we are the FARTING PANDAS!

so, yesterday the HMC Student Council organized a birthday bash to celebrate HMC's 4th Birthday. there were food, there were games, there were people, and of course there were performers.

there was two dance performances. no offense to any of them who happens to read this, but i didn't really like the performances. i think they lack attitude, and synchronization.

okay, hold up. i'm side tracking.

my point of writing this post is to show that first impressions, are VERY IMPORTANT!

you see, the girls from one of the dance performers, wore erm..inappropriately for a performance. i mean, if you want to perform, wear la appropriate clothes. from the way she dressed, the first impression that i got of her was that she was a bitch. (don't mind me. i really don't know how else to describe this girl.)

i knew i wouldn't like her. but then again, she might not be that bad of a person after getting to know her. but it's the first impression that made me think of her the way i did.

so people..

FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE IMPORTANT !
WATCH WHAT YOU WEAR TOO !

posted by Dila Ariff @ 11:39 PM

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The eye, sometime known as the window of our soul. Secrets, feelings, emotions and words kept behind it. The words usually can leak out of the eye when there is a contact beteen eyes.

Eye contact is a form of nonverbal communication and is thought to have a large influence on social behavior. Interpretation of eye contact vary between cultures and species. The study of eye contact is sometimes known as oculesics.

Eye contact and facial expressions provide important social and emotional information; people, perhaps without consciously doing so, probe each other's eyes and faces for positive or negative mood signs. It is important to understand what the mood or feeling of the person because that might solve or cause a conflict which can arise through interpersonal communication.

On the other hand, eye contact can provoke misunderstandings between people of different nationalities. In Asian cultures it is respectful to not look the dominant person in the eye, but in Western culture this can be interpreted as being "shifty-eyed", and the person judged badly because not respect the dominant person.

Reference: Eye contact, retrieved 22 September 2008, from
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_contact
2. http://www.focusmag.gr/id/files/2831/The%20Eye%20Of%20Sauron.jpg

posted by Seet Joyi @ 11:39 AM

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There’s non-verbal and verbal way of communication. Non-verbal is for example laugh, wave, raise your shoulders, hug, or look angry. Some mentally handicapped people can’t read, speak or write. Their family, friends and assistants are looking for another way to communicate.

The text which you can read beneath is translated from the Dutch book: "Leerstoornissen". Alexander is mentally handicapped.His mother is very proud of his communicative application skills.

"My name is Eileen and I’ve got 2 children,Alexander and Charlotte. They are very special.Alexander is a good-looking child with beautiful blue eyes and a sweet smile. He’s mentally handicapped. He can’t walk, talk or look.
This means that he needs more attention than his sister needs, who isn’t mentally handicapped, but has a sweet smile too. Alexander loves it when you touch him or hold his hands. He’s a big fan of Manchester United. Even that it took five years until he could laugh, nowadays he laughs a lot, especially when we call ‘goal!’. "

Althought Alexander can't talk and look, he still can communicate through his body language.

Reference:
Take a look through my eyes: Communication, retrieved 21 September 2008, from

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00880/mentallydisabled/communication.htm

posted by Seet Joyi @ 11:09 AM

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we were talking in class about how different men and women are.

how different exactly are men and women?

the male brain

the female brain

can't see? click on it.

and to all men and women out there, this is just for laugh. honest! :D

posted by Dila Ariff @ 1:32 AM

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first off, a special thanks to Kenny who suggested this topic to me after i've been trying to look for the word panda in different languages and fail miserably.

secondly, lack of posts due to my Islamic Studies finals.

so, borrowed words. also known as loan words, are words that are "borrowed" from other languages.

you see, some English words, aren't really English. take kidnap for example. kidnap is an English word borrowed from Danish, which means to take a child. or elope from Dutch which means to run away and get married. and the most famous loan word is a la carte. a French word which means from the menu.

so, how many loan words exactly are there in English? from the research i've done, a lot. like, a lot, a lot.

i swear, i didn't know dinosaur was Greek and not English! haha and who knew alligator was actually Spanish! and oh my god! giraffe is Arabic!? since when!?

you see, in a way, even though you speak a different language from the person next to you, always know that language is universal and everyone uses it. though it's different (:

posted by Dila Ariff @ 11:25 PM

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Communication..the big c-word...normally, what comes to mind when someone mentions this word is a conversation...well, normallylah, unless your actually studying human communication..anyway, communication actually has, like, a lot more to it. Communication isn't just limited to speaking, there is also a thing called non-verbal communication. So what exactly is non-verbal communication? (i don't even know why i asked that question)Well, OBVIOUSLY, it's communication that does not involve words, instead, messages are conveyed through, well yeah, u guessed it, hand gestures, facial expressions, or eye contact, but thats not all... even clothing, hairstyles, ( I think I have a wicked hairstyle XP...*ahem* self praise ain't no praise, boy!!) and advertisements are forms of non-verbal communication. Like these for example, what message are they trying to convey to people?

