i just read finish the book on iron man ytd and today i read finish another bk called Ten rules for being human which i borrowed frm my dad's boss =D so,i shall summarize the ten rules in my blog today and carry on with what ms tham said ytd on the advancement in china today.
both are different stories so i will post them in different colours.=D however,my thoughts will be in orange today.Take time to read as it may help you grow too =D
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IF LIFE IS A GAME,THESE ARE THE RULES
By Cherie Carter-Scott,PhD
Rule one - You will receive a body
Acceptance or rejection of your body only carries weight in your own mind, and your perception has no bearing on how your body actually looks,so why not choose the ease of acceptance rather than the pain of rejection? The choice is yours.
this actually means that when you receive a body,you either accept or reject.god gave us a body which is complete,unlike those who had to have their retribution and born abnormal,so why must we choose to reject our own body?everyone is unique in its own way so we shld actually accept for who we are and what we do.thus, the choice is up to you.
Rule two - You will be presented with lessons
Each day in the school of life you will be presented with all the lessons that you specifically need to learn,whether you choose to learn them or not is entirely up to you.See these lessons as gifts.or guides along your path toward living as your authentic self.
In school,we have different subjects to learn everyday.All these subjects actually will help us in our lives next time.Teachers are there to teach us and guide us along if we have difficulties in coping.However, some of us treat it as teachers are boring.Whether you want to learn or not is entirely up to us because do the teachers gain anything? They don't.They are merely just passing their knowledge to us and it is up to us whether we want to grab the change or not.We shld take these lessons and gifts and not forgetting what the teachers taught us as we may regret when we grow up next time.
Rule three - There are no mistakes,only lessons
Growth is a process of exprimentation, a series of trails, errors, victories and setbacks.The failed experiments are as much a part of the pricess as the experiments that work.Without lessons,it is difficult to convery mistakes into valuable learning opportunities.
No one is perfect in this world.As said, growth is a process of experimentation and setbacks.One shld have setbacks once in a while or else we will think everything that we do will be go on swiftly and if we met a setback nxt time,we may think that there is no point in living.Though we met with setbacks,it does not mean end of the world.Instead,we shld see each setback as a lesson and not mistakes.To help us further improve,once a setback in a while will help us realise our mistakes, ensuring that we will not repeat history itself and we will continue to aim higher next time.
Rule four - A lesson is repeated until learned
Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them.When you have learned them,you can then go on to the next lesson.
Do not give up when you met with a setback.You shld instead repeat everything until you are familiar with it.e.g., for mathematics,if you fail that particular paper,you shld try and try and try again and again and again until you are familiar with that paper and learnt your mistakes.Take it as a lesson learnt and do not repeat again.Once you have mastered them and the basics,you can then proceed on to the next topic.
Rule five - Learning does not end
Your journey on earth is constantly unfolding,and while your wisdom grow and your capacity to deal with challenges expands,new lessons will present themselves.Lessons will be around as long as you live.
In live,we shld not live with regret.There is a chinese saying that goes "huo dao lao,xue dao lao",which means that as you grow older each day, you continue to study more and never give up on yourself.Life is unpredictable and unfolding and as long as you live,everything is still new to you and more things will start coming up soon.So, we shld start expanding our wisdom and deal with the challenges we face.Nothing is impossible in this world if you set heart at it.
Rule six - There is no better than here
This rule encourages you to live fully in the present.When your 'there' has become a 'here',you will simply obtain a there that will look better to you than your present here.Live in the 'here and now'.Avoid the continuous cycle of longing.
The past is the past.Do not look back into the past and we shld look forward to the future.e.g.when you say you want to get 75 and you finally achieve your mark,you will look better than what you have now because all your efforts have paid off.Live in the present and look forward to the future because what is past is past.You can never get back to before so why not think of the future and make your life more meaningful and challenging?Although memories are not being forgotted, you shld think of the good ones and not the bad ones because nth can change the fact.You have enjoyed yourself thus it is time to move on.do not dwell so much on the past and u shld instead look more forward to the future.Leave with no regrets.
Rule seven - Others are only mirrors of you
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.See the qualities that you admire in others as characteristics that you have already embraced in youself,allow them to illuminate more clearly your own feelings of self-worth.
Others are only a reflection of you.What you do is none of other ppl's business.Also,what others do is also none of your business.Thus,you cannot criticize a person's actions or behaviour unless you have done it youself before.Instead,the characteristics that you have which others also have it shld be the ones you shld be admiring.
Rule eight - What you make of your life is up to you
You have all the tools and resources you need.What you do with them is up to you.
