My goodness...Just how quick can time past by? Been a year since the last I posted!! The reason for me to post again is simple: To prevent my blog from being deleted. One of my friend's "Rotten Orange" blog was deleted since he has not been updating his blog for more than a year.
At this point of time, air temperature is about -5 degree celcius. I am just so glad that I will be flying back to Singapore tomorrow after spending 30 days in Czech which I was not eager to do so. The estatic management that extended my stay twice and causes me to miss my short break with my friends really pissing me off when I think about sometimes. Although it is of no big deal but tt is unfair to me for them to extend my stay last minute and did not even bother to ask or discuss about it. What more can I say...
Well, the year of 2011 is about to end and it makes me realise that I have been working in Singapore for a year now. Actually I have only been in Singapore physically for less than 6 months. Did not expect that I would be required to travel that much and that frequent. On the good side, it is always interesting to work in a new place especially for a single man like me. Working in another country at certain times is better than getting stuck in a office. So no complain about travelling. It is this travelling & working life that makes me understand a lot of things and see clearer of many types of people in the society.
Life
It seems like life has been at another stage for most of my friends and myself as well. Some are married with kids and some just finished university. But one thing in common is everyone is so hardworking towards their goal in their life. A very subjective topic I guess. It makes me wonder what am I going to do with my life? Having control it or being controlled by it? It feels like more people in asia tends to be controlled by their life than western countries. A simple example would be (excluding the rich), you get a flat in Singapore (which is pricey as compare to many other places), a car (which is ridiculously over price due to the COE), you start a family and you work for the next 30 years to pay off all these. Not forgetting the contribution for your parents living expenses. Basically, you cannot stop working or else the bank will take away your car, cards and/or your flat. In short, you are being controlled by your life. It is only at this stage you actually fully understand how hard your parents have been througout all these years to keep the family going.
Career
Still thinking of how I could have been if I were still in the United Kingdom. Probably I would just stuck with the same company, completing projects independantly during the day and work in the bar during the night. Chilling out with friends during weekend and perhaps short city break around Europe. But then again, I appreciate what I am doing now and where I am now. Just that I need a vision for the next ten years of my life...which is obviously I am unclear at this point of time.
I am actually envy one of my friends who had the courage to go to another country all alone to start a new career. She knows what she is doing and she is working towards her own ultimate goal. That is something I have wanted to do if the situation permitted me to do so but I doubt it will. I have now immune to questions like "You are aging towards 30 and what have you achieve?" and "Why are you you still single?". Honestly, I does sometimes thought about the answers but there was never a definite one.
Intimacy v Isolation
'To lose and find oneself in another'
Still remembering Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory, it does explain the social transition we are going though. So this is just part of our life. Ref: http://www.businessballs.com/erik_erikson_psychosocial_theory.htm#erikson_psychosocial_theory_summary
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