Final finally final...

It's the final day for my final exams!! 

Hurray!!!

Throughout this final, there are many incidents happened.

Daddy emitted into hospital due to heart attack last 2 weeks. I can say that my study hours spent most in hospital because I need to accompany him there. 

It was a tremendous events in Chua's family. Nevermind!! Everything is fine now!! Daddy is recovering!! Hurray!!!

As for my final exam, I only wish that I will not fail any of the subject because once I failed I will not able to get the PTPTN loan and will not able to continue my study in HELP. Wishing that I can pass this obstacles.

okie.. time to bed.. to be continue..

my feeling..

recently having a packed schedule til i feel reckless...

since i joined the psy program in HELP, i've been very happening everyday..

happening = the flow of money is as fast as the tap.

uni life is really very interesting and i'll definately fully make sure of theis opportunity.

well, jz feel that my gang is among the best frens i can get in HELP. they all are very playful and nice. they have been very caring to each other.

since i was the oldest in the group, they do not treat me like old ppl.. haha.. thanks my gang!!thanks for not letting me feel myself being left out..

assignmemnts, presentation, journals is part of the life of a uni student. as my english is poor, it's kinda hard for me to do those work.. i have to specially thanks to my two coursemate, kaijia and hanying for spending their precious time to help me check on my grammar on my every assignments. altho they have done they work in the midnight but they still willing 2 stay awake to help me check my work.. i truly appreciate what they did to me.. i have never think of frenz can be lidat..

well, i wish that all of us can graduate with flying colours in 2011.. All the best everyone!!

Cheerio!!

:) cute pika,alice

My Mission Statement =S

Today’s speaker is Mr. Eric. I miss Pei Li because, every time, she will make me more energetic during her lectures although it is early in the morning. Well, other lecturers like Mr. Eric and Mr. Kumar also have their own teaching method. However, I personally prefer Pei Li’s teaching method though. The very first sentence that Pei Li would say, “Give a high five to your friends and said you are awesome” gives me the motivation for the day. I have always loved this class among my other subjects because this lecture seems to give me a sense of relaxation, nevertheless providing me a clearer vision on myself so as to further consider my future career.

We were asked to create our own personal mission statement for the class today. There were six steps to do in order to prepare that of the mission statement. I have had three missions at this point. The first mission is I want to let peace prevail on earth with all the energy I have. The second mission is I would love to share my love with the children around the globe. And last but not least, I would like to entertain and bring joy to tourists so as to let them hold a certain degree of trust upon me. These three missions seem simple and easy but it did take me a hard time to think of them. The happiest thing is that from here I can find out the pathway that I am going to take up in establishing my future career. Thus, I would love to be a teacher or a tour guide.

As what Covey said, “I will live each day with courage and a belief in myself and others” and “I will help others as best I can and will thank those who help me along the way”. I totally agree with what he said because I think that everyone in this world is full of emotions. They can feel that those who helped them before and will feel thankful for the one who lent out their helping hand. Therefore, in order to be one person who is willing to help out without asking anything in return is not impossible. As long as we have set the mission statement and all we need to do is just follow that and follow our heart will do.

Besides talking on lecture, I also went for individual counselling. It also made me understand and make my mind think clearer on what am I going to do for my three years in order to pursue my career in future. I will continue go for the counselling not because of the bonus point but for myself to know more about my own strengths and weaknesses; hence try to change them and become a better person in life.

This week is Career Awareness Campaign week and a number of talks will be held in different places. I will take this opportunity to go for these talks to improve myself and get to know these workplaces better. Moreover, I am also going for Peer Support Group (PSG) Search-In Camp from Friday till Sunday this very week. I wish to get to know myself better and know what I want to do in order to strike my goal. Looking forward to that camp. All said, I must make sure I’ll be discipline enough in order to achieve goals through my career in the future. Keep it up, Alice! Do not get upset easily and always be optimistic because, “whenever there is a will, there is a way”.

A lecture that make me know myself better..

Today’s speaker is Mr. Kumar Mahalingam. He talks about different kind of career paths. He also introduces to us an author named Corey who discovers the six factors in career making decision. In the six factors given, I can say that throughout the activities that Mr. Kumar asked us to do make me understand myself deeper.

I find it that this lecture gives myself a vivid view on my own personality. I get motivations from the activities. I also know that what attitude should I have in order to drive to the successful goal. The abilities provided will also drive us to a successful person in my own career. We also must have interests, values and self-concept for choosing the career. These factors will drive us to the right career in future.

