Worker VS Student

I've always pondered upon the differences of being a student with a worker.

"Being a student is the worse things that can ever happen to me," my cousin tells me.
"I hate working. It stresses me out all day long. I wish to go back to study again. If only I have sufficient funds for it," a friend tells me.
"I love working cause I get $$$, but sometimes I wished I could go back to study again," an ex-colleague tells me.
"I love studying and I wish I could study forever," an ex-neighbor tells me.

Thoughts by individuals who view their life as a student and as a worker. But, what exactly are the differences?! It varies really.

Being a student gives you much knowledge. You're attending lectures and tutorials. You're doing your overloaded assignments that consists of a lot of research, a lot of critical thinking, a lot of writing, a lot of reading and a lot of presenting. You're caught up with studying as the things you learn at university is different from college and school. With assignments to cope up with and the exams that you know you should be studying for when you know you're gonna run out of time soon, you get yourself caught up in a world of stress mode. Your head is spinning around that you just wish you could be sick and get out of this studying world once and for all. Nevertheless, you still get to enjoy, especially during your long winter and summer breaks. That's how I felt back when I was studying my Bachelor's Degree program.

Being a worker gives you much pressure as well. You're meeting up to the expectations of your boss. You find yourself trying to cope up with your work in the office and end up doing overtime and end up complaining because of the lack of sleep and eating at an inappropriate time ... say close to 11pm? You're doing everything quickly and you must do everything in perfect order. You try to impress both your boss and colleagues. You go for endless meetings. You satisfy your annoying clients. You end up bringing your work home because you know you can never finish it by the due date. You begin neglecting your family and friends and end up being a workaholic freak. You end up having high health risks. You seldom get a holiday getaway, except for your annual leave that you'd normally keep for the end of the year cause that's when your kids get their summer vacation.

What would you choose? A student or a worker?

Personally, I'm glad I'm going back to uni to study my Master's for a year. On the other hand, I want to work cause I think it's time for my parents to rest and for me to earn money for them as well as for my future. Theoretically, I think being a student is better because you get as much as freedom as you want. If you wanted to skip your classes, that's still fine. But if you wanted to skip work, that's just simply impossible. Plus, when you're working, you'd have to deal with every single issue or conflict at work each day and can never run away from it. Being a student, you can run away from your problems as long as you get your assignments done on time. But, being a worker, you'd have stress all day long. And office politics sucks. Totally sucks. People backstabbing you, push you around, talk behind your back. Gee, all the possible horrid politics you can think of, you name it, it's there.

Still, I can never escape from the working world. So, I definitely would choose working cause I want to be a successful woman in life. I have a few goals that I want to achieve after 10 years of working. I definitely want to own my own business. To do that, I'd have to work and face the little and big hardships in the office world. I always loved working cause it makes me learn new things everyday and makes me stronger too. It makes my skills known too and I get to meet as much people as I can and it trains me to be a wiser person in life. I don't know why but I always loved working and always looked forward to be entering the career world. Makes me look elegant and professional. There's no reason for it. I'm just a person who looks forward to the future for the sake of myself, my beloved and my family. To conclude it all, I love to see myself a successful person, someone who loves to see myself earning money just like how my parents used to earn for my future and someone who always dreamt of working cause it looked elegant, professional and cool, and that's why I love working.

I can never stay that same small girl who'd study for life. It's time to mature out of that little world of mine to come out and start working. Sure they say, it's not too late to study. But, we need to think logically as well. Where's the finance gonna come from? We have a future to look forward to. Earning money for yourself, your undertaking future, your future spouse, your future children, your parents who took care of you ... is so ever vital. We can study but sufficient funds with a good plan is important too. Plus, we can study from our bosses, clients, and colleagues on the many skills that they have taught us.

Therefore, I choose working as a top priority in my life, though studying is much more relaxing and working so much tougher and stressful. What about you?!?!

Addictive FB

Facebook is so addictive, more like an obsession ...

Everyone uses Facebook. What is Facebook? Facebook is a social networking website that you can use for free. Facebook is used to connect and interact with people. People add friends to their list, send them messages, create profiles to inform their friends about themselves, upload latest photographs of themselves, and updating their friends on their everyday daily lives. Fun activities are included as well such as quizzes, online pets, poker, war games, and many more to name.

My cousin uses Facebook all the time. Each day when she wakes up, she uses Facebook. After work, she uses Facebook. After dinner, she uses Facebook. Before she sleeps, she uses Facebook. According to her, Facebook is her life. She loves facebok-ing all the time. She could update her friends on her feelings and what she's been up to. Plus, she could even check out what her friends are up to and the latest photographs of her friends as well. It's as if Facebook is a requirement to do before doing anything else at all.

