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my graduation ~starting over~

Saturday, Dec 31, 2011 9:24PM / Standard Entry / Members only

Year 2011 is coming to an end… Time to do a round up for the year. Honestly this year is a much better year than 2010. Perhaps it is due to the fact that I am done with studies and no longer have to fret over the preparations for examinations and rushing to complete my assignments before the dateline. (laugh) My long vacation in Hong Kong helps to relax my mind but guess what… my energy was all drained out within a month after I returned to Singapore. Oops! Who would have know that the lifestyle here in Singapore can be so exhausting.

I was thrown into a foreign environment when I went to Australia to study. So that was the time I am forced to grow up and I have somehow got used to the Australian working culture. People are very straightforward over there and everyone is addressed by their first name. But coming back here to work, I have to learn to accept the differences between the laid back western and conservative Asian working cultures. There is also the challenge of having to interact with Singaporeans. Having spent more than 16 years of my life here in Singapore, I still haven’t got used to the lifestyle here. After all, I have been living in a protected environment (just like those animals kept in the zoo enclosures) and I hardly have the opportunity to interact with “the real world”. It came as a big shock to me when I encountered racism in my home country when people mistook me as “foreign talent”. (laugh) But I am slowly getting used to it, it is quite amusing when people mistook me as a foreigner in my home country. It serves as a reminder to me never to treat a person differently because of their nationality or skin color. I never want to make another person to feel the same way as how I feel after encountering racism.

This year has been an eventful and challenging year for me. I have learnt so much and grown stronger in many aspects (though people may not see it). Hopefully year 2012 is going be a better year for me and I will continue to grow and work towards being a better person.

Love & Hope