Discoveries
Discoveries
WOW!! Time passes really so quickly ... it's been more than a month since I last blog!!! Haha, the longest silence ever for me since this blog began =)
Well, I guess being in the last lap of college life just leaves me with very little strength, energy and motivation to write for the blog - more so, when my mind seemed to always be cluttered with things I need to read, assignments that are due, papers I need to write, etc, etc. My only destressor during those times were playing with my little pet on Facebook =P
Anyway, since I've handed up my final 2 papers and is light as a feather now, I thought I'll write a little something about what I've discovered about myself during these 3 years (in fact, more, if I want to include those years as occasional student) of student life:-
1) I hate exams and quizzes - they made me study like mad, and squeezed my brain juice until they are all dried. But then, the amazing thing is that I actually fare much better comparatively in exams and quizzes, than in papers ... with a few perfect score records, and those close to perfect =)
2) Studying is actually fun and enjoyable, but I realized I don't enjoy it when I'm doing it under pressure, or for the sake of deadlines and assignments. The readings done these years had opened my mind and equipped me better definitely, but because I'm reading not so much for understanding, but for the purpose of writing, it became a chore, and I quickly forget what I read after what's done is done =(
3) I am still a person who can take pressure or work under pressure, but pressure just makes me cranky, as usual - so I haven't changed in this =P
4) I realized I have the potential of a hermit!!! Imagine the past few years with really minimal TV program - COOL!! I didn't know how I did it!!! Haha ... the only programs that can hook me are good soap operas from TVB, or occasionally the local channels =)
5) I'm a very task person - still am, so when I need to complete some assignments and work, I can practically shut the whole world and everyone else behind me. Not good ... and my family knows it best. This is also one of my greatest regrets in these few years ... =( but I've learnt and will be more careful from now on when pressure and deadlines hit me.
6) I'm amazed at my very own courage to tell the college chaplain, "I would like to try and be the interpreter for sermons ... in Mandarin". Well, I guess the best place to learn is when I'm in college and the best opportunities ever. Thus far, I think I've done about 5 interpretations, and I've benefitted and learnt from all of them. Most thankfully is the very fact that those I work with makes serving in this way a joy =)
7) Extension of deadlines for assignments - as far as I can remember, only once. I'm not someone who would take advantage of extended deadlines, for I believe that time management is one aspects ministers of God need to learn. Hence, the very time I asked for extension was one "agonizing" moment ... =(
8) I've never stayed in hospital or undergone any surgery but during my 2nd year 1st semester, I had a bad fall at home and broke my elbow - had to be warded for 3 days and underwent the very first surgery in my life. Sigh* not a good experience at all, not to mention the ugly scar the operation left me. But throughout the recovery period, I received many gestures of love and care - from family, classmates, friends. And I thank God for them all.
9) My favourite reading spot is not in the college library - in fact, I get very distracted working in the library because of all the movement up and down, here and there. Therefore home is my best working corner, and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf's (at Rail Mall) comfy sofa became my favourite reading spot - I could just order a coffee and sit down to read for hours.
So ... it's not just a journey of reading and learning, but also one where I discover more about who I am =)
Will try and write more regularly in the days to come ... need to attune back to the "normal" life =) ... life that is "stress-free", umm... where assignments and readings are concerned that is. Think what I've written can be more coherent and tighter, and I definitely hope to be able to be more observant and reflective like I used to be =)
WOW!! Time passes really so quickly ... it's been more than a month since I last blog!!! Haha, the longest silence ever for me since this blog began =)
Well, I guess being in the last lap of college life just leaves me with very little strength, energy and motivation to write for the blog - more so, when my mind seemed to always be cluttered with things I need to read, assignments that are due, papers I need to write, etc, etc. My only destressor during those times were playing with my little pet on Facebook =P
Anyway, since I've handed up my final 2 papers and is light as a feather now, I thought I'll write a little something about what I've discovered about myself during these 3 years (in fact, more, if I want to include those years as occasional student) of student life:-
1) I hate exams and quizzes - they made me study like mad, and squeezed my brain juice until they are all dried. But then, the amazing thing is that I actually fare much better comparatively in exams and quizzes, than in papers ... with a few perfect score records, and those close to perfect =)
2) Studying is actually fun and enjoyable, but I realized I don't enjoy it when I'm doing it under pressure, or for the sake of deadlines and assignments. The readings done these years had opened my mind and equipped me better definitely, but because I'm reading not so much for understanding, but for the purpose of writing, it became a chore, and I quickly forget what I read after what's done is done =(
3) I am still a person who can take pressure or work under pressure, but pressure just makes me cranky, as usual - so I haven't changed in this =P
4) I realized I have the potential of a hermit!!! Imagine the past few years with really minimal TV program - COOL!! I didn't know how I did it!!! Haha ... the only programs that can hook me are good soap operas from TVB, or occasionally the local channels =)
5) I'm a very task person - still am, so when I need to complete some assignments and work, I can practically shut the whole world and everyone else behind me. Not good ... and my family knows it best. This is also one of my greatest regrets in these few years ... =( but I've learnt and will be more careful from now on when pressure and deadlines hit me.
6) I'm amazed at my very own courage to tell the college chaplain, "I would like to try and be the interpreter for sermons ... in Mandarin". Well, I guess the best place to learn is when I'm in college and the best opportunities ever. Thus far, I think I've done about 5 interpretations, and I've benefitted and learnt from all of them. Most thankfully is the very fact that those I work with makes serving in this way a joy =)
7) Extension of deadlines for assignments - as far as I can remember, only once. I'm not someone who would take advantage of extended deadlines, for I believe that time management is one aspects ministers of God need to learn. Hence, the very time I asked for extension was one "agonizing" moment ... =(
8) I've never stayed in hospital or undergone any surgery but during my 2nd year 1st semester, I had a bad fall at home and broke my elbow - had to be warded for 3 days and underwent the very first surgery in my life. Sigh* not a good experience at all, not to mention the ugly scar the operation left me. But throughout the recovery period, I received many gestures of love and care - from family, classmates, friends. And I thank God for them all.
9) My favourite reading spot is not in the college library - in fact, I get very distracted working in the library because of all the movement up and down, here and there. Therefore home is my best working corner, and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf's (at Rail Mall) comfy sofa became my favourite reading spot - I could just order a coffee and sit down to read for hours.
So ... it's not just a journey of reading and learning, but also one where I discover more about who I am =)
Will try and write more regularly in the days to come ... need to attune back to the "normal" life =) ... life that is "stress-free", umm... where assignments and readings are concerned that is. Think what I've written can be more coherent and tighter, and I definitely hope to be able to be more observant and reflective like I used to be =)
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