I’ve tried to log in into the website, O*Net, given by Mr. Kumar for more information on which career I’m suitable with. In order to get the details, I use the Holland’s R.I.A.S.E.C. that provide me three character code to search for occupation that suit my code. I get the code from the Vienna Test I did last month. My code is SCE, which stated that I could be an employment interviewer, education administrator, counsellor etc. This gives myself a much more clearer idea which career I’m most suitable to fit into.

In order to let myself get to my goal, I must start planning what should I do to let I get one step closer to my goal. I’ve started to make a timetable so that I’ll make sure my time was fully spent in useful work. I cannot waste any single minutes because this will delay my drive to successful career goal.

 

 

A special guest in my class..

Today before our class ends, there is a special guest invited by Pei Li to give speech for us. She is Ms Katherine (sorry if I had spell wrongly her name), who is now pursuing her Master in Counseling in HELP University College. She is a person with high motivation. I did learn a lot from her today. She do believed that ‘Practice Makes Perfect’, so do I. I think that everything must be practice for a few times only we will get the result we wish to get. As she’s an elephant-look man, she do not mind on her outer appearance and still willing to share her experiences on charity and life with us. I think that she is a very brave person. She manages to face lots of obstacles by herself. She’s so cool! If I was she, I do not think that I have that braveness to face the crowd, even though with an ordinary appearance. I love the song ‘My Peace’ that sang by her, it make my heart so calm and peace, my members and I even follow her to sing along. This is so cool, she’s even cooler than Malaysia Idol. She has the talent in singing and has a good voice. I feel embarrass if I were to compare with her. I myself am more fortunate than her. Therefore, I must study hard for my better future. Thanks for Pei Li for bringing her into our class.

            Every time after the class, I’ll go for the 10,24,7 rules. Tonight I do the same thing, just review what had been learned in class. In order to strive my goal, I must explore my own aptitudes and skills so that I know myself better and from there I would have set my goal clearer and be more systematic. Besides that, I also go through the 127 lists that had been accomplished by John Goddard. He is one of the famous adventures and motivational speaker. By today, he had already accomplished more than 500 lists of experiences during his lifetime. He’s so cool! He did set his goal and make his goals come true. That is the greatest part of him. He did accomplish the entire goal that he had set. Very a few of us can do so because we always take things for granted and never be self-discipline like John.

            We were asked to fill in our dream list after a few activities on and we were asked to share our list with our friends. My dream lists were quite unrealistic sometimes, but it’s good to have dreams than none. Not all of us can have our dreams come true, but I do believe that if we are well organized, all of our dreams can be come true one by one as time goes by. I like the sayings that Pei Li mentioned during the class, “to dare is to do, to fear is o fail.”. Therefore, I truly believe that if we do not take the first step, it’s very hard for us to proceed our life to the successful pathway. So, from tonight onward, I want to turn into a new leaf, make myself think of what is my dream lists and what I can be accomplish by the time being. I must being honest to myself, not only day dreaming but must do things practically. My first dream list is I wish that I can understand all the lecturer’s teaching and score well in any of the examinations. Looking forward to see my first dream comes true.

 

 

My new lifestyle is going to begin...

I am quite surprised that Pei Li did not turned up in the class today. Today is Mr. Eric who conducts the lecture. What he taught today was about “Values”. Well, it is a very common topic nowadays but not much of people will realize this and look into it seriously. I can say that even myself also did not really think deeply what values do I have in my life. This made me think of my own values in life. Sometimes, due to my values, although I think that something is not right, yet I still continue to hold on to them because of my own over-excessive vanity. Umm… This sounds very sad right? But that is what is happening in the world now. Even in cooperate companies, they themselves do not put values as their first priority because many of them think that it is not necessary to practice that. This eventually leads to all sorts of crime cases and likewise.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

                                                                                                      ~ Malcolm S. Forbes ~

In life, people are always undervaluing themselves. They thought they are no one in this world. I do think that everyone has his or her own values. It is only whether they want to practice it or not. So, why don’t we just practice or do whatever we think which is good and correct in life. We do not need to undervalue ourselves as we all do have our own value.

