It has been a good decade or so lying in internet obscurity, freeloading off the vast amount of information online and silently reeling/rejoicing at the content of certain weblogs. Much time has also been spent fervently trying to evade the long arms of the Recording Industry Association, as some would know that my forages in music piracy will make Capt. Jack Sparrow a really small…..sparrow. It was great times; hiding behind the anonymity of the monitor, browsing through the internet with more of what other people can offer me, never vice-versa. Until now.
Alright, so I am finally blogging. Why now? Why me? “Now”, because this module I am taking - ES2007s - dictates that I do so. “Me”, because I made the choice to take this module to be more comprehensible to those whom I communicate with.
Communication is a skill which I believe isn’t born within anyone. A newborn baby cries when he’s hungry, cries when he’s in pain, cries when he wakes up, cries anything except tears of joy I suppose. I have never seen a newborn making a spoon-to-mouth gesture when hungry in my life. Therefore I concur, that communication, verbal or not, is only a skill we pick up along life’s journey. A new journey awaits me in life as I leave the boring pasty facades of the Engineering faculty to the even more depressing concrete jungle. I need to make myself heard, or more importantly, understood. In these bad times, we face stiff competition for jobs. Acing an interview is also another motivation for me to listen attentively during ES2007s tutorials. Haha.
Thus, this concludes my first ever worthy contribution to the Internet. I have always thought most blogs were like cringe-worthy advertisements of one’s personal life. However, lying outside my tunnel vision are blogs which do make a difference to the world and the way others live their lives. These blogs communicate and speak to us. Can hanrongisreallyblogging.blogspot.com be one of them? Is the world ready for my views or will I be receptive to the comments I receive? I wait in eager anticipation. Till the next big one…
Hanrong
Alright, so I am finally blogging. Why now? Why me? “Now”, because this module I am taking - ES2007s - dictates that I do so. “Me”, because I made the choice to take this module to be more comprehensible to those whom I communicate with.
Communication is a skill which I believe isn’t born within anyone. A newborn baby cries when he’s hungry, cries when he’s in pain, cries when he wakes up, cries anything except tears of joy I suppose. I have never seen a newborn making a spoon-to-mouth gesture when hungry in my life. Therefore I concur, that communication, verbal or not, is only a skill we pick up along life’s journey. A new journey awaits me in life as I leave the boring pasty facades of the Engineering faculty to the even more depressing concrete jungle. I need to make myself heard, or more importantly, understood. In these bad times, we face stiff competition for jobs. Acing an interview is also another motivation for me to listen attentively during ES2007s tutorials. Haha.
Thus, this concludes my first ever worthy contribution to the Internet. I have always thought most blogs were like cringe-worthy advertisements of one’s personal life. However, lying outside my tunnel vision are blogs which do make a difference to the world and the way others live their lives. These blogs communicate and speak to us. Can hanrongisreallyblogging.blogspot.com be one of them? Is the world ready for my views or will I be receptive to the comments I receive? I wait in eager anticipation. Till the next big one…
Hanrong
Hello! Well your blog sure 'communicates' to me alright! It seems to me that you are very comfortable talking about your life.. Are you sure this is your first time blogging? Haha.. Anyway, I find your comment about babies crying very interesting. I guess babies cry all the time to get what they want at first. Then they realise that they have to be more specific to get what they want and so they mimic the actions to show what they want. And so on it evolves as we grow up we learn to notice how other people act and change our own actions appropriately in order to communicate effectively with them. Well then lets learn as much as we can before moving on!!
ReplyDeleteHey man! Awesome post! Very engaging style of writing. Anyway, adding on to Reza's comments above, I really like your 'baby thoughts'! Communication amongst adults, at its most basic, is similar to how babies and children communicate. The major difference is the layer and layer of hidden meanings, of different perceptions, of assumptions and so on. I suppose that's one of the reasons we're taking this course; to understand each other better. Adults, after all, are 'big babies'! Haha. Lastly man, just like you, I'll be graduating soon and entering the working world, and I feel that this course will help us in being heard and understood better. Looking forward to reading your future posts! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteWow!! Firstly I must say that I'm amazed by your use of vocabulary and how you express yourself in this blog. I would never be able to write something like that!! haha. As an engineering student myself, I totally understand how you feel about the working world outside especially since I am graduating this year when the economy is being hit so badly. Jobs are scare now and being able to ace an interview have become so important in order to secure a job. I guess that is why I have the same reasons as you to take up this module ES2007 because being able to market ourselves in the working world is very essential now. Guess I will follow up more on your posts since it is so relevant to me.
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