Phew.
Been quite a week. I'm going back to Finance AND 4.5 years. I decided that my interest is not in having the Marketing Major, but rather to study the Marketing Options. So I think I'll just make it 4.5, and probably take the marketing courses somewhere in between where my timetable can take it. =)
I realized how indecisive I must seem to be going back and forth IN MY BLOG. Ha., but wel, we all have those days, don't we. Especially when it comes to things like choosing majors and bidding for modules. Oh well. That's that then.
It's funny that as I approach the exam dates, I'm not feeling extra stressed or anything. It's like almost 1 more week tho the first company law paper. Haven't started studying though, and I'm going to be spending next weekend at my church's Easter drama production. Most porbably goonna be there Fri, Sat and Sun. Thank God la, feeling stressed also no point. I don't have to start feeling guilty about not feeling stressed, cos it doesn't help me do better. Ha..
I must look back once the term is over to see what actually happened sometime in the mid-term that changed my stressed mode. Well, going to go study IE now. Probably finish up Chapter 16 and 17. =)
I have great plans for the holidays and I can't wait already! Faster! ...
Friday, March 30, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Finally time to blog, in Company Law
I decided. Again. I'll take a double major in Finance and Marketing. It'll still take 4.5 years but I figured, since its only 3 more modules and at least my accounting modules can be more evenly spread out.
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We just had Emerge'07 Youth Conference Captain's Ball competition on Saturday morning. The SMU-CHC people formed 2 chapalang teams to join. We spent 1-2 hours waiting just for our match cos the number of teams from the tertiary institutions are really too many. But it's good to get to know the church people in SMU as well; there's really alot of talent in the midst. Some having deep insight on investing, some making money in the internet through websites, one teaching the piano .And can almost make it a given that these people's character are 'there' one. I'm glad everyone's applying what we learn in church. Haha.
It's really a blessing to know have these people around you. But sometimes its like sanctuary from the real world of backbiters, gossip mongers and vipers. But it has always been in my heart to start a business or doing business with people that are upright, God-loving and having a heart of service. We'll see how la... Ha..
AND one interesting observation when we were playing Captain's Ball.
The referees don't make judgement calls. They just come up and ask "Who last touched the ball?" if they're not sure. I imagine how it would be in the EPL if the referee did that. It'll cause chaos like nobody's business. But for us, nobody lies. Haha.. usually both sides concur.
And yeah, we won NTU 2-0 and we're going on to the semis. I must say the girls in SMU all v zai leh. Totally underestimated them... and yeah, we were fighting against a disorganized NTU team, though we were disorganized too, they were worse... lol.
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We just had Emerge'07 Youth Conference Captain's Ball competition on Saturday morning. The SMU-CHC people formed 2 chapalang teams to join. We spent 1-2 hours waiting just for our match cos the number of teams from the tertiary institutions are really too many. But it's good to get to know the church people in SMU as well; there's really alot of talent in the midst. Some having deep insight on investing, some making money in the internet through websites, one teaching the piano .And can almost make it a given that these people's character are 'there' one. I'm glad everyone's applying what we learn in church. Haha.
It's really a blessing to know have these people around you. But sometimes its like sanctuary from the real world of backbiters, gossip mongers and vipers. But it has always been in my heart to start a business or doing business with people that are upright, God-loving and having a heart of service. We'll see how la... Ha..
AND one interesting observation when we were playing Captain's Ball.
The referees don't make judgement calls. They just come up and ask "Who last touched the ball?" if they're not sure. I imagine how it would be in the EPL if the referee did that. It'll cause chaos like nobody's business. But for us, nobody lies. Haha.. usually both sides concur.
And yeah, we won NTU 2-0 and we're going on to the semis. I must say the girls in SMU all v zai leh. Totally underestimated them... and yeah, we were fighting against a disorganized NTU team, though we were disorganized too, they were worse... lol.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
A small little turn.
I decided to change my major from Finance to Marketing. I've actually been thinking about it for a while ( like a few days..). I've always liked Marketing more than Finance; though I'm good with numbers, I never really liked doing them.
My reason for taking finance in the first place? 36 mods. Seemingly higher pay. Ha.. I realized that it was these things that was subconsciously holding me back. But the thought of selling my soul to the company doing long hours as either an accountant or investment banker makes me shudder. lol.
I guess it was during the planning of the FOC, when I was thinking of ideas to fund raise and to raise the profile of Uni-Y; I got excited thinking about the possibilities, and I realized that I had always enjoyed doing these things more than churning out numbers in a calculator.
