Generation Y

Dear Diary,

I wonder if it is a phenomenon unique to my district of work… I kept seeing many middle-aged Singaporeans shopping in my pharmacy with their young mainland Chinese spouses? Nah… doesn’t look like… mistresses? Girlfriends? Pets? If my pharmacy crowd is a good sample of the entire Singapore, then there is definitely a massive breakdown of fidelity in marriages here! They usually come for condoms and oral contraceptives anyway. We do a roaring business for these… Maybe I should, one day, act “blur” and subtly ask if the girl is the wife of the guy, haha… Okay, I am just inquisitive, that’s all. =P

Got a surprise call from Napsiah of the pharmacy department in my alma mater this afternoon. They are going to pay me at last, hee… kinda forgot all about the honorarium I am supposed to get from coaching 3 pharmacy students, haha… Yay! With that payment, it kinda put the closure of that episode in my life. Then again, even without the pay, I wouldn’t have regretted teaching that 3 students. They were a bundle of joy. Wonder how they are. Hope they are all coping well with their studies. Not sure if Napsiah knew who I was when she spoke to me on the phone but I used to be communicating with her quite often when I was a class rep. Then again, there were so many class reps around since my time… haha… It is very strange but once you leave an institution, you can’t help feeling grateful to how they shape your life and the imprint they leave in your chronology. I used to be quite an anti-“pharmacy dept” fella, haha… because I thought they controlled us too much and treated us like college kids. =P

However since I left the university, I felt differently. Now that they are my peers, I am grateful for how they nurtured me as a year 1 student till I graduated. Was particularly touched when 4 professors wrote reference letters for me last year. Maybe I am, by nature, a sentimental person. I do reminisce the past and (trust me) I have a good memory for it too! It could be attributed to diary-writing and blog-typing. =) So if you did something good in my life, you can be sure I will be grateful and remember it! If you did something not so nice… okay, I will try my best to forget, haha… but forgive I will! ;-)

Anyway, last evening’s buffet dinner at Hokkaido Japanese Restaurant was not bad. Turf City was bad though (the first time I ever visited it and I thought I was some place in JB). The food was good and I was glad my boss (who sat just in front of me) did most of the ordering. I just ate what she ordered, haha… Realised that I still prefer a good western meal over a Japanese one… hee… Although it is a little hard to be totally natural in front of one’s boss, I felt reasonably comfortable in front of mine. She is a young capable married lady…. And oh yes, she said she is Teochew! Haha… I know this sounds a bit absurd but there is some form of affinity between fellow Teochew Chinese. I am very sure about that! We are a unique dialect. As for Teochew girls… you know lah… they are among the best around, haha…

Actually just came home after talking to an ex-college classmate at the bus-stop near my house. He is at a loss (with regards to career) although he is graduating with a Masters in Science at the end of this year. What happen? Sometimes, I really really think that it is not the jobs that we should be blaming. It is our mindsets. The mindsets of this Generation-Yers (those born from 1980 – 1990)… we are just not easily satisfied.

God Bless,

Andrew