23rd December 2010, we have learned about how to negotiate because it is very relate to business. En Hisham taught us the skills needed to make a very good negotiation and to have win win situation. We also divided to six groups to do the negotiation for the situation given earlier. My group has to be a landlord to negotiate the increment in rent house to a tenant. This is a very interesting task. Most of the preventatives from each group have talent to be an actor or actress even they done get the win win situation of the negotiation. I think that all for this session. I cannot come for the second day of negotiation skills because I have something to do.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Fine tuning for the Presentation Day !
22nd December 2010, all of us discussed about our final project in groups. My group will involve in a business to produce Pectin from cocoa pods to replace gelatin from animal that mostly non halal. We discussed to make a “Request for Proposal” to get fund from the National Biotechnology Foundation. Today was a very boring day. But we were so lucky because we can back home earlier than before. ( ‘’ ,)
Public Speaking !
On 21st December 2010, we have something special ! it is public speaking. My group title for this public speaking is Immigration. Very global topic for only three minutes, of course three minutes is not enough to explain this topic. For this session, I focused in the causes of immigration happened in America: Mexico, Costa-Rico, Nuagana,US and Cuba. The causes I found is based on some study by profesors in this field. Actually there more than 10 causes of immigration in those regions, but I only state six of them. The causes of immigration that I have explained are poverty, armed conflict/war, economy and market, human population, repression and natural disaster.
This is a very interesting session because other than we know our own skills and talent, we can observe others. I also like to choose my best speakers for this session. My top ten speakers are Mr. Fadhirul, Miss Sabrina, Miss Time Marshall ( I am not remember her name), Miss Von Yi, Miss Sarah, Miss Iyliana, Miss Linda, Mr Yassin, Mr. Firdaus and Mr. Nazreen. For me they are very unique speaker that have a very own style in speech. Hope that all the comments from Redzuan’s brother, I means En Hisham, will improve ourself in doing public speaking.
Mock Interview !
On 20th December 2010, we had mock interview and the interviewer are En. Abd Faruk and En. Abdullah Yunus (Encik Lah). Before we started the interview, in group we must list the top three hardest questions to be answered by interviewee. My group questions were:
1. What are your weaknesses and how will you overcome them?
2. Why we should hire you?
3. What will you see yourself in the next five or ten years?
After the discussion of all these problems amongst interviewee, the mock interview is begun. My interview is under Encik Lah. You know what are the questions asked to me? The first one, tell me about yourself. To answer this question, I just make a brief explanation about myself. The second question was, tell me about your hobby. One of my hobbies that I stated in my resume is drawing. I told him that I like drawing since childhood. I also told him some of my experience in drawing during school. Although I’m not art and design graduate, I still like to draw. It is my hobby men! As engineering graduate, I also learned engineering drawing that really need a very high imagination.
Encik Lah also asked me this question, why we should hire you. I told him that the position I applied is very suit me based on my education background. I also told him that I don’t mind to work in a very tough situation. That is engineer working environment right?! He also asked me either I will moved to Sarawak if the company want me to do so for work. I said, I don’t mind at all! I love to experience new place. It is very interesting! I even don’t mind if the company want me to work in oversea. Anyway, I love travelling. Then, he said he will call me if I qualified for that position. My mock interview session end here! Bye!
Grooming Session !
On 17th December 2010, we have learned to groom ourself better. The speaker is Leilanie Mohd Nor. I will only focus on the session for men. For men, we learned what to wear to work,the shirt’s color, trousers, belts, shoes and necktie. The rule of thumb is simple is better. The best color for men’s shirt is the bright color like white, off blue or any bright colors. Anyway, it still depends on our skin’s color. As a corporate worker, we must wear black belt and shoes. This session also covered the personal hygiene,over-all projectiob of self, body language and also dinner table atiquette. Ok !
Communication for Leaders ( '' ,)
On 16th December, We have learned what the best communications for leader are. The speaker is Prof. Dr. Syed Omar Syed Agil. He is very funny and happy go lucky person. He taught us the criteria of communication needed by a leader. For me, this is a ok session. We also was given a task, find a leader who have a very unique leadership skills and presenting it.
