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
I just watched a TED video by Ory Okolloh about being an activist for Africa.
The personal stories of hers which covered these 3 areas makes me think for that continent too.
I realized that people become over-eager more than others who are cynical and jaded because of their environment. We are born to fight for what we’re worth while some have the silver spoon placed perfectly next to their mouths.
In the end, it is and will be a good thing. This lady broke out of poverty cycle, went to Harvard Law School and is leading the life she wants now.
I like what she says, ‘accountability stems from demand‘.
Abraham Lincoln once asked, ‘ If you call a horse’s tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?’
He answered his own question correctly (in arithmetic sense), ‘Four. Calling the tail a leg doesn’t make it one.’
I might have random thoughts, love random jokes but I believe randomness could be factored into a structure. In this sense, I’m really not as creative as I hope to be ):
I’m beginning to feel the signs of fatigue. For this past 2 days, I couldn’t keep myself awake past 7pm.
I will feel so tired, as if it’s 2am, that I just go straight to my bed and knock out for 2 hours. I’m awake now at 8.30pm, thinking ‘oh shit! still got a lot of work to do’.
I think I better sleep early tonight, so I can get up in the wee hours tmr morning and chiong.
you’re going to school to do what makes you happy, so why be miserable?
I might not be the best in whatever I’m doing now. But it makes me happy. I realized I light up whenever I talk about stuffs I have quite a good understanding of. I love academic discussions (it probes me further and test my knowledge of it). If only local libraries are as old, spacious and well-decorated to create that ambience of ‘discovering another world of knowledge’ and the importance of LEARNING rather than studying.
Even local term of studying is ‘mugging’. Totally shows the hostile competition and uncultured study culture.
