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NYAA GOLD healthy reflection #4

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I loved my summer, not only was I able to experience an internship, but when I originally felt disappointed being forced to continue my physical activity only through indoor fitness due to new COVID regulations – I loved being surprised when I found myself actually enjoying practicing new schools of fitness like pilates and cross-fit. This fitness is much different to the usual heavy lifting and basic cardio I was doing before. Although I greatly appreciate regular strength training in the gym and do prefer it, I’ve learnt that each practice has its place, as I noticed that indoor fitness was much more extensive in building my cardio and core.

I think that all this indoor fitness was a vital step in anticipation of the sports I’ll play in grade 12, as indoor fitness has clearly made an impact on my stamina and agility, I think that these are two greatly important characteristics when defining a consistent and reliable teammate. In grade 12, I haven’t been able to take part in any physical activities as I’ve found that my current time table is extremely full, so instead I’ll be waiting to play softball after the December break when most of the stresses of school are  done.

NYAA GOLD healthy living reflection #2

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Up till now in grade 11 I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in volleyball, although I’m somewhat new to it and make my coveted asset of height look wasted, I have loved learning more about the sport and have found it extremely fun to spend time with friends after school. I think the fact that I am greatly enjoying myself and building stronger connections has been the foundation of achieving my goal of become a more relied on teammate. By practicing discipline and showing up to take the sport and activity seriously, I feel that it has been communicated to my teammates that I am reliable. Further I’ve taken to showing interest to my seniors, as seen below, one of them is helping me record me practice a spike. Although somewhat arguably a disappointing performance, I’ve noticed that the sentiment has boosted respect on both sides. When playing, that same senior encouraged me to try the spike he’s been helping me hone, something that I found to be extremely kind. This mutual appreciation has clearly translated into not only improved chemistry, but also a genuine improvement in my skills.

Personal healthy living reflection #7

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I’ve gotten used to indoor fitness and am actually quite fond of it now. I’ve found that it is much less of a hassle when comparing that the gym is outside the comforts of one’s home, here I can take my time and focus on technique when I often replay someone explaining a certain exercise. As seen in last month, I’ve also tried implementing more cycling into my routine. Although I end up getting enthralled in the speed of cycling and always keep forgetting to actually take photos of me out in the ECP.

Personal healthy living reflection #6

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Recently there has been a large influx in the amount of new COVID cases, this has led to far more restrictions – some of which have made going to the gym impossible. Instead I’ve resorted to doing indoor fitness, this is somewhat new to me as I’ve always been more comfortable with regular strength training and basic cardio, whereas now I’m looking into pilates and cross-fit.

Yet it has been fun learning a lot more about this new school of training and I’ve found myself gaining a better understanding of my physical anatomy and what works different muscles. A lot of my time is spent researching youtubers and videos that provide an authentic fitness routine, but that doesn’t mean I don’t build up a sweat.

Personal Healthy living reflection #5

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This is my fifth reflection for my unsupervised healthy living activities. My gym journey in grade 11 has led me to be a much more relied on player in the team sports I play. In both volleyball and softball my position as a supporting and leading player has become far more relied on. In softball besides becoming a great setter that has trained my muscles to best set for each spiker in my team, I have also been able to become a relied on spiker due to my cardio work. This has made me a much more versatile player in teams that can switch between more aggressive and defensive play styles. In softball I have become a reliable heavy hitter and first base. My improved fitness due to the gym has greatly improved the trust other players have in me. Overall the gym has lead to a great improvement in my fitness which has allowed for my teammates to trust in me more as a player.

Personal Healthy living reflection #4

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I have started to increase the portion of strength training I do in the gym, because I’ve realised that in these team sports those who are strong are often relied on. Increasing my forearm strength has led me to become a much more trusted setter and this has lead to the people who spike to playing more aggressively as they trust my sets. My general improvement of my upper body strength has also led to me being placed in much more vital roles in the batting order, like position 3 and 4. This means that the strength of my bats has caused me to become more trusted in getting my teammates on base to home.

Personal Healthy living reflection #3

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This is the third reflection for my unsupervised healthy living activities. I have loved keeping my external activities simple by just spending time in the gym, because I’ve found the gym to be extremely versatile in trying to achieve the physique I require at that moment. For example, I have recently tried improving my forearm strength and this has been extremely easy by just adding a small strength training regiment into my gym sessions.

