Living your Childhood Dreams.

CD Cover by Matilda Chua

Saturday the 29th March 2008 marks a new beginning for the Athenarts Performing Troupe. It has been 3 years since the Troupe was started and yes, we've had some really important milestones to date:

1) winning the Sound of Music Competition 2005
2) Launch of President's Challenge 2006
3) Being part of the making of School House Rockz 2007

While it feels good to have achieved some fame in the last 3 years, the flip side of that is to constantly maintain our standard of performance and to create new projects which are just as exciting as the last so that everyone can continue to grow and be inspired to be the best that they can be. Well, it will not be true to say that the road to that is an easy path.

While reflecting and thinking about what next for the Troupe, I've had to think about the reason why I started all this in the first place. I've always been drawn to Children's choir for the fact that I think Children's voices have such innocence and purity that they allow their listeners to be reminded of their childhood and childhood dreams.... dreams that are so easily forgetten, broken and given up.

So Saturday was the start of our new project - Born to Sing CD. Through this CD I hope that people will be reminded of their childhood dreams. We also intend to donate the proceeds of the CD to the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund so that other children can live their childhood dreams by being able to go to school.

The troupe seems really excited about this idea and already I've gotten a CD Design (from Matilda), and a list of promotional ideas from Rachael as well as Joshua's alternative arrangement of the song Born To Sing....! Well I'm thrilled, inspired and humbled by these young people and really when others get to live their dreams, I would have succeeded in living mine.

Finally salutes to the man who inspired me to inspire others to live their childhood dreams.