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Collection of cards

2011-11-10T00:21:00.000-08:00

I've been carefully putting aside all the cards my friends gave me especially birthday cards and here's my collection.

what I want to say to my friends is that

YOUR CARD IS SAFE AND SOUND! HAHA! & THANK YOU(:

In random order,

cards given by shihui

cards given by Jenmun

cards given by yee yee

cards given by hui si

Once again thank you for your cards & I'll continue to keep it in good condition(:

Decision - course vs work

2011-11-09T03:42:00.000-08:00

I'm given two choices, go for a course or work during my school holidays. Eventually, I chose the former. Seriously, it's so much better going for a course now and get a certificate which could ensure a better job in the future than spend my time on tiring work. I've yet told my parents my decision but well, maybe I'll choose both? If there's time for me over the school holidays.

When I told my friends that I'm going to go for Microsoft excel course which lasts for 3 days and 1 exam, most of them started saying that they already knew most about excel, but seriously, you sure you know most about using excel? Look at this before you shoot anything out of your mouth - http://www.newhorizons.com.sg/Course-Library/Microsoft-Office/Course-Outlines/MOS-2010/MOS-Excel-2010-Expert-Outline.pdf . Please do look at the 2nd and 3rd page. After reading, if you could do 90% of those, then alright, I'm just a dumbo. However, if you can't, don't shoot your mouth off.

Brother said my course will start on the 28 nov till 31 nov. Woah, and that leaves me 1 whole december holidays to either have my exam earlier or prepare for my exam. If possible, I really hoped I could finish my exam and passed by first week of december and start on another course.

Wish me good luck! (:

It's all about accumulation

2011-11-08T04:50:00.000-08:00

Two person said that I'm rich. Initially, only one of them keeps harping to it, making me feel bad for spending so much money in front of them, not until the second person starts telling me that I spend money like I super rich.

Let's have an example to explain the whole scenario, and to prove that I'm not rich.

Person A spends $5 everyday for a month (30days)	Person B spends $150 in a day, once a month
People's responses: no comments	People's responses: "waaaa, rich guy uh"
=$5 x 30days	= $150 x 1day
=$150	= $150
= Person A spends $150/month	= Person B spends $150/month

So, people, I'm not the least rich. I spent the same amount of money/month as you guys. The only difference is that I spent at one shot and not over the days.

Please get your facts right and don't think your spending any lesser than me(:

Inferiority and 'labelling'

2011-08-29T21:05:00.000-07:00

When I started imagining that we'll be getting our prelim results tomorrow, I started feeling inferior because deep inside I felt that I will flunk everything to the maximum. I know I hadn't put much effort into this prelim, but who will bother about this? To people, if you get good results, your hardworking & clever while if you get bad results, they will think your plain stupid.

'Labelling' is whereby a negative tag is attached to a person ( from why procrastinate book by teo aik cher). When we feel inferior, we usually feel that we're being labelled as something, be it stupid, failure, useless and etc. Most of the times, such 'labelling' and inferiority leads to us being more worse off than our current state cause' we have no driving force, we're resigned to fate that yes, we're that stupid or whatever. This is whereby the chinese phrase came in as advice to these inferior and labelled people, “人定胜天 " which meant as everything becomes possible (google translate).

When a seemingly clever person who constantly gets As, suddenly gotten an F9, people started labelling them as 'stupid, dumb, no brain'. How many of you really meant it when you console your friend who was in such situation that it was because of the effort that has failed? not your friend? Amongst my friends, I guess it's rare.

However! When a seemingly brainless person who keep failing, passed their examinations, people will start thinking that that person is clever (forgetting the fact that they used to label them as brainless, failures etc). How contradicting is that.

This causes inferiority whereby the self-felt-inferior people will stop mixing with the students who constantly get good results, will start mixing with people who are, of the same state as them, and that's where they felt they've found their right place. It could also be as I've mentioned in the previous posts that some friends who constantly gets As might just belittle them and not trust the answers they 've given, making them feel more inferior. Of course, there are other examples.

I admit that I've been less sensitive to people who felt that they were inferior and trying to gain some regonition that they're not being labelled by trying to get us paying more attention to them and mixing more with them. Though so, I can swear that I am such insensitive to them cause' I never labelled them neither do I think they're inferior to me. It was only until today when I got reminded about my prelims that I realised how insensitive I were to them. My bad. I apologise, sincerely.

