Monday, 18 February 2013
The Lack of Necessary Skill for the Modern Workplace
In this technology exploration era, lack of necessary skills for the modern workplace is a big problem for a fresh worker, Why are there graduated students cannot or unable to manage the skills in the modern workplace? For example, half of the freshman don't even know how to use a fax machine or photocopy machine which is a "must" to learn skill when they enter the career field. So, the solution that I want to suggest may has the probability to overcome it. Educational institute can create a related course or include the necessary skills into the syllabus of class. For instances, the skills to use the office machines, to manage the Microsoft office like Microsoft Word,Excel and Publisher to do the work in a more efficient and effective way. This suggestion seems to be applicable for the education condition nowadays and it may help a lot for the future employee in doing their works in a modern workplace.
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Compare and contrast libraries and the Internet as the two major sources of information for use in academic written work.
We need to do academic written work since we are primary students even until we are having tertiary education in university. As we know, academic written work is a "must" in our educational system. In this interact, communicate and technology era, the internet is probably one of the greatest inventions in the century. But the presence of conventional libraries will still be one of the choices for students to get their knowledge, information and ideas in their academic written work. So, let us proceed to compare and contrast the effectiveness of libraries and the internet in doing academic written work.
Before the invention of internet, researchers need to stay at library for whole day to complete parts of their journal or research. From here, we can know that we need to spend a lot of time in order to get information from library. Libraries normally are large and neat, we need to run from floor to floor and rack to rack to get the books that we need. After found the books, we need to sit down and read through the books page by page to understand and gain the information that we want. Libraries as a source to get information is time consuming. However, when we are using internet to get information, it is speedy and accessible immediately. We just need to "click" and use the powerful search engine then we can get the information from A to Z immediately. By type the keyword, we can immediate access to a considerable amount of information with reference to a particular topic. Use the internet as source of information is time saving yet multiple access.
Apart from that, the flexibility of time in gaining information is also one of the comparison between internet and libraries. As what we know, libraries usually have limited time and it own operation time to use and visit. We need to walk or drive to libraries to get the information needed. We need to plan and think wisely before we move otherwise our time will be wasted. So, the time for use libraries is not flexible. However,the internet offers the flexibility in term of time. We can complete our work,assignments or information getting in anytime and anywhere we want. This is because internet is available 24 hours a day instead of libraries that open only for operation time. We can surf internet without time limit and geographic boundaries in order to get information.
The reliability for the source of information for both the internet and library are different. When we are doing assignments or researches, lecturers will ask for the scholar articles or journals that has reliable sources to prove our statements. The information in libraries are normally primary sources which did not edited or changed by others. For instances, original diaries, newspaper, maps and journals. The resources in libraries have all been individually selected by a trained professional, to fit specifically to the school's educational programs. So, the resources from libraries is reliable and valuable. Although internet has great diversity of information, but the resource of internet is uncertain. The potential for encountering incorrect statistics and other false information is high. For example, Wikipedia, one of the popular websites to gain information, the articles on it can be edited or rewrite easily. Therefore, we need to be more careful when we search the information from internet and check for the reliability of the information that we get.
In a nutshell, internet and libraries as the two major sources of information for use in academic work have its own advantages and disadvantages. Internet is easy to share and get information while libraries has reliable resources. Understanding in strengths and shortcoming for both of them is really important to conduct an academic written work. As a student, we need to use the internet and libraries wisely instead of use them without planning. Otherwise we need to do a double work to get our fruit of hard work.
10 Problems that Young Generations are Facing in the Globalisation Era
Who is young generation? Young generation are the people whose age between 13 years old to 25 years old which will be the future leaders for their own countries. Young generation should lead a happy yet lack of trouble life in their age now. BUT, there is a "but", "happy yet troubleless life" is just an illusion because there are a lot of problems facing by the young generation in this globalization era. Here are 10 problems that had been discussed and faced by young generation like me.
1. Life without internet
Can you imagine your life without wi-fi in house,without data for your smart phone or cannot update your status on Facebook when you are going out with friends or family? It is hard to imagine for the young generation nowadays. Internet is very useful and powerful. Young generation can search the information from A to Z by click the mouse or simply "google". For this technology advance era, some of the university lecturers will use online teaching instead of physical class. So, life without internet really will make young generation feel suffer and interrupt their daily life.
2. Accidentally met ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend
It is very awkward to meet their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend accidentally for young generation. For example, if they study at the same school or campus, have the same course and same subject after they break up in a bad way, is it very awkward for them? So, the solution that I want to suggest is please bear with it, be more open-minded and choose the time that will not meet her/him to campus. The last suggestion is please change your course or campus that will never ever same with them!
