Perseverance is the KEY to Success

Since young, I've told myself that I wanna learn driving when I grow up. (:
Then the chance came this year sometime in March-April...I took up driving, and gosh, it's harder than I had expected. Not fun at all.
But I was still looking forward to lessons and learning new things.
However, as time goes by and as I start to learn more and more new stuff, I find it super difficult because I didn't get my basics right...I find it difficult to find the 'biting point' and thus, somehow or rather it affected my progress.
At one point, I find it superrrrrr tough and I really wanted to convert to auto or considered giving up. But driving is different because it is more expensive and it's not something which I don't like and I can give up. It would be a waste of time to just stop there. So, I continued...
Now I'm having my holidays, in order to get my driving license before the start of my attachment, I went for driving lessons almost everyday.
The thing with learning driving in a school is that you can learn it fast. But your instructors are not fixed unless you choose to fix them. Throughout this week and last week, I had lessons with mainly 3 new faces. I learn different things and they gave me tips to help me solve the problem which I had encountered...the 'biting point' problem. However, I feel that I wasn't a good student. My reaction is slow and maybe the way I react is a bit confusing...so this particular instructor was superrrrrr angry with me. There are some things which the instructors never correct me or that I didn't do it correctly...so the instructor got super pek chek at me he started scolding me. Sigh. At that point of time, I was so discouraged. Like after so many lessons, I did so many wrong things and driving feels like the most difficult thing I've done...more difficult than learning violin.
I really couldn't take it I just broke down. Driving is the thing I DREAD THE MOST!!!!!! Having to drag my feet to driving lessons and hoping not to get that instructor.
But it was that night when I broke down, I went to God. He showed me the way and things begin to change. (: or rather, it's the way I look at things changed.
The next day (Tuesday) I got a good instructor. (: But on Wed & Thurs, I got the instructor I dislike! (faints). In my mind I was thinking there must be a reason why this happen...so I trusted God's plan and went for the lessons and guess what? It turned out well apparently! (: Though I made a lot of mistakes, the instructor still pass me and I'm able to book TP test date. Hahaha.
Finally! Anws, I really hope to pass my TP test once and for all.

Basically, I've learn 2 things from this incident.
1. God's ways are higher than my ways. What seemed like disaster to me might not seem like disaster for God! (:
2. It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop, you'll reach your destination one day!
I'm prepared for the worst...I thought I will need 32 lessons to get my license. But I took like 26 lessons to complete the course. Hehe.  Though on average it's 22 lessons. (Y)

Tik-Tok.

It might seem a lil' early for me to post what I wanna do during the hols when exams haven't even start...
Anws, there're sooooo many things I wanna DO! =D
Hmmm, to get my driving license before my 19th Birthday, to paint & decorate my living room walls, to re-do my Kit-Kats scrap booking using shadow boxes, which means I might needa make a trip to Ikea! That's just part 1 of what I wanna do...hmmm, I plan to bake cookies and visit a hospice and do some community work with my cell sister! (: ohh and not forgetting to bond with my friends and my trip to HK! (:
I think that should be all...(:
Hope to complete all those tasks I've planned! (:

Dying to self

Realised that I've grown to become a person whom I don't wanna be.
So I prayed to God asking Him to help me become a better person.
So decided to bring stuff to share with my friends. (: to learn to share and not  keep anything to myself or render any help to people.
Then just now I learnt a lesson.
When you ask God to help, it doesn't mean doing things YOUR WAY, but means doing things the God's way.
Just now I was asked to do something which I wanna do...but I still did it anyway though was pissed~
Then through some thinking and talking with my friend, I realised that I learnt to help others and not to be selfish. I might not like the way God helps me, but He know me best after all. And He's the One in charge here.
My point is, God will help you & will teach you through His ways & not yours, for His ways are higher than my ways...

Colours

When Interest becomes a NIGHTMARE...

Went for my violin lesson today. Having my Grade 3 ABRSM exam in 6 month's time. Was feeling kind of demoralized.

My violin teacher was not really happy with me because I've been spending weeks playing the same piece but just couldn't get it right.

I practice for 1/2 hour - 1 hour a day. But the sound I got was still not up to standard. So I had to keep on trying and trying during the lesson. It turned out that the way I practice is not really correct.

He said I had low expectations for playing violin.

Sigh.

Sometimes I really wonder...taking up violin was my interest and it was a way to cheer me up whenever I'm feeling low. But it seems like it's making me sad now rather than happy.

During the lesson I had an impulse to just ran out and stop learning violin. I don't wanna face the stress, don't wanna hear the criticisms. Don't want any of it! But thank God I had a brain to think. So in the end I stayed for the whole lesson. For my ABRSM examination, i'm going to practice everyday in the midst of such a busy period.

"Winners don't always win, BUT they NEVER quit." -- Forgot who said that.

I really hope I can just do scrap-booking for the rest of my life. But it's not possible.

Life is never easy...

I've learnt quite a number of things today. First is communication. If you don't voice out how you feel, nobody will know what's going through in your mind and hence, don't blame others for what they've said.

Second, focus. If I really focus on doing a particular thing, I would have more time to practice my violin instead of watching television programs all day long.

Third, have expectations. My expectation for violin is low...so I just play the piece, sound's not nice. Never mind. As long as I can play the whole piece is good enough. This was my thinking in the past. From now on, I'm gonna raise my level of expectations. Not nice, play until it's nice. Use my brain to think what results in the result I get.

Lastly, I've learnt not to give up. In life, we may face a lot of challenges. They may be different, but the way you approach all the different situations say something about you. If I gave up on violin today, it just goes to show that I'm a person who gives up easily & cannot take stress. So in future, I will definitely give up if I face other challenges in life.

However, if someone perseveres, if that someone faced other challenges in life, there's a high possibility that the person will not give up. (: