Thursday, March 6, 2014

Time to wake up

I am now in the 6th semester of my studies in UM. I can’t believe that I am right now a third year Engineering student studying my second semester today. Time flies regardless whether if you care about it. Thinking back what I have been doing during the last semester, I realized that I have completed the Theology course under China Horizon. I would like to congratulate myself for being a very hardworking and diligent student in Christ. Of course, I would like to give thanks to God for his grace and strength all along the way I was taking the course. It is my first certificate in Theology, considered a very satisfactory milestone in my life. Although none of my friends and my family was there to witness my happiness, I believe God was always there to give me a thumb-up for this little achievement of mine. (T.T)

I didn’t intend to complete the course in the first place, but I have the desire to get to know the theology of Christianity. Little by little, I got very passionate and enthusiastic to seek more on that. Eventually, I thanked God that he turned me to be one of the graduates at the graduation service. Who am I to boast about this achievement? There are many things I still have to learn in the path of my faith, but I would like to tell the world how pleasant the night was to me. I saw brothers and sisters taking pictures among themselves. (They have known each other during the past four years in the course) But I am fresh over there. However, holding the new certificate with my right hand, I found the certificate somehow very heavy. Sincerely I thanked God with gratitude.

In this semester, I am required to search for a company for my internship. I have been trying to get contact with many companies but the poor response was disappointing. Anyway, I thank God that I was asked for a job interview this coming Saturday. Hopefully everything will go smoothly so that I can stop to worry about internship. This semester my mind is getting reformed again, I am taking a subject called “Communication for employment”. The teacher is a very responsible and experienced woman with a knowledgeable mind and informative thoughts. She likes to share things and experiences in the class whereby our mindset can be slowly reformed to be more practical, critical and mature. She likes to preach a lot in the class telling us how to carry ourselves well and how to present ourselves confidently and effectively. I appreciate this kind of teacher very much though some students don’t.

Some questions were thrown by her to us, asking “What are the strengths you possess and the experiences you had which can show your strength to the interviewers through your CV?” and “what made you employable and irreplaceable?” Those questions helped me to have a self-examination once again lately. Usually, I would be very steady and satisfied with myself for the self-examination. However, I know that this “I-am-feeling-good” would lead me to tragedy at last. Therefore, I decided to destroy the stupid pride in me and to look around to the excellent friends I have. I realized that they are much better than me; they had special experiences and great achievements in their lives that show their outstanding nature obviously. Who am I in the comparison with them? I am nothing but a useless nut. Thank God that I didn't think of myself as a very good speaker who has advantages with an alleged persuasive mouth. I need to think…I need to think for resolution…This will not be good if it continues without positive changes and improvement…God please help me to equip myself well…    

         

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