doing this as well! Sigh, hopefully things go okay & I won't lead the group astray (from the Truth)...

Okay, gonna end this off here and get to sleep! No pictures this time as I'm toooooo lazy to dig 'em out and post 'em! More proper updates soon? Keke

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