After this lecture, I was so worried and anxious. Today is the day that I’ll know whether I’ll get the PTPTN loan or not. I’m so anxious about the result as this will decide my financial support in taking up this course. My heart was breathing deeply. Once I click on my ID and password, it shows that my application had been approved. This is so cool. I’m so happy because finally I got what I want. I’ve been worrying this for the past few months since I decided to start my course. I’m afraid that I’ll have to stop half way of my study due to financial problem. Yeah!! I can see the rainbow now!!

It’s Wednesday morning, after Dr Hera’s lecture, I went to the library while waiting for the time to pass. I’ve made an appointment with the counselor to analyze my Vienna Test report. The counselor that do analyze for me is Ms Chan. She is a nice person to chat. After chatting with her only did I realized that I’m having depression. Wow.. That’s amazing. This test really can test out my own personality and my trait. I always remember what Pei Li says about not to take this test’s result 100% seriously, however just make it as a reference in life. This test does make myself know myself better and I have a clearer idea on my future career. Furthermore, it also narrow down the scoop of profession I want to go into. From the analysis I got, I’m more into social interests. So I can have more ideas of where should I go after 3 years in this course. I told myself that I would take another test after two years just to have a look on my changes within these two years. By that time, I think that I can have my choices of future career in my mind and my differentiation in choosing a profession will be much more higher than now, ie. only 5% for now.

I love this phrase: ‘Whenever there is a will, there is a way.’ So, I’ll keep on practicing in order to get my dreams come true. 

Do you know?

I did another personality test in PSY110 today. Actually it’s quite true about the group I’m in. There are four big groups, ie. The Peaceful Dove, The Popular Peacock, the Perfect Owl and The Powerful Eagle. Once heard the group’s name already knew how interesting the personality test will be. Well, for those who know me, I guess you all know which group I was in. Haha.. Yes, you are right! I’m in the Popular Peacock. Since I was in primary, I’m get myself very involved in activities that held in school or outside the school. So, I guess this test really point out my real behavioral style. For those who create this test, I salute you! A human’s intelligence is really unpredictable. And for such test, they need to do research and then sum up everything till get the similarity and difference for each group. I beg you agree with what I said.

During the 2 hours in PSY110, we were given a task to draw out our dream university. From this activity, I can see that my course mates are all very creative in drawing and in words. We all are considered genius as we can finish the task, draw out those nice picture and presented it in limited time. Applause across for the Bachelor of Psychology student (a.k.a. Bpsy students). Clap.. Clap.. Clap.. You guys are really amazing!!!

Well, this is the third time I wrote on my blog and I found out that I’m getting more and more likely to love to post out something here as a remembrance of what I did for the whole course. Thanks for Pei Li for asking us to do this as part of our assignment. If it’s not part of the assignments, I’m sure that I definitely will not do it myself. I knew that I’m the lazy type. I really feel grateful for having this course and this assignment. Haha..

In the afternoon, me, Kai Jia, Wai Hin, Zack and Yee Yan (my gang) went for Vienna Test. This test is cool. There are divided three parts in this test. I have to do 440 questions in the final part. One of them did till fall asleep. Haha.. Well, although it takes me 2 hours and 30 minutes to do that but I think it’s worth to be because from this test, I’ll definitely know myself much more better. We’ll be going for counseling on our test result. I’m looking forward for the counseling, as it’ll help me to develop my personality and behaviors better.

This is the third week I start my course, so far so good. I’m sure that I did not choose the wrong course because psychology really provide me a lot of space for critical thinking and not only get spoon-feed by the teachers. This is the exact way for us to grow. We need to practice before we join the working world. I’m very sure that these are our strength in the job world in future. Many of the employment will hire a psychology-based student because we have been trained up to be independent throughout the whole course. And I think that’s why GE loved our graduates so much. Well, looking forward for the next lecture. Do not know are we going to test next week. Just wait and see.

 

An extraordinary day^^

Early in the morning, Ms Yeo gave us a key of success. It’s a secret code that can open the door of succeed. Actually I heard about this method of study before during my high school, but I do not link them with a creative way. This is one of the way for our learning. For my case, I do need to study in this kind of environment and I’ve chosen the right place, ie HELP University College. As I mentioned last week, I’m a temporary primary school teacher before I joined this program. Ms Yeo’s creative learning skills are what I’m looking for to teach the kids to love more on the subjects.

