Let me tell you a story of a boy who dreams a lot. You guessed it, it's me. I dreamt a lot when I was a kid. Aren't we all, right? To get a good job, good money, great friends, great love partner and so forth. I wasn't into engineering before this. In school, I always interested in astrology. Studying the stars. I like it but my father once told me that if I pursue this course, it's hard to get a job in Malaysia for this. That's when I stopped dreaming about things. That's when I knew that dream is just a dream. I have to be realistic and start thinking about my actions.
So, I started to study, but it was kinda late at that point cause the big exams were just around the corner. Thus, I got mildly good results, not great, just good. Good enough anyway. Then, I got into a good pre-university program, it's a foundation program for technology bachelor's degree. There I really know my potentials, if I pushed myself a little bit, I could do it and I did. I got a 4.00 on my CGPA results. It was huge for me at that time. My family was very proud of me at that time. They tried to persuade me to try aviation, chemical engineering, oil and gas, maritime engineering and all other areas. I talked to my sister regarding this because she did engineering studies before. She said to me that all areas are good but if I'm studying to get a job, I should pursue electronics engineering as that profession has loads of job offers and she reminded me that studying electronics engineering is super hard. But I'm being me, I was dumbed and thought she kinda brought me down because I couldn't face the challenge. So, I did pursue electronics engineering. It was fokin tough.
I survived. I'm here now, right? So, I survived. I didn't think I could though. Met a lot of good people, my best friend, Adrian, well previously he was interested to pursue chemical engineering but then I explained to him about electronics engineering and he kind of hopped in the same boat as me. Got not so good grades but I managed to pass the bar which is fine.
2020, the year of everything took quite a turn for everyone. COVID. What a fokin year that was. I was an intern at a company called Silterra. It is a wafer fab foundry. I was so afraid at that point that I might not get a job due to COVID but God has plan for me that kinda bumped me up from an intern to an engineer. A process engineer. I could explain about what I do but it's gonna take a whole new post for that. Some of you won't even understand about what I do. My wife is still doesn't understand about my job. But yeah, that's the gist of it. I stopped dreaming. If I gone down the path of being an astrologist, I don't know what would become of me. I took a realistic path, engineering job. The only job I know how to do.
That's it for this post. Will ramble on later in the other posts. It's nearly 5.30pm and I want to get ready to go home to my wife, who is currently having a walk to I don't know where, but she sent me this picture. See ya.
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