Comments to adam Khoo's posting

Patrick Wong Said,
July 28, 2006 @ 11:16 pm
Hi Adam,
I totally agreed to what you have said. I would like to share a personal experience about myself that briefly illustrated adam’s point. Well….. not that i am very successful…. here goes…
I was an average student during my primary school days and out of the six years i ranked 29/40 most of the time. I didn’t know why i was in school… i didn’t know why i must study , basically i didn’t know anything. hahahha…
When i proceed to secondary education, i was able to maintain my ” standard” as an average student…. hhahaa.. ranked 29/35… as you can see, i’m among the last few. During sec1, a major incident took place. My Mum suddenly passed away due to a fatal car accident. It really hit me hard and i was devasated. I became quiet, inferior, no self confident and all the negative qualities that you can think of. Due to the fact that i was from a neighbourhood school, i was posted to pure science stream despite my average result (I failed my maths but they say my science was good when i scored 69/100 .. hahhawhat a joke.)From that day onwards, i was constantly the second in class…. but counting from the back. This have again helped in lowering my self esteem. I don’t know my goal in life and i don’t know why i was in this world… i looked into the mirror and saw this loser….. i hate this guy looking back at me in the mirror. I told myself… I MUST CHANGE!!! I was lucky enough to secure a place in Singapore Poly with my dull coloured results. I started to become more sociable and friendly… i suddenly find that life is changing… my results got better and better…. study seems to be easier and easier each day…even those classmates who got 9 points (5 best ) consulted me in tutorials and stuff… my results were among the top few in class….. Thereafter i become a loud person…. my friends in secondary school found a great change in me. Is like 2 different person altogether.
Later i went to overseas to a university in Australia and got a good honours degree. My secondary school teacher actually invited me and some other friends back for a speech during the sec4 graduation. The teachers wanted to show to the students that you can do very well even if you are from a neighbouring school.
The point is that my mum’s passing on is actually a blessing hidden behind a mask.. as from my point of view, it really pushes me to strive hard and have a strong urge wanting to do well.
Thanks for your patience in reading my lengthy words…

Good night

Best Regards
Patrick