Sunday, October 12, 2003
When you're 23 and just graduated from university, people ask if you've found a job. When you're 30, people ask if you're married yet. And people ask, how did you manage to keep yourself looking so young? Exercise, it seems, works well.
It's interesting to know people older but not much older, and to listen to the things they have to say about life and their experiences. I got to know 2 of such people (NUS grads - one is a school counsellor, loves back-packing; another just graduated and temping around). From the first one, we got to hear about the different kinds of students she counsels, and how their problems differ (like for neighbourhood schools, more of BGRs; for SAP schools, more stress-related), and how differently the teachers and the counsellors deal with suicide cases... and also how to back-pack without using too much money. She's taking her Masters with some Australian university and part-timing now, and she finds classes interesting because the people there really challenge her thoughts. The second one talked about how sucky her first job was, long hours with nothing much to do, so it simply wasted her time and she found it very pointless, so she left cos she didn't want her first job to be so unsatisfactory. Then she temps around, and usually accepts assignments which are 1 week long. She went backpacking but ended up spending $10K cos she couldn't take sleeping in small hostels anymore so she went to stay in a hotel and eat in cafes. I went home with her cos she happened to be going the same way as I was going, so we chatted more on the way. Oh yah, forgot to mention... the 1st one was from Temasek Hall and the 2nd one was from Kent Ridge Hall (she plays bball and vball too).
It's 11pm, I'm hungry, unbathed (heh, coined that word), and German homework undone. I'm so dead. BTW, there's going to be another Vocab test. I must do well for it...
It's interesting to know people older but not much older, and to listen to the things they have to say about life and their experiences. I got to know 2 of such people (NUS grads - one is a school counsellor, loves back-packing; another just graduated and temping around). From the first one, we got to hear about the different kinds of students she counsels, and how their problems differ (like for neighbourhood schools, more of BGRs; for SAP schools, more stress-related), and how differently the teachers and the counsellors deal with suicide cases... and also how to back-pack without using too much money. She's taking her Masters with some Australian university and part-timing now, and she finds classes interesting because the people there really challenge her thoughts. The second one talked about how sucky her first job was, long hours with nothing much to do, so it simply wasted her time and she found it very pointless, so she left cos she didn't want her first job to be so unsatisfactory. Then she temps around, and usually accepts assignments which are 1 week long. She went backpacking but ended up spending $10K cos she couldn't take sleeping in small hostels anymore so she went to stay in a hotel and eat in cafes. I went home with her cos she happened to be going the same way as I was going, so we chatted more on the way. Oh yah, forgot to mention... the 1st one was from Temasek Hall and the 2nd one was from Kent Ridge Hall (she plays bball and vball too).
It's 11pm, I'm hungry, unbathed (heh, coined that word), and German homework undone. I'm so dead. BTW, there's going to be another Vocab test. I must do well for it...
