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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Yay, today is my mum's birthday!

We went for this buffet at the Miramar Hotel - I think we've been there before for someone's birthday, and we sat at the same table! Food was quite good, especially the satay and tempura!

The birthday cake was hazelnut, supposedly from Prima Deli, and we started choosing how many degrees we wanted our slices to be. I opted for cosine inverse 1 as a joke, then my mum said something like arctan 1...

I was thinking of my mum, and how when I was younger I had actually considered being a math teacher like her. It made me wonder whether many children ever want to grow up and follow in their parents' footsteps. Hmm.

Speaking of jobs, I also wonder when people start to have ambitions. Do we immediately decide on something typical like being an engineer / doctor / lawyer? Or even if we do, is there perhaps some secret cool career we'd like to have if we thought we were capable enough?

I don't mean like movie critics, or those people paid to go to other countries and say how nice the food is.

I mean like actors, film directors, acrobats, philosophers and all that jazz. I myself would have loved to be a writer if I were any good. Because I love stories. I think people who can write good stories, whether romance or mystery or sci-fi, with endearing characters and good plot, and a clever phrase or ten, are truly geniuses.

But, I'm still glad I want to be a doctor, even if it is borin, practical and typical. :D

The Xuan

xuan blogged at 11:27 PM

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