joy's woes

"mom, tell me why i'm going thru such chores of learning in my life! what has these biology terms gotta do with my future? why do i ..." 小乐乐苦着脸问我道.

"it's just part of growing up, joy! actually, u should find an anchor point for learning. i dun believe these biology terms are simply for your memory..there's a limitation in such learning!" i responded.

she chucked the lame biology notes to me and continued,"just look at all these terms...what biological clock...why i need to study all these? dun even knw what it means!"

frankly, junior college's subjects are atrocious and uninteresting. u r either in science or arts faculty. of coz, there's the hybrid choice these days. still, joy is not one with a flair in writing and humanity subjects (though she aced them all at 'o' level), her mind is more engineered twds sci/ math. so, it's bio, chem, math and econs as her major choices. project work is a burdensome task too!

another day, she griped,"i should really hv chosen poly path. life would hv been much more interesting and the subjects more practical!"

well, she is absolutely right! jc is not for all breeds. in fact, only those who can persevere through the 'hardship' will survive! i believe that she could...that's so much faith i hv in JOY! 加油哦！

when joy told me that she could spend one whole day just to surf the net and source for a good product for her blogshop, i really understood the meaning of passion and inspiration, when it comes to performing a task!

with passion, the fire burns longest and last till the energy is exhausted, and yet with no complaint!

without passion, it's just a pain in the neck and soon, the fuel will exhaust and there's no more life.

(story continued...)

she came back ystday and told me,"mom, u knw, today in GP class, we were asked to write freely. i chose the topic on 'how passion is impt when it comes to our future path'...and i had so much to express!"

可能是在吐心声吧！she needs an outlet, anyway!

in the night, she came looking dejected,"i think i'm giving up on the test. i still hv many pages to go, but i've clean forgotten about those that i hv learnt in the last few days..." poor her!

my last advice to her read,"plse approach ur friends to find out the way to learn this 'alien' topic. the last resort would be for u to approach your teachers...coz' i seriously think it's not plain memorising the lecture notes! there must be an anchor point for relating to sth else...."

"okay, i guess i hv to seek help!" she finished off her sentence before sitting there relaxed.

till today, she's still adamant about working on her own without the help of tuition. that's sth i'm proud of....to me, just give her an outlet to burst out her feelings and soon, she will find her way.

ask and u shall receive, seek and u shall find, knock and the door shall be open unto u.

she has a long way to go.....we have been there, right?