After trying out as a model last weekend, this weekend I'm gonna lead a group of youths in a BOOT CAMP!
You know that kind of BOOT CAMP? where you gonna **** them upside them, test their endurance level, and can only say yes (and ONLY YES) to you, and do whatever you tell them to?
I don't think how I am able to it, as I'm someone who's very kind-hearted, and never really **** ppl upside down before. Hahaha.
Anyway, new experience, and no risk (hope so!), so why not just try it! Maybe the youths will love it? :P
Friday, June 17, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Fail in school, good for you.
I wrote this post and about to publish it somewhere else. But since i wrote it, then I will just post here then :)
Failing in school is Good for you.
Just this week, I finally received my examination results after waiting about 1 month for it. To my surprise, I got an F grade for a subject. F in my result slip doesn't reflect Fantastic, Fabulous or First Class. F means fail. I stared at the F for a while, wondering how on earth can I see an F in my result slip? The last time I did see an F is about 10 years ago, when I get an F in secondary 1, for my Literature. :P
Like many other students, I just couldn't' accept the fact that I failed a subject in school. Who wants to fail? Failing means that we have to read the subject again, go for the same lectures again, and spend another 2 hours to go for the exam - again.
After feeling down for hours, a thought come to my mind. A failure is not that bad after all! In fact, failing in school is good for you. You may see that I might be joking here, or suffering from some post-examination stress that I come up with this illogical logic.
But after you reach the end of this article, you might think otherwise.
First of all, do you know we people fail everyday? We do fail to wake up the time when our alarm clock ring. We do fail to cook the half-boiled egg we want. And we do fail to obey our parents too. We can fail, however, we know that we have to face the consequence after that. We might end up late for classes, swallow our uncooked egg, or have a curfew set by our parents.
But failures in school does not seem to be that simple, like those failures mentioned above. We can accept all the consequences for failing those daily tasks, but the consequences of getting a fail grade in school might not be that acceptable by most of us (including me!).
The price to fail in school is far greater than those daily tasks. On top of just retaking the exam again, we might risk spending an additional year in school, we might be excluded from our scholarship, or worse, we might even drop out of school. So in a sense, failing is normal if we fail in those daily tasks, but becomes abnormal if it is about our school grades.
Unfortunately, many youths and students have decided to end their lives when they see failures in their school grades. This is an increasing trend, and not just in Singapore, but in other countries like China and United States too.
And some times it is not that these students have been failing terribly in school for years. It is just that they experience their first failure for the first time in their schooling years. Imagine seeing an F among all the As and Bs that you have achieved for the past 10 years of your school life. It can be a massive shock or disappointment to some students.
Nowadays, our youths have been conditioned to think that academic grades are the only decisive factor for success in life. It is either excellent grades, or a dark future. However, we all know of many great man and woman who succeeded in life even if they fail in school. Some of them even didn't go to college!
No, I'm not telling people not to go to school, or go drop out of school and then you'll be another Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but let's learn how to handle failures in every aspect of our lives when it comes. We can overcome any failures or setback in our lives, as the saying goes, a setback is a setup for a comeback.
So as my article is titled 'Failing in school is Good for you', I want to tell you that if you fail in school, you have a failing experience that others don't have. If you overcome this failure, you have gained another experience of overcoming a failure, which others don't have! Failing is Okay! (But if you fail continuously, then it's not Okay, as it just means that you have not learn your lesson :P)
After writing this, it may seem that I write this article to encourage myself, or to justify why failing is good, and why getting too many As in school is not. But honestly, I'm still quite upset to see a F in my report card, when I'm used to seeing higher grades in it, but what's next for me is just to work harder next time.
Have you failed in something but haven't get out of it?
Come, let's accept it, and stand up again, together.
Failing in school is Good for you.
Just this week, I finally received my examination results after waiting about 1 month for it. To my surprise, I got an F grade for a subject. F in my result slip doesn't reflect Fantastic, Fabulous or First Class. F means fail. I stared at the F for a while, wondering how on earth can I see an F in my result slip? The last time I did see an F is about 10 years ago, when I get an F in secondary 1, for my Literature. :P
Like many other students, I just couldn't' accept the fact that I failed a subject in school. Who wants to fail? Failing means that we have to read the subject again, go for the same lectures again, and spend another 2 hours to go for the exam - again.
After feeling down for hours, a thought come to my mind. A failure is not that bad after all! In fact, failing in school is good for you. You may see that I might be joking here, or suffering from some post-examination stress that I come up with this illogical logic.
But after you reach the end of this article, you might think otherwise.
First of all, do you know we people fail everyday? We do fail to wake up the time when our alarm clock ring. We do fail to cook the half-boiled egg we want. And we do fail to obey our parents too. We can fail, however, we know that we have to face the consequence after that. We might end up late for classes, swallow our uncooked egg, or have a curfew set by our parents.
But failures in school does not seem to be that simple, like those failures mentioned above. We can accept all the consequences for failing those daily tasks, but the consequences of getting a fail grade in school might not be that acceptable by most of us (including me!).
The price to fail in school is far greater than those daily tasks. On top of just retaking the exam again, we might risk spending an additional year in school, we might be excluded from our scholarship, or worse, we might even drop out of school. So in a sense, failing is normal if we fail in those daily tasks, but becomes abnormal if it is about our school grades.
