About

About

Hi there!

Welcome to my little website where I yabber on about anything relating to learning and living a better life.

My name is Sharon, and I’m a self-confessed lover of life. I adore fashion, food, design, home-making, entrepreneurship, travel, and this blog is an amalgam of anything and everything I can get my hands on relating to these. Occasionally, I also talk about love – I am lucky enough to have found S, a truly remarkable man, and  I like to wax lyrical about it from time to time.

sharon pakir and stephen

Me and S

I hope you enjoy the journey with me as I learn more and more about life, and share it all with you. I love to hear from readers, so comment away, and feel free to ask me anything you want!

Want to know a little more about me? Well…

I live in Melbourne, Australia, but am originally from sunny Singapore. I studied at the University of Melbourne and have a Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics) and a Masters of Commerce (Business & Technology). My love of language, learning, business and technology have meant traversing down the following career paths:

By day, I’m a capability development consultant – with my company The Capability Project, I work with organisations to facilitate better learning programs, develop in-house training plans, as well as coaching teams and individuals to achieve their finest. Part of my work also involves digital training, where I coach groups and individuals in using technology to enhance their lives. Contact me if you require any of these services, I work with both small and large businesses, as well as individuals, to enhance capability! You can read more about my experience here.

By night, I’m a small business ownerSpin City Dance is a boutique dance school in Melbourne, and we have a small, passionate team made up of some of Australia’s finest dancers, who teach dance to absolutely anyone, at all levels from beginners to professional. Come on by if you feel like a boogie!

I am a professional dancer/choreographer/instructor and am prone to moments of passion when flying across the dance floor. I’m lucky enough to make part of my living from my passion – I travel around Australia and the world to salsa events and festivals, teaching, performing and judging competitions, when I’m not teaching at Spin City Dance. You can watch my latest performance, here.

Throughout all of these roles, I’m mainly all about people, learning, living, and staying inspired. Thank you for joining me on this journey!

3 Comments

  1. Hi Sharon! I came across your website while googling ways to repaint my Billy bookshelf from Ikea, and had to drop a line! I saw a posting on Ikea Hack by a Sharon Pakir in Melbourne, and I was like, “This must be the Sharon I know …” Anyway, glad to see you’re doing awesome and congrats on launching your new project! I’m living in Switzerland these days, but hopefully we will have a chance to catch up in person sometime soon!

    All the best,

    Tiffany

    • TIFFANY! Oh my goodness! I can’t believe you found me here and how you did! I’ll email you very soon – you are right, hopefully we’re in the same country some time soon! xx

  2. Sharon, I just had to write and tell you what a wonderful inspiration you are. I have watched you teach and perform for a few years now but am not seeing another side of you in this blog that is truely inspiring to me. Thanks
    Kylie

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