Viva Andrada - Author of "Survival - Your Guide to Life", Volunteer at Hands On Manila, and Co-owner of Fashion Art (F*ART)

May 9, 2008

Viva Andrada, writer and entrepreneur, released her first book “ Light of Dawn” at the age of 17 through the help and encouragement of her former Humanities professor.  And with the support of her family and friends, Viva has gone on to pursue a career in the media, starting as a staff writer for MOD magazine and eventually becoming editor of MOD Girl.

Half a decade later, she founded Fashion ART or F*ART with her sister, Happy, in pursuit of their passion for fashion while at the same time uplifting the cause of Filipino fashion designers, artists and musicians by selling their products in their store.  The F*ART establishment, a striking two-story building that sticks out like a sore thumb in Kamuning’s drab (as described by Cheekie Albay of Yehey.com), also serves as an art gallery and venue for poets and musicians to showcase their talents.   

In December 2007, Viva released “Survival: Your Guide to Life”, a compilation of stories from more than 150 “life guides”—various individuals from all walks and fields of life.

In this Greater Good Philippines interview, Viva walks us through the different facets and stages of her career, from media practitioner to entrepreneur.  She also recites a few poems from “Survival” and talks about the importance of social entrepreneurship. 

“It’s important because you make the most of life by giving,” she says.  “If all you do is receive, it’s not balanced and life would be less fulfilling.”

Listen to this interview and find out more, only here on Greater Good Philippines.


Jay-R Patron:  We’re here with Ms. Genevieve “Viva” Andrada at Fashion*ART here in Kamuning, Quezon City.  First question, what is keeping you busy?   

Viva Andrada:  What is keeping me busy?  A lot of stuff.  There’s Fashion*ART here at 24 K-D cor. K-1st in Kamuning, Quezon City.  What we do here is we support Filipino artists.  It’s a fusion of Fashion and Art, that’s why it’s called F*ART.  And then we also have one beauty center, it’s a barber shop, salon, fashion store.

Jay-R Patron:  It’s all in this one complex?

Viva Andrada:  Yeah.

Jay-R Patron:  It can be considered a complex.

Viva Andrada:  Right. 

Jay-R Patron:  There’s an art gallery on the second floor and a boutique…

Viva Andrada:  Yeah, that’s F*ART.  And then I’m also a volunteer at Hands On Manila, it’s a volunteer group and we reach out to people who have been given less opportunities in life.  So we motivate the youth, we also help out the elderly. 

Jay-R Patron:  How is an ordinary day at work to you like?

Viva Andrada:  An ordinary day at work. 

Jay-R Patron:  Yeah, your typical weekday. 

Viva Andrada:  I keep on going around.  We got several stuff to do with one beauty center.  So I interact with the customers, I talk to them and then… because before we started out with just having a beauty salon.  And then our customers wanted more so we also put up a fashion store and barber shop.  It just kind of grew from there.

Jay-R Patron:  Will you give us a brief walk-through of your career?

Viva Andrada:  My career.

Jay-R Patron:  Yeah, from the very beginning.

Viva Andrada:  From the very beginning… that’s kind of long. 

Jay-R Patron:  Briefly.

Viva Andrada:  My parents, they’re both entrepreneurs.  They’re both business people, so even at a young age I really wanted to somehow help them.  We had also mami, it’s a mami restaurant—like siopao, mami.  We would sell those and I would also talk to our customers.  My parents are also in to buy and sell and I would go with them to projects that they would sell before.  And also… lots of stuff.  I’ve also been into writing because I think that every person has a story to tell and then whenever I write that’s how I put the learnings together, how I communicate myself to people too.  I also took up Masters degree in AIM, Entrepreneurship.  I realized that this isn’t only supposed to be about earning profit because people who have businesses, we have responsibility to our customers, aside from helping them out with… they come to us because they need something, our services and products.  But then we can also help out the community outside of our businesses because whatever profits we have, we could use those profits to actually mobilize more people and help them to empower themselves too.

Jay-R Patron:  According to your bio, you went to Canada.  What brought you to Canada? 

Viva Andrada:  Because we got family also in Canada.

Jay-R Patron:  How long did you stay there?

Viva Andrada:  About a year.

Jay-R Patron:  And you’ve worked as a writer for MOD Magazine, for how long?

