My Life

My 21st birthday will arrive in a few months, this means i will usher
in a new chapter of my life as an adult-officially. Most people at this
stage fret about the whims of the job market with regard to their
employment prospects, i am not exempt. But matters that worry me more
than this are my continued, sustained fortunes. I don't mean this
in absolute digits or material posessions, i extend this to also
marriage, friends/connections, station of power and overall
contentment.

In a recent discussion with one of my good friends, the topic of my
future worst possible socio-economic scenario came out. I candidly
rationalised that i would be living in Singapore, earning a monthly
salary equivilant to SGD 2500 or USD 1500 in today's terms. I would
be married to
a middle-class Chinese Singaporean man who probably works to
bring in the same amount or a little more dough than i do. We would
live in a middle class surburbia within a government subsidised
3 bed-room apartment otherwise fondly known as an HDB flat. We might
have children, and like all other middle class parents, take them to
school in morning and perhaps enjoy one a year holiday luxuries in
neighbouring countries such a Malaysia or Thailand. Home furniture will
be from IKEA and we could afford a Japanese car. I might even give up working to take care of chores and rearing the kids. Every day of my
existense will be a routine, just like all other people, i will work
my efforts 9 to 5 because i want to put food on the table and support
a family.

Not that i think that the above life i described is necessarily a bad
one. Its fine by average standards. But i never envisioned my life
to like this ever. It would be extremely sad for me because i would
not be able to maintain the lifestyle that my parents gave me.
I enjoyed the luxury of a 3 storey private house, a maid, an expensive
German car, many private tutors for school subjects, weekly fancy
restaurant visits, holidays in
many parts of the world that required some 18 hours to reach, luxury
items of merchandise that the middle class would be hard pressed to
afford, and of course my college education in the United States which
cost USD 45,000 a year, all paid for by my father.

I would not be able to offer all of the above to my children if i
earned a middle-class income.

So what kind of a life do i exactly want? Well, it definately
has to be more than what i have now. Assuming that
if i graduate from college in the United States and work very hard
toward my goals, including being the most anal bitch, i would get to enjoy a life such as this....

From what i have charted beginning from high school, i would have
started as either as a consultant or investment analyst, and worked
my way up to becoming a board director of a large public listed
company where i could receive generous dividends. These funds will
then be used to pay for my Chanel workclothes and Sergio Rossi heels,
my children's school fees at public British boarding schools
(if i have them),
my weekday Volvo/Mercedes and weekend Aston Martin,
either my Manhatten Loft Apartment or Singapore
bungalow or California Beachhouse ( depending on where i live and work,
or better
yet all three). Also to avoid menial hassle, i would be
serviced by a maid and driver, that way i can spend my time more productively at work. These are the trappings of wealth
that answer to secular worship.

I would have summoned all charm in myself to lure a man of astonishing
energy, intelligence, ambition and industry. He could possibly be a
a high-flying professor, politician or hedge-fund partner.
I might possibly need to keep a lot of women away from him.
Because i am not content to being a "tai-tai" and simply enjoying a
luxurious but otherwise boring life, I would also work plans of my own into
imprinting the ideas and works of myself onto this world in addition
to my money-making ventures. Of course he could have the option
fathering my children. They would be like their father and
i would spend my life indoctrinating them to be better versions of
their parents. The family will take holidays to anywhere in the world.

While simultaneously acheiving success at my day job, i would be
constantly moonlighting in areas either in politics
or some form of diplomacy. If it should be diplomacy, i would
have to be some kind of ambassador for a cause and a board member
of an international panel, or toward the formation of Greater China.
My husband and i would rub shoulders with many of our fellow rich and
famous friends with our names quoted for acheivement in periodicals.

I focus and work everyday towards my better life and am currently
accepting applications for the man who will enjoy it with me. Frequent
challenges, difficultly, problem-solving and triumphs will define my life, it will be bitter-sweet but it will be all worth it.