Introduction

Finally started a blog on fashion and dance and I’m getting pretty excited about it! Hopefully this craze will not be a temporary one! This blog was started purely to document my foray into fashion and dance, thus explaining the title of my blog. I played around with the combination of the words, 'fashion' and 'dance'; and the name, Fashdanstic, was born.

Let me give you an introduction about myself. My name is Wanlin and I’m currently working in the Finance industry. My interest lies in fashion and dance. Since young, I have always been interested in fashion partly because of my mum. She was a seamstress for a period of time and would always make matching clothes for my sister and me. I remembered vividly that she made a pair of cheongsams for my sister and me. And of course, we were too young to appreciate then. Only remembered this vividly because it was the first cheongsam that I had ever worn. Haha! As I grow older, my love for clothes began to take root. In my college days, I would skip my meals just to buy that piece of top/bottom. I couldn't imagine my life without it. Every time I went out, I had to be seen in a different outfit. I just did not wish to be caught dead in wearing the same piece of top. The amount of clothes just grew exponentially that I had to change my wardrobe frequently to accommodate them. *Blush*

 

Since I like fashion, you would have thought that I would go into fashion studies right? Well no.. I did not even think about going into that. Due to my parents’ expectations, I went through the ‘A’ Levels route and scrapped through to land myself a place in a local uni and then following the ‘normal’ route of getting a job into the financial industry. I did like the dynamism of the financial industry. Everything was just glamorous and not forgetting the high pay that could clear my study debts and yet be able to provide me with a comfortable life of shopping and dining. After a few years into the industry and with all the debts cleared, the restlessness began to kick in and I began asking myself what I really would love to do. That is when I began exploring the world of fashion by going for a short course on Apparel Design and currently tailoring classes. In the midst of these, I still have my doubts on switching my career. After all, the financial industry is still a good industry to work in. I was then introduced to a blog of a lady in US who switched her career despite having no prior knowledge in the job she is interested in. And viola! It got me feeling excited and more convicted of my direction in life. You can check out her blog at this link. http://www.karenx.com/

 

Her blog also detailed how she managed to learn dance in a year. :) It has always been my dream to dance. I have always been fascinated by the grace and elegance of ballerinas and wish that I can have their attributes. So at the age of 26 with no prior background, I took a step of faith and picked up Ballet and have not looked back since. The 2 years of learning have been lessons of humility, determination and grit. In a world where only the best survive, it is the same with dance but more so with a sinister nature. I almost gave up on dance until I'm reminded of why I took this step of faith in the first place. It goes the same in life so don't give up when the going gets tough, peeps! There will be a breakthrough around the corner! ;)