1. Money management
Honestly, it's not true that adults have more money no. I am poorer than ever. Working doubly hard but with only half the budget I used to have. During my university days, I had $20 pocket money and tuition income and my money flowed like water. I never bothered counting the charge or notice how much my meal cost. Now it's like strict budgeting and recording down my expenses so that I don't overspend. Well with all the school loan, bills, insurance needs, money for parents, retirement saving/family planning needs... life just got real. So nope, life is not that glamorous on this side.
2. The nostalgia
-Meeting up primary school friends and seeing how different they all are and how wavelengths have changed, it's quite lonely. It's like... wow now you drive, club, have boyfriend and stuff? All the commonality we used to have are all gone. It's a confusing world- used to be close, but so different now. Didn't we use to chat and visit each other houses everyday?
-the band people I used to be part of but not totally well acquainted with: I always want to join in the meetings. But I can only remember the time when I went, and was only forgotten and lost. I did not get any of the inside jokes and was just awkward sitting there trying to figure things out. I missed too much to suddenly join in now :/
- Friendship made in the past: I wonder if they were only made out of convenience due to circumstances. We were classmates, in the same room, during the same things and many opportunities to come together and talk. Only few of such friendships are resilient and become lasting. I try to hold on tight to these friendship and meet different friends as frequent as possible. But, do these friends cherish me as I cherish them? Or I am just being possessive and unwilling to let go of the past?
3. The daunting new working environment
I feared entering a new environment. During my school break, I was worried over lack of conversation, being left out and having no friends. However things turned out brilliantly. I made kinda-friends (we haven't hang out much beyond work hours but at least I feel like there is this support group there). I have people to eat with everyday. And during lunch i have interesting conversation with these new people. I definitely am having fun doing different new things, taking a peek into the inner workings on each company I'm posted to :3 I pray things remain this perfect
4. The new body clock
Waking up at 7 plus is like a normal thing now. Even for weekend I wake up naturally at 7-8am. It is a miracle! I am amazed at how well I am adapting to this new and healthy lifestyle!
5. Image management
Ever since my leadership role in Enactus, i am becoming so conscious of not being too task oriented, judgemental or cold. I smile a lot and try to help others out while I can. I try to listen to others views and memorise it really hard (because I am so bad with name and remembering details of day to day conversations).
Being misunderstood is such a sad thing. To think my Enactus peers and team members used to think of me as unapproachable/cold/ something I am not...(just because I am introverted and task oriented).. oh wellz at least I learnt a lot from this experience. I learnt to pay more attention to people and up my EQ at least hahaha.
My friend's girlfriend thinks I'm stealing him from her. For people to have such a negative image of me, I must have done something wrong to set a bad impression. It's a sad thing to start off with the wrong foot and be always so misunderstood. Hope I can somehow clean up this image..
6. The focus on how you look
People in the central business district all look so chic, with nicely groomed eyebrows, nice skin, nice clothes. The need to wear makeup all the time. Even the best friend who starts wearing makeup all the time. Reality check: I have to wear makeup now whether I like it or not.
So on a whim, I went to get my brows done. By done, I mean trimmed so that it's less bushy and more chic. I went to this brows place I saw last time and ask
Me: 修眉 (eyebrow treading), 有吗?
Her: 绣眉( eyebrow embroidery aka almost like tattooing) plus design, have! $15
Me, new to this world, didn't hear the difference in technical terms, went along with it. Before I knew it, half my eyebrows were done. I looked more crayon chan as ever. Then I HAD to get the eyebrow tattooing deal for $550 =.= bye bye money, more starvation this month.. at least I got killer eyebrows now. Sharp enough to kill hahaha. I knew I had the right to get angry with the aunty for cutting half my brows away, but I just couldn't get mad. I hate conflicts. Also, they looked like they barely had business, working just to make ends meet.
Yep, finally got all these new experiences and thought blogged down (like I intended to 5 days ago..) Ready to sleep now!
Till next time,
Jojo
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