I cannot bring myself to forget how important academic results are. I used to think that studying was very easy simply because up to form 3 (grade 9), I was always given multiple choice questions. Somewhat to a certain extent, every single question still stands a potential of contributing marks to the exam. But then, when I stepped to my 10th grade, to my horror, for the first time in my life I experience the fear of failing a paper. I used to be egoistic, with arrogance looming in my head that there just isn't any possibility for me to fail; till then. The examination format suddenly took a turn to emphasize more on the written part than the multiple choice section.
 Here in college, I adopt the arrrogance again in my first year simply because it was just too easy to pass. But by adopting it, I didn't really showed it out. It just stayed in my head swelling it. I was just simply betting on an "A" or a "B" even though many of my friends were praying hard that they pass their papers. I managed to cruise through my first year of diploma maintaining my CGPA above 3.5 which was a distinction. Life just seems like a bed of roses without the thorns. It was just too simple for me.
 But then, today, a phone call from my mom has again changed my perspective. Not that I changed my aim from aiming "A"s to pass but more of how I should see myself. There is really no need for arrogance even though you know very well, you're always around the ball park of an "A". Well, I believe that my arrogance has caught up with me again and thus my results this time was simply warning me to be more humble. Although you never see me in my arrogance, it doesn't mean it isn't there. When a person becomes arrogant, he tends to get overconfident. Well, that happens to me many times in my life. Sometimes I wonder, if my overconfidence hit me so many times in the face, why can't just get it in my head!
 My CGPA dropped from 3.61 to 3.3 for my last semester results. Shocking? Well it is to me. I never expected such results. Many of my friends tell me not to look at my past but rather look in front as the past is already gone and there is nothing I can do about it. I choose to differ. Although the pass is already gone but then again, I don't want to leave it just as a scar in my life. If it were to be like that, there will be too many scars in my life. I find that it is from this bitter past that we can use to improve our future. Sometimes we keep making the same mistake simply because we haven't learnt our mistakes yet.
 I am making it a point to make this mistake my last of it's kind. What my grandfather told my father, which in turn told me, "Your intelligence will betray you" is very true-if you let it! Intelligence might bring you far in the beginning, but without perserverance, it will let you down at the finishing line. So Lord, help me to be humble!