Aah... Project Neon... the reason for my web designing! I forgot a lot about it until about a month ago. So, I went back into my archives and dug up a file about what Project Neon meant.
This may be a bit of a repeat from my bio... but ends differently! ;)

After graduating from high school, I fell in love with web/graphic design, and applied to a college to study Interactive Multimedia. But, after six months of hating programming (seriously), I thought it was best to quit and find something else. It was then that I discovered a college called Spherion, which promised a job at the end of the short course. It was rather pricey, but of course, I was suckered into it, by those career consultants (ie. hypnotists). After about 6 months of this course, I was loathing every waking day, but I was too afraid to tell my father because he was paying a horrendously large amount of money for it.

In September last year, I went back home to take a break from it all, and to try to start afresh. And while I was there, I recorded one of my songs at a studio. I fell in love with the whole process of recording music, and I knew that this was what I wanted to do. But I still couldn't just quit the course.

So I slaved away for a little bit  until I just couldn't stand it anymore. The course made me so unhappy, and after talking to a friend, I realised that I had found my real passion in music and that I should go for it.

Then, just after Christmas, I told my dad (by email - I'm such a wuss) and he was surprisingly cool about it. I could tell he was disappointed, but he respected my decision.

It is now mid February, and I'm no longer doing my course. I have written and recorded another song, and I think my dad finally realises that I can make it. I am planning on going back to study in June/July, but this time round, I'll be studying something I know that I love - Sound Engineering.

I find it weird that everyone else seemed to know that music was the way to go for me. I look back at my high school years and remember people telling me that I was going to be in a band some day, making music. And to think that it took me over 2 years to figure it out for myself... 

Project Neon is all about taking chances... starting afresh... Aspirations. The name comes from a song by John Mayer called 'Neon'.  He has been an inspiration to me in regards to music, and has given me the motivation to work my ass off to be the best songwriter I can be. I chose Neon because of these little signs that I kept getting during the time that I was thinking about quitting school. Pretty freaky stuff. So yeah, that's my story.

I wanted to add this into this version of 2ndsense.com because a lot has happened since September 2001. Some bad, but mostly good. And I just know that it is because I've been a happier person BECAUSE I'm doing what I really love. I finally feel like I've accomplished something!