Viva Andrada:  Since 1999.  I graduated from college in 1999.  It was my first job.  I started out as a staff writer and then after that I became the editor of the MOD Girl, thanks to Ms Cynthia Santiago.   She’s the editor of MOD magazine.

Jay-R Patron:  Is there MOD…?

Viva Andrada:  There is a MOD magazine… because there’s a lot of magazines now.  Before MOD was the number one weekly magazine here in the Philippines.  But then there’s a ton of other magazines, newer ones, right?  But then MOD is still existing and it has been aroudn for more than 30 years.  So that must be something, right?

Jay-R Patron:  Yeah, I remember those MOD magazines, the huge ones, with the black and white…

Viva Andrada:  They’re regular sized now.

Jay-R Patron:  What is it about the media?  You studied Mass Comm in college, Journalism, why media?

Viva Andrada:  Because my parents are in to business, right?  And then I also like to write and my parents saw that I got this talent in writing because during my high school days I was really involved with the school paper and I was writing features, articles, poems, stories.  I started off as a features writer and then became the editor-in-chief of the school paper.  I guess people also see my strengths as a media practitioner even if I’m just a… girl.  There are people supporting, teachers telling me, “Maybe you can get to media someday.”  And I’m also interested in whatever people have to say, stories they have to tell.  I like interviewing people too.  So this is quite a new experience. 

Jay-R Patron:  Being on the other side.

Viva Andrada:  Yeah, I like interviewing. 

Jay-R Patron:  Yeah, I can’t imagine myself being in your shoes, being the interviewee.

Viva Andrada:  But I bet you will also be interviewed one of these days or something…

Jay-R Patron:  I don’t know about that.  I’ll probably decline… anyway… let’s talk about Fashion ART.  What is Fashion ART?

Viva Andrada:  Fashion ART is a fusion of fashion and art, F*ART.  It’s like when you hear the owrd fart, what comes to your mind?  It’s a normal thing that people do and then.. well people try to cover it up but everybody does it, right?  It’s normal.  Here at F*ART what we do is we support Filipino artists and fashion designers because we believe in Filipino talent, that Filipino talent can be world-class.  We just have to tap into it and buy Filipino for Filipino. 

Jay-R Patron:  How did you come up with the concept of F*ART?

Viva Andrada:  My sister, happy, and myself we’re both in to fashion and art ever since we were little girls.  We’re artistic people.  That’s what our parents would tell us.  So we’ve been drawing when we were little girls… also in to fashion.  Because we both have passion for fashion and art so we thought about starting Fashion*ART. 

Jay-R Patron:  Fashion*ART caters to the younger generation.  How would you  describe today’s youth?

Viva Andrada:  I think today’s youth are more individualistic.  They have their ownd sense of style.  They know what they want.  But then they are also exposed to media.  There are magazines, TV, and Internet.  There are lots of fashion styles going on.  They also follow trends in Hollywood movies, what they see in the States.  They want to express themselves.  It’s all about self-expression.

Jay-R Patron:  Have you always been into fashion?

Viva Andrada:  Yes.

Jay-R Patron:  What would you do when you were younger to manifest your sense of fashion?

Viva Andrada:  Sense of fashion.  Besides being into writing, we also had dolls to play around with.  My sister is a fashion designer.  When she was still a little girl, she was playing with the barbie dolls and then removed the head and switch the… because she couldn’t really change the clothes.  But then it was really fun.

Jay-R Patron:  So you severe the head and then…

Viva Andrada:  Yeah, and put it on another doll.  Because we believe in self-expression because when you were something it’s your form of communicating to the world, “this is who I am.  This is my style and this is who I am.” 

Jay-R Patron:  How was the transition from being a media practitioner to being your own boss?

Viva Andrada:  My parents are their own boss.  My mom, she really inspires me a lot with everything she does.  Being a little girl, I saw her as I was growing up.  She was like my role model then and she is until now.  And so the transition from that… I guess it’s a part of me because it’s part of your self-esteem, your parents would do things and then you say, “I could do that too someday.”  I have been into writing for a logn time already.  My parents, their business, I could do that too so it was an easy transition.

Jay-R Patron:  Will you talk briefly about your book, Survival:  Your Guide to Life and what was your motivation for writing the book?

