my life unknown to the rest

Fail again

sengchong — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:35:14 +0000

I funk my driving test again. This teaches me that shouldn’t take for granted that I should expect everything to fall in place just because I am bible school. This makes me ponder hard and also a reflection that I should really work hard for my SAT. I only have around one month left yet I have yet to work on it. Gosh. Lord I need your supernatural strength. Help me.

CNY

sengchong — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:15:12 +0000

Alright! Chinese New Year is gone. I know, not the full 15 days. (Is it 15?) But at least to me the festive season is finish and it’s time to start ramping up the engine. It’s going to be a super busy year for me after February. I know I lag of the discipline to accomplish great thins and is pretty much a person driven by emotion. I try to improve on that. I think I’m actually getting abit better considering that I don’t feel much for Sam nowadays. Yes, I think she’s cute. Very In fact but we are just not meant to be together. Her attitude kinda resemble the attitude that Jas had been giving me during the last few months we were together and I’m not very happy about it. What I need is a cheerful girl that appreciates little things and people around her. Of course she has to be cute and pretty then again that’s another story.

The reason of saying no.

sengchong — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:48:21 +0000

I have make up my mind after a good sleep. All of a sudden the emotion in me started to gone. I realise that all along the issue lies in me. I’m not sure why but I have this depression feeling whenever someone that I know that can bring me joy and laugher maybe laugher doesn’t care about me I started to think about random stuff in a massive way.And its not good. It just affectmy life. I guess I just not ready for relationship. Too much emotions. plus there are so many things I need to achieve this year. So i need to be in top shape. i guess this is how the Lord want to remind me. No dating for the next 5 years. The good thing is I’m also one fifth there. Arh!

Try New Things!

sengchong — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:22:52 +0000

1. Reinvent my room.
2. Design a website.
3. Date a girl out.
4. Iphone programming.

Dreams and Vision

sengchong — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:44:12 +0000

I was reading today’s Sunday Times and saw an article about a joint Eco-City project between Singapore and China. A vision came to my mind. That one day I was build a similar city in China. Transformation and changing the life of people in China. I am bless to be born in Singapore. Because of the blood and sweat toil by our forefather armed with sound and pragmatic policy that I am able to enjoy the result of it today. The issue has become that Singapore is growing too fast and our economy is getting saturated and opportunities are hard to find as compare to 20 years ago. Where as China which open up a decade ago seems to be fill with opportunity. More important there are millions of souls that have yet to heard about the gospel and I believe that the world be not end without the Chinese hearing the gospel of Jesus. Perhaps this is the reason why I am born in this era. To impact the Chinese people. Knowing that this might be the direction that I will be going, It seems like there’s much to do!

2 Timothy 1:9
Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling not according to our works but according to His own given purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

Animation Conference 2009

sengchong — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:36:47 +0000

I was invited by MDA for the 2009 Animation Conference. There were a few speakers speech that really inspire me and gave me an intellectual thinking session.

The first one was by this guy that founded a comic production studio and they are collaborating with some Japanese studio to produce a feature animation. His topic of the day was “Bringing together an international production”.

Before the production began, there will be a couple of question to ask.

1. World Class vs First Class.
It is good to be just good enough or to be the best?

2. Entertainment is an art form.
Artistic Merit vs Commercial success. Is it a choice?

3. How do consumer thinking?
What factors determine or affect purchasing decisions?

4. Taste. The magic ingredient.

5. Creating from the heart. Genuine, creativity, understanding/sympathizing the market.
(Not creating something base on an existing commercial success product.)

So what they did was finding the core members instead of having the product in mind before finding suitable people to fill the respective roles.

Step1:Finding the project. (Role of the producer)
- Identifying a producing partner.
-Selecting a product that will work for the market.
.Creatively interesting.
.Technically unique.
.Universal in theme.
-Accessible/marketable to the defined audience.
-To build a successful product, you have to build a successful team.

