I know yesterday was the release of the O level results and I know many of you are scratching your heads and do not know what choices you want yet. If your parents are like mine, let you choose whatever kind of courses you like do what you want, then of cos you will be walking through thick and thin on what you want to do in life. For those that already have your parents decided on what you should do, you're not sad but partially blessed because you already have an idea of what you will be doing in future (or forced to be)
Anyway, few years ago I got my results and I tell you ah, my school is really one of the not very good schools in Singapore, just any other below averaged neighborhood school and I am not ashamed to be in that school because I am PROUD TO SAY I am from the first president school :) okay back to my story. After I got a freaking 19 for my L1R4 (I also got a D7 got science, but luckily my D&T can enter poly as a science subject) I had very limited choices to pick with my points. Hello 19. Is like you can only choose how many courses from that thick book you were given? But it's okay. Because at that point of time, I don't even know a single course that I wanted. True enough I'm a person who is quite laid back in the society, I don't read newspaper, I don't watch tv shows so I don't even have a single clue of what I want to do in life. I am not clever I don't like to study and certainly have no talents at all. But there was something in me that I am a bit better than average people which was drawing. So without thinking I went to pick up the course of my life. All 12 choices were design related.. Honestly I don't even know what choice I picked for the first one HAHAA I simply don't even care. The reason why I chose design related is because I don't like to study and I don't want EXAMS! I suck at memorizing texts....
Results were announced and I got into my 11th choice , Digital Medoa Design (games) NYP.
First thing came to my mind was WTF. My 11th choice ??? Second thing was - OMG ITS SO FAR AWAY....
Then I had no choice cos my score so high want to switch course also cannot so I went for it!!
I went into school struggle with assignments, begging and praying for extended deadlines for submissions during the three entire years!! I worked so hard, and sometimes even when I try my very best I still didn't do very well and it upsets me everytime because drawing used to be one of my strengths but after entering poly I realize I was just hiding behind the walls all these years not knowing that there are so many more talented people out there.. At year 2 sem 2 of my poly year I almost wanted to give up. I really couldn't take the stress I told my lecturers that I want to give up liao so they gave me a break. Before heading for internship.
Despite not doing very well for that semester I only gotten a 3.0 GPA (my worse grade ever in poly) I was given an internship of my life which was tecmo koei. Many of you do not know what is tecmo koei. But if you're in the gaming industry it's really a big shot. Really good internship! They gave us a very good opportunity as the first batch of games student to do a new project! The game is now available in AppStore Japan called ' Hokuto Fist of the North Star' I did the character animation and the card game graphics. Hehe really blessed...
Through it all after internship I told myself, I don't want to be in this industry. I am tired of drawing, I can't be drawing my whole life like this. I successfully graduated from poly with straight As for my last semester and into the director's list for the second time in my poly life. (First time was the first semester, it feels good because I started with director's list and ended with it too.)
But I know that I didn't want to be doing all these. I don't like office hours I can't sit infront of the computer and work all day! My butt will crack...
After graduatution, I continued blogging which I already am still doing so... And later on I got my opportunity now as a tv host, which my program will be released soon.... I mean this is what I want to do for the time being and of cos I don't know whether after army how's my life is going to be but.....
As long as I am happy and doing what I love to do now, I am satisfied already. So don't go scratch off head and pull off your hair to pick the 'correct' choice of your life because what you're studying now and what you will be doing in the future might change due to unseen circumstances. So just go with the flow. If you still don't know, then just ask your friends what they chose then you think which one sounds nicer to you then you choose it works really!! Haha
Hope this helps!
SEEYA :)
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