coraline

alright , this show isn't out yet , but i got it !

tittle : Coraline

played by : dakota fanning , teri hatcher (my favourite) and so on ..

alright this show is basically started when coraline shifted to her new house together with her parents .. being the only child , she's often lonely and tries to get her parent's attention which sadly , the parents were busy publishing some gardening book. while exploring the house , coraline found a door against the wall but its covered up with bricks .. but in the middle of the night , there were mouse to give her a "wake up call" .. and ran towards that tiny door. that's how coraline found the "magic" of the dorr for it links it to another world which i call "the button world".. she had another mother and father there .. and they treated her really good .. well that's because the other mother wanted her as a child ..

condition was .... she has to sew ...... button eyes .... coraline was terrified ... she couldn't escape .. well she did but her real parents got taken instead ! so she has to go back there and safe her parents !

the part that touch me was when she lost her parent .. she was alone at home which was a big house .. it came to me that loneliness can actually kill ! not to mention she doesn't have any siblings

which also reminds me bout my mum .. she's alone at home .. i can pretty well feel her loneliness coz im usually the one that talk to her and yell her name in the house just to irritate her ... all the lil memories .. now that im not at home , im sure my mum is alone while eating , sleeping .. which i always do this 2 with her .. my dad ? no dad .. divorcee .. poor mum ... i miss her .. can't wait to go back.

*magdeline*

finally finish mid-term. :)
Although i don't know what to write now, but i still have to think something to write. :P! okay, talk about dancing!

let's me briefly introduction my class history. My class was 5AJ. Besides, i wanted to tell u all that 4AJ and 5AJ had a history that is both of them always became champion in the singing competition every year. Therefore, our class also have to put more effort to win the 1st prize.

The process during the preparation.....

Our class had a queen dancer; she likes to act, sing and dance very much. Therefore, she led all her classmates. First of all, she had chosen a song " Upside down" ! Then, all of us started to practice this song. During the process, some of the people were not cooperating with her. Therefore, she just use some silly method to make them cooperate. Besides, she also had told us that if we all didn't cooperate, she won't teach us anymore. Then, we all just became good boy and good girl and listen her instruction. After that finish practice the song, she started to teach us the dance. This dance is couple dance, so she has already divided us to a group. Then, of course, couple dance must cooperate with another partner. So, i and a boy a group. I and him really discuss that if this things happen how we solve it. Thus, we must have a signal that others don't know. This one may be is our interpersonal communication to each other. It also can be a non-verbal communication.
I quite prove of her because she can create her own dance by herself. ^^! Since we all really put effort on it; finally, our class won the 1st prize. Thanks, our queen dancer! She is really patient and good-temper. Hope that she can become a queen dancer in her future. :)..HEhe!

Written by,
Chong Yen Wan
27/06/09 ( Sat)

Scenario 1: While I was eating potato chips using my thumb and index finger yesterday, watching "Twilight" with Ben, our Human Communication's lecturer passed by and waved to us. I responded, by waving back using my 3 other fingers, during which I unconciously kept my 2 last fingers, leaving my middle finger waving in the air. Imagine my panic when our lecturer stopped to stare at me and asked me what the hell was I doing. It didn't help that it took me a while to realize whatI was doing. That was unintentional.

Scenario 2: Yesterday night, I was studying while Gypsy sniffing around, looking for a patch of grass to urinate on. When she finally found her spot and started peeing, my dear Kuro came up to her, took a look at what she was doing, sniffed her, lifted up his leg, and started peeing ON her. I think that was intentional, seeing as how he likes to disturb her.

Scenario 3: Today, during Human Communications class, we had our presentation for persuasive speaking (which I hate!!! Because-I-hate-public-speaking!!!). When Jeslynn introduced her product, J-Juice, which was suppsoed to be a health drink made out of different kinds of fruits, I heard GAY Juice.

Ah well, the misunderstandings that happen to me, and my dogs.

And how do we (and me dogs) solve these conflicts? Well, for scenario 1, when my lecturer stopped to stare at me and asked me what I was doing, I told him it was a misunderstanding because I was eating potato chips (thank god), so that misunderstanding was solved through metacommunication. Whereas for the second scenario, they solved it through direct aggresion, with Gypsy immediately turning on to Kuro and started chasing him around the house to bite whatever she could get her teeth on. This is a prove that girls ARE capable of direct aggresion. Aha! And it's also prove that not ALL guys are macho and brave, as Kuro is the perfect example of a cowardly male. As for the third scenario, well, I'm not sure what way did I solve it with. What I did was tell Jeslynn what I heard, and turned it into a joke. I hope my hearing is not defective. Golly gosh, that'd be bad!!!

