Kids staying put in Medan
Before I went on the seminar, I vow to send the boys over to Singapore regardless of whatever it takes… in fact, I was already looking out for a property and planning to move myself and the boys in like 2 years… and let’s just say, we are staying put as a family in Medan.. till the right time comes to move as a family..
When I read the rich dad poor dad many years back, I did things differently and couldn’t be thankful enough …. and hearing live from Robert Kiyosaki himself, have greatly affect my life in a positive way.. ..
His theory has it that you make money work for you.. and that going to school, get good grades so that you can get good jobs is not the ideal thing to do… and yes.. I do agree with that..
My husband and me stayed at the Swissotel hotel in Singapore, so for 2 days, we took a 25 mins MRT ride to the Singapore Expo, back and forth for the seminars… on my first morning, at 8am, being a tourist, I sort of able to see things differently.. its peak hours, so you see a lot of office workers having the morning rush.. this is before I went into the seminar… as I stood in the train, and as it passed all the housing areas where the real normal Singaporean live, it shows how life is so sucks for many people… I was telling my husband that these people look so miserable early in the morning…. they were sleeping on trains, looking blank into the morning sky, grumpy face, looking lifeless, emotionless and no smile.. nothing!!!! It was an eyeful for me though, as many times that I am in that country, we often just wonder around the popular places during the happy hours… my head was going like.. thank god I am not one of these miserable people…
Then on second morning, after being told repeatedly from the previous day seminar of how going to school will not help your true real world situation, it just put things into perspective…
by second evening, I was convinced enough to gladly informed my hubby that he can stopped worrying and that we no longer need to argue over the boys moving away from him, as I sincerely telling him from my heart how the boys are staying put in Medan and that we are staying as a family… ‘for the moment’
You see… Singapore is known for good education system.. no doubt about it.. I was there to experience it for like 8 years, from 9 yo -16yo… initially, it was fun.. then when I entered the secondary years, I was faced with friends who were sosososo kiasu (afraid to lose) and remembering how we were being told to memorize words for words for many things including history.. god… I can still remember clearly how I had nightmare and blurting those essays out loud during my sleep…
But having said all that, this does not mean that we don’t need to go to school….. we all need the school education to process all the INFORMATION around us and put it into meaning to understand… e.g Fibromyalgia… we may know the words, but we need the education to make it into meaning for us to understand…
I admit that I am born privilege.. so, its sort of like I have the Rich dad and the Rich husband too… but to come and think of the less privilege people who has no one to tell or to guide them what real life is like… its definitely like running around the rat race…
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medankota on June 9th 2009 in Medan General, Medan Living, Others























