Oh yes, let’s go back to the secret code again. It’s very simple. If you were to open this door of succeed, u just need to bear in mind that this digits, they are 10, 24 and 7. I guess most of us will surely feel weird on these digits. It’s quite a weird combination but actually it’s not well, 10 minutes to review what the lecturer taught after the class, revise in 24 hours can make you understand and memorize well, and get back to the notes in one week time, ie 7days to refresh what had been taught by the lecturer last week. So, these codes are really very essential on study no matter in what field of study we are. Thank you Ms Yeo for sharing this with us.

We did a self-assessment on our personality and behaviors during the lecture. It’s a very fun and interesting one. I’m agree and satisfy with the assessment because it really true on me. After completing this assessment, I have a clearer idea and option on what I can specialize in future. I can see that my potential is more to social work and that’s what I wanted to be in future. This is so cool. At least I knew that what can I really do and I’ll look into those careers in my group, ie the ‘S’ group in details.

Besides that, one of our course mate, Jeevi read out her Career Journal as a reference for us. She wrote it very well. I can get some hints and ideas from her reading. I can say that I get more guideline on how to complete this career journal after she read out hers. Thank you Jeevi for sharing with us. That day, we take the same bus and I manage to talk to her. She told me that this is the first time she stands in front of the crowd. She was very scared and worried the time she went on stage. Well, I told her that she did very well as this was her first time for public speaking. We chitchat a lot on our way to Bangsar LRT.

Once I reached home, I switch on my computer and go to read Jeevi’s blog. She’s really very efficient, I can read her new post around 6p.m. I can say that she’s a hardworking girl too. Well, Jeevi’ll be my role modal because of her good personality and learning attitudes. I manage to do mine as well after that. As the sayings goes by, ‘ How you do anything is how you do everything’. We must do the things correctly so that we can get the correct outcome. It’s true. So, as a conclusion, if we have a passion to do something, just go ahead and we will succeed one day.

My 1st day of psycho journey (for assignment)

Welcome to my blog.
Firstly, I would like to thank my sister for helping me create this nice blog..
Thank you, Regent! (my sister)

Well, today is the first day I started my lecture in HELP psychology. I find this course very interesting. That's what I want. I'll be looking forward for the following lectures with nice and challenging lecturers.

In my opinion, Psychology is a word that normally people will deal with the word ‘crazy’. I think most of the time in Malaysia, they do not really get used to see a psychologist when they or their loves one having problems in their life. Before I started this course, whenever I heard my friends who are studying psychology, I’ll also have the same thinking, ie. These people are mad. Well, now, it’s turn for my other peers to have such perspective on me. Even my family members and relatives also not really agreed that I take up this course. They still can’t see the career in future after I’ve done my degree.

I’ll take up this psychology course basically is because of my teaching experience in a primary school. I need to collect money for my first year tuition fees therefore I’ve been working as a temporary primary teacher for the last one and a half year. I’m very frustrated with some kids during that period. I met with all kind of kids in this school. Those kids with Hypertension Deficit, violent, bullying others, do not like to talk, slow in learning etc, are the one who lead me into this course. I wanted to help them very much but I knew that I couldn’t do so with my little knowledge. That’s why I wanted to study psychology and wish that I could help out them one day. These kids are really very nice to you sometimes when they are ‘normal’, but when they are not in their mood, they’ll do things that unexpected by you. I can say that teaching is really a challenging work as what I had experienced. I do salute with all the teachers around the world for their passion to take up this career and to build up our new generation.

Well, although I’m the oldest in my group but I still manage to mingle with them. Maybe it’s partly because of my chubby face. I do not look like 21 years old but look like 16 years old. None of my group member noticed my age till they asked about the year I was born. Well, age is not a point to stop me from studying this course. Although most of my friends who studied this course have graduated but I still think that there’s not too late if I have the passion in studying this course. I wanted to make this course part of my life and applied what I had learn throughout this course to help out the needy one.

Today is my first day into university college life. Actually I’m very excited for that because I’ve been waited for this day to come for one and a half year ago. Now, let me introduce one of my lecturers. She is Ms Yeo Pei Li. She is teaching PSY110, Career Guidance. She is nice because she organized an interesting ice breaking once the class started. I get to know more of my course mate through that session. I can make use of this method when I was to organize a camp or any motivation talk in future.