5. Easy to be "tempted"
There are a lot of temptations surrounding the new generation. For examples, drug addiction, smoking,drinking, sexual relationship and luxury shopping. Drug addiction and smoking had became a serious issue in new generation that is worried by the public. New generation who will become out future leader had been brainwashed by some movies or advertisement that smoking is a cool action which can relieve their tension in life. Some of them easy to be allured by the luxury accessories like LV purse, Chanel dress or Burberry handbag which are very costly for them who is jobless. Therefore, new generation need to be educated by a correct attitude and mindset to resist overwhelm temptations.
6. Lack of knowledge for the things that happened all over the world
New generation lose the information and knowledge that had happened around the world. You can try to ask the youngsters now around that who will read the newspaper even when their home bought newspaper monthly. The answer will make you shocked because most of them are not reading it to gain the information. Even when they are reading, they only concern about entertainment and sports instead of social problems. So, parents should encourage their children to spend a little time to read newspaper or e-news for getting some latest information since they are young.
7. Appearance troubles
"Am I fat?", "My pimples!"...These are some examples of the words that new generation often say it in daily life. New generation very concerned about their appearance either their body shape or skin condition. They will buy cosmetic products and slim down medicine to maintain their body in a perfect condition. Because they are lack of confident so they will find for a perfect look although they need to spend lot of money.
8. Do well in academic result
New generation nowadays need to keep their grade up in order to get what they want in life. For example, parents will give great offer to their kids if they get excellent result like buy what the kids want and bring them go to the place they like it. However, not every single new generation is capable to get straight As in all examinations. So,doing well in academic examinations is also one of the problems that faced by new generation nowadays.
9. a sense of hopelessness : where am I going?
When new generation come to a corner to choose their course or life after they graduate from secondary school or university, they will feel hopeless and wonder where should they go. This is very normal among new generation. They will confuse and blur for what they want to choose for their future. Therefore, new generation ought to think about what should they do and do not do before they graduate besides planning for their coming future.
10. unhealthy lifestyle
New generation lead an unhealthy lifestyle by wake up early in the morning but sleep very late at night. They are picky in eating by not have vegetable and fruit but like to have fast food and fried food for their meals. Although they knew it is harmful but they just cannot control themselves to do it. So, we need to have a healthy life habit since we are young to prevent the illness for the coming year.
1. Life without internet
Can you imagine your life without wi-fi in house,without data for your smart phone or cannot update your status on Facebook when you are going out with friends or family? It is hard to imagine for the young generation nowadays. Internet is very useful and powerful. Young generation can search the information from A to Z by click the mouse or simply "google". For this technology advance era, some of the university lecturers will use online teaching instead of physical class. So, life without internet really will make young generation feel suffer and interrupt their daily life.
2. Accidentally met ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend
It is very awkward to meet their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend accidentally for young generation. For example, if they study at the same school or campus, have the same course and same subject after they break up in a bad way, is it very awkward for them? So, the solution that I want to suggest is please bear with it, be more open-minded and choose the time that will not meet her/him to campus. The last suggestion is please change your course or campus that will never ever same with them!
3. Friendship problems
Friends issue is the issue that cannot be ignored and very
emphasised by youngsters. Friends can be everything in their life when they are
still young. Youngsters will tell everything or listen to the advices of their
friends in solving something whether it is correct or wrong. So, if there is a
trouble occurring within new generation’s friendship, it can be a big problem
for them. For example, the neglect and forget from a friend will hurt the
feeling of a youngster instead of simply anger and disappointed. So, new
generation need to choose friends wisely, be more open-minded and patient when solving
friendship problems.
4. Socialization problem
Nowadays, a lot of new generations prefer to stay indoors
and has few social contacts with people. They seldom interact and communicate
with people but like to do some online activity such as online video games,
online chatting and online shopping. Therefore, new generation normally will
lack of interpersonal communicative skills which is very important for them in
their future career. “First” me individualism is also one of the reasons that
cause the socialization problem within new generation. So, new generation need
to move outdoor and interact more with people, socializing and improve their
interpersonal skill for their own good.
5. Easy to be "tempted"
There are a lot of temptations surrounding the new generation. For examples, drug addiction, smoking,drinking, sexual relationship and luxury shopping. Drug addiction and smoking had became a serious issue in new generation that is worried by the public. New generation who will become out future leader had been brainwashed by some movies or advertisement that smoking is a cool action which can relieve their tension in life. Some of them easy to be allured by the luxury accessories like LV purse, Chanel dress or Burberry handbag which are very costly for them who is jobless. Therefore, new generation need to be educated by a correct attitude and mindset to resist overwhelm temptations.
