hallelujah
I read some msn spaces written by my seniors just now. I really admire their lives in the past years. Many of them have been to the US or Europe for travelling. Some of them got opportunities to international competitions and won the prize. A few even went to the UC berkeley, Stanford, Yale to study. For their experience, I find that life in NUS can be so interesting and colorful. Yes, perhaps I also have this chance to experience a lot, but often I cannot be that excited. I think of myself to be a person of two different personalities. When I am in a high mood, I think of everything in the positive side and I feel that life is that wonderful. But when i am down, things will be quite different. I will force myself to be sad, to complain the ambient and to sigh for my poor life. I can be happy and artless as a child and be pessimistic and serious as an aged.
And now i find that life needs not to be that rigid and tough. Change the attitude and life is that fantastic. I should cheer that I have the opportunity to study in univeristy. I should cheer that I am quite healthy and can manage myself everywhere i want. I should cheer that I am still young compared to the teachers and I still have so much time and space to improve my ability and build my future. And also I should cheer that there is still two weeks to go before the final exams. Whithin these two weeks, I can do something and make a difference.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
LIFE IS COLORFUL AND EVERY MINUTE IS ENJOYABLE.
9 comments:
Firstly, I don like ppl with multi-personalities.No offence, but i think it will be hard to make friends with them.haha.
Stick with your dreams and work hard on it~
hi Dong hao, it seems that you are a very positive thinking people in some ways, and i thiink that is cool.
i do see a mistake in your article, you said "I feel that life is that wonderful". that wonderful??
By the way, you also can go for the SEP if you want to, so you can go to some other countries to study there. But you have to apply for it at least one year before, and do prepare that you may need to take courses during vocation it is because you may not finish all the modules on time if you go for SEP.
Ya, I felt the same way. These two weeks time can really make a big change. Cheers and focus.
Definitely, you can change your life to a better one when you have positive mindset towards everything. Always be thankful to everything and person around you. They make you a better man :)
Firstly, nearly all people have multi-personality and it is not abnormal or something. To make it clearer, only the sacred men can make their behavior coherent and i haven't seen them.
as very little of us can have a coherent and united philosophical mind which is constantly influenced by the outside, we cannot have a coherent personality. According to Sigmud Fraud, all men are personality splited.
thinking about urself and u will realise it if u do not cheat urself. hehe
hi, i think one's attitude plays the most important part in one's life. As long as the attitude is right, nothing will goes wrong. Apparently, you have the right attitude. Although I'm sure if you can do something within these two weeks, Im sure u can do A LOT of things and make huge differences within these 2 weeks(:
All the best (:
cheers
keowkoon (:
The world is beautiful if we look at it in a optimal angle. Just like the prism, if you find the good angle, you will see the colorful rainbow!
Sometimes, Dong Hao, I think you are the teacher of this course and me the student, especially when you write sentences such as this: "And now i find that life needs not to be that rigid and tough. Change the attitude and life is that fantastic.. "
Wow! What an interesting reflection!
I also want to be the student and you the teacher so that I can relive my college years! Please invent a time machine so that we can change places!
In any case, back here in 2007, I have to thank you for adding so much life and laughter to our class. You might be noisy, but it's been pleasant to many people's ears.
thanks, blackstone.
sometimes i think this class is a little boring so i make it more lively. however u are a good teacher, but this module limit ur presentation. i have a lot of complain about this module, useless, aimless, inane, and waste of time. we really have problems with our english and i do not see this module as that helpful to my english. we have problems with our writing, but the key weakness does not lie on the "strategy of writing". this module limit both the teachers' and the students' ability instead of extending it. i think what we really need is the english way of thinking and the lack of emerge in the english culture. we write in english while thinking in chinese. we speak the terrible accent while ignoring this problem. we know little about shakespear, wordsworth, byron or o henry and know nothing about the english history, tradition and customs while still wanting to write a good english essay. this seems to be radiculous. I am not referring to u. as i mentioned, u are a good teacher and have lot more to diliver to us. but the so-called scope and the aim of thie module is totally radiculous. I don't know why the so-called english experts are so rigid that they set something they called scope. yes, we can study whithin this or that scope but we cannot speak english or write essay whithin these so-called scope. NUS's biggest weakness lies in the rigidness, of both the teachers and the students, which leading directly into the teacher's teaching whithin the scope and student's studying for high marks. University is the center of human knowlege, culture and spirit and it has some holy meaning. But now what i see is NUS is the center of utilitarianism and mammonism, and students are too practical to have a big heart and a holy spirit. this is different from what i think a high-ranking university should be. perhaps we can attribute this to singapore's cultural shallowness. we can say that singapore is the crossroad of both western and eastern culture but we can also say that singapore is an island without culture. fifty-year-old accumulation of life cannot be called a civilization. since singapore abandon so much as a branch of chinese culture and get so little as a westernised region, it is really a cultural orphan. however, this can also be good for this island, too small to hold a cultural giant, but maybe also too small to hold a world-class university. if NUS really want to improve, my suggestion is not to be influenced by the shallowness of this country. NUS is my home university. i love it so much, so i may blame it too much. this is my feeling about the first semester in NUS. really hope it can get better and everybody has a good university life.
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