Another Beginning of the Whiteaura: March 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

Human beings are strange, aren't they? Have a sudden urge to go Taiwan today. So I woke up and immediately surf the net to find the air tix to Taiwan today. Yes, to pack up and fly immediately. However, after looking through he net, I have second thoughts. Well, I can afford the price of the air tix now, but I begin to think whether I should go? Is it worth it to go there? Or should I save the money up for better use?

Saturday, March 28, 2009

We're all prisoners of our own self. No? How many times have we doubted ourselves? How many times have we given up on something even before we try it?

I have a fren who wanted to go study nursing in university. Her grades enable her to go JC. However, she was hesistant to go JC or poly because of GP. She heard from frens, and everyone telling her that GP is very difficult. And in the end, she chose to go poly. She was thinking of going into university through the poly route, which I feel is much harder than going in from JC. Well, it's an example of her being imprisoned by herself, her belief, her reality.

How many times have we told ourselves that we cannot make it, even before we dare to try? And even tell ourselves to face "reality". If this is the case, we'll still be in the caveman age. There'll be no ships, no handphones and no aeroplanes. It's reality that human beings cannot float on water, it's reality that human beings cannot communicate through space, and it a reality that human beings cannot fly like birds! If scientists those days face reality, we'll still be staying in caves, hunting wild animals for food.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Starting to play the psychological game. Playing games with my own mind. Sometimes decision is hard. Or maybe it's because we're programmed since young that we should not lose. Whenever a share goes against u, u're tell urself that tmr the share prices will go as what u wish and hope and hope. But when the next day it goes against u again, u'll say that maybe the next day it'll go for u again. And it repeats and repeats until u lose more and more. Our mind dun want to lose.

I finally decided to be more discipline when it comes to shares. Follow the rules. Because I did not follow the rule at one time, i lose some money. I should not have done that. Lucky it's not much. But it's a lesson learnt!!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Johnny was saying that he is going to have his hair cut before school term so that he can go around catching students with long hair, saying to lead by example. Kids like to compare themselves with adults. I was thinking, why must a teacher have short and tidy hair in order to catch students with messy and long hair? The teacher had already earned his right not to keep short hair, but of course within the organisation guidelines. If everything must lead by example, it's really endless. Then teachers will have to wear school uniform, cannot have an air con staffroom, use same toilet as students, sit on the floor together with students in hall etc etc... Mmm, actually how interesting it will be if all teachers were to wear school uniform to school one day...

Monday, March 16, 2009

2nd Chance...

Is there always a 2nd chance? Our education system is too merciful towards students. Just like when a student is late, they are given another chance. And this convey to them, thinking that everything in the world, in the society, in life, is merciful towards them. People tend to take things for granted, because there's always a "2nd chance". The 2nd chance is actually a privilege and not a right.

I always believe in not giving a 2nd chance. Because it's easily abused. And also once they know that they have a 2nd chance, they will not go their very best. Just like once u know that the only way to survive is by this route, u'll go all out to bash through.

In war, sad to say, there's no such things as a 2nd chance. One bullet through the head and u're gone. Even if the bullet just graze past ur hand, u'll be too psychologically affected to carry on the war. During training in the army, no one takes it very seriously, but when u r send to some other war torn country, the feeling of having live rounds, the feeling of a real grenade in ur SBO is enough to send a msg to u that this time, there's no 2nd chance. Either u come back in vertically, horizontally, or back to nature.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Ivy said that my blogging will not have much results, as in generate income. As in the blog, http://blogblog11.com/opticalillusion . As mentioned, the blog is my 5th source of income. And she said that it will not generate much traffic. Well, nobody knows. Maybe even if it's not going to work, I've tried. Isn't it that the most important part to try and fail rather than to "fail" without trying? And at least I learn something out of it.

Most people are just too scared to try new things. Leaving the comfort zone is a big no no for them. And they're in the same vicious cycle years after years after years after years. Trying new things, for them is like asking them to jump from a plane. And before they jump, they already say that they will die. Mmm.. I jump out of a plane before... at a height of 8000 feet.... and of course with parachute.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Was chatting with a fren in msn today. She told me that something happened in school today that swayed her decision to be a teacher by a bit. A lot of teachers have been telling her not to join the teaching force and she thinks that perhaps there's something with the system that makes many teachers lose the passion. She finds great satisfaction when students do well, something that she can't find in sales. However, she wun go to the extent of super extra work for them....

Frankly speaking, I do not know how much of a passion she has. Just my own thinking, that if someone has a passion for something, they'll go all out for it, isn't it? Or maybe her super extra work means giving remedial till 9pm every night to students?? Well, if teaching is her dream, then go for it! Dun let others shake the goals. The world is full of people who'll tell u 1001 bad things to keep u from getting what u really want.

Well, perhaps adults have been jaded by everything around them. Or is it society that makes them think that as an adult, "I must complain about everything", challenge everything so as to make "me" look wise, or have the "I am right" mindset. It's more rampant in the previous generation whereby the man in the house is seen as an authoritative figure and nobody can challenge them, and that's why when the kids grow up, they become like them. Perhaps that's why we always meet negative and jaded adults, who had lost the zest in life, who goes around telling everyone with dreams to be more realistic, to be more down to earth, and perhaps subtly, to be as poor, as bad and as pathetic as them. And worst of all, thinking that their one and only job as an employee is the most stable job in the world...

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Some things just seems illogical. Is it possible to use a leaf to cut a chopstick? Or a rose petal to cut a pencil? Logically speaking, no. But in actual fact it can be done. Our mind tends to use logic to explain everything that happens around us. Just like when we use leaf to break a pencil, our logical mind will make us believe that it's the finger that breaks it. But when we proceed to use a rose petal, the rose petal, which is so fragile, is totally intact after it had broke a pencil. How to we explain this using logic? If it's the finger that breaks the pencil, the petal would be squashed when the pencil hits the finger.

And the moment when we start to doubt ourselves, we will not be able to break it. We must tell ourselves that what we are holding is not a leaf or rose petal but a knife, and that the chopstick or pencil will definitely break it, and then we will make it... Focus, concentration, mind power... It's not magic.. It's your mind...

Another Beginning of the Whiteaura