japan
I know I've said I wanted to migrate to China previously, but after the melamine scare I decided against it, because I don't want to come back with some new rare disease again. Besides, who knows if I'm actually ingesting bits and pieces of, I dunno, cars or something with my curry puffs? (CAR-ry puffs hahaha)
Anyway, I have a new destination in mind.
JAPAN!
Of course it's not for some shallow reason, like their sushi is better than the sushi in Singapore (I still think sashimi tastes better cooked.) or anything lame like that. But it IS for my abacus AGAIN, because according to my teacher Japanese people are like super ownage at abacus and stuff. They hold the world record, despite the abacus homebase thingy being in Taiwan and all.
And because of the influx of annoying kiasu parents in Singapore, the sole purpose of abacus classes nowadays is to teach our whiny young how to count past ten without using their toes, and somehow, miraculously imbibe them with 23920520958293 IQ points so that they can all get into GEP.
(I hope all you readers got the catch 22 above.)
Which means that practically no one from Singapore competes at the international level, at least no one that I know of. In all my 8 years of learning this I've only seen 2 competitions organised: one Singapore-Malaysia one which I didn't want to go for, and one tentatively going to be organised next March. The tentative one is most probably based in Singapore, and thus all the exposure I'll ever be getting will probably be confined within this little red dot.
Since learning abacus has now been redefined into boosting our future generations' chances of getting into GEP, there is little, if none, competition training availible. Thus even if I DID have the talent, I wouldn't ever be able to make it big in the international arena because in Japan, Taiwan, and other parts of the world, there are fewer such FREAKING, KIASU, OPPORTUNITY-RUINING MOTHERS WHO THINK OF ABACUS AS A MERE STEPPING STONE TO THEIR KIDS GETTING SMART.
I really like my teacher, and she's totally nice and all, but I can't help thinking that if I moved to Japan, I'd actually be able to refine my technique and maybe get faster and better, something which I won't be able to do well in Singapore because of all these hindering parents who don't give a shit about how they're actually ruining other people's lives.
In Japan, the children start learning it from super young and thus they are all imba fast. And they keep on learning, and they STAY imba fast. There's no way I'd ever be able to compete with them, not with the facilities in Singapore. But if I could actually learn from the Japanese teachers... well, who knows? It can't be worse than the situation here.
I really wanted so terribly to be talented at something, but I guess I can't be.
Anyway, I have a new destination in mind.
JAPAN!
Of course it's not for some shallow reason, like their sushi is better than the sushi in Singapore (I still think sashimi tastes better cooked.) or anything lame like that. But it IS for my abacus AGAIN, because according to my teacher Japanese people are like super ownage at abacus and stuff. They hold the world record, despite the abacus homebase thingy being in Taiwan and all.
And because of the influx of annoying kiasu parents in Singapore, the sole purpose of abacus classes nowadays is to teach our whiny young how to count past ten without using their toes, and somehow, miraculously imbibe them with 23920520958293 IQ points so that they can all get into GEP.
(I hope all you readers got the catch 22 above.)
Which means that practically no one from Singapore competes at the international level, at least no one that I know of. In all my 8 years of learning this I've only seen 2 competitions organised: one Singapore-Malaysia one which I didn't want to go for, and one tentatively going to be organised next March. The tentative one is most probably based in Singapore, and thus all the exposure I'll ever be getting will probably be confined within this little red dot.
Since learning abacus has now been redefined into boosting our future generations' chances of getting into GEP, there is little, if none, competition training availible. Thus even if I DID have the talent, I wouldn't ever be able to make it big in the international arena because in Japan, Taiwan, and other parts of the world, there are fewer such FREAKING, KIASU, OPPORTUNITY-RUINING MOTHERS WHO THINK OF ABACUS AS A MERE STEPPING STONE TO THEIR KIDS GETTING SMART.
I really like my teacher, and she's totally nice and all, but I can't help thinking that if I moved to Japan, I'd actually be able to refine my technique and maybe get faster and better, something which I won't be able to do well in Singapore because of all these hindering parents who don't give a shit about how they're actually ruining other people's lives.
In Japan, the children start learning it from super young and thus they are all imba fast. And they keep on learning, and they STAY imba fast. There's no way I'd ever be able to compete with them, not with the facilities in Singapore. But if I could actually learn from the Japanese teachers... well, who knows? It can't be worse than the situation here.
I really wanted so terribly to be talented at something, but I guess I can't be.
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