And so, a week into my holidays, read "study break", emphasis on study, has passed and despite what it may seem, no studying has been done. I have a week left, hopefully I'll make some use out of it. I've mostly been doing nothing really productive, just watching YouTube and playing video games. I've finally had the time to go for Kendo, which is great, because I've been missing out on a lot, far too many in fact. I might not go the week that school begins, because exams, or maybe I might, who knows.
I've just had this thought hanging at the back of my head that I heard some trainings ago, that when you're in the dojo, you're there to train, so don't think of anything else, and just train. That led me to think about how it should apply to other stuff as well, when you're in class, you should be there to learn, well, obviously, though I can't say I've done that. I guess I gotta get it in me, although maybe in other ways, it already is in me, for example, I can't seem to get the will to study at home unless I really have to, so I guess I better start going to school next week, library anyone?
I just really can't wait to be out of the rut of my life though, I feel the thirst of the wilds and the hunger of the roads. I don't want to be stuck here, week after week, going to school/work, coming home and watching YouTube, sitting at home doing the same on the weekends and doing it all over again next week. I want to be out there, doing something new every week, seeing something new every week and being somewhere new every week. I can't stand even 6 weeks of school, I don't see how I can stand years of the same weekly rut of life.
I don't think I've said it here before, but I hate Singapore. Don't get me wrong, it is a decent country. It is very safe and it is good in many areas. I just don't foresee it as a place I want to settle down and raise my kids. The reasons are aplenty and I'm far too lazy at the moment to list them out.
I've noticed recently that the local dominant newspaper recently posted an article on their Facebook saying how there's gender inequality in certain jobs. First and foremost, I'd just like to point out that posts like these come from places like America as well and usually they love to focus on a few industries and positions. Namely STEM and Business and positions of leadership. Always complaining about how these industries lack females and don't have an inclusive environment for them. Honestly, it's the 21st century, yes there are still close minded people but they're few and far between (though common enough in Singapore, one of the reasons why I won't be raising my kids here and subjecting them to their prejudice), who still even is trying to stop women from entering these fields? Honestly, I'm quite sure there are plenty of people in the STEM field who would love to finally see a female face in their workplace. If people aren't going to these places, then there aren't going to be any people in these places, it's as simple as that (just like all the jobs that involve hard labour like construction). The problem isn't with the industry, it's that people aren't telling their kids to go to these fields or getting them interested in it.
And they seem to ignore the fact that there is an extremely disproportionate amount of males working construction, lumbering or other such fields of work. Doesn't matter eh? Not a comfortable job, who gives a fuck if there's no women doing these tough ass jobs. And that no female serves National Service. Yea, honestly I still can't get over that. There is absolutely no equality in not having females serve NS in any form and I can tell you for a fact that these days, most girls need it as much as the guys do. Society is too soft and too coddled and it makes for an easy target. There's far too many sheep, not enough sheepdogs and we're a small herd. So as I've said, the people who make such posts clearly aren't concerned with equality. Equality goes both ways, and they are clearly only interested in tipping the scales to their favour. Before you want to talk about gender equality in the workplace, why not talk about gender equality for NS first?