Viva Andrada:  Ok, Suvival: Your Guide to Life, this is published by Atlas Publishing Company.  It is the publishing company of MOD magazine.  Survival is an inspirational book for people of all ages, walks and fields of life.  It has stories of over 150 life guides.  It also has different chapters; discovering yourself, following your dreams, all in the family, growing in love, and making a difference. 

Jay-R Patron:  What’s your most favorite story?

Viva Andrada:  Should I read it out?  Actually, being the one who wrote Survival: Your Guide to Life, it’s hard to say which my favorite is because they’re all special to me.  It’s like being a mother picking among your children who is your favorite child.  They all mean something to me.  But what I think that connects the book is the Survivor’s Manifesto.

Jay-R Patron:  What is the Survivor’s Manifesto?

Viva Andrada:  Survivor’s Manifesto, it’s more of like what people should focus on whenever they feel down or depressed.  When they feel that they can’t do things, when they feel hopeless, when they feel lost, they can read Survivor’s…

Jay-R Patron:  You can read the whole thing if it’s not an hour long…

Viva Andrada:  A Survivor’s Manifesto

I will survive, drive and thrive,
despite life’s challenges. 
I will stay strong and hold on even if I want to quit. 
I will keep pushing, keep dreaming, keep my passion burning,
even at the face of opposition. 
I will respect myself at all times. 
I will stay alert and focus on my goals. 
I will learn from every experience life teaches me and get better every day. 
I will survive and adapt to changes. 
I will swim and stay afloat even in the face of panic. 
I will keep a cool head and flow with the changing tides. 
I will survive heartbreaks, separation, disappointment, pain and loss. 
I will love and cherish life. 
I will build relationships and have a support network. 
I will not burn bridges. 
I will connect with people of all ages, walks and fields of life. 
I believe every life stage has lessons to teach. 
I can lean on others and they can lean on me. 
We will survive.  We are survivors. 

Yeah, that’s Survivor’s Manifesto.

Jay-R Patron:  What was inspiration in writing Manifesto?  I mean it’s pretty short, say less than 500 words, but then it has that substantial meaning that I would think would be very helpful to someone who is down.

Viva Andrada:  Yeah because I think that to inspire yourself is all that we can do and if we talk to others, communicate to others, we can be stronger.  That’s why at the end, we will survive, we are survivors.  Every person has lesson to teach others.  If we only have the time to actually talk, communicate with other people because right now what’s happening with this IT, high-tech world, with internet… people can sometimes feel disconnected too.  People also forget how blessed they are.  They just wallow on self-pity, and they think, “My life is not worth living”.  Maybe they should think how lucky they are, how blessed they are, and then talk to other people and love life, more appreciate life because sometimes we don’t realize how lucky we are until we look around and then help other people too.  That’s why volunteering is also important, because by reaching out to people who have been given less opportunities in life and the less fortunate ones we get to see that there’s a lot that we can do.

Jay-R Patron:  What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned while in the process of writing the book?

Viva Andrada:  I realized that every person has a story to tell because with the life guides… because we all go through life differently but then we also have commonalities.  We also have things in common with other people because we all have one life to live and we all can learn from each other.

Jay-R Patron:  Will you walk us through the different parts of the book?  The different chapters?

Viva Andrada:  Alright.  For the first chapter, it’s called Discovering Yourself, because I believe that’s where life starts—with discovering who you are.  Somehow you have to love yourself and be confident of your abilities because if all you feel is doubt within you and you don’t love yourself, how can you love other people?  I can also read no longer.

Jay-R Patron:  Go ahead.

Viva Andrada:  No Longer 

Time will come when wounds numb,
no longer feel pain,
no longer hear pounding of rain in your heart,
no longer feel betrayed,
when blade dissects friendship,
no longer feel need to please,
and appease those who doubt you,
no longer feel inferior to people supposedly superior,
no longer feel hunger for fame, glory, power,
it will all blur,
when you’re stronger, when you’re braver,
to be you.

So you have to really appreciate who you are because there is no one like you.   You are born to this world with special blessings and then so you have to share those gifts to the world because you never know who you are going to inspire.  From there, there are also poems, and articles, Gain Insights, there’s also Meeting Place.

Jay-R Patron:  What’s Meeting Place?

Viva Andrada:  Meeting Place is where life guides share their stories.  There are stories here and quotations, stuff about friends, mistakes.

Jay-R Patron:  There’s a lot of people there.  Did you get to interview all of them?

