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Feeling... warm and sticky Happiness of the day: very funny TV show today made me laugh out loud. heh. Event of the week: Electric String Quartet concert on Monday Hmm. I think I really do want to be a taitai. Or rather, I want to be rich. I guess that doesn't make me a taitai, does it? I suppose a taitai is someone who doesn't work, gets money from her rich husband, goes shopping everyday, has high tea with her fellow taitai friends, plays mahjong, blah blah. I think the defining characteristics are the mahjong and the husband. So therefore I don't think I will be a taitai. First of all, I'm already sick of mahjong. Haha...result of over exposure, I swear. Hah.. Secondly, I don't think i want to take money from my husband. If I have one. Wouldn't things be so much easier, for me to fight for my own wealth? So then I would have complete control over what I spend on, using money I can hold pride over. I'll leave the few rich guys in Singapore for those poor girls who can't make their own money. The important issue here is, I don't want to work my whole life. I used to feel that it is only right that I work till the proper retirement age. But now, I feel that my interest doesn't lie in prestige, in having a career. My real interest is actually in learning...and since there's no way I can stay in school forever, the only way I can do that is to travel a lot, and read a lot. Come on, be honest, though people do learn from their work, the whole meaning of a job is more about giving than receiving, isn't it? I really want to travel a lot, but I can't do that now, because I don't have the money. Even backpacking isn't as cheap as it sounds, partly also because I'm too chicken to really take the dangerous unbeaten tracks, or stay in dubious hostels, for example. To be able to completely enjoy myself in a new country, I feel that I have to comletely throw myself in and spend a substantial amount of time there. Not something I can afford to do now. But I hope to eventually be able to do that. Hence, I need to be rich. And hopefully soon. It'll be rather different to travel when I'm already 80. I know there's this issue of me being an irresponsible bum if I don't work when I can, like it is a waste of my intelligence, my education. Diminishing marginal utility of course, but I have a social responsibility to let society suck me of all my economic utility before I can retire, right? Wrong. No way. What I think I will do is, serve my bond and fulfill my promise to the government, this I know is my responsibility. And after that, I shall "retire" from the civil service, and start my own company. I will have a more concrete plan eventually, but I know that's the only way to get rich. No way I can get rich in the civil service. So I'll completely commit myself to this career and give myself 10-15 years to make it. I would be in my 30s then, so I'm sure I will have the energy to push my company up to success. Probably I will not get married, or that will not be fair to my family. Unless my husband is some home-bound guy who can take care of the kids. Hahhaa....man, I'm thinking a little far. HAhhaa.. But yes, this is my dream. To get rich, by at most mid-40s, so I will have some time left to enjoy my wealth by doing what I want to do. That would be so wonderful. And rich people are allowed to be eccentric, so I shall be an eccentric one. Wouldn't that be fun? Hahaha... Better than being a taitai.
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