this is my value reflection for APEL...

If there is successes in life, there will always bound to have failures too. It is difficult for a person to enjoy successes only, or enduring failures only. Thus, I truly felt that having to experience both successes and failures is rather fortunate. It is because when you experienced failures, you will treasure successes even more. And when you experienced successes, you will take the failures seriously as a lesson learnt. For me, I belong to the majority group. I experienced both successes and failures in my life.

For my case, I felt that I belong to the group that experienced major failures and I treasure small successes. Failures such as me always choose choices that I regretted a lot in due to reasons like outsiders or family’s negative opinions. For examples, choosing between express stream or normal academic stream, and the secondary school I am going in. Just because of my family preference for me to go into normal academic stream and into a better known secondary school, I accepted their choice. At first, I really regretted because I could have gone into express stream and not wasting another year in secondary. But as time passes, successes such as achieving good results and meeting good friends that allow me to see another perception of this view. I starting to felt that this is the right choice that my family made for me.

But in tertiary education, I always wanted to go into designing courses. Unfortunately, my family objected it. I left with no choice but to take up the course that my family preferred and think that is good for me to enter. Even though I could not get into designing courses, but I still managed to go into Temasek Polytechnic, which is always known as the fashion school. Till now, I am still regretting that I never went into a designing course. But I am contented that at least I have a diploma certificate to get a normal office job.

Inevitably, we participated in many activities. Activities are just the people that pass through your life. Some activities just pass through your life without any trace, but some activities will leave a trace and stay in your heart forever.

So, I will just talk about activities that had left a trace behind. The most recent one will be the attachment to other company. Even though it is tough, but I really learnt a lot from the people there. What I have learnt from them is not only all about work, but is the life experience of theirs. For example, how they handle problems in work such as when face difficulty to cope with the job scope.

Throughout my experiences along my life, I discovered and understand even more about myself. I felt that I am a person that will be easily influenced by others. Thus, I do not have any ideas of my future. Unlike other of my friends, they are sure of what they want to achieve and their plans for their future. I wished to be like them, but I think my habit of listening to others cannot change so easily.

In additional, values learnt should be internalised. Some values that I have internalised should be the perseverance in doing something. In additional, I felt that perseverance plays a big part in completing a task. Thus, for me, I usually face with many difficulties in completing a task. Therefore, if I give up easily, I will not complete any tasks.

Continuing from above, I have developed values like perseverance from many areas. Areas such as my daily routine work like homework. Being laziness will also stop you from completing the tasks. Therefore, with perseverance, I can work forward to complete my homework. Areas also including completing a project, as we all know, it is not easy to complete a project because you are working with people of different characteristics that you have to tolerate. Thus, the most difficult part of a project is to get it started. It always need several changes before it come to the final decision. Sometimes, I faced with big changes like changing the whole ideas again, when we already thought that we were reaching the final decision. This need perseverance, or else, I may just give up.

Standing up for my belief and conviction, of course is a very satisfying feeling. It is like a promise or a goal you made to yourself. But for my characters, it can hardly happen to me. Even if it happens, it can only last for awhile or others also agreed to my belief and conviction. If others objected it, I will not be firm. Therefore, I learnt that in order to stand up firm for my belief and conviction; I need to change my habit of too easily influenced by others.

In conclusion, I felt that my life journey is rather tougher than others as I have met with major failures, but fortunately met with many small successes. And besides that, I also made achievements such as meeting with good friends that helped me along. Thus, achievements like having values such as perseverance implanted in me. It gave me a good help for me to have the courage to overcome challenges. This is the last year of my tertiary education, I do not have a firm plan for me journey beyond it. But a rough plan is to start working life first, and then find my interest in an industry field. It will be better if I can fulfil my wish to get a degree certificate based on my interest in that industry field and not study blindly.


woohoo~~~ so long... slowly read bah... =)