Comments on: Phantom Punch

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:31:05 +0000

school life sucks,really got nothing to say about it .i take that as a torture.Luckly i graduate already .Now i can do what i want.

By: popagandhi

popagandhi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:00:14 +0000

Most of the time ‘travel’ is tied in so tightly with my ‘work that I can’t even tell the difference anymore. I live my work. I have to travel in order to work. It pays me. Better than we usually imagine freelance writing/photography to be. :)

Cut down the frills: the hotels and the full-service airlines, use the hundreds of dollars in savings to fund an extra week or two in these places. Cut down on things like gourmet coffee at home (I’m a huge coffee lover but I haven’t found a good cup of coffee in any of the high end chains, and Starbucks is just lame), saving $5-10 a day (what i used to spend on coffee) will go a long way. I live (rather) frugally at home. I don’t shop. I buy my things online, used or at a discount. I don’t buy clothes. I don’t switch phones or electronics often. The only things I indulge in at home are expensive food and taxis. Singapore’s getting to be a really expensive place to live. I find that by cutting down my expenses on unnecessary things at home, I can easily use that money to spend somewhere else and enjoy a better quality of the same amount of money. I spent S$130 in an entire week in Indonesia, for example, including midrange accommodation, plenty of food, and travel between three cities in first class. I easily spend that same money over two or three days just doing normal things (mostly taxis!). Or on dinner in one evening.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:26:50 +0000

hi,
im just wondering, how do you manage to pay for all those travels, and indulging in what you seem to have a voracious passion for.

i would love to live my dreams, but money seems to be tight.

mark

By: Mercia

Mercia — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:22:40 +0000

Truth be told, an Ivy League education really starts to shine in the final years of undergrad, and possibly post-graduate studies.

Columbia and New York are nice, but there’s far more adventure to be had in Asia.

By: popagandhi

popagandhi — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:26:42 +0000

@dizzydee I recall having that ‘conversation’ a few years ago, too :P To be sure I don’t feel that way about all education. I wouldn’t have spent so much time, effort and money applying to American graduate schools otherwise (still waiting to hear from some schools in a few months). Some part of me would still like to be educated that way, and grad sch is definitely somewhere in the picture, just maybe not as quickly as I originally anticipated… For now, I’m turning to the prospect of several years on the road on in SEAsia and China as my second education. That’ll probably benefit me when I go back to grad sch a few years later, I think.

By: dizzydee

dizzydee — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:40:45 +0000

Pity you feel that way about your school and your schooling. Recall you had talked about trying to study elsewhere, like in the US or something.
School shouldn’t be about exams or grades but about learning, and you are far too intelligent and talented to not want to learn more. Yes, there is much to learn from the school of life, but with only 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year and rarely more than 100 years in a lifetime, the right school enables the right person to accumulate knowledge, hone the talents they have and discover new ones in a manner that is difficult to do without some structure and some form of “educational” environment.
Ah well…maybe down the road you will find a school you can actually like. Its not “over” - age doesn’t matter lah…

By: C

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:36:11 +0000

I’m happy for you :)

By: swissfondue

swissfondue — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:59 +0000

Part of schooling is learning critical thinking. I think you’ve passed this “exam” with high grades!

By: donaq

donaq — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:21:22 +0000

Congrats! Life is way more fun than school life, for sure.

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:57:42 +0000

I like the old saying that goes, DON’T LET EDUCATION INTERFERE WITH YOUR LEARNING.
I guess we can’t learn everything in the classroom.