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Currently Im schooling at Singapore Polytechnic, pursuing my diploma in Multimedia Technology currently in my 1st year. Took my O's in 2003, but decided to work for 1 year(in 2004)before continuing my studies. If not I would be in 2nd year (hur hur). I'm staying with my parents and grandfather too, in an estate called "Ghim Moh Rd". I must say, I'm glad to be living in this almost central part of this small island. I'm 19 this year, and I really wish I can stay 18 forever which obviously is so impossible. Im schooling 5days a week, and I'm working part time at Le Meridien Hotel as banquet waitress occasionally. I have plans to have a permanent part-time job on a regular basis as my banquet work only depends if there are functions and if they still require any manpower. It's more like a freelance job, which is very flexible for me. Been working there since I've finished my O Levels. As I was saying, I want to find a part-time job on a regular basis, but there are obstacles that forbids me to do so. Its because of my school work. Im afraid I'll screw everything up; my assignments, my studies, and my attendance as well. Sure, I need the money, but I'm not willing to risk my hard work and effort I've put in all this while. I have to say, when I started schooling again, I have the freedom that I had been hungrily yearning for. This includes coming to classes late, skipping classes and doing things my own way and don't give a damn what people are going to say. When I started working, and I really mean serious work, full time that is, it turned my perception of how sucky school is completely the other way round. I've come to realise that in the working world, nobody's going to give you face, and you have to strictly follow all the rules and regulations or you will be putting yourself at a risk you'd surely regret. And, friends around you can be deceiving and two-faced without you realising it. So you have to watch what you're saying watch and who you mix with. Don't be deceived, don't be fooled. But if you were reckless enough to have been smittened by their "charm", be thankful that it happened. Because that's what makes one stronger; setbacks, criticsm, and all the "downs" in life. As for me, I'm glad I get to learn all this at a young age of 17. And I know, there's still alot I have to learn in life. One of the things I enjoy is clubbing. Almost every week I would go with my bf, some of my friends and his friends too. We will usually go in a group, as personally for me, it's more fun and somehow "motivated". It just makes me happy to have fun without having to have any worries. One thing I'm glad, I don't smoke and I strongly want to stay smoke-free for as long as I'm still breathing to my last breath. There's a huge story behind it. As for school, to tell the truth I'm coping quite unstable- ly right now. Yes I'm complaining, I'm whining just like a spoilt little girl, but I've come to slowly accept and adapt to poly life. It's all about time management, how smart you are to juggle with your daily activities and routines of pampering yourself of relaxing or just hang out with your cliques, or 24/7 dreaming what you would do just to lay your hands on that expensive Gucci bag and Dior lingeries. I've long woken up from that wait-for-million-years-later dreams on becoming reality. Unless, I got to marry some old man with three wives and 2-digit no of children and own massive properties and not to forget, countless mistresses and scandals who come and go just with a blink of an eye. It seems that every lessons in school are taught in a very accelerated mode, like a roller coaster roaring up and down and down and up; my head is also going that direction each time I'm lost halfway. Lecturers teaching us students is like a mirror to me; of us poly students teaching primary one kids the ettiquettes of eating in a fine, posh, nevertheless high-class restaurant and what are the do's and the dont's in a working environment. Confusing enough? Let me tell you absorbing every word and catching every phrase during lessons is no different from what I've just stated. |