Unfortunately, many youths and students have decided to end their lives when they see failures in their school grades. This is an increasing trend, and not just in Singapore, but in other countries like China and United States too.
And some times it is not that these students have been failing terribly in school for years. It is just that they experience their first failure for the first time in their schooling years. Imagine seeing an F among all the As and Bs that you have achieved for the past 10 years of your school life. It can be a massive shock or disappointment to some students.
Nowadays, our youths have been conditioned to think that academic grades are the only decisive factor for success in life. It is either excellent grades, or a dark future. However, we all know of many great man and woman who succeeded in life even if they fail in school. Some of them even didn't go to college!
No, I'm not telling people not to go to school, or go drop out of school and then you'll be another Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but let's learn how to handle failures in every aspect of our lives when it comes. We can overcome any failures or setback in our lives, as the saying goes, a setback is a setup for a comeback.
So as my article is titled 'Failing in school is Good for you', I want to tell you that if you fail in school, you have a failing experience that others don't have. If you overcome this failure, you have gained another experience of overcoming a failure, which others don't have! Failing is Okay! (But if you fail continuously, then it's not Okay, as it just means that you have not learn your lesson :P)
After writing this, it may seem that I write this article to encourage myself, or to justify why failing is good, and why getting too many As in school is not. But honestly, I'm still quite upset to see a F in my report card, when I'm used to seeing higher grades in it, but what's next for me is just to work harder next time.
Have you failed in something but haven't get out of it?
Come, let's accept it, and stand up again, together.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Fail A Uni Subject
not a big deal. Just retake lor, rite?
Probably just time wasted to go lectures, and probably 2 hours to do the paper - again.
Anyway, i also didn't go for these (crappy)lectures last round, so I might just have to do those papers again.
And I finish it within 50 minutes.
Alright this time I will use 1 hour instead.
Probably just time wasted to go lectures, and probably 2 hours to do the paper - again.
Anyway, i also didn't go for these (crappy)lectures last round, so I might just have to do those papers again.
And I finish it within 50 minutes.
Alright this time I will use 1 hour instead.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Ideas come Ideas go
And ideas are cheap too.
But if you use it well, record it down, and make the idea happen, it will stay, and it will be valuable.
Too many ideas come to my mind today, because I'm focusing on a lot of problems! I'm not trying to be a problematic guy, but i chose to focus on problems when something happen now, instead of jumping straight to provide a solution. If i can make the problem bigger, the BETTER!
I can be crazy, or trying to be funny here, but i want to learn to think in a way that our school didn't teach us. When we do maths, we are taught to give a solution immediately, and failing to give, you won't get marks. But now, coming to this world, and if you're an entrepreneur to be, think of problems 1st. Think of it as big as you can. Don't solve it. (your mind will give you solutions right away, but dun accept it)
Go try it if you haven. :)
But if you use it well, record it down, and make the idea happen, it will stay, and it will be valuable.
Too many ideas come to my mind today, because I'm focusing on a lot of problems! I'm not trying to be a problematic guy, but i chose to focus on problems when something happen now, instead of jumping straight to provide a solution. If i can make the problem bigger, the BETTER!
I can be crazy, or trying to be funny here, but i want to learn to think in a way that our school didn't teach us. When we do maths, we are taught to give a solution immediately, and failing to give, you won't get marks. But now, coming to this world, and if you're an entrepreneur to be, think of problems 1st. Think of it as big as you can. Don't solve it. (your mind will give you solutions right away, but dun accept it)
Go try it if you haven. :)
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Reviving Nengding.blogspot.com
Nengding.blogspot.com has been here since 2005, but I left it alone in mid 2010 and open up my professional blog at http://Ding-Neng.com . I write articles about blogging, personal development, entrepreneurship, social media, and online marketing stuffs over there.
However, nengding.blogspot.com is the place where I started blogging, and writing down my thoughts. Now while I have started to write more professionally, I'm thinking of reviving nengding.blogspot.com, by writing stuffs that couldn't fit into my professional blog http://Ding-Neng.com .
Thus far, I don't know what I would be writing, but I would continue to update this blog, with anything under the sun that I feel good about sharing it here. :) After all, this is my blog too!
Visitors wise, I'm sure a year of stagnation of this blog has give people the thought that this blog is abandoned. It's okay, cos I really abandoned it. :P. But reviving this blog is not really about getting lots of visitors. I got lots of them at my professional one. This is just like a simple online journal, just like you writing your own personal journal at home. Penning down my thoughts is more important than getting readers.
So this blog is up again.
See you next post!
However, nengding.blogspot.com is the place where I started blogging, and writing down my thoughts. Now while I have started to write more professionally, I'm thinking of reviving nengding.blogspot.com, by writing stuffs that couldn't fit into my professional blog http://Ding-Neng.com .
Thus far, I don't know what I would be writing, but I would continue to update this blog, with anything under the sun that I feel good about sharing it here. :) After all, this is my blog too!
Visitors wise, I'm sure a year of stagnation of this blog has give people the thought that this blog is abandoned. It's okay, cos I really abandoned it. :P. But reviving this blog is not really about getting lots of visitors. I got lots of them at my professional one. This is just like a simple online journal, just like you writing your own personal journal at home. Penning down my thoughts is more important than getting readers.
So this blog is up again.
See you next post!
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