Merry christmas!
Christmas came early to soc this afternoon, and i thoroughly enjoyed myself and had fun with everyone else(:
Really thank God for this awesome bunch of fun-loving people at the workplace! feeling so blessed<3 p="">
I have no pictures to put up cos i've just been crashing everyone's photos somehow or another haha!gotta wait for photos up on fb!
+ val-* @ 8:15 PM
2 qotd.
1. you may think you have read everything, but you know nothing.
2. 1. if you cannot explain something, it means you don't really know/understand.
+ val-* @ 12:27 AM
having many dilemmas in life now.
many things that made me think twice where i am now,
many things that made me want to escape reality,
yet, i could feel God's guidance in it.
there are about just as many things that made me really thankful for where i am now,
just as many things that touch my heart and cry for joy.
i'm just a step from peace, that is, to be closer to God,
yes closer to God each day.
just a few notes to jolt my memory next time:
1) a peaceful family; cold on the outside, really warm on the inside
2) awesome friends. awesome is so overused and cliche, but what could describe how lovely my darling friends are? you, you, you, you, and many more yous, you put the smile on my face.
3) a great mentor i really respect. i feel really blessed and honoured to learn from you, especially for the topics i really like. and i would love to learn from you all my work life, if im privileged to do so.
4) how could i put God last again, (unfortunately to be absolutely honest i did again). cos God is the source of all these blessings.
+ val-* @ 11:56 PM
만약에.
there are many of these in life, but i'll wait.
Looking back at the past week, i really thank God for tiding me through.
Being floor manager wasn't fun at all, having to do so many things.
Although by friday i kind of got used to it and found it alright,
but i know there's still alot to learn.
If not for the patients, for them to get their medicine fast;
if not for the frontline dispensers, who may experience more unpleasant encounters if the waiting time is long;
I have no thoughts about maintaining a good KPI, and no i have no wish to be FM if i have a choice.
KPI is just but a reading. but my patients are the reason why im still persevering in this, and im still proud to be a pharmacist whatever others say. Just try to be a patient for a day and you'll understand how much shit they have to go through too.
anw, finally i get to rest my poor legs!it's like i finally exercised 8 hours a day for 5 days after so long!hahaha!
+ val-* @ 9:49 PM
Saw this post from: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/julian-tan/what-they-dont-tell-you-a_1_b_4254782.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
The last time I got a B for anything was in Year 3. Since then, I've managed to get an A or better for every test on every subject that I have taken, from impromptu class tests to official examinations that mark academic milestones.
As you could probably imagine, I have been told my whole life that being a straight-A student, my life is "set", especially coming from a part of the world where happiness is often measured in terms of material and financial security, and where good grades are thought to be the only way of achieving these things.
And so, like many other Asian students, chasing straight As became an obsession for a large part of my growing up. I began believing that scholastic aptitude was all it took for a fulfilling and happy life. But in my pursuit for the only alphabet I would allow to be printed across my report card, I began to realize that there are many things that society and people in general do not warn you about being a straight-A student.
They do not tell you that your drive for success might turn into the fear of failure, which might make you afraid of trying new things and experimenting like you used to because you've become too comfortable with the security of formulaic solutions.
They do not tell you that you might stop being creative or might stop thinking altogether, learning only to regurgitate meaningless data and facts like a parrot.
They do not tell you that you might never be happy because happiness is the simple equation of reality minus expectations (happiness = reality - expectations) and expectations skyrocket when you're a straight-A student.
They do not tell you that you might forget why you loved learning a subject in the first place.
They do not tell you that your Ivy League dreams might be reduced in your sights to becoming only hollow brand names to be collected.
They do not tell you that you might see life in only black and white when in reality, nothing is ever quite so straightforward.
They do not tell you that you're in a bubble that you will eventually need to leave and that you might enter the real world with skills limited to those that can only be validated academically.
They do not tell you that you might become narcissistic as you seek confirmation for your self-worth from the attention you get from good grades and that this narcissism might make you feel entitled to things that you're not.
They do not tell you that more important than book smarts are common sense and street smarts that like anything else in this world, you will lose from a lack of practice.
But most of all, they do not tell you that the single most valuable thing that a straight-A student possesses is NOT their grades, but their competitive attitude and an excellent work ethic, and that the A's are merely a consequence of these things.
So if you're in school or at university, don't pursue academic pinnacles for what they are, but rather pursue what they are a product of. You can always learn what is in a textbook tomorrow, but to learn to be hardworking, disciplined, resourceful and persistent requires a longer time and it might be too late to learn these things if you do not learn them as a student.
Because there is little use for a straight-A student if all he has are his As.
Well. i agree with 99% of the article. i don't really have anything else to add really. except that grades are not everything but if you have it, it says you're a genius who is hardworking, or not a genius but still are hardworking anyway. all the negative things about straight A students are yeah probably true, but if you asked me to redo my sch days knowing all these, i would still get my As anyway. it's really just about what you really want in life, be it the means to the end or maybe for some, an end in itself.
+ val-* @ 11:38 PM