 

Personal Healthy living reflection #2

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This is the second reflection for my unsupervised healthy living activities. Currently I still am doing only gym workouts to improve my cardio. But it has been incredible feeling the benefits of exercise. I generally feel more optimistic and I have found my self being a lot more mobile in my team sports. Like in soft ball I have started playing a bit more aggressively when on base, this has allowed me to steal more bases in game and place pressure on the defensive team to allow more leniency on the rest of my teammates.

Personal Healthy living reflection #1

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This year my goal for healthy living was to become a more reliable and supporting player in the team sports I have signed up for. This reflection is for the time I’ve spent unsupervised working towards that goal. More specifically my time in the gym working on cardio. Starting this gym journey has already been great for building fitness and I feel great from the endorphin releases. This is a lively welcome to the already somewhat stressful IB curriculum.

I started by focusing more so on cardio in order to build more stamina. I feel like this is the best place to start at when trying to improve my position in a team sport as both volleyball and softball require a lot of agility and sprinting.

 

NYAA GOLD healthy living reflection 3

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So far I’ve spent a lot of my grade 11 in sports, more so than any other year. Because of this I feel like my healthy living section for the NYAA is so much more fulfilling, because after each step of growth I take, there was always a clear next step, whether it’s in a different sport or simply from preseason to actual season; I always had a clear goal of improving my physical standing to be as supportive as possible in a sport.

For this reason, I have thoroughly enjoyed this year of activity, even with some of the disappointment in being unable to fully actualise my potential in softball. Another thing, I feel a lot more generally healthy and happy. I’ve been more chipper throughout the day and physical activities get easier and easier as time passes. There was a lull of happiness in exams, but I intend to take s4 volleyball, I think it would be a great way to end of the year with my friends.

This experience has allowed me to have a newfound appreciation for the supporting roles in sports, and the general enjoyment that team sports has to offer. Having played tennis for the majority of my life, I was usually just by myself. But after seeing the pay offs good teamwork, I’ve found it to be so much more rewarding than an individual success.

Volleyball Final CAS reflection #LO4 #LO5

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After volleyball ended, it was honestly quite disappointing to lose what was initially -and still kind of is- a great excuse to just have fun with some of my close friends. Yet as time progressed, the encouragement of goal setting really did stick with me; I started coming to sessions with an optimistic look to actually improve myself at the sport. What started as a contrivance as part of curriculum, turned into an actual goal of betterment. This is where #LO4 holds pertinence, as the commitment to show up through out the entirety of the season was the main push, and the eventually the main draw. I had actually started to -by proxy- develop my skills and see progress in the goal I had set, this progress was really fulfilling and to be able to track and effectively set my mind to another aspect of my goal was highly rewarding.

 

#LO5 is where my initial passion for enjoying myself with my friends comes into play. As time went on, trying to improve my skill progressively got harder. Yet surprisingly enough, it was my NYAA goal that helped me face this challenge, as it was to improve my skill through trust in my teammates. I felt this was an effective strategy for improvement because I really couldn’t improve as an individual in something that is such an expressed team sport. Having my friends as my team mates was great, because I was able to learn from people who I really can understand, furthermore its clear their primary objective was to enjoy themselves and help me. Although the enjoyment often did take center stage as a priority, as like I said, it was a great excuse to just have fun with some of my close friends. But actively trying harder in front of them would always garner attention for help.

PSE self reflection

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What were some of the most interesting discoveries you made about yourself through the Myers Briggs and Holland Code tests? How has your planning for the future changed or stayed the same during this unit?

I think that through the Meyers Briggs test and some of the activities we did in class revealed a lot about how I approach adversity. I learnt that I have a tendency to be a bit heavy handed and acting with haste, even in certain scenarios that require premeditated and thought out action. This is what I find to be one of my greatest weaknesses, although it does enable me to be proactive and efficient when completing tasks. Yet trying to finish large projects without a structure isn’t going to be effective, regardless of how thorough I am. So I’m trying to fix this by telling myself to spend a little bit more time planning things in a calmer mindset.

  • My work ethic would lack some subtlety sometimes.
  • I let other people limit my joy sometimes
  • Sometimes I live with my mistakes for too long
  • Closing out options prematurely and making decisions too quickly
  • Not anticipating how decisions you make now may impact your future

 

Professional relationships. Name two or three important skills you learned about maintaining positive professional relationships and how will you use them in the future?

