Thursday, February 25, 2010

again about communication

Ah yes.. before you forget about me.. i'm a bachelor of communications student so basically my subjects in school are about communication... intro to mass comm... comm theories.. comm law... comm technology... etc etc... so by right.. i'm suppose to be superb at communication??

right?? NO!!

i believe you have spotted my post 2 years ago about communication theories or something.. if not.. i think it'll pop back up in the links below this post.. anyway... it's not that important... because i'm not going to be talking about communication theories or whatsoever... i'm gonna share something about communication technology or better know as ke-munication technologee... Again... another communication subject lecturer who can't communicate... What's the problem with people nowadays?? he keeps saying that we are dreadful students who don't listen in class, have no respect for the lecturer and whatsoever... eh hello... "you blind ah??!!" i'm always trying my best to listen to your lectures ok?? eventhough it kills me softly from the inside..

then he comes up with this lousy dumb st*p*d idea of changing the attendance list every lecture so that we can't refer to our previous signature and therefore people can't sign for you because according to him.. once he found that your signature is different.. he'll straight away bar you from exams.. and dont even dream of him unbarring you... what the??!! do you have a problem?? everybody knows that you can write a word in the exact same style twice... how can you sign in the same style for 14 weeks?? oh ya.. i forgot.. this is a 4credit hour paper... so times 2... 28 times.. there's sure to be some difference there... i would like to see you barring me because of that.. if you do... you are not seeing the last of me... i'll haunt you forever man!! oh.. i forgot another thing... he said if your signature or initial... i was at first using the initial of the 1st letter of my name and a figure that sounds similar with my last name... then he told me to use another initial.. "you got problem ka??" do you know what is an initial?? if you want me to sign complicated, artistic, bombastic signature.. go ahead and say it.. change my initial?? why don;t you ask me to change my name?? and also... are you aware that global warming is getting worst?? so why are you still wasting paper by printing a new attendance list every lecture?? there's around 4 or 5 pieces per class.. let's make it 4 then.. to save your guilt... 4 times 28... you do the math.. cannot?? 112 pieces of paper going to waste.. thanks to him who have to go thru the hassle of checking each and every signature making sure nobody is inventing new signatures or somewhat so that he could add in the list of candidates to be barred.. excuse me.. we did not ask you to do that, ok?? there are better ways of making sure people don't sign for others during lectures.. use your brain and think, please...

i'm not done yet... to concentrate in his lecture is kinda hard coz it's really hard to avoid the annoying invisible questions marks swarming all over your head.. he reads directly from the slides... his further explanation are directly from the slides with a little rephrasing and synonyms.. (ah... that's how you quote stuff from materials... use synonyms and rephrase.. a lesson to be learnt) and then i realise than his notes are directly from the textbook... "eh uncle, you first day in utar ka?? tak tau budak utar 80% english not very good?? you use textbook english, siapa faham?? with your weird intonation some more.. very confusing" ok..
for instance..
a point from the notes "communication is a process of exchanging information using a common sign or symbol" (just an example, the fact might not be correct)
explanation "so communication is a process... of exchanging the information which means you exchange the information using a common sign or symbol"

apa ni??!! if that's the point you think i can't read myself??

then after lectures.. you ask whether we have any questions... saying that when you were in univeristy you will feel very sad if you dont have the chance to ask questions... in my case.. i'll feel very sad if i have questions coz that means i dont understand the lecture and i grade myself as "stupid" already... ok fine.. maybe for further understanding i might ask questions.. but in your class.. no thank you... i tried it once and never wanna try again.. i get even more confuse after asking.. you seem to twist your words everywhere around the world.. when ask a straight forward a or b question... you tell me the story of c and d which is completely irrelevant and none of my concern... so, why waste time?? and make myself even further from where i am initially from the subject...

and enjoys torturing us... you mentioned that you will not give tips for exam.. so?? big deal... "don't give la!!" i dont mind.. dont even care.. i can study on my own.. thank you very much.. but then you like to give out ridiculous hints like "don't be surprise.. i make make that as a question in the exam.." i heard than like a trillion times during my 6 weeks of lectures.. what do you expect us to react when we see the questions?? get the shock of our lives and suffer from a heart attack?? and maybe die on the spot in the exam hall?? and then your favourite phrase.. "i may put that as a question but no promises.." who do you think you are?? shayne ward?? if you dont wanna let us know.. don't say it at all.. it's really irritating... oh oh... another quote "don't expect me to have question so straight forward, there is no way i'm gonna ask like that.." so??!!

understood that the lecture is boring... i know it's really hard to make it interesting with all those facts and graphs.. but at least just teach like all other lecturers do... why keep giving students a hard it's their 3rd year already.. let them be.. you dont wanna give tips then dont... go on teaching and dont blurt out random useless hints which end up with a "no guarantee".. what's your point?? to show that you wanna hint us but at the same time we should be studying everything instead of depending on tips?? you so don't know what our generation are thinking.. so dont ask and show that you understand us as if you were in our shoes.. you are NOT! we are from different generations, FYI..


-Ah.. if you are wondering why did i choose such a striking colour.. i do have a reason though.. so you don't have to read if you don't want to.. just some personal rants-

Monday, February 08, 2010

put on and put off...

Check out this amazing photo of Hogwarts Castle from the Wiza... on Twitpic

Just a random photo i would like to share..
It's Hogwarts!!! don't know why.. i'm currently in a harry potter mood.. i re-read the whole 7 books... and not forgetting janet hayden.. but i lost my papers AGAIN... sigh... have been searching high and low already... but it's nowhere to be found...
sigh... type and save in the computer.. once the document corrupted... cry... write and pen down on papers.. once the papers are lost.. cry again... what's the best way to preserve writings??
Continues writing about Janet Hayden... this time i found the safest way.. well at least it is the safest for the time being... write and save it in my email... at least.. i think email database will be quite unlikely to be corrupted..


Week 4 has just began... workloads are starting to pile.. things are requiring serious attention.. what a way to start my pre-CNY mood...
2 proposals are due today... and several are due on week 7.. 3 weeks left... and i'm still here staring into empty space and empty documents... "don't know what to do" is the best phrase to be used during this semester..
Really in mood for CNY... But the heaps of assignments really puts off the fire... so what should i do???
no.1 Push assignments behind my mind and get on with the celebration and start jumping around anxiously after the celebration because the deadlines are inches away...
no.2 get started with assignments... do bit by bit even during CNY... (That's a put off!!)
no.3 Get everything done before CNY and enjoy the celebrations.. (This is IMPOSSIBLE...)
Whatever it is... I'll still have an assignment-filled CNY...


Thursday, February 04, 2010

The "Should" or "No Should"??

Sometimes i really question a lot of things.. Once upon a time... people tell me that extra-curricular activities was very very very important when it comes to applying scholarships during the tertiary education stage... Does it??

Ok, i'll admit that i am not active and involved in current university activities due to the time and transport thing.. but i was quite active during secondary school...

notice the past tense???

I really don't get it... If extra-curricular is THAT important.. how come i see people whom i know have not been actively involved in extra curricular activities gets scholarships like nobody's business??

So what is it actually?? Is it important or not??

If it is... then how come i see what i saw?? how is it fair??

I put in a lot of effort in those... but in the end... it seems useless... everybody are standing on the same box... active or not... so should i be spending my time on things that doesn't really help me in anything.. whilst the transportation i am using could be put to better use at other place??

and then how come questions about the active-ness comes up again??

I really don't get it...