Strange things that happens when you're deciding on something...

I was watching 花样少年少女 (i know it's a lame show but hey, at least it's entertaining for the boring weekends, especially when it's the month end when you are just surviving on peanuts till pay day comes), and nearing the end of the show, i finally hear something being said inside the show that strike a chord inside my brain. One of the guy said -

"人要乘年轻的时后，做些疯狂勇敢的事。"

Before that, channel 5 was showing a teen musical movie named High School Musical. I am not ashamed to say i totally enjoyed the movie. People in there were young, and they could sing to everything they felt was good for singing, not to mention they can dance very well too. In summary, it's about this basketball jock, who was his team's captain as well, but after singing at a karaoke contest with a chio bu, he was hesistating about joining the school's play with her. As his father is the alpha male, who is on the other hand his coach in school for basketball, he was giving him a lot of pressure on the upcoming basketball competition...yada yada yada. The main point was, there was a part where they break into a big jamboree of people singing to discourage the couple from joining the school's play. The lyrics went like -

"If you wanna be cool, go with the flow, don't break the status quo...wooohooo....stay with what you do best".

Anyway, as teen movies are, alls well ends well. They sang and everybody liked it so they ended the movie with another massive dance orgy.

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I know you must be thinking wtf is kal writing all of these things for. Well, over the past few weeks, i have been discussing with my colleague about the prospects of working in Taiwan (She can recommend me some options). Why Taiwan you might think? Seriously, i also dunno. But on second thoughts, my English is pretty alright, my Chinese is pretty good, i guess i might make a good expat designer there. However, money wasn't on my main concern of finding a job overseas. What i wanted was the experience. The experience of living in whole new different environment and culture. I want the experience of being TOTALLY independent on yourself, paying for your own rent, food, travelling fees etc. On the other hand, i was scared. What if i come back to Singapore and find no jobs. What if i go Taiwan and no one wants to employ me? What if something happens to my parents and no one is here for them? A lot of What Ifs.

Strange isn't it? I'm still currently in the midst of deciding whether i should make the trip or not, and the above scenarios just popped out of no where. Coincidence probably, but when it happens twice, i began to wonder if the one up there is trying to send me a message.

The morale of the story, i wanted to share with you brothers is that, when opportunities knock on your door, or when you are deciding on something that will throw you off the commonality of the "normal" singaporean guy of living life, please think twice. Like what i heard in the scenario - "人要乘年轻的时后，做些疯狂勇敢的事。"

I'll keep you guys posted on my decision =)