Always believe in yourself

My sister is always a great teacher for me....
Few months ago, I asked her a question :

Me: Will I be successful in future? How can I achieve my goals?
Sis: Always believe in yourself , look , recall few years back, where were you,   what were you doing.Compared to now, where are you ? Who are you ? What you are doing ?
                                                                                     

When I was in Form 1 (13 years old) , I would say I was a failure, I mixed with bad people in school ( My secondary school is the worst school in Daerah Gombak, full of gangsters, PMR Trial Exam Passing Rate in 2004 was just 19% , imagine, 81% of students could not pass all subjects in PMR Trial Exam).

My results fell at the range of 60+ average... My hope was to maintain 60 average.... I never studied... I did not even know today was the exam day until I saw people arranging tables, I asked my friends : Hey, Hari ini ujian ?


This situation continued until Form 2... One day, My dad told me : Boy, Why don't you do some revision of your homework, it's good, maybe just for 30 minutes?

I also did not know why, I listened to my dad, I took up a book - Sejarah Form 2 to read. LOL , that's why I love History... First test approached,  I scored the highest mark in the whole form. (I was still in Class B at that time)

                                                                                     

As I told, my secondary school is the worst school in Daerah, all people spoke Malay, very few of them were speaking English. So, my English was poor. I still remember one of the tests that I sat, the question was asking to fill in the blank (I was required to fill present / pass tenses) ... You know how many questions I answered correctly ?  I think should be one or two out of 15 questions. LOL

In Form 3, I did not even know how to differentiate active and passive sentences...

Example:
Active:   I kick the cat.
Passive : The cat is kicked by me.
I answered the question, I was kicked by the car.  LOL

I put determination in learning English.... Today, I would not say my English is good, but, it's already much more better compared to my secondary time. You could hardly get grammatical mistakes in my sentences. >.<  (does not mean no)

                                                                                 

When I was in Form 1, my results fell in the range of 50-60.
When I was in Form 1, I never studied.
When I was in Form 1, my English was poor.

When I was in Form 5, my results fell in the range of 75-85.
When I was in Form 5, I was the top student in my school.
When I was in Form 5, my English was improved.

It took me few years to transform from a poor student to a good student.
                                                                                   

Always believe in yourself:
When you were 0 year old, you could not even walk , you could not even speak.
Now, you could walk, jump , run....
Now, you could speak, sing, you could command few languages somemore...

Now, you are 20, you are uncertain about your future, recall back to your secondary school days, what were you, did you improve?

If 10 more years are given to you, you are then 30 years old, would you be a better guy?

How about 10 more years? You are now 40, it's the start of golden age of a man. Could you achieve something better?

                                                                                   

Thanks to my dad and sis. Without them, I don't know where would I be now. You would not be seeing me blogging. I might not be studying in Uni.

So, always believe in yourself? You could achieve something big.... right? XD