Viva Andrada:  Right.  There’s also a story of Luis “Kuya Bodjie” Pascua of Batibot.  And there’s also Your Story.  Your Story is a place where once you read, you can actually write down your story.  There’s another chapter, Following Your Dreams, this is the second chapter.  Before you follow your dreams you have to know who you really are.  Take stock of your strengths and weaknesses, know what your really want in life, because if you don’t know who you really are you can’t follow your dreams.  There’s a poem in Follow Your Dreams, it’s called What Matters.

What matters is not the clothes you wear
it’s in your smile to show you care. 
What matters is not where you went to school
it’s how you solve problems and keep your cool. 
What matters is not how much you earn
it’s in how much you share what you learn. 
What matters is not your age or height
it’s in using your talents with might.
What matters is not how you fall
it’s how you get up and stand tall.
What matters is not outer beauty
it’s in loving yourself and feeling free.

I also have Poems to a Drug Addict, and Poems to a Chain Smoker.  There’s also The Race. 

Jay-R Patron:  What’s The Race?  What’s it about?

Viva Andrada:  The Race 

In my youth I held powers of eternity. 
Death was a distant phase, an unknown word. 
My boundless energy challenged limits set forth by ordinary mortals. 
Perceived as superhuman, I exceeded toughest expectations. 
I daringly met combats head-on, while lesser beings cringed with the very thought. 
Time eventually caught up with me in my quest for truth, I never thought it would. 
Race is almost over. 
My spirits are worn out. 
As finish line appears in my vision… it’s foolishness to compete against time.

It’s about time being the equalizer.  And it’s also about sharing your life to other people, it’s not just about earning money, fame and stuff because you have to connect with other people and live a life worth living not just for yourself but also for others.  And then, because no body lives for ever.  With life comes death.  People never know when there time would come so make the most out of life and cherish it.  The next one is called Embarking on Friendship, the third chapter.

Jay-R Patron:  How many chapters are there?

Viva Andrada:  There are five.  There are poems too and quotations about friendship.  There’s Growing In Love also. 

Jay-R Patron:  That would be the fourth chapter?

Viva Andrada:  Yeah… oh there are six chapters.  This is the fourth chapter. 

Longing

Heart pines what it can’t have. 
Sweet glances, caresses, soulful talks, midnight sojourns. 
Aching, longing deep inside, wanting, waiting line too long. 
Everyone hungers for love.

So, what this chapter tries to say is that… wait, the chapter before is Embarking on Friendship, right?  Friendship develops into love.  To have a life worth living a person should also grow in love.  It’s in love that people realize that there’s more to life.  When you share with other people especially a loved one a lot more can be achieved out of it.  Then there’s All in the Family.  This is the fifth chapter.  The first sentence I wrote here was life begins and ends with the family.  Your past, present and future all link to family. 

Jay-R Patron:  To you, how important is family?

Viva Andrada:  Family is very important because family is your haven.  Family is… you turn to your family whenever things don’t go right.  And then friends… some friendships don’t really last.  Life begins and ends with the family.  With your parents, they’re the one who guide you.  Home is the first school, right?  You learn stuff at home.  Then there are your siblings.  You learn all about life through your family.  If the family is not… if the relationship is not harmonious, there could be lots of things that could get in the way.  That’s why people also get into trouble sometimes because family relationships don’t work out.  They feel lost and helpless.  If you have a supportive family, you feel that you can do anything.

Jay-R Patron:  Ok, let’s go to the last…

Viva Andrada:  Ok, Making A Difference, this chapter is about… because we’re all born I not this world with limitless abilities, right?  We all can do so many things but then there are some people who jut focus on themselves and don’t look at other people, like how they can help others, how they can inspire other people.  In this world, to have a life worth living, you should use your gifts to actually motivate people.  Because by doing what you love, you also help others to see, “Hey, I can do that too.”  You got limitless abilities, right?  We might as well explore our potential.  So this making a difference, everyone can make a difference if they make time for it.  There are simple things that you can do; random acts of kindness, to strangers you see on the street, by talking to other people, saying hi, getting you know their story.  You wouldn’t know it but maybe by talking to them you can somehow impact on their life and somehow help them out.

Jay-R Patron:  Are you like that naturally?

Viva Andrada:  Yeah.

