I believed an attitude change is really important. I must say I’ve learnt a lot from my comms and promo mgmt class.
In comms class,
Girl: Maybe it’s because people see her as a female, hence not strong leader.
Hot comms prof: This is ridiculous. Don’t make it into a gender issue -bcos it isn’t.
Girl: I’m just saying it’s a possibility. It’s not easy to handle that situation, especially when others are not really supportive of her as compared to having a man to take control in this case.
Prof: If you’re blaming this failure on her gender, then I would say it is never going to work. You can’t go into business with such a paradigm.
I find myself nodding vigorously at his comments in class. He changed my belief. I’m not going to tell anyone about the difference between a man/woman and how I belong to the former anymore. People shouldn’t judge or have preconceived perceptions of what a male/female leadership should be like. If I have to stand up for myself, I would say ‘No, this is not because of my sex. This is just me.’ :) & Prof is hilarious. I was just talking to myself, ‘Is this the same person?’ and he thought I said, ‘Is she lesbian?’ *laughs*
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Although many commented how dreadfully boring my PM Prof is, I feel motivated to listen to him and I think he has nice eyes. :P Today’s consultation with him makes me realized just how knowledgeable he is. He shared with me how knowledge is build upon knowledge, how research must go hand in hand with teaching to bring more up-to-date information and value to the class. & I’m pleasantly surprised that he actually has a funny side to him! I was asking him why does he have 2 laptops with him? He said, “one for each hand!” hahaha.
If only my gpa could skyrocket all the way till I graduate, I might consider being a prof as my retirement plan. I love the dynamics in this environment.
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Tyra banks is really one woman I look up to in so many ways. Through this season of ANTM, I think I get the main message which is, people are going to focus on your weakness. That is the reality. It is up to you to have the confidence to take their focus out of your weakness and be drawn to something more captivating. Classy.
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One last thing which really changes me a lot over this summer is my crisis management skills. Because of FTB, I’m faced with life & death decisions to make, faced with people with dislocated arm, asthmatic attacks and possible h1n1 carriers. I learnt to force myself to remain calm, to think rationally and to encourage people when they’re going through their hard or painful times. This makes me realized if I were to be thrown into another emergency situation again, I will not panick like a gan chiong spider like I used to. I can deal with it already. It’s encouraging to know that although my academic skills might have sucked for the past sem, I acquired life skills.
“I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.” -Tyra
From now on, I think I have to pick carefully who to share certain information with.
I’m quite shocked at how news spread. Not at its speed, but its source. I didn’t tell anyone but you. So, it’s very easy for me to trace back who is the one leaking out the info. As you guys should know by now, I’m generally open by nature. Thus, for me to already warned you not to tell anyone, this info is obviously causing me discomfort and I do not appreciate the fact that now another dozens of othersare aware of it.
If I’m not telling you things, don’t blame me. You should know why. If you don’t, now you know. Because you can’t keep information inside you to protect me.
His vocals is stunning, makes me happy listening to him sing ‘You and I both’.
This is his Michael Jackson’s medley. He not only can sing well, he is studying at Yale University too. They must have produced really fine people over there!
In our everyday life, we face choices and we have to make decisions. Some decisions are easy, some are so hard that it might break you to decide to do something. Nonetheless, without the existence of tough decisions, we never know how strong we are, how much we have loved.
If you watch this video, you’d probably not regret it. Such a moving story which teaches me the worth of a sacrifice.
& I just experienced a REAL earthquake, here in Singapore at my own room. I thought I was giddy from my lack of sleep and fatigue from running 5.4km today. But then, I was swaying from right to left and so I double checked with my brother and the bobbing water level in my cup. Such a peculiar experience.
As I sat here pondering melancholily on my somewhat bleak future tarnished by my less than satisfactory & inadequate GPA, I came across the blog of a Singapore’s taxi driver with a PhD from Stanford. (Read blog here)
With my sucky driving skills, I can’t even be a taxi driver if I can’t find a job. That is SO comforting.
Cass is taking her driving test tmr, good luck woman! (:
I only slept 3 hours to rush my last minute revision and carried my heavy head around for the entire day.
And I went for CAT midterms feeling like shit, because of the lack of sleep. Then, I walked out of CAT midterms feeling like diarrhea. I think I lost 6% of my grade already because I left the answers blank and I’m so not confident of the rest of my answers. So, I’m beating myself over it.
There is this dull heartache I’m feeling and the worst part is I can’t sleep it away. I woke up 20 minutes into my intended 2 hours nap and can’t go back to sleep. I think I deviated from my mission this sem ‘No regrets’. I’m packed with remorse now. I was so distracted, so daunted by the task I did not study hard enough for CAT. Shit eh. I badly need at least a A- for CAT, project must get A+ now.
If I don’t have high expectations of myself, no one will have high expectations of me. I need to raise the bar, my bar. Sin Yi cannot take it down just like that. I’m not doing anything to prove/show to anyone that I can do it, I need to prove to myself. No slacking, 110% for the rest of the term I swear.
two incidents which really makes me think the reason for them to approach me instead of other common friends, and I suddenly recalled something one of my close friends told me before.
‘you might not know it, but you’re very kind. that’s why people will turn to you when they have probs’
I was like “No Way” when he told me that. Now I realized why he said that -.-
the very cause which once attracted them together is driving them apart now. I don’t like ironies. It is just another name for ‘life is just f-up. there is no other explanations’.
I absolutely can’t stand studying in the library now. The place is SWARMING with people. I feel so dizzy with the constant low buzz of chatter and people moving around. Still love my study place at home -as long as I could resist sleeping.
Absolutely love the maturity of his thoughts (although it comes with a bit of age) and his honesty with himself.
If I’m honest with myself now, I’m quite screwed and unmotivated to face week 7’s exams. But no choice, I have to pull myself together and do it. It’s never too late, I hope.
