Tuesday, July 11, 2006
what ah^ya wanted/wants to be:
1) to be a doctor! i wanted to be a doctor for 11 years of my life. i wanted to be a doctor since 5 and gave up that dream when i was 16. i do not know why i gave up that dream. i remember always playing the isha isha game when i was young. i operated on dolls and listened to heartbeats with my toy stethoscope. i wrote a composition in japanese on my ambition to be a doctor in sec 4 and it was published somewhere. and i gave my dreams up. but, no regrets. :)
2) to work in tokyo disneyland! i still want to work in disneyland. if the opportunity arises, i will seriously consider working there for half a year or so. unfortunately, at the prime of my life, i will be bonded to ministry of health. and by the time i finish my bond, i will be too old to work in disneyland.
oh! i want to be in the disneyland parade! prancing along the streets like this cupcake. i don't mind being a snow flake or a gingerbread man. i want to light up faces with smiles. :D
or to be a mascot like cinderella and her prince. :D i don't mind being one of the dwarves or chip and dale or goofy. i don't have to be pretty or glamorous. :D these angmohs speak japanese with an angmoh accent. so shocked when i first heard it! and they speak japanese! :D
to make people as happy as this little boy here. :) he was 3 years old when i took a photo of him. he's half japanese, half korean. he could understand english. :) he's totemo kawaii. :)
and i will be happy. :) look how happy i was when i first went to disneyland with tkgs. this picture was taken on our way to disneyland. :D i nearly melted into a puddle of happiness when i was inside. beautiful.
3) to be a tour guide! bring tours to japan.
to see the asakusa temple. (and to disneyland. HAHA.) until my mum screamed at me and said STUDY SO MUCH FOR WHAT!
4) to be a chemist. haha. i know i'm a geek, but i actually enjoyed chemistry and i liked to do chem s questions. but this phase lasted only for a very short while. it started when i was about to give up my dreams and it ended when i revived hope. :D
5) to be a linguist. i like to play with words though my command of language isn't that strong. i want to learn japanese spanish french bahasa melayu cantonese yada yada. i'm gonna to study linguistics in uni! -gasp- the angmohs haar i heard the engrish all very the powderful one leeh. then hooow haar. i the english not very the kiang, they pili pala i also dun really the understoood leh. i wanna take up japanese in school again!
6) to be a missionary in japan. most japanese are shintos or buddhists, minority being christians. they need missionaries in there! but my japanese has regressed. yucks. i feel so ashamed to tell people that i passed my jlpt level 2. -roaaar-
7) to be a humanitarian. my aim is to go to africa or a third world country and stay there for a year before i'm 30. but then again, if i go to africa and get malaria, i will die because i am g6pd deficient. but then again, i have God. haha. but would my presence be an impact to the people there? do they really need me there? or is it just going to be a superficial effect? will it be sustainble? what will i learn? what will they gain? or will i be burdening them?
8) to be a social worker. 'nuff said.
9) to be an outdoor camp instructor/ obs instructor. but then i think i cannot make it. and i find it very difficult to ra ra the crowds. so this idea just flitted by.
10) to be a special education teacher. my working stint in down syndrome association made me realised that this is actually a pretty admirable profession.
11) to be an advocate for people with special needs. some things ain't that easy to change. do you think they are handicapped or they are disabled? i guess locally they are disabled, they are not handicapped. they do not have enough room to reach their full potential. rigidity of the singapore government. oh well.
12) to be a policy-maker. because instead of sharing my flame with one candle, i will be able to light up thousands of other candles. (like what i told andrew kuan during the psc interview.) a candle loses nothing by lighting up another candle. :)
12) to be a speech therapist. wait a moment, i am going to be one! :D God has led me thus far. i chose speech therapist over doctor because personally i feel that i can spend more time with my patients. (and i don't have to study until i die) but then again, that is probably a stereotype cause i don't understand their system. anyway, thank you, pontip. stay sanguine and chirpy, i'm going back to see how i can help you with my skills. please be there when i go back.
He's my way
