It has been long since I last wrote about my HC class. So today, I am going to write some reflection about my last HC class...
This Wednesday, as I was going back to UM to have my HC class, I came across my HC classmates on my way. I was so glad that I came across them before the class. Why? Because if they didn't tell me that the classroom had been changed, I would definitely end up in waiting alone in HG01. Now I tell myself I must check email before going to the HC class. I hope I will do that...
Anyways, in the class, Dr. Udani gave each of us a piece of paper to write down our encouragement to one of the students to whom you wanted to write. It reminded me my old high school life because we used to do so. I think the purpose of this act is to make ourselves step forward to encourage people who may need our encouragement. We may always give encouragement to our friends but don't often give encouragement to our classmates. Sometimes we know some of them need to be encouraged but we are too weak to give them encouragement by speaking out. So this time, we do the written form, ignore the awkward oral form.
I got four pieces of paper from my classmates. I really appreciated their encouragement to me. Their acts told me that I am not unnoticed in the class. Their encouragements are normally about the coming TOEFL test. Actually I've been worried about it since I must get a good result in order to go to USA. With their encouragements, I have the motivation to do better. So from now on, I won't let those who encouarged me down.
And I noticed there were some classmates who didn't get any encouragement note, here I want to tell those ' let's work hard together, hope we will all go exchange! ' :)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A Movie to Recommend...
Yesterday, I watched a movie. Its name was The Time Traveler's Wife. It's a wonderful movie because it brought some useful ideas to me. Before I tell you what they are, I would like to tell you about the story of this movie.
There's a guy called Henry in the movie, he has a genetic problem that he has the power to travel to the past and future. You may think it is good to have such power. But indeed it is not, Henry cannot control when or where he will travel. When the moment comes, he just disappears and leaves all his clothes on the floor (when I say he disppears, I mean only his body disppears). As he doesn't have the power to know when or where he is going to travel, he always ends up showing up in a place he doesn't know and in a year he has no idea about, NAKED!
You may think it is a torture to live like this. However, Henry didn't end his life because of this, instead, he keeps on living, although he keeps travelling to a place he has already traveled and seeing the people who have passed away repeatedly and repeatedly again. Until he meets a little girl, who has turnt out to be his wife when she grows up, he feels no more lonely.
Although the story is mainly about the love between him and his wife, it still tells the audience that we shouldn't waste the time. Just like Henry in the movie, he never knows when he will disappear. He has to grasp every second he has with his wife. And his age keeps changing when he shows up again (sometimes younger, sometimes older).
The movie told me that time should be valued, we should do something we want to do and useful before it flies away. Once it flies away, it will never go back. I am sure everyone wants to be a time traveler, so you can go back to the past and do something you regret not doing. However, life is life. Something we missed in the past will never go back. So why not we just grasp the moment and do something useful, or just show some cares to our family? Before everything is too late....
Here I link the trailer of the movie, I hope you guys will enjoy!
There's a guy called Henry in the movie, he has a genetic problem that he has the power to travel to the past and future. You may think it is good to have such power. But indeed it is not, Henry cannot control when or where he will travel. When the moment comes, he just disappears and leaves all his clothes on the floor (when I say he disppears, I mean only his body disppears). As he doesn't have the power to know when or where he is going to travel, he always ends up showing up in a place he doesn't know and in a year he has no idea about, NAKED!
You may think it is a torture to live like this. However, Henry didn't end his life because of this, instead, he keeps on living, although he keeps travelling to a place he has already traveled and seeing the people who have passed away repeatedly and repeatedly again. Until he meets a little girl, who has turnt out to be his wife when she grows up, he feels no more lonely.
Although the story is mainly about the love between him and his wife, it still tells the audience that we shouldn't waste the time. Just like Henry in the movie, he never knows when he will disappear. He has to grasp every second he has with his wife. And his age keeps changing when he shows up again (sometimes younger, sometimes older).