If I Can

If I can walk the distance to carry out tasks in life,
if I can run to get heart pumping,
if I can fly to expand horizons and experience other cultures,
then I can extend my hand to my fellow man in my homeland. 
Uplift their lives, make them realize,
there’s more to life than basketball, beer and boxing. 
My life will have more meaning,
be more fulfilling if I can only learn to share.

So we could actually share stories, all sorts of things, I mean our talents, to other people because what the poem is trying to say also is if we could expand and experience other cultures, like when you get to travel around too, then you can also help out Filipinos here.  Lots of Filipinos want to go abroad and live abroad and they forget Filipinos, they forget the Philippines.  We should never forget the Philippines where ever we are in the world and we should always help out our brothers and sisters.

Jay-R Patron:  That leads me to my next question.  What is it about the Philippines that you think is so special, given that its home?  What is it about our country that is special to you?

Viva Andrada:  Our heritage, our people.  If we look back at the history of the Philippines and how Filipinos fought for their independence and all that, somehow right now we take things for granted.  We’re living in a globalized world and sometimes we forget that there are Filipinos here who are in need of our help.  There are lots of products coming in from different parts of the world.  Our brothers and sisters who make their things here in the Philippines, we don’t buy from them, why is that?  Here at Fashion ART, what we try to do is we help out young Filipino artists and designers and then we give them the space to showcase their talents.  We believe that Filipinos have world-class talents, it’s just that other Filipinos need to see that too.  Others should see the potential that these young artists and designers have.  And then by supporting the artists and fashion designers, young Filipino talents, they could actually know that they’re talented, bloom and grow.

Jay-R Patron:  What is the most valuable lesson that you’ve learned throughout your career, throughout your life?

Viva Andrada:  So many lessons. 

Jay-R Patron:  What do you think is the most important?

Viva Andrada:  The most important is family, because you also need your family to be there for you, to support you.  I notice in some families when they don’t talk to each other, life becomes unbearable.  I think that’s what leads people to crime to, when their family relationships are not harmonious.  Maybe within themselves, they don’t have peace of mind.  Filipinos value family, right?  I think that’s one admirable trait for Filipinos, we have a sense of family.  How we connect to our family, have get-together, salu-salo, birthday parties and all that, families getting in touch with each other.  I think we shouldn’t lose track of that, we shouldn’t forget that, the value of family.  There’s also being a leader, being a business owner, we shouldn’t also forget that we got responsibilities towards our customers, our staff, and then also the community, because sure you can earn lots of money and all that but if we don’t use profit to benefit others too, if we don’t motivate others, what’s the use of earning money?   When you could also somehow contribute to society, and make this country and maybe the world a better place.

Jay-R Patron:  How do you manage your time between work and charity?

Viva Andrada:  I think there’s time for everything if we just make time for things.  Charity as in Hands On Manila?  I try to volunteer as much as I can with Hands On Manila, whenever there are events or… I also help out in promoting Hands On Manila.  Here on Survival: Your Guide To Life there’s a section here about Hands On.  How do I make time for it?  I just make time for it.  There’s time if you make time for it.  Every month I try to set aside time for volunteering and then, there.

Jay-R Patron:  Why is it important to give back?  For business owners to give back to the community?

Viva Andrada:  It’s important because you make the most of life by giving.  If all you do is receive, it’s not balanced and life would be less fulfilling.  When you give back, you actually gain a lot more than you ever thought you would.  When you give something, you shouldn’t expect something in return.  When you give to people…you can also give to people anonymously.  You can do it in secret.  It feels good to give back, you’re a human being.  When you give back to others, you feel that there’s more to life.

Jay-R Patron:  What has been your greatest life achievement so far?

Viva Andrada:  I think I have not really reached the greatest because being young still… maybe the greatest achievement is to continue living, to live day-by-day, to live each day, make the most of every day, learn from life experiences, appreciate life’s beauty.  I think sometimes we just have to realize how blessed we are… just being in the position to make change even in a small way—my staff, people around me, my customers—I guess that’s also an achievement already.

Jay-R Patron:  What has been your greatest challenge and how did you overcome it?

Viva Andrada:  Problems don’t just go away.  There are always problems.  Even people who you think are lucky and blessed, they also have challenges.  My biggest challenge would be, wait, I don’t really think of challenges as challenges.  They’re just opportunities for growth, to become a better person.  Maybe starting things.  It’s like a baby’s first steps.  You don’t get good in all aspects right away.  You have to grow and develop skills.  When I started writing, it was a challenge too but then it was an opportunity to grow as a person when you got in to business.  It just doesn’t go away.  It’s there, it’s like a reminder to keep on getting better and improving myself.

