Chasing The Best

Puan Monica told us to stalk five of Chase's blog posts and give comments so here they are:

http://www.chaselean.com/growing-up/

When I was still in primary school, mom would sit beside me every night and we will do revision together. I remember clearly that I have to study an hour and a half and read essays for 30 minutes, then my mom would test me everything I’d learn. If I pass, I can play computer games (playing time = revision time taken), if I failed, mom will give penalty like shorten my playing time and I have to go to sleep early. However, after I graduated from primary school, mom no longer sit beside me and teach me personally. When I was in Form 1, I occasionally asked her why she wouldn’t teach me anymore. She would reply (in Cantonese), ‘Yan Yan, big girl already. Do yourself. I need to teach your brother.’ or ‘Mom doesn’t know how to do. I’d returned everything to my teacher. Ha-ha, if you don’t understand ask teacher or your friends lah!’ And from that day onwards, I realize I began to walk on my own. Mom stop limiting the time I use my computer and more or less care if I use my phone without doing revision. She will just nag from time to time. Even now.  

 

      http://www.chaselean.com/blessed-with-feeling/

They say what kills you makes you stronger. When we lost something, especially an important competition, it hurts and we feel sad, down and unmotivated. In our mind, we must be thinking: Why did this happen? Where did it when wrong? Then those sadness and sorrow will be converted to a force that encourage us to do better in the future because we didn’t want to feel that pain again. We learn from it. We evolve. We do better. We are all humans. When we feel (unless you’re numb), whether we were happy, angry, anguished, relieved, we would know which things should be done more and which should be avoided so we can be better in the future. For me, I think that feelings help us in our growth.

 

http://www.chaselean.com/do-you-fear-success/

Then do you fear failure? If there is a chance of succession, there is also a chance of failing. A lot of us fear failure rather than fearing success because you have to fail before you succeed. Worse come to worse, they just give up after being defeated even though they were only a milli inch away from successful. They couldn’t bear the risk of failing. Was failing a terrible thing? Yes and no. ‘Yes’ as in some people would lose everything they have when they fail and ‘no’ as in some people that were glad they failed so they could make amends. However, failing isn’t that terrible if you’re willing to lean from your mistake. I wouldn’t be proud if I failed add math twice (it’s a fact okay) but every time, I told myself I would do better. I got 30 on my first test, 36 on my second test and 57 during the year end’s exam. Nothing worthy to brag about. I just want to tell you failing isn’t scary. It’s just that are you ready to except your defeat and move on.

 

      http://www.chaselean.com/my-favorite-color/

Mine is black (cause my cupboard is full of black shirts). Black is the absence of colour and usually associated with the unknown or the negative. The color black represents strength, seriousness, power, and authority. Black is a formal, elegant, and prestigious color. The color black can evoke strong emotions and too much black can be overwhelming. In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief. In western countries black is the color of mourning, death, and sadness.  The color black can be serious, professional, and conventional, but black can also represent the mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated. That’s why most of my favourite characters/things I like are usually link with the colour black. (For characters) I admit they’re mostly bad guys or they resemble death (I think they’re pretty badass okay). And cheers for black crows (I love crows).

 

      http://www.chaselean.com/the-good-old-days/

‘Ah girl, why your shoe so black colour ah? You play ‘that’ game again you don’t expect me to wash your shoes for you!’ When I was in standard 2, we would hang out at the corridor behind the canteen in Yuk Chai everyday (more like the corridor below the ‘Technology Block’/Block D). We will play this game called stepping each other’s shoes and compare whose shoes are the worse. Teachers that were on duty will scold us when we do that and after we reached home, it’s our parent’s turn to scold us. I got scolded the most for every Monday (cause I change shoes every week and mom was not happy at all) and the rest of the day in the week, my shoes are getting blacker and blacker (pity my mom). I found it very funny and stupid when I was younger. How the hell can I enjoy that game so much when it only involves stepping each other’s shoes?? Until now, I didn’t know which idiot in my class invented that game.

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