life is like holding up a rose, you need to feel the thorns before you get to smell it

Second week of college just passed and homework are piling high already. This week was normal, nothing unusual except that last Sunday I watched Australia at the cinema with a few friends. I would rate that movie 7 out of 10. During one of the EAL/D classes this week, I learn about literary devices and one of them was figurative language. An example of a figurative language would be ‘life is like holding up a rose, you need to feel the thorns before you get to smell it’. I choose this phrase because it somehow does reflect on our lives. Don’t you think? In life we must go through and face challenges or obstacles. No one life’s is easy from the start. We need to work hard for what we want and that is an indisputable fact. After all the hard work then only the rewards come in. Every sweat we make is worth the effort because at the end of the day we will get the reward eventually.

However, we cannot expect that rewards come easily. Rewards are accumulation of effort we made and often it’s only attainable in the long run. Some might think that they work hard the day before their exams then they might produce better grades the next day but that is certainly not true. Look at how many students who failed by implementing this viewpoint. All the small, tiny and little efforts we make each day can make a difference and believe it or not this applies in our lives. Take studying for example. If every single day we study a little bit then in the far future it will be beneficial rather than focusing more on last minute studying. Believe me, it works because I’m starting to make it a habit to at least do a little studying each day and sometimes I read ahead. Needless to say, this method has been proven true by many sources. Another example would be saving money. Normally, we put our money as fixed deposits and wait for our money to grow and this would take at least a year. From this example, although I can’t say that we make efforts by investing our money but I can conclude that rewards do not come easily.

In life, we encounter many faces throughout our phases (hey that’s my blog header! Haha) and it is inevitable. Hence, the phrase ‘life is like holding up a rose, you need to feel the thorns before you get to smell it’ that I had mentioned earlier would also best describe this situation. Although there are many kinds of people that we might hate or dislike, we must move on with our lives nevertheless. These people are merely part of parcel in our life and we must learn to be tolerant. Then again, tolerance does have a limit. It does not mean that when someone gives in, that person is someone who you can step on the head. For me, I give in just to prevent dispute or argument. Often, I would just keep quiet and ignore those who irritates me or those who make my day a troublesome one. I’ve met a lot of people and I finally rationalized that I can’t run away from the people I dislike because they are just the same as the advertisements in TV. I just take them as some kind of distractions that occurred in my life and true enough they won’t last long, just like advertisements.

Anyway, enough of the babblings. I found out its quite interesting to learn literary devices. I used to have an interest in narrating but somehow or rather I painfully give up this interest due to my inability to grasp the language comprehensively. I always have ideas in my mind, you know, the ideas come like slides shows, like a movie in fact but I can’t express my views or story very well in detail. Sometimes I got a rough idea to what to blog, but then, I can’t express it convincingly enough resulting with me ending up not blogging at all.

Do you know any more figurative languages that can be related to our life just like the one I mentioned earlier? If you do, please drop a comment or two ya :)

*p.s. I had to delete the chatbox because it has been a place for spamming and I don’t know who started it but it getting worse. The only solution is to delete it. How sad. Shame on those who spam on my blog, look at what you all have done! but you all are forgiven because all of you are just part of the faces i have seen in my life :)

CHEERS!

are you focused?

Okay, today is Friday. What is it about Friday you ask? Well starting this week, Friday’s shall never be the same again mainly because I have to update my BLOG! But wait, I did not say that it was a bad thing, in fact I’m looking forward for the end of the week where I can sit down and blog. A time for myself. Now only I know the meaning of “time is precious” and certainly it is. I realized this on the first day of lecture where I was bombarded with assignments and when I use the verb “bombarded” it really means “BOMBARDED”. Can you imagine that? Well if you don’t know what “bombarded” means let me help you.

The definitions of bombard in my Concise Oxford Dictionary are:

attack continuously with bombs or other missiles

and

subject to a continuous flow of questions or information

Well, I hope you can imagine my situation by now since I gave the definition of bombard. Now, let’s not talk about it anymore.

How long is your focus time? Do you know what focus time is? Well focus time is basically the time where you are focused. Is your focus time long or short? Or maybe you are not focused at all? Me, myself has a short duration of focus time. Each time I study or read something (mostly academic); I won’t be able to sit stuck on the chair for at least half an hour! Sometimes my focus time could be around ten or so minutes, pathetic right? I just hope I could improve my focus time so I can study more and hence improve myself. I know I can do it but somehow there is a force that is holding me back. I’m sure most of you experienced what I am experiencing now in some phases of your life. However, whenever I do something that I like or passionate about such as playing the guitar or games, and weird enough, my focus time is a million times longer. I guess the fact that we should do what we are passionate about does sound very true because if everyone are stuck doing what they are not passionate about, then it will result in producing more unfocused and certainly unproductive human in every field. Finally, societies will crumble bringing together the doom of nations.

So, I guess the only solution is to be passionate about everything that you do and believe me it’s easier said than done. This is because you can’t force someone to like something that he or she hates. (I have a problem: whenever I use someone or anyone, for example, if anyone wants to go to the toilet, _______ must ask for permission. What should I fill in the blank? He or she OR you OR they??? Can anyone help me? )I don’t hate studying, seriously, I’m not lying but I hate the fact that my focus time is not long. If my focus time is short then the amount of information I take in would be very little and vice versa. To make an equation out of it, I can say that the amount of focus time is perpendicular to the amount of information one take in.

However, I am trying to improve myself constantly. Whenever I study I would try to glue my bottom on the chair for as long as I could but after a while I would switch to study on the bed. Eventually, well you guessed it right, I fell asleep. Drift off till the next morning. How I wish I could be like some of my friends who can stay stuck on their chair for hours and hence taking in more information. I ‘don’t know why. But there is one thing I know, it’s uncomfortable to sit on the chair. Well, that’s what my body thinks because after a period of time my body will resist to get stuck on the chair and prefer the comfort of the soft bed. And I guess that period of time has come and this is how far I’m going to write for today. Adios.

Introduction

Hey everyone, this is a new blog. My class were told to create a blog for academic purposes where our English lecturer, Mr. Derick will check on each of our blog every weekend. One of the main purpose is to check and improve our grammar. Besides, we ( my classmates ) are required to practice our writing skills, for example, every paragraph should have a topic sentence and the whole essay must have a thesis statement. I believe this blog should be able to improve my English usage in terms of grammar and hopefully vocabulary.


We were told to update our blog on a weekly basis and not only we have to blog about what we learned in class but also there will some questions that we are going to have to answer. I guess that learning English has been taken to a whole new level as we have to do homework and post them online. Anyhow i believe each and everyone of my class are looking forward to venture in this blogging business in hope to improve their English. I, myself, too wish to achieve something at the end of the day.

Finally, i hope that anyone who read this blog would benefit from it too. As saying goes, " sharing is caring".