This year, 2013 has been a tough year for me.
I've had to grow up a lot over this year. Having turned 22, I've had to live up to quite a few people's expectations of me and believe me, it wasn't easy.
So far, from my bucket list, I'd achieved some of the things I'd listed down.
1. GET MY DREAM JOB
2. TOUCH A SHARK
3. FLY ALONE
4. GET OWN PLACE
See, I'm the kind of person who feels that when you reach your 20's, you have to start owning your own things and not depend on your parents so much. Even at 21, I started to feel guilty whenever I had to ask for money from my parents but I did nonetheless because they wouldn't let me work.
MOVING
I went out after my dream job at 22 because it was the only time my parents couldn't stop me, and I needed change in my life. With that new job and still craving for some change, I moved out to a place I can call my own.
Why did I move? It's not because it was for fun, no. Third culture children like myself are very much used to moving somewhere new, usually a new country, every 4 years. Now because 2013 is only my 5th year in Malaysia, I found it particularly strange to not be moving anywhere, so I had to make that change, or else I would've been like a fish out of water.
I'm not used to staying in one place for longer than 4 years at a time. I'd feel like the world starts to slow down and I get this fear of never moving on with my life if I should stay any longer. Oh yea, I've been in Malaysia since Sept 2008, which makes this the longest time I've ever stayed in Malaysia, ever.
2013 went particularly fast for me. When so many things happen in a year, you tend to forget time's value and if not made the best of, you'd regret it and that won't be of any use.
YOUTUBE
I did so many retarded things this and last year, I'm sure you know. 2012, I started a YouTube channel named Alialovesteddies, and my first video was about a girl from across the border. The attention I got from that one single video was super insane. There were many kinds of reactions. Within a week, I got over 10, 000 views and that was madness. Of course with all that attention, negativity came too, but I guess it's a whole package anyways, right?
It was quite fun to see all the mess and fuss people had made over me on the internet, but none had dared to come to me in person. I must say, all the negative energy had made me laugh throughout most of 2012. In 2013, I realized that I really didn't have enough time to entertain the attention I'd received from my viewers on YouTube, so now I'm on a hiatus from YouTube.
DREAM JOB
Ever since I was 12, I knew I wanted a future in the financial industry, things to do with money. I always knew I wanted some kind of job that had me deal with money and financial planning.
Well, I'd actually stumbled upon this dream job of mine because I had stalked someone on Twitter. It was fascinating how she was earning her money, living somewhat luxuriously and seemed to never whine about her job.
Alhamdulillah, after approaching her and asking her all the necessary questions, it turns out that she has the job I'd always wanted and it wasn't hard to get.
So yeah, now I'm a mutual fund consultant, aka unit trust consultant, aka (I'd like to believe) financial planner. I couldn't be any happier to have this job.
GRADUATION
This thing has been long overdue and I'm dying to get it over and done with. I had to put my job on hold to focus on my studies for a while and to finally get my bachelors degree in film & tv.
WISH ME LUCK!
FATINALIAHMS
xoxo
