Imbecile

Friday, January 8, 2010 @ 11:15 PM

Hey everyone, im back from two camps this week.
First one was the sec 1 orientation camp. Something really sparked from that camp, i realised taht i have come so far in prefects but still wasnt enough. Though it came to me as a negative thought at first, but now, im going to take it as a positive wake up call and learn from my mistakes and improve myself. I'm glad that i feel that im taking more and more initiative since then. Sometimes its really good to have someone shouting and telling you that, hey man, look you are actually going on a wrong path. Get back together, choose the right path. Sec 1 orientation is super duper fun and wacky and all but im not going to talk about all the fun andstuff. Now, i just want to tell you what I have experienced from my sec 4 camp because it was so impactful that it has changed my life starting from now! ;)

I come into this sec 4 camp thinking what in the world am i doing here? Im so tired and fully not fueled up and all (after the sec 1 camp) I was just always looking at the negative side of life and not the right one, that made me have a really bad start. i was not paying full attention and all. But IM SOO SOO glad that i was actually listening after that.

THis camp taught me countless of things that i would never expect them to teach in just 3 days. Its not just about study skills and academics, they even tapped into my life, telling me and training me to be a better person for myself and my family. Study skills: Taught me how to super memorise, super read, time management, how to revise, when to study, where to study, how long to study. You guys can actually come and ask me cause i really dont mind sharing all this information that the trainers have taught me. learning wouldnt be fun without your friends and everything ;) Please everyone! be fortunate and content in going to school, people in africa or third world country can only dream of going to school every single day while we are here in singapore waking up and saying ALAMAK! I just soooo tired, i want to go back to sleep. 5 more mins wont hurt. but let me tell you this, you are wrong we should be excited and happy to have the oppurtunity to learn, and i now know this. learning is a wonderful process, just some parts are torturous, but once you have a right mind set for studying. I'm telling you, you will definitely score well for your exams because you have the belief and passion for it which helps you to motivate :)

Myself/Self Esteem: I really enjoyed this segment of the program cause i know i really need a good boost to my self esteem after what has happened recently. Ive lost my confidence and positive attitude. I only know how to look on the bad side of life. Confidence is just an illusion everyone. you are only confident because you have past history of being sucessful/good in that area am i right? We are not confident because we do not have a good history that we do well in that area. Therefore, we are afraid and scared of doing things. I'm glad that i come out as a whole new different person with different perspective of our world now, our reality. Life will always have ups and downs, its during those down times that we really need a good mentality to push us on and survive. We have to be positive during the negative times. If we think negatively, we WILL be negative. If we think positively, we WILL be positive. ^^ so people, always believe in yourself and never give up during times of difficulty and struggles. believe that you can do it and just do it :D

Family: THis is the part where i cried the most. We kids nowadays go on with our lives having so much fun and all shopping, watching movies with our friends, facebooking, blogging and we never stop to look at those who live closest to us and are the most important people in our lives. We treat them as if they werent our parents and even say really hurtful things to them. Im not saying its you, but im saying its everyone, even me. We forget what they have sacrificed and have done for us, we take them for granted and always just asking them for more and more. We always mistook our parents im telling you, they love you the most in this world and nobody can beat that besides God himself ^^ Please ponder upon this everyone, while facebooking, do u have more pictures of your family or your friends???? you get my point right? People! stop being such a monster and just go up to them hug them and say that you love them. I had a priviledge to share and tell them how i really felt at tonight's camp closingn cermony infront of my entire sec 4 and 5 level, teachers, parents of my friends, trainers and principal. I really glad that they ahve that session cause its really important for us to tell what we have in our hearts to our parents. Some people come up to me and say hey jamie, that was a nice speech. But at the back of my mind i was like heck care about the speech, anybody can say a good speech but its whether you will take action when you see something wrong. Will you guys go home and really spend more time with your parents? Will you guys really stop making them worry and all? I knw that is quite impossible right now, but im sure most of us can make it if we put our mind into it.

Hahah i know im blabbering a lot now, you guys may feel like eh why jamie saying so much mature things and all? Please dont. Its just because my trainer- Leroy has open my eyes to world to a whole new level and perspective. He has helped me and a lot of my other friends to be more aware of our lives, and not just going day after day wasting all those time without spending it with meaning and reason. Once again, i would like to thank Leroy for his great words of wisdom that has influenced many like me to be a better person who wants to die die must work to their goals, to be motivated, to want to study so badly, to want to be positive all day, to want to spend more time with my lovely and wonderful parents. THis camp has been a great and awesome experience that changed my life. I would never trade it for anything in the world for those lessons cause it really benefitted me. Thank you once again! ^^

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