Hi Steemians,

I am going to do something out of the norm, which will cause me a little of limelight on me which I usually don't prefer, but I am learning to embrace it with some courage. Brave yourself, Jade!

I am going to apply for the contest "minnow of the month" hosted by our lovely generous kind-hearted, full of life Hive account@coruscate. Sounds like flattering but if you know her, you know I define her correctly.

Here is her post on the application of minnow of the month, do check out: https://steemit.com/minnowofthemonth/@coruscate/lia2npmn

Congratulations Hive account@lifesacircus who is the October Minnow of the Month. YOU MUST CHECK HER OUT TOO, and you will love her.

Without further ado, I will go straight to the reasons I am applying.

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My Application for Minnow of the Month

Why do I apply?

Firstly, to be honest - because I love Hive account@coruscate and Hive account@steemsisters. I found out about Hive account@coruscate via Hive account@vincy and Hive account@kawaiicrush and I checked her out ever since. Hive account@coruscate, hope you don't mind a stalker here. Also, I hope to get more exposure which by myself I don't think I can. And it is my honor to be part of her life for one month, to have her a my mentor. Yay!!! Like dream comes true...

Why I should be selected?

This is the hardest question to answer. As difficult as when people throw me the question "tell me your strength". Lol. I have no problem promoting others and telling other people's strength but telling about myself or promote myself is kind of awkward and weird. Anyway, I am going to try. Ehem... Because I can add positivity to people's life. And also I host contest aim to reward people and to showcase people, so if I get more exposure, more will know of my contest and I can reward more people. Yay! Because I love Steem and Steemit so much I want to add more value here. Okay I think that's enough.

My Steem story

I found out about Steemit first before I knew Steem as a cryptocurrency. Heard about it from my husband through his brother Hive account@danielwong (awesome Blogger and DTuber here). They said I should start Steemit since I blog about my son who has a health issue called CDH. I quit all my job to stay at home to take care of him. And my husband and brother-in-law said Steemit is a suitable platform for me since I can work from home. And I love blogging and sharing. And earn some extra income from home is extra bonus for me.

I started Steemit last year December 9th and posted my 1st introduction post on 12th December. Since then until now, I have been part of few communities and strive to support the communities as long as they are here. A shout out to Hive account@teammalaysia led by Hive account@bitrocker2020 and our awesome brother Hive account@kevinwong, to Hive account@steemitbloggers led by Hive account@jaynie, Hive account@qurator by Hive account@scrooger and Pal-peace, abundance and liberty by Hive account@aggroed and other whales, which without them, I would be lost in this deep ocean as newbies.

Then followed by Hive account@steemitmamas by Hive account@khimgoh. I am also proud to be a curator for Esteem by Hive account@good-karma, so I encourage you all to use eSteem app to stand a chance to get upvoted by eSteem. Hive account@good-karma and his team are awesome bunch of people you will want to stick together with.

Due to my busy and full-of-challenges lifestyle, I pretty blog or vlog on random stuff under life, parenting or motivational stuff and I do freewrite everyday using the daily prompt by Hive account@mariannewest. I am one of the encouragers for freewriters community to encourage them to write everyday and don't stop writing for Steemit. Basically, don't give up. Check out Hive account@mariannewest and Hive account@freewritehouse if you are want to know more.

One month ago, I fell in love with Dtube. And I successfully stepped out of the comfort zone to be in front of camera and video myself and never stop since then. Hive account@nathanmars make it easy for us too by introducing DTubeSnap or DTubeSnappySnapp! So now I also have a bunch of people to support and I am already part of Hive account@onelovedtube, Hive account@drisers and Hive account@dcooperation, hoping to collaborate with them more to promote Dtube and engage with Dtubers as well. Super duper awesome communities of DTuber. They are my sunshine now.

Some communities I am part of but can't contribute much at this moment is Hive account@asapers, Hive account@dynamicsteemians and Hive account@promo-mentors, but occasionally I will still hop in there and see how are things going on their side.

How do I add value?

Well, the main thing I am doing now is to curate people's content, upvoting and resteem as well as well leaving thoughtful comments. I am trying my best to create good content by writing good stories or good thoughts or good insights on blog and my videos, so on and so forth. Although I wish to write more long post on motivational stuff but time doesn't allow. So far this is the best I can do, freewriting everyday as well as random stuff of my life; be it parenting or art or family time via dtube or blog. I believe the idea will evolve as I further grow in this platform. I love doing cover song but situation just don't seem to be ideal for me to have the ample time to record a song without interruption. We will see how as I grow.

I engage with the communities I mentioned above by visiting their contents and actually read or view the video, upvoting and leaving comments. Although I can't chit chat much on discord, everyday I set aside my time to curate other people's content. Also, anytime people ask me a question via DM or message I will try my best to give the appropriate advice or guidance.

When we do curating for Esteem, we also educate users on citing photo source, or other stuff that users need to improve. I also motivate and encourage others if I see them almost give up on this platform before. I had been there before after my son was infected with deadly virus RSV in the month of March and was hospitalised for one week. That scary incident caused me to want to give up Steemit and just focus on my son. But with the help of communities here, I really stay for the communities and the rewards is second.

I host contest to reward people. Now is #foodmodel on blog and dtube - To rewards those who showcase their food via blog as well as reward those who showcase their food via dtube.