Things i learnt best

I'm just reflecting today on how do i learn things, so as to be as effective in studying for the exam as possible.

I'm doing online quiz for a subject that i can have multiple attempts, so i did it as a revision for that subject. Then i decided that i'm going to get full mark if not i will continue doing it until i got full mark. "No full mark, no stop". Interesting, after a few hours of looking thru the textbook and lecture notes a few times, as i didn't get full mark for the first attempt that i did. Some of the quiz i do it for 5 to 6 times. There is a trend, the first quiz will take me about 1 hour, second quiz also about 1 hour, third quiz about 40min, and the more i did, the faster i'm able to solve the quiz. But i must admit that some of the questions are repeated but on average out of 10 questions, maybe i can find 2 questions that i had the answer, the rest of the 8 questions, i will have to do it myself again. Expect for the 6 attempts, maybe i have 5 out of 10 questions with answered. But even so, the rest of the questions that i didn't have the answer, i will find it easier to do. Unless it is some reading that i must read from the textbook to get the answer, if not, i will be able to do it reasonably fast. I also realised as i'm doing the quiz, where is my weakest topic in that subject.

Now i finally understand one simple logic, "You learn best at the things that you keep trying and don't give up." I think if things are very simple and easy, i will not be able to truely learn it. Maybe i'm someone who learn things thru the hard way. Or is it because the number of times that i had try had made me able to understand and know where is the common mistake and to avoid it in the future?

I think my mind is going to sleep soon. It has been a long and fruitful day. Good night everyone.

I really care

Through these few months, i asked myself, how much do i really care for those that i know, those that are close to me. While i'm not sure about the answer in my heart, if i really do care for them or not, i didn't know how to respond but avoid. There are few of them that i tried to have lesser conversation, interaction if possible. Everyone standard of care and concern is different, some might be higher than others, some might be easily met, but for me, i think i'm someone who has quite a high expectation when it comes to care or concern part. It is like you either really care or "just getting a day past by without any trouble".

I realised one thing over the past few weeks, that i do really care. Even though most of the times it is not expressed in the way i hope it to be, but i do really care for everyone. I care not because that i'm a caring person, i care because God has first care for me. In actual fact, i think i do struggle sometimes in that area.

Last night, i wanted to sleep very badly, but somehow i wasn't. Either because there were really a lot of things that was going through my mind or my interesting neighbour testing on the different ringtones. A very very dear sister ask me to "count sheeps" maybe that can help me to sleep. So i did as what i was told. I go and count sheeps. Then i realised that i never able to count sheeps beyond a certain number. Then i will start all over again with 1 sheep. And it happens for a few times and i start all over again with 1 sheep. Without realising it, i fell asleep. That's one of the good way of falling asleep that is to count sheeps. I know it works, or at least it does work for me. :)