Choices: Part 2

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Off Topics:
Mia Tan, represent Singapore to compete in the Miss Globe International 2006 was on board the hijacked Turkish flight blogged about her experience and detailed incident with photos and videos.

Some press would pay her USD $5000 a minute for the video footage but it was published in her blog instead.
Very generous wey....
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Remembering since my tiny tot days i do not have problems with choices as mum and dad are doing it and i am just going with it. Primary and secondary schools were like predetermined. Its only after secondary levels that choices really come into play. Mine that is.

Vividly in my mind, my SPM (O Levels, grade 11 or whatever you call it) sucks so bad that it made my dad cry. He was afraid that i might end up as a road sweeper. My jaws drop when i got my results. I kept thinking where would i go with this shitty results. It hit me hard that O levels are the doors to your future as your tertiary education depends on it.

Still, I remember my pal Raymond dedicated a song in the PA system where we were working just to perk me up. What song? Anywhere is by Enya. My memory powerful leh. Please drink "Gong Gong Gu Nee Hoon" (Gong Gong Milk Powder). All the so call AHA or DHA claims are all fake, marketing gimmicks, sham, hoax, etc etc.

I applied for some local uni and was rejected but some *ahem* buggers whose results are worse than mine manage to get in and whats more enrolled into the EEE (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) course. Talk about being mar....... hm.... the lines at the side of a worksheet. Recently, this word is rather sensitive, i don't want people to flame me or to get hit when i am in the streets. Any back to my topic... screw the local educational institution and good luck to the country as the leaders that they are cultivating are ...*straight palm with yawing motions*. Also... i am going international!! Next destination ...... Lion City!!

PSA (yeah the port) accepted me and wanted to train me as part of their maintenance team. Soon i receive a notice saying that Nanyang Polytechnic accepted my application for the Manufacturing Engineering Course. Delima here... don't know where to choose. In one hand i would receive a monthly allowance while i am on training and on the other hand, money has to keep going out due to school fees and expenses. I choose the polytechnic as it gives better return on the investment incurred.

Then came another delima. Ngee Ann Polytechnic also accepted my application. Talk about having bad grades eh? Someone up there must still be smiling at me. So now i have to put both institution and courses offered on the scale to decide which to take. I choose Nanyang Polytechnic due to these reasons.

1) GSI (German Singapore Institute) not a play play academy. Its a respectable educational institution that churn out good engineers.
2) Manufacturing Engineering which is equivalent to Mechanical is more exciting.
3) Nanyang Poly is a newer school hence new lab, new classroom and new toilets.
4) My friend Raymond played pen deity and it told him that he is going to be successful before the age of 30, hence if i follow his path i shouldn't deviate far. Ya i know its a bit naive but lets just stick on the safe side.

Graduated with no merits from Poly after 3 years and went to work for SONY for around 4.5 years. While at SONY, i come to another crossroad junction. During my poly days i was attached to a machine making company and the manager there adviced me to take up a management course to speed up my ladder climbing abilities. Family members advice me to persue my engineering degree and guess what? Yes i went for a general business degree and to escalate the challenge i did a part time course. Hm... most likely is i don't have the money to really study full time or to go outside country. -___-"

2.5 years later i graduated again but this time, i hold a 2nd upper hons in Biz Ad majoring in marketing. So, with the new qualification that i obtained, should i venture into new grounds or should i continue on my engineering career? A few company namely, Matsushita and Panasonic called me to join them, but i decline. If i were to continue, everything would be as per normal. If not, then i would have to join into coys that have different working environment, a serious cut in my salary as i do not have adequate experience in similar field and basically needs to start afresh again.

I choose to step out of the technical arena and join the sales and service sector. Thats where i am until now and still biting at it hoping things were to turn better. Sometimes i still wonder whether have i made the correct choice but once the path is chosen i will not look back. No point and just not my style. A little foolish i would say and it will even drag me to my grave but i guess everybody is not perfect in their own ways.