Finally learned out to tackle this super hard to read textbook – Strategic Human Resource Management, by Mike Millmore et. al. It’s a damn gg book. The sentence structures feels like double negative and they keep repeating conclusions from previous sections… Half the time, it is not constructing knowledge and understanding in me, just keep beating around the bush. I mean it is a good academic book. But man, it is totally not an easy textbook to read. Usually I spend like one entire day reading a chapter of about 30-40 pages.
Convinced myself to try reading from the summary to have a gist of what is important and what is not. Wala! I sped up so quickly! In half a day, I finished a chapter of about 25 pages and found a related article and read it all (: So happy with that. Thanks to the tips from Edward and the lecturer.
Really glad I picked up a skill to tackle a different kind of literature. Searching for articles have been interesting too. We are required to get an article a week related to the chapter of the week. Of course I don’t do it diligently but I do it like half the time. It has been an experience searching for scholastic journal articles on the Emerald Management Xtra. I won’t have done it if I were in NBS. Haha, we are fed with most of the resources.. Don’t have to spend personal effort to look for more. Guess it would help with my future projects and FYP (:
Have you heard of it?! This Danish girl told me at HR lesson today about “winter depression”. In Denmark, it is common that there are more people suffering from depression in winter because they don’t get to see the sun. Which is quite true. I mean I do feel a little sad that the daylight is so short these days. In Finland, it’s worse cos it is dark now -.- for half a year. And the suicide rates according to her is really high. Haha it’s a damn interesting find man. Now you know how blessed you are to be living in Sunny Singapore, so stop complaining about the hot weather. (: People here are so happy in spring, they literally run out into the open to enjoy the sun (:
Guess how the Danes move cabinets out from the 5th storey of a building? Through the windows! Haha, not sure if that is really the common way to do it but I saw this crane machines shifting a wardrobe out of the house through its window. It was damn hilarious. Stairs in Denmark aren’t as steep as those in Holland. Wonder if they really do it in Holland. Haha
This is shit ridiculous. I swear I just took this pictures minutes ago. It’s only 6pm here and it’s freaking shit dark, like 8pm in Singapore. ZZZ I was still complaining that the night falls after 9pm when I just arrived at Denmark. Now even after switching the clock one hour back, the sky still turns shit black damn early. I believe it’s gonna be damn crappy in Dec when nightfalls at 4pm or 3pm -.-
Sometimes this phrase is overused. But it really means a lot more than just the most common way to show concern for your friends. Especially when old friends I know from YV ask me how am I, I always feel very happy and blessed to have friends who really care.
Miss facilitating. Haven’t been doing it for so long that I forgot I’m able to do it and I should do it everywhere and anywhere. It’s a life skill that I gained from volunteering that I should spread it to the rest of my life and friends. Surprisingly, I didn’t feel disappointed with myself that I didn’t think about it from the start. Instead, it was very refreshing to get in touch with this habit after a long long time (: Makes me feel really good about myself, because I know that every moment, I’m making a difference, for the better. Not just for myself, but for others. I guess now I’m more stable and settled with my life here, have more energy to resume other things that I usually do back at home. (: A really really pleasant re-discovery of myself.
Why did I see so much emptiness in the mess of chaos? I felt so so disgusted at that sight. Is that what I wanted to learn from this trip? Fly 8000 miles, to where I thought I could learn more about life, about myself, but instead to see all the ugliness on earth?
This was a delightful find (: Most people hate our uniform but I am proud of it still. Cos I think it’s the most recognisable uniform, looks straight and smart. Kudos to Li Lao Shi and all those active alumni actually. Hmm, honestly I’m not that enthu about alumni stuff, cos just have this impression that I will meet a lot of very senior seniors there. Haha. I’m fine with just meeting up with my batch and catching up. But doesn’t seem the same to have like our Alumni Gala dinners and stuff. For example, I prefer Hwa Chong MAF cos we are still free to have our informal gatherings. Like the class will meet up for a dinner or something before that.. Stay at our class bench, mingle with the juniors.. Dance all the mass dances that we never mastered.. Have supper and hang out… Despite my preferences, I still respect like those RV seniors who try to keep the spirit alive amongst the alumni. It was a total right choice to go to RV, cos it shaped me into who I am today and the friends that I made there had a great impact on my life…
4 of us got a very pleasant shock at how much money we have spent on travelling. Haha, it wasn’t that bad for me cos I calculated before on my own. I guess the very valuable lesson I took away from this is that I should never ever be lazy about such things ever again. I never allowed myself give up control over things that I get to do before this. I’m not someone who can swallow all sorts of surprises and uncertainty. I need full control of my life. Won’t allow anything or anyone gain rights over my plans without sane, proper consideration again. It’s just too absurd.
