Friday, October 23, 2009
Tonight during my National Coaching Accreditation Programme lecture, i have learned one quote and i would love to share with everyone. It can be applied not just in sport and coaching, but also in career, relationship with partners, spouses and friends. :DWatch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
~Frank Outlaw
Ended training at
12:09 AM
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Chemistry between 2 people = Having the right formula of physical attraction + emotional Attachment + Intellectual connectionAdded in euqal proportion, you will have your desired compound. :)
Ended training at
3:07 PM
Sunday, July 05, 2009
It is so easy to be influenced by certain words said by our friends. In the end, we are unable to project full picture of a situation to our view and we make false assumption that fills up for the empty jigsaw pieces. In the end, we pass judegment based on bias views from ourselves. This issue is unavoidable in relationship or dating phase. The only resolve is for both parties to trust and be honest with each other. No doubt both sides would have their own acquaintances and friends and would like to enjoy their company in any forms of meet up. But the intention of this meet up would be doubtful unless one is willing to be accountable for the reasons of these gathering.Everyone will have their insecurities but with a stronger trust built, it will not devour a person's self esteem.
Ended training at
11:16 AM
Saturday, June 27, 2009
We can't free ourselves from what others think of us can we?? In the end, we might fall traps to other people's judgement and create unnecessary insecurity and doubts about ourself. The worst judge and critics could come from oneself.
Ended training at
7:37 PM
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
NCC was over last weekend. I didn't train as hard as i should be, so i enter the race with only 2 objectives, one is to clock a 10km timing under 1hr and second is to stay above the water without capsizing. I fulfill one objective which is not to capsize but i couldn't make it back within an hour. Nothing more i can ask for if i only sow in mediocre effort in training. However, i can say that i had became more comfortable and confident kayaking alone in K1. Maybe in the near future i would be confident enough to race in shorter sprints race like 500m or 1000m. Until then, i will take a break from kayaking for this semester and will return to train for next year Singapore canoeing marathon. This time, i will take on the full 36km race. :)
Ended training at
5:18 PM
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Quotes from various people in my lifeMyself: It doesn't take anything extraordinary to give the best you can.Keith: When you start dating or be in a relationship, it will never be about 'i' , it becomes a 'we'. It isn't about 'what you want' but 'what the other party wants too'. You must learned to be selfless and not self-centeredAaron: Is it mutually exclusive or not? This kind of thing cannot assume one, you must have a mutual verbal agreement.Zhenhao/ Nathan: 你玩得起就玩下去。James / Xianwei: I support whatever decision you have madeWinston: Whatever thing you do, do your best. You need to work, do your best. You need to study, do your best. You need to train, do your best. You need to slack and rest, do your best in it.Myself: It wouldn't be doing your best, if you are dating multiple people at one time. Your attention is divided, your effort will be diluted. By sowing that amount of mediocre effort, you will also reap mediocre results.
Ended training at
11:20 PM
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I have not updated my blog for such a long time. This post will be a happy post as compared to my past melancholic ones. Sorry for those negative energy which i exude from my previous post. Last semester in 2008, when i begin my year 3 in univeristy, i had a pretty bad and dreadful time. Thankfully 2009 has been going very well for me and it has been improving every month. Half the year in 2009 is over and i am looking forward to the rest half of the year being closer to a quarter century old.I am graudating in another years time and have another semester to go in NTU. The last semester in NTU, in 2010, will be spent doing internship in my desired company. Year 3 of my university life has also come to an end two weeks ago when the results were released. I wouldn't say i have done very well but at least i managed to spread my effort equivalent for every modules and obtained similar passing grades for them.Some of my friends have said i might be spending too much time on canoeing and weren't able to management my time with studies. True enough, but i have never regretted it. I have officially handed over my baton to the new captain at the end of march this year. Being in duty as a captain for a year has taught me so much lessons and provide me with rich experience which i will never learn from textbooks.I have not regretted if my results in year 3 slipped alot as compared with the grades i have obtained in year 1 & 2. Most important is that I have learned and experienced. Grades isn't everything to me in my life. Seeing how some of coursemates will squirm, whine and tears when they failed to obtain a A in their modules, i told to myself that thankfully i am not anywhere like them. At least i have not added anymore stress to my already stressful life as a student leader.Like i have told jiahui and huiting the other day after our astronomy lecture, I pride myself as a person who value skills of mastery. I enjoy learning one or 2 specific areas which i like and go in depth and grasp the concept and application well. That is why i have never feel that university life is suitable for me as i have to learn everything under sun in chemistry, such as physical, analytical, inorganic, on top of other mandatory electives in Arts, business, physics and mathematics that i have to clear as a student of faculty School of Physical math and sciences. I only have strong interest in organic and medicinal chemistry though. In our life, most of the potential and capabilities which we applies in work does not derives from the things we learn in school. In fact, i think we have to learn new stuff to stay relevant to the jobscope. For obvious reasons, i would not see any advantage in learning so different things in university if we are not going to grasp the concept well by the end of 4 years. If we happen to learn it wrong and apply it wrongly, we end up making a fool of ourselves - We became more stupid as it turns out. Instead, i strongly agree with "teach less, learn more"!
And also this is one of the few reasons why i have not ventured into other sports like dragonboat or canoepolo because i have not yet master entirely the skills and techniques in canoeing. Maybe i would try them but it would be purely for leisure and entertainment.
On the other hand, beside my university life consisting studies and kayaking. My social and dating life has been doing decently well. That is if i do not sabotage myself again by making irrational, impulsive and unneccessary decision to solve a small problem. The role as a captain has probably moulded me into looking issue with different perspective before coming to a conclusion that accomodate the interest of more people.
Hao, wei and jav, thanks so much so listening to me and giving advice when my lobang was picha last semester as i have a hard time to readjust, with the fear of people looking at me differently as a student leader due to external circumstances. To W, i enjoy every moment spent with you. Don't overwork yourself though as it aches me to see you so lethargic everytime.
Until then, i do not know when i will update my post in the future but i will try to make it a point to do so more regularly now. Thank you!
Ended training at
10:24 AM
