The View From a Friend (Part 2) *updated

Here is another post about the thoughts and opinions my friend has after went through STPM.

Let me introduce her shortly. 

She was a very intelligent Form 6 Physics student, and was crowned the "Queen of Science Stream". She was also the president of Form 6 Red Crescent Unit.

She alone can defeat 6 boys in her class without using much efforts. 

She always thinks precisely and carefully before doing anything and often suggested many useful ideas in class and also in co-curricular activities.

A cheerful person, being helpful and responsible plus not to forget, the Maths Genius. 

She just wants to be known as 快乐地狱 [Happy Hell]. (Please forgive her. She just want to use that name.) So here it goes, her thoughts and views about going through STPM. 

1.0 My journey in Form 6

To summarize, my journey in form 6 was enjoyable as well as challenging. In my first term, I had gone through a lot of ups and downs due to the brand new environment. New buildings, new friends, new system (having exams based on terms), new co-curricular activities plus new positions I was holding… Everything was new except that I was still in the same old school I had used to be when I had my secondary education.

At first, it seems impossible to cope with this form 6 life as time was short compared with form 5 life and there were many things need to catch up. (Both academic and co-curricular activities as I held two important positions that require thorough planning. Luckily, the supports from my friends have helped me to get through all these messy stuff. )  Step by step, I had gone through this form 6 and learned that one cannot worry too much about future when time has not come because miracle might happen sometimes. Well, you might think this is ridiculous but, yes, it does come true sometimes when you have done the best. (I score unbelievable well in my first term exam.) Think only the present and do what you must do or what you should do. Except the new environment that I need to cope with, my form 6 life became pleasant as time passed. (I am not saying that I am an optimist. Thanks to my sifu and friends, I learned to be one by trying to change my thought and behaviour. Of course, I am not a pessimist either. Just in between.)

I did faced hardships and difficulties in this one and a half year journey together with my family’s, teachers’ and friends’ supports. The hardship that I had faced at first was the time management. After passing few days and weeks in Form 6, I found myself running against time as I was too active in co-curricular activities until I had no time to relax and eventually got tensed up easily. I had gone through training and had been attending competitions.  (Even co-curricular activities require both mental and physical involvement.)  So, I suffered a lot in my first term actually. Of course, I had learnt my lesson in term 1 and I chose to ease myself a bit in 2nd and 3rd term by doing what was right and it required me to sacrifice the things I loved to do . Leadership problem is the other complication that I had met. (Some of the jobs I had not done well enough as I had lost my devotion and enthusiasm.) However, I felt I had grown up mentally and I learned ‘life lessons’ from my mistakes.

     I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to my sifu that has encouraged us to be more confidence in ourselves, to believe and trust him in his teachings. I have trusted and put all my faith in him as he had shown me what a teacher truly is. Not only does he teach physics, but also gradually yet firmly establish life lessons to all of the students he has taught. 

He did many of these life lessons teaching in term 1 by integrating it together with physics and it fits in well too!  For instance, your internal resistant must be equal to external resistant in order to get maximum power. AND this is how he relates it: Your relationship with family (internal relationship) should be equal to your relationship with friends (external relationship) so that you can live your life to the fullest. He is good isn’t it? 

Sadly, he gradually decreases all these teachings as we gone to term 2 and 3. Not only that, he always want us to think about some life aspects too. Sometimes, he throws me some life questions that have obvious answer yet it strikes me when I think about it.  Besides, he likes to share with us some quotes too like when the going gets tough, the tough get going. This is the first time I had been impacted by a teacher so intensely. He does not talk the talk, but walk the talk. Many times, he uses one stone to kill three birds (it means he did one action but done three things altogether).  He always notified us that results come from own persistence and resilience. Sometimes, he asks our opinions, thinks widely and judge in different perspective upon a single thing. He is observant as well as high IQ and EQ. He had been my role model in this form 6 life. To me, he is like a teacher, a father and a friend as well. He is someone that I cling and hold on to. 

2.0 The things I have learned throughout my whole Form 6 journey

I do not regret that I had chose Form 6 because I learned and experienced a lot from here. 

In Form 6, I learned that we need to do things effectively, productively and efficiently as time is short. Then, I experienced more in planning things from those co-curricular activities. Not only planning time, but also planning activities. Planning requires thorough thinking and trains you a lot in specialising a skill. (to think from others perspective or view.) 

Decision making is another aspects that I need to go through. I believe life is about deciding the path you want. There is no right or wrong when choosing a path. I have done mistakes in my Form 6 life too and I kept on reminding myself to avoid doing the same mistakes again. Definitely, Form 6 life is not about scoring; it is where you learn your soft skill too. If you want to learn anything, Be Truly Brave !  The last thing I would like to share is most people might say For 6 is hard and only a few people might say it is fun. To me, it is not hard nor easy.  It depends on how you think about it.

When you have two path to choose,

choose the difficult one,

so that you never regret.   

                                                          快乐地狱

I chose form 6 not because it is my last choice.
Actually, it was my first choice. 

快乐地狱

So that is it. I hope the stories that she shared will give you some guidance in your future undertakings. She is really a deep-thinker until today and I am lucky enough to be her comrade.