where i wish that my parents received higher education.
Both my mother and father never really finished highschool (this was heavily due to the war as well as the general familial background, which makes it completely understandable; education should not be prioritized over general life) when they were young, so they obviously never attended university. Like many second-generation immigrant children, there already exists a large cultural gap between them and me. Unfortunately, their lack of an academic education widens the gap further as well as furrows it deeper.
Ever since my parents realized that I do not want to be a doctor, they have been treating me coldly and basically like an idiot. Nothing I say in the household holds any weight, despite having hard evidence to back it up. Through the walls, I can hear them gossip about how I wasted college and now have no future and about how stupid, stupid, stupid I am. Just the same, they still gossip about my brother as well, even though physical therapy is a legitimate job (they still don't believe so, because none of our cousins have done it). Like I may have mentioned before, they only recognized 'Lab Tech' as a profession, because the cousin, who is a physician's assistant, wife is one. Constantly, they keep on egging all of us (their children) to "do what [cousin__] is doing/why not go into [cousin__'s] job/settle into [cousin__'s] job, even though it's just okay". Careers outside the typical doctor, pharmacist, or lawyer do not exist to them. We, the children (mainly just my brother and I), tell my parents that we would not be happy in these careers that these careers would make us miserable in both their achievement and their execution (I do not want to do a skin graft. I do not want to pluck out maggots. I do not want to see gangrene, if I can help it.) Personally, I have not a iron stomach to do so.
At the moment, the only child that is treated favorably is the younger sister, who is two and a half years my junior, who actually wants to be a doctor, who cares for the money and reputation that follow such a career choice. She is the only one of us who is majoring in a professional oriented major and not an academic one. This major is Nursing.
With giving as little offense to Nursing majors as I can, I will continue. Biology (especially with the Pre-Med regimen) is significantly more difficult a subject than Nursing in the academic sense. The knowledge and the analytical ability required of the subject is more difficult by a enormous degree. However, this is not to say that Nursing is not hard. The major is more psychologically taxing and physically straining and more heavily reliant on personal skills (or the ability to feign personal skills, which I might sadly add). Honestly, I can say that I have found many a Pre-Med student switch over to the Nursing Major (as well as completely different majors) due to its ease, as well as the growing job market it provides, yet I have never heard a Pre-Med major switch to a Nursing Major for the same reason.
Anyways back to the family topic, everything the girl says is treated like gold, unless contradicted by either an actual physician (which we ironically rarely see) or the television, while knowledge and advice fallen from my lips are ignored completely, despite my knowledge having more basis for it. But this is life so what can you do?
As for my day today though, things went rather well.
Woke up late noon-ish to go birthday shopping with my 10-year-younger sibburr. Went to Toys'R Us, Vintage Stock, the mall and Asian Mart. At Toys'R Us, I did my first rear-end park, and was for the most part successful; it just wasn't pretty. We didn't find to much of interest in the store though. At Vintage Stock, we found a SailorMoon plush doll as well as a Luna coin purse, but we didn't buy them since my ever-practical lil midget didn't find much use in them. Next, we went to the mall and roamed around like zombies due to a severe lack of sleep: I spent the night watching Trinity Blood (stopped at about 5 am), and she just couldn't sleep. So went from kid-preteen store to kid-preteen store and found nothing buyable. Then, I offered to buy her a Build-a-Bear doll, but she declined due to the fear of my parents scolding us for wasting so much money. So that idea busted. Due to thirst, I stopped by Teavana to try a one of their samples. The dispenser had the word Chai on it and tasted awesome, so I let my midget try it. She was in love with it. After asking an associate for it, we tried multiple other samples, had a lengthy explanation about things and ended up bringing home $40ish worth of the stuff (it would have been $70ish but the baby stopped me). All I have to say, it was worth it: the midget spent half the ride to the Asian Mart opening it and sniffing it. Did I mention there were little fruit bits inside the tea. Yum~
So Asian Mart...
Why we were there: Boba Tea, because I promised the midget and we were both thirsty.
I got an overly sweeten cup of Jackfruit milk tea and she got an overly sweeten cup of lycee milk tea--the person didn't dilute the stuff enough. We both still enjoyed it though, except after it gave us sugar headaches. Still gonna go back for more though. A plus was that I got to fill the car up on some $3.29/gal gas instead of the $3.35/gal. Hurray for weirdly distributed QuickTrip prices.