Some people says that "no, I didn't label them cause' I still hang around with them as per normal!". Yes, you did, but, why do I often hear you people saying that, "haiyah, cannot like that think wan lah, afterall they are from whichever stream" etc such kind of phrases? By labelling them as whichever streams (which usually refer to the not so good streams), your in turn looking down on them and labelling them with a negative tag.

Not say teenagers, adults too, act like this too, labelling people with a negative tags and I have no wish to mention who are these.

Why do we bother to label people? To show that we're better than them? To make them be resigned to fate and always be inferior to us? or does it just came as naturally to you that you label people. If so, think about how you will feel if your in their shoes, and hopefully this make some positive changes.

Some may argue that by labelling them, we could inspire them to work harder and strive for the best. If this works, why not? However, it doesn't works on everyone so, it's still better to be safe than sorry. Encouragements could also inspire someone, it need not be such negative methods.

I'm not saying that I'm flawless or anything by mentioning that people keeps labelling others and hoping them to stop this. I am flaw-ful too, and perhaps I've countless flaws. However, I'm trying to spare some time from my hectic schedule to make a little positive changes here and there. I'm not afraid to admit this, but, I've once in my earlier part of my life labelled people, and only after I've gotten a taste of my own medicine that I changed. Hopefully, none of you needs to have a taste of your own medicine.

Lastly, I apologised to those whom I've labelled in the earlier parts of my life and also to those whom I've been less sensitive to.

Issue of getting bad grades and less respectable CCA

2011-08-25T23:33:00.000-07:00

I simply can't express in words how I feel about my Biology paper today. I even dare to bet with Shihui that if I were to get a B3 for my Biology, I'll treat her to Grand Hyatt Singapore and I really meant it. I really do, flunk, my paper today. When I tried to find consolation for flunking this paper, yeap, I do get some 'consolation' . I've people not bothering about what I say about my paper and blabber on about the answers they wrote, I've people who simply JUST don't believe that I really flunked it.

So what If I was the biology top before? But hello, that's before . Since the Biology MYE, I wasn't the top and furthermore, who set the rule that once your the top, you will never be one of those bottom few? C'MON! Reality is such that you may be on the top of the world once, but you get a hard fall on the ground, and what happens then? People despise on you, they think you're stupid because you fail to keep getting your top or As (referring to past experiences).

People, let me ask you one question, do people's intelligence just go missing overnight? Do you really think its some sort of retribution on that person or whatsoever misfortune befallen on them? If you think so, then DON'T STUDY! cause' you'll never know when your intelligence will go missing the next morning you wake up and if intelligence is the only factor that determine the As, then why are you studying so hard for?

Seriously, people, it's human to err. Even the straight As students might just get an F9 when he/she made a mistake by not revising enough before the examinations, and what do people have got to say of them when they admit that they did not study hard enough for the examinations, say that "awww, learn from your mistake, alright?","it's ok, at least you got this result before you're playing before exams" ? NO! AN ABSOLUTE NO! People will say things like "chill, try harder next time" and some straight forward ones will say "As if you won't study, you keep getting top, confirm will study one lo".

Think about it, how many of you tried to console your friend who got an F9 for his/her examinations but in your heart, your thinking that your friend either gets what he/she deserves(which is better in my opinion) or, as I've said, they have just gone dumb! What happens next after this? People will think that whatever answers you gave them were wrong because they feel that you're dumb.

Even the minor things, people also take into consideration if that person is stupid or not. Take for example, CCA. When I first joined my CCA, and when other teachers knew about my CCA, they were (to me) looking down onto my CCA and trying to make fun of it, but HELLO? this bloody CCA that you people think only dumbos enter, earned me at least a PRIZE (than some CCAs which are more respectable to others but not even one award), this CCA gave me at least a point minus off from the O level results which is = some others whose CCA are more respectable.

Yes, and if you've read till the end or just jumped right till here, I experienced the above matters and thus, I'm so frustrated about all these. I've been having grades like a stock market - sometimes very high, sometimes very low, and when I receive low grades, people, did that to me.

* I was in a moment of fury when I wrote this, thus, there is bound to have some harsh comments *