And I prayed on it twice. I'm pretty sure this is where I should go. And I also decided to do 4.5 years instead! =) This means 4 mods for the rest of the school term! Ha.No more stress liao, and I have checked with my dad; he's okay with it.
Well, thank God for that. Life now already seems brighter; with no more thoughts about having to stay back into the late nights churning out numbers and reports behind the computers.. Haha..
My reason for taking finance in the first place? 36 mods. Seemingly higher pay. Ha.. I realized that it was these things that was subconsciously holding me back. But the thought of selling my soul to the company doing long hours as either an accountant or investment banker makes me shudder. lol.
I guess it was during the planning of the FOC, when I was thinking of ideas to fund raise and to raise the profile of Uni-Y; I got excited thinking about the possibilities, and I realized that I had always enjoyed doing these things more than churning out numbers in a calculator.
And I prayed on it twice. I'm pretty sure this is where I should go. And I also decided to do 4.5 years instead! =) This means 4 mods for the rest of the school term! Ha.No more stress liao, and I have checked with my dad; he's okay with it.
Well, thank God for that. Life now already seems brighter; with no more thoughts about having to stay back into the late nights churning out numbers and reports behind the computers.. Haha..
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
One problem with life today.
There's too much noise.
Too much distraction.
Even as I'm sitting here, my brother is blasting the MP3. And usually my other brother will be playing computer, and then keeping the TV on at high volume.
Too much to dull our senses.
I have always believed that our creative and spiritual side is being dulled daily by these distraction. People are all crying out," Entertain me! Now!", every where we go, we must be either hooked up to the internet watching YouTube, downloading the next movie to catch up on, or watching TV and catching up with the next upcoming serial ( Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, and now Heroes; when will it ever end?) or plugged on to our iPods...
But don't we think time alone to reflect is important? Time to think about our day, or time just to rest?
It is only when I learnt to give time to God in prayer, and time to just rest, that my creative side began to uncover itself. I had realized that I'm actually more of someone on the aesthetic side than on the Maths side, and I've been led to believe otherwise since young. I think we should learn to cut all these when necessary. Alot of the inspiration I got, say for a business idea, a way to bless another person, a thought to blog about, it happened when either I'm on the bus in reflection, or in prayer.
There's just too much to distract us. Too much to dull our senses.
Too much distraction.
Even as I'm sitting here, my brother is blasting the MP3. And usually my other brother will be playing computer, and then keeping the TV on at high volume.
Too much to dull our senses.
I have always believed that our creative and spiritual side is being dulled daily by these distraction. People are all crying out," Entertain me! Now!", every where we go, we must be either hooked up to the internet watching YouTube, downloading the next movie to catch up on, or watching TV and catching up with the next upcoming serial ( Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, and now Heroes; when will it ever end?) or plugged on to our iPods...
But don't we think time alone to reflect is important? Time to think about our day, or time just to rest?
It is only when I learnt to give time to God in prayer, and time to just rest, that my creative side began to uncover itself. I had realized that I'm actually more of someone on the aesthetic side than on the Maths side, and I've been led to believe otherwise since young. I think we should learn to cut all these when necessary. Alot of the inspiration I got, say for a business idea, a way to bless another person, a thought to blog about, it happened when either I'm on the bus in reflection, or in prayer.
There's just too much to distract us. Too much to dull our senses.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
'Cave' Time
This few days have been my 'Cave' time. Except for today which I spent about 6 hours in school, from Monday to Wednesday I have almost disappeared from school immediately after lesson ended.
Going to burn out anytime soon, and I don't want it to be now. It's 4 weeks to the finals, and the last thing I want is me running out of steam just before my 4 final papers. Now even the Bible supports me here! =P
Ecc 12:12b
and much study is wearisome to the flesh.
Ha. There you go. But seriously, I think I must learn to take day-long breaks. God didn't make the Sabbath for nothing, and while we don't have to follow it religiously, but it's God telling us the importance of taking a day off. Now because I haven't taken much days off for the past few months, now I'm taking 3-4 day straight offs, and my offs are not even real offs. Which is bad. But it's great to come back home not having work on our minds, and really just relax and say, play the guitar, watch TV and stuff.
Often we feel guilty about resting, thinking that we could be more productive if we used the day for work, but guess what, the richest people in the world, the Jews, follow the Sabbath (One rest day)religiously. George Soros, and I forgot who else. If even the most successful people in the world take 1 day break every 7 days, how about us? Maybe the reason why we can't do as well is because we cannot discipline ourselves to rest. That's right, discipline ourselves to rest! To take a step back from everything and 'consolidate'.
