Rats, Cows, and Pizzas
i guess at some point of a person's transition from student to a rat in the, well, rat race, there comes a time when he/she starts to wonder what the hell is he/she is doing.
an analogy to illustrate my point better...........the rat might not be fancying his staple of cheddar anymore. he's wondering what other cheeses there are out there and he's currently fixated on having some blue cheese.
catch my drift?
been doing some thinking lately. and i wonder how in the world did i end up in my line. and i trace back to the day which i think started it all.
it was a day that seemed like any other for the then 7 or 8 year old me. if im not wrong, it was a weekend. my mum was starting to pull out the assessment books she had me doing daily since time in memoriam and the moment i saw them, something clicked in my head.
Me: "ma, i don't want to do."
Mum: "no. u will do."
Me: "can i do the computer thing instead?"
i think any parent would recognize that kind of exchange anywhere. the gist of it all, for those who are still lost, i was bargaining. believe me, it was not bcos i had an innate interest for the computer. it was bcos i was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea and i chose the deep blue sea. incidentally, that computer was made by big blue. which led to my admiration for the company and all things tech. oh yes, the result of that bargain, my mum relented and taught me how to use DBase IV (which was the predecessor to the now defunct FoxPro for the tech pple reading).
sure, the interest in computers and all things IT grew gradually after many more bargaining sessions. but it reached a peak in my entry into junior college. i begun to look at other things. unfortunately/fortunately it wasn't sex, drugs and rock and roll. my interest in IT never grew further. sure, i made it through uni studying computer eng, but i never got interested in things IT the same way.
in my first few days with my current employer, my indon colleague asked me why im doing wat i do. and i told him it's bcos i can do it.
sure, the grass is always greener on the other side. but it doesn't mean i stick to the hay im eating now. which incidentally, if i were a cow, would have regurgitated it several times over to chew the same mouthful i had been passing around my 7 stomachs.
J would be shaking her head by now if she read this post. my often use of food analogies always has her hands up in the air in exasperation. so back to the cheese. im thinking blue cheese right now. actually, you could say that i ultimately want cheese. and i do have a golden cheese in my head that im looking at. the cheddar was jus a.....well.....one of the cheeses in pizza hut's cheesy lava three.
im not sure what cheeses they use in that pizza, but the idea's there.
im making my pizza now and it's gonna be good when i finally eat it. the whole thing.
an analogy to illustrate my point better...........the rat might not be fancying his staple of cheddar anymore. he's wondering what other cheeses there are out there and he's currently fixated on having some blue cheese.
catch my drift?
been doing some thinking lately. and i wonder how in the world did i end up in my line. and i trace back to the day which i think started it all.
it was a day that seemed like any other for the then 7 or 8 year old me. if im not wrong, it was a weekend. my mum was starting to pull out the assessment books she had me doing daily since time in memoriam and the moment i saw them, something clicked in my head.
Me: "ma, i don't want to do."
Mum: "no. u will do."
Me: "can i do the computer thing instead?"
i think any parent would recognize that kind of exchange anywhere. the gist of it all, for those who are still lost, i was bargaining. believe me, it was not bcos i had an innate interest for the computer. it was bcos i was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea and i chose the deep blue sea. incidentally, that computer was made by big blue. which led to my admiration for the company and all things tech. oh yes, the result of that bargain, my mum relented and taught me how to use DBase IV (which was the predecessor to the now defunct FoxPro for the tech pple reading).
sure, the interest in computers and all things IT grew gradually after many more bargaining sessions. but it reached a peak in my entry into junior college. i begun to look at other things. unfortunately/fortunately it wasn't sex, drugs and rock and roll. my interest in IT never grew further. sure, i made it through uni studying computer eng, but i never got interested in things IT the same way.
in my first few days with my current employer, my indon colleague asked me why im doing wat i do. and i told him it's bcos i can do it.
sure, the grass is always greener on the other side. but it doesn't mean i stick to the hay im eating now. which incidentally, if i were a cow, would have regurgitated it several times over to chew the same mouthful i had been passing around my 7 stomachs.
J would be shaking her head by now if she read this post. my often use of food analogies always has her hands up in the air in exasperation. so back to the cheese. im thinking blue cheese right now. actually, you could say that i ultimately want cheese. and i do have a golden cheese in my head that im looking at. the cheddar was jus a.....well.....one of the cheeses in pizza hut's cheesy lava three.
im not sure what cheeses they use in that pizza, but the idea's there.
im making my pizza now and it's gonna be good when i finally eat it. the whole thing.
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