I think learning that respect is a two way street is one of the most important things. Theres responsibility on both parties, and it is in communicating between each other effectively that I can properly maintain effective professional relationships. I also learned that it is vital to take the time spent with each other seriously, through making plans and trying to be efficient when working towards tasks.

 

Thinking about your future 5, 10, or 15 years from now, what are some themes / aspects of life that you want to keep central to your planning? What are some key values that will drive your decision making?

I think the main thing I want to keep constant many years from now, is the relationships I keep, and in the way I keep them. I think I’d like to treat my colleagues with a similar attitude to how I treat my friends right now, I think that it is this sense of friendship and trust that builds a strong sense of fluidity in a workplace, where conflicts are easily looked passed and working with each other is anything but tedious. Yet I also want to imbue it with a sense of professionality, in a way that would add more of that aforementioned respect on all parties, because at the end of the day I still would want to be working at a job.

 

 

HS Volleyball Reflection 1 #LO2 #LO5

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Honestly one of the main reasons I joined volleyball, was because it just sounded really fun. With all of my friends being in it and the fact that the sports is a highly collaborative team sport that looks like encourages camaraderie, it sounded like an obvious pick. Yet so far, it’s clear to see that there are going to be challenges that are unavoidable.

Among the challenges I am going to face, I know that the greatest, and therefore my main goal, is to build a strong sense of trust as a teammate among the others in the team. Accomplishing this task is going to be vital to the success of us as a team due to the kind of sport volleyball is. To accomplish this goal, I intend to improve not only my physical capabilities but also improve my communication. My hopes is that doing this would make myself a visibly reliable teammate, and give the idea that I’m always there to support my team. Not only would this give me the ability to improve my volleyball skills, but also just improve team spirit and morale

Although this task isn’t going to be that cut and dry, the only way it would work is if I am persistent in my actions. Making sure to constantly show up to sessions, and to maintain a high level of communication and drive. Because if a let up even a little, the trust that has been building up would quickly falter. Proving this to be quite the adversity. Nonetheless I look forward to what I can accomplish.

What aspects of CAS are you looking forward to?

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The upcoming journey I will face in regards to CAS I feel is going to be very familiar, and at some point going to become routine. I think that due to the school encouraging this type of behaviour, to reflect and think forwardly on ones experiences, has already set a standard amongst myself and surely many of my peers. Especially myself, as I have been part of the school since K-1, and I took part in NYAA for my earlier IGCSE experiences. I think that this duty towards self reflection and betterment becoming routine is really exciting, as I think that having these procedures hard wired into my brain would make my future function so much more smoothly.

Besides gaining this astounding skill, I think that although the requirements are extremely demanding, they encourage me to take part in many new activities that I wouldn’t usually find myself taking. I’m sure that looking back on this I would be appreciative for being able to experience so many new things and form new bonds in the fleeting years of my childhood.

PSE half way through term 1

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1. Reflect on your successes from the first half term of the year.  What things have you done well in terms of taking care of your wellness and academic growth?

I think that I was very effective in the progress I made in studying for the SAT, I spent a lot of time on it and I truly believe that it’ll yield good results. Yet due to this extensive studying I often feel lethargic to continue in my other academic commitments, so I often decide to commit a portion of my day at the gym. Because I like to go with a friend of mine, this has become a great method of not only getting some physical productivity, but also time to just wind down with my friend in a burst of dopamine.

2. There is always room for improvement in everything that we do.  In the second half of the term what actions will you take to improve your wellness and academic growth?

I think that because I spent so much time on my SAT prep, I sacrificed a lot of time for my other subjects. Thats why after the break (and after I took the test) I’m going to be able to allocate more time for my regular studies, and I’m going to make sure that I am not going to slow down after the SAT. I want to make sure I maintain the conviction for growth.

3. What have you learned about yourself in PSE?

I have learned quite a lot about what is valued in a team, and how balancing these certain values in a team is necessary; as there is never going to be a perfect teammate. I also investigated into how I myself function as a teammate, and I realised that I work more so as a driving force for activity. I have realised that although this trait leads me to sometimes push through group activities without much of a delicate touch, this trait allows me to work to increase the morale as a team, and act as a cohesive element for the team’s collaberation.

personal SWOT

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I had recently taken a test that investigated my personality traits and characteristics. It was a simple 15 question test, that would provide contextual questions which would test several basic traits, such as: Communication, Collaboration, Time management, Problem solving and Resilience. Then at the end give you a score on all of this traits, and grade your performance in each of these traits out of five stars. Below is my SWOT analysis of the test results and my personal experience.