My group takes the President of Iran as our unique leader. The main reason is he is very brave person in expressing his opinions. At the afternoon we have another task, to find the problems occurred in a situation that given earlier, so that we can learn something from that. Hmm, I think that’s all for this session.(+_____+)
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
2 days of powerful presentation skills !
On 14 and 15th December 2010, we have learn about the skills of powerful presentation. For this session, the speakers are Encik Lah and Puan Rosilawati. Do you think their presentation skill are powerful enough ?! Hmm..just leave that question in your mind. Actually, both of them were not present something, they just share and explain some techniques and tips for a powerful presentation. For me, both of them are ok. Encik Lah's talk is quite boring and always talk about someone else and joke on them. We also did some activities such as talk to static partner, in group in order to build our confident level.
Proposal !
Halo ! On 13th December, we have learn about report writing. What we have learn for this session is not the lab report or something like that. It it proposal for a project. For this session, we are explained by two speakers how to write an excellent proposal, from start to the end. This is very knowledgeable because most of university in Malaysia do not have this type of course for their student. I'm so lucky because I have learn a bit about this during study in university. But it still different things. Proposal for a project or to get a fund from any company is far details. Actually, this is almost the same when I was in university for my final project design.
My project design, I want to set up a chemical plant, and I have to start from zero to the end of the project. And the final presentation for the project, we want the investor (actually evaluator) invest for our project. It just the same thing. Back to the today session, we learn all of this thing so that we can applied it for our business proposal soon. At the evening, in group we have discussed what is the product that we want to sell for our business. We also present our ideas and got some comments from speakers. Some of ideas were very interesting and some were not. Even me, myself is not biotechnology graduate, I hope that I can catch up with the business plan.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Attractive Resume !
On 10th December, we have learned how to write an excellent resume. I think this is the topic that always repeated by all of us, even in university. A good resume must have nice picture, personal details, academics background, skills, curricular activities, achievements and reference. The maximum page of a resume is only three page. When we send a resume for a job, we only have at least 45 seconds for our resume to be viewed. Just write the best and attractive resume for any job application. That all for this session ( '' ,)
Meeting !
On 9th December 2010, we have learned about an effective meeting. The speaker is an Associated Professor. Is this a interesting topic? Hmm, I think so..How about the talk? Huhu, most of us get bored and feeling so sleepy for this session. Why? Because the way of talk by the Professor not interesting at all. Oh, I'm sorry to say this, but that was the truth. Lets talk about the contents of this session. Do you know what is the main objective of a meeting? Of course to decide on something by discussion among the related member. So why, most of meeting held was not get the final decision and take a very long time. Some of meeting take about five hours even more. Do you know it ?! A meeting that take a very long time is not an effective meeting ! So what must we know about a meeting?
First of all is the notice of the meeting. This notice will be prepared by a secretary and it must be included the agenda of the meeting. This notice must be sent 14 days before the date of meeting. The agenda included in that notice is for to make sure anybody who come to the meeting already know what they will discuss about. The notice is sent earlier because to make sure they are prepare for any objections, questions or suggestions that relate to the agenda.
We also learn about the chairman, the one who conduct the meeting. As the Professor told as, most of the chairman in Malaysia are talk too much compared to the others. Is it wrong? Of course it is totally wrong ! Chairman should be the person who have less talk in any meeting. Even me myself hate the chairman who talk to much ! It is suck ! Each of the people involve in the meeting should talk only one time for an agenda. This is the right way for a meeting so that we will not waste our time in that meeting.Any topics that are not related in the agenda must not be discussed at all. What else the professor told us? Hmm..He also told us about the task of company secretary. I'm not interested with this topic.
I think I should add something that not relate to this session. It is about food for afternoon /morning tea break. I do not know whether the food prepared was not enough or some of us take or eat too much without think about the others. It also happened before. I felt so sorry for some person who cannot take their food for the break. And I also hate the peoples who do not think about others when they having foods. Hope that the management/leader can solve this problem and always remind some of us about this. Sharing is caring !
