childhood dreams.dreams meant to be dreamt

when i was a little girl,

still wrapped up in my diapers,

i wanted to be a teacher, just like my parents,

i used to lined my soft toys up into a row

and taught them joanne-knowledge...

as i get a little older, there was something called television,

i watched countries send people up into space, to the moon,

voooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmm they went,

i wondered,

how does it feel like being up on one of those rockets?

i told myself,

one day i will be the first female Singaporean astronaut!

then i entered school, i was fascinated by people,

i love to observe them.

i wanted to have the superpower to read them,

i dream i day i will own a psychiatrist clinic,

i am the doctor you are seeing.

as my passion for Chinese literature got ignited

somewhere along my long years of studying,

i always thought i was a Tang or Song Dynasty person,

living in the wrong era.

i wanted to go back 'home' back into the time i belonged.

soon, as my days in uniform came closer to an end,

i thought one day i might just be the greatest advertiser,

i make advertisements that everyone will remember

for a long long time.

then i thought maybe there will be just one day,

i will put on my business suit,

making business deals with people

from all regions of the world.

back to reality,

i thought of the 'degree' that i would graduate with,

i told myself, one day i will be in that power suit,

one day i will sit at some embassy in some other country

i am still with my roots,

just that i dint want to live in the garden city

for some years to come

i want to see the world,

fill my eyes with the beauty He made!

then one day, it suddenly struck me,

maybe one fine day,

i will get married,

have children,

and live all my life here.

女人为了丈夫放弃梦想，

女人为了孩子放弃事业！

唉呼！