The movie told me that time should be valued, we should do something we want to do and useful before it flies away. Once it flies away, it will never go back. I am sure everyone wants to be a time traveler, so you can go back to the past and do something you regret not doing. However, life is life. Something we missed in the past will never go back. So why not we just grasp the moment and do something useful, or just show some cares to our family? Before everything is too late....
Here I link the trailer of the movie, I hope you guys will enjoy!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Drama Class
The HC class of this week was like a drama class, Why? Because we had to perform the rest of the class about what leadership is. I really enjoyed it. And I found that Albert Fong was really good at acting :) He should be nominated by the Oscar!!! Anyway, that is just my personally feeling about the dramas. And the best screenplay should go to Andrea's group because who would come up with Angel & Devil in a very short moment?!Let me tell you guys more details about that day in the following.
At first, Dr. Udani randomly grouped us into 10 groups. And each group stuck together for the whole class. Later, he asked each of us to tell the class what we could do to help the others. Different people had different thoughts. The most impressive was what Elly said. She told us she could give us massage. I can't wait to try that!!!
After expressing our own thoughts, Dr. Udani told us to perform what leadership was, in
other words, acting the leadership. Each group had shown its creativity. Our group chose a simple way to express the criteria of a leader. Although it was short, about 30 seconds only, it still brought the students the idea of leadership.
I think the drama section was an innovation to the class. It really helped us use our brains, to think creatively. I really appreciated that Dr. Udani had brought in this new element to the class.
At first, Dr. Udani randomly grouped us into 10 groups. And each group stuck together for the whole class. Later, he asked each of us to tell the class what we could do to help the others. Different people had different thoughts. The most impressive was what Elly said. She told us she could give us massage. I can't wait to try that!!!
After expressing our own thoughts, Dr. Udani told us to perform what leadership was, in
other words, acting the leadership. Each group had shown its creativity. Our group chose a simple way to express the criteria of a leader. Although it was short, about 30 seconds only, it still brought the students the idea of leadership.
I think the drama section was an innovation to the class. It really helped us use our brains, to think creatively. I really appreciated that Dr. Udani had brought in this new element to the class.
Friday, April 2, 2010
HC Interview Project
Last week, I went to do the HC interivew project with my group mates to get to know more about leadership. The guest we invited is a director of Macau International Airport Co. Ltd. (I can't tell much detail here until the video is submitted to Dr. Udani). It was our hornor to invite the director to do the interview. She told us many things about her experience and her thoughts about leadership. But the highline of that day was I experienced how to act like an introducer to do the opening part of the whole video FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!
It was hard for me because I had no experience at all in introducing things in a video before. I kept forgetting things when i looked at the camera. YES the nervousness drove me crazy AGAIN. However, our group mate, Steve, was so patient, he kept telling me it's ok and kept holding the camera to record the best shot if luckily I would make any. I repeated like at least 3 times to finish each script and was so guity that I took him so much time to make the shot but he didn't blame me at all. Finally, i made it.
From this short story happened on me, I learnt that support really means a lot to me, actually to everyone also. For example, if Steve didn't act patient and supportive, if he kept blaming me for forgetting things, I think I would already be discourage or might even give up doing the introducing part. So as a leader, being supportive is one of the criteria. Being supportive can bring encouragement to your followers, to tell them not to give up things easily, and even lead them to success. This is what I learnt from this little event....
It was hard for me because I had no experience at all in introducing things in a video before. I kept forgetting things when i looked at the camera. YES the nervousness drove me crazy AGAIN. However, our group mate, Steve, was so patient, he kept telling me it's ok and kept holding the camera to record the best shot if luckily I would make any. I repeated like at least 3 times to finish each script and was so guity that I took him so much time to make the shot but he didn't blame me at all. Finally, i made it.
From this short story happened on me, I learnt that support really means a lot to me, actually to everyone also. For example, if Steve didn't act patient and supportive, if he kept blaming me for forgetting things, I think I would already be discourage or might even give up doing the introducing part. So as a leader, being supportive is one of the criteria. Being supportive can bring encouragement to your followers, to tell them not to give up things easily, and even lead them to success. This is what I learnt from this little event....
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