Ok, I think the next few months you'll be reading about my attachment-my encounters, my view, opinions, my thoughts and COMPLAINS. These are very subjective so if you don't like what i am posting, you can stop coming to my blog from now on haha.

Today I ended work quite late but i get to hitch a ride on a rubbish collection truck back to CCK ehehe.. Not bad eh? Free transport.. I think the captain of the fleet a bit buay tahan me liao haha just now i told him that i wanted to hitch a ride back so as to save trouble of walking out and save $$.. He gave me the 'you are full of shit look' lol.. haha.. But true enough, after i come to sembcorp i become full of rubbish.. A lot of nonsense from me la..

Anyway, while i was travelling in the truck and dumping the rubbish off our ass, the driver said to me, 'you all study until university, good, can be manager or what sit in office and plan. Not like us do manual work very tough.'

Not very pleased with what he said, i countered, 'Having a degree and being a planner doesn't mean anything, without people like yourselves whatever we have planned is just on paper and they will not spring into life and run the operation. Moreover, now that everybody's study a lot and then you throw a stone, the person it hits will most prb be a grad or undergrad. Therefore, in 10 or 20 years, the drivers might be an undergrad.' (dont shoot me, it might be true, this might be due to academic inflation) To conclude, i added that university grad or not, manager or worker, their roles are equally important.

After that, I had an early reunion dinner with my cousins. I found that there is one person i can really talk about my attachment- my roles and what i observe. He is my cousin-in-law. He is one of the very few to support me when i said i wanted to go into that line and i really had fun talking to him about it. This is because he is also in similar business and he has a startup doing with cleaning service.

Hmm I dont know how to put the title for this post ah.. well think it can do without one..

I just enjoy telling people that I am collecting rubbish as my job hah.. It's really fun to see the 'huh?' look on the face and those lost look lol.. Initially I would try to explain what I am really doing but as time goes by.. I dont really care la. As what my cousin-in-law said, '只要你懂你在做什么，不用去管别人怎么想，对得起自己就行了。' And if I am able to, I think i would take this line as my career for my future. I kind of have this vision that rubbish will eventually become an integral part of the world. (explain that later)

The most impt thing is that even my own family is not convinced. And my mum, kept bugging me(it gets on my nerves sometimes) asking why i chose to go this place and not back in the lab doing testing(which never fails to bore me to sleep). I just have to keep telling her there is no way I am going back into the lab. Moreover, the water industry will be saturated with scholars and why do i have to squeeze my way into the place when there are people who are so much better than I am. Rest assured the industry is in safe hands and they dont need me there to waste their resources. I dont want just a job, I want to do well - Very well.

Why do I want to choose to build my dream around solid waste? One of the reasons is stated above. Another reason is that i have a vision of using rubbish to be converted into fuel. And I hope to gather enough experience from sembcorp and see what I can do with that experience. Moreover, I believe that everything must start from the beginning that's why dont be surprised that I am collecting rubbish. It's part and parcel in doing Waste management. I remembered the first time i hopped into the truck for collection, the driver told me this, 'Don't be afraid of rubbish for you wont know how you will depend on it.' This kind of reminds me what my friend told me, ‘stop living in a rubbish world.’ After I told her that I will one day be the director of Sembcorp.. haha.. ah well. A dream will be a dream.

Well I think I am going to be defiant this time and pursue my dream from now on. Btw it was my family who made me stay in Singapore to do the degree in Environmental Engineering.

I think that’s all for now