Educational Pursuit

2009-12-05T23:58:00.019+08:00

I cannot tell you how many times I speak to a student who has absolutely no idea of why they are at University or Polytechnic. There is nothing wrong with not knowing what you want to do at School, I don’t even have a major when I'm pursuing my Degree 2nd year because I can’t decide what I want to study but there is an essential difference between myself and the vast majority, the 85%. I want to learn. I want to sit in class for two hours and walk away smarter. I take whatever class interests me at the time of registration with no regard to a major because I simply want to learn as much as possible.

Here is my problem with some of the students now, not having a desire to be there or a purpose. An utter and complete waste of time, money, and resources. If you have no desire to sit in class, what is the worth of sitting in the back of class on simultaneously browsing on your laptop, texting your friends, eating or sleeping. Why would you waste four years of your life to embark on an educational journey you have no desire to be a part of? Not only do you waste the time of your professor, but more importantly you waste your own time. Times you’re never going to get back from the prime of your life. School surely is an amazing place and you can have attempt to have your 24-7 party experience but the end result is so depressing. Four years wasted in classes doing something you didn’t want to do in the first place.

Here is my solution, don’t go to Poly or Uni first. Go get a job, or go get a dream. Go get a bottom level job working at the mall, Chinese restaurant or mechanic shop and see how you like it. Than when you realize that you have an undying and burning passion to never work that sort of job again in your life? Now you enroll in Poly or Uni. An educational epiphany will ignite in your head and those same classes you would have been sleeping in a year prior will transform into your every desire. You’ll sit at the front of the class and ask so many questions the kids in the back will want to fight you afterward but low and behold you have a reason for being there!

I guess this goes back to my original problem with school, the fact that it is a “necessity,” something we are required to do in order to achieve success in out society now. It’s about time we threw that concept out of the window. It’s breeding a generation of poly age kids. who quite literally sleep walked through 3 years and 25,000 dollars and are graduating with degrees or diploma they didn’t want in the first place.

So to my Poly and Uni age peers, let’s wake up and take some pride in what you are doing or just leave School in general. I have 100 times more respect for the local kid who leaves after Secondary School to pursue a working career because he has no desire to go to School than for the kid who heads off to college because “Oh yeah I mean what else am I going to do?” maybe you should start to ask yourself what you want ...

Hell Isn’t a Bad Place to

2009-12-02T21:27:00.006+08:00

All this happened after I finished my National Service, Dec 2004. Six months after moving to Perth, I got a called one day from my Collage Schoolmate, Francis C. "We want to add someone to our team, and we all agree we want you, "he said"

5 years ago, my planning was to go Australia to pursue my studies at Curtin University, I have no intention to come back to Singapore after just six months, since I'm there to pursuit my education. But you know what? Lad back isn’t something I wanted. After much discussion with my Mum and aunt, we came to the conclusion that whether or not I agreed to help them, Francis is going to recruit someone he know outside the Event Industry. (there is a story behind this) And who knew whom he’d find?

I kept saying to Francis in MSN, “What if you hire someone totally sucks?” So finally I had decide to joined, and it wasn’t about being in the spot light. It was about stepping up to represent kids at my age on the Event industry. The whole decision happened practically overnight, and the next few days went by in a blur. My flight arrangements were booked, quitted my job in Perth, pack my items and back to Singapore.

It helped when everyone in Division Communication was very welcoming, especially own my team. I still remember I walked around shaking everyone’s hands and tried my best to remember their names. I must meet a hundred people that morning, inside and outside office.

The daily routine job scope made everything work like clockwork, and I got into the swing of things. We work from 9am - 9pm, six days a week. We would go in and worked 7 - 10 events on a weekly basic. It was so time-consuming!

When I am not working, Me, Kenji and Joe were working together at another project in Hong Kong, which is to own our very first shop. It wasn’t easy. Kenji had been working on his Counterstrike gaming touring all over Asia so it left all to Joe at Hong Kong to take care of the shop alone. We made arrangements to meet up at least once a month and working really took up a lot of my time back than. So I found myself flying out to Hong Kong on my non-working day, and flying back to Singapore in time to start work next morning. I can still remember, I need to arrange a back to back off day so I can stayed in Hong Kong a couple more days.

In the beginning, the team felt on, and I felt I am part of them. But after a while, things changed. There were tensions that hadn’t previously existed, I found out, Joe and Kenji is not very happy about me, how much time I contributed to the shop and getting 60 percent of the profit back at the end of the year in 2005 just because I invented more. I guess they just want to be in the spotlight! After 11 months of this, my schedule was wearing me down. That was not a great time for me. I was over worked and exhausted; I never got to see my mum even I was at Hong Kong because she spends lots of time traveling to China for work. I didn’t have time in Singapore to make new friends besides work. I felt really alone i gonna say.

Meanwhile, the hard work I had done for shop wasn’t feeling like it was worth of the effort. Things we planned were not going smoothly so we had come to conclusion, and is to ended our shop after just 12 months.

I knew it was time to focus on other things i wanted after shop closed, pursuit education. But the mean time, there were disagreement in my team at work, people didn’t see eye to eye during work like we had just started but lucky enough I was approached with the idea of a spin-off set to another team together with Francis, I was ecstatic. We were in talks for weeks before everything was set in stone, unfortunately, not everyone was as stoked about the idea of us leaving the team...

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Educational Pursuit

Hell Isn’t a Bad Place to