Video Project

 I recently had to do a video project for my Mass Communication class

Yea, I'm doing Psychology, why the heck am I in a MC class? 

Trust me, I ask myself that every time I'm in class

So we had to submit a video onto YouTube.

I want you to watch the video below and let me know what you think in the comment below, please.

We shot this using my digital camera so don't mind the video quality

I edited the video, put in the songs and subtitles (although part of it ran when I uploaded onto YouTube)

Let me know if you understood the video

If you felt the storyline was weak

If the video was really boring to you

If the songs were awesome

Haha

Which part of the video did you like

(Was it when I appeared >.<)

Which part did you not like? 

Constructive criticism is much appreciated!

Thank you in advance.

Please comment.

Love you! <3

PS: Did you notice the "boss" skipping at 0.41-0.42?
PSS : Did you notice Putri scratching her head at 4.55 when she walked away?
LOLs

Blessed

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOWWWW! >.<

I just wanna hug everyone. /HUGGSSS

Free hugs, anyone?

Picture from Google

I've just completed my assignment which is not due tomorrow but the tutor wants to have a look at the draft anyways. I've been so stressed out and distracted lately. Especially with Twitter and Facebook, even though there's nothing interesting going on. Haha. Actually I'm sort of "stalking" someone and I think I might have scared him away on Twitter :/ But I just wanna be friends :( Oh wells.

About the assignment. I've honestly given my best despite the procrastination so I hope it turns out well. I've never known how badly assignments can contribute to my grades. Now that I know, I'm not about to screw it especially when I know I can score in this. 

God works wonders, doesn't He? :D

I was about to give up doing my assignment. I know you're thinking, "Assignments. Pffft. A piece of cake." But seriously. I was stuck at one point and really didn't know how to go about with it. I've downloaded about 20 journals but most of them I found out later were kinda irrelevant. I even gave up reading the journals cos they were so long winded =.=
 I was about to give up when I remembered an inspirational quote which says,

 "God will not give you what you cannot handle"

 And so I held on to it. I prayed for God to give me the strength to carry on and I know if I try my best, He would guide me through.

Time was also a factor. I'm not about to show papers filled with crap to the tutor tomorrow.  That would be idiotic

I'm not trying to sound intimidating or in any way trying to creep you off. But facing these circumstances I can only count on God, although I'm not all that sure of my religion. But I know that there's a God and believing in God makes things a lot easier. 

So thank you, God. You are amazing in every way.

<3

I've been listening to U-Kiss 0330 although I know nothing of what they are singing. But the music is AWE-SAAAMMM! When I say I've been listening, I've had it on replay for more than 10 times. I'm still not sick of it. :/

First time putting up a Korean video. Ahha!

And no, I'm still not into K-pop or whatever. But guys who can dance are really hot.

Things are finally getting in place. I can feel it. I know I can do well in this mid-term if I give it my all again. 

:D

I have a sudden craving for satay panggang. Pork satay. I WANTTT

Random #6

Today has been really uneventful.

And the Internet is rather slow. Okay let's look on the good side. At least I am still able to go online :D

I have this mid-term paper coming up on 24th October and an assignment which is due the same date. I feel really really stressed out right now. There's not much information which can be found online and those which I found are not credible. OMG. When did coursework become so tough? When? WHEN??

And I don't know what to study for mid-term. Actually I know but... everything is in a mad rush. T.T

I wanted to register for MQA this week. Registration opens on 15th October at some ungodly hour. I went to the Registry at 9.30 am and the quota was filled up! What kind of nonsense is this? Isn't office hour at 9 am? Or 9.30 am? =.=

Bodoh.

So now I might have to take Business elective and do Marketing. I don't know what I am getting myself into, seriously. I am scared of taking Business cos I might be alone and that means making new friends and that is tough, wei! When did making new friends become so tough? When? WHEN?

But I am glad that I am able to make more Malaysian friends. Hooray! That means being able to rojak-fy my English :D

I need to get out of my comfort zone, asap.

Good news is my uncle is bringing me to buy my new camera this weekend. My posts have been pretty picture-less lately. Will take new photos with le new camera. Can't wait!

It's All About Respect

So I recently wrote about Amanda Todd in my WordPress blog. If you don't know who she is, search her up or watch her video on YouTube. 

I don't wanna repeat what I wrote. So if you want, you can read the post on the WordPress blog.

Today, I learned about interview skills and writing resume in Mass Communication class.

The guest lecturer emphasized on respect because how you act in your everyday life will somehow reflect in your interview.

She said, "No matter what position you're applying for or just whatever you do, respect everyone."

Then she moved on to say,

"How many of you took the public transport to class today? Before you left, did you say thank you to the driver?"

"How many of you thanked your mother today?"

"How many of you say thank you when you get your food served to you in a restaurant/ food stall?"

