About the Author : Nur Shah, Muslim, 1994, Singapore, contactable @ 86190420



Friday, August 31, 2012

Seize The Day By Avenged Sevenfgold

I am a jack of all trades, master of none. Now let’s see, I started playing soccer when I was 9 years old and table tennis caught on a few months later. I later picked up rugby when I was 12 after that was newly introduced to my school. Oh wait, did I also mention that I started to learn swimming at 7 years old. To top that off, I was in the best class and attended religious school. Now comes the sad part, the master of none part, I know how to play rugby but I do not know the rules & I only played for less than 5 months because I fractured my left knee or torn ligament in my left knee. How about Table tennis? Well anyone who takes up a month of classes of table tennis can beat me in a match. Okay then, religious school? I don’t know how to read or speak Arabic or Jawi. You can blame me, the school education system and my parents for that. Lastly I got a Primary School Leaving Examination aggregate of 216 which is one of the lowest coming from the smartest class. The only thing that I could consider myself master is soccer. I love soccer though I do not follow any soccer leagues. It was those days of playing soccer from 3pm to 6.30pm during weekends under the HDB (Housing Development Board) flats that developed my skills & made me fell in love with soccer.

Now moving onto secondary school, I could not get into soccer because my knee has not healed yet or any uniform group for that matter. I got myself into information & communications club. That investment I made in that club was a waste. Luckily though in secondary school, I did not pick up anything else.

After my O levels have ended I picked up the bass guitar for several reasons. I then developed an interest in board, card games & also computer games during the school holidays. I joined Diploma in Sonic Arts in Republic Polytechnic which is a course about music and sound. I was being stupid and joined business club after a year where I learned nothing new about business. Time for evaluation, I suck at bass guitar, I don’t know my board & card games & computer games skills because I have not competed against professionals but I think I’d suck in the field of computer games. I can say that I am a master in sound and music and this is my biggest master and so I shall SEIZE THE DAY WITH this!

And so in the future, I plan to be more stupid and expand my “jack of all trades master of none” within myself. I am going to take up a Photoshop class as an elective module. I actually intended to take up drawing but I don’t like deadlines for that and what Republic Polytechnic has taught me is that information is easily available online and so I guess it’d be harder to learn Photoshop online. I am also learning how to drive and if my finances allow me, I am going to have fun with tamiyas. Tamiyas are battery operated cars which only moves forward. Also just like any other guys, I’ll be playing some computer games. The only thing I see becoming a master of is Photoshop, other than that, no.

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