Thursday, May 7, 2009

my childhood dream was to be a doctor?

Remember the last time I told you I met my good old high school friend, Lee Eei, on facebook? How we lost touch for 8 years… and suddenly, out of the blue, she found me on facebook, and how I thought it was a miracle? She helped me recalled those days we had at my first camp... how i was a little girl, following her around, and she would take care of me and Shin Loo, like a big sister...

Well, guess what? This time, Facebook did something even more amazing… I found my standard one friend, someone I lost contact 17 years ago!! S-E-V-E-N-T-E-E-N YEARS AGO!!!! can you believe that? That's over a decade and a half... What can I say? - Facebook does wonders!

It’s really nice, I guess, when you get in touch with really old friends… really, really old friends, and see how much they have changed over the years… Guess what? And I never knew I could learn so much about my childhood from these friends. So, I learned something very interesting today. I managed to retrieved this piece of memory which I had lost.

You know, when we were little, and our teacher used to ask us the MAJOR question: 'What is your ambition? What will you want to be when you grow up?' And with our limited vocabulary, we would try to give her a satisfying answer, at least something good enough that she would nod, and call the next person. And when you finally give her an answer, she would demand for another two, perhaps just in case we didn’t get the first.

So, there we were, two 7-year-olds going through the pictures in the little ‘kamus bergambar’, stopping at the page labeled ‘Occupation’, looking for the right answer, while Puan Tan called out the names, one by one.

I learnt that I was rather indecisive, even during Year One, as when Puan Tan reached the alphabet ‘W’, I was still struggling to decide which occupation to select. So you see, my indecisiveness was in me, even when I was a child, days before I knew the word ‘libran’. (So, to my friends whom had often said that I used Libran as an excuse, see, it’s not an excuse, indecisiveness has been there ever since I was a kid!! Even before I could remember!)

His name was before mine, my old friend, and he answered: sailor, engineer and pilot. And then it was my turn. Guess what? I answered DOCTOR!!! Yup! That’s right! At least that was what he remembered. So, today I learned a fact from a very old friend who had changed my life history. So, I wanted to be a doctor when in standard one!! (So, the answer to the question in my facebook quiz had not been accurate) and of course, my previous posts (namely COAMS #1) were all wrong as well! Geezz…

So, yuin loi, I wanted to be a doctor when I was a child, when I was in Standard 1... It probably would not be surprising though, because I think, apparently, half the class wanted to be doctors too... it seemed to be the 'right' answer that time, I guess... How ironic can it be? While I was pondering all this while, over the past 5 years in Med school, wondering whether is this what I really had wanted... and only after I've graduated, I found out that it was indeed what I wanted back then... haha! God is really funny...

Oh yes, my friend did lived his childhood dream too, he became an engineer...


So, do you remember what you wanted to be when you were in year one?



By the way, my friend sent me some of our class photos during my Standard 1 days… and if you promise not to laugh, I’ll show it to you… I looked rather grumpy in those pictures… i wondered why didn't i smile to the camera... and yeah, I had those thick rimmed glasses, huge thick rimmed glasses… Coz my dad had this belief that the bigger the glasses, the more you see… and I actually believed him for quite a number of years… until I learn about optical point and all.. but that’s another story…

Okay, don’t laugh ya, promise? ^^


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There you go, those pictures from 17 years ago!

Standard 1 SRK Subang Jaya

Standard 2 SRK Subang Jaya

Standard 3 SRK Subang Jaya

Click the pictures to enlarge it..
I found out that i hadn't developed the subconscious lateral gaze yet...
(if you know what i mean, haha!)
you can try to find me, if you like,
no, i won't tell you which though =P

don't we just loved guessing games? ^^



p/s: Oh yes, i learned another thing too, yuin loi the students in each year are the same...
they don't shuffle students back then...

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10 comments:

  1. I think I spotted you. Standard 3, middle row, 6th from right

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  2. OMG!!!! Borneo Falcon!!! how can your eyes be so sharp??? you never met me before and you can guess correctly? okay, maybe it wasn't too hard... not many kids wears specs when they were in stand 1-3... which explains why my eye myopia degree & astigmatism is so high... siGh... mum said i watched too much TV, and i liked reading on the lower double decker bed.. hmm...i think it was genetic though, the myopia :P

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  3. in year one.. i wanted to be an engineer!
    and now im studying software engineering.. lol =D

    but at moment in secondary school, i thought of being a doctor.. but i dislike science.. haha..

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  4. ic ic..ur 'KW' frend is up there now...wahahaha...dreamed n become an engineer~~
    i wonder...did he go n read all ur old post??keke

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  5. Hey there Shinyin! Miracles do happen! The sailor incident was just funny, don't you think!? Haha! I never thought that you were indecisive. At that age its rather normal not knowing what your ambition is. It may just be a rough guideline for us all and of course, you, managing to become a doctor is a very rewarding ambition. I am glad that I could help you retrive your primary school days memory.

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  6. cant recognize le....aik..haha..nvr c u in person mayb..LOL

    btw, you r great. you still maintained ur dream. its something u should be proud of

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  7. I wanted to be a police, to catch all the robbers.. or be the ultimate robber and freaking run away from all the police..

    Ahh.. those days of police and robbers!! :D

    hehehehe... It's good that you're living the life of what you wanted!! :) take care beb!! KIT

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  8. dear KenWooi,
    WOW! you still remembered what you wanted to do when you were in standard 1? you have quite a good memory :) i'm glad you lived your dreams.. not many people can declare that... =)
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    dear Cheryl, yes honey.. and i found out that yuin loi when i was young i wanted to be a doctor... funny huh?
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    dear Kevin, sailor isn't too funny actually... i had a few friends who actually became sailors... some were marine enginneers, some were doctors who worked on ships... close enough, i guess.. hehe... yes, this is indeed a rewarding profession ^^ i'm just so glad i took this path... you know, like Robert Frost used to say, and that had made all the difference! ^^
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    dear cg, haha.. i think people changed a lot kua.... over the years... i mean, i was like seven in the pictures... funny, borneo falcon made a lucky guess and got it right... haha! maybe it's not too hard =P
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    dear khek yang, you wanted to be a police??? seriously? maybe you liked the idea of being heroic... hehe... yeah, i remember when i was young, i used to play this police-theif game... where then the police touch the theif, the theif would freeze for a while, until his partner come save him... haha.. those good old days, how i missed them very much....

    actually, i wasn't sure was that what i really wanted back then... you know, 7year olds don't really haved a formed mind yet... they are still, well, searching...

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  9. since u cant remember wat u wanted to be during childhood,maybe it is not ur real ambition lo...hihi

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  10. aiks... honey, don't confuse me pulak... not my real ambition? aiihhh... what is real then?

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