Hi to everyone, this is my 2nd time writing a post for my blog as in week 14 I have to submit my second assignment to be graded. Time really flies, now recalling back and I have enter into Ngee Ann Polytechnic for about 2 months (Wow!). I am still unable to get use to the polytechnic life with so much homework and PROJECTS to be time, really misses the days when I am in my Secondary school. I remembered people telling me that polytechnic life is very relaxing! They are just telling lies! Hope I will get use to it quickly.
This semester is coming to an end soon which means that LMS is coming to an end too. I have a mixed feeling –happy and sad. Happy because I have completed one IS modules, personally I don’t understand why the school must include IS modules in our timetable. LMS lesson are quite boring to me (first semester), but in the new semester we have a new LMS teacher, he is a funny guy and has a high expectation on our work. I am worry that our marks will be very low -.-.Sad because going to miss my LMS classmates.
For LMs we have to hand in three project works , one is this blog, the other two are to be done in group, for the first group work we score badly ( sad). Thinking back we don’t really put in a lot of effect for our first assignment project, we did a rehearsal on the role play just before the lesson.Hence we put in a lot of effect for our second project, we did a “paper people” role play. It may look easy but it is very time consuming we spend about 6hours doing all those prop and drawing those “buns”. Hope the teacher can see our effect and give a better mark, hopefully better than our first semester.
This semester is very stressful. We have about five projects: LMS, IAC, BMGT, Blaw, and DSS. We must have a good time management if not we will not be able to complete those projects on time. One difficulty that my team faces is that everyone is free at different time slot. So, we have to ensure that we make use of the time that we can meet up.LMS taught us how to manage our time, I think one method that I recalled from my classmate presentation is by preparing a timetable. Before setting up a timetable you must know what you really want, know your goals, set your priorities. Do you want to do well for your exam for this semester or u rather enjoy for this semester and work hard next time? If you choose to well then your timetable most of the time must be focusing on revision but if you want to enjoy then most of the time you will be playing. Once you have set your timetable, you must follow it closely if not you will be wasting your time to create a timetable of your own. This is briefly what I remembered about the presentation on time management presented by my classmates.
You guy may wonder after LMS what have I learn? I have learned the ways to control anger, manage my time, and a lot more. This can be useful to our daily life. If you know how to control your angry, many things will not have happen. We normally express our anger at the wrong target, when we are stress up with school work or when you quarrel with your boyfriend, you will go home and yell at your parent. This will only worsen the relationship with them and cause conflict with more people. This had happened to me too, when I enter into polytechnic I feel them I am directing my anger at my family member due to those ton of project work and home work. I am getting really stress up. Normally when I am doing my tutorial homework or project, if my parent walks into my room and talk to me or pass me a drink. I will use an irritated voice and ask them to leave. I don’t know why I will get fuss up with them. Hope that I can really learn to control my anger. Through the LMS lesson I learn that we can control our anger in several ways: Taking deep breathing, drinking cold water, relaxation and other forms of distractions, not forgetting the COW. Before I learn LMS the way that I cool that my anger is to walk away to a place which is quiet. eg. Toilet. Now I have learn more ways to control my anger.
I feel that I can get easily angry with my family member but not to my friends. That is one thing I find funny about myself. One reason is because family is always there for you; we will only treasure them when we are close to losing them. No matter what happened, family is there for you. Friend on the other hand is more “fragile”. If you get angry with them or shout at them, they will not befriend you afterward. Hence, we often cherish them more.
Managing fear and conflict is another topic that I found is an interesting topic. Fear is a feeling that everyone will encounter. Everyone have different ways to deal with fear, for me I choose to run away from it. Let me tell you a story related to that happened in my secondary school. Every morning when I reached the school, I will normally go to a row of chair to wait for a group of friend before assembling at the parade square.One particular morning, when my X friend came to school at that morning, a group of people come to approach her; they will the gangster of our school. It was a conflict that arise due to staring, my friend was said to be staring at one of the gang member when she was having recess the day before. I was shocked that such a small matter can turn into a gang matter. My X friend was ask to apologized to the gang member she stared at , although she denied that she stared at her, she said she was only taking a look at her. But in this end, she also apologized. I thought the matter will come to an end, but unfortunately it did not. The following day, when we were having our lunch the group came to my X friend and showed her athe message.
“I don’t know y I have to apologized to her, I did nothing wrong ma. I feel that they are such a bully”.
This is the message that my X friend send to another of my Z friend, so “luckily” that Z friend happened to be the friend of the gangster and they happen to see the message the X’s sent. The gang came to approach my friend and ask her why she sent that message. A group of friends and me were there but no one went to help my friend, we just stood there and let the gang “lecture” my X friend. The gang scolded vulgarity to my X friend; I still remembered vividly how she looked like during that time. Tear started rolling down my friend cheek, I was just standing there watching her cry without helping her or even passed her a tissue. Now recalling back, I feel that I am just a coward at that point of time, I did not help my friend because I am fear of them- the gangster.
The greatest challenge in life is to overcome your own self. If you can overcome the fear inside you, there nothing that can stop you. Everyone is fear of lot things for me, I am afraid of speaking up in class, fear of insect, fear of death and a lot more. How do I overcome these fears of mine? Try to have more confident in myself, stop thinking that I am lousy and have more positive thinking eg. I am the Best, I can do well. Reduce physical sign of fear by taking a deep breath, close your eye and relax or doing some physical exercise. Motivation by people Is one way to have be more confident.
Motivation is the topic my group has done for the 2nd semester project. We did a video on the paper “bus”. The problem that my group encounters is time management. Since our LMS class is a class with student coming from different class hence we will have difficulty meeting up. We have different lunch time, so we normally meet up during weekend to complete our project. When we meet up, normally someone will be late for the meeting. When someone is late, it will affect the progress of the whole group. I must admit that my group is really poor in time management, we always do last minutes work and the members are not punctual. Fortunately, we are cooperative, everyone play their part well. Let use this project for an example, the leader had assigned everyone to bring material that is required in this project and everyone brought their stuff. When we met, we assigned different role to every member. Everyone did what they were told to do and finally we completed the video within one day. There was not much conflict within me and my group members, we work well together! The only conflict is that everyone has different idea on how the prop should be done. Some think that the “buns” should be make using a real bun but not draw out, others think that the buns should be sew out. Finally, we decided to draw out the “Buns” because it is the less time consuming and we believe in our member-Zincy drawing skill. I enjoyed working with my LMS group, but this is the last chance we can work together.CJ7 Rox !
After attending so many weeks of LMS I can proudly tell u I have gotten myself one new skill. THAT IS TO EDIT A VIDEO. In the past, I really envious those people that know how to edit a video. BUT now I don’t have to, because I know how to edit video too. In the past, I only wait for people to contribute idea and use their idea, but now I will also contribute ideas to the group. I become more decisive nowadays, I will not hesitate to do it if I think what I am doing is right. Communication is not a problem to me as I can get a lot with all my peers but will have difficulty expressing myself to those who don’t understand Chinese. I have only a limited vocabulary in my dictionary but I will try to improve my English. The next goal in my life is to speak fluent English!