Ziang's rssMar 2007
Random quote of the day.
30/03/07 02:28
Chancing on a taxi driver, the normal
questions about SMU vs NTU/NUS came flowing.
Talking on getting a job, his advice is as below:
Stay low, don't compete, know your limits
Somehow this matches my own philosophy as well. Hmmm. Anyways, school is getting so competitive nowadays. A simple quiz and everyone's getting high grades. AN AVERAGE OF 89!
OMG...
Tallying marks and grunting at those high scoring buggers, may you sneeze once and twice...
An email which is aimed at graduating students and the 60 odd students that was mailed back had .2005 and .2006 included. HELLO, Mister and Missus, not your time yet, why so kiasu!
Oh well, off to bed.
Talking on getting a job, his advice is as below:
Stay low, don't compete, know your limits
Somehow this matches my own philosophy as well. Hmmm. Anyways, school is getting so competitive nowadays. A simple quiz and everyone's getting high grades. AN AVERAGE OF 89!
OMG...
Tallying marks and grunting at those high scoring buggers, may you sneeze once and twice...
An email which is aimed at graduating students and the 60 odd students that was mailed back had .2005 and .2006 included. HELLO, Mister and Missus, not your time yet, why so kiasu!
Oh well, off to bed.
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Ouch...
29/03/07 23:26
Steph in Malaysia, truly...bagus?
26/03/07 01:48
Stupid presentation
25/03/07 20:24
The half not so convenient naked truth about being nice.
23/03/07 14:34
Firstly,
enjoy this little picture
Guy: Look at my jacket! It has pockets for my iPod, my PDA, my Gameboy and my PSP...it even has a place for thumbdrives and cellphones and cameras, and a place to carry USB cameras, and a place to carry USB cables, AND this little light Winks when there is WIFI available!
Girl: Does your girlfriend like it?
Guy: I don't have a girlfriend.
Girl: ........
This is so true...ha I mean, in the past. Nowadays girls don't mind the geekiness of guys, not if they're not too extreme that is. Giving credit to this picture which I got it from a forum, do girls get turned off by this guy?
Back to reality, a friend of mine A is facing some problems. Being awake in the wee hours of the morning and just so happen to talk to her, I can feel how difficult it is for her to face reality while still trying to maintain sanity in a different environment. It might be hard to adjust, and especially when you are looking forward to coming back to sweet comfortable home to a place of familiarity, you suddenly discover it has all changed.
A bit sophisticated, I guess she will live with it. For now.
How many of you out there are faced with the difficulty of trying to help a friend, and yet unable to divulge the whole truth of what's going on? Without the permission of the party involved, it is hard to share the incident, for it might be an one off case where the person trust you enough not to say.
It's my turn. Talking to a mutual friend B whom A is quite close with, or at least some time back she is, it was hard to say what actually happened. Of all things to say, B told me off saying if I have no intentions of telling the whole truth, I might as well keep quiet about it.
How nice. It is as though I am kept off from reality now, and when smacked with the coldness of it, it just suck. Why can't B look at the big picture at hand, where A is currently having problems, and show some concern for her, but has to know the whole problem and when I am uncomfortable with sharing, has to tell me off instead of showing more concern for her? Is it because we are all tied down with daily things that we have to know every single problem and when there is a need to probe further, we can't be bother about it?
Ok, I'm done with this small incident. Pettiness isn't good, especially with guys, probably I will chat much less with B from then on.
Not that we're close friends, after all, 12 years isn't too long to discover a person's character, is it?
Guy: Look at my jacket! It has pockets for my iPod, my PDA, my Gameboy and my PSP...it even has a place for thumbdrives and cellphones and cameras, and a place to carry USB cameras, and a place to carry USB cables, AND this little light Winks when there is WIFI available!
Girl: Does your girlfriend like it?
Guy: I don't have a girlfriend.
Girl: ........
This is so true...ha I mean, in the past. Nowadays girls don't mind the geekiness of guys, not if they're not too extreme that is. Giving credit to this picture which I got it from a forum, do girls get turned off by this guy?
Back to reality, a friend of mine A is facing some problems. Being awake in the wee hours of the morning and just so happen to talk to her, I can feel how difficult it is for her to face reality while still trying to maintain sanity in a different environment. It might be hard to adjust, and especially when you are looking forward to coming back to sweet comfortable home to a place of familiarity, you suddenly discover it has all changed.
A bit sophisticated, I guess she will live with it. For now.
How many of you out there are faced with the difficulty of trying to help a friend, and yet unable to divulge the whole truth of what's going on? Without the permission of the party involved, it is hard to share the incident, for it might be an one off case where the person trust you enough not to say.
It's my turn. Talking to a mutual friend B whom A is quite close with, or at least some time back she is, it was hard to say what actually happened. Of all things to say, B told me off saying if I have no intentions of telling the whole truth, I might as well keep quiet about it.
How nice. It is as though I am kept off from reality now, and when smacked with the coldness of it, it just suck. Why can't B look at the big picture at hand, where A is currently having problems, and show some concern for her, but has to know the whole problem and when I am uncomfortable with sharing, has to tell me off instead of showing more concern for her? Is it because we are all tied down with daily things that we have to know every single problem and when there is a need to probe further, we can't be bother about it?
Ok, I'm done with this small incident. Pettiness isn't good, especially with guys, probably I will chat much less with B from then on.
Not that we're close friends, after all, 12 years isn't too long to discover a person's character, is it?
The new SMU poster...?
21/03/07 12:45
Presentation 101
19/03/07 18:08
The most important lesson that one
must learn is how to present in front of a large crowd of people.
With that saying, the inital frights that one has while facing the
audience is, undeniably unavoidable.
What we can do, is to face them positively by being confident and voicing ourselves as per normal.
After 4 years (or 3 year plus) of school, one has to admit, we do learn a lot of smokes and talk. I can be super critical of presentations, though I'm not that pro myself.
Today's class was made up of 4 presentations. Only 1 passed with flying colors, and that, imo, is due to experience. A group of mostly year 4s know how to engage the audience, and how to present their ideas in such a way that I teared in class because of laughing.
AND of course, one so poor that I am now down to blogging about those efforts. Not that there's no effort, but it's down to one's mentality. Do we want to let our audience know what we want to present, or are we presenting for the sake of satisfying the course itself?
IMO, a good presentation should be:
1. Pictures and no talk (ok I failed coz my blog is too textual)
2. Not verbal gurgitation
3. Engaging
4. Take breaks and allow audience freedom to rest their mind
Perhaps you might have a better idea of how it should be?
What we can do, is to face them positively by being confident and voicing ourselves as per normal.
After 4 years (or 3 year plus) of school, one has to admit, we do learn a lot of smokes and talk. I can be super critical of presentations, though I'm not that pro myself.
Today's class was made up of 4 presentations. Only 1 passed with flying colors, and that, imo, is due to experience. A group of mostly year 4s know how to engage the audience, and how to present their ideas in such a way that I teared in class because of laughing.
AND of course, one so poor that I am now down to blogging about those efforts. Not that there's no effort, but it's down to one's mentality. Do we want to let our audience know what we want to present, or are we presenting for the sake of satisfying the course itself?
IMO, a good presentation should be:
1. Pictures and no talk (ok I failed coz my blog is too textual)
2. Not verbal gurgitation
3. Engaging
4. Take breaks and allow audience freedom to rest their mind
Perhaps you might have a better idea of how it should be?
Grades - do they matter still?
18/03/07 21:46