Friday, 9 May 2008

Challenge

If there is a choice, do you want to be 1st or last ?
A good question is to ask, 1st of what? Or, fall behind of who ?

Once upon a time, I used to running with zk in menjalara park. I remembered that time we just promised ourselves to run as much as we could.He want to slim and I just wanna get some fitness. Yea... at 1st I really cant jog, imagine his big belly (no offense) also win me haha!! Till that there is 1 time I run longer distance than him, and we actually ran the most 8 rounds that time. Being fit that time,we outran "ppl" when we ask them go jog haha... we didnt bothered to try harder. And I think that was the max we achieved. 8 rounds might be approx 1.5-2km... Why didnt we try harder ? The answer is simple, if you run with your friends you lead and feel contented, nobody run more than you. Why bothered to run anymore?

Now coming to imperial college... Imagine wo, that time I took lifeguard course and some more go for instructor, I consider myself ok ok la. Having the long time carved in my mind assumption that people that study( who nerds) they wont be any fit de.... Yea it might be probably true in my circle, in malaysia, in kl maybe. Thats why, most of malaysians got a complete lousy education anyway.
Story: I go ask my friend who study A levels in singapore and a girl who is from sarawak to go run in hyde park lo. Lets challenge, maybe because I think I can catch up anyway ma. ( Since 10 years of my school life, people same education standard with me, we have at least same physical status, or most of the time I wins haha) So, we started running... running.... watching that they are further away from me, I feel really tired and stupid. Until I felt really short of breath, cant see them already, noticed that I have really never run this much before le... I think about 3-4km. Haha back in Malaysia I never could run 3-4km from scratch or suddenly.

Realised that I was completely trashed... sad. Then that day I asked my other friend from my course to run with us again, again I ended last. Lol cant even finish running the whole course, which was about 2miles(3-4km) again ( approximately I think is 1.5 -2 times running around the selayang park). !!! oMg, I think i am seriously lousy here... sad.

When it comes to studies.... What do you think ? It might be simple to study a little and come out top a class, yea right...but here, I think I did put some effort in my studies, come out when I got my results, really I got nothing to say. =.=!!! If I can study 2 hours last time and come out with an A in A levels, here I study the day I was taught the topic until the test I studied another night for it, came out 56% (mayb its long since i ever get so low marks ady le).... Wah... swt.

The lesson of the day, its a 180 degrees or ( π) difference. Completely different phase of a new life. Maybe its time to take a challenge; when you never fail you never will try harder. And perhaps, its good to always lose and always thrive to win a better opponent.

Remember now my friend ts and william is training for badminton. Why suddenly train for it de? Lol, lost in match la of course. Ooh.. now I see, its so "lose face" if you keep losing and therefore you want to win; everybody have this instinct or to fight back. It always feels good to win and feels terrible to lose. 1 thing to say is persistence and passion. How long will this feeling lasts? Very short time only la....

We always say never give up, but who never gives up? Haha so I thought of my other friend now, zk. He is a person who gets interested in everything. He almost wants to try everything, and I see he didnt keep it up "all" !!of the time. Lets take it a challenge, we shall see who is successful in doing whatever he/she believes in. Right? Next time I shall see william and ts winning tournaments, (or you have quit already) ?lols. I did train for badminton, but I never win before.... I remember that time my dad asked me to train a sport that I can master at, I just reluctantly went training. Now found out that, I still lose here in imperial college malaysian society....aih. *regrets*

A good story quoted from Mahathir when he came to give a talk in London a week ago.... He says:
"
Once in his uni, there is a guy who believes in fortune alot. So in the 1st year final exams, he went to ask a fortune teller how he will do in the exams. The fortune teller told him that he is gonna fail. So he said, since I am going to fail, what for I study? And of course he didnt study and failed. On the following year, he went to the fortune teller again. He asked, will I pass this time? The fortune teller said, great, you will pass this year! After the good news he said, since I am going pass this year what for I bother study ? Of course he didnt study and fail the year... "

8 comments:

DrTofu said...

hahaha, i haven't quit, but i don't think i can win tournaments. juz wanna improve my game slightly. oh well, nvm u noe, sometimes losing is not tat bad. juz learn more to overcome the losing. haha. wish u luck man.

vY said...

Haha.... dont always lose la. try not to fall behind. Always try hard to lead but not try hard to overcome losing!

AaRoN lEE said...

big boy alredy.. haha. gud thing. ur return i shall wait for, master.

NTS said...

wow. VY u really have changed a lot o. Well, there's a phrase geh, "one mountain still got one mountain higher". No matter how good u r, there still will be other more geng then u. U r now competing wif d "talent" from all over d world, not onli within malaysia. So now moz important is 2 win urself first if u really still a lot distance compare 2 other ppl. Improve urself. NOw max can run 2km? nvm, try 2 train 2.1km. If ok, then 2.2km n so on. Dun peduli those who can run 6 km d. Exceed ur limit first. As long as u got improve then ok liao. Me n william train badminton, not aim(or even dare 2 say)2 win d competition, but is 2 improve our skills. I cannot say can get into final la, but at least last time i kena knock out at first round, this time i can enter until second round. Well, improvement is more important then winning. Gambadei, bro. =)

Anonymous said...

you r defeating my confidence..he is dead..n my dream is also dead..

Anonymous said...

u haf never run wif me..haizz
Nextime come try run n me laa..haha
Anyway, for those who noe me...sure noe i never fight hard for anythin even if i lose tat...

perhaps..i shd change tis attitude to make me becomes better n de best..Juz like u^^

Anonymous said...

lol ... y defeating ur confidence de ?

Anonymous said...

i guess i am the 1 who got the most thing to catch up to learn n to defeat