Monday, September 10, 2007
The September holiday comes and flies. Just a few blinks, and it it gone!!! Consumed by the njrc, to put i simply. but fortunately, it managed to yield some results after the hard work we have put in. A medal as a fruit for our labour, how rewarding... managed to squeeze some time out for some physical labour as well. on friday, i went out to play badminton with eileen and manwei!!! i went down like so instantly, straight after the call i received to go down. have quite a good time, commentating about eileen's performance. i went into the night , reflecting about our shrewed up performance during the njrc, only to recieve the call from mr loh that we have won an award. it is like. LOL. his timing was like so perfect... and soon, after attending the saturday prize giving ceremoney. It was over. MY HOLIDAYs are gone!!!Today's lesson was pretty much alright, except that i found myself a little rusty after the long break. Went to mug with a friend after school!!! so BENEFICIAL!! LOL
the fruit of our labour
Posted by bryant at 6:24 AM
Thursday, September 06, 2007
NJRC is finally over. Kinda mixed with feelings, happy that it is over but sad that we visually came out of it with nothing. no doubt, we could have done better with our experience, but this time round, our last minute flaws were thoroughly exposed. I SHALL NOT DO LAST MINUTE WORK EVER AGAIN. though our grp did not live up to our name, but we sure enjoyed the process of our last year engaging in NJRC. the quarantine period was something i thought we could have made do without. it basically left us stoning there for 9 god-damn hours. fortunately, i met a friend there, and chatted with her for like 2 hours or more, while the rest kill their time in an sardine can-like booth... Wish the two team who made it to the finals all the best. and to mr loh, sorry for disappointing you, we underperformed...
our booth
our grp members
our over-sized jersey
our mascot
tag replies:
chingyee: good luck for ur eoy too!!
liling: thanks for ur compliments abt my blogskin, hmm, my sis and i looked alike, i did not really notice that.
chanteng: yo!! update ur blog plz
weiqi: dun worry, i wun choke on my bread!!! thanks for ur advice!! u dun choke on urs too.
clarissa: gd luck for your eoy too. once again, gd luck in your quest
angie: hello, finally tagged liao, i will never forget you as a friend. dun worry.
Posted by bryant at 6:58 PM
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Egoism and self-centeredness work in the subtlest fashion, at least from my point of view... Employing an endlessly adaptable variety of approaches to maintain our illusion of seperatness. One important source for this lies in our perceived failures and successes. When we fail, or feel that we have failed, egoism leads us to consider ourselves to be failures, incompetent, stupid, perhaps even worthless. When we succeed, egoism leads us to inwardly preen, swell with pride, feel invincible, and consider ourselves to be better than others. And then we tell ourselves and others stories of failure or of success. In either scenario we buy into allowing our self-worth and our own reality to be defined by events external to us, by the feedback we receive from the world.
Sorrow for and learning from our mistakes, as well as natural satisfaction in our accomplishments, does not necessary strengthen our self-centeredness. But the great temptation of the poles of success and failure consists of ascribing them to our illusory self, feeling that it is myself who have succeeded or failed, praising or blaming myself, and thereby perpetuating my misguided belief in this mirage of a self.
Neither great success nor continuing failures can fundamentally alter who I am. This is a hard lesson taught by experience. And since most of us never achieve what we define as great success, it remains an unattained goal, forever enticing us to look exclusively to externals for meaning and purpose.
i am engulfed by failure, failure to accomplish mission. i am LOST, intoxicated between the nature of exasperation and madness, misguided by my egoism or my illusory self?
Posted by bryant at 7:16 AM
Sunday, September 02, 2007
it is always good to reward yourself after a hard day work, and today was a day when my mom decided to reward the whole family. i was like so stunned when my dad announced that we are dining out for dinner, my attitude was simply , u must be kidding. But it turned out otherwise, and after a routine rotting session for the whole day, my whole family walked out of the house together, it was this sense of bond within the family which i so solely missed, the feeling of being part of a family. i hope day like this today would happen more in the future.some picture to go with the night i spent at the Indonesian restaurant. if i am not wrong, it is called Samir or something close to that. so to pit it exact, it is the second time in the week which i dine at Takashimaya. Lucky me. btw, when i was eating those delicious food (tender satay, black pepper chicken, and some tofu junk! YUMMY!! ) at the restaurant, i heard a familiar music, one which we used to dance together. it created a stir in my heart, just want you to know...
my sis and i....
my dad was like trying to advertise for the restaurant.
both my mum and dad. i love them lots...
the mouth-watering food!!!tag replies:
chin: really, i was half-thinking it was a failure. thanks for the encouragement
jiaxin: indeed, the dinner was like so filling. and once again, sorry for ps-ing you girls.
chia heng: our pleasure to have dinner with you, hope you like the present
agnes: thanks for tagging back, btw, u were a good emcee on that day. way to go.
jocelyn: finally know ur url, hahax, nice blog, was half-expecting it to be fully purple, LOL
jingrui: ok then, thanks for tagging
hazel: HAIL de fuhrer, and wish ourselves all the best for the NJRC. hahax
Posted by bryant at 6:40 AM
Saturday, September 01, 2007
TO all teachers, WISH U ALL AHAPPY TEACHERS' day!!!
i shall discuss about teachers as a general:
Teachers have the greatest impact on student learning and achievement, greater than the make-up of the students in the classroom. The significance of teachers tend to be underestimated by many. As a matter of fact, every great man is being gloomed by a teacher. Teachers are thus fundamental to not just our students’ success, but to our society’s success.
Do you know, the amount of power a teacher hold is now greatly controlled and monitored. No longer can teachers wield cane like the olden times, and teachers are also not allowed to scold students!!! What have the world become? In taiwan, the teachers even have to ask the permission of the students before they could scold the students. this is due to fear of getting sued by the parents of the teachers. Is this caused by the modernization of the society, whereby certificates are all that matter, so much that disciple is no longer a decided factor; or is it that the parents do not want their child to suffer like how they did when they were young, getting beaten and scolded by teachers. Is this why students these days are being pampered so much, like how the olden kings used to treat their treasures as their closest kin. Have the parents have no common sense to think that the man that they are now, are groomed by the teachers who discipled them in their process of growing up. it really sets my mind moving, what are students going become in the years to come? imagine a typical classroom fight, and a teacher can no longer do anything about it due to their limited power and almost invisible presence to the students. when i think of this, the only word which come associated with that classroom is the word CHAOS.
i really hope that government should really start pondering about their decision to grant the students that much student rights, and really call for parents to stop pampering their children like three year old kid. this way classrooms will have order brought back to them and teachers can have much better sleep...
p.s.
to u: sorry for ps-ing you people, was busy.