Hectic weeks ahead...

Hope I won't lose steam as fast as last term.

Unquotable quotes (they suck so bad you cringe)

The true path to victory is never a straight one. It is always obstructed by many people, sometimes even yourself.

What you do when you are 3 determines what you do in your life. (When I was 3, I always slept after lunch in my Aunt's house. I still do. ._.)

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Played 14 dota games in the last 3 days. lost all. FML. - Han Sheng

"Good morning yesterday, You wake up and time has slipped away. Suddenly it's hard to find, the memories you left behind, Remember, do you remember?" - Paul Anka, Times of Your Life




Cant think of anything else....anyone wants to contribute?

6 hats

My father showed me this book by Edward Debono a few years back, called the 6 thinking hats. The author uses 6 thinking hats to categorise our mindset towards things, allowing us to look at everything from 6 different point of view and then solve the problem if any. A good read.

Thinking is human's most important skill. It might be the only thing that seperates us from a plant, so we must continually hone it.

I guess leadership comes under thinking too. Without thinking, how do you even lead? Unless you are talking about the blind leading the blind, there is no way this will happen. So I guess lateral thinking is a good skill for leaders.

Hopefully during camp my batch saw me as wearing the sky-blue hat...instead of not wearing any....

stuff i have to do

1. read duzhe
2. maths
3. cl proj
4. geog
5. phys
6. some pt
7. sec 1 pn
8. erp

6pak!

Just woke up after 15h of sleep. It was one of the only camps I truly enjoyed. I guess I rather be the guy telling ppl what to do then doing it myself (hehe!).

I think I did a pretty good job. Suma told me the night before camp that it will be pretty screwed cos we are inexperienced...It came out true. But our batch worked well and co operated with each other... damage control FTW!

Great experience. Now I know what to expect. I learnt more abt myself and more abt my batch. Lets do our best for the next few batch thingies!

One more thing.

Let coldness envelop your face, yet allow heat to radiate from your heart. Exude confidence. Heads up. Visualise. Remember the shared vision and mission. Work as one. Inspire by leading. Inspire by encouraging. Inspire by simply telling them that 'I have faith in you'.



Leadership. Endless.

Tofu, anyone?

Are we really becoming 'tofu' batches, that focus more on fun than discipline? A healthy balance between those 2 core aspects of a UG...is it really a never ending tipping of the balancing scale, and it will never stay horizontal?

An old woman, son in jail, daughter-in-law running away with another man, and grandson left behind in primary school...what will she do? Sucide? Run away too? No. She will get a job, no matter how ashamed, how tired, how hopeless she feels...she will perservere, for her son and grandson's sake. That is resilience. Where does she get that from? I guess her childhood and 'tumultuous' teenage years may play a huge role.

When teenagers meet a problem, what do they do? From what I see, the first thing they do is utter an expletive. But after that, they realise that running away is not an option. Facing the problem, head on, maybe results in disastrous consequences and massive screw ups, but that is the only way humans learn. Through screw ups. As an egoistic species, only mistakes can remind us of our incompetence, pushing us to strive towards something better (?).

Aura. Mannerism that can be learnt, or just natural? I think it is the same debate as nurture vs nature... Is it controlled arrogance? Fine, perhaps arrongance is an inappropriate word...controlled proudness? Heads up, a facade for others to see, is that part of what we are supposed to do once you hit a certain level of maturity? When do we break that cold mask? I do not know the answer to that yet...


Tofu. Discipline. Fun. Ego. Aura.