I have Facebook too. I check out on people too. I think it's good to use this website to interact with people, especially if you're in Australia and most of your friends are in different parts of the world due to different plans in life that God has placed them into. It's also good since all your family and friends are so busy with work with recession driving them crazy.

But, one thing bad about it is it gets too addictive that you neglect your studies and work. Your life is everything about Facebook and you end up glueing your face to the computer facebook-ing. It's the same with Friendster, My Space & Twitter. You're just so intrigued to Facebook-ing that sometimes you don't even remember to eat, do your homework, or do the tasks your boss has delivered you to do.

One thing I learned is that when you like something, I'll try to balance it by putting my priorities first. I'm not saying Facebook is bad. I'm not criticizing Facebook. All I'm saying is that we have to finish all our tasks before Facebook-ing. For instance, I have priorities to cook, do the laundry, iron clothes, clean the apartment, do my bed, clean the bathroom, everyday before I ever do anything else. Next comes to practising my Chinese writing. Next comes to read and write. Then Facebook falls into place.

Nevertheless, Facebook is a good way to interact with your family and friends, especially if they're so busy with their work and BOYFRIENDS/GIRLFRIENDS, which happens all the time!!! It keeps you in the loop and what's going on. You could even maintain a close and clean friendship as you get to know them closer through Facebook. But of course it all varies on how close you were to them back in the olden days.

"Facebook is so addictive, I'm feeling it. I'm addictive to Facebook too. I log on to Facebook every one hour. How peculiar is that?! Except when I'm sleeping of course."

Drinking Alcohol

Drinking alcohol has its' own pros and cons.

Pros would be ...
1) Personally, it's soothing to the soul. When you drink, you blurt out all your problems to your mates. When you drink, you don't think about anything but just think of expressing your harbored feelings and basically having fun. Drinking alcohol simply helps you forget everything, lets you have a good sleep, gives you the excitement to dance, party and act crazy, and simply just for entertainment. Plus, alcohol is even good for a wine and dine event, a sweet date event, a business event, a friendly event, and many more fun events to name which would be endless to speak of.
2) Health wise, drinking alcohol keeps you healthy. It decreases inflammation to keep your arteries younger, which contains of fewer heart attacks, strokes, and wrinkles.

And for the cons ...
1) If you drink too much alcohol, you could have a high risk of cancer.
2) You could have a high risk of hemorrhagic stroke.
3) High risk of liver disease.
4) Damage to the stomach.
5) Damage to the heart.

Which would you want to risk? Drinking alcohol for the sake of parties and friends? Or putting a limit to alcohol consumption to save yourself from diseases or death?!

Though red wine helps women in health wise, there has to be a limit on consuming it to a moderate amount, which would be one bottle a day. For men on the other hand, two bottles a day would suffice. Unless if you drink once a week of alcohol, that would be fine to settle for a bottle or two.

Think before you start drinking too much even if it was to cost you to look like a fool with your mates. Or it would be costing your health or death. Who would be the blame then?

Personally, I love drinking alcohol too cause it makes me happy, hyper and excited. Plus I love having fun with my mates, drinking and partying. But, awareness needs to be put into practice to ensure that my health is not under high risks. My parents would mourn. My beloved would cry. My friends would miss me. Nevertheless, it's good to be aware of these little matters to be alert. It's your choice. It's either you win or lose. You pick.

Car For Sale

Do you have a car? Do you need a car? Why do we need cars? What is it for? In a city like Sydney, it's not necessary unless you are properly settled down with a family. And a family as in like a spouse and children with good sufficient fund for the family to relax and enjoy.

Cars like Porsche, Honda Civic, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Celica, they're surely good to be viewed upon. They're awesome for awhile to drive in cause you feel proud. You're like, "Oh, I'm driving a rich man's car and it's awesome and cool. Women would love me,". But after getting used to it, you'd get bored of it. So what's the point of having a luxurious car? Pride gets into you sometimes I guess.

I would like a Porsche someday but a normal car suits me. I have a car and I'm blessed to have this car. It's huge, automatic, has air-con unlike my previous car, great space. But, the only issue is I don't use it that much since I moved to Sydney. I used to use it everyday in Perth to work. But, now it seems useless in Sydney because I rely so much on transportation. Public transports in Sydney are simply fantastic. You don't have to worry about the time and everything's so convenient.

And so I'm promoting my car today for sale. Good one for my first official post. How funny. It is a good car. It's a Toyota Corolla Ascent 2007. It's brand new and it's working well. I've been using it for a year now. And it's automatic and it's really easy to drive. Suits well for a family car. Really comfy and cosy.



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Welcome

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