Strengths:

My labeled strengths were explicitly told to be my functionality within group settings. The test that I had taken suggested that I work very well with other people and my communicative abilities enhance my performance when I am able to work with other people and split a large workload. The test also stated that I have good problem solving skills. This is also important in a group setting as it encourages critical thinking and wise allocation of time and a good attitude to succinctly follow. This overall makes me a good leader as I am able to bring people together with unwavering resilience and progress efficiently. This isn’t exclusive to group work though, as my problem solving skills are said to make me very productive in the time that I set myself to work. My high skill in my collaborative techniques, has prolifically been seen appear in my athletic areas. Especially most recently as I have joined the softball team, in here communication is crucial, and each player is vital to the function of the team. In these types of scenarios I feel like I thrive, as I am able

Weaknesses:

The test had stated my main weakness is my time management – I fully agree with this. I suffer from procrastination and a lack of an ability to plan. From this and the personal experiences I have had in my life, I corroborated that I function much better in an in the moment scenario where I work effectively and efficiently in work. Yet I have a low stamina for this, and my prerogative is to shift from that work environment to of relaxation. Then followed by my tendency to prolong my stay in that environment makes my other areas suffer. I need to work on my focus, because I often find myself straying from work. This makes getting simple tasks achieved almost as if running a marathon, as it takes so much longer due to my impatient and lethargic behaviour.

Opportunity:

I believe there are many apps that can help me with my weakness. These apps function almost as if a timetable were to be personified as the warden of a jail. Apps such as Focus, Wunderlist and Lumosity. These apps are meant to help me keep track and maintain my attention on pertinent tasks. I feel like although this might be very tasking for me to do, I believe it to be necessary for me to prioritize appropriately.

Threats:

My main threat is that of my weak sense of focus. I do not require long deliberation to realise that my main threat is my weak focus, as in my past many of my teachers and friends have stated this to be the case. I myself have come to that realisation many a time, and it isn’t seldom thought for me to question “how did I get here, I was meant to be working” This clearly poses as my greatest threat as it consequently makes every single other aspect of my life suffer in the long run as I get no work done. From this the workload would keep on piling and piling up. This hasn’t happened to me yet, but if this continues I do unfortunately expect there to be an event horizon where I can’t do anything. I would hate for this do happen as I feel like it would send me spiralling in to an anxiety attack.

 

Stress and worry

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The article above delves into stress and axiety. Talking about what it is, what effects it has on a person and how one can minimise its persistence in life.

Tell us about a time you experienced worry, stress or anxiety. Describe how it affected you and how you tried to cope with it? What might you do differently now that you have read the article?

Anytime words such as stress and anxiety get thrown around, I can’t help but reminisce the almost torturous nights before exams. Especially the eve before the ad math exam. There was many reasons to leading up to my unfortunate situation. But most important was my lathargic perogotive, I procrastinated for a long time. This had caused me to go into a panic and I had essentially dug my own grave. But it wasn’t my unpreparedness that had effected me in the longterm, it was the worry that I had embraced.

You see, the when trying to ease my mind with penitent slumber, I had thought I would be able to sleep it off. That I’ll be able to leave this twilight zone of sorts, where every second was an suffocation spiral into stress where I was embalmed with a tsunami of sweat. Yet I had kept repeating thoughts of how unprepared and how bad i’ll do on the mock exams.  It was this continuous negative thinking that had been the root of my malfeasance as I got a horrible night of sleep, and the result I was expecting was even further diminished.

After reading this article, I realise that I should I have relinquished my self from this cruel mortal coil – I’m just kidding – I should have mentally eased myself instead trying to sleep it off. I should have thought about how miniscule these events are in the grand scheme of my life. I should have done something productive like actually study, which would have definitely soothed myself in the current state of panic I was in. I now know that I was to hasteful in my thinking and should have taken a deep breath, coped with it in a better way.

Music, Crucial in a Pandemic

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/magazine/best-songs.html#tylerthecreator

What is your reaction to the essay you read and the song you listened to? Had you heard the song before? What did you think of the writer’s analysis of and reflection about the song? Did you agree or disagree with what they said? What other thoughts or feelings do you have about the song?