6. Lack of knowledge for the things that happened all over the world
New generation lose the information and knowledge that had happened around the world. You can try to ask the youngsters now around that who will read the newspaper even when their home bought newspaper monthly. The answer will make you shocked because most of them are not reading it to gain the information. Even when they are reading, they only concern about entertainment and sports instead of social problems. So, parents should encourage their children to spend a little time to read newspaper or e-news for getting some latest information since they are young.
7. Appearance troubles
"Am I fat?", "My pimples!"...These are some examples of the words that new generation often say it in daily life. New generation very concerned about their appearance either their body shape or skin condition. They will buy cosmetic products and slim down medicine to maintain their body in a perfect condition. Because they are lack of confident so they will find for a perfect look although they need to spend lot of money.
8. Do well in academic result
New generation nowadays need to keep their grade up in order to get what they want in life. For example, parents will give great offer to their kids if they get excellent result like buy what the kids want and bring them go to the place they like it. However, not every single new generation is capable to get straight As in all examinations. So,doing well in academic examinations is also one of the problems that faced by new generation nowadays.
9. a sense of hopelessness : where am I going?
When new generation come to a corner to choose their course or life after they graduate from secondary school or university, they will feel hopeless and wonder where should they go. This is very normal among new generation. They will confuse and blur for what they want to choose for their future. Therefore, new generation ought to think about what should they do and do not do before they graduate besides planning for their coming future.
10. unhealthy lifestyle
New generation lead an unhealthy lifestyle by wake up early in the morning but sleep very late at night. They are picky in eating by not have vegetable and fruit but like to have fast food and fried food for their meals. Although they knew it is harmful but they just cannot control themselves to do it. So, we need to have a healthy life habit since we are young to prevent the illness for the coming year.
Monday, 28 January 2013
Is Writing an Arduous Task?
Is writing an arduous task for you? For me, writing can be an interesting task or a difficult job which depends on the purpose of writing. If the purpose of writing is for academic or studies use, I will take more effort to finish it. On the other hand, I will use an informal and relax way to write for fun or pleasure when I am free. Apart from purpose of writing, the language that use to write can also affect the arduousness of writing to me. When I am using my mother language-Chinese language to write, I feel free and fluent in my writing instead of a lot grammatical error and deficiency of vocabulary when I write in English language.
We need to do a lot of writing when we are doing assignments, homework, exams and tasks for academic use. In order to get more information about the topic that I want to write, I will do some research and planning before I start writing. This action can make me have deeper understanding on the topics that I want to write and create the writing product in an easier way. Therefore, I need quite a long time to finish my writing task and take a lot of effort to produce an essay or research. But, I can learn more from this research action and this can improve my knowledge in the related topics or issues. While for planning part, I will joint down the words that flash in my mind and make a draft before I start my writing. My writing structures can be more neatly and easy to understand after planning and drafting.
Besides, I think writing is an interesting task when I write something for fun. Nowadays, the youngsters like to share their feeling and thinking by writing in their own blog or social network website. Of course, the youngsters included me. For instance, almost everyone in the world has a Facebook account to upload their photos, comment on status and most importantly, Facebook users can write their own opinions or even feeling on their own wall. Social networking is not only can communicate with people in the whole world, but it can also improve the writing skill of a writer when he or she use formal language when writing. For your information, I have a blog. I like to share my feeling or what has happened in my life no matter happy, sad, furious or regret in my blog, But it is in Chinese language which is my mother tongue language. It can relieve my stress from my life and thus writing for fun is important in my life.
In a nutshell, writing can either an arduous task or an interesting job for me. However, I wish that I can change the arduous writing job when using English language into interesting task. Reading more English language novels, listening to English radio FMs and watching more America series dramas or movie will be my alternatives to enhance my vocabulary and writing skill in order to produce a high quality writing essay or research. Therefore, let us work hard together to achieve our own aims or targets and proceed to the next level in our life!
We need to do a lot of writing when we are doing assignments, homework, exams and tasks for academic use. In order to get more information about the topic that I want to write, I will do some research and planning before I start writing. This action can make me have deeper understanding on the topics that I want to write and create the writing product in an easier way. Therefore, I need quite a long time to finish my writing task and take a lot of effort to produce an essay or research. But, I can learn more from this research action and this can improve my knowledge in the related topics or issues. While for planning part, I will joint down the words that flash in my mind and make a draft before I start my writing. My writing structures can be more neatly and easy to understand after planning and drafting.