Ever since my parents realized that I do not want to be a doctor, they have been treating me coldly and basically like an idiot. Nothing I say in the household holds any weight, despite having hard evidence to back it up. Through the walls, I can hear them gossip about how I wasted college and now have no future and about how stupid, stupid, stupid I am. Just the same, they still gossip about my brother as well, even though physical therapy is a legitimate job (they still don't believe so, because none of our cousins have done it). Like I may have mentioned before, they only recognized 'Lab Tech' as a profession, because the cousin, who is a physician's assistant, wife is one. Constantly, they keep on egging all of us (their children) to "do what [cousin__] is doing/why not go into [cousin__'s] job/settle into [cousin__'s] job, even though it's just okay". Careers outside the typical doctor, pharmacist, or lawyer do not exist to them. We, the children (mainly just my brother and I), tell my parents that we would not be happy in these careers that these careers would make us miserable in both their achievement and their execution (I do not want to do a skin graft. I do not want to pluck out maggots. I do not want to see gangrene, if I can help it.) Personally, I have not a iron stomach to do so.
At the moment, the only child that is treated favorably is the younger sister, who is two and a half years my junior, who actually wants to be a doctor, who cares for the money and reputation that follow such a career choice. She is the only one of us who is majoring in a professional oriented major and not an academic one. This major is Nursing.
With giving as little offense to Nursing majors as I can, I will continue. Biology (especially with the Pre-Med regimen) is significantly more difficult a subject than Nursing in the academic sense. The knowledge and the analytical ability required of the subject is more difficult by a enormous degree. However, this is not to say that Nursing is not hard. The major is more psychologically taxing and physically straining and more heavily reliant on personal skills (or the ability to feign personal skills, which I might sadly add). Honestly, I can say that I have found many a Pre-Med student switch over to the Nursing Major (as well as completely different majors) due to its ease, as well as the growing job market it provides, yet I have never heard a Pre-Med major switch to a Nursing Major for the same reason.
Anyways back to the family topic, everything the girl says is treated like gold, unless contradicted by either an actual physician (which we ironically rarely see) or the television, while knowledge and advice fallen from my lips are ignored completely, despite my knowledge having more basis for it. But this is life so what can you do?
As for my day today though, things went rather well.
Woke up late noon-ish to go birthday shopping with my 10-year-younger sibburr. Went to Toys'R Us, Vintage Stock, the mall and Asian Mart. At Toys'R Us, I did my first rear-end park, and was for the most part successful; it just wasn't pretty. We didn't find to much of interest in the store though. At Vintage Stock, we found a SailorMoon plush doll as well as a Luna coin purse, but we didn't buy them since my ever-practical lil midget didn't find much use in them. Next, we went to the mall and roamed around like zombies due to a severe lack of sleep: I spent the night watching Trinity Blood (stopped at about 5 am), and she just couldn't sleep. So went from kid-preteen store to kid-preteen store and found nothing buyable. Then, I offered to buy her a Build-a-Bear doll, but she declined due to the fear of my parents scolding us for wasting so much money. So that idea busted. Due to thirst, I stopped by Teavana to try a one of their samples. The dispenser had the word Chai on it and tasted awesome, so I let my midget try it. She was in love with it. After asking an associate for it, we tried multiple other samples, had a lengthy explanation about things and ended up bringing home $40ish worth of the stuff (it would have been $70ish but the baby stopped me). All I have to say, it was worth it: the midget spent half the ride to the Asian Mart opening it and sniffing it. Did I mention there were little fruit bits inside the tea. Yum~
So Asian Mart...
Why we were there: Boba Tea, because I promised the midget and we were both thirsty.
I got an overly sweeten cup of Jackfruit milk tea and she got an overly sweeten cup of lycee milk tea--the person didn't dilute the stuff enough. We both still enjoyed it though, except after it gave us sugar headaches. Still gonna go back for more though. A plus was that I got to fill the car up on some $3.29/gal gas instead of the $3.35/gal. Hurray for weirdly distributed QuickTrip prices.