Chronicles of a Young College Boy

Saturday, May 06, 2006

heys ppl....last week of class is done for me now!!...=)..hahaha..but next week all the exams come..ppl keep wanting to kill me for having tuesday as my last day of exams...yea well we all got different schedules for exams cos we take different class..mine coincindentally all finish by tuesday...but then the downside will be having 2 exams on monday...and one on tuesday...heh probably the only reason stopping my friends from drowning me is tht my weekend will be hell..oh well....now im got some time to write blog...so its not tht bad..=)
now its spring here in milwaukee...and its really amazing how beautiful the campus has become...i've been wanting to take photos of the campus...but still cannot find the convenient time yet...but i will probably after my exams...after which i hav to learn how to put pictures into the entry...=)...anyway im going to give u guys a preview by describing it in words..the trees are probably the main ones..u noe how it is in spore the trees if they r green they will just be green...down here they hav different shades of green...light green...dark green...then there was red trees...well they werent actually red but there r soo many flowers in the tree tht it appears red...then there was white...same thing becos of the white flowers...then there was a maple color ones...then there is also pink...its just so beautiful...every single morning i take my time to walk to classes just to enjoy the magnificent color of the trees....beautiful start for the morning...haha...makes me want to take photography class sia....but its really just picturesque...
this week i went for a tkd testing last monday....then we hav a different tester...the grandmaster's son...cool and funny guy....he says during the testing..."ok now i want u guys to do full-contact full-force sparring....the person who knocks the other guy out first will get an A"...then we all look at him like speaking a silent, "Are u serious???"....then he smiled and say "Just kidding."...hahahhaa...then after tht he gave us a talk...he asked us wad kind of characters do u want to see in a friend, leader, employer...we all gave basically the same thing...honesty...confidence...loyalty....responsibility etc...then when all of this is written on the board...he ask us each one of them whether its attitude or skill....and after the exercise ended...every single on of the characteristic on tht board is an attitude or an attitude and a skill...this exercise kinda makes it really clear to me now...now im not saying tht i nv knew this...but its only at this moment tht it brands itself on my mind tht skill without attitude is like a person without his heart...its futile...theres no lifeforce to it...i don noe if i can just find one specific life lesson in mine to illustrate this....but its just very clear somehow...the concept i mean...of how important attitude is in our lives...

heh this week has also been quite a peaceful one for me..mentally i mean...remember the last entry i wrote the last thing i said i got lots on my mind..?...yea the next day after some time i realised why i feel so choked up in my mind the previous night...u see...i've been holding onto something thts well...uncertain...yea i tink thts probably the closest word i can tink of...the outcome of this is just unpredictable and it requires my utmost patience for it...anyway then i recalled these words i read in "Tuesdays with Morrie"...well i cant recall the words exactly..=P..but i noe its a lesson on detachment... its when u r troubled wif something...and u want to push it away and the problem naturally is u cant...so u fill urself up wif it...for example..if u fill sad and cant get rid of it...fill urself up wif it...just make sure u don hurt anyone...u can cry...exercise...read...wadever...then when u r over wif it...u suddenly feel so peaceful...my case its just a realization tht i don hav to be this way (frustrated)...i can just let it go for a while...hav a peace of mind...its like this burden taken off u...=)...theres this heavyness in the heart tht has been lifted off..i hav no idea how to actually say it in words...but its like tht...lightening ur burden of the mind ...and the heart...I tink i have this problem also becos of my tendency to live in my past...the saying "Stop living in your past and start to look in the future" kept on propping in my head everytime i had a dilemma...

this week kinda pinpoint something people may have misunderstandings about goals....a lot of people's answer will be like..." i want to be happy..."..."i want to be rich"..."i want to slim down"..."i want to be more fit"....but there is one problem wif this goal....its not SPECIFIC enuff...its not tangible to the point where u will find a lot of difficulty reaching it...we shld not hav money or happiness for our measurement of either success or wadever goal...bcos there can nv be enuff of it...like who can say they hav enuff money?..mayb bill gates can...but theres only a handfull billionaires who can say tht...and happiness is also another difficult thing....wad we must do to make it tangible is tht we concentrate on something thts related to tht particular goal...like for exmaple if ur goal is to be happy,...then set a goal of spending a specific amount of hours wif ur loved ones or do something tht makes u happy....i don want to sound like im the expert here..cos i still hav difficulty of finding tht thing related to personal finances itself...

heh i found another lesson for parenting...and from the usual source smallville...u noe when clark's dad was in a huge dilemma ..he was like so confused at wad to do tht he told clark.."son, i don noe how to protect u anymore.."...then clark replied an answer so perfect tht its worth to be placed in every son's mind..." Thts not ur job, dad....ur job is to teach me how to protect myself."....when i heard tht again theres some clicking in my mind...its like..hmmm....very very true...this ties in with one of the parenting lesson i posted a few weeks ago...about trusting the child into making his or her own decision...i think the mistake that some parents make is tht they sometimes do not realise tht their child has become old enuff to make their own decision...yea also bcos to them their child seem always young...but its so critical to the child's growth for making his own decision and learn from the mistakes tht if not done...the child wont be able to protect himself when the time comes..the parents' job is to teach their child to build a life...not build it for them....=)...

DanieL counted snowflakes at 9:36 PM