Well, okay, here's the deal. I’ve been living in Singapore for about a month now and I’m not yet adjusted to the way things are run around here. Sure enough I’m getting the hang of it. I have been to Singapore a couple of times, mainly for recreational purposes. This makes it the first time I got here to actually working and living. It is unsurprisingly quite scary and somewhat confusing. They have so many rules here! You can’t do this, it’s against the law to do that and so forth. I am well aware that Singapore is a FINE COUNTRY, where everything you do could be fined, as many of the Singaporeans like to joke out about this, but I never really paid any attention to it till I was actually living here. Can’t believe that a month back I was still living and planning my life in Jakarta. That one phone call changed everything!
It was Pak (Mr.) Omar that one fine day called me that he have read the resume that I sent out to the company where he works in, and agreed to hold an interview for me for the job that I was applying for. A couple of weeks later he called again and said ‘Following the interview we had a few weeks back, we would like you to join our company here in Singapore’. And as I hang up the phone I know there’s something big that’s about to happen. I realize that this could be the ticket out to a grand new adventure into the unknown, a chance where I can learn and really test me both professionally and un-professionally. This thing that is about to happen meant that I have to leave my family behind, my friends, my clients, my car, my house, the place that I use to hang-out, that food stall that I use to buy my favourite snack. This means I have to leave my life behind in Jakarta. It was a strange feeling of excitement, scared, happy, sad, all mix into one gigantic weight that I know I must burden myself with. A few minutes later I called my fiancée, telling her the news that I got a call from Singapore. I knew she had the exact same feeling like I did, don’t know how to react.
Now, a month into living in Singapore, still can’t seem to get that burden off my chest yet. But I am sure one of these days it will eventually disappear. Maybe if I start hanging out more often, trying to mingle more with my colleagues, and putting myself out there, I will make it go away. But that’s actually the hard thing right?
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