Choices

It has been some time since I last updated something here. Has been months since I last wrote a diary. So, here I go:

My current obsession is a movie called "Our Times". The song- Little Happiness just couldn't get off of my mind. Always love this kind of high school love story, simple and innocent yet meaningful *such a little girl* ;)

On the other hand, black and white keys aren't getting along well with my ten fingers. My sight reading is literally very bad, to an extent even I was shocked that I didn't manage to follow and play much notes while playing the accompaniment for orchestra practice. The feelings when your fingers can no longer fly, not to say to improve any.

22 days more to finals. And that marks the end of my university life as well. Life is full of choices, and without fail, I have always been very extremely truly hesitant in decision making.

Global Internship Programme?
Work and Travel?
Exchange for volunteering job?
Part time job?
Internship for accounting or finance related position?
Apply job?
Apply for management trainee programme?
How about unit trust career?
Should I become a music teacher?

Or can I just stop everything, have a clear and peaceful mind first, and answers will be revealed?

I always believe in adventure. Does travelling mindset mean that my ambitious isn't big and realistic? Does it mean I am wasting my time for non-career benefit activities? Does that mean I am wasting my youth, spending too much? You know at one stage if you really don't know what you want and blindly enter into something, you won't be happy and positive in what you are supposed to do.

It's for me to know, for time to figure it out.

Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. And live the moments.

Challenge

Challenge Your Limit

Stumbled upon this article when I was clearing my books and notes. It is indeed something that I am really proud of myself, on how I could write a smooth Chinese essay with depth and substance. There are a few historical stories, including how Han Dynasty began and facts about Thomas Edison and Beethoven.

Language is never my strength, and writing is definitely not my forte. After not reading for so many years, I doubt I can still write anything great. But I am glad that I have written something back in my schooling time! :)

This shall be my motivation and inspiration for myself, whenever I face any obstacles.

If there's a will, there will be a way, and WE decide our own life path.

Milestone in Life

Be Bold & Risk It!

Today is a very special day for me, and all Awesome Humans in the team, 

because, 

it is our finals competition day for Deloitte Risk Intelligence Challenge Trophy!

It is such a random combination on how 4 of us came together for this competition.

At first, we were closed books, so shy and fearful of each other.

There were times that I thought we really couldn't go through & it is so hard to get 4 of us to sit down & even discuss about things, not to mention to come together as a team and have a common goal, which is to win this competition.

But for now, I am so glad that things turned out the other way, and even rounder than expected. :3

For this competition, we really trained very hard. weekends were always fully packed with practices & all the homework.

Wishing to be the cream of the crop, 

I really put most of the things and commitments aside to concentrate on this competition.

This round, the debate topic is about innovators vs followers.

We are the opposition team which supports followers over innovators.

To be honest, we were so scared off when we were to oppose innovation.

But as we moved on,

We found that, there are a lot of statistics supporting our arguments.

After all, in this world, 

How many businesses are truly innovative?

From our research, there is super risky for businesses to innovate as there is 90% of failure rate.

With this direction, we have come across so many examples to support our points.

In fact during the debate,

we really started off very strong by painting a wide picture on the whole country's economy,

and the disadvantages of being the innovators.

We are not to disregard innovation, but to deliver the message that,

it is not worth the risk & effort, businesses can be successful through other ways such as branding, quality etc.

From biz point of view, we shall let others take the risk & try out their experience.

But,

the whole idea started to be blurred during Q&A,

where we started to rebut badly about innovation.

Even when the judges were giving examples & asking questions that have in fact directly supported our points,

we were all messed up and didnt get the message across the plenary.

The main role of Q&A is to in fact, re-emphasize & linked back to the points that we have mentioned earlier.

But, we didnt do so for the second half of the Q&A, and lost confidence & momentum.

Even though we started with a bomb at the beginning,

we lost the main focus of our points & weren't much assertive at the end.

The ideas that opponent team have given, were general,

but during Q&A,

they were at the upper hand of being confident to rebut & question back at us using what they had. On the other hand, we were the ones who started panicking.

We had indeed found a lot of facts from all reputable sources (Forbes, The Economist, Harvard Business Review etc),

but most of them are yet to utilized.

The content wise, we are really much concrete with back-up facts,

but we failed to deliver the message to the plenary,

with suitable argumentative points.

It is really disappointing & heart breaking to be very frank. Even through had some failed experience in competition and other aspects, they didnt hit me so badly until this came.

It is okay to fail the experience, when you know that you still have a distance to go.

But it is not justifiable to fail due to the mistakes that you have made despite all the preparation.

Nonetheless, 

It is a miracle that

We have come so far.

I am really glad & grateful to meet this bunch of people,

friendship

thanks to Eugene :)

Life still goes on no matter what, and life itself, is a gift.

Smile and stay strong no matter what happens :')

What it needs, is a listener, in case of poisoning death

Two months ago :)

 Today :)) 

Thought of the Day that I came across yesterday before sleeping:

You have to accept whatever comes, 

and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

to be continued....

Back to Life: Internship #1

New chapter of life~

Hello, the blog has been rusty for 10 months, and now it is time to rejuvenate this blog! ;)

This week is the third week of Industry Immersion Module, aka internship in groups working for specific projects.

Entering from second year to third year, all of us are on the path to working world. I have been working in Taylor's Education Group, under Group Human Resource department for the past 2 weeks at Leisure Commerce Square. Audery, Li Yin, Theresa and I are working on a HR project about graduate employer branding. For now, we have completed the first stage, which is to identify the best 5 practices of corporates enhancing their graduate employer brands. At the end of the day, TEG aims to be one of the top companies where graduates are eager to join this education group.

After our presentation to both company supervisors and VP of Group HR in TEG, Miss Janet, it has been pretty chilling for the past 2 days. We have rewarded ourselves with some scrumptious food (Sushi Zanmai & BeLohas Vegetarian Food), yum yumm. On top of this, we are working on a side project related to UKEC as well.

Interning in TEG, all interns are to participate in community service learning. Still remembering, last Friday, our Dean of Business School briefed us on this and shared her life journey with us. It is truly inspiring on how she grew up from a normal family, got scholarship to Australia all the way to Chartered Accountant and worked at the city with the fastest pace- New York. At the end of the day, she found out that, her living purpose is related to humanity and this is what makes her life meaningful. And this also shows, the higher you go, the lower you need to bow. :')

All interns are divided into 2 groups, sales and awareness for this one NGO- United Voice. It is a self-advocacy society where they aim to ensure the lives of persons with learning disabilities are given the rights to education, employability, living and be respected as individuals. I am in the sales team and supposed to increase their collateral sales by 80%.

Hence, today, I designed a poster for this! It is an accomplishment unlocked because for the first time, I have used this App- paint.net to edit photo! The outcome is pretty nice to see, and the purpose and overall idea of the poster is to hopefully convey the right messages. Nonetheless, this is a good try & start in designing.

It is time to go home & more excitement is yet to come ;)