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YES!!! The Fiknatics Did It AGAIN!!!
Oh yeah... We did it, the FIKNATICS did it!!!*dancing & jumping*
Cause,
Credits to: taufik-batisah.net
Mr soulman won!!!
We did it again Fiknatics, plus, the amount i spent voting also did not went to waste!!
I lost count on how much i voted for him...Hmm.
He was simply HOT la yesterday, my sis and i was melting...
Oh, i saw the fiknatics on TV!!! Sungguh gembira anda semue ye??!! =p
And like Kak aNNa' said in her post, this year pesta perdana was boring
except
when Suhaimi was hosting and Taufik was performing..
Well, let's just congratulate the Fiknatics again and Mr Soulman..
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I was going through my last year notes when this paper,A Letter To An UNKNOWN ATHLETE
i read through it and it inspired me, actually it made me realised that no matter how tough the route of studies, i just have to continue with it cause education is what gets us going.
Here's the 'letter'
Dear_________,
I'm a big believer in the benefits of athletics. However, after visiting with you, I am shocked to learn about your attitude toward school.
You say you're banking on a pro career and don't feel the need for education. I say your chances of making the pros are about as good as my dad's chances of growing his hair back. "A youngster gambling his furure on a pro-contract is a like a worker buying a single Irish Sweepstakes ticket and then quitting his job in anticipation of his winnings." Senator Bill Bradley, a former NBA star, said that. Studies have shown that only one out of every one hundred high school athletes will play Division I college sports, and then the chances of a high school player making the pros are one in ten thousand.
Of hundreds of college athelets I played with in college who hoped to make the pros, I can think of only a hnadful who made it. On the other hand, I can think of many who wasted their minds in the name of sports, and who were then thrown into the workforce without a chance or a clue.
I'll never forget the time one of my teammates delivered a phsyche-up speech to our team the night before we played a rival university. Having neglected his education and having never learned to express himself, all he could do was uncork a barrgae of vulgarities that could have cut down a forest. In a matter of 3 minutes it seemed he managed to use the f-word as a noun, a verb, an adjective, a pronoun, a conjunction, and a dangling participle. I left that meeting thinking,"Man, get a brain!"
Open your eyes! Your education is the key to unlocking your future.You say you don't like school. I say, what does that have to do with it? Does anything good in life come easy? Do you like working out everyday? Does medical student enjoy studying for four years? Since when does liking something determine whether or not you should do it?Sometimes you just have to discipline yourself to do things you don't feel like doing because of what you hope to gain from it.
You say that you try to sit down and study but can't because your mind begins to wander. I say that unless you learn to control your mind you won't amount to squat. The discipline of the mind is a much higher form of discipline than that of the body. It is one thing to train your body to perforn at peak levels; it is quite another to control your thoughts, to concentrate for sustained periods, to synthesize, and to think creatively and analythically.
At times saying "I try" is a lame excuse. Imagine how ubsurd it would sound if i asked you, "Are you going to eat today or are you going to try to eat?" Just discipline yourself to do the thing.
You say you can get by without studying, that by cramming and finding ways to beat the system you can pull out passing grades. I say you reap what you sow. Can the farmer cram? Can he forget to plant his crops in the spring, loaf all summer long and then work real ahrd in the fall to bring in the harvest? Can you improve the strength, speed, and endurance of your mind, you must work it out. There are no shortcuts. Don't expect to show up one day in the land of Oz and have the Wizard hand you a brain.
Imagine five sets of hands. One set belongs to a concert pianist who can enthrall audieneces with beautiful renditions of teh classics. Another to an eye surgeon who can restore lost vision through microsopic surgery. Another to a professional golfer who consistently makes the clutch shot under pressure. Another to a blind man who can read tiny raised markings on a page incredible speeds. Another to an artist who can carve beautiful sculptures that insipre the soul. On the surface, the hands may all look the same, but behind each set are years and years of sacrifice, discipline and preserverance. These people paid a price! Do you think thay crammed? Did they beat the system?
One of my biggest regrets in life that is that instead of reading 100 novels during high school, I read a bunch of Cliff Notes summaries. In contrast, I have a friend who during his ten years must have read hundreds of books. His brain can bench-press over four hundred pounds. Why, I would cut off one...no, two toes for such a brain.
If you don't pay the price you will earn a degree but fail to get an education. And there is a big difference between the two. Some of our best thinkers were degreeless, self-educated men and women. How did they do it? They read.It's only the single greatest habit you could ever develop. Yet few do it regularly. And many stop reading and learning when they finish school. That spells brain atrophy. Education must be a lifelong pursuit. teh person who doesnt't read is no better off than the person who can't.
You say you live for today and don't think about the future. I say the major difference between you and your dog is that you can think about tomorrow and he can't. Don't make long-term career decisions based on short-term emotions, like the student who chooses his/her major based on the shortest registration line. Develop a future orientation; make decisions with the end in mind. To have a good job tomorrow, you must do your homeowrk tonight.
The Proverb sums up the whole matter: "Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life."
You seem to be saying you don't need a brain. I say, get one!
I hope I haven't offeneded you. I mean well. It's just that ten years from now, I don't want you to find yourself singing as our friend the Scarecrow:
I would not be just nothin',My head all full of stuffin',......If I only had a brain.
Extracted from: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teensby Sean Covey.
What do you think?
OUT!!!
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