10/11/04

Hi people, I am starting to run out of things to type here haha. My days are just.... nothing to say. Well one sad thing is that my team didn't get into the loreal international business plan competition. I guess my team received this email saying that we are not selected. After all the hard work for answering the quiz is just wasted. It was a very TOUGH quiz.... erm only the last question is tough hee. Thirty over thousand people registered for it. No joke. Haha.

Slice of Life

"Self Esteem (Part 3)

One effective way to boost self-esteem is to constantly learn something. Be it a new hobby or a new word, a shortcut or a better way of doing something, take delight in acquiring knowledge you never had before. Money can always be taken away from you, but knowledge and skills are like treasures in an impenetrable safe.

If you start making an effort to learn something from every experience now, you'll soon feel more valuable and more viable. Mistakes will no longer be embarrassing or encumbering. Instead, you'll be glad for them, for they mean you've learnt something!

Be cheerful. Be "delight-ful". No one likes hanging around a grim-faced whiner. A cheerful disposition is both attractive and therapeutic. To get favourable, positive responses from the people around you, you have to be favourable and positive yourself.

However, beware of people who are incurably negative, sloppy, and un-motivated. You can try to influence them in a positive way, but take care not to get pulled down into the depths with them in the long run.

Everyone deserves acknowledgement for a job well done. It raises self-esteem and motivates the person to do even better next time. But people won't always give you the recognition you deserve. So reward yourself!

Be mindful of and discerning about the messages and images presented in the media. Much of the advertising that exists today is designed specially to make you afraid, or feel lousy about yourself. We have to understand that the objective of advertisers is to make us buy their products, so they can be relentless in trying to instill dissatisfaction, envy, and desire in us.

The realities being presented in the media are often fabricated, limited, and one-dimensional. Even so-called "reality TV" is directed, acted, and edited. What we see and hear is the result of much pre-meditation and post-production. That's why movies last only about two to three hours.

Let's face it, no one's going to pay seven bucks to see Kate and Leopold quarrel during their honeymoon, discover each others' filthy habits, find out that Kate really doesn't look that good every morning, and that Leopold is secretly using drugs.

People seem to be more comfortable with this: Kiss, make up, cue sentimental music, pan up towards a perfectly blue sky, roll credits and play new Number One hit by impossibly thin diva.

But that is by no means the real picture. So never measure yourself against what the media portrays."

I want to watch shark tale so that i can laugh. Haven't been making myself laugh these few days. Feel like a zombie now. And my eyes like panda. Have been sleeping late. Any happening events or things that you might be able to suggest that I can do? 1 week left to my last paper. Most difficult one.