Number of photos taken : 1400++
Number of interview attend : 0
Number of contact by employment agency: 1
Number of visit to government agency: 3
Number of clothes wore per day: 4
Number of day raining in Ireland: every other day
Number of repeated visit to the same government agency: 2
Nick Leeson, the trader who brought down Barings Bank in Singapore in 1995.
He is a manager for a football club, Galway United soccer club in Ireland now…so far so good
My last 24 hours in Singapore before flying off with my son to far far away to meet up my wife.*
An ex colleague of mine share with me this the day before
But what to me gives America more hope is that they still celebrate mavericks; they may never find happiness, but their liberty to pursue it is sacred.
My experience in Singapore was, however, very different. There were always people telling you what and how you should do things, and imposing penalties for deviation. There were ‘right’ schools, ‘right’ professions, ‘right’ strategies. – http://www.colinandyenyen.com/wordpress/paved-with-good-intentions/
Damn it, it strike a cord in me! My degree is in accounting and finance. I never look back when I follow my heart, to do something I like – internet profession (web designer/webmaster). People were amazed why I do not stick to to accounting and finance. TO them, I have not done the right thing. *Ahem* goes the same for my mother in law.
Prior to this, I came across someone whom I used to work together wrote
In Singapore I was continuously aware that there was a generally accepted “right way” of doing things. A society that has been groomed to look for the right answer in almost everything. The right school (“He’s an ACS boy”). The right company (I got a lot of street cred by working for SMU, media darling that we were). The right neighborhood. The right car (Everyone knows that BWM, versus Merc, is now the right car). The right vacation. The right restaurant. The right mate. If it can (and can it, really?) be quantified and measured, it can be rated and ranked. – http://darransnook.blogspot.com/
* Why are we there? Are we doing the right thing? Stay tuned