Thought of Human Communication so far : Thuck goes my door, while my security system HELL breaks loose.
This is Jenn (Diong Jenn Huen) and the time now is 1503.

Communication sometimes misunderstanding. Talk too much is not a good things!

Communication really important! We must always open out our ear and listen carefully what the second party is talking about. If not, we may easily make a mistake or do a wrong things.For instance, if you work in the big company, you must be make sure that your communication skills and listening skills is steady and good, otherwise, your boss may scold you when you make a mistake.hehe...May be you don't understand what I want to express but never mind. Therefore, we must start to learn the skills of communication with people, listening important information from people, training our speaking skills, our self-confident facing the audiences and forth. :P

On the other hand, communication sometimes may occur bad things to happen. What is the bad things? To show you this concept more clear, I give an example for that. A person orders B person to complete a important work, so A person gives an instruction to B person. B person starts to work on it. A and B are just like boss and staff. Finally, B person means the staff has completed his or her work, but the boss doesn't satisfied. Why? Boss said that " I don't order you to do this so, why you do it." Why the boss said like that because B person always tell gossips to others and some of the gossips is related to his or her boss. Here i want to tell you that his or her boss is already married. Then, B person just tell this things to everyone in the company that boss has a relationship with another women who is already married. Therefore, don't talk too much otherwise it makes things more worst. Maybe B person will fired by A person, his or her boss. :( ! Too bad! :P

Written by,
Chong Yen Wan
15/06/09 ( Mon)

Start talking again!

Omg, tomorrow is persuasive presentation, so scared! hehe! :)
Today, topic that i would like to share is related to interpersonal communication. Of course, we all know that what is interpersonal communication, just 2 people in the conversation!

In my opinion, i like to share my experiences, own story, a bit secret....with my best friend. i like to talk to her because she always give me good suggestions or comments when i faced problems. When i m down, i can talk to her and she will console me and called me don't think too much. She also said that if i always think on the negative ways, things may go worst! She asked me do not look down myself ; she said must be confident to overcome the problems. Therefore, in this short passage that i write above tell that interpersonal communication is important to all of us. Even though animals live in a zoo, the caregiver of the animals will also get 2 or 3 animals together and to accomapany the animals.
Finally, i don't know what to continue now, then i just stop here. Continue by next week! hehe..

Written by,
Chong Yen Wan
14/06/09 ( Sun)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is an English word in the song from the musical film Mary Poppins.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village somewhere in Wales. (How the hell do you even pronounce that? Lan-fair-pill-will-gill-lill-kill-bleeeh.....Gah, forget it.)

Interpersonal communication is somthing most of us come across each and everyday. Most of the time. When we talk to our friends; when we talk to our family; when we talk to people; when we talk to our dogs! (Just kidding!) The point is, interpersonal communication is something that happens everyday in our life, it's something that we humans need so that we are able to socialize with humans and lead an active social life.

In my opinion, interpersonal communication between humans aren't something that you can create in a second or a day. The forming or friendships and the trust between the two friends requires time and communication between both parties. Without communication, we can't understand one another and therefore we won't be able to get through to one another. Take for example, would you be closer to a cousin whom you see every week or a relative that you have never seen before? (I myself have had this experience countless times, especially during Chinese New Year's celebrations, when relatives from all sides come and celebrate this festive season. My dad's brothers and sisters, my mom's brothers and sisters, my mom's cousins, my dad cousins, my grandfather's brothers and sisters, my grandfather's brothers and sisters' kids, my grandfather's brothers and sisters' kids' kids......the list goes on and on. I only seem to know a mere fraction of the relatives who're present at the celebrations and dinners. Most of us would rather be engrossed with our handphones and music players rather than talking with cousins, myself being an example, as my cousins and relatives are more fluent in Chinese and not being so fluent in English, whereas I'm more fluent in English rather than Chinese, therefore creating that language barrier where we would rather stick to ourselves than go through all that trouble of communicating with someone who doesn't communicate in our preferred language.)

