First up promos are over so that leaves us all to wait for the results, which should come in slightly more than a week's time. The whole process of studying was a painful yet sort of fulfilling one although I personally felt that I didn't study hard enough. I've never really felt the 'studying' environment as strongly as I've ever felt before jc.  I guess in a certain way it IS good to have such an environment because seeing people study hard motivates you to at least try to do as much as you can.

The funny thing is that somehow when you get to secondary school you realise the relative easiness of primary school. Like for me I thought secondary school in terms of academics was difficult. But then jc is really much tougher. School now really takes a lot of you. But alhamdulillah here I am now and still in one piece so I guess it's safe to say that I survived this year. A few things I'd like to share as usual

1) Optimism

School is really pressurizing and automatically it feels difficult to hold on to even a little bit of optimism.  In the middle of the journey there will be at least one failure. And immediately after you are expected to pick yourself up to work on where you went wrong so that the same thing does not happen the next time round.

It is difficult to hold on to optimism as I have experienced. But I think whatever it is it is always important to tell yourself that you will get there eventually.  I feel that is difficult to even picture myself "getting there" at this point in time. And this didn't make doing work any easier. Even though it is difficult you have to learn to calm yourself down and just keep moving. Don't panic, just do. You've got to believe that every single bit of effort that you put in now (even though does not show results now) will help you in the end because if you don't provide yourself even the most basic support that is your own self, you're not gonna be in good shape at all.

2) Loosen Up

Like how studying is a priority, so are your friends. I'm glad to say that I've been able to stay tight with my close friends from back in RG and that I've gotten even closer to some of them. It's always good to learn to chill and relax once in a while amidst all the craze that is school. Always be around people you are comfortable with and never ever ever ever ever feel that you need to change who you are for your friends. Because if you ever feel that way these people aren't exactly worth hanging around are they?

And if you did change I hope it's for the better and not the worse. You are your own judge so yea some self-reflection at times like this is always good.

Speaking about judging, it's also important not to quickly make assumptions about ANYONE. It's inevitable but it's always better to make sure that such judgements hinder you from getting to at least know the person better. Because your assumptions could be wrong, like how mine were for some.

3) Where to go from now

Haha I think this is something important but it's not exactly something I can talk about right now. So I guess this is where I leave y'all! And haha I think there's nothing special about this post. Just the usual~

Ciaozxz

First up promos are over so that leaves us all to wait for the results, which should come in slightly more than a week's time. The whole process of studying was a painful yet sort of fulfilling one although I personally felt that I didn't study hard enough. I've never really felt the 'studying' environment as strongly as I've ever felt before jc.  I guess in a certain way it IS good to have such an environment because seeing people study hard motivates you to at least try to do as much as you can.

The funny thing is that somehow when you get to secondary school you realise the relative easiness of primary school. Like for me I thought secondary school in terms of academics was difficult. But then jc is really much tougher. School now really takes a lot of you. But alhamdulillah here I am now and still in one piece so I guess it's safe to say that I survived this year. A few things I'd like to share as usual

1) Optimism

School is really pressurizing and automatically it feels difficult to hold on to even a little bit of optimism.  In the middle of the journey there will be at least one failure. And immediately after you are expected to pick yourself up to work on where you went wrong so that the same thing does not happen the next time round.

It is difficult to hold on to optimism as I have experienced. But I think whatever it is it is always important to tell yourself that you will get there eventually.  I feel that is difficult to even picture myself "getting there" at this point in time. And this didn't make doing work any easier. Even though it is difficult you have to learn to calm yourself down and just keep moving. Don't panic, just do. You've got to believe that every single bit of effort that you put in now (even though does not show results now) will help you in the end because if you don't provide yourself even the most basic support that is your own self, you're not gonna be in good shape at all.

2) Loosen Up

Like how studying is a priority, so are your friends. I'm glad to say that I've been able to stay tight with my close friends from back in RG and that I've gotten even closer to some of them. It's always good to learn to chill and relax once in a while amidst all the craze that is school. Always be around people you are comfortable with and never ever ever ever ever feel that you need to change who you are for your friends. Because if you ever feel that way these people aren't exactly worth hanging around are they?

And if you did change I hope it's for the better and not the worse. You are your own judge so yea some self-reflection at times like this is always good.

Speaking about judging, it's also important not to quickly make assumptions about ANYONE. It's inevitable but it's always better to make sure that such judgements hinder you from getting to at least know the person better. Because your assumptions could be wrong, like how mine were for some.

3) Where to go from now

Haha I think this is something important but it's not exactly something I can talk about right now. So I guess this is where I leave y'all! And haha I think there's nothing special about this post. Just the usual~

Ciaozxz