Wednesday, August 5, 2009

What Course should I take....

My aunties and parents keep rushing me on making these decisions. When I was a kid, I wanna be a skydiver, a cowboy, a Jedi and all those silly crap... I'm now considering these courses....

- My first alternative is to take a double degree on English/Mass Communication. That way, it's easy to look for a job for a newspaper or magazine. I could maybe write books, poems etc. On top of it, it's this choice that my mum wants me to do.

- Marine biology. Maybe, but the pay is painfully low if you are like the 85% of marine biologists in Malaysia who works for the Fishery Department. But the other 15% get big cash working for Aquaria KLCC or Sentosa Island's Aquaria. Yea, I love the ocean but it's hard to fins a job with this one. Eat seafood your whole life dude.

- Art. I'm quite good at drawing but art like marine biology doesn't pay the bills unless you get as good as Picaso, Da Vinci or Michaelangelo. I could be a cartoon artist but that would have to be in USA or Europe unless I'm as successful as the all incredible LAT. However, my sense of humor sucks so I need someone to fill in the jokes for me to draw. I love comics, I mean the funny ones such as Zits, Pickles and Shoe but my all time favorite is CALVIN AND HOBBES.

- Paleontology. After watching National Geographic and Jurassic Park dozens of times, I think it's a fun idea to go dig up dinosaur skeleton. There are many drawbacks, dinosaurs don't inhabit Malaysia maybe because the country is full of garbage which means you won't find dinosaur bones. However you will find artifacts and and skeletons from zaman neolitik, zaman logam and zaman paleolitik which is kinda lame. And you need to go to somewhere in USA to get such a course which costs money. However, these seemingly worthless old bones cost big money. One complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton cost 7.6 million USD.

Any comments or suggestions will be deeply appreciated thanks. I might consider taking more than one of these choices. I might work and save then study again.

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