If you need some motivation

I've finally gotten back all my results for this semester. My results are as follows:
Marketing Information Systems - A+
Analysis of Equity Instruments - A+
Corporate Reporting and Analysis of Financial Statements - A-
French - A-
Ethics and Social Responsibility - B+

Besides, this is my best semester ever, with an all-time high GPA of 3.86. I managed to achieve all these in spite of what happened throughout the semester. At the beginning of the semester, I was busy with housemoving. In a way, we were forced to move out of our previous rented place. So for the 1st month of the semester, besides school, I was extremely worn out by housemoving, on top of having to juggle with the ongoing school projects.

Shortly after, I was admitted into hospital because of an abscess growing on my tummy. I had to get it removed at the hospital. 3 days after I was discharged from hospital, I was re-admitted into hospital because of active bleeding of my wound from the operation. Shortly after Chinese New Year, I was down with food poisoning for 3 days. In the final weeks of the semester, I was down with flu which persisted for almost 2 weeks.

In spite of the odds being stacked against me, I keep telling myself to stay focused and to tell myself that I can do it. I keep telling myself how badly I wanted to graduate with Cum Laude. And yes, I finally did it!

I'm saying all these not to boast about my achievements, but rather, to illustrate a point: Have a goal, believe that you can achieve it, and everything else will fall in place. Stay positive and show gratitude for the little things in your life and good things will naturally be attracted into your life. I couldn't have achieved all these if I had negative along the way. Lastly, I hope my little story here will inspire whoever read this to strive to do better in future =)

The Secret

I've just watched a video called "The Secret". The content is pretty mind-blowing. I've always been an advocate for positive thinking ever since I started reading up books on neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, from the beginning of this year.

The gist of the video is about the secret of the law of attraction. When you think about the good things, they would come to you naturally. It works the same way for the bad things as well. This is something new, something which I didn't exactly come across in my readings. However, it does make a lot of sense. You get what you think, as simple as that. If you keep thinking about the immense debts that you've got, you will just get more of it, based on the law of attraction. On the other hand, if you keep thinking of achieving your goals, you will get it.

I know I'm going to get some violent objections here, like, some might say that they have made goals to achieve certain things, but did not achieve it in the end. Does it mean that making goals is ineffective? It is not! Goals are achievable only with actions. You need to put in action to achieve what you desire, but a lot of people miss out on this point! You can't get the chicken to grow up and lay eggs if you don't feed it.

Some of you might have had goals, achieved part of it but never quite fulfil all that was set out in the goals. The Secret says that in such instances, we need to be grateful for what we have. For instance, one might set out to earn a million in a year, but only got 950,000 in the end. That's really good actually. When we show gratitude and give thanks for what we have, the law of attraction works by giving more of what we desire. So that 1 million is not too far off!

It is precisely of all these positive thinking that I've stopped writing about negative things on my little blog here for a long long time. I want all the good things to come into my life and I can see them coming in already. I'm thankful for being able to finish my undergraduate education in SMU, I'm grateful for having food everyday, I'm thankful for everything that my parents have done for me, I'm grateful for all the little things I have gotten in life. I'm thankful.

Do catch this video if you get the chance. It's pretty inspiring and definitely changes lives and perceptions.

100% of the 50%, NOT..

Well, Mr Brown never cease to amuse everyone with his infamous podcasts. And this time, SMUT takes the limelight! My school's in the limelight! Wheeee!!!

Well, 3 short years in this school and everything's coming to an end. And yes, I can't help but to agree with the stuff in that podcast. All the pre-networking pre-briefing event and whatever sounds all too familiar for us. I wouldn't say that I have wasted my time in this school. I mean, I've learned some important life skills here, like interpersonal communications and presentation skills, and how NOT to be a "backside poker" (read: backstabber). However, the layman on the street ain't all that dumb.. Look at the results of the infamous "survey". If you've got 100% "hit-rate" for the 1st year, that's possible, since the graduating batch is quite small. When you get the same "hit-rate" for the 2nd year, it's still barely acceptable. By the 3rd year, the number of graduates have already increased exponentially, so a 100% "hit-rate" didn't seem as credible as before. Besides, if only 100% of the 50% of graduates (who found a job) are interviewed, naturally there would have been a 100% "hit-rate". Besides, what about the remaining 50% who were not interviewed and who did not get a job? They would be perplexed by the "truth" and go around telling others the TRUTH. That they did not get a job, nor were they interviewed. Period.

I'm sure it doesn't take rocket science to realize something as fundamental as this. Yet, this "obtuse" glob in level 7 of SMUT administration building failed to see this and put everyone to shame! Sad to say, but lying to get there wouldn't get you anywhere.

For me, I don't even care if I'm in the "100% of the 50%" in the next employment survey. Even if I've been "shortlisted" by the fat glob to be in the "100% of the 50%", I'm gonna return a "funky" reply to them. Fuck off!