Step 2 : Assembling the creative team. (Role of the director)
To build a team with an international perspective.
-Director:The fatherly figure.
-Writers:the substance
-Visualizer:The skin
-Composer:The soul

It’s more than just the artistic factor in a film. It comes with abit of philosophy.

Step 3:Developing the concept.
-Coming up with the concept.
-Creating a balance between culture/medium tradition.
-Getting specific vs being”Universal”
-not being all things to all men.

2 Timothy 1:9

sengchong — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:07:42 +0000

Goals

sengchong — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:36:32 +0000

Goals.
Goals. At the start of the year we will enthusiastically list and get disappointed at the end of the year for not achieving them. After so many years I tend to not take goals too seriously.

One strange day I woke up and got a revelation. I realise that actually there’s many things in life that I can’t control. Anything can happened to me. Be it hit by a car or a tsunami that hits me when I am having a holiday.
From that day onwards I decided that I’m not going to be chasing after fame or success. Instead fame and success will chase me, if they really want to.

I started to appreciate things or people around me; my family and friends.
Rich or poor really we can’t determined. But we can determined our characters. From young there;s this question that daunt me. Is life more than just getting a job , climbing up the cooperate ladder, get marriage , have kids, retire and die? I felt that life is more than just that.So when I decide my career path, I tried not to follow the convention route, which is to study hard , get a good job. I felt that I will rather try something big fail than to subject myself to routine.

That’s why even if I set goals, I never take them too seriously for if an opportunity comes, I will forsake them and try something else.

Things to improve on.

sengchong — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:20:03 +0000

After sam had asked me countless of times to watch Apprentice.I decided to check it out. I realize that I can actually learn a couple of things from the Tv series.

They will ask to do simple task to determine their ability. After watching 5 episode, I think it’s really a good skill to think on your feet.Communicate effectivity on how you feel.
I guess at the end of the day effective communication goes down to:
1. Experience
I was reading an article from Malcomm Gladwell. This is an extract about choking and panicking.
People with lots of experience tend not to panic,because when the stress surpress their short term memory they still have some residue of experience to drawn on.
panic also causes what psychologist call perceptual narrowing.
Panic in the sense is the opposite of choking.Choking is about thinking too much.Panic is about think too little.Choking is about loss of instinct and panic is reversion to instinct.
2. eloquent
How you pronounce different words.your tone.Sentences structure.
3. Emotion
4. Homework

Things that I should change for the better.

sengchong — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:12:24 +0000

I know I know this may be wrong but i did it anyway. I sms Jasmine that I like this girl and asked her how I can be a better person. Initially I was skeptical and thought that she will reply something lame but she didn’t.Her answer was very sincere. So i decided to listen to her advise. After all we were together for 6 years. She kinda know what kind of person I am.

1. Be able to provide a strong emotional and spiritual support.
She hit the bull eyes man. I’m actually a very emotional person and I guess i need to be strong emotionally and spiritually before I can be a support. So Find out more and work hard on this.

2.Communication is the key to all relationship.
Another spot on. I realized that after army i find it pretty hard to talk to people especially large groups and girls. I will work hard on this.Especially how to talk to a lady.

3. Most importantly BE MYSELF.
Yeah.It’s true again.I always find it hard to be myself in front of the person that i like. I always wants to present this perfect image in front of them. and nothing is never further than the truth. I try my best to be myself.Not just my love one but to everyone.

Maybe I can define who I am.
I’m a Christian.Jesus is my Lord and savior.
I always want to be a businessman. So I’m willingly to take calculated risk.
I’m not perfect.I have many flaws.But I’m always trying and learning to be a better person.
I’m not eloquent in my speak. I may stutter or lost of words and topics to talk to at times.
I a pretty boring person. I don’t play games or clubs.
I’m aimming to go University next year and planning to start a business this year.
I don’t have a lot of close friends. People that I can talk to without any guards are mainly my army buddies and poly classmate.