Assignment 3: Decision Analysis (Yvonne Sim)

proactive vs. reactive? let's try to link it to real-life situation: inez finds cockroach in soap. inez says eeeeeee (albeit still with a smile). i rant. inez goes back to coffee shop to get refund. i sit there and continue ranting and devising schemes to tear the lousy stall down, make them cough up money to compensate for inez's wounded well-being. inez proactive, i reactive. if i had been proactive, i would have gone down with inez to take picture of the stall and its pet cockroaches and sent it to stomp and gotten nea officers down and all. (DOES THIS EXAMPLE COUNT??)

our education system and our society teaches us to make good decisions IN TERMS OF PRAGMATISM. subject combi is a good example. "science is better science is better science is better". on hindsight, i too fell into such a trap. i was sure i wanted japanese as an A level subject, throw in math and i'm left with 2. thought over several combis, but in the end i ended up with physics and chem. why? DOUBLE SCIENCE SAFER MAHHH. now i regret not taking econs. cos i'm sick of science. I WANT TO BE OVER AND DONE WITH IT. then to switch to arts subject in japan.. wah seh uncertainties abound. but i'll still pia through for the sake of avoiding lab work haha. and certain scholarship boards out there want engineering degrees. ok lor, people with the money get the last say. but wait, i digress. back to decision making. oh, talk about not regretting decisions. I FOUND ONE REGRET. -allows self a moment of self-pity- oh wellll. unretractable mistakes are to be lived with. in all, it's the pragmatic culture in singapore i guess. told to make decisions that are safest and seem to hold the most potential by society's conventions.

decision? between going to japan and staying in singapore i guess. plus and minus points for each side, though this is a choice that will exist only with the gift of a scholarship.