Jay-R Patron:  Success is subjective, and I would think you are a successful, with everything that are written on your bio, what do you think does it take for a person to be successful?

Viva Andrada:  You just have to be in the proper frame of mind.  Sometimes life is also about thinking that you can achieve things and you can actually do them.  It’s also about believing in yourself too.  Sure, there will be people around you who would say, “You can’t do this, you can’t do that.”  But then the challenge is to hush those voices and just do what you feel you were born to do.  Love what it is you’re doing, develop as a person, grow your skills.  And then when you know you got something to share to others, share and give back to the community.  I think success is all about sharing what you have to others too.  Sometimes you don’t know how successful you are unless you count your blessings.  Successful people have to also take stock of their weaknesses and strengths, and then how they’re weaknesses could be their strengths too.  When you believe in yourself, there’s more that you can do.  But then you also need the help of other people.  Successful people also need others to help them too.

Jay-R Patron:  What is your fondest childhood memory?

Viva Andrada:  It would be with family.

Jay-R Patron:  Are there times at the top of your head, moments that when you think about them you smile?

Viva Andrada:  Christmas, I love Christmas.  It’s when the family gets together and then everyone laughing, hugging each other, smiling.  But then Christmas for some they think that its too commercial nowadays, gifts don’t have to be materialized.  For gifts you can just prepare something by yourself like an artwork.  You can give that to your family.  When I was a child, my fondest memory was really family.

Jay-R Patron:  You have been journalist, you are an entrepreneur, and a fashion advocate, what advice would you give to people who want to excel in their respective fields that they have chosen?

Viva Andrada:  They have to know what they really want.  They have to know themselves first.  Discover what they really want.  Develop their skills. Go to school.  They should also reach out to other people.  Ask for advice.  Sometimes it’s not possible to know all the answers by yourself so talk to other people.  That’s why mentors are also important.  Mentors are also like life guides.  Know your passion.  Believe in yourself.  There will be people around you who would try to people pull you down, step on you, say nasty things about you, you just keep on doing what you love to do as long as you know its right.  Have people to support you.  Keep believing you’re meant for greatness.  There’s more that you can do.  Just keep on pushing.  And also faith helps.  Pray, when you’re in doubt turn to God.

Jay-R Patron:  Who would you consider your mentor?

Viva Andrada:  I have lots of mentors.  But the one at the top of the list is my mom.  My mom really inspires us.  She helps us out, to discover things that we didn’t know that we could do.  Parents are very important.  Parents are supposedly the ones who would push their children towards the right direction.

Jay-R Patron:  If there was one message out of the whole discussion that we’ve had this afternoon, that you would like to tell our readers, what would that message be?

Viva Andrada:  Keep loving life.  Discover who you really are, what you really want.  Love life and appreciate who you are because you were born with special gifts.  By discovering them and making use of them you can actually inspire more people, motivate others to live their best life.

Jay-R Patron:  Just to conclude, I notice you have this other book here, will you talk about Light of Dawn?

Viva Andrada:  Light of Dawn, this is my first book.  It was published when I was 17-years old.

Jay-R Patron:  17?

Viva Andrada:  Yes.  It has inspirational poems.  The one who provided the photos for this was my teacher in humanities.  He actually pushed me to come up with the book too.  You want me to read a poem?

Kingdom of Dream

There’s a kingdom where wonders never cease,
Waters clear and winds blow fresh breeze
A place so magical and full of dreams,
No problems exist and so it seems.
But in truth tests of faith are everywhere,
Go ahead explore and take a dare.
Every step measured either right or wrong,
An adventure to find where you belong.
A path may lead to another road,
Be cautious of shortcuts, goals may explode.
Get weary of instant success,
Life isn’t always happiness. 
Courage, strength and love for everyone,
May help you survive this marathon. 
Trust in God and He’ll provide,
Lessons in life you decide.
This kingdom of dreams can take you far,
Aim for something and wish upon a star
Who knows? Maybe your dreams will come true
Do your best, the kingdom of dreams lies in you.

Jay-R Patron:  Ok, that’s it.  Thank you.