We have been told and assigned two assignments for the first day of lecture. That’s university life, what my friends always complain to me every time I chat with them. Well, although I do not really know what to do but I’ll figure it out as soon as possible so that I’ll not do the last minute work. I'll take this good opportunity to change myself into a better quality of person. This is how we are going to prepare ourselves to become a good and professional psychologist.

I hope that I can fully make use of what the assignments and examinations and bring all this into my career in future. Thank you for my daddy for sending me all the way from Cheras to HELP every morning. Although he mentioned that I’m psycho since the day I registered this course but I can feel the supports from him. I’ll really work hard on this course so that I really get what I wish to be in future. I like the sayings that Ms Yeo put it on the slideshow, ‘We live half of our life at work’ and ‘ Choose a job you love – you will never have to work anymore’. I totally agree with both statements. Most of the people nowadays spend half of their life working for their living expenses. It is a must for all of us to work, but if we are working on what we loved, it means that we do not need to suffer too much on the work pressure.

the 1st day of 2nd week lecture

today.. i studied Research Methodology.. it's something like research work... n the lecturer is Dr Albert Lieu..
v did lots of discussion throughout the 3 hours lecture..
what i find it interesting is by doing research on something, we can find out that most of the time we are having inaccurate observation. we are being missed-lead by the environment till we cant make the correct observation. now only i knew that common cause of deaths in Malaysia is asthma but not motor-vehicles accidents. that's quite a contras on our daily thought. don't you agree with me?
well, besides that, i also find out that although psychology is a hard course to study but as long as u r interested in that and put in more effort on that.. i guess i can overcome all the challenges..
that's all for today..
looking forward to the next lecture

:) cute pika,alice

the 1st and 2nd lecture day

welcome to my blog..
Firstly, i would like to thank my sister for helping me create this nice blog..
Thank you, Regent! (my sis)

well, today is the second day i start my lecture in HELP psychology. i find this course very interesting.. that's what i want.. i'll be looking forward for the following lectures with nice and sweet lecturers..

what I have learned on the 1st day of class (ie. PSY110 n PSY 111) ?
1stly, let me introduce my lecturer, she is Ms Yeo Pei Li. she is teaching PSY110,Career Guidance.. She is nice because she organized an interesting ice-breaking once the class started. i get to know more of my course mate through that session. I can make use of this method when i was to organise a camp or a talk in future.

besides that, i'm also having PSY111 , Introduction to Psychology by Dr Hera Lukman. She's nice,too. She told us that most of the time we have to read up for our own because she'll not spoon-speed us like what we have in primary n secondary school.. so, it means that i have to read up more n prepared for her lecture... um... actually it's good and that what i wished to practise last time when schooling.. hehe... so i'll take this good opportunity to change myself into a better person in life..

importance key words are here: WE ARE GOIN TO HAVE 3 ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE 1ST LECTURE!! THAT'S CRAZY... but i knew that's the route to prepare for us to be a good psychologist.. so, i'll take it and do it well!!! gambate alice...go go alice!!

well, for the second day of lecture, it's kinda stressful... stressful not in the sense during lecturing but is the lecturer itself..
there is a class at 9:00a.m.-10:00a.m. and the next class is at 4:00p.m.
in between, there are 5 hours time for the next lecture... guess what i did within that 5 hours? haha... you'll never know that because that's not my style... i went to the library for 5 hours!!! cool... this is the 1st time i been to the library for such a long hour!!! That's crazy man!!! i also salute myself for staying in the library for such a long duration!! haha... i didn'e join my gang 22 MV so i decided 2 get a place to sit down and spend the time there quietly and there it is... HELP's library at Wisma Help, Level 1. It will be my 3rd home.. 1st is my own home, 2nd is the lecture hall and library will be my third home.. haha.. so rich la me.. got 3 homes in my 20th... lolz.. by the way, i've fallen asleep about 3 time within that 5 hours because i'm not used to study in such environment.. lol.. but i guess soon i'll used to it as it is listed in my 3rd home.. gamabte alice!!!
now.. came to the climax of the day.. i've waited for 5 hours in the library just to wait for the next lecture, MC100. what happened is that... the class dismissed at 4:45p.m. that's crazy... haiz.. i've no good impression for the lecturer that taught me MC100 due to the 1st lecture dismissed so early.. hais.. anyway.. still have to get use to it... go go alice!!!

hehe.... that's all for this 2 days...
today is a holiday.. haha.. actually no lecture... umm...

to be continue...
my psycho journey................................................................................ part 1 end here