Well
to start it off the reason I'm blogging is because while sitting in my small,
quiet, dimly lit room in Brisbane it suddenly hit me. I'm going back home to
Singapore at the end of the year. But as the word "home" entered my
mind it no longer held the meaning that it used to. Long before I enlisted in
national service, I was your typical Singaporean, complaining about the
weather, being stuck in the endless rat race in which every Singaporean is made
to go through since they were first born on Singapore soil. Some of them were
different as their parents had to migrate overseas due to work or other issues,
nevertheless they still held their Singapore passport and they had to make the
decision when they turned 18, weather to go back to Singapore and serve
national service or renounce their citizenship. I’ve got a cousin who is
currently experiencing this dilemma.
But
I digress, as I’ve mentioned this blog is just to release what’s pent up in my
mind as I’m almost certain that my posts would be lost in the bowels of the
blog-a-sphere and go mostly unread except for myself whenever I feel like
revisiting my past.
Anyway,
back to the topic of going back to Singapore, it’ll only be about 3 and a half more
months before I officially return to Singapore but somehow the prospect of
going back does not cheer me up. Over here in Brisbane though I do not go
exploring as much as my other friends, its brought me a peace of mind in which I’ve
never felt before. Well with Brisbane being one of the most boring cities in
the aspect that almost everything closes at 6 its totally fine with me.
But
some would say “Fabian what about your loved ones and friends in Singapore”. And
my answer to that would be although I love my family and friends and I want to
be around them, I do not want to be around them as well. Strange isn’t it? But have
you ever thought of living a whole new life? One where you can choose who do
you want to be, what do you want to do without conforming to the pressure that
the society in Singapore expects of you?
A change in career paths
Throughout my degree in QUT, I’ve come to realise that I do
not just love to do marketing, but advertising as well, so what I’ll probably
do is once I go back to Singapore I’ll probably be enrolling in award school
which is a school that teaches you about advertising copywriting and stuff and
builds up your portfolio at the same time. The course would take about 4 mths
to complete and I’ll be working part time during that time.
BIG DECISION?
Well currently I’ve been thinking that although I’m expected
to work straight away after school, what I want to do is backpack around the
world taking in the sights and cultures of different countries and states while
holding part time jobs to get me by. I’ve already been looking into places in
which I can travel to and if anyone whose reading this post has any suggestions
I’ll be more than happy to look into them. Well before all that happens I need
to convince my parents that it’s something I have to do before embarking on my
next step which is the work life. So that’s all for now and I’ll prolly be
blogging again when I feel like it.