Just like Mr Neivelle Tan,he has all the tools and resources he needed.How he wants to deal with it is his own problem.He could choose to study with them and get into a university.But what did he do in the end? He chosed the path which led him astray.What abt you? Do you want to live in regret the next time? So think carefully and plan abt what you want to do with these tools and resources.
Rule nine - Your answers lie inside of you
All you need to do is look,listen and trust.Many answers to life's problems are available by trusting your intuition and listening to the 'little voices' in your head.
Whatever you do, you do not have to tell others.You just need to answer to yourself.Have you done the right thing? The life is yours and you shld follow your own intuition and not listen to other ppl decision.The problem that you surface is you are the one who shld be overcoming all the obstacles and not your friends.Thus, follow your own intuition.If you think is right,then go ahead with it.You do not have to follow in the footsteps of others and care what they will think of you.
Rule ten - You will forget all of this at birth
Create ways to find your way back to your truth when you forget.Surround yourself with people who know your personal truth and are familiar with your authentic self.They can help keep you rooted.
If you have problem remembering things,then create a livelier way of remembering them.Surround yourself with those who know you and will help you remember things and improve the way you are now.These are then your true friends.
These are the ten rules that perhaps may be useful to you,so why not read it and think abt how it can help you.
Also,here are some useful quotes which is quite related to this:
1. Life is not measured by the numbers of breath we take,but by the moments that take our breath away.
2. Friends are for lifetime.Treasure them as they are the ones who add colours to your life,you are able to change your mood from bad to good.
3. Whenever you see dark shadows in front of your path in life,try turning 180 degrees around.Bright light is shining beautifully behind you.
4. Whatever nice things we got,something bad is bound to follow.Whatever bad things we got, something good is following too.
5. Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens,not by what life brings to us,but by the attitude we bring to life.A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts,events and outcomes.It is a catalyst,a spark that creates extraordinary results.
6. Many of life's failure are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.Dance as though no one is watching you.Love as though you have never been hurt before.Ring as though no one can hear you.Live as though heaven is on earth.Dare to live,dare to dream.
7. An age is a darkness not because the light does not shine but is the people refuses to believe it.knowing you,my life is filled with miracles and twice as many stars.Accept what you are able to do and what you are unable to do.Accept the past as past without denying or discarding it.
8. The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind.The past cannot be changed,the future is still in your hands.Do not let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.A champion is someone who gets up,even when they cannot.
9. Friendship fumbles your joys, divides your sorrows.many people will walk in and out of your life,but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. A friend is someone who walks in when the whole world has walked out.one word frees us all the weight and pain of life;the word is love.
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Next is what our principal,Ms tham had talked about the rapid advancement of china during flag raising.
With china's development forging ahead, singaporeans should review their attitude and take this present state of affairs into serious consideration. Next time, i am sure that our live are going to be surrounded by china and chinese.Singapore's prosperity is determined by us, teenagers, future sucessor of singapore. we have to let singapore prosper to have ourselves flourish, its not for fame or money, its for better living and to realise our more ambitious dreams.
Why did a man changed his university to Beijing University instead of the one in England? He knows that China is rapidly growing and may even control our lives one day,thus he had said the correct thing.So what if we
are a graduate?if we do not know how to speak chinese or even know the history of the world,it also makes us useless as a graduate.It makes a big difference.
Recently singapore was ranked the bottom 10 of the most courtesy city.
Indeed, how disappointing it was when saw the news, no one even cared to smile and they even get angry with you for interfering with their lives.
It seems like without the present of such campaign, singaporean would not even realise that they are not smiling.
There's a quote " It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown" but we singaporeans are busy bees, spending time unefficiently on what seems to us are important work. Are all these impt??is working really so impt that we have to surrender ourselves to fate for working day and night without rewarding ourselves even if it is a drink at the pub?
Hereby, calling out for teenagers to give their future a serious thought.
Where will we be standing as in the world after waving goodbye to our identity as a student?
What are the types of life and future which we adore and the methods of achieving it?
What will our future be like?
Are we Singaporeans really to engage in working that we may even forgot the time that we has to go home and spend more time with our family?
Where has the quality time spend went to?i think that it has gone down the drain.All work and play makes jack a dull boy and i seriously agree with it.
Are we reallly going to work until the day we really die and get ourselves evolve with only work,work and work?
It might be too early to give such issue a thought, but what we are doing now might affect our future somehow, somewhere... thus,i seriously hope that you will think of the consequences and for the sake of our future...
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That is the end of today's post and i seriously hope that you will think carefully for the sake of yourself...