The Life I Wanted It To Be

Was randomly surfing the net when I read this. It’s so true.

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Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parent’s fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Loved that last, coming from Bill Gates especially!  Cool was king when I was a kid and it took me till I was 38 to get over that!

Hope you enjoyed as much as I did

Yesterday, a blind uncle was approaching YCK bus interchange and asked which queue in-line was for bus 76.

I was at queue 72 which was just beside 76 and as I was the 1st person inline, I just walked out and direct the uncle to his queue. I helped him and make him the 1st person in his queue.

An Indian family was just beside him. I expect them to guide him or assist him, but they never said a word to the uncle. And the surrounding people seems like staring at me, as if I am an alien.

I was wondering if I never offered to help the blind man, will other people come out and help him? I just feel at the moment that if you are in need of help physically, not many Singaporeans will  stand up and help you. Most will have the mind-your-own-business mentality.

Well, I don’t know how to express my feelings in words. I have lots of thoughts but I can’t seem to write it down in words. Anyway, I just feel sad for the uncle. At least I have done my part. My bus arrived before his. So I am not sure how it goes for him. I hope he’s alright. God Bless.

I have a soft spot for blind people. Just like the 2 guys selling tissue papers at funan. One old guy and one young chap. They are the only people whom I buy tissues papers from. I just feel it’s a poor thing for them to unable to see.

Life has been pretty smooth for me in 2007.

But recently God decided to take notice of me again and giving me all kind of difficulties once more like he did previously.

Haha. Time to fight back and take up his challenge.

As always, I will survived.