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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Dumb Rants
Attended AJC TED , a few months ago . Sharing from different type of speakers , students , entrepreneur ,agents .
All of them pointed out a question during the event ." What is your dream occupation in the future ? " ( Something along this line,cant rmb clearly).
All i remembered clearly in my mind was the sharing conducted by an Ex-Ajc Volleyballer (Ajc alumni). Humorous , tall , presentable and with a good flair in speaking .
Four things I remembered clearly : He skipped lectures and tutorials in JC .HE lost his father when he was young.Lastly he was identified by himself as one of the most successful person from his cohort that achieved this much . He was one of the youngest agent executive in the Great Eastern company . In just a duration of 5-6 years , his highest monthly income record reached a six-figure sum.
He shared something so important which enables him to achieve so much in life is by just having a CORE DESIRE .
Core desire , definition by him as something (in simpler term ) ,to have a goal in life . Yeah , we all know that , but how one is able to stick with this core desire and have an unwavering determination to fufil this desire is another question. The degree of closeness of this core desire to you is another part that contributes to the success part.
"The things that lie between impossible and possible is determination ". Yeah ! . The quote sounds very motivating right? Sadly , to obtain that determination you must willing to give up a lot of things in life . Its not mentioned in the quote too. ? Time ? Safety ? So you must be a risk-taker ?
Come on , life is just a stupid dumb irony ! No , or we people the society are the dumb ones ? Total incoherent right? We are being judged for every single shit we do . And the problem is we care about the judgements deep down in our heart (Maybe its just me) ? We are also responsible for judging others ? Why are we all have this dumb shit attitude and actions ? IS that human nature ? Who supposed to blame ? You , ? Me ? Your classmate? World most powerful person? Rant all you want and nobody gives a shit .
**Sorry for this dumb and stupid post , wanted to write about something positive such as core desire , in the end my train of thoughts went off and wrote this crap **
Saturday, January 26, 2013
10 jan judgement day
I have no idea how to start on this post..i am currently awake in the middle of.night (2++am) .Having sleepless nights for the whole week partially due to all random thoughts that have been surfacing in my mind (worry for o levels results. . .flashback of memories with my friends. .wondering what they are doing in their holidays and etc) .
10 January 2013, the judgement day for all 2012 O Level candidates. A day that i hoped that it wont never come that fast. I was.enjoying my long well deserved break when.i realised that year 2013 had already started.
Soon this date had been announced and confirmed by MOE. Everyone starts to feel butterflies alive in their stomach or preparing for.their worst.come.to.worst.scenario results. .
As long as one has been consistently putting in effort and hard work into something , the reward may not come in sooner or later (maybe not in Os , not in As or not even IN UNI ).But i guarantee that it will come eventually later in life as long as one don't give up
Sunday, January 13, 2013
First day of O Levels 2012
Okay O levels .. An obstacle that i had crossed and faced ...The results will be released tmr, on 10 Jan 2013 .Progress of overcoming this challenge . DAY 1 was too weird for me which i had my English papers . When i reached the school , beads of perspiration was already forming on my forehead .i saw some of my friends and classmates were chatting away while others were busily reading their notes . i joined the latter as i thought that reading my notes could reduce some of the nervous cells in me . However it was a bad decision that i made ,as i started to read my notes ..i sort of discover that i had forgotten some of my important phrases
Fear engulfed my heart as i imagined myself suffered an emotion break down in the examination hall.
Panic-stricken , i took a deep-breath and attempted to calm myself down . At that moment , my chemistry teacher walked past me and made a slight comment .. "Hey why you guys look so panic , no point studying already .. just go and relax your mind " i took his advice and put my notes away
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I went to the canteen to search for my classmates .i found them .. mostly looking quite relaxed ..(most probably finished their revisions umpteen times at home already) .As i listened to their conversations , i kept silent .Not having the mood to speak ..and my sight were glued on my watch (monitoring the time countdown to the start of the first paper )Soon,most of the students began streaming into the sports hall to assemble .
