ITE FTW!

Hey guys.

I know it is just in a month of November and i'm already tweeting so much about going back to school next year, i guess i'm really excited to sign up for a new course and start all over again with my studies. Some of you guys who are still schooling may think that i'm crazy or out of my mind wanting to go back to school, i assume most of the schooling people is already waiting for the day they'll graduate or maybe waiting for the day they can have their holidays in peace. Not that i dislike holidays, i love holidays and the more holidays the better. I've not been schooling for a year now and i can loudly say that i truly miss school a lot, i miss vexing so much about exams and practical all day. Its a weird thing to vex about but once you come out of the school industry, everything will be different. You won't be thinking about homework, you won't be thinking about your CCA trainings, you won't be thinking of waking up so early(for those who are not working), you won't be thinking of exams. It sounds pretty good to most of you, free from everything in school you thought it was such a burden to you.

When i was back in school in ITE, i have the same mindset. I want my holidays to come as soon as possible, i want to be set free from all those stress i was having back then. Then i came to realize that it wasn't me not enjoying my time in school but it was all the waking up in the morning, people you have to face everyday, or maybe the course i was studying was really too difficult for me. All these was giving so much of negative thinking, it led me to believe that school was really boring and i want to get out of it soon. I wasn't that mature enough to think what school can do for me, i just hated it a little cos of what my mind told me it was. It wasn't a total 100% that i dislike school, i only start loving school when my course lesson ended cos that's when i can get out of class and do what i want. Doing what i want meant going for CCAs, heading to the gym, hanging out with friends and what not. This was the best part of my life in ITE, i love it so much. I miss how retarded i'll get when i'm with my friends, i miss how much i will eat at the cafeterias in school, i miss how awesome it was to see new people everyday. Its most fun when you got a crush on someone, i think most of you know what i'm trying to say(;

Right after i graduated, i've got a job right away. I thought life would have been so much easier without school but i was wrong, i felt so empty and something was missing so much. Every weekdays i should be going back to school, but i ended somewhere else. The place i ended up was a place called 'The Real World', a place i hasn't come across before. Its a fun place to be in, to gain knowledge and experience. Moreover, i love this current job i'm doing right now. But i want to pursue my studies further and test myself to the limits in the things i think i cannot do, i guess i've been in my comfort zone for too long. Time to step out and do something new, you'll never know if someone you've met will be your working partner next time. I wanna learn more things and do more things, participate for events in school and going back to badminton again. All these things are what i'm praying so hard for, i still don't know what the outcome will be but i know i will be striving really hard to get what i want. If i go back to ITE for Higher Nitec next year, i will be competing with 'O' Levels students. I don't know why this sounds so scary to me, but i'm willing to step ahead and fight. I don't want my studies to be compared with people having the most awesome certificate, but my persistence in getting into the course i want.

 

ITE taught me so much of things when i was still in Nitec, so many things i thought it was wrong became right. Though i was a source of problems for my teachers cos i kept rebelling against them, but they didn't give up on me at all. Actually, i wasn't supposed to get the cert above but because of my lecturer who put me in the India trip so i wouldn't quit my course. He literally told me this : 'I put you in India trip, so you cannot quit the course.' I was really sad that time that i cannot quit my course but at the same time, i was really touched on how much my lecturers can do for me. This is why i am here now, with a Nitec graduate cert and doing the most awesome job now. How would my life be if i actually gave up? I don't know. I just know that i am grateful for people who were there to keep me going no matter how much i hated it, it led me to a path i didn't imagine i'll be at. So many people are always saying about ITE, looking down on us like we really are worth nothing. You can see how many people actually stand up for us, cos they are the ones who never gave up on us no matter what the society say. People who labeled us as stupid, as no future, what are they then? I don't see a good future for people who look down on others, soon they'll be the ones who will crumble down. 

You don't look down on us cos of our education, you don't know how much we've learned. You don't know how happy are we to be a graduate from ITE, we are just proud of it so deal with it. One does not simply see a graduate from ITE stop his/her education right there, they will strive to be higher and you'll never know one day you'll be working for them. So before judging an ITE student, you should give it a try to be in one first before stating some senseless words about us. Of cos we do get affected by all these remarks, no one's gonna change their statement about us. All we gotta do is just persist and show them what we've learned throughout, no use fighting back cos most of us are fighting our way through as well. Action speaks so much louder than words, prove it to people that we are not worthless. We never were once worthless, society will forever be society. Look downers will never understand all the possibilities that can happen, i will never ever let anyone criticize me or my school. You can do that, but don't let me know it.

 

Haters gon' hate.

 So moral of the story, i'm really really proud of where i am now. I'm gonna persist so hard to get the course i want next year, come what may but i'll be enduring for this period of time. Application sign-ups for ITE will commerce on 19th December 2012, results wise i'm unsure. Whatever it is, i will pray really hard for it and do the upmost hardest to get what i want. I'm not going to predict it now but just have a little of Faith, i know things will eventually fall into place. So much to vex about the results and what not, hopefully things will go smoothly. I failed to get into the course i want this year, so i'm not going to fail a second time again. 

EDUCATION DOESN'T STOP RIGHT HERE, GO FURTHER!