Let's see, what's one for today~

For once, I managed to get up on time for class... Yeah, a step improvement from yesterday, perhaps I should stick to the 7hrs sleep rule; seem to work most of the time~

Well, about today class~ Sourin still bores me~ he's getting too technical in what he teach and fails to spike my interest in one of the most interesting subject; 3D graphics~ Sigh~ I think there a gap in my communication with him; must depend on myself....

Peter Low still manages to catch my attention now and then, but I do hope he could improve in bring practical relevance to the subject. I think the biggest problem still lies with the NTU SCE, teaching already obsolete stuff to us; how to bring relevance~ Sigh~ If only I knew it were like that, I would complete my NS and do a part time Degree with SIM or Informatics; practicality and theory at the same time; then again, I would have missed out the fun that I derive from knowing more people in NTU and having a solid undergrad experience~

Coming to the interesting subject of the day; GP13 personal mastery of managing change; at least it ain't a mundane subject like the rest were; I still prefer stuff that bring relevance to our everyday life~ keke~ I'm a practical person afterall.

Quite interesting stuff we learnt today- about Security/Control to Learning/Discovery; on the hindsight, there isn't much relevance in what we learnt earlier on in the class, seemed to have touched on one's beliefs system and rephasing situations, hmm, reminds me of NLP; better find time this weekend to brush up on that.

In the later part, we talked about the 2 assumptions of the world; 1 - The world is stable, predictable and controllable; basically like what it was a century ago, 2 - The world is a complex system and changes happen all the time, like what it is at this point of time. The concepts are quite interesting and true to the fact; definitely deserves studying. We also talked about the control paradox, ie. The more we exert control over the events of our lives, the less in control we feel. Indeed, many of the situations are most often than not, are hard to control, the worst part is, the more you want to get it in your way, the more it gets in the other way. Yet, the less we want to control it might misled others that we are indifference. Perhaps we should learn from the principles of Tachi and Akido, go with the flow and using the flow to our advantage.

Another interesting topic that was raised was that the objective for having school is learning how to learn. Indeed, Singapore system focus too much on teaching us what is right and what is wrong. However, it miss out the important aspect that the world is changing all the time and what is right today might be wrong tomorrow. So what should be our objective in learning; I suppose in a short sentence - "The objective of learning is to learn what learning is all about; so that we can follow with the changing time and look at things from different perspective" Simple as that. ^_^

Finally started my first run of the week; quite a while since I last ran, need to discipline myself so that I can get myself prepared for the Army Half Marathon this coming Sept.

Sigh~ The CCNA exam coming soon, don't know whether can get prepared for it or not~ If postpone again, then I can only take it after exams~ Well, what to do, all for the sake of my startup. No pain no gain....