Category: Success

Moving On to the Next Chapter…

Damian Ng1 Comment

After about a year plus of not going to school, I am finally going back to one! It will happen next Friday! Guess where? It will be at the Singapore’s fourth university, SIM University! The last time I attended school was when I was doing an Advance Certificate in Theology at City Harvest Bible Training Center. It was a short course spanning 1 year and I am happy to say that I really enjoyed and learnt a lot from that 1-year.

Now that I am going back to school again, I am really looking forward to the new people I am going to meet and a host of information, which I am going to acquire. I am taking a Degree course in Marketing. I am actually very excited about this course. I have always wanted to know more about marketing, the art of promoting and how one goes about bragging about itself. Some people say that marketing is like sales. I beg to differ. I have done a fair share of sales during my time in Prudential and I have to admit that selling was not that fun. Ha! Ironically, selling is the most essential part of a business. Closely following it is the company’s marketing department.

If a product is not properly packaged or promoted, selling, by itself, does possess much power. To me, doing sales is a challenge. However, I am more interested in the planning of how a product can be sold rather than the actual selling of the product. Thus, the interests in taking up a Degree course majoring in marketing.

Having revealed the first few sentences of the new chapter in my life, I ask for your prayers and guidance. Share with me your insights and advice, as I begin to tread on the road littered with valuable knowledge and information. I will be going down this road for 3 years and if at any moment you were inspired to share something with me, just email or contact me. I will gladly receive it with open arms and ears. For my brothers and sisters in church, continue to pray for me. Pray that I will have the strength and the capacity to make the most out of the course.

As I prepare to end this entry, I would like to thank you people for the interest and concern you have upon my life and for all the prayers and encouragement!

The Journey…

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indulging in self-gratification can distort your perspective…
what you want in life… what is good in life…
it can also change the way you love things…
love can get selfish… always looking at the gains and not the sacrifice

most importantly, self gratification is pointless…
you get all the highs but only temporarily…
you feel empty after that…
the path in front only leads to the next self gratifying moment…
it is worst than running a rat race… at least, you are doing something different at different parts of the race.

self-gratifying acts come in all sorts of color and kinds.
to some, shouting at another person for personal relief is one…
to others, it may be the thought of being able to get involve sexually…
there are so many other ways and methods of self-gratifications.
while some of these acts may seem morally more wrong than others,
they all stem from the same root… Self-pleasure, self-gain or like i have said earlier, self-gratification

however, being humans, to indulge in self-pleasure/self-gain is a weakness everyone seems to be fighting.
the key word here is “fighting!”
the day we stop fighting it is the day we let these known problems be unknown…
it would be like to have your conscience seared by an iron!

knowing what is wrong is just the first step,
changing is the next logical step…
but the most important step is to defend the knowledge you have against the wrong, which you know!

knowledge brings light to a certain matter…
losing it then bring darkness back to it!

there is nothing wrong with being wrong,
there is nothing wrong with trying to change,
there is nothing wrong with failing at some points,
there is nothing wrong with being disappointed at those failures.
however, something is wrong when you stop seeing the wrongs

i am not writing this to change or teach others…
(though i hope that in doing so, it may help others)
conversely, i am writing this to encourage myself…
to remind myself of the pits that lie ahead of me.
in my sanity, i write to keep me from falling into insanity
throwing markers on the road, building fencing on both sides
as i journey along this winding road called LIFE