Perception is how you view it. My perception is waaaaay different from what others think i guess, well.... more of different from what typical S'poreans think. Try finishing up their education the fastest way then find a job and then work until retire and then die. Morbid but thats the general idea i get from most ppl i talk to... sad no? If that was really the case then i don't think i wanna send my kids to nursery or maybe even kindergarden... it'll be a total waste of time, wasting their childhood away. What happened to dreams of becoming something and not giving them up even when it seems like it can no longer come true? What happened to hope and faith? Not exactly in the spiritual sense but in the YOUrself sense? You know all those feel good movies? Those that you watch and at the end you feel touched? The reason why we feel that way is cause deep down there's that sense of regret in us, some part of us that tells us that we can never be like that. My piece of advice i can give 2day is tell that lil part of you to shut the hell up and continue believing in yourself and your dreams. If you believe that strongly in it there really isn't a reason why you can't do it, i mean, another human being has already done it right? And if they haven't, you came up with that idea right? Who better to see it through than you? I don't know about the rest but i ain't gonna die regretting not doing this or that.