Interpersonal communication between friends are normally built through the time which we spend with each other in school, when we hang out with each other, through sms-es and phone calls, through internet chatting and through shared interests. Take your best friend for example, I'm sure it took some time before you and your best friends actually reached that status of being best friends. Best friends have a sense of trust and strong believe in one another and they would count on each other without hesitation and they know that they will have someone to count on when they are overcome with problems or they need someone to listen to them. I think that the friends we make during high school and primary school lasts longer than those that we make later on in life when we're working or when we're studying in university. Why is that so? Mainly because friends that we make during school days know us earlier and they know our true characteristics of how we were like before we actually matured and developed that hard shell outside the kiddy behaviour that each of us posses. They are the ones that know our true nature and characteristics, and yet they won't shun us for who we are because they are able to tolerate us after through all the years and time that we've spent together. They would put up with us when we're grumpy, or when we're down and need a shoulder to lie on, or when we get hyper and go over the moon and decide to pull them along for the fun. These friends are the friends that we should treasure for a lifetime as it isn't easy to find a friend no matter how popular one is.

Just like how a true friend told me once :

Friends are like the grass and flowers, you'll find them everywhere;

True friends however, are like four-leaf-clovers, you'll have to take the time to search for them.

Thought of Human Communication so far : Silent movie, Jenn likes.

This is Jenn (Diong Jenn Huen) and the time now is 0043

To makenew friend is a process...

The first day i reached to college, that day is orientation day for new students in january intake. When i went in to the threatte, i saw a guy who same school with me when i was studying in secondary school. Yet, i didn't greet him because the first thing that he didn't see and the second thing was i was not really know him so i just found a seat to sit. Then, orientation day started at about 10am. Before lunch time, some senior took all the new students to visit college. This is the point!! A indian girl, she walked beside me, first we don't know each other. How our friendship started?? She acted her own initiative talk to me. The 1st step is the most common, of course, everybody will say "HI" or "HELLO". After that, i asked her name and asked her whether she wanted to join with me at the lunch time. Then, she said "Yes!" and she also asked my name. I won't be too longwinded so i just stop here. As a result, we all know that 1st thing to do when we meet new friend, that is, we will introduce ourselves to others.

The another case was happening in my third day in the college. My 1st class is intermediate english, i was late because the stupid bus was late. Then, i knew a girl was not talking to others so that i talked to her. Just now i said that 1st things we usually do is greeting with each other or said "hi", yet i don't do that 1st. I straight away asked her that why i didn't see you in class yesterday. Then she told me that she was late so that she didn't come to the 1st class. Then, our friendship started at that time. But right now, we don't attend the same class because we took different in our electives subject. We still keep in touch with each other such as we eat lunch together. Remember, friendship is not just simply in front of you, you must take action in it. Therefore, everything we do is a process..""PROCESS""!!


Written by,
Chong Yen Wan
(11/06/09) THRUSDAY

don't assume everyone's the same

the man told us before not to assume that everyone's the same ... well .. i let it slip off my ears and forget bout it ...

i lost a so called friend because of this.

well , it started when during a meeting , i announced that my friend's boyfriend can help my sphere to post up posters in nilai for an upcoming event .. so word went out to her when a friend (who was at the meeting) asked bout her boyfriend. so she wasn't happy bout it. and things went big after adding more fire . and i miraculously message her saying that it wasnt a big deal. and she said that tho it seem normal to me , but to her it was like exposing bout her personal life to other people in the college. so she wasn't happy and now pissed at me.

so yeah .. like i say after adding more fire , now we're like arch enemies. we dun talk , we just ignore each other when we pass the corridor , we dun even look at each other in the eyes .. who knew such small things can be so big.

so ... yeah .. i learnt something ... never assume everyone is the same.

*magdeline*

We slept in greenhouses and we had giant dustbins for toilets.
Gopeng was awesome!
*gigantic smile*

Right, back to what I'm supposed to do. Blogging about human communication.

Having left off from the topic about listening, I shall now proceed to talking about non-verbal communication.
*smile* That, was a form of non-verbal communication.
"*tsk* *tsk* *tsk*" is what I hear from my mom each time when either one of us kids are at the computer.
*stare*, that is my dog's form of indicating that they want my food, which is in my hand.
All these are forms of non-verbal communication that happens around me, and with most people too. Just like what was said during our lecture, non-verbal communication is indeed important for communication. Even if we aren't able to make any sounds, we can still communicate through sign languages, hand signals and body language. Even the sounds that we make are considered as a form of non-verbal communication too. Just like what Yen Wan wrote in her blog post previously, her cousin's brother could communicate even though he was deaf and mute, which is a perfect example of non-verbal languageas deaf people do not talk like how we normally do. We normally take for granted the ability to talk that was given to us, though I'm sure that when we get sore throat or even laryngitis for some, we tend to appreciate our voices slightly more after that (though after a few days we'll probably wound up taking it for granted again).
But, have you ever given thought to what would happen if you actually DID lose your voice? You would have to rely completely on non-verbal communication then. Touching, body language, hand gestures, sound effects and so on, your life would pretty much become like the game charades. But, if you actually sat down to think, you would find that there are many living beings that actually can't talk like us humans. Humans are the only beings that are able to talk, with the occasional parrots and the so-called genius animals that can somehow bark out "rrroneerrr" and their owners become deliriously happy because their dog managed to "speak"; I find that creepy though, dogs just aren't meant to talk. The whole idea of animals being to talk like humans are just NOT something normal. Imagine if you woke up one morning and your dog could talk:
Dog: "Ruff! Morning master! I think I have a tick stuck up my ass!"
Master: "......"
I would very much prefer dogs that just barked and whined like normal dogs. Thank you very much.