You know, I've always wondered. How really important is that GPA? We work our guts out for 4 years, spending the majority of our school life gunning for that GPA and guess what? It ends up as one line on our resume, as a say, 3.8/4.0. That's it. Someone should really survey employers. Are they really looking out for that one line? Or the 30 lines that follow?
Well common sense says whatever that takes more space on the paper should get more of the reader's attention. And my school activities and CCA take up like 9 -10 lines, skills another 5, work experience another say, 10. And that GPA, one puny line.
Nowadays employees do value EQ more, things like leadership, communication and all that which come from your 30+ lines in CCA, work experience, skills, community service. Then why are we still so concerned about it!?!?!?! Granted, an employer will choose someone with 3.8 over 3.0. But then how about 3.6? 3.7? Although in our eyes it must be a big thing, but how about in their eyes? In our eyes its 4 years of sweat and blood.In their eyes? 0.1. Now that puts things in perspective doesn't it?
Well, one that makes one thing clear for me. Rest is more important. Ha. Time for more slacking!
Going to burn out anytime soon, and I don't want it to be now. It's 4 weeks to the finals, and the last thing I want is me running out of steam just before my 4 final papers. Now even the Bible supports me here! =P
Ecc 12:12b
and much study is wearisome to the flesh.
Ha. There you go. But seriously, I think I must learn to take day-long breaks. God didn't make the Sabbath for nothing, and while we don't have to follow it religiously, but it's God telling us the importance of taking a day off. Now because I haven't taken much days off for the past few months, now I'm taking 3-4 day straight offs, and my offs are not even real offs. Which is bad. But it's great to come back home not having work on our minds, and really just relax and say, play the guitar, watch TV and stuff.
Often we feel guilty about resting, thinking that we could be more productive if we used the day for work, but guess what, the richest people in the world, the Jews, follow the Sabbath (One rest day)religiously. George Soros, and I forgot who else. If even the most successful people in the world take 1 day break every 7 days, how about us? Maybe the reason why we can't do as well is because we cannot discipline ourselves to rest. That's right, discipline ourselves to rest! To take a step back from everything and 'consolidate'.
You know, I've always wondered. How really important is that GPA? We work our guts out for 4 years, spending the majority of our school life gunning for that GPA and guess what? It ends up as one line on our resume, as a say, 3.8/4.0. That's it. Someone should really survey employers. Are they really looking out for that one line? Or the 30 lines that follow?
Well common sense says whatever that takes more space on the paper should get more of the reader's attention. And my school activities and CCA take up like 9 -10 lines, skills another 5, work experience another say, 10. And that GPA, one puny line.
Nowadays employees do value EQ more, things like leadership, communication and all that which come from your 30+ lines in CCA, work experience, skills, community service. Then why are we still so concerned about it!?!?!?! Granted, an employer will choose someone with 3.8 over 3.0. But then how about 3.6? 3.7? Although in our eyes it must be a big thing, but how about in their eyes? In our eyes its 4 years of sweat and blood.In their eyes? 0.1. Now that puts things in perspective doesn't it?
Well, one that makes one thing clear for me. Rest is more important. Ha. Time for more slacking!
Sunday, March 11, 2007
The last 100 metres...
Skipped Company Law class today.I'm really tired. Non-stop activities all the way from last Thursday. It's time to take a break now. REALLY need that break now, before I decide to collapse and die. Ha..
Honestly, I don't know what's been bothering me this few weeks, but I just feel that my academic life's in a mess. Behind on every subject ( well, relative to people like Sarah.. Haha), and I think that thought itself is the source of the stress. And I have to go back my army camp tmr! How sian is that. I never really enjoyed my last year in army; had alot of bad memories. Some people I wished I didn't meet; some decisions which I made badly; and even till now, there are some strings left hanging that I just wish would disappear.
I'm in a sense, happy with my life now, and to look back and remember what happened in there is really quite draining. It was in army and the time after I ROD-ed that brought me through my near-emotional low experiences. Never again, I told myself. On the other hand, I thank God for the incident, because if not for it, I may not have even got to know Him. And as many of us say, all things happen for a reason, and this is just one of the many, but a major one, to prepare me for the future.
Well, at least I'm going back to camp with Spencer and Nicholas.. got some people from the 'present' going back to the 'past' together. And God too. And that gives me some comfort here. Kranji camp summore. I don't want to go there man... That area is full of my past;mostly not worth remembering.
