I Ambition-ded

My Ambition

This is a topic ALL school-going kids will have to crack their brains and use their limited vocabulary to write a compo on, in all languages, english, chinese, malay, tamil, etc etc for foreign kids.

Its a compo where teachers will issue to kids out of 1)coursework; 2)curiosity; 3)nothing else creative and lazy to think of others.

And the kids' ambitions?

The usual (maybe bcos they copied from some 10 yrs series):-
Teachers (bcos got "role" model marking these students' papers)
Doctors (bcos they "took away" these students' illness and the misconception that they earn big bucks)
Police (bcos can catch bad guys like wat mama says)
Lawyers ($$$$$$$$$)

Or the extraordinaries (the kana influenced batch):-
Singers (SG Idol, Project Superstar, Campus Superstar, Super Band...)
Astronauts (Some fantasy kid)
Wizard (Harry Potter)
Super Hero (Power Ranger and wat not)
President (Mwahahhahha!!)
Mama/Papa (depends on how the fella write, could be for the hard work put in for the family or could be something as simple as,"I wanna be like Mama can sleep all day and no need go school.")

In those masak-masak days, few will noe the difference btwn an office-slogging executive and a supermarket cashier. So we'll all envision ourselves to be doctors and teachers and will eventually end up doing so in the future.

So where do we end up 10 yrs after writing that little piece of compo? 70% of the kids will evolve into office bees with tags such as marketing coordinator, lab assistants, IT support, business analysts, blah blah blah. 20% will make it to be doctors, police, teachers, firemen, army sign-ons, musicians, etc etc. The remaining 10%.. I dunno.

I wanted to be a fashion designer. When I was very very young, aka in kindergarten times, I used to make "bags" out of envelopes (since my dad works in envelope company, I have rejected envelopes in abundance). Bcos I was the eldest kid ard, no other kids to play with, and for some reason, I enjoyed going school (!!!). Even after school oso masak-masak play school. My "bags" are sturdy. No sewing required! Jus glue and staples and those can hold a few storybooks and have multi-compartments for every need that I imagined. Maybe that constitutes to why I'm super picky over bags.

But I believed I did a compo on being a teacher when I grow up. Either jus so as to "fit in", or that I dunno wat to write abt being a fashion designer. Shall go n dig out my pri sch compos when I'm free.

Anyway, later on in my life, when I was choosing my poly course, I almost/very nearly chose to take fashion design in TP. The only thing that prevented me from choosing TP was the distance. I couldnt visualise myself taking feeder bus to MRT station, taking MRT from one end of Singapore to the other, then taking feeder bus to TP again. Dats like 2 hrs journey, 4 hrs to and fro, EVERYDAY! No WAY!

La-Selle was another option. But it was a misconcepted place for ppl who couldn't get into poly and it was super expensive. The latter was the main reason for not choosing to go there for design.

The other reason for not pursuing design was, Singapore is not conducive for would-be designers (then). Its not a $$-attracting kinda job. Either u make it big, or u end up working in office like other diploma holders. (Ya, I already noe how to think $$-sense then, althou I still ended up choosing marketing (no no its not a mistake!!))

So came and went the 3 yrs in poly, where I build up my hopes of becoming a retail manager/supervisor so that I can run ard Singapore to the retail frontline of the biz (influenced by my Sportslink manager) or work in an advertising company (as do a lot of other marketing students hoped).

But in life, u can only accept wat u're given. I actually do not have much aim when I graduated from SP. I went for a few interviews recruiting for marketing positions. I got one for sales and marketing assistant, which lasted me less than a mth, b4 I escaped from that unreasonable place.

For the next 1 or 2 mths or so, I thot of being a bball coach. But to be a qualified coach, one needs to undergo a course, which totals up to ard $4k. Only then will u be certified and schools will accept ur applications (that's really how "paper-important" the Singapore education system is). Job oso dun have, where got $4k!??!!

Then, I even thot of being part of the police force, preferably in CID. But I fear the rigorous trainings in the academy to build up the finesse for chasing after criminals. I hate running get it! I smoked thru my bball trainings ALL THE TIME! I'm pretty regretting my decision after watching 迷云二十天 and now the 至尊红颜 where Felicia Chin is a CID. So fun one meh?? So cool!?!??!?! I wan I wan!!~

Instead, I'm stuck in a cubicle, in a "historical" building (to be renovated soon but I dun wanna move to 2nd floor!!), doing boring accounts (not my forte!), hunting for mysterious cancellations which the related ppl are not replying my instant messages and people are directing me all over (if i have the bloody access to find it in SAP, u think i so free to wait for ur reply?), getting thrown shit every now and then, backup-ing people when they're going on holiday which means I learn more things n become multi-purposed and automatically became those ppl's backups, defending against gunfire from Customs, etc etc etc...

Note to kids: The compos u once wrote will hold no meaning if u dun work towards it. And if u wanna be a pilot, WATCH LESS TVs! (Maybe kids now write they wanna be Bill Gates or some fella who's in the media)

*Sigh* I could have had a brand of my own if I had ventured into fashion design.