School today was damn happening, right all the way from 10 am in the morning during southeast asia lecture to social lecture in the late noon. Gonna talk about it one at a time. Alright, shall start off with SEA lecture, today’s lecture was about music identity in SEA and oh my! My professor was freaking cool! He danced in the lecture along with the melodious Thai music!! I forgot the name of that thai music, gonna refer back to my lecture notes (Like soon! since exams are in weeks time!) haha! HE danced! and Nicole took a short video, i’m gonna post it here once i got it from her!! Eveyone in the lect was like “WOOHOO!” and they clapped. hahahha.! SO FUN!
Right next was english tutorial. And today lesson marks the end of this module (of course, pray hard that i pass my exams lah, if not… choy!!!!) Got back our english test paper, was kinda satisifed. Actually, i really really think that tutor makes a big difference. Before getting back the paper, I have heard that some other classes actually did quite badly, but i reckon becos their tutor wasnt dedicated enough? Cos I really really must say that my tutor, Ms Pui, is really a dedicated one, she did alot of extra stuff for us, with her, we did more grammar editing exercises than any of the other classes and becos of her, i really really learnt alot of stuff! Stuff that I once thought that I was correct, but hell, i was wrong! Although, it’s really kinda a hard journey to start learning english like from the scratch for eleven weeks. But these efforts really paid off. I’ve learnt about better grammar usage such as what is verb form, word form, modal, auxiliary verb, conjunctions, parallelism error, Subject-verb agreement etc etc. I even know how to write my thesis statement in essays, not just english essay but others too. I have learnt about redundant prepostions, that all these while we kept saying “voice out”, which is wrong!!! “Voice” is already sufficient and of course many other more examples. And i realised often we thought “that” and “which” are similar but no. Sometimes, using “that” is wrong and “which” should be used instead, becos the information is non-defining… etc etc. ANd most importantly, I realised that what I have been doing in poly were totally wrong, my english then sucks to the core… Our notion of APA referencing back in poly were…. I wonder how did I survive thru my poly… It’s only now, then i know that even when u paraphrase, u stil have to put intext citation becos u are still using other ppl’s idea! of course direct quote would have a more stringent in text citation format… OMG. What am i blabbering about??? ANyway, this is my blog, so i just write whatever that comes into my mind now. All in all, I just dare not compare the language that I once used in poly to the one that I’m writing now. Although,mine is still considered not on par as to those who were once from JCs, I’m still glad becos I am conscious that my english has improved. I know u dont see it in my blog, cos apparently i wont be penalised by having grammatical mistake in my posts, so yah..that’s about it.
Moving on to social work lecture today. It’s also the final lecture, was glad to have some guest speakers who are none other than the graduating and graduated seniors and they shared some of their experiences to us. Lots of laughter, but it seems that it is really really tough to be a social worker. I’m still considering whether should I major in economics (I know ppl will encourage me to major in this cos this is the most practical choice), social work or southeast asia studies. These are my areas of interests and I’m really in a BIG DILEMMA.
With Love,
Rui Min
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