Year of Incongruence
Change is the one theme that I admire devotedly. I often think that the root cause of many of the societal problems that I observe in our society is resistance to change. A person ready to change is a person with a confidence to leap forward in life, I even argue. It was with the sole objective of experiencing change that I get involved in an industry far from my career objective, business advisory. What I have identified in my over one year stay in the media industry is, however, that it is an environment of information but not knowledge, hard work but less recognition, overwork but meagre income, and visibility but not upward mobility. In thinking about the just-ended year, I came across many occasions that I worked hard to break myself. These were times that I had the most satisfaction out of life. Yet, they were all useless for they were accompanied by little more than a good feeling. For a boy who has grown in a family wherein outstanding works are awarded with jovial rec