“Mommy, why aren’t you allowing me to be like you? I mean becoming a singer” Jiyeon, my 20 years old daughter asked me while we’re literally in a karaoke room in our house singing together. Yes, you heard that, everyone. Since my lovely Dragon hubby doesn’t want me to go into a karaoke place all alone by myself, he decided to have a literal karaoke room in our house so that I don’t have to drive all the way to the nearest karaoke spots which is very practical and efficient but at the same time can be very noisy because it doesn’t have any soundproofing at all in the room.

“Because I don’t want you to go through the same thing that me and your dad did, Princess. I want you to make your own future and just be Kwon Jiyeon, the human being instead of Kwon Jiyeon, the daughter of Girls’ Generation’s Kid Leader Kim Taeyeon and BIGBANG’s Dragon Leader Kwon Jiyong. But in the end, you’re going to have to decide about whether you’re prepared to go through years of intense training and even worse the intense strict diet where you don’t know whether you’re going to make it or not. I’m telling you all of this not because I want to scare you into thinking that you don’t want to go down that path forever but I’m telling you all this because I’m just being honest and giving you the harsh truth so that you need to think very hard before you do something that’ll potentially alter the course of your life forever and I just want my Princess to be happy and proud regardless o