Anyway, back to the present. and the future. Anyway I'm taking a break now, just played a little, and now I'm mugging my IE for the Wed midterms. Told myself to finish at least 2 chapters today. But I'm looking forward to after exams. Going to:
1. Learn Driving
2. Learn how to build websites that make money! From Tianyi. Yeah...
3.Organize Uni-Y FOC.
4. Participate in Entrepreneurship challenge and Word Power for the Youth Conference in my church! Now that's something to look forward to... Ha..
5. Go school of Theology with Charis, Sharon, Mingli, and lots of godly people..
I'm sure many of us have heard of the saying that our lives will be shaped by the 5 people closest to us. "Show me who the person mixes with, and I'll tell you about the person..". Common saying, yeah, but it's not many of us who actually make a decision about who should be allowed into our 'inner circle', and after all these are the people who will shape you.
I'm really glad that in these four months, I'll really get some VERY good influence, considering the fact that most of these people are more mature and more capable than me. I'm going to be stretched and tested in terms of character and ability. And although uncomfortable, I know I'm going to be changed in a great way after these 4 months.
God, I'll do better the next sem...
Honestly, I don't know what's been bothering me this few weeks, but I just feel that my academic life's in a mess. Behind on every subject ( well, relative to people like Sarah.. Haha), and I think that thought itself is the source of the stress. And I have to go back my army camp tmr! How sian is that. I never really enjoyed my last year in army; had alot of bad memories. Some people I wished I didn't meet; some decisions which I made badly; and even till now, there are some strings left hanging that I just wish would disappear.
I'm in a sense, happy with my life now, and to look back and remember what happened in there is really quite draining. It was in army and the time after I ROD-ed that brought me through my near-emotional low experiences. Never again, I told myself. On the other hand, I thank God for the incident, because if not for it, I may not have even got to know Him. And as many of us say, all things happen for a reason, and this is just one of the many, but a major one, to prepare me for the future.
Well, at least I'm going back to camp with Spencer and Nicholas.. got some people from the 'present' going back to the 'past' together. And God too. And that gives me some comfort here. Kranji camp summore. I don't want to go there man... That area is full of my past;mostly not worth remembering.
Anyway, back to the present. and the future. Anyway I'm taking a break now, just played a little, and now I'm mugging my IE for the Wed midterms. Told myself to finish at least 2 chapters today. But I'm looking forward to after exams. Going to:
1. Learn Driving
2. Learn how to build websites that make money! From Tianyi. Yeah...
3.Organize Uni-Y FOC.
4. Participate in Entrepreneurship challenge and Word Power for the Youth Conference in my church! Now that's something to look forward to... Ha..
5. Go school of Theology with Charis, Sharon, Mingli, and lots of godly people..
I'm sure many of us have heard of the saying that our lives will be shaped by the 5 people closest to us. "Show me who the person mixes with, and I'll tell you about the person..". Common saying, yeah, but it's not many of us who actually make a decision about who should be allowed into our 'inner circle', and after all these are the people who will shape you.
I'm really glad that in these four months, I'll really get some VERY good influence, considering the fact that most of these people are more mature and more capable than me. I'm going to be stretched and tested in terms of character and ability. And although uncomfortable, I know I'm going to be changed in a great way after these 4 months.
God, I'll do better the next sem...
Monday, March 5, 2007
Thoughts
Just got back my Company Law Midterms.
B+
Crap. Pretty sian leh. I think I've been marked down on my handwriting. That's why I never liked essay writing modules. I know I'm gonna do badly on them, not because my understanding is weak, but because my grammar and handwriting will give the marker a bad impression even before he starts reading. Ah well, I think I'm going to sign up for a penmanship course. Or maybe go back to kindergarden. Ha.
But oh well, I'm going to forget about it in a few hours time. There's more interesting things upcoming!
I'm going to join the Entrepreneurship Challenge from my church with Charis and Gershon for Emerge 07, representing SMU! This Challenge requires us to come up with a business idea for a social entreprise to serve a social course. And I believe that if we can come up with a good enough plan, who knows the many businesspeople from church might just give us funding for it!.. How exciting. Although I never worked with Gershon before, but he's like from Cognitare la. Enuff said. Haa..
I have to read up more to up my value to the group as well, don't want to be useless there!
I sense strength in myself today. Although I'm feeling the same tiredness after lunch and same lethargy, but I feel a push in myself today to press on. A desire to put everything in my life back into balance. A desire to execute the Uni-Y FOC to the best that I can. A strength to speak up without fearing others' opinions. Praise God for that.
I have always felt that all the stress in school was a good training for the working world. Instead of wishing that we had less work, we should be praying for strength to balance everything and doing everything sui sui even when so many things are coming our way. Instead of decreasing work, let's learn to increase our capacity to handle it. It's only through this that we grow.
