Change

Time just goes by never stopping and never slowing down. As I write and write and as you read and read, time just passes by. Reminiscing back into the past, changes are certainly felt. As time passes everything just changes. If we go into individual, people around changes, your path changes, treatment you receive changes, even your own thinking changes. Basically, everything changes.

Things changes most as one goes through the different stages of human maturity. From babies to pre-school, from pre-school to early primary, from early primary to late primary, from late primary to early secondary, from early secondary to late secondary, from late secondary to college and university, from there to working from working to retirement. One’s life is separated into so many stages. Of course the stages after university can still be broken down but because I’m just a young boy, I am incapable of doing so. Basically I can only go till form 4 because that’s where I am.

Sometimes the reason the things around seem to have changed not because they really changed but because your view of life has changed. I can’t really say generally because I do not know but my life before form 4 is just more or less smooth. Sure, maturity still happens as different people are met, different things happen, and different difficulties are faced but I don’t think it can be compared to the life in form 4. Form 4 has just been one heck of a year for me. I’ve grown massively in form 4. In a short eight months I’ve grown more than I have in years before. The experience has really been nothing compared to what I’ve faced before form 4. If life is a roller coaster, form 4 is one heck of a ride.

I used to think I was already at the matured stage but after going through this stage of maturity I finally understand why people say I was still a kid. I have always been seen as a more matured person in front of my friends but back home I can always feel my immaturity. Now, I do not feel immature but I understand that one will not know one’s own immaturity before going through the stages. I wouldn’t say I’m already a matured person as I do not know am I and will not know until I reach that stage. Reminiscing back at only the form 4 past, so many feelings can be felt so many changes can be seen.

I’ve heard people saying eldest among siblings are more matured but also heard youngest among siblings are more matured. Well, in my opinion it depends very much on the situation. Eldest can be more matured because they have to take care of the younger siblings while youngest can be more matured as they get influenced from their elder siblings. Basically eldest get matured being forced by situation while youngest because of the influence from being with their more matured siblings.

I am a youngest child myself and I’ve always been known as a more matured one in my age group. I am influence by my elder brothers who are 5 years and 9 years older than me in thinking. At the same time I get influence by my friends who are at my age as well. These two influence mix and well, creates a hybrid, me. If you’re thinking it will create two way characteristics, you’re wrong. A different thing will be created. If you use mathematics for example, 3+4=7 it won’t be equals to 34. Well, maybe I’ll elaborate on hybrid on another post. For now, for this post, it ends here.

Time never stops flowing, nothing ever stops changing

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Yu

Interest

I believe that everyone should excel in their area of interest. But then again, what if they suck in that area? Well, one may excel slower and need to work harder in certain areas but when there is will and hard work, one can excel in any area. Yeah, I did say we should find out talent and work on that but if our talented area is not our area of interest then it’s a different case. Although usually if we’re talented in something we will like the thing but there are exceptions so I am now talking about the exceptions.

Yeah, the work may be harder and takes longer if this is the case but because it is your interest, the negative feeling felt will be neutralized by the positive feeling caused by your interest. On the other hand, if you work on an area you dislike, no matter how talented you are and how much hard work and time is decreased, you still feel worse as the feeling of dislike is not neutralized by anything.

Everyone has their interest. There’s no exception to that. The differences are only how big is the interest, what is it and whether they realized it or not. It is possible for one to not know his or her interest. I myself did not uncover my interests until this very year. As you can see, I wrote interests instead of interest. In other words, I have more than one interest. Interests in different areas might start at any point of your life. Take myself for example; I never liked writing since I was young. Now, I have a great interest in writing. Writing has become my hobby. I have taken up blogging, I’ve been writing poetries and I even feel like writing a story now.

Of course, I still love add math and teaching. If you say talent, I would say I probably have talent in add math but if you say teaching then I would say I don’t know. Yeah, sure I’ve thought people before but whether I did a good job or not I really don’t know. Nobody ever gave me comments about my teaching. I hope people would comment so that I know what I am good in and what do I need to improve. To be a teacher it is not only about talent but it is very much about experience. Experience without feedback would still be lacking though because it is through feedback that one knows where to improve and eventually do better.

