「進路を決めましたか？」

先週は来年の学校のスタッフに「進路を決めましたか？」と聞かれた。

まあ、もちろん、来年はどの学校に入るかとはもう決まっているが、スタッフは専門学校を卒業してから、何をするつもりかと質問しているのだ。

正直に、今まではなんとなく進路について考えたことがあるけど、質問されたのは初めてで、一応ベスは「できれば、日本で就職したいけど、大学に入るのも希望している」と答えた。

でもさ・・・音楽って、音大はあるけど、それはクラシカル系だから、ベスが勉強したいのと　ちょっと　・・・いや、　まったく　違うんでしょう。進学のはやはり、やめたほうがいいかな。てーか、日本の大学って４年制だよね。７年間日本で勉強するのがちょっと想像できないかな。卒業する時にはもう２７？２８？ちょっとむりかな。

というが、日本で就職できるかな～

ちなみに、音楽ではシンガポールでは絶対どんな前途も見えない。音楽なら、シンガポールでなければ、海外はどこでもシンガポールより発達してるとは否めない事実である。学んだ日本語を活用したいなら、就職はいちおう日本が一番チョイスでしょう。

将来が見えない・・・まあ～一応、専門学校に入ってから考えよう。

IVF Boom

Through debates in high school, through ethical lectures in college, and now even a whole topic on it on my Japanese Language textbook, it just goes to show how the world perceives the subject of human cloning and related technology, like IVF and etc, as something interesting, if not, something which is more disadvantageous than beneficial.

Everyone talks about ethics, human emotions, the superb technology with different viewpoints from all directions.

IMO, anything that deals with the creation of human life by a human life through superficial and artificial means just doesn't seem right. NOT because of religion. NOT because of ethics. BUT, simply because......there's a flaw with the TECHNOLOGY itself! The whole balance of the world, of the human race is at stake.

Let's just state for example, a sterile couple undergoes IVF in order to get a baby. The baby is also at a high risk of being sterile, and when he/she grows up, has to make use of IVF in order to get a baby of his/her own. That baby's baby may also grow up to be infertile. It's just a vicious circle which knows no end. The whole human population would one day, be totally dependent on IVF and maybe in the near future, some technology which is more advanced. And eventually, a day might come when human cloning no longer seem incorrect in any form.

If no limitations are made on the free usage of IVF and other similar technologies, it is absolutely safe for me to say that the human race has to brace itself for a IVF boom. Sure, good thing for the medical industry. Loads of money flooding in. Humans would have claimed to have been successful in conquering the way of nature.

And, all at the risk of disrupting the balance of human life on Earth.