It's so typical of Asian parents isn't it? They force their kids to take piano lessons and exams and when the kid says I want to become a piano teacher or develop their career down that route they're not allowed. Doesn't matter whether the parents have a PhD from Cambridge or are primary school educated, except the former can probably put their objection in a more rational convincing manner 😉
I heard of 塞翁失馬焉知非福 and use it all the time but never knew the story behind it!
It's been a while I checked out Liketu, hope all the development work is going along nicely
I never realised how much of a cliche it was until I met other asian people with remarkably similar stories. I was the only asian kid in school until I headed to university.
I think ironically, the more educated you are, the stronger your bias towards not pursuing a hobby as a career. I also wonder, whether things would have been different if my parents had more financial security, and then maybe they wouldn't worry too much about whether I succeeded or not.
Good to see you around here, we're about to push out a new update in the coming week, it's got quite a lot of changes/improvements. derangedvisions made a post about some of the new features, and he's also launched a new photography contest sponsored by us. Lots of good things to come!