Actually even as a student, one should work hard on their interest already. One can even start a part time career in their area of interest already. It is actually quite an advisable thing to do provided the time for school work is properly planned and done. As I said, it’s not only about talent but also about interest. Don’t know you talent or interest yet? Seek and you shall find it.

Follow your own interest, not others'.

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Yu

Experience

I was the camp coordinator for the 2 days 1 night PLTC camp in school for scouts which ended yesterday. I know I did quite badly. Many things I was late to confirm. Many things I got it done very slow. Many things I was very blur. I’m supposed to be a person full of self confidence but I really can’t be through this camp. My confidence is all gone. Why? There are just too many things I’m uncertain of and I’m scared of doing things that affect other people.

How would you know about things best? Experience would be the answer. I’m a truly inexperienced person in management. I never manages things no matter small or big. In short, I’m a newbie. Worse is I’m quite a coward actually. I don’t dare to do things I’m not sure that can affect more than myself. As I’ve said numerous times, self confidence is really important but it’s not possible to have self confidence at all times. What can we do then?

Experience is one of the answers. Once you’ve done something once before, you’ll know what to do and if you know what to do, of course you’ll have confidence. Of course that’s not for everything. I’m meaning for things that experience can help. Another answer would be prepare and do things early. If you settle and finish everything early, you’ll have time to fix or time to ask if you do things wrongly, stuck in the middle or not sure about things. With both add together plus the things I wrote in my self confidence post, you’re more or less a pro already.

I am nowhere near a pro. I think that I can catch things and interpret things quite well. I think I can manipulate knowledge fine. The problem here is my knowledge is limited. I’d suck in the first time. Experience is what improves people. That is why usually older people can seem to think better and stuff. It’s because they have experience in a lot of different stuffs. Oh, I left out this. Everyone needs to be decisive as well. I am not a decisive person myself. I don’t know what it takes to be decisive so I can’t interpret on it.

Actually we should equip ourselves with all kinds of positive characteristics but it’s quite impossible to have everything. That’s why we should concentrate on those needed most first. Once you’re done then you go on to those second in line. One of the main point I’m trying to say is I’m lacking the few things. That’s why I did so badly The most important is actually experience. If experience can’t be given, what I need would be a complete guideline on every single aspect on the thing I’m handling. If you ask me am I ready to be a good leader yet I would answer soon. Through every experience I go through I will improve. I’m taking up more and more things now. I’m trying to get myself experience and skills of different aspects. That’s one way to improve.

Experience beats genius.

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Yu

Busy

Wow, how long has it been since I last blogged? It’s like more than 10 days now. Sorry for all the people who are awaiting my meaningful posts about life. I was rather busy with stuffs lately. Now, that’s like so related to the title. Busy. What I’m going to talk about? Read on and you’ll see. The emotional posts are gone now it’s time for some unemotional yet meaningful post. Masterpiece begins now.

Busy. Some people are so busy that they don’t have time to sleep while some are so not busy that they can just sleep the whole day. Different people are busy with different things and have different level of busyness. Now, what determines one person’s busyness? Is it their fate to be a busy person? Is it because other people want to make them busy? Why?

It is actually one’s choice whether to be busy or not. As said by the famous quote from Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility”. The more power and the higher the power you hold is, the more and greater will the responsibilities you hold be. That’s how things work in this world but things might be a bit different in certain positions though. At times as big shareholders of a company, or CEO of some company that can run by itself, you’ll be able to relax most of the time. That stage is not easy to reach unless of course you’re born with a silver spoon in your mouth then it’s a total different case.

