My parents thought it was a good ‘backup’ plan to learn the piano. In case I couldn’t hack it in the corporate world, I can fall back on my piano knowledge and be a piano teacher 🤷‍♀️ Maybe they were half right.

As I didn’t enjoy the learning process, exams, endless practises and the rigids teachings from my teacher.. and also due to other schooling responsibilities. I quit the piano.

Other than piano, I have other artistic interest, drawing, coloring. I remembered spending good amount of time just immersed in it as I was growing up. Then one day during my senior year in high shcool, I was inspired by the animated movie ‘Antz‘ when it first came out in 1998. Later on during the turn of the millennium in year 2000, after finishing my high school, I told my parents I wanted to study Animation while we’re checking out some colleges.

It was the IT boom back then and animation was still so new. My parents didn’t thought it would be a good choice. Every now and then, I would thought, what would my life be if I’ve had studied Animation?

After graduation, instead of going all in to the IT field, I became an Admin instead. Because I knew I wouldn’t want to be someone who agonize over codings, staring at the PC screen all day for god foreseeable future…

AS with all the surprises life has in store for me, waiting to be discovered. I found myself dipping my toes into the world of fashion/beauty, as a Makeup Artist. Maybe the Universe knew, some where deep down in me, my soul yearn for the artistic side of me to be expressed. So Universe sent me some one that would ‘light that spark’ for me. That some one, was my then boyfriend, now husband. 

After transitioning from being an Administrator to a Makeup artist. In a blink of an eye, that was my career for slightly over a decade. I guess somehow, this career not only satisfied my artistic soul, but also my free spirit who enjoys travelling about.

When year 2018 came around, there’s a feeling, a little voice that’s whispering, “It’s about time this chapter comes to an end”. It felt like, there is nothing more that I would want to do as this identity– Makeup Artist.

But then, another side of me felt that it would be a shame to close it down after what I’ve built over a decade. I was indecisive. While at the same time, there was another voice that was urging me to reconnect with my piano/musical roots.

Then the pandemic came around during the end of year 2019 – early 2020. Where I was forced to stop my makeup services. Suddenly, I felt loss.

Who am I, if I’m not Veron, the Makeup Artist?
What’s there do I have to offer to the world?

And it was during this ‘break’, that I’ve finally got back into playing the piano. It was an 18 years hiatus!

Fast forward to the present. Look what I’m doing now? WIth the help of AI tools, I’m finally satisfying my inner child who wanted to be an Animator, with a bonus the ability to the visuals with my own music! Or the other way around.

I guess, all that seemingly detours, are just the ways the Universe is prepping me for who I would become at this juncture of my life.

My IT education gave me the foundations to understand basic codings/how these concepts worked. It gave me the ability to manage my own website and easily adaptable and use the technological tools that would be available to me.

My Makeup Artist career, helped sharpened my skills in terms of beauty, color scheme, overall image presentation for a person. Which these are all crucial when it comes to creating visuals to go with my music, or visuals that would gave me inspiration for my music composition.

There you have it.
My fool’s journey thus far.
And I still have quite a journey ahead of me, as I explore the world of music.
Carving a path for myself as a dreamworld ambient producer who creates music from intuition, synchronicities, and the emotional memories that shaped my life.

What about you?
Have you ever wondered what kind of a fool’s journey you’ve been on?

Here’s a tune to accompany you, as you look back at how far you’ve come 😊