As promised, i'm gonna blog about how to find joy while studying! Can't keep letting my blog die and revive it 2 months later. *shakes head to myself* haha sorry for all those that come over once in awhile to see nothing. Gomenasai! (Sorry in jap) Well, before i start that, i wanna share something that was pretty cool and that i thank God for.
A few saturdays ago, when the Taiwan team came, there were area gatherings happening. I was at the Joachim area leading worship. So anyway after worship, i checked my phone, lo and behold! I had like 14 missed calls and duno how many thousands of messages (k thousands is just exaggerating it). Then when i read through them, they were people from my army camp that called. and one of them was my boss. I was like "Oh my... this ain't good." Anyway, cut the loooong story short, he wanted to punish me for something that wasn't my fault (and have confirmed with my friends by sharing, and they say it wasn't my fault anyway), and i was really sianed diao and angry and blah and argh and ahH! But after that i STILL had to end of the area gathering by playing and leading a song. I was like really not THERE already. like totally off and stuff. Like how can this happen? God you still want me to lead later? But i told myself, that it wasn't a matter of how i feel, it's something i have to do, and something that required my will to worship Him even though that crap happened. So i did, and well, it ended.
Point for this part, is that, no matter what crap you go through, or more aptly put in your context, what disappointments in results, duno how to do the stupid math question, or just the " I am so behind time! " kinda feeling, it is Your choice to worship Him. Worship's not about us anyway, it's about Him, so no matter what happens to us, it shouldn't change our worship to Him cause He doesn't change. Choose to worship Him in your lowest times where you dun FEEL like it at all.
Which then brings me to the following week. So well my boss wanted to punish me, which i felt unfair, but was ready for it if it actually did happen. Think i prayed sporadically cause was just down and all. And on the final day where i had to confirm the punishment, cause it was either me to be punished, or my man. And i asked a third opinion (someone of the same rank as my boss) about the situation. And he stood on my side! So i told my boss, and he din punish me after that! I was like "PRAISE GOD! WOO HOO~" kinda thing. even though in the end the punishment was like really peanuts, but the main point was God saw me through the whole thing. On hindsight, maybe it's because i honoured Him by chooosing to worship Him during that saturday. Honour Him, and He will Honour you so many times more.
So how do you find joy while studying... Hmm.. you call joy lau or joy lu lor. hahahhaa. =P Use telephone lar, msn, all also can! hahaha. Kk kidding kiddng. =)
So how do you actually do that, well, it's real tough, and i can't really say i found that during my A's. maybe more for O's. but for both i was super duperly ultra stressed. jUst like some of you might be, or even worse.
Well, during this period, something i kept close to my heart, was that God has a plan for me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and a future. I held unto that very tightly cause the future seemed so bleak and all with the results i was getting, especially A's. So maybe you can claim that too. =)
But when i actually am studying, i'll just give practical things i do, which you might wanna consider. Well firstly, i made my studying less torturing. How so? Every hour i'd have like at least a 5 minutes break for toilet and stuff. But after like say a certain number of chapters, for 1 hr plus, i'll have a 15 min break doing anything i like. and i keep to the timing. the 15 mins might not be very long, but it's not too short either actually. So during that time just let ur hair down, watch some High School Musical, surf some net, chat for awhile kinda thing. =)
And for me i listen to music when i study. But this is debatable cause it can cause you to be distracted. So for me, i on it ReEALLy soft so much i can hear a bit but not get distracted. But when it gets to a song i so love to sing to, i'll turn it on and start singing, which is like those kinda additional "suprise!" breaks. Hee.
When the going gets tough, Get down and worship Him. It was what i did. everytime the stress gets to my head, i'll put down my stuff, then worship Him for a lil' while. And though not everytime it helps or something, i grew closer to Him. =)
And after a loOoooOOng day's time of studying, i'll make sure i enjoy myself! At the end of my studying, usually 11pm or 12am latest, i'll put down all my studying, and go surf the net. chat with my friends and all. It's like what i look towards for everyday. Ya know delayed gratification? Yeah it's how it works.
This is my typical study plan.
9pm-12/1pm study
12/1pm - 2/2.30pm Lunch and rest
2.30pm latest to 7pm Study
7pm - 8.30pm Lunch and rest
8.30pm - 10/11pm study
11pm onwards Rest
So you see, you actually get quite a lot of rest, if u take note that every hour or hour + i do take 10-15 mins breaks too.
And you can break the day into 3 parts of studying. After the 2nd one which is the afternoon one, you'll be like on high morale already. Hehe.
Well, i hope these help you guys, and girls. If you need a laugh, can always come to me, i'll see what jokes are up my sleeve for ya. hehe. Take care people!
To Anon: So who are yoooooOOou? Everyone must identify themselves when you tag lar. *pouts* hahaha. =P cmon~ pls? =)
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