Been quite a busy week
Attended the Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) preview seminar conducted by Adam Khoo on Monday. It feels pretty like some of the MLM talks I had been to b4 (I’m not in any MLM!!!) But some of the things which he said actually coincides with what I had read before in a Napoleon Hill Book. To summarize the useful stuff I had picked up from this seminar:
Set clear goals (it is ok to set goals which may sound ridiculous now)
Plan how to work towards them (its pointless to have goals without action)
Take ACTIONS!
I liked this quote: “Success is not a want, it is a MUST! Do whatever it takes!”
I dun advocate stepping on other people or doing unlawful or unethical stuff la, do whatever it takes means going out of your comfort zone to do the things that you have to do. Its good that I’m taking HRM now too. It is also emphasized “stepping out of your comfort zone” to get some of the tasks done.
Done an interview with HWA on Thursday for the HRM project. Skipped 4 periods of lessons just to conduct this interview. Luckily I managed to stun BC’s car to go there. Ha ha ha. Its so ironic in a sense that when BC was around, I never went to HWA with him, but when he’s away then I have to go there.
Will be starting my retreat from this week onwards, meaning that I will not be going home till exams are over. Anyway I feel it’s getting quite pointless to waste so much time to travel home n back when the only incentive of going home is just to see my dog. Everyone is not around most of the time. I feel so alone when I go back. Might as well feel alone but still be productive in school when I stay in over the weekends. Can’t really study well at home anyway.
No Life.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Back to Company...
Went back to Flextronics this morning for the interview I’m supposed to do for HRM. Its been about 2 mths since I last saw my colleagues. Most of them gave me the surprised look when I sneaked up on them. (it’s the 7th month now) It’s pretty fun to go back once in a while and lunch out with them.
Been pretty stagnant in fyp. Tutorials are not being done as I would prefer it to be. In short, I had been slacking. Was not quite motivated to stick to the monk lifestyle (stay in sch to study till 2300 everyday) since dear is not around to accompany me. Luckily Eric has exactly the same modules as me, and he is one of my ‘god’ frens. So mixing around more with him has actually spurred me on to put in more efforts in my studies. (to keep up with him)
Think I have grown fatter over the last few weeks. Must start to step up on the intensity of my runs. Also gotta start preparing for my IPPT. Hopefully I can retain my gold level. Ha ha
Been pretty stagnant in fyp. Tutorials are not being done as I would prefer it to be. In short, I had been slacking. Was not quite motivated to stick to the monk lifestyle (stay in sch to study till 2300 everyday) since dear is not around to accompany me. Luckily Eric has exactly the same modules as me, and he is one of my ‘god’ frens. So mixing around more with him has actually spurred me on to put in more efforts in my studies. (to keep up with him)
Think I have grown fatter over the last few weeks. Must start to step up on the intensity of my runs. Also gotta start preparing for my IPPT. Hopefully I can retain my gold level. Ha ha
Monday, August 01, 2005
Not happy...
First week of school is over already.
I had been startled into doing some soul searching by some events lately. But there are more important things to do at hand.
Got a ‘C’ for my IA. This really throws a huge wrench into my endeavour at getting a 2nd upper. I had done my fair share of work during IA to at least warrant a ‘B’. Even my frens in the other departments have gotten ‘A’ when they had did less work than me and my EEE IA mate in my department (he got a ‘B’).
The only conclusion is that our stupid NTU tutor did the damage.
Anyway, he’s got a lousy reputation that even my bro had singled out him as the sup to avoid for FYP during FYP selection (my bro din know he was my NTU sup for IA then). Speaks volume about him huh. Dun wanna waste my time bitching on this worthless sh*t
Anyway, I din know that we can appeal against this result just like the normal exams until it was too late. So nothing can be done to remedy this now. The only thing that I can do now is to score as many A as I can in the final year. This lousy grade for IA will be my motivator.
For this semester : 7 modules
Target : 6 A (the last one being my biz minor, a min B would suffice)
Well, back to the soul searching part I was talking about earlier.
Din really enjoy myself during the FOC, but truthfully speaking, this year’s FOC is the most organized among those that I had attended so far.
I was the videoman for the camp. I dun get to mix around much with the people, partly due to my job, and the other factor being that I’m not sociable. It doesn’t really affect me that I dun have much frens sticking around with me most of the time, cause I’m pretty much a loner. But during events like camps, when u see people in groups having so much fun together, more or less it does affect me as I realize that I dun have anyone around me, and I’m not having fun. I’m an outcast.
This is something that I have to do soul searching on. In the midst of my pursuit for excellence in every tangible thing that I do, I missed out on one of the most important yet intangible thing in life. Socialising.
Humans are social creatures, that’s why civilizations are formed. To be able to survive, one must be strong. To be able to succeed, one needs more that his individual strength. And that comes in form of networking. Or simply put, you need friends to back you up in your ultimate quest. (unless it is something that can only be done by yourself alone)
I need to open up more and social more. I dun want to be the loner standing at one corner of the auditorium during convocation when everyone else are busy taking photos with their frens. I need to do soul searching.
I had been startled into doing some soul searching by some events lately. But there are more important things to do at hand.
Got a ‘C’ for my IA. This really throws a huge wrench into my endeavour at getting a 2nd upper. I had done my fair share of work during IA to at least warrant a ‘B’. Even my frens in the other departments have gotten ‘A’ when they had did less work than me and my EEE IA mate in my department (he got a ‘B’).
The only conclusion is that our stupid NTU tutor did the damage.
Anyway, he’s got a lousy reputation that even my bro had singled out him as the sup to avoid for FYP during FYP selection (my bro din know he was my NTU sup for IA then). Speaks volume about him huh. Dun wanna waste my time bitching on this worthless sh*t
Anyway, I din know that we can appeal against this result just like the normal exams until it was too late. So nothing can be done to remedy this now. The only thing that I can do now is to score as many A as I can in the final year. This lousy grade for IA will be my motivator.
For this semester : 7 modules
Target : 6 A (the last one being my biz minor, a min B would suffice)
Well, back to the soul searching part I was talking about earlier.
Din really enjoy myself during the FOC, but truthfully speaking, this year’s FOC is the most organized among those that I had attended so far.
I was the videoman for the camp. I dun get to mix around much with the people, partly due to my job, and the other factor being that I’m not sociable. It doesn’t really affect me that I dun have much frens sticking around with me most of the time, cause I’m pretty much a loner. But during events like camps, when u see people in groups having so much fun together, more or less it does affect me as I realize that I dun have anyone around me, and I’m not having fun. I’m an outcast.
This is something that I have to do soul searching on. In the midst of my pursuit for excellence in every tangible thing that I do, I missed out on one of the most important yet intangible thing in life. Socialising.
Humans are social creatures, that’s why civilizations are formed. To be able to survive, one must be strong. To be able to succeed, one needs more that his individual strength. And that comes in form of networking. Or simply put, you need friends to back you up in your ultimate quest. (unless it is something that can only be done by yourself alone)
I need to open up more and social more. I dun want to be the loner standing at one corner of the auditorium during convocation when everyone else are busy taking photos with their frens. I need to do soul searching.
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