The song in question being “earfquake” by Tyler the creator. The instance of the pandemic has cultivated an environment that harbours great anxiety and fear. As such people are finding any way to maintain morale through an assortment of media. The specific song has been regarded as a very special one in times like this. I fully condone the idea of this song being one of peace and solace. The article portrays Tyler being someone that this generation finds hope in due to his extremely eccentric personality and his ability to display an immense sense of freedom. These traits are perfectly conveyed in his song earfquake that blends a happy and mellow melody with upbeat and fun vocals. I’ve heard the song before and really liked it, everytime I hear it I can’t help but sing along.

I think this song also carries the strong emotional values the article touched on. About how Tyler’s voice is one of fun and freedom, in world that feels cruelly shackled, now more so than ever. It’s that personality that’s able to resonate with the younger generations and has a very important uplifting effect.

Immoralities in a Pandemic

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How much responsibility do retailers in general have to prevent stockpiling? Should they place limits on how many items, like hand sanitiser, a person can buy?

In this article, writers, Shannon Doyne and Michael Gonchar look into the acts of brothers brothers Matt and Noah Colvin. These two siblings had bought out thousands of sanitary products and stockpiled them into inventory, only then to sell them at a huge markup on amazon and Ebay.

In times like these it would now seem that the constant continuation of these harsh standards has truly brought out peoples sense of self preservation and malevolence. People are now seeking to capitalise on the the struggles with necessities that people have. Personally I’m am all for a more free market that incites more innovation and competition amongst the economy. Yet it is a concept that shouldn’t be used so harmfully in a situation like this, as it not only encourages the inability to maintain hygiene; directly harming the people who are unfortunate enough to not afford the product at the increased price. But it also elicits secondhand harm to everyone else, as the more people can’t get sanitised the longer the virus will stay in the system, the longer it has to find new host, the longer it has to mutate and develop. It’s clear to say that the benefits of a free market, hardly apply in a situation like this.

Yet this whole debacle, doesn’t seldom bear its ownership to that of the retailers. As it would be fair to posit that it is the retailers responsibility to prevent this from happening through creating limits. I fully agree with this, as this isn’t the time to capitalise on the free market, it is a time to come together (metaphorically) and band with our fellow man to get through this horrible event. Because if the retailers would have set limits and have allowed for more people to equally get their necessities this charade would have never happened. That would then not create the the problems I had stated earlier of essentially being accomplice to this virus.

 

COVID-19 & Social Solidarity

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How can we help one another during the coronavirus outbreak? What can you, your friends, family and community do to look out for one another?

In the midst of the corona virus, almost all contact with other people has been prohibited, unless deemed essential. Although this sets nations on a path to get out of this epidemic, this has many harmful repercussions. As stated in the article above this not only seems like extra tedium to the already harsh anxiety the virus has caused, but it has serious effects on peoples livelihoods. As many people are forced to relinquish wages, the dock in wealth has made it very difficult to keep up with health care. As currently it in America costs up to 20,000$ out of pocket for people with out insurance. These high costs along with the increasing costs/difficulty in obtaining sanitary products further harms struggling families.

Seeing these difficulties arise for other people, is the point of the article as it pushes social solidarity. The act of helping one another for due to an empathy stemming from a mutual situation is what he encourages people to take part of. We can all take part in this action as everyone is in the same situation. Firstly everyone should be aware of this fact, this surprisingly is a huge problem. As many stores and supermarkets are being essentially raided and sanitary products are being hoarded by individual consumers. This is extremely detrimental as people then hike up the prices, as mentioned before people are suffering from lack of pay. So firstly everyone should only buy what they need to support themselves or their family. Also the monotony of the lifestyle in quarantine is another thing many people are struggling with. So in order to help people through this time make sure to be there for whoever you are, like your family or significant other its a great way to keep up morale in these difficult times. Also for people who are unfortunate enough to not have anyone living with them, try to reach out to them digitally and check up on them.

Overall although I do agree with the article to an extent, I don’t agree with cancelling social distancing; but more so encouraging people to act more so on empathy to help people feel cared about. These times especially require society to act like this as the sole purpose of the quarantine is to protect people.

Personal Statement

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Throughout all of my academic career, I have always felt I had an affinity for science. I feel like this is due to the long gruelling hours my parents had encouraged me to do as a child. Although this past experience may push some people to hold a certain subject in bad taste. I highly enjoyed it, I felt as if the vast expansive knowledge there is about science peaked my interest. Yet I do show remorse in the perforation of subjects, making myself seldom devoted the sciences. I think that I should continue to follow this policy, in order to maintain a healthy balance between grades. But realising that I have a strong liking towards sciences I want to discover how strong my likes are. Possibly opening up promising future career options.