Speaking of which, let me mention Gershon. Haha. I don't know him very well, but I only know he's very zai. He's a cell group leader in church, leading a group of 10+ people around our age, and seriously the commitment as a cell leader is really up up up. And then he's in Cognitare. Nothing to say man.
I always thought handling one of the two ( cell leader or Cognitare) with school was gonna be a challenge, but he has both + school. Power. Ha. Now at least I have a 'live' model that handling everything is possible, no more excuses. =P It's just about increasing our own capacity.
Oh well, and Weifa! Since you want so much to read my blog during company law. Care to tell me, is there any place in the internet which allows you to trade the SGX virtually? Meaning using fake money to trade real market. To learn la. I wanna start when I have the capital, but must learn how to do it well first.
B+
Crap. Pretty sian leh. I think I've been marked down on my handwriting. That's why I never liked essay writing modules. I know I'm gonna do badly on them, not because my understanding is weak, but because my grammar and handwriting will give the marker a bad impression even before he starts reading. Ah well, I think I'm going to sign up for a penmanship course. Or maybe go back to kindergarden. Ha.
But oh well, I'm going to forget about it in a few hours time. There's more interesting things upcoming!
I'm going to join the Entrepreneurship Challenge from my church with Charis and Gershon for Emerge 07, representing SMU! This Challenge requires us to come up with a business idea for a social entreprise to serve a social course. And I believe that if we can come up with a good enough plan, who knows the many businesspeople from church might just give us funding for it!.. How exciting. Although I never worked with Gershon before, but he's like from Cognitare la. Enuff said. Haa..
I have to read up more to up my value to the group as well, don't want to be useless there!
I sense strength in myself today. Although I'm feeling the same tiredness after lunch and same lethargy, but I feel a push in myself today to press on. A desire to put everything in my life back into balance. A desire to execute the Uni-Y FOC to the best that I can. A strength to speak up without fearing others' opinions. Praise God for that.
I have always felt that all the stress in school was a good training for the working world. Instead of wishing that we had less work, we should be praying for strength to balance everything and doing everything sui sui even when so many things are coming our way. Instead of decreasing work, let's learn to increase our capacity to handle it. It's only through this that we grow.
Speaking of which, let me mention Gershon. Haha. I don't know him very well, but I only know he's very zai. He's a cell group leader in church, leading a group of 10+ people around our age, and seriously the commitment as a cell leader is really up up up. And then he's in Cognitare. Nothing to say man.
I always thought handling one of the two ( cell leader or Cognitare) with school was gonna be a challenge, but he has both + school. Power. Ha. Now at least I have a 'live' model that handling everything is possible, no more excuses. =P It's just about increasing our own capacity.
Oh well, and Weifa! Since you want so much to read my blog during company law. Care to tell me, is there any place in the internet which allows you to trade the SGX virtually? Meaning using fake money to trade real market. To learn la. I wanna start when I have the capital, but must learn how to do it well first.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Looking back
I was reading my own journals and diaries some time back, and really, it brought me alot of memories from my past. Good and bad ones. All the way back from '03, I started to record my thoughts occassionally and being the ill-disciplined me, the entries start with a daily entry, and then weekly, then monthly and finally never at all. But nonetheless, I still have some record of what happened during that period.
I even have a journal that recorded exactly what happened each day over the week and for some of them, I can even visualize what happened during each of the days. It's like a journey back to the past. It was a mixed feeling of nostalgia and sadness, some friends that I don't keep in contact anymore, and more than that, there's someone I don't recognize anymore: myself. Ha. In some way, I see myself in those situations again, but in another, it's not me anymore; I've changed...
(On a side note, I never knew how to use the semi-colon(;) until I read the Bible. That's how bad my written english was. Haha.)
Anyway, does anyone know of a program that can print out blog entries? I know Wil was thinking of doing something like that. Hey someone please do it! It's good business!
Computers will crash and blogs will shut down, but hard copies will by no means pass away!(Ha...)
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Yesterday I was having a debate with the juniors on whether morals are innate or a product of culture.
One of my junior's arguments was that " I think that there's no real right or wrong, as long as you are acting consistently with what you believe in."
I thought that was a fair statement, until it came to my mind this morning: "Isn't he implying some sort of right and wrong when he made that statement?" In essence, we can say he's implying also that," My statement is right." So then, doesn't he destroy his own argument? Ha, oh well, had a good time discussing with them la; they're great people. =)
I'm carried in everlasting arms
You'll never let me go
Through it all
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