.Friday, February 18, 2011 ' 4:40 PM Y
Hello bloggggiiieee!
On my 2nd day of MC this week. been falling ill easily recently. bad. but im enjoying the peace to be alone at home on this Fri rainy afternoon with love songs 101 accompanying me while I blog.
Was talking to dear ytd and he gave an analogy of a newborn seaturtle. It seems to be their nature to dash towards the vast sea the moment they hatched from the shell. No one tells them so, but they are just programmed to do so. Having witnessed the hatching of sea turtles at Bintan, it's pretty funny how human beings at the side cheered them on and at the point theturtles touched the sea water, they are deemed to have successfully stepped out their first step.
Likened to a young adult's education life, university life is like the mad dash towards the vast sea. Your parents, peers will be soooooooo proud that you made your way to university, cheering you on, and poor little us having just hatched from the sheltered place named jc, not knowing really why, made that mad dash just as if it's programmed in us to be always achieving, striving and challenging our limits. We shoved aside the sand, and sometimes our fellow sea turtles, in order to reach that vast ocean which we thought it was where we are to be belonged. Not knowing that there are bigger turtles, more ferocious fishes and dangers inside the sea, aka the working world. HAHAHA!
As a uni grad, I really dont think it's a big deal to be one. You still end up in the big vast threatening sea as the rest of the turtles, and everything is reset back to zero once again for all.
A random thought today: what would I be if I were to relive my education life again?
Maybe I will be some sort of designer, photographer.
But, I still take pride being a science student.
Somehow I feel it's really quite hard for sporeans kids to really realise where their passion lies. Since 5 years old, (or some even younger at the age of 3), all of us we are put through pre-school/kindergarten, thrown into a fix syllabus, defined system of cca of not too much choices, learning predefined subjects without much variation... where's the space to explore what we really like? adding to that our weekends tutions and ballet/swimming classes etc? oh im not one of those fortunate, or unfortunate, ones who has weekend classes.
I do wish that somehow I can live life overseas for a couple of years.
I secretly wish that dear or myself or both of us can get some overseas job posting. Get married. spend 2-3 years somewhere, explore what we have yet to.