For normal cases, one chooses to take up responsibilities when the person takes hold of power in some way. As a student, I’ll go to school level. In clubs, societies and all, as you hold a post, you’ll eventually be given work to do. That’s why the more post you hold, the busier you’ll be. In that case should we let go of some posts? Well, it depends on you. If you think you can handle it and you choose to take it, go ahead. I for one am aiming for post in scouts. I already have a membership director post in the Interact Club but still, I aim for more. I want to be in the COH of scouts, captain of volleyball, as well as become a school representative athlete.

Am I aiming too much? Am I making myself too busy? It might be so but it’s a matter of choice. I choose to take up the challenge, to be able to cope with multiple responsibilities and do well in it. I’m currently still a newbie in many things especially management stuff. To take up different works is actually to train you in different kinds of works.

Now, It’s actually our choice to be busy or not. Everything has its pros and cons. It’s a undeniable fact. Examples of the pros to be busy as you won’t be wasting much time, you will learn a lot and you will rarely feel bored. Examples of the cons would be the time for other activities needs to be cut down, stress may be caused, and not much time to spend with friends or girlfriend/boyfriend. It’s your choice. To be or not to be. Choose wisely and may you enjoy what you choose.

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YU

Training. Playing. Winning.

People usually train before they play and people got to play before they can win. So basically training will be the first thing to do. Followed up by playing and lastly ends with winning. Which is the most important then? I feel that there is no most. All should be done with the best of our ability.

Training. Yes, some people might be able to play and then win without training but I feel training should still be conducted. Training is conducted not only to ensure victory towards a game or competition or anything. Training should be conducted to improve one's ability. Even if one is good enough to beat anyone he sees he should still strive to improve and the way to improve is training. Well, training for teams isn't only good for improving.

Another thing can be gained from it. Moral lessons, teamwork, better friendship and can't be left out a day filled with laughters. Well, I don't know if it's every training but this day the 4 Ixora soccerthon team, All Sparks team training has definitely have them all. Now, I'll tell the story of the hilarious training of the All Sparks team. I hope I don't get it wrong, I can't remember exactly what happened first. Here goes.

First it starts with the group up of the team. while Kah Ken was away and is yet to arrive, we decided to jog first. After 1 round around the field, Wesley changed direction and moved towards a big tree. Now, what was he trying to do? Answer, pee. Now, suddenly after running rounds with Thomas, the ball was kicked up and ended up stuck on a tree branch. We threw rocks and 2 more balls we brought(throw and kick to be exact). We tried so hard but no good results still. Suddenly, 1 smart fella ended up making another ball stuck. Now, we got 2 balls stuck and unable to get it down. The tree was to hard to climb.

Suddenly out of nowhere, Say Chong found a super long wood I think about 10 feet long. We lifted the wood aimed and poked up repeatedly. Finally we got both balls down. After long time of hard work and cooperation among the team, we managed to do it. Later, Kah Ken decided to commence our training but before that, he decided to do the same thing as Wesley at the same big tree. Being influenced by the two of them doing that, I myself felt like peeing so I went and do the same thing.

The training starts with a game of monkey. Nothing much to elaborate on that. Next is the suicides. We all did 10 and Say Chong did 5. Nothing much to elaborate on that as well. Now, after the suicides. After that, something magical happened. Kah Ken suddenly said he wants to eat ice-cream. We were all like what the hell. I mean, who the hell eats ice cream after warm up? Suddenly, after about 10 seconds ice cream seller's music was heard. We all looked towards the direction of the music and the uncle selling ice cream appeared. We shouted to him and in the end he stopped and we all bought ice cream and ate them.

After that we did stretching. In the halfway of stretching, suddenly Say Chong shouted. What happened? Leg cramp. We were all laughing like hell for this. After the stretching we played game. After the training when we were going back to out bench, Say Chong suddenly tripped on the ball and ended up in a cramp again. That's the end of the hilarious training of All Sparks. We were all laughing like hell during the whole training.

Lets go back to the main topic. Playing is very important. If the game is played like shit, even though we win it's not enough. The performance matters as much as winning. Winning of course is very important. So what should we have to win? That's right, confidence. We must always be confident. Right, so I'll end this post now,

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YU

ALL SPARKS! GO!