The Realistic Realities of School

Consistency is key to reception, familiarization and retention of facts in schoolwork. I knew that ever since I started studying and have been trying very hard for the past semester to maintain that habit. However, somewhere along the way, I lost it. I guess it was after the breaks. I lost it because I ended up slacking and did not complete the past few (about 5) tutorials for each and every module. That really sux for me. I wasn’t really conscientious in that sense. However, though I did not do the work, I still tried to understand most of the information and facts of the topics through reading and yes, I did understand most of it. Without practice though, my revision might suffer so to speak. It would be a “so-called” harder revision (than the past years) time for the next two crucial weeks. I also found out that coming home too late and sleeping too much were the actions attributing to the problem. I come home at ard 11pm or 12pm, bathe and feel like sleeping, lie on my bed, hoping to wake up in 5 mins, wake up in the morning. I was not tired because I did work, but because I slacked too much. Din know slacking can tire you out, ouch! Successful people seem to sleep only 4 hrs and have the other 20 hrs being as productive as they can be. I want to sleep 4 hrs to, I want to cultivate that habit. Gotta find a way to do it, NLP or sleep-no-jutsu maybe, whatever it is, I will find it. I would think of it as self-restraint, a discipline to sleep less, gotta train the mind to stay awake and do more. I will find a way damnnit, because it is that important for me to get more things done to improve.

Actually, another thing I found out was that my day time is underproductive or not even productive at all. I figured out that maybe it is the Leo Club House that is preventing me from doing my work. Whenever I am there, I seem to have fun (because of the people around having fun?). Fun isn’t bad, but fun being entertainment is bad when you still have other things to complete. Maybe, I will set the afternoon time to go to the library to study instead. That’s what I need to do and I will do it. LCH is a place for fun and project discussion. Yea…
I also feel that I am accountable and responsible for my CCA. As a VP, I have to always keep my mind up and running about what I should do for the club especially with the members. I would say, it would not be easy to “restart” a club with almost nothing much. I am glad that we have “mentors” called Leos from RC as well as Lions who provide sponsorship for the club as well. I did make a promise to myself that I would leave the club with members being interactive, involved and inspired to do more for the club towards reaching the international standard as well as to see themselves develop as individuals. We really cannot do this without the BOD ourselves being bonded as well as sharing ideas and taking action constantly, we need to build up that sense of “we better improve, we better get better”. I still feel that the past 2 months since we gotten our post, 0 has been done realistically. I would like to blame others, but it is my fault too, why can I not be the catalyst for these things to happen? I have a mouth, body and mind and every ability to do so, I guess what I did not have was the Passion for Action! Well, it’s not too late to start now, still have 10 months left in our term, I am here to serve the club and serve it to the best of my abilities I shall.

Another thing I figured out is that I need a system to do things, to get things done. Found out that there are so many things to do in a day that sometimes what you want to do and what you have to do clashes and you cannot seem to prioritize properly. All those are due to the lack of planning and purpose in doing things. So since there’s a good system that is working for others, y not I adopt it for myself. It doesn’t take long to plan the day, maybe 10-20mins, but it could provide me with more objectivity and direction to complete my tasks. I would follow the “Getting Things Done” system by David Allen since it seems so popular (there’s even a cult online for it). Though I haven tried it, I am sure it isn’t perfect. However, I plan to adopt it and tailor it whenever I need to to suite my own style. I could even be making it even more effective. Ok, I shall begin using it starting from today and see what it shall yield in the future =).
I would like to end of giving thanks. I would like to thank my project groupmates and classmates for being so supportive of your own work as well as helping me out. Tricia, Sarah, Vanessa! Thank you all for being there, I thoroughly enjoyed our time working as groupmates on projects together and Wish and hope that next sem, we could be in the same class and work together again. I would like to thank my teachers who are very good in their teaching as I understood most, if not all of what was taught (especially those lectures that I actually attended?). I would like to thank my friends in school for giving me so much fun, by spending time with me and being my support in every single way. Especially Josh, Jackson, Fabian, Kenny, Hong Yi, Tricia, and anyone else whom I missed out. I would like to thank those in SJIMB who worked so hard to make Renaissance Gold a Success, My Juniors, My Batch members, The other Alumni and of course Mr Lim our one and only favourite conductor!

This is the season to study. After studying and completing my exams, a whole new direction will be taken…. With that, Good Luck for Exams and Study Hard!

Thanks with Love,
Kelvin

Updated@8/05/2007 11:05:00 AM