However, at this point of time , one of my friends came and asked around about the type of pens they will be using....Something popped into my mind , i opened, rummaged through my pencil case and took out my signo uniball ultra fine pen(0.38) ..i tore out one of the paper from my exercise book and scribbled something on it while heading towards the water cooler ..Sprayed some water onto it and tried to rub off the ink from the paper .As it failed , i heaved a sigh of relief .
**Morale(1) of story:Just Use ballpoint pens for national exams.. Or i should say use ballpoint pens for all your prelims to make it a habit so that when the real exams come .it will be just a familiar feeling** WE assembled , listened to words of encouragement from teachers and heads and off we go to the mph ..
Morale(2) ** try to save the trouble and use a translucent pencil case ..or just a ziplock platic bags to put all your stationary.if not the examiner will have the rights to check your pencil case** ..
Anyway for me not much trouble, they didn't really check..just asked us to open our pencil cases and they just peeped as they walked by .As i approached my seat and feeling okay .. Same environment ..Same scene but just different invigilators ..sat down ..took out my pen ...and stared at the clock while waiting for instructions. .finally the examiner told us those admin stuff .. And gave us the call to start. Immediately, I flipped over the question paper. The one word title was the first word that i am looking out for. .narrative always been my best friend since young. .it came out as FAME. .i pondered for 2 mins. .and started recalling the 10 story-lines i have pre-prepared. .finally one got me an idea of twisting it to suit the storyline i started writing. .during midway. .i thought of changing storylines but still.managed to persuade myself to.continue with that original one. I rushed finished my essay in 55 mins...leaving another 45 mins for situational writing.
But i was unsure about the spelling of a few words that i wrote in my essay. Next, i turned my attention to the part 2. I read the scenario and looked through the options. .all looked so similar in strengths.tough decision to make. But the scenario was super familiar as though i read the model essay before . Indeed, Ms Teng gave a similar essay for us to read before. I read but just cant really recall. I spent too much time thinking and left very little time to write. sad to say i scribbled.my.way through.
My views on my paper 1 part 2 :
- All my ideas and points were very shallow
- Lousy grammar. .
- Awkward sentence structure
- Poor Organization of ideas and lack of proper planning
Haiz i really screwed up part 2 .As for part 1 just hoped that they would accept.my storyline and go easy on my spelling mistakes.. Something disgusting happened too while i was panicking. I started.scratching myself the arm area. .hence leading it to bleed when i got.home when the paper ended
All began to leave the hall and went discussing.mostly were smiles and laughter. .guess it was easy for most of them. I believed some of their hard work of memorizing essays worked. .a few even copied wholesale into their answer.
However , I think it was unfair and disgusting to do that. Yeah you can remember phrases, expressions and even storylines.But is it necessary to remember and copy down the whole freaking modal essay with almost zero.changes and editing?
Three reasons why i think it is bad
Firstly,it defeated the purpose of an ENGLISH EXAM. .might as well go to a MEMORY EXAM INSTEAD OF ENGLISH EXAM.
Secondly, i feel that it was a little bit dumb to do so. Do you think the examiners are retard?. .if you can write so beautifully for your paper 1 part 1 and come with easy and stupid grammar mistakes in paper 1 part 2.you are definitely.at risk of being discovered Plagiarism
Thirdly,; your English will never improve..even.if you are able to get into a good jc. GP IS WAITING FOR YOU..I WOULD REALLY WANT TO SEE HOW YOUR MEMORY WORK COME INTO A CRUSHING DEFEAT.
Noted no offense to those who did that , i am just expressing my views .
