well, does this happen to all of you or do i have the worst luck (and relatives) in the world?
so today, my maternal uncle (this is a different uncle) comes trooping in and tells me :-
- that if i don't make my first million by the time i'm 30, i'll never be successful (in whose eyes may i ask? yours?)
- the unemployment rate in singapore is 9-10% when last i checked, it was around 5%
- that the future is in biotechnology and electronic engineering (hmmm...we'll see about that. i think a few years ago he was just saying the same about the IT industry)
- i need to know what i want to do specifically (when i insisted that i was doing econs because it was a general degree, i liked the subject and it would lead me to a job in the corporate sector, which i want to be headed)
- i will be lonely and depressed in the US (mister, i already am in malaysia, i don't need to go all the way there to be depressed)
sigh i know there was a lot more of fucking bullshit he tried to drum into me, but all the while i was just staring vacantly into his eyes (must be polite what) and structuring this post. i mean this is a man whose two children are far from illustrous careers themselves. one went to new zealand to study mass comm (of all places....gee...so 'glamourous' huh) and the other one is a high school dropout who prob can't spell his name backwards.
and all this while, my fucked up bitch mother is standing there telling me what a failure i'll be and how all her friends children who went to the US are so screwed up, they can't find jobs and they made their parents broke and depressed. so angry now.....i will prove them wrong, if that's the only motivation for studying hard.