卒業 ～The Day～

[mayu_kkg]

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Brought baby boy to the vet to have this teeth cleaned.
It has been years since he last had a dental check, and the nice vet we visited last week had suggested that we bring him in after the recovered from his diarhore.

and yes, poor boy deperately needs a dental check.
His teeth has been vanishing one by one over the years.
mayu suspect that itz

Comments

[ruien]

I think your friends and family are wrong.
and that you, in your consideration for their pov, are wrong.

when you decided to pursue this diploma, you wanted to go get this diploma: it wasn't as though you intended to leave sg for japan forever. It was your intention clearly to travel, not to immigrate, and never was it on your mind to choose between your friends and family and japan. Which is where i think everyone who feels you're abandoning them and that the trip was not worth it are being selfish and over-reacting.

i don't know the details of your uni degree vs this diploma, but you need to ask yourself if you've learnt anything from your diploma that you didn't learn before in your degree. If the answer is yes, you need to apologise to yourself and everyone who've taught you, learnt with you, and helped you these two years for trivialising the entire effort by saying it was just an excuse for your soul vacation and proving your independence. Even though these two goals are very important and you feel that you've achieved them as well, they were not the point of your two years if you've learnt skills and knowledge in the animation field that you would not have been able to learn from your uni degree and at home in sg.

as for waste of money, it'll only be a waste if you don't even try to put the skills and honours you've earned to use. Will it be useful? hard to say. honestly, any kind of education and related certification is a gamble in the current world culture. What you major in is very rarely the exact field/career you'll end up in. So instead of looking at it as an investment, look at it as buying an opportunity. And opportunities have value by you making use of it, not by whether or not you get the prize.

[mayu_kkg]

lol, i hadn't actually intended to trivalise my 2 years study in japan. i mean, for all the things my school did for me, and to the wonderful and generous people whom i met in japan, i could never say enough thanks and would forever be indebted to them. but, i kinda ran out of stamina writing out all this after such a long entry... and i was thinking that anyone reading my blog would probably be sick of seeing my endless thanks and all that stuff about my my enjoyment in learning and doing 3d graphics by now. :p

and yups, in uni i majored in japanese studies, so what i studied in japan is completely unrelated. both studies taught me lots of things, skills and knowledge which would definitely be useful for the rest of my life.

but though i do appreciate my school in japan and my teachers, i still do get skeptical about my school and wonder if there are better schools out there, and whether i might actually have learnt more if i had studied in the poly in singapore or in the tokyo campus of my school. i know itz pointless to compare pastures on different side of the river but i can't deny that there are things that my beloved school lack compared to other places.

and yups, just like what you said, my family has actually been telling over and over again that sending me to japan for the 2 years will never be a waste of money. but.... maybe coz im very stingy when it comes to spending money on myself, i just feel very guilty for using my parents' money. TwT
i can't wait to start working to repay them.

and actually, i'm really not as nice a person as you probably are thinking....
my family were definitely all very supportive of my going to japan to study, and i told them i would come home eventually. but i did consider leaving singapore, forever, and was for a while, willing to choose japan over family and friends. i only grew to appreciate singapore and my family more in recent years. and thus my wife (who is actually my best friend, but i call her my wife :p) is actually partly right. Hell, if i wasn't crazy about japan i would have stayed in SG or gone to US or europe to study CG instead. And maybe i'm a very selfish person too, coz i can understand why she felt abandoned...coz i actually felt "dumped" when she got a boyfriend. orz (took my months to get over it TwT)

but thanks for the encouragement and support! i really appreciate your putting in so much effort to read and giving me your opinions!! ^^

ps: i screened my reply coz i dun want my family to ever stumble upon this.... hope you don't mind.

[mayu_kkg]

i actually screened my other reply. but im not sure how screening works and whether you can read it... let me know if you can't?

[ruien]

i got the reply in email notification, but can't see it on lj itself... i think when you screen you need to choose permission settings or something... OO

[mayu_kkg]

ohh. i just unscreened it, ^^ don't think my family will read this entry again.