My Family

     

My beloved family.

      Whenever the word “family” is being uttered, I feel the warmth and the familiarity of my home’s scent. Whether it’s the smell of delicious home cooked food or the smell of flowers in the garden, I am certain that those are the scents that I want to come home to.

      I am from a rather big family of eight. People like to say the more the merrier when they were told I have eight family members.Perhaps that is true especially when my siblings and I are back for holidays. Needless to say, my siblings and I are inseparable due to the fact of the close age gap.

      We spend a lot of time together even now. Although we are all busy with schools and work, we try to meet up with each other whenever possible. For an instance, I would go down to my sister’s place whenever I am free. We would hangout and spend time sharing whatever that has happened in the past few weeks.

      Almost all of my siblings like outdoor activities especially my brothers. That is probably why I love doing outdoor activities. We would cycle and jog around the neighbourhood and later come home to my favourite food, which is my mother’s cooking. She would cook our favourite food as indeed mum knows best.

      My mother, on the other hand is the backbone of the family. She is the supporter and prayer warrior for us. Besides, she has sacrificed countless of times just to take care of us. We can’t imagine what life would be like without her. To me, she is the best mum in the world.

      My siblings, are like my best friends as they accept me for who I am. My mother has clearly brought us up well because we are trained to be polite and respect the elders. For example, we are not allowed to speak foul words in the house. That is why I cringed when other people used four letter words. My family is everything to me and I would do anything for them. As the saying goes “blood runs thicker than water”. 

Reflection week 3

In the third week, Miss Amreet explained about the assessment details for this course during class. Besides that, she showed us some of the softwares that can be used for the assignments which are web advertisement, digital storytelling, personal blog and interactive resume.

By doing so, I am exposed by the various types of softwares and applications that are useful for the completion of  assignments given. Furthermore, I think that I have improved especially in the multimedia area. My expectations are all fulfilled and as I have expected on the first day of this course.

I do not have a blog and to complete one of the assignments, I was to create my own blog. A few of us tried to sign up on the same day. While some of my friends were able to sign up for the blog, on the other hand faced some difficulties in setting up my own blog. The reason is everytime I tried to set up  my own blog, a page shows that the request is invalid.

I thought that I was the only one facing this problem, but one of my coursemates so happen faced the same problem. After that, I consulted Miss Amreet for her help in order to solve this problem. Our lecturer was also trying hard and after surfing the internet, she found out that it might be something related to the cache. One of the ways to solve this problem is to clear the history by using a software called CC Cleaner.

After using CC Cleaner, I was able to sign up my own blog. I am really grateful to have such a helpful and patient lecturer who so willingly helped me in creating my blog. I never expected to learn so much in this class. For instance, I never thought that I can have my own blog. All in all, this course has really benefited me in many ways.

Reflection week 2

      This is the second week of Writing for Multimedia and the Web course. Our lecturer, Miss Amreet, gave an introduction on how to use prezi roughly. This is because we are quite familiar with prezi as this is not our first time using it. Besides, Miss Amreet assigned us the first assignment which is the individual prezi presentation. She asked us to find a suitable topic by this week to get  her approval.

      I have searched on many topics which were nighmares, technology addiction, yawning, left handed, why chocolate is bad for dogs, stem cell research and deja vu. On the day of the topic approval, I showed them to miss and she said that the topic on technology addiction is too common whereas someone has taken the topic on deja vu. Furthermore, miss mentioned that she liked the topic on nightmares and left handed. So, I was left to decide on which topic to be used for my presentation.

      At last, I decided to choose the topic on nightmares. I felt that this topic has more content compared to the other topic which is regarding the left handers. Later that day, I started to prepare my prezi presentation. On the same week, Miss Amreet explained about the practical guidelines on individual oral presentation. She also mentioned about the similarities and differences of oral presentation and conversation.

      After that, Miss Amreet told us that we must cite the sources that we used for our presentation by stating the author's name and year of publish. I certainly learnt a lot on the techniques of oral presentation. In completing the prezi slides, I have also learnt new things like for instance, I know more about prezi now and I think that I have mastered it by now.

Reflection week 1

One of my favourite quotes

      I felt very excited as it is the first class of Writing for Multimedia and the Web. After getting ourselves seated down, a pretty lady which will be our lecturer for this course walked into the class. She is none other than Miss Amreet. After miss Amreet introduced herself, she gave us a brief introduction on what we would be learning in the next 14 weeks. Shortly after that, she asked us to introduce ourselves by stating our name and what is our expectation for this course.

      I expect to learn more about multimedia and improve in the usage of IT from this course. Personally, I am beginning to like this course because I want to improve my IT skills and be able to create my own blog and home page. Miss Amreet also showed us the Instructional Plan and I felt a little bit intimidated at first because I do not even know how to create a home page and what not. But after Miss Amreet assured us not to worry as she will be teaching us the steps, I felt better. 

      Frankly speaking, I am very fond of miss Amreet as she is kind and thoughtful. I can't wait for the next class to begin as I wish to learn more new things in this course. Lastly, this course is very useful for future purposes especially when we start working.

Myself

      I grew up in a loving family of eight. My siblings and I have a very close relationship as we spend a lot of time together. I am the fourth child out of six children. I love playing the guitar and most of all, listening to music. Besides that, I love to spend my time outdoors by exercising.

      I am currently pursuing Diploma in English at UPSI as I am interested in the language field. I also long to be an English teacher due to the fact that I am from a family of teachers. It is quite obvious that I intend to follow my mother's footstep in being a teacher. She has inspired me to be an English language teacher because of the way she handles her class that makes me want to be more like her.

      Moreover, I aspire to be a good daughter, sister, friend, student and person. I am trying hard to be all of these as I know that it is not an easy thing to do. I used to be a very shy person but not anymore. That is because life in the university has trained me to be able to speak in front of others and express myself freely.

              My mom and I share the same interest, that is reading. I also love to read storybooks and spend time with my family members because they mean the world to me. I will end with a quote from Charles Kurait that says, "The love of a family is much more important than wealth and privilege".