So, I got really sick the other day,( sorry Mr. Murali, i missed Wednesday's class...trust me man, it was BAD!) and my throat was not functioning, seriously..I just could not speak, because it hurt so damn bad. Thats when I realised how we are able to find other ways to communicate with the people around us, for example, I used many hand gestures and signs (which made me feel like a fool) to try and tell people what I needed. Let's say if i needed a drink, i would ball my hand into a fist, stick out my thumb, and point it at my open mouth...it's basically the universal sign(i think ) for a drink, but try explaining that to a three year old kid! My little cousin actually thought I was being funny and started imitating me..while doing some weird rain dance thing which only a three-year-old would understand =.=" . I had to resort to writing notes on little pieces of paper to get my message across, that and a lot of nodding and frantic arm-waving.

Besides just hand gestures and funny facial stretches..pictures also are able to give out a strong message. Sometimes, pictures are so powerful they can bring about a change in people. This is why we see many advertisements which are so vivid and unique, they inspire and motivate a person to do something.

Therefore, the point I'm trying to make is that non-verbal communication is as effective as conversational communication. In fact, a lot of the time it is
much more powerful than communication of the verbal kind, indeed, a picture holds a thousand words. Ah, well, enough said,(mainly because I can't think straight as it's 2.30 a.m.), until my next, fare thee well(and fare me well, man I'm tired).

Reference
www.chamainc.com/images/no-smoking-ad.gif
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/petros753/oh-no-global-warming.jpg
http://blog.miragestudio7.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/against_animal_cruelty_2.jpg

posted by Vinderr @ 11:56 PM

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Wow! i had a wonderful tutorial class tis week!! omg.. we actually watched a 1.30 hours cartoon movie for our human communiacation's tutorial class.. thanks Mr.Murali!! His aim to let us watch this cartoon movie was actually to test our understanding on PERSPECTIVES ( our week 2 topic topic ). He gave us some exercises after the movie about perspectives of different characters in the cartoon movie entitle HERO. Haha to be honest i haven't even read da questions yet XD!!

Haha the best part in that tutorial class was.. well we watched da movie in theaterette and when da lights were off.. it was SO SO SO cinema like gosh!! So.. we quickly went out and grabbed some snacks to eat while watching.. That was really realy cool!! All of us passed our snacks around and u could hear ( krack krack sounds ) coming out from our mouth.. haha kesian those people who sat in front of us.. erm.. actually da snacks finished really fast ( even before the show started XD ). It was really FUNNN!!!

I enjoyed myself so much durin that day and i'm looking forward to hav another fun tutorial class soon XD!!!

Ohya.. before i end my speech ( LOL )... i would like to tell u that we had undergo dyadic n small group communication when we passed our snacks around!! haha

posted by maggie kok mei kay @ 6:07 PM

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Mr. Murali: what do you see?
Dila: a vase.
someone: two gays kissing !
Dila: o_O are you kidding me?

[more of two gays kissing. Ashikin, seated on Dila's left answered vase.]

Dila & Ashikin: *stares at the picture*
Dila: oh yeah ! i really didn't see that la.

so, what is perception? it is the process of noticing, organizing and interpreting data about people, events, activities and situations. so, its basically how you tell your story to the world. other people might have the same story as yours, but from your point of point of view, that's the way you want your story to be.

okay. say i give you this picture.

what do you see?

or this?

do you see the two amigos?

and this next one, well, i'm sure almost everyone has gotten an email on this.

you see. some people might not see what you see (if you saw what you're suppose to see la.) at first i didn't see it. till just now just before i put this picture up here. it was shocking i tell you, shocking.

and one last one before i go.

how many f's does the following passage contain? (:
leave your answers in the shoutbox aight?

