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
to superimpose my expectations on someone else. SIMILARLY, i don’t like to be trapped within someone’s expectations of me. You can ask my parents, if there is any expectations of me not communicated to me clearly, don’t expect me to be manipulated into following it. In fact, I will silently rebel against it.
I like to set my expectations clear. Then we talk it out. If there is something wrong with it, you tell me and we will come out with a new set of expectations together.
what is so difficult to understand about that? seriously.
cold. I’m trembling from the wind that is blowing through my window.
I want a cup of hot steaming milo, a big tin of dutch biscuits and an entire day spent on my bed.
when my youngest bro feels guilty, he will be really quiet. A mistake that costs $100 must be upsetting for him. But I told him, ‘do you want to be a kid or an adult? to be an adult, you take responsibility for your actions. if you want to remain as a kid, you listen to whatever we tell you to do’. I think he gets the point.
It is so easy to presume while your whole world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else’s. But the trash collector will continue taking our garbage, a week’s worth of mail will still be neatly stacked on the counter. Amazingly, life has gone on.
No matter how sucky things can be, life still continues. Even if you get into an accident, even when you lose a love one, even when your family comes apart, even when you are close to breaking down.
I learnt to stop wallowing in self-pity long ago. I will de-dramatize everything and take it coolly. I learn to keep going on.
My approach to it now is to fight back. The more shit life throws at you, the more you tackle them down. You can’t be defeated, buried and be swarmed in a pool of shit. Stand up and fight for yourself, your life.
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