Wednesday, January 13th 2010

I miss Phuket. I miss it to the point that not even photos can cease my insatiable longing for it, its flowing water, its powdery sand, its lovely people, even its hellish sun that beat down unrelentingly upon the back of my neck. The way and pace of life was/is so comfortable there that when it stands in comparison with Singapore's, the latter withers down to a pathetic nothing.

My parents have been arguing with me non-stop about the choices I'm making for JAE. True, I didn't do as well as I hoped, even for Maths, but Maths was the only one that had any improvement from last year's results. I worked hard for the subjects but I guess they didn't like my Art. Also, my combined Humans grade stayed the same. Good thing they take the better of the two Art grades. I've spent months, a year thinking about what I want to put down as my 12 choices for JAE, but my parents are being incredibly disagreeable. They're unhappy because I refuse to put stupid choices like "Law and Management" and "Pharmacy Science".

Call me stubborn but I couldn't care less about the law, and pharmacy science just doesn't interest me. I have no desire to spend 3 years doing chemistry on pills and tablets and solutions. I want to cut things up, dammit!
As for the law, it's just plain stupid. People keep coming up with new ones just to be able to fine people if they don't abide by them. Also, they come up with the stupidest laws, but I won't elaborate on that. It's just that people are so greedy, you know?
My parents even admitted that law is a very lucrative profession, so that makes it good. I feel so utterly disgusted with them right now, I can't even find the right word to describe them.

I keep wanting to submit my JAE application with the choices I've decided on, but they keep stopping me. I just want to get it over and done with so I don't have to wake up every day knowing it's going to be a difficult one, full of arguments about my "stupid choices". How could they be so insensitive? Is it all a game to them, so I can go into the profession they choose for me and shower them with all that dirty money?

Such assholes.