Is nothing special lo... Didn't get to learn much from my internship as what I hope for cos its mainly work n more work lol... but at least it introduce me to some new fields which are quite interesting; how to plan and prepare for a workshop, etc...
The worst part was I had a few things wanted to do during this holiday; learning mandarin, polishing SPSS and finding relevant research topic for next semester's PSY202, but none had been done so far... in fact, I have yet to start any of those haiz... :(
And now left only 2 weeks lo, how can I utilize them le? Or should I say, am I motivated enough to do something within these 2 weeks le? Haha... I dunno, but I think would..... gua.
Someone start to force me to start doing it pls :(
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Tree of Values
I had the privilege to a Peace Leadership workshop last week and gained some valuable knowledge. One interesting description used in the workshop was how our values resemble seeds in a tree. It takes time, effort, will and energy to water our plant's seed to enable it to grow into a small plant, and subsequently into a tree.
The same concept goes for our moral values. We needed time to experience lots of rise and fall in between events and happening, have a strong will to rise up from our faults and put more efforts to correct our mistakes and values to enable us to grow as a person. In the meantime, we also need to protect ourselves from harmful insects such as negative social values, etc from harming our moral values.
I guess such learning process will keep repeating itself, and what matters most is what we learned in the process of growing our positive values.
The same concept goes for our moral values. We needed time to experience lots of rise and fall in between events and happening, have a strong will to rise up from our faults and put more efforts to correct our mistakes and values to enable us to grow as a person. In the meantime, we also need to protect ourselves from harmful insects such as negative social values, etc from harming our moral values.
I guess such learning process will keep repeating itself, and what matters most is what we learned in the process of growing our positive values.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Pathethic people...
Humans are pathetic. Yup, you're not reading a wrongly phrase sentence. And in case you still have doubt, I'm nice enough to repeat that sentence for you, "HUMANS ARE PATHETIC"!
1. We like to associate certain people with certain traits instead of treating them as an unique individual. Races, genders, social status etc. are some example of how we relate a particular person to a certain traits, i.e. the kiasuness and greed of Chinese, lazy Malay, violent Indian, super emo girls, limitless egos in guys..... I don't think I need to go on rite? What I mean is, can we be very sure that every girls are super emo, every Chinese is greedy blah blah blah? NO! Being a certain race or gender doesn't mean we will posses all those traits. As such, why can't we respect, tolerate and accept individual as an unique identity and stop relating people to certain stupid stuff?
Humans are pathetic rite?
2. Selfish assholes. Tell me how many people you met in your life that are not selfish. I guess maybe one in a million, could be lesser but no doubt most people are selfish. It's just the extend of these selfish behavior that separates a person, but again certain people can be real pathetic. E.g. in a relationship, a guy/girl can cheat on their partner and yet they will choose to give some really lame stupid excuses just to cover their back when such cheat is revealed. I mean, why can't these people just admit their mistake since they are the ones who wants to have "double pleasure" and didn't even care the damage that could be inflicted on their partners in terms of psychological or emotional, especially if that person is of low self-esteem.
Humans are really pathetic rite?
3. Full, or fool of themselves. Some people can think they are somewhat of higher standard than others, thus giving them the stupid thinking that they are much superior compared to other people. One best example was seniority in schools or offices, but let's take the example in school. I was discussing this issue with a friend today and we both agreed that some people can be real fools for thinking that they posses greater knowledge, knows more compared to their juniors. And this is what me and my friend observed in our psychology classes, where students are "supposingly" more well aware that the perception of seniority means superiority is totally wrong, yet these people are so full, or fool of themselves and totally ignore their juniors in classes (ya, even when both are in the same class) or in group discussion.
Dang, humans are just pathetic rite?
4. Greedy/power freak bastards. Just look at the power struggle between BN and Anwar and how these people can use so many underhand tactics just to achieve their goals. Worth mentioning was the number of greedy asses in BN that encouraged the corruption practice in our country. Bleh, enough of politics I guess, it's a neverending story of the patheticness in human being...
5. I can list so much more, but I have a life so do the rest of the imagination yourself.
It looked as though I'm frustrated, which I was indeed when I see the negative direction of where everyone is heading. The current society is indeed in plain deep shit, and it takes some great effort to bring changes to it. Life should be much simpler, but it was us who are making things hard for ourselves. Pretty stupid rite? We rape the nature of their resources, and here we got raped back by it via natural disasters etc...
Of cos, great people still exists, and these people are the pure inspiration for me, and hopefully the day can arrive when we can bring changes to the society and make the world a better place to live.
Ah, I have a dream...
1. We like to associate certain people with certain traits instead of treating them as an unique individual. Races, genders, social status etc. are some example of how we relate a particular person to a certain traits, i.e. the kiasuness and greed of Chinese, lazy Malay, violent Indian, super emo girls, limitless egos in guys..... I don't think I need to go on rite? What I mean is, can we be very sure that every girls are super emo, every Chinese is greedy blah blah blah? NO! Being a certain race or gender doesn't mean we will posses all those traits. As such, why can't we respect, tolerate and accept individual as an unique identity and stop relating people to certain stupid stuff?
