Received my exam results a few days back. Felt really depressed for a couple of days. This is one of my most "hardworking" semester, but the results i have got doesn't commensurate the amount of effort, sacrifice and time i have devoted to my studies. Kinda spins me off my track, cos i have always tot that if i have put in more effort into my studies i would naturally get better results. Now i have been proven wrong.
Law of diminishing returns: if one factor of production is increased while the others remain constant, the overall returns will relatively decrease after a certain point
I’m fearing the worst that I might not get a 2nd upper Honours after so much effort, cos my results for this semester just warrants a bottom 2nd lower… The only consolation is that the system that I used to calculate this is not applicable to my batch, so there is still some respite and leeway I can work on.
A brief recap on the stuff that I have done during this short ‘holidays’ :
FYP…. (super sianz already, really no life doing this every day n night)
Went for TMS 25th anniversary dinner (nice catching up with teachers n old frens)
Completed my 3rd SC Marathon. (still recovering from a creaky knee now…)
Played my last 2 Sepak Takraw game for Hall 15.
Had a BBQ and Camp at East Coast Park with dear!
Rejoined Titans after some consideration…
On rejoining Titans:
I was pretty disappointed with the players’ commitment to Titans last year. I was willing to make the effort to travel from Tampines back to NTU for every training. But to see only abt 3 or 4 players present for every training really puts me off. The fact that we were almost not able to field a playing team (no reserves or subs!) on match day really pissed me off. So I wasn’t really keen in returning to the team this year, unless I see proper attendance and commitment in the training sessions.
Call it coincidence or whatever u want, but somehow I would always have something on everytime when I wanted to go to the field to check the team. Until last week when I finally found the time to go down by cutting back on my FYP hours.
I’m not sure whether I mistaken or wat, but the attendance on the session when I first returned was unbelievable. However, the subsequent training on Monday had only 6 players around doing nothing much.
Hopefully we’ll get better commitment next training. Our first match day is on the coming Friday. Praying hard that nothing cocks up.
My thoughts for Sepak Takraw:
Been playing this sport every year since I joined Hall 15. one of the primary reason that I liked this sport more is that nobody is really proficient in this game until that it was quite a level playing field, so unlike soccer, one doesn’t need many years of experience to pick this up. With some efforts, I managed to develop quite some decent skills. However, it will always be a regret of mine not to have won any regu in my time. I admit i wasn’t good enough in my 1st 2 years, but I’m sure I could have won some matches in my senior years had I have had more dedicated team mates. There’s only so many points I can score or save individually. But if the ball doesn’t come to me, there’s nothing much I can do about it.
Oh well, not that its going to haunt me for life anyway. Retirement from sepak takraw for me…
Finally I’ll going for a holiday in Malaysia this coming weekend with dad, mum and dear. We’ll be spending X’mas eve at KL and x’mas day at Genting. It’s the first time I’ll be spending my x’mas out of sg. Think it will be nice!