Btw this post was written on 9jan . It was only edited and posted today
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it- Laurence J.Peter
Singing off , HD :D
Friday, August 3, 2012
PRELIM 1
CCHY PRELIM 1 2012 English-60% * Maths-79%
A-maths-73%
Physic-56%
Chem-53%
Combined Humanities-56%
Geo-45%
L1R5-21
Super Pathetic results
HARDLY SEE ANY EFFORT PUT IN BY ME
BOTH SCIENCES SCREWED
GEO FLUNKED
BOTH MATHS NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS
*ENGLISH RESULTS SUPER FAKE (+5%) moderation IF you want to mark strictly go ahead ..50% cohort wiped out and then you guys decided to moderate the damn results to make people pass?Sorry i don't see any logic in it .MAKE US FEEL BETTER(HIDE US FROM REALITY?) OR JUST SIMPLY FOR THE SAKE FOR OTHER AGENDAS(DON'T WISH TO LIST OUT ) CONCLUSION: ENGLISH WEAK
Prelim 2- two weeks away
O-levels - 70++ days away
I despise myself and those friends who said ya ( 21 points okay what ? good what?)
It may seem that they have low expectations but the fact that WE have SIMILAR and great TARGETS .. DEEP IN THEIR HEART THEY HAVE ambitions LIKE THIS GET A SINGLE POINTER FOR PRELIMS AND OWN EVERYONE IN THE CLASS AND THEN TOP THE COHORT HONOUR ROLLS FOR O LEVELS beat the other class (results release 2013) ( maybe no more year 2013)
OR JUST HOPE FOR THE LAST PART TO HAPPEN MOST OF THEM .. in fact (just don't wish to generalize things )... WE OURSELVES KNOW ..WE THINK ..WE HOPE ...WE SAY OUT LOUD>>WE WRITE AND EVEN HOPE BUT ALMOST NONE DID ...
WE MAY SEEMED TO REFUSE TO FACE THE REALITY .. WE START TO PONDER REFLECT ..YEAH WE LOOK LIKE DARK HORSES overtaking soon ..CAN OVERPOWER PEOPLE ...When we fall. we act like one who understand our real mistakes and will be changing ..(super motivated) yeah i am gonna do this do that ..beat him ...beat her ... top the class... PERFECT MINDSET >>PERFECT ADRENALINE RUSH ..sorry it don't last long . IF we fall again , we will do the same thing ..over and over again till we are numb to the falling ..And people will start thinking and change judgements about us ..we just simply look weak to them ..thinking that only a couple maybe on par with them .
BIGGEST JOKE OF PLANET EARTH ... WHEN WE START to CONCERN ABOUT PPL's judgement and then at this point of time someone will step in and say "WE SHOULD DON'T CARE aBOUT HOW PPL JUDGE US,we are ourselves..and (suddenly something like this will pop out) we shall prove them wrong "
HAHAHA i really wish to laugh at this moment ... YEAH politically correct stuff everyone in this planet earth will know we should not care about other thinks of us , we just don't let ourselves down will do ...thats crap defying human nature ??? MOST OF US will assume that we actually can do it ...in the end and actually ... we definitely will get affected by ppl's comments and views about us (NORMALLY) defying "BEING NORMAL" is something we like to do isn't it.
THIS how realistic and genuine a person can be ...(yeah maybe it is just me)
There is another group of person i would like to comment on ..people who is so full of themselves and think that if they work hard confirm trash all of us..sorry i have to say a fact that indeed they have the potential to ACE AND TOP ..BUT their biggest obstacle to success is that irritating lousy attitude of theirs ..thus unable to reach their maximum even they try to work hard ...THEY CANT GO FAR IN LIFE WITH THIS ATTITUDE OF THEIRS
CONSOLATION :HOWEVER MOST OF US STILL HAVE VALUES in us no matter how far-fetched our attitude and thoughts may be
HOW DARING OF ME TO COMMENT ON PEOPLE ? AM I SOMEONE WHO FITS TO COMMENT ? WHO AM I ? YEAH KEEP COMMENTING ABOUT PEOPLE HOW ABOUT Yourself THINK ABOUT one's indiviual before saying about others ?
NOTE : JUST MY "HUMBLE" OPINIONS AND VIEWS ...NOTHING Merely BUT A TYPICAL OR EVEN LOUSIER BEING.
signing off with a quote
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
-ROBERT FROST