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For 2007, I hope to...
:Enrich myself as much as possible before Uni:
:Do well in Uni:
:Visit Hong Kong or Taiwan:
:Learn hip-hop dancing:
:Not involve my car in any accident:
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Chat with my father, Pride and Prejudice
A good break for me has come at last. In the form of not having to give tuition temporarily. Thanks to the march Hols... haha. March hols for me too I guess. Which is good... beginning to feel the effects of fatigue since late last month.
Anyway yet another week has passed. Somehow time seems to pass more quickly than I expected time in 8 to 5 shifts to pass. I mean... it has been already a month and a half since I switched dept from the irregular duty team shift system to the more regular DCC office hours, but it certainly doesn't feel that long a time to me. Which is good.
Could be the novelty factor I think. Good. i hope it carries on then. Then ORD could feel just like tomorrow haha.
Anyway my dad came back last sunday... And on Tuesday, when my granddad had a medical appt at SGH, my dad, mom, aunt and I accompanied him there. When my mom and aunt accompanied my ah-gong in to consult the specialist (only 1 or 2 ppl could go in... the office was too small), my dad and I had a good talk. Father to son. I guess sometimes the absense of my father makes me feel akward ard him (it's true) but we did have a good talk outside the specialist's office.
We were discussing abt him wanting to help sponsor part of the payment for a car should I opt to buy one. Cuz I jokingly raised the issue to him sometime last year. And so ya we were sitting there talking about cars and all. Haha. A car idiot like me is starting to take an interest in cars all of a sudden. With all the models and names of cras escaping me in the past, I am strating to make an effort to recognise the different models (which look more or less alike to me leh)...
A few names came up, like the Honda Jazz, Mazda 3 and (crazily) the Merz CLK 200 or sth (a sports car which costs $200+ grand). He said he liked the CLK and wanted ME to buy it so that he could drive it should he be in town in the future. So absurd haha. I would have to pay monthly installments of up to $2000+. Where to get such money? Tuition isn't enough to support also lah.
Then he asked me about what I planned to do after my ORD and before uni starts. It is a good 7 month break ya. I said probably I would try to get an internship of sorts at some law firm to see how it runs and all. And maybe dabble a little in the youth PAP. Or also maybe try to be a part-time DJ at a radio station (not the club type. That's so not me).
And how did my father reply? He said "Don't go to work at a law firm la! Next time when you study law and graduate that would be the reality of your life, and you want to do that now even before you start? Go do something you wouldn't get to do after you graduate and work next time, like being a DJ." Very true what he said actually... Sometimes we (educated ppl) think we know so much and are so good or mature or whatever in planning our lives that we tend to neglect what advice other (more experienced) ppl give us. I mean, knowledge is one thing, experience is another (very critical) factor too.
Maybe I could earn more from a law firm internship. Maybe it would give me an insight into what my life would be in the future. But I know (and sad to say it has to be after I listened to my dad that I realised) that if there was something I really liked and never had the chance to do in my lifetime, it would something I regret on my deathbed in the future.
Now I know where I inherited the traits of being daring, brave and thirsty for roads less travelled. It was what got my dad to enterprise and change his fortune (from us being a poor family in the past to being able to live, albeit not luxuriously, comfortably at least, now).
Thanks dad! I finally know how I want to plan my life now. It was always in me I guess, but now you made me realise even more so that I want to try new things. To be able to live my life with no regrets. To do the things I always wanted to.
Maybe (as he suggested too) I should even try out DJ-ing in a nightclub after I know how the panels work haha!
So my advice to ppl: If like me, your parent(s) work overseas, or long hours such that you rarely have time to talk to them, take whatever opportunity you have to sit down and have a good chat with them from time to time. They have lived so much longer than us, seen more, experienced more and made more mistakes (but learnt from them) than us. What they have to say would definitely be worth listening to.
So probably you would see Terence DJ-ing in some club next year. Or maybe you would see Terence doing calehfare roles on TV. Or maybe you would see Terence (clad in white?) going around shaking hands with ppl.
Anyway, just wanted to add, albeit anti-climaxly, that I attended some celebration at Bukit Panjang last night. Town Day @ Cashew 2006 it was called. So there were like performances and all, but the main attraction of the show were the performances of the local "stars". The Annugerah winner and one finalist, the Vasantham Star, and Project Superstar finalists JunYang and Kelly all came to perform. And of course who would forget the constant in the equation: screaming fans, banners, coordinated tee-shirts.
I enjoyed the performances definitely. Especially those of Kelly and those of Annugerah fame. Sadly, JunYang didn't sound good 'live'. I wonder why. I suspect he could be nursing a sore thorat or sth since he was caught having a sip of water in between his second and (very highly pitched) third song. The most surprising observation of the night was the fact that the cheers for the Anuugerah singers were the loudest, despite the majority of the crowd being chinese. Because they really could sing so well. Made me regret not watching the show on Suria.
The finalist even sang Yi Qan Nian Yi Hou by JJ Lin. And he hit the high notes so well. Unlike JunYang in his songs.
I have to admit I wasn't too keen on listening to the "Malay" singers initially, but their voices were so captivating I was enchanted. My point? Sometimes we are so prejudiced against a certain group of ppl that we forget to stop and appreciate their strengths. be it in race, religions, appearances, educational level and others. So ppl. Please never ever let prejudices cloud your judgement of how someone is on the inside.
A lot of sharing done today haha. Somehow it all just flowed. I have been a victim of the "prejudice cloud" as I call it, from the way I judged some ppl in my camp. It made me take for granted the friendship and companionship I had from friends in my former duty team due to my prejudice against them for a particular reason (I shall not name). But after changing depts I finally realised the true value of our friendship. It was a hard way to do so but I'm glad I finally did.
And I hope everyone is able to do the same too.
Terence pens his legacy at 11:04 AM
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