references:

optical illusion, vase or two people?, online, retrieved 7th September 2008, from http://www.yourcoolprofile.com/

optical illusion, musician or lady?, online, retrieved 7th September 2008, from http://www.yourcoolprofile.com/

optical illusion, two old people or two amigos?, online, retrieved 7th September 2008, from http://www.yourcoolprofile.com/

optical illusion, jesus christ, online, retrieved 7th September 2008, from http://www.yourcoolprofile.com/

optical illusion, how many f's?, online, retrieved 7th September 2008, from http://www.eyetricks.com/

posted by Dila Ariff @ 3:14 PM

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come on, say it with me now.

kuh-myoo-ni-key-shuh.

it's the way you pronounce communication, in case you're wondering.

okay, you see, before i was a Human Communication student, (chewah!) i thought communication is like, you talk, i listen, i understand.

now that i am a Human Communication student, it has prove to me that communication is more than what i thought it is. my notes says that communication is the process of humans responding to symbolic behavior and that there's a few types of communication.

intrapersonal communication is when a person talks to him/herself.
example: when you're on stage, about to speak in front of 500 people. you calm yourself by telling yourself, "calm down. everything will be okay la."

interpersonal/dyadic [dyad means two] communication is when two people communicate with one another. according to the text book, interpersonal communication is not just limited to twosomes, but also to threesomes and so on. but Mr. Murali said that we'd just be doing twosome for interpersonal.

now, for three to five people, it is called small group communication. it's called small group coz well, the group is small. like, when we're having a discussion among group members. like this..

as for public communication, it involves one person talking to a lot of other people. like when Mr. Murali stands (or sits on the table occasionally.) in front of all of us and lectures. and we do give feedbacks ! well, occasionally (:

and as for mass communication, *que for me to get excited*

it's something like what you're reading now ! yes, a blog is a form of mass communication. the Net is a form of mass communication. and so are magazine, newspapers, TV. and my favourite form of mass communication, radio broadcasting :D and as for this type of communication, feedbacks are occasional too.

so it's communication. can anything go wrong? of course it can! that's where the misconceptions of communication comes in.

communication doesn't need complete understanding.
say you dislike this person and he/she comes up to you and says, "hey !" you look at the person in dislike and reply "hey." in the go-away tone. the person would most definitely stop talking and walk away. unless of course the person is too blur and just don't get it.

communication isn't always a good thing.
ever heard of the term, mulut laser? laser mouth? yeah, this kind of people, should think before they speak. coz most of the time when they say something, it hurts people's feelings. so, communication isn't always a good thing.

no single person/event cause another's reaction.
okay, so when you're angry, you say things you don't mean. and let's say person A is angry and person B starts talking non-stop. person A gets igitated and starts saying things that hurt person B's feeling. person B has to know that he/she is not the only cause person A reacted that way. person A might have been in deep of thought when he suddenly hears person B's voice interrupting his/her thoughts.

communication doesn't solve all problems.
people always think that if only they could communicate better, could express themselves more, things wouldn't happen. things would improve. so, not being able to "communicate better" doesn't mean things won't go bad.

meanings rest in people, not words.
when someone says something, it's up to a person how they interprets the message. sometimes people may get the wrong idea of what you're saying because well, meanings rest in people and not in what you actually said.

communication is not simple.
communication is a skill that someone has to train and practice. even good communicators aren't perfect. they are sometimes misunderstood or just can't get thier message across. other than that, there's always the barrier to effective communication like culture differences and the environment.

more communication isn't always better.
say when you're angry at someone (remember what i said previously about how we often say things we don't mean when we're angry?) it is always best to just shut up and not talk. just in case we say things that might hurt people's feelings. so, we need to know when to talk, when to stop and when to not say a thing.

references:

Dictionary.com, online, retrieved 6 September 2008, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/communication

Partially Clips, interpersonal communication, online, retrieved 6 September 2008, from http://www.partiallyclips.com/

Fast Track Coaching, small group communication, online, retrieved 6 September 2008, from http://www.fasttrackcoaching.co.uk/

UBC Media, mass communication, online, retrieved 6 September 2008, from http://www.ubcmedia.com/

Big Eye Deer, smoke signal, online, retrieved 6 September 2008, from http://bigeyedeer.wordpress.com/

posted by Dila Ariff @ 9:22 PM

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