Hello! Officially done with Sem 5 yesterday. Knowing the fact that there's 4 more semesters to go only, I am getting afraid. Afraid of losing all these awesome unimates, all the fun time we had, and going out to the working force. Thinking of that just freak me out. How's the world out there actually like? Bet there's no going class together, having fun in the lecture halls, going for lunch and celebration and also outings together right.
Yesterday was kinda fun, there's low fun and high fun. I spent like 4 hours in the library at the quiet zone eating my textbook, reading I meant, snoozing off in the beginning because it was so quiet and cold. Spent some gan-jeong hours at cafeteria before going into the exam hall. Spent 3 hours writing on that freaking exam booklet and I've no idea what I wrote. uh oh. Then an hour hanging around in uni, and 20+ of us and 6 cars headed to Klang. Woots, that was fun! Thought of having steamboat but yeah we went there and the shop was not open. So we all stand on the roadside discussing here and there for like some time and ended up just went over to the shop beside for some Western food. I had fried rice (so embarrassing) and my food came last. Awesome or not?! :O
#1 Oh this is just some random picture. Had papa john's pizza on Sunday. So yummy!!! Gotta eat this again!
#2 My breakfast for today! Coffee love and sardin sandwich! Nom nom!
#3 Got back the assignment marks yesterday and quite happy with it. Actually I am easily satisfied. Heh. Thanks group mates for the awesome magazine we did from scratch! Emergent Leadership rocks huh!
And now, am gonna share a bit here and there some Words from Mr.Shannon ( my fav lecturer and also for the Leadership subject we took this sem ), not gonna post the whole thing here but most of it. Read it people, very meaningful :)
"Friday, 24 February 2012
Hello, everyone!
Your life is only just beginning, actually. My generation
(Gen X, people born roughly between 1969 – 1984) will soon fade away. And so,
we are passing the baton and torch of leadership over to you. I hope and pray
that you make your choices and decisions count.
Honestly, the days ahead for the world look uncertain.
There are dark clouds. I hear thunder in the distance. Sure, yes, there are
good things going on as well. But I think it’s important to start sharpening
our minds and preparing our hearts for the rough seas. Technology is going to
continue its relentless march in transforming every aspect of our lives. We
cannot expect things to remain the same. Will things get crazier? Yes, I think
so. I urge you to live your life intentionally and not to let life just happen.
You can be strategic. You can be significant, personally and professionally, at
home, at work, on campus, and wherever you are, wherever you go, whoever you
are with, whatever the situation and context.
You can lead and you can learn to lead. You can make things
happen. The marketplace is waiting for your leadership, your influence, your
voice, your words, your writing, your work, your service, your art and your
touch. You are going to spend a great deal of time at the workplace. Therefore,
strive to find work that you find meaningful, work that you will enjoy. All
types of jobs and work worth doing have their own unique challenges, stress
levels, complexities and difficulties. But if you find something you love to
do, you won’t mind the effort and trouble so much. Your work will become your
craft, your art ... your gift to everyone else around you.
Your family, present and future, are waiting for your
leadership and influence. There are things you can do to usher in hope,
healing, reconciliation, forgiveness, restoration and peace.
Your campus, your community, your towns and cities, your
nations, your circles of friendship, your present and future friends,
colleagues and bosses ... all are waiting for your leadership. You can usher in
justice, spread passion, solve important problems, lead teams, create stuff,
establish foundations, pioneer initiatives, be an example, bring cheer and joy
and become beacons of light in darkness. If you like, you can become a
lighthouse and help ships find their way through the fog and storm.
It’s a choice, isn’t it?
I’ll let you in on a secret: I read obituaries. I spend
time thinking about death a lot. Read this:
Better to spend your time at funerals than at
parties.
After all, everyone dies— so the living should take
this to heart...
A wise person thinks a lot about death, while a fool
thinks only about having a good time.
(Ecclesiastes 7: 2, 4 – Old Testament, The Holy Bible)
I suggest you take some time off to be alone and to
imagine the day of your own funeral. Imagine people you know giving a eulogy on
you. What would you like people to remember the most about your life?
Maybe you can write your own eulogy. Seriously. Now. If
you don’t know how, do a Google search on ‘how to write your own eulogy’.
Spend time reflecting on how you want to be remembered.
Think of the kind of legacy you would like to leave behind. You and I will
surely die one day. We need to get over and past our fear of death. With all
due respect to specific traditions, if we continue to live in fear of death, we
will NEVER live our lives to the fullest and NEVER realize our full God-given
potential. Thinking about death and reflecting upon the reality of death will
help us live wisely and purposefully. It will help us to do some necessary
growing up.
I’m not asking you to indulge in some airy, fairy
unrealistic fantasy. I’m not saying you should hang your head down, look
depressed, feel suicidal, put on an Angry Bird face and become a morbid person.
No. That’s not what I mean at all. Far from it.
I want you to live with laughter, joy and gladness. But
life must be lived wisely in order to be lived forward fully. Recklessness,
carelessness or care-freeness isn’t the same as courage, simplicity and
contentedness.
I’m calling you to “begin with the end in mind” as
Stephen Covey would put it in his book ‘Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People’. Once we can picture the end and our funerals, and imagine what we
would like people to remember and say of us, then we can choose to live and
lead intentionally in the here and now. In other words, by knowing the kind of
ending we want to have, we can live our lives forward with vision and purpose.
You can tune your ‘internal compass and GPS’ towards your ‘true north’. There
may be things along the way that sidetrack us but once we know the ending we’d
like to have, we can make ourselves get back on track.
I strongly encourage you to invest in your mind by
reading good books and attending good leadership conferences and seminars.
Start small. Build up your leadership skills bit by bit, step by step. Learn to
be genuine and sincere. Practice listening. Communicate with people less on
e-mail, SMS and Facebook. Do more face-to-face, live and real human
interaction, without any technological interface. Hold a hand. Look at friends
and family in the eyes. Turn the mobile devices off at meal times. Maybe have a
“NO MOBILE DEVICES OR COMPUTER OR INTERNET OR VIDEO GAMES DAY” once a week. It
will change your life. Become people of substance and depth. When crisis and
trouble comes, people of substance and depth will be able to withstand the
shocks and lead others through the chaos and panic.
Learn to lead and influence for the greater good. Stand
and act for what is right.
Learn to lead from the ground up.
Learn to lead without the need for official, formal
titles, spotlight or recognition.
Learn to lead quietly.
Learn to lead behind the scenes.
Learn to appreciate and enjoy silence, stillness and
quietness.
Learn to be.
Let your ‘doing’ flow from your ‘being’.
Learn to wait for the right moment. Use the waiting time
to learn, grow, get equipped, train, practice and prepare. When you are finally
called upon, you will be the right person for the right moment. There is such a
thing as being premature. There is value is patience. Wait. This requires
humility.
You and I can tell people what to do but we will
duplicate who we really are on the inside. If we are not genuine, we will
duplicate insincerity, no matter how genuine we try to appear to be.
"XO, take her down. Make your depth 800 feet.
Downward on the planes 45 degrees, left full rudder, all ahead 1/3. Make your
heading 270. Rig ship for ultraquiet. Battle stations!"
Just me,
Shannon "
Am so gonna miss this class, so much that I've learn and I think I grow a lil'. Leadership Sem 5 definitely is a memorable one :')
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