Now that I'm on the topic of dogs and animals, do you realize that all animals do not TALK? They use non-verbal communication. Throughout their whole lives! All 15 years for dogs and all 14 years for cats averagely, they use non-verbal language for the whole period when they are alive. Take for example my dogs, Gypsy and Kuro. Whenever they know that I have food (I don't know how they know, but they just KNOW), they'll look at me with their heart-melting eyes and plop their asses on the floor instantly, while staring at me with the message :"GIVE ME FOOD!!!" Oh yes, I can read my dogs' non-verbal communication perfectly. If they were to turn their butts towards me and stare at me, then at their butt, it would mean that they want their backs scratched because it's itchy, and they'll stay that way till I give them a scratch. If they were to see me at the doorway, my dogs would stare at me, then pass me at the couch, which would mean they want to go into the house to jump and sleep on the couch, if you were not to let them in, they would start making such a racket outside that I have to give them eggs to shut them up. Wow, and I just realized something else about non-verbal communication. It can be extremely monopolizing, just like how my dogs are manipulating me.
Holy.
Crap.

Thought of Human Communication so far : I have no idea on what to do for persuasive speaking. *insert sarcasm* a mouse that squeaks mabye. Hah.
This is Jenn (Diong Jenn Huen) and the time now is 2122

blog skin will vary

as said in the tittle .. the blog skin will vary this few days .. im trying out different skins until i find a suitable one for comments and chat boxes and songs if possible ! so bear with it ya !

*magdeline*

laziness

okay, im sorry for abandoning this blog .. so today , we did this group work for its our group turn .. and we did pictogram ... it was fun .. but at the same time i was thinking , when other group was trying to distract the other group , distraction can cause misunderstanding and messages cannot be conveyed .. or we choose to listen to what others have to say as well ?

some people , choose not to hear what they do not want to hear .. some people hear for the sake of hearing .. some just blurly listen and pretend to understand .. so why is actually hearing and listening important if so many people choose to abide the talkers ..

sometimes , listening can solve problems .. sometimes , it makes things worse .. i don't actually really knkow what im trying to say here , but yeah .. listening ... and conveying message can sometimes be wrong .. not to mention if there's lots of external disturbances ..

*magdeline*

what kind of people always show non-verbal communication??

SO...what do you think??
You can say everybody..BUT my answer is dumb and deaf people....the meaning "dumb" here, do not mean people who is stupid or slow to learn new things... Here, it means unable to speak because of hereditary deafness.
Ok, let's me talk about dumb and deaf people using my own experience! Of course, i don't dumb and deaf before.

My cousin's brother, he is elder than me. He is innate dumb and deaf, of course, it's a bit sad! Besides, his sister's, she is same age with me, but her thinking skills is slower. I'm not look down upon her, i just feel sad about that, my cousin's brother and his sister's in this situation. Even though they face this kind of problems, but they don't give up themselves. They still make their lives more interesting. In addition, his parent's that mean my aunt and uncle, two of them know to show sign language, it 's also can symbol it as a non-verbal communication. Their non-verbal communication sign language is really confused to me....But then, my cousin's brother is clever. Why i say that?? Usually his parents don't give him go out alone, therefore, he didn't how to take bus or teksi from where to where. One day, he went out alone without telling his parents. He can take bus from his house to Seremban and he can came back by his own. Therefore, i really proud of him that he is brave and clever unless he can't talk and hear. Yet, he also a bit wrong is he didn't tell his parents.

So, people who is dumb and deaf using sign language , it also can be known as non-verbal communication. Besides, he or she also has expressed his or her feelings on the face. Non-verbal language can express many meaning based on how we think or interpret it, different people will mention sometimes differently. That's all!! :)

Written by,
Chong Yen Wan
(3/06/09) (Wed)