Came back at the right time, the hottest topic in town now is the debate on the Ministerial Salary Review. Words like 'passion' and 'sacrifice' kept surfacing. One party kept on talking about sacrifice and another party talked about passion.
To me, a person who praised himself as having made great sacrifices with his left hand and receiving millions with his right hand didn't really understand the meaning of 'sacrifice'.
Interestingly, last weekend, I read an article in the papers…
A single mum sold her private apartment in Katong so that she could send her son to London to do his ballet studies. THIS, I call passion and sacrifice.
In today's society, it is selling souls to earn money to buy the most coveted house and not giving up the house to allow the pursuit of passion. Not many parents would allow their kids to do what they love. Tell me honestly, how many kids love to go for numerous tuition, unnecessary enrichment classes….
The spouse was just telling me that his ex-colleague was having a tough time with his kid. He wanted his child to do engineering but the child's interest is in animation. In the end, the child relented. After the first year, he insisted on going back to animation, thus, wasting his one year in engineering.
I wish both mum and son the best in their pursuit.
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