while i was away

two years since my last post, well give and take a few months...the daughter graduated college and is embarking on a new adventure.

the daughter went to college and complete her a-levels  with satisfactory results. good enough to get her a place in sydney university. the journey however from her completing her college education right up to being accepted wasn't an easy one.

she is very determined and we have always trusted her to make her own informed decisions. she was taught to do her research, weigh the pros and cons before she decided on anything. based on facts on not pluck-from-the-sky or i-heard-someone-say basis.

initially we had decided on perth as we had friends who would have been more than glad to 'adopt' her. we made a trip to perth to take a look at the possible universities that she would want to enrol into. to cut a long story short, she initially applied to murdoch and university of western australia. she got accepted into both but she was more keen on murdoch. timing issues resulted her not being able to start mid-2014 so she applied for a deferment from uwa, to which they agreed.

but then she confided in me that she applied to uwa just to prove a point. see, during an open day at the college - she approached the uwa booth to inquire about applying for a place in the university for psychology. seems the spokesperson told her that the requirements were very high and kind of implied that the daughter was not good enough to get a place. just because she wanted to give herself the satisfaction, she applied and surprisingly, uwa was the first uni to accept her. she wished she had taken the lady's email or number just so she could go 'hah! in your face..'

and in her decision to defer her studies to march 2015, there were some disagreements between the daughter and the hubby. some not so nice words were exchanged and things got out of hand. i was caught in the middle and i had the final say on whether she should just accept uwa or go ahead to defer. torn between the two, i had to make a decision. one person would be happy and the other person, well not so...oh wow, no pressure really...

anyways, after a long spell of cold shoulder and non-verbal communications and a lot of animosity, i decided enough was enough. i sat both of them down and told them to resolve it for once and for all. anyways, the dad managed to come to terms about how determined the daughter can be and the daughter came to terms that the dad can be conservative but can listen to reason if you just talk to him in  a calm tone.

in her decision to defer, she asked for permission to apply to another three universities in sydney. we agreed that perhaps these universities were better albeit a bit more expensive. she did and got accepted into one of the premier unis in australia. then again she may have been wanting to secretly prove a point to her dad of her capabilities. regardless, we were very happy that she got accepted. and so damn proud of her.

and the preparation begins.....