Saturday, January 05, 2008

Seems like blogging can only be a weekly activity these days. Work just sapped energy out of me. The only activity i engage in after work is to plant my bum in front of the tv and nua.

Anyway, not important. Probably the topic of this entry can be about my work. Nahz, i am not going to talk about the nature of my work. One of my army friend, one of my best buddy in army actually, he asked me about my job and company.

I think i shocked him by telling him i am working at my boss' home. That there are only 2 of us in Singapore. That we have only 14 people in my company.

I can understand how he felt. I must agree that i dun really belong to the norm of a working adult. What jolted me was that Singaporeans in general are still very risk-averse. My friend told me company is so small, higher chance that the company will be gone. While i see his area of concern, it doesn;t bother me much.

Seriously, i am not so concerned about the stability of my job, i wouldn;t have accepted the traineeship and went overseas alone. I still believe that i have nothing to lose by doing a job which i like when i am only 24 years old, and with a bank account with 3 digits of money. So i have everything to gain.

On a completely side note, on New Year's eve, on my way home from work, i was sitting beside a mother and her daughter and i peeled over to listen to their conversation cos i was too bored. They were discussing about the daughter's school work, i guess the daughter was going to enter Sec 1 in 2008, so school was about to start at that point of time.

They went yada yada about school and her daughter was asking if her class was the 2nd best or the 2nd worst in her cohort judging from the alphabet of her class. Actually, much of their conversation was de javu for me, bcos it seemed the thing people would have cared during my time as a sec student. And it still is after 10 years.

Goes to show how the education system(or lack of it) has changed over the past decade. People are still pretty much caught up with grades, comparing results over the pursuit for a holistic education for our kids. To think that we thought we making huge steps in changing our educational system. Harsh reality sets in.

In all, our educational system are continuing to churn out kids anxious about grades, risk averse and feeling happy remaining in their comfort zone.