I don’t know how all of these statements translate directly on to my aspirations. But I believe that the most logical and straight forward approach, is to extend my time spent on the subject. This might mean taking into the higher level sciences, as these classes would provide me with the catharsis that comes from learning the sciences. Yet only placing myself in a nurturing habitat won’t help me. I have to take great strides in education off my own volition, otherwise the attempt at bettering myself would be in vain. This would mean I have to average 7’s in the HL science courses I take.

Overall, I believe that furthering my appreciation for science would provide me with a prolific array of skills that I require to acquire accomplishments I desire in my future. This means that I will be taking up HL Chemistry and HL Biology. It would also require me pushing myself to accomplish high grades in science. This may mean I devote more time to studies, as I would have to compensate for the increased work load I intend to take. Yet it would be a sacrifice that I am willing to take, in the name of bettering myself.

 

Table Tennis analysis

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This is a  project that I have been working on in PE class. I feel like I would like to share this impromptu analysis video, as I feel confident in my analysis of my skill. I would also like to showcase it as humorous amateur video. Although I think I highlighted my skills very well, I was infatuated in my hubris and barely glanced over my flaws. I now know that in future situations similar to this one, I need to have a more nuanced perspective.

Writers fortnite session 2: Daniel Benett

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My initial thoughts on this session were expectancies of imminent disappointment. I was questioning constantly how hard could the situation for extremely successful athletes be? But I quickly learned that it’s not hard to bear the title of athlete, it’s the sacrifices to equip it and the torment caused from it’s removal.

Daniel Benett quickly grew to like football when he was young in Singapore, as it was a bulk commodity that had an immense patronage. Singapore was full of opportunities to play and he took them all. He kept growing as a player hopping from one club to another, although he was extremely talented he still intended to get a “proper job”. But this is where he learned he had to make sacrifices, when offered to play for the Singapore national team, he knew that it would be extremely difficult to come back to get a “proper job”. Nevertheless he took the offer, he became extremely successful, played with legends of the industry and now teaches kids to play.

But now coming out of the limelight the second challenge athletes face comes in, the challenge of being forgotten. I learnt that many athletes suffer depression and undergo many traumas from any injury ending their career, them losing the ability to continue their dream. I believe it’s because their careers are already extremely short, and any external reasons to make that shorter would make any person go crazy. It truly is hard living the life of an athlete.

Wunderlist

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In our morning mentor class we were having a talk about organisation and methods are fellow students use in order to stay updated and efficient in the ways they manage their time. Many people were contributing to the conversation, but Teia; a good friend of mine commented on how a new application she downloaded has tremendously helped her in her time management. This application was called “Wunderlist”.

Though it has an unusual name, it is nonetheless helpful. After downloading it, I have used in many occasions to help myself. I have been much more productive and my homework is now finished at a more constant rate. The great thing is that the app can sync between my phone and laptop, making it easy to always stay on top.

But there is one difficulty I am having with it, and that is to keep it updated. With the constant flow of home work and tasks piling up, often it is much more easy to tell yourself “you’ll complete them later”. This urge makes me forget to use it as the system to operate it with is sometimes a challenge for me. But as the days go by my efficiency with it increases.

My tastes in music

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I like Rock, not many people like rock; the generalisation of an large branch of music. It having many sub sprouts that can heavily differ to one another despite acquiring the same defining features. I think it started when my brother introduced me to “Guitar hero III” a simple game that allowed me to truly bond with my brother, something that hadn’t been of an occurrence, and for me to be able impress him made me completely abhor the thought of being terrible.

It was from a very young age where the mind is at immensely malleable and impressionable state. Explaining as to why I have such a fondness for rock. This fondness only increased over time as the genre expanded into a large array of music suitable for anyone. Although rock seems to be a great genre, my tastes in music have been notably ostracised. It having a repeating theme of intensity, leading the ratio of plebeians among the consumers to flee from its bewitching and almost evil manner. Whereas I simply appreciate the music for being rough and powerful. I always admired the creativity in the compositions of great bands and their guitarists. Such as: Jimmy Page and Slash, how they could interweave their skill and craftsmanship into music

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