Finally an english song that I've randomly found and is lyrically meaningful.
Have you ever work so hard for something and when you get the intrinsic reward, you start igniting like a firework and cry? I did, when I was in NS. Though I did not cry out but tears of joy came.
So are you wasting your life away? Thinking that just be on the 50% will be alright, even when you know you have the potential to do better, but choose to believe that as if you have already placed in 100% but can give 200% whenever you want to, just whether you want to. So when are you gonna ever want to even do your best, if you don't even start doing it with smaller things now?
My first 22 years of life is a regret. But I've regretted almost nothing for the past year and half. Because I did my best and people can see it. I think the lyrics is really meaningful.
Well, not that I wanna bash those twitter netizens but I certainly hear their thoughts much more louder than their actions. And those people who are living to their fullest don't even need to have twitter to connect with people; they are constantly surrounded by people who are inspired by these fireworks in them.
Look to surround yourselves with people who do positive stuff, who realizes your potential and challenges you to use it, to force you to grow and learn, most importantly ignite that spark in you.
What is the use of potential when it is all not used? At this point it reminds me of procrastinators are the best workers who work under stress and being able to deliver. Not that I'm proud to say I'm a procrastinator, but instead of relying on the fact that procrastinators are good for that last 3 days of project deadline, why not make it such that you are good all the while and push yourself to be that good for all the way. Procrastinators are smart, but why not diffuse it with hardwork to attain what you really seek, instead of believing "I can do it if I put in my best, but I just don't feel like doing it now, because I'm smart"
This semester, instead of leaving 3 days of crucial studies, I am currently in 14 days using the same amount of effort each day as with the last 3 days. It is very tiring but I really laughed when I saw the exam paper because my hard work have paid off. It is not a matter of whether the standard of the exam is easy or hard but the fact that I'm really getting what I want after I put in this amount of work. The satisfaction far outshines whatever excuses that procrastinators can come up with.
With two hands, I can count the number of people who actually implied that RMIT is a lousy school. "RMIT exams very hard meh?" "Oh chey---- RMIT" "UOL is much better in standard and those people who fail in UOL should get distinction in RMIT"
Though I felt angered at times at how people look down on my school, they refuse to look at my efforts, but I am really proud in myself. These half-baked people who choose to look down on us and yet refuse to compare themselves with the "cream of crop" NUS, are nuts. Students who failed in UOL, will fail in any other school. Why? Look at the amount of effort some people are willing to put in. Last 2 weeks of full geared study for a year's worth of university education and they expect to pass? Please don't make the NTU NUS students laugh. The reason I'm in RMIT is because of my regret in poly education for not studying hard enough. If I can get into NUS, I would have done it to my best as like now.
Until the day those people who made those snide comments can prove to me they are giving in more effort and better than I do, I am not interested in them nor their remarks. Ask any undergraduate or graduates and you will know how comfortable it is to get a relatively good grade with good effort but how crazily hard it is to get the highest grade constantly for all modules. The gradient at the end of the curve is almost 0 as it gets higher. Talk about the Law of Diminishing Returns.
Hard work is what everyone can do, but not everyone is blessed with being smart.
Which reminds me of this scenario in ancient China, where a scholar chooses to stay at home and gives little speeches to his farming friends. And so, his friends urge him to take the Imperial Exam in such that he can help improve the lives of the people when he becomes an Official. But the scholar laughed at the thought and replied that he can do it easily and much better than the current ones. But evidently he is not doing anything at all. And his friend pointed out that in the very least, the current Official is doing something rather than him making such remarks. And his friends left him and said, "if only I have the intelligence that you have."
Believe that you are a brilliant firework waiting to ignite.
Do look up the lyrics for the song. And lastly, everything I've done would not have been a success if not for God.
*************************
Created at 1:23 AM
*************************
December 2005[x] January 2006[x] February 2006[x] March 2006[x] April 2006[x] May 2006[x] June 2006[x] July 2006[x] August 2006[x] September 2006[x] October 2006[x] November 2006[x] December 2006[x] January 2007[x] February 2007[x] March 2007[x] April 2007[x] May 2007[x] June 2007[x] July 2007[x] August 2007[x] September 2007[x] October 2007[x] November 2007[x] December 2007[x] January 2008[x] February 2008[x] March 2008[x] April 2008[x] May 2008[x] June 2008[x] July 2008[x] August 2008[x] September 2008[x] October 2008[x] November 2008[x] December 2008[x] January 2009[x] February 2009[x] March 2009[x] April 2009[x] May 2009[x] June 2009[x] July 2009[x] November 2009[x] December 2009[x] January 2010[x] February 2010[x] March 2010[x] April 2010[x] May 2010[x] June 2010[x] July 2010[x] November 2010[x] December 2010[x] January 2011[x] February 2011[x] March 2011[x] April 2011[x] May 2011[x] June 2011[x]
