What I didn’t want… What I want now…
I was at NTU Radio Fusion’s Open House yesterday for the launch of their new studio. You people in NTU can check it out at Canteen B. The rest can forget about it cos NTU is at a rather faraway corner of the island and Canteen B is at a rather faraway corner of the rather faraway NTU. (Notice how I refrained from using the word ULU? Haha!)
I was invited to *woah* make a guest appearance, cos they said they needed some *star quotient* to entice people to turn up.
Huh? Then you must have looked for the wrong person!
Stepping into an University really made me wanna quit my job and further my studies.
*** OK, ok! Before you open that bottle of champagne to mark my departure, or start a petition to make me stay, I’m not going anywhere for the time being lah. At least, not till my contract ends next year.
When I was younger, I didn’t fancy studying. I liked campus life, as I mentioned a million times on this blog, but I absolutely hated examinations. I figured I’m better off facing the real world than to helplessly stare at stacks of books and use up tonnes of highlighters and foolscap paper.
Money was an issue back then, of course. Not that we have to scrimp and save, but I didn’t want to stretch into my parents’ pockets for more education funds, in case I decided to adopt a “pass can already” mentality in University. Since the spendthrift me, obviously didn’t have enough money on my own to make it through, I started working the day I ORD-ed.
(Yes, while my cohort was scrambling back to camp to get their pink IC on ORD, I was busy preparing for the launch of my first weekday show. In fact, I never went back to camp and had my Chief Clerk deliver my IC to my office when she went to collect a prize she won on the Tamil radio station. Hee.)
I very envy those who went overseas for their degrees… Arthover, [m]:chae!, Kitty, Andrew… Never mind some detractors who claim that people go overseas because they couldn’t get a place locally. Well, even if it’s true (oops!), the overseas students had a very different experience, compared to those mugging at NUS and NTU and I’m green with envy at that.
I think I must have missed out a lot, being deprived of a full time University education and all. Sure I can take a full time degree any time I want, but the feel isn’t the same any more- you know what I mean? But I can’t say I regret the path I took, cos I wouldn’t have progressed to this stage in my career had I became a full time undergrad then.
To you guys reading now, and probably would still be tuning in later… … Should I decide to leave Radio and further my studies overseas someday, please do not send me tearful appeals k? Cos now you know that’s what I really, really want to do 
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