Well, there was a handful of people who did raise their hands.

It was sad to say I only did 1 out of the 3 of what she said

:/

I wanted to say thank you to the bus driver when leaving the bus this morning but I hesitated.

Why did I hesitate?

Hmmm...

Anyway, going back to Amanda Todd, she didn't respect herself enough that it came to a point where she would willingly send a nude picture of herself

But others did not respect her by trashing her unnecessarily online.

Again, I emphasize.

What she did with her life does not interfere with the lives of these bullies.

So, I see no reason for people to bash her for something she chose to do.

I digress a little

I recently went to Penang and donated blood!

Pictures will be up later

Now it's assignment time and study for mid-term

T.T

School...again.

Let me just point out that doing assignments is a pain in the ass.

It's not even funny what we have to do.

Imagine doing my thesis in third year

o.O

Okay, breathe.

People survived it. 

I can too...

right?

O.O

Anyhow, university life hasn't been really exciting for me.

Maybe I'm not being initiative enough,
not participating in more activities

But in my defence, assignments take up a lot of time

And then sleeping gets in the way.

Sleeping always fights for my time 

Awww..

I really don't wanna graduate 3 years from now and when people ask me,
 "So what have you learn in University? Did you get to meet many new exciting people?"

And my answer will probably be,
"Errr....." *runs away*

I will try my best to participate more and meet more new people

Not that I don't like the company of my new friends

But it just doesn't feel right

Like there's still a missing piece in the puzzle

I haven't found that someone whom I can really be myself with

Especially a Malaysian who can understand my Malaysian lingo

Sometimes having to speak only in English without rojak-fying your words is tough

Who knew?

It's been a month.

I want to meet new people.

Mood switch to being a psychologist : I WILL meet new people.

Oh I just learned about Freud today

Just an introductory to personality

Fell asleep halfway through class

Seriously, 8 am classes are too early lah. Why can't they change to 11 am instead?

T.T

Anyway, Freud..lecturer said Freud's theory mostly based on sex

How having the desire to have sex is considered a "sin"

How enjoying sex is disgusting
What's wrong with you, Freud?
But to his defence, he was brought up during the Victorian era

Lecturer also said if Freud were brought back to life to watch "Sex & the City", he'd probably get multiple heart attacks

LMAO

The Loftus Theory

I have to choose 1 out of 6 topics to do my assignments on in PSY 111: Introduction to Psychology part 1

And one of the questions were:

Loftus Theory of False Memories : Is it really possible for someone to remember an event that never really happened at all?

Sounds intriguing?

So I googled it. 

Omg, it's so interesting!

This theory was basically formulated by Elizabeth Loftus, a PhD holder in cognitive psychology.

She believes that you can implant a false memory into the brain of a person.

What she does in short is gather a group of teenagers mostly around the age of 14- 20 and she tells them that they are a part of an experiment to determine if they can remember their childhood memories.

She has a family member of the teenagers to participate in this experiment as well.

What the family member has to do is write down 3 real events which happened during the teenagers' childhood and a false event.

The false event is often about losing the way in the shopping mall at the age of 5 and being found by an elderly person.

The teenagers will have to read and write down these 4 events for 5 consecutive days.

They will be called for an interview to describe the 4 events and rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 on how well they can remember these events.

A week or two later, they will be called back again and the same processes are repeated.

What is so shocking is that most of them say that they can remember the false event pretty vividly and rated it pretty high. Whereas a true event was rated pretty low.

Finally, the teenagers were told that the false event never really occur in their childhood. Most of them found that hard to believe.

Read about it here! Loftus Theory

But it became so disturbing for me when I read about this teenage girl in the States who accused her father of killing and raping her best friend.

In reality, the event didn't happen and it was said that when her former best friend passed away, the teen implanted a false memory because of sadness and hatred towards her father.

Omg just read about the Loftus Theory. 

It's damn interesting.

Makes me wonder now whether whatever happened in Inception can actually happen in real life

:/

Leonardo DiCarpio <3

Of Brain and Teleost Fish

Brain overloaded and densely saturated with facts.

That's what happened this morning during lecture class at 8 am. I slept at 2 am so there wasn't enough oxygen in the brain to keep me wide awake during class. And we were just getting to the most interesting part of Psychology! Introduction to Psychology Part 1, which is basically about the brain in Chapter 1. We need to know the structure of the brain, the different and confusing names, the functions etc. It's like learning Biology all over again! :D

Don't you think the brain is just marvellous? It's just this thing, which is about 1/3 of our whole body, probably smaller but yet it controls EVERYTHING! It determines the emotions you're feeling. The reaction that is supposed to happen. It's so simple yet so complex. Ahh.. simply loving it.

These are the few terms that I can remember during class today. The lecturer is pretty good. 

1. Hippocampus. Imagine a hippopotamus going to campus