Semester 2 is starting tomorrow! I am reading only 6 modules, including laboratory. I registered for some electives but did not get it. Now I am hoping to grab them while others drop during the Add/Drop period in the next 2 weeks.
My problems are so minuscule in God's eyes. He can do all these and beyond !
Psalms 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Just a short recap on my resolutions for this year. No 3. is done. No. 4 is very possible. 1 and 2 is out due to some serious setbacks.
1. Grab the basketball rim, not touch it. [Before Aug]
Why i have no succeeded? I didn't really put my heart to train on this one, especially when I started training with Ronnie. Because getting vertical height is just one small aspect of doing well in hjump.
2. Start trading options live and make real money as I enter Uni.
The truth is, I didn't have sufficient funds to trade options. I realised that the recommended risk-taking of 2% per trade would translate to requiring a USD2000 account to start with. I still have what it takes to do well in this and the strategies still look viable. So my plan now is to trade forex until I have a large capital to start on options.
But this year has been great. My first year with God. Doors were opened for me in the area of my hjump. Got the chance to train with a national jumper. Made so many friends from church. I really wonder what would have become of my social circle this year if I didn't go church at all this year. Although I've suffered physically more this year, I felt less worrisome about my future, as i know it is well handled by God's hands.
Today is my birthday! For the 21st time! And first time I did on my big day was to get out to Riverwalk to donate blood. The blood gang had Sam Lu, Jiawei, Sherrie and me. Sherrie was low on ammo(iron count) so only the males went for the blood bath. Me, being the chiongster, probably took the shortest time amongst us three to finish the sacrifice.
Be safe everyone. I'm turning in now. ZzZzZzZ
Ahh, exams are coming to an end soon. By next Thursday I would have completed my last paper for this semester. But my heart is heavy. Why? Because I have a irritatingly painful corn(or I think is plantar wart) under the ball of my left foot. I don't even feel like training my run for IPPT on 9 Dec. It just seems impossible to pass it. I foresee that I'll either go to the military Medical Officer for an excuse letter if possible or suck thumb and just do my best for the IPPT.
Here's what I plan to do though. Try a bit of running these couple of days to see if the pain affects my running gait. If it's really bad, I'll seek the MO's advice armed with my National Skin Centre referral letter. It shouldn't be a problem talking to him about it because I didn't purposely caused an injury to myself so that I can be excused for IPPT. I guessed I was training too frequently and pawing my feet during jumps training. However above all, I'll just follow what God has in His plan for me during these few crucial weeks. I am still keeping my faith on my dream of clinching a medal from SEA Games in high jump. Wild and far I know, but it keeps me going, and believing.
Today's service by Pst. Kong was smashing. He started with the time horizon before a professional becomes one. It takes 10,000 hours. Yeah It's just about the lifespan of a light bulb. SUCCESS= Talent+ HARD WORK. 10,000 hours of it.
Then the second part of the word was built on Caleb believing in God all the time. One important message for me to bring home was, "Prayer is what will make your dream come to pass."
Earlier on before the service I attended the water baptism on the rooftop of the church building. It was sweltering hot before the actual ritual because everyone squeezed shoulder to shoulder under the big white tent. And so, Xiao Hui went and came back as Ruth. Peng Bo (or we call PB) left as PB and returned as Nick. Guo Lei departed and emerged as Gary.
And seriously, Ruth really draws a resemblance of Joanne Peh. But Ruth is like a mini version. Haha.
Took part in Citibank FX challenge yesterday. I only had 4 hours of sleep before i had to woke up at 6am.
Some details:
Prelim Round (NTU)
2 sessions in a round. 50 teams. Top 8 teams advance to finals at 2.45pm. Bank 33 clinched top rank. uh, that's my team.
Finals
3 sessions. Only top 10 will be awarded prizes. The 2 people in the best team gets intership at citibank trading section!
So my team was really doing great in the session 1 of the finals, where we needed to deal with 2 currencies. We were up 1.4mil in profit/loss. The session 2 saw the addition of another currency. We lost all that profit because we tried to split our focus evenly on all 3 currencies. That situation didn't change till the end, when we saw a slight increase in our P/L in the 2 original currencies. So all in all, we were up 300k. But not good enough for the top 10 since the last on that list was 1.7mil. Winner locked in 5.7 mil. In conclusion, our fiercely discussed strategy worked in an environment of 2 currencies, but not 3 when the flurry of news breakout made things worse.
Good exposure. Great workout for my heart, which raced crazily during the sessions.
Well well, what a world of difference the management doctor made. This Dr. Wong gave me the assurance that not going for jaw surgery is a totally fine decision. He said things like, "Generally the take-up rate for this jaw surgery for guys are low. They can live with the discrepancies unlike women." He also mentioned about the surgery, "SGH would cost about $5,000 while private surgery would be $6,000 to $9,000. You'll stay in hospital for 3 days and MC for 4 weeks. Most patients will experience numbness in their lips and most will only get back half of their lip sensation. But they will become used to it."
So many phrases and thoughts were flashing through my mind this morning.
"God can see all the things that are happening in your life right now."
From yesterday's cgm, "What is your promised land? What is the point of getting to the promised land if God is not going there with you?" This line struck me hard. Yes, I might eventually get millions from my trading, but what is the point if God is not there with you anymore by then?
"To hear what God is saying to you, you need to know the word of God. That is, the Bible."
Tonight, I'm going to draw up a battle plan for next week's test monsters.
As you can see the rest of the 2 classes scored mostly around 30s and 45s.
I prayed for at least 60 and got 75! My result literally came out and shocked me. There were 2 questions worth 50 marks each and 20 marks for a bonus question 3. I did not even do the bonus question at all. I was quite sure I nailed the 1st question at the head but I did a very different method and calculations for 2nd question which lead to nowhere when the time was up. I thought I was a goner for question 2. But hey in the end got 45 and 30 marks for that 2 questions ;)
John 15:7 "If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you."
So friends, what are you believing in God for today?
Here's a good one from me. "If yawning was a sin, I may have visited hell a thousand times." I just yawn uncontrollably sometimes. And the worst thing is, I actually know yawning is a habit and not a rightful way to show that I am tired. I saw a scientific report which found out that babies under age 2 (i think) do not yawn at all. But after that age, they learn it from the people around them, especially their mums and start yawning. So, it is only(not) human to yawn. But to feel tired, of course it's human.
I've just finished a long day. Studied so much after school today at the biz library. I learned something new today. You can't get a study room at the biz library unless you are a final year student or post graduate!
Yeah this week has been great. Kept my hands off live forex mostly this week. Going big Jo house for bbq. Jo=big=house. Haha. It is equivalent. See y'all !