Humans are pathetic rite?
2. Selfish assholes. Tell me how many people you met in your life that are not selfish. I guess maybe one in a million, could be lesser but no doubt most people are selfish. It's just the extend of these selfish behavior that separates a person, but again certain people can be real pathetic. E.g. in a relationship, a guy/girl can cheat on their partner and yet they will choose to give some really lame stupid excuses just to cover their back when such cheat is revealed. I mean, why can't these people just admit their mistake since they are the ones who wants to have "double pleasure" and didn't even care the damage that could be inflicted on their partners in terms of psychological or emotional, especially if that person is of low self-esteem.
Humans are really pathetic rite?
3. Full, or fool of themselves. Some people can think they are somewhat of higher standard than others, thus giving them the stupid thinking that they are much superior compared to other people. One best example was seniority in schools or offices, but let's take the example in school. I was discussing this issue with a friend today and we both agreed that some people can be real fools for thinking that they posses greater knowledge, knows more compared to their juniors. And this is what me and my friend observed in our psychology classes, where students are "supposingly" more well aware that the perception of seniority means superiority is totally wrong, yet these people are so full, or fool of themselves and totally ignore their juniors in classes (ya, even when both are in the same class) or in group discussion.
Dang, humans are just pathetic rite?
4. Greedy/power freak bastards. Just look at the power struggle between BN and Anwar and how these people can use so many underhand tactics just to achieve their goals. Worth mentioning was the number of greedy asses in BN that encouraged the corruption practice in our country. Bleh, enough of politics I guess, it's a neverending story of the patheticness in human being...
5. I can list so much more, but I have a life so do the rest of the imagination yourself.
It looked as though I'm frustrated, which I was indeed when I see the negative direction of where everyone is heading. The current society is indeed in plain deep shit, and it takes some great effort to bring changes to it. Life should be much simpler, but it was us who are making things hard for ourselves. Pretty stupid rite? We rape the nature of their resources, and here we got raped back by it via natural disasters etc...
Of cos, great people still exists, and these people are the pure inspiration for me, and hopefully the day can arrive when we can bring changes to the society and make the world a better place to live.
Ah, I have a dream...
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Internship life
Had quite a hectic week since last Monday. This is because most of us are handling quite a few projects at the same time (6 interns in total). Most of the jobs are pretty boring and no brainer, but guess I don't mind at all since everything starts from basic. I guess the presence of Dr. Goh does instill a certain level of stress due to his high demand and 'perfectionist' characteristic.
The interesting part was the more difficult jobs are pilling on us, and I guess most of us would be getting lesser and lesser sleep in the next 3-4 weeks. My group of interns had been pretty nice and helpful except 1, and overall it was a great learning experience for me and the rest of the people.
Yet, working on certain corporate projects mean being realistic, in the sense of marketing, promotion and earning profits. Reality bites, competition makes people ruthless and the race to the top makes people doing what they can to beat the rest in the race.
Dr. Goh did keep reminding most of the interns about how the real world works, and that's because he wanted us to perform. I guess those advices are certainly useful for my other 5 groupmates since most of them had yet to get exposed to the real working world.
Despite appreciating those advices, I, for one never like to use it. I guess that's because I've seen alot of these ugly sides of human, and I do despise myself if I really had to use some "underhand" tactics to get things done. But I guess knowing these means you will be using it when the situation gets dire, which pretty sux.
Nonetheless I still look forward for this month since these projects are really interesting and it does require you to make good use of all those resources available to you; manpower, information, and even lecturers for consultation lol. I guess I'm lucky since I got a lecturer as consultant for one of my project. I guess that's the benefit of knowing them :p
The interesting part was the more difficult jobs are pilling on us, and I guess most of us would be getting lesser and lesser sleep in the next 3-4 weeks. My group of interns had been pretty nice and helpful except 1, and overall it was a great learning experience for me and the rest of the people.
Yet, working on certain corporate projects mean being realistic, in the sense of marketing, promotion and earning profits. Reality bites, competition makes people ruthless and the race to the top makes people doing what they can to beat the rest in the race.
Dr. Goh did keep reminding most of the interns about how the real world works, and that's because he wanted us to perform. I guess those advices are certainly useful for my other 5 groupmates since most of them had yet to get exposed to the real working world.
Despite appreciating those advices, I, for one never like to use it. I guess that's because I've seen alot of these ugly sides of human, and I do despise myself if I really had to use some "underhand" tactics to get things done. But I guess knowing these means you will be using it when the situation gets dire, which pretty sux.
Nonetheless I still look forward for this month since these projects are really interesting and it does require you to make good use of all those resources available to you; manpower, information, and even lecturers for consultation lol. I guess I'm lucky since I got a lecturer as consultant for one of my project. I guess that's the benefit of knowing them :p
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