My comp is over!!

Yes! Finally my comp is over, I get to breathe more easily again. Didn't qualify. In fact did not do very well, because my boat was very shaky throughout. But nvm, I still wanna thank God, and every single person who did encouraged me, my teamates, my partner, S44.. Special mention to Er Jian, Qing Wei and Chun Teck who helped me to obtain and gave my a crash course on the handycam, and even offering to teach me some video editing after. Great class to be in man, with so many computer geniuses.

VJ kayaking didn't do very well, but not too badly either! We have 1 finalist, and 4 other semi finalists! Hopefully we can bring back 1 or 2 medals, which would be GOOD for us. I'll elaborate more on friday, about everything.

Didn't really want to blog much. But I guess I have to clear up some misunderstandings.

1stly, for Liang Hong. You've written a very long post, and I'm not trying to argue with your points here because they do make sense, of course. However, perhaps there have been a slight misunderstanding. Well, I don't object to you defending Mr Gi, of course he might have his reasons for doing what he did, and who knows, they may work out for good at the end of our 2 years.

I'm not really totally out and against Mr Gi. I do give him the respect he deserves as a teacher. But I was just offering a perspective, a viewpoint, pointing out his qualities and his flaws as I see it now. He is doing his job, no doubt. But the thing is that, I can't say that he is a CARING teacher now. Its very hard for me to say that. But wouldn't we like to have a teacher that we know that actually cares about us? Right now, its very hard to determine his purpose, his motive behind his actions. Well, he is not obliged to be very caring towards us because we aren't his children anyway. But likewise, we aren't obliged to give him the best report card.

Oh when I said, " What respect? You may ask then. They have done nothing to earn our respect." I did not mean that Mr Gi has done nothing to deserve our respect. I was just voicing out what one MIGHT say. Then after that, I went on to explain how he might or might not deserve our respect. So it wasn't a condemnation, but rather, more like a question to consider.

Ok. Hopefully things will get better. Anyway, regarding the sarcasm part. I wasn't really meaning we should engage in a sarcasm war with him. But maybe a bit of sarcasm back, without crossing the line, would be good, like what Sean did. After all, looking at some of his conversation, he does enjoy replies with some sarcasm in them too. If he cannot tolerate sarcasm, then I don't believe he himself will use it.

To slash, whoever you are, I'm not very sure who you are but you seem to bear a bit of hostility towards me - I don't know if I interpreted that correctly. Of course, its all right. After all, I am far from perfect. But there're some misconceptions. " im glad you realise that you have yet to fall on your face," sounds quite sarcastic to me. (oh, but its alrite, really. no hard feelings)But, actually, thinking about this sentence again. I have literally fallen on my face before. It was a hard fall, in fact, and I broke my teeth ( just this year, if you remember). But figuratively, I realised I have had many setbacks too. My life is far from perfect, and when I say far, I mean far. What you see, perhaps, is just me doing well academically so far. But academic success, while it may seem everything now, is actually nothing much in the world outside. I've come to realise that. I've had setbacks, but I've learnt how to cope with them over the years with many experiences and of course, God. So now, like the inspirational message Dc William Tan gave, I've learnt better how to "view problems as challenges, view obstacles as opportunities" In my kayaking 'career', I've had many major setbacks. Like that fall, my completely humiliating 1st race in March, many cuts and injuries, fatigue.. And now.. I did quite badly. But I don't view it as a failure though. I refuse to give up. I want to bring a medal back for VJ, and I'll train harder than ever. Failing to qualify IS a failure. But I choose not to be upset over it. Whats done cannot be undone.

Probably not falling hard on my face would be in my studies. SO far, I've been very fortunate not to fail anything. But if I do fail, I won't let myself get down by it. 1st thing to ask if I fail - did I study hard enough. Answer would be, definitely no. Same for me, and same for everyone out there. If you did not do well, you did not study as hard as you should. Unless you study 24/7 and still fail, then perhaps the subject is not for you. After all, no one is good in everything. But I think the most important thing would be to have confidence in yourself. If you choose this path, be confident that you can succeed. If not, choose another path. Following that, if you should fail, just acknowledge that you have not put in enough effort, review yourself, and be confident you will do better next time!