Communication and it's art !
Today is 8th Dec 2010. We (BeST participants) have learn about the art of communication. The speaker are Mr Hisham and Miss Nani. Our topic today is quite interesting. Mr Hashim start the slot with asking most of us about the meaning of our name and background. For me, this is one the way to gather information about others in order to know each other. Mr Hisham has his own way and personality to make most of us attract to his talk( talk or speech ?). In this today session, he told us what must we have for an excellent communication.
Hmmm, this topic is quite interesting actually. Then, we also have two fun activities, the first one at the morning session and the second one at the afternoon session. Our first activities is we need to draw anything that come at very first in our mind when the paper was distributed. Twelve fastest drawers is called to present what have they drawn and what are the meanings of the drawing to them. But this is not really interesting activity. The second activity is more interesting than the first one. But I still like some of them whose present their drawing. I choose Fadhirul and Liyana as my most favorite presenter. For me Fadhirul did a great job because he really know what he is talking about. His English of course very great ! His topic based on his drawing also interesting. Liyana is a very good story teller. Her topic is about cat and it is a very interesting topic as well. I love cat too. She have a very structured and clear words, and she look so very confident in her presentation.
For the second activity, each of the group had chosen one item and we need to promote the item in our own ways. This is very fun activity. This activity make us become more creative, brave and confident. Most of us did a very good job. I really have fun in this activity. Actually, I do not acting since form 4. I do not really like acting but I believe that I can do better for that afternoon session. From this activity, I can say that most of us can pronounce and speak in English very well. Great job my friend ! Each of the group have a very creative ways to promote their items. Some of us can be a good actress and actor after all. We also get some positive comments from both speakers. All the comments definitely will improve our self.
Can I feel the art of the communication based on this today session? Hmmm...Just ask yourself..I think, some of us can feel the art and some cannot. My hope for today session? I hope that all of us can improve our communication skill, increase our confident level and be a very brave person to express our opinions and also can feel the art of communication.. I also hope that all of us will be a better person for a better future. We will do our best for the sake of our life .( '' ,)
Reach our audience through blogging !
Blog is a one of the most powerful medium that have been used to spread information a long time ago till now. Present day, blog is used by everybody including older and younger .log is a part of site that is maintained by someone in order to share information. Blog also can be used as a business medium because everybody can easily view the contents of the blog. There many type of blog and it is depend on the owner of the blog to choose any contents such as entertainment, political, interest and so on. There are blog that only focus one one topic and also blog that covered several topic. In my opinions blog that covered many topics is more interesting and have a lot of followers.Blog is used because it is easy and fast way to spread information and anyone with internet connection can easily access and leave some comments or opinions in that blog.It is free after all. There are many ways to reach an audience through blogging. Here, I will state five points that I think can will help blogger to reach the audiences.There are contents, image, video, design and color and title of the blog and post.
First of all is definitely the contents of the blog. Contents play the biggest role for any blog. We know that any blogger can include any contents in their blog such as entertainment, fitness and health, political views, food and cooking, traveling, art and design an so on. An interesting topic can reach an audience to know more about the blog even the blogger himself. An interesting topic also can make someone who love to read blog will visit the blog in many times. For example a blog about political issues. This type of blog can attract someone who like to know about political situation in our country.Most of the blogger in this world are interested to have a blog that include various topic or contains because it more interesting and loved by readers. Contents of the blog will be better contains if it is elaborated or explained in an interesting way, I mean the writing skills also can reach an audience to stay with the blog especially the blog that contain of story and political view. Do you know how powerful writing skills is?This is very important because the writing skill itself can reach readers or follower's heart.
The second way to reach the audience through blogging is via image in the blog. Blog will not shine and interesting without image or pictures. Interesting pictures can attract people to read our blog as many as they like. Sometimes pictures itself can explain everything about what happened. For example is pictures of cats. The pictures itself will tell blog readers how cute the cats are. Is it a good example? Another example is a pictures about an accident. The picture of the scene in the accident and the victims will clearly show the situation itself. There are too many pictures that we can upload to our blog. It is depend on blogger and reader them self to choose which one they are like and interested more. Hope that all of us also can avoided from view at the picture that do not have any benefits to us because there are no limit to blogger to upload the pictures.
