I am not shy of the fact that I read a lot of self-improvement and self-help books. I have 20 of them lying around the house. Ironically, with this wealth of knowledge I tend to not use them on myself and instead use them as suggestions to people.
One of mum's friend, a rather close one to my mum, once went brutally honest with me and said that I was stubborn and unable to accept others suggestion. I guess the same could be applied to books. That being said, stubbornness is something I am working on; so girls and boys, don't be afraid to be honest and tell me to be more welcome to change and all that stuff haha.
I shall need to accept and use what I have learnt on myself, maybe then my life will take a greater turn! A greater turn to what may be my ideal life.
What is my ideal life you ask? Well, a year from now I would want to be highly motivated and study hard for the A levels and get a silver for my napfa. Score full As for A levels and spend my holidays before I go into ns in taking realistic drawing lessons as well as read more Chinese books to replenish my lack of Chinese literature over the past two years. I would take my SATs too, aiming for 2200+ score.
I am not aware of what may happen in ns, but I certainly hope that I come out of it alive and well. Not dead... Or undead. That would be very sad, I don't want to be an Asian zombie.
If I actually had the chance, I would go study in Harvard LOL. A little far fetched, maybe, wouldn't hurt to be a little fantasy of mine. 'The Social Network' gave me an enormous desire to be in it, after all, it is where the brightest minds of the world gather.
Realistically, NUS with 403 classmates. Meeting the girls would be awkward because the guys are two years their junior. How upsetting, we won't be in same lecture halls. On the bright side, we are going to have the current sec 3 in nan hua as classmates now. Let the chase begin! Jkjk.
I would be in the business faculty, maybe the architecture and probably statistics. I'm still undecided. Pray I don't regret my choice.
During uni, I would buy myself a MacBook air. They sound and taste irresistibly sexy haha. Just a geek with his toys... I'll throw in a giant LCD screen too, just for YouTube and all those fancy big screen stuffs.
I have no idea how my mindset would change when I am four years older from now. If I stood to my current point of view, I probably would be single for the rest of my life. Life and fate toys with human in the stream of time and space, my future may be different, who knows?
I'll try to spend most of my time then to learn the most out of it. It is after all, the end of the education staircase for most of us. It would be a huge waste to throw our last moments of freedom continuing being the average joe. The best choice would be to use all the opportunities to improve, enhance and broaden one's mind and perspective to life. I can certainly imagine all that being useful and enriching in our lives. Add a few bucks to our pay too haha.
After university, the joy of freedom would end. The last taste of it would be bitter. In our minds the bitter sweet memory of studying and fooling around may be behind us once and for all. Yet it is not end of the journey yet!
Step forward in life, I would. Find a nice job with decent pay for my abilities. Save up the money and start investing in some government funds. Hopefully move on to blue chips, stock market then real estate. Bu a few of those houses and rent them out. Great passive income and I can start to reap the actions of the capitalistic self. :D
That's all as I can imagine my life as of now. Honestly boring now, maybe rich in the future and that's when I can enjoy life as I imagine it to be...
That's another stream of thoughts from me. Glad you made it this far, did you enjoy it? Haha.
Maybe not.
