#QuickThoughts

I'm human, on good days, I feel like the most amazing person on this earth and go around wondering why no major company signed me up for my own reality show. I'm human, on normal days, I go get the work I have to do, done. And on bad days, I wish to be left alone, hoping that someone would come along to comfort me. I'm human, I experience the good, the bad and the unspeakable, all in a day, and in a few hours. Just like everyone else, I'm just trying to make it out alive in this thing called life.

Sometimes I wonder what have I don't wrong, but other times, I reckon nothing could stop me.

Magazine Vlog!

Goooooooood evening. If you have read an entry I've posted few weeks ago,  you would have known about this magazine project I'm doing till August. And one part of it is doing social media. Taking the high road, we are producing a 3-part(at least) series called Makers in the Making where you can follow us and our little journeys on whatever, mostly towards the final production of the magazine.

But anyway, for this blog post, I thought I'd share a video, since I almost never do that. And big thank you to Ke Xin, who is a master in video editing. She put together hours of footage into 7 minutes, and she completed the first rough cut in just one hour! If it were me, the final version may never appear.

Got some great news and stuff to share, super excited blog about it, but that'll come soon!

Enjoy!

#QuickThought

For the longest time on social media, teens who think they know better would challenge the rationale of school by mounting years of education, leveraging to a piece of paper. Work and study like dog to get a piece of paper. Sounds familiar? Well, it's no surprise. But in all honesty, I think that is just a state of mind.

I think school to be irrelevant and see nothing in it but chasing papers. But that is only you. You chose to view it that way. You choose to see no colour in it. You choose to disregard the things you have learned. Yes, there are things, too many in fact that serves little or no purpose. But if not for this mess you call school, would you have met the people you met. Would you otherwise find purpose and contemporaries?

You could be confined in your four walls and desperately trying to find purpose, and get you opinion mattered. So you see, even though you spend years chasing papers, you spend the same time building your life, and create connections and moments that you'll carry with you for a long time.

The good times, the bad times. You need them both. Without the bad times, you would never comprehend the value of good times. With the bad experiences, you'll cherish good times so much more.

Maybe I'm just reading too much into this. But as I look back in my 2.5 years in school, there's really nothing much I would change if I were to redo it. I've just learned too much to do any different.

Almost the same thing : Finding a Job & Finding Love

As internship period drew nearer, so did my stress and tension. And in the midst of writing resumes and sending cover letters, I had a thought. Is finding a job like finding love?

It may sound cynical and maybe illogical. But hear me out. When you’re finding love, you go and seek for it, like when you’re finding a job. You either chance into a notice, or know exactly where you want to go. And the cover letter you send in jobs, is like flirting when you are finding love. In a few sentences, a few paragraphs if you permit, you have to use that little time to interest and engage the other person.

If you get that attention, then we’ll talk. And when it comes to resumes and experience, it’s like the conversation. Getting to know more about each other. And when finding love, you may like a person a lot, so much in fact, and you see nothing else.

But for the employer or company, they receive tons of cover letters and resumes, and they keep their options open. To you, they might be the only person you see. But to them, in the dark or knowingly, you are just one of the options. And you’re just engaged because you stand chance, or you are a second option in case one fails?

And the interview? The date. Maybe they are interviewing a list of potential candi(dates), maybe the person you are in love with is dating are few people simultaneously. Like an interview, you don’t know who you’re competing against, but you know you’re not the only one.

And sometimes one fails, you employ the help of job finding applications and websites, like how some people turn to tinder or grindr. And the rest? Leave it up to the high heavens.

Isn’t it quite symbolic? Cynical and pathetic, that you put so much, too much sometimes of yourself into one person, to know you’re just, still an option. But still can’t shake that feeling off, hurting yourself over things are would hopefully matter.

We all want to be the person who changes the unsolvable. But sometimes, they just got to do the solving themselves. As much as we would like for it to work out, there’s just so much love can do until it stops.