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For 2007, I hope to...
:Enrich myself as much as possible before Uni:
:Do well in Uni:
:Visit Hong Kong or Taiwan:
:Learn hip-hop dancing:
:Not involve my car in any accident:
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Anyway, I went to watch King Arthur today with Lionel... although I read newspaper reports criticising how there is a persistent fog flooding half the movie and making it boring/unscenic. But I didn't really think the fog spoilt the movie in any way leh... added quite a good effect in certain scenes. Loved the battle scene at the frozen mountains (which involved snow and fog btw so what's the big fu** about the fog rite...). Cool effects of the breaking ice... The movie din really wow me like Timeline did but it wasn't as sad as the tabloids put it...
And then after the movie I was telling Lionel that actually the movie is not tt bad... and his response trigerred me to think about a very unnoticed yet crucial part of our lives and decisions. He said sth like the reviews were bad cuz the press was probably expecting something fantastic (maybe comparing it to previous movies of the same kind eg LOTR) but Arthur din really live up to their expectations ... But other shows which the media don't put so much emphasis on/don't create so much hype about eg Timeline, when they "outperform", they get the best reviews... when in actual fact if a person who doesn't get influenced by any public opinions watch both movies, he might 99.99% likely give both an almost equal score.
Expectations... that was what I was talking about. Sometimes we subconciously allow our expectations to warp our thoughts/decisions without knowing it... and sometimes we may make bad/unwise decisions because of our expectations.... agree? Some examples struck me as I was thinking further about this issue.
Like the recent Euro 2004... where Greece won and there was this big hoo-hah about how the underdogs rose to the challenge and all... (I'm guilty of adding to the hype btw haha) I was thinking, a team like Greece which entered the competition with no expectation to do well whatsoever and subsequently went to win it would be celebrated. But what if say France or Czech Rep went to win it... would they be as honoured and hailed and 'worshipped' like the Greeks were? My guess is that their supporters would be celebrating for a while then it will be over and unremembered. The supporters for other teams would probably just go "oh they deserve it so oh well la..." So expectations of a team/person can actually affect how we think... and sometimes by so much that we dunno...
Another incident also came into my mind... after we received our econs case study scripts, winnie was telling me how she totally thought she screwed parts a and b and thought she would do best for part c... it turned out to be the opposite. And it struck me. What if we didn't expect to do so well for certain tasks/questions, and just go into the exam/attempt the question with an open mind and "just try my best" attitude, and put no stress on ourselves... we may even do better than something else which we expect we would do better (maybe because we think we have more knowledge/experience in) and instead put so much stress on ourselves that we might not eventually do well in. For example if I did 2 essay qns, one on say labour and the other on Singapore's exchange rate regime, and if i got the same marks for both (say 16/25), I would feel sad for the exchange rate qn while feel glad for the labour qn... and it would be a big divergence in feelings lor... I'm sure all of u guys have felt something close to this at some point of your lives too rite... so ya... expectations again...
Why tell yourself: "Aim for the moon, even if you miss, it will land among the stars." I will tell myself: "Aim as high as your hand can stretch. If you miss just try again next time." So to all stressing-on-yourselves ppl out there including myself (with no particular reference whatsoever) just try to relax your own expectations la... dun think that just because you topped subject X this time that you have to have to do it the next time, and the next, and next... it never ends unless you want it to... I guess I will to relax and take more time to spot my strengths and weaknesses and try to improve myself, instead of thinking about how I should strive to top everything...
Terence pens his legacy at 9:57 PM
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