Besides, I think writing is an interesting task when I write something for fun. Nowadays, the youngsters like to share their feeling and thinking by writing in their own blog or social network website. Of course, the youngsters included me. For instance, almost everyone in the world has a Facebook account to upload their photos, comment on status and most importantly, Facebook users can write their own opinions or even feeling on their own wall. Social networking is not only can communicate with people in the whole world, but it can also improve the writing skill of a writer when he or she use formal language when writing. For your information, I have a blog. I like to share my feeling or what has happened in my life no matter happy, sad, furious or regret in my blog, But it is in Chinese language which is my mother tongue language. It can relieve my stress from my life and thus writing for fun is important in my life.
In a nutshell, writing can either an arduous task or an interesting job for me. However, I wish that I can change the arduous writing job when using English language into interesting task. Reading more English language novels, listening to English radio FMs and watching more America series dramas or movie will be my alternatives to enhance my vocabulary and writing skill in order to produce a high quality writing essay or research. Therefore, let us work hard together to achieve our own aims or targets and proceed to the next level in our life!
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Cohabitation = Marriage ?
Do you know the meaning of cohabitation? Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married but lived together in an intimate relationship, particularly an emotional and sexually intimate, on a long-term or permanent basis (definition from Wikipedia). The figure of cohabitation increased obviously in this few years and it has become a common pattern or life style in western world for instance United State and America.
There was an official figures from Office for National Statics (ONS) showed that the fastest growing type of family in United Kingdom (UK) are people who are living together without marriage. The number of people who cohabited has doubled up to 5.9 millions since year 1996 especially for the couple from 35 years old to 44 years old. This may related to people nowadays prefer late marriage and increasing age at marriage.
In this globalization era, most of the youngsters felt that cohabitation is benefit for themselves. They are open-minded and feel free from custom,religion or even society. More and more couples are simply packing their things and move in to live together. They want to have a trial that live intimately with their partner to avoid bad marriage. Cohabited couples felt that it is more convenient and economic beneficial especially in hard financial time. In their opinion, they can save the money for wedding preparation or even divorce. Therefore, couples nowadays dare to take the challenge to cohabit without any promise of marriage.
Apart from that, ethnic disadvantages also contained in cohabitation too. Domestic partnership without marriage can lead to unstable environment for child's development if cohabited couples have their own child. It is mistaken to have a concept that cohabited couple have legal right as married couple when they having a child. Besides, both side of them will think like "It is doesn't matter for what is happening since we are not married". This is an irresponsible behaviour and it is even serious if they have their own children.
Cohabitation issue had been discussed for this century. In a nutshell, different countries has different view on this issue according to their own culture. Cohabitation is accepted by western world who has open-minded thinking while it is still take as illegal for marriage rights in eastern countries. For example, In Califonia, a family can be formed without an official marriage while in Asian countries like Malaysia, a pair of parent must have official marriage to form a family. Cohabitation perhaps cannot be accepted by certain amount of people, but can you accept it?
There was an official figures from Office for National Statics (ONS) showed that the fastest growing type of family in United Kingdom (UK) are people who are living together without marriage. The number of people who cohabited has doubled up to 5.9 millions since year 1996 especially for the couple from 35 years old to 44 years old. This may related to people nowadays prefer late marriage and increasing age at marriage.
In this globalization era, most of the youngsters felt that cohabitation is benefit for themselves. They are open-minded and feel free from custom,religion or even society. More and more couples are simply packing their things and move in to live together. They want to have a trial that live intimately with their partner to avoid bad marriage. Cohabited couples felt that it is more convenient and economic beneficial especially in hard financial time. In their opinion, they can save the money for wedding preparation or even divorce. Therefore, couples nowadays dare to take the challenge to cohabit without any promise of marriage.
Apart from that, ethnic disadvantages also contained in cohabitation too. Domestic partnership without marriage can lead to unstable environment for child's development if cohabited couples have their own child. It is mistaken to have a concept that cohabited couple have legal right as married couple when they having a child. Besides, both side of them will think like "It is doesn't matter for what is happening since we are not married". This is an irresponsible behaviour and it is even serious if they have their own children.
Monday, 7 January 2013
Blog #2: Email from Future Self :)
At exactly midnight on New Year eve, you receive an email labeled "open immediately". The really strange thing is that the email is apparently from your future self. What does it say?
