"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - : adj ; meaning FANTASTIC
Friday, 17 July 2009
ADAM KHOO MOTIVATIONAL WORKSHOP DAY2
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Had Common Test first... Hope i pass. nonono..... MUST PASS. :D
Motivational talk was inspiring today... educational and i finally found out what i really wanted. Who i really am. What i really want to do with my life.
The session with Andre was again another teary one. When she started talking about the most important person in my life, the one that will always and has been always been there for me, i thought instead of myself, but my parents. I thought about all the help and concern they have given me. All the love. How blessed i actually am. We watched some documentaries, the OPRAH show, about the girl whose life totally changed overnight. The girl who was burn untill beyond recognition. And the snake babies, and all the other problems people really face, problems unlike ours. We are very lucky. Lucky, to have such wonderful parents, lucky to have a roof over your head. Lucky, to have food on the table everyday. Lucky to have a bed to sleep on. Lucky to have parents that nag. Lucky, to have a school to go to. Lucky, because we are all perfect. Why, being so blessed, some just waste their lives awayand some just end theirs. Why blame everybody for all the setbacks you face? Why, be so complacent and always, never cherish anything untill the day we know we are going to lose it? Isnt it too late? Many times we doubt our abilities, we start to lose faith in ourselves, we start to listen to all the negative feedbacks we hear and feel bad about ourselves. Why not look deep inside you, and see the real you? Why not stand up and be proud of who you are and how you look like?
Andre brought us through a journey of knowing yourself. I know what i finally want and i'm sure of the choice i made. So what if people tell me Architecture is so tough? Architecture is so boring. Is this what you really want? You need to do alot of maths you know? Are you sure??
YES. i'm sure. I want to walk down the streets one day, or flip through a magazine or switch on the tv, or browse through a travel catalogue and see the buildings i design. I want to create a better living place for everyone. a better looking building, a better looking place, a place anybody would feel good being there. Because my father told me, What you really want, you will really work for it, nothing can stop you. Yes, exactly the same, candice told us. My dad told me this when i was in sec2.
WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST 16 YEARS? She was asking this, and i really thought hard. Is there really, anything i did that made me feel proud? I guess... I'm proud i managed to pass my maths from a F9 to an A2... and made it to the class i was aiming for which is 302. I wanted to take Amaths badly, i wanted to master mathematics. But what happen the next year? i started slacking. i started sliding and my grades start to swim further and further away. Untill i start to get single digit numbers. And by the time i started feeling bad about myself, i wanted to work hard again. But what have i been wasting my life on? how have i spent 16 years on my life on? TV, COMPUTER, SLEEPING, STONING, so many so many, so much time, which could have been properly made use of. But i hate it when people start looking down on me, giving up on me and the worst, telling me that i suck. And i will really prove it to them, that hey, YOU SUCK MORE.
The experience today was valuable. And i believe, i will succeed one day. Because i made that choice, and choices have consequences. YEAH BABY.
haha. LOVE THAT PHRASE "choices have consequences"
Dont you think it would bounce in your head and start to enlarge everytime you read it or think about it? Dont you think it has so much meaning in it and it warns you that hey, are you sure you want to do this? Think carefully. Because, choices have consequences.
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Had Common Test first... Hope i pass. nonono..... MUST PASS. :D
Motivational talk was inspiring today... educational and i finally found out what i really wanted. Who i really am. What i really want to do with my life.
The session with Andre was again another teary one. When she started talking about the most important person in my life, the one that will always and has been always been there for me, i thought instead of myself, but my parents. I thought about all the help and concern they have given me. All the love. How blessed i actually am. We watched some documentaries, the OPRAH show, about the girl whose life totally changed overnight. The girl who was burn untill beyond recognition. And the snake babies, and all the other problems people really face, problems unlike ours. We are very lucky. Lucky, to have such wonderful parents, lucky to have a roof over your head. Lucky, to have food on the table everyday. Lucky to have a bed to sleep on. Lucky to have parents that nag. Lucky, to have a school to go to. Lucky, because we are all perfect. Why, being so blessed, some just waste their lives awayand some just end theirs. Why blame everybody for all the setbacks you face? Why, be so complacent and always, never cherish anything untill the day we know we are going to lose it? Isnt it too late? Many times we doubt our abilities, we start to lose faith in ourselves, we start to listen to all the negative feedbacks we hear and feel bad about ourselves. Why not look deep inside you, and see the real you? Why not stand up and be proud of who you are and how you look like?
Andre brought us through a journey of knowing yourself. I know what i finally want and i'm sure of the choice i made. So what if people tell me Architecture is so tough? Architecture is so boring. Is this what you really want? You need to do alot of maths you know? Are you sure??
YES. i'm sure. I want to walk down the streets one day, or flip through a magazine or switch on the tv, or browse through a travel catalogue and see the buildings i design. I want to create a better living place for everyone. a better looking building, a better looking place, a place anybody would feel good being there. Because my father told me, What you really want, you will really work for it, nothing can stop you. Yes, exactly the same, candice told us. My dad told me this when i was in sec2.
WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST 16 YEARS? She was asking this, and i really thought hard. Is there really, anything i did that made me feel proud? I guess... I'm proud i managed to pass my maths from a F9 to an A2... and made it to the class i was aiming for which is 302. I wanted to take Amaths badly, i wanted to master mathematics. But what happen the next year? i started slacking. i started sliding and my grades start to swim further and further away. Untill i start to get single digit numbers. And by the time i started feeling bad about myself, i wanted to work hard again. But what have i been wasting my life on? how have i spent 16 years on my life on? TV, COMPUTER, SLEEPING, STONING, so many so many, so much time, which could have been properly made use of. But i hate it when people start looking down on me, giving up on me and the worst, telling me that i suck. And i will really prove it to them, that hey, YOU SUCK MORE.
The experience today was valuable. And i believe, i will succeed one day. Because i made that choice, and choices have consequences. YEAH BABY.
haha. LOVE THAT PHRASE "choices have consequences"
Dont you think it would bounce in your head and start to enlarge everytime you read it or think about it? Dont you think it has so much meaning in it and it warns you that hey, are you sure you want to do this? Think carefully. Because, choices have consequences.
Take each stride with a SMILE, 23:07.