The third way to reach audience in blogging is via video. As all of us know, video is more interesting medium compared to the static image or pictures. I think You Tube is the biggest web page to watch the video. Other than that is Metacafe. In a blog, we can upload a video to attract audience because this way is more real and effective. A video can describe and explain a story compared to the pictures. An interesting video can be viewed many time as they like. A blog that contain video will have more followers and it is the best way to reach audience. Do you know that video is a memory that we can repeatedly viewed? Of course you know that. But we must choose and upload a good video to share with others such as education, song, tips for health, steps in exercise and etc.
The fourth way to reach audience in blogging is via design n color of the blog. If we start learning about how to create a nice blog, we will know that there are many design and color that can be chosen to create a wonderful blog. A blog that have unique and originality in design and also a beautiful and attractive color definitely can attract audience to read the blog and even to be the a blog's follower. Design and color of the blog still depend on the contents of the blog itself. For example a blog that contains entertainment, art and design will have more various and wonderful color compared to a blog of political views. Maybe the politic blog have less color and use corporate color meanwhile the entertainment blog will have funky and shiny colors. The last but not least is the title of the blog. An interesting title of blog can attract people to read and to know more about the blog. For example, a blog about a love story. The title can be anything such as Love and Life, Love is Sweet and so on. Each post also must have interesting and unique title so that people will attract to know more about the story.
In conclusion, there are five ways to reach audience through blogging. An interesting,original, unique and good contents, images, video, design and color, and title of the blog will reach audiences and it will make they stay with our blog for longer time. They also might be our follower as well. Keep on blogging and share something beneficial to the world. Love you all ('' ,)
Orientation Days _ BeST
Today I will talk about BeST program. It is a program to improve graduate's soft skills especially communication, technical and entrepreneurship skills. Hmm..The orientation days of this program was held at Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur on 29 and 30th November 2010. The first day I was explained by the program's crew about the BeST program.Definitely this program is more about biotechnology field. Oh my god, I know nothing about biotechnology ! During the first day, there are some quizzes about the biotech field. How can I know about the biotech's scientist or professor. They even as all of us about the biotechnology company in Malaysia.
For your information, I am graduate in Chemical Engineering. I never learned about biology..Hmm..so, during the Doctor explained and presenting about what biotechnology is and talk about some project paper, I just listen and take note for the future maybe. But most of the participant are graduate in biotechology field. The first day is a very wonderful day because I got many friends from various academic background. So, from here I can share n get some important information. Then we were placed in a room, three person per room. Hotel Istana is very beautiful hotel n definitely they have a very beautiful room. No wonder because they are five star hotel in Kuala Lumpur. I was placed in a room with two friend, Firdaus and Redzuan. They are very nice person. Hope they can be my best friend forever.
The first night we had been tough to believe in the power of mind. Each of us must say that we can break a pencil by only using a finger. Of course we can break down the pencil easily. Moral of this slot is we must believe that we can do whatever we wanna do. We also taught about to express our energy level by showing through our communication and non verbal language. It was a very interesting topic. The person who taught and conduct us at that night is very energetic.
The second day at morning session, there were several graduate whose presenting their final year project and thesis. I'm not one of them because my project is more to engineering design meanwhile what they ask for is more to biotechnology thesis. Although I m not a biotech student, I still can understand their project and they are so amazing actually. Who said Malay graduate cannot do a good presentation? We can do it better thank you think ! Some of their project were using analytical instrument such as HPLC, GC, AAS etc. I have learned and run some of these equipment by myself. Actually, there are very interesting if we can run this equipment ourself. But I really know that some of University in Malaysia are not allowed their student to run these equipment by themself. How can this happened to the IPTA's student ! so sad men ! Anyway, I'm one of the lucky person who can learn and operate them by myself..hihi
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