______________________________________________________________________
Dear younger Ming Chin,
Happy New Year, my dear. Hi, you must be startled when you saw this email from your future self. Don't scream, be patient to read through and understand this email from year 2020. I am pretty sure that you are sitting in front of your laptop to watch drama or surf Facebook now. "Work hard, play hard", this is a very useful quote in my opinion. However, please arrange your time wisely. Please settle all those important things first before you enjoy your time.
In year 2020, I am a professional Public Relations practitioner who specialised in event management. Don't regret for your choice that transfer to Social Art stream from a Science student. It was a right choice for your life. So, I need you to be more concentrate in class to absorb knowledge as much as you can. This action is important to ensure my work (and also your work) can be done in a more efficient and successful way.
Please be more socialise and interact more with your classmate in order to meet more friends that have same interest in job with you although I knew that you are a talkative girl. This is very lovely to have friends that can share the same topics and views with you. While, frankly speaking, it is very useful for your future career too.
I want to show my gratitude because you went through all those obstacles in your life with your patience and strengths. But, I want to advise you that you should use a more mature way to overcome your troubles and problems. Don't simply lose your temper when you are facing difficulties because this is useless and it can be a shortcoming in your personality.
Last but not least, please continue to do more exercises in order to get healthier and fitter body for examples, swimming and yoga. When you are 28 years old in 2020, you are still look like 21 years old lady. This is the result that you get rid of fried food and carbonate drinks with ate a lot of fruits, vegetable and drank 2 litres water a day. But, you need to sleep earlier but don't stay until 2am or 3am. Otherwise you will have serious black rim of eyes and frequent headache just like me in 2020. Please take care of your health for your own good (and also mine).
Believe in your dream and try your best to make it true. Enjoy your 21st years old to the maximum and be prepare for your coming future. Rock your life and bear in mind for what I told you in this miracle email!
Regards,
28 years old Ming Chin
______________________________________________________________________
Dear younger Ming Chin,
Happy New Year, my dear. Hi, you must be startled when you saw this email from your future self. Don't scream, be patient to read through and understand this email from year 2020. I am pretty sure that you are sitting in front of your laptop to watch drama or surf Facebook now. "Work hard, play hard", this is a very useful quote in my opinion. However, please arrange your time wisely. Please settle all those important things first before you enjoy your time.
In year 2020, I am a professional Public Relations practitioner who specialised in event management. Don't regret for your choice that transfer to Social Art stream from a Science student. It was a right choice for your life. So, I need you to be more concentrate in class to absorb knowledge as much as you can. This action is important to ensure my work (and also your work) can be done in a more efficient and successful way.
Please be more socialise and interact more with your classmate in order to meet more friends that have same interest in job with you although I knew that you are a talkative girl. This is very lovely to have friends that can share the same topics and views with you. While, frankly speaking, it is very useful for your future career too.
I want to show my gratitude because you went through all those obstacles in your life with your patience and strengths. But, I want to advise you that you should use a more mature way to overcome your troubles and problems. Don't simply lose your temper when you are facing difficulties because this is useless and it can be a shortcoming in your personality.
Last but not least, please continue to do more exercises in order to get healthier and fitter body for examples, swimming and yoga. When you are 28 years old in 2020, you are still look like 21 years old lady. This is the result that you get rid of fried food and carbonate drinks with ate a lot of fruits, vegetable and drank 2 litres water a day. But, you need to sleep earlier but don't stay until 2am or 3am. Otherwise you will have serious black rim of eyes and frequent headache just like me in 2020. Please take care of your health for your own good (and also mine).
Believe in your dream and try your best to make it true. Enjoy your 21st years old to the maximum and be prepare for your coming future. Rock your life and bear in mind for what I told you in this miracle email!
Regards,
28 years old Ming Chin
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
New Year Resolution 2013
1. Travel to more places like Thailand and some islands in Malaysia
2. Get less grammatical errors in my writing
3. Read more books to get better vocabulary
4. To be more familiar with course mates and make more friends
5. Get better result (As) in all of my subjects
6. Get a lovely boyfriend
7. Improve my writing skill for my future
8. Reach a target amount of money in my bank account
9. Spend more time with my family and friends
10. Get rid of some of my bad attitudes and actions
2. Get less grammatical errors in my writing
3. Read more books to get better vocabulary
4. To be more familiar with course mates and make more friends
5. Get better result (As) in all of my subjects
6. Get a lovely boyfriend
7. Improve my writing skill for my future
8. Reach a target amount of money in my bank account
9. Spend more time with my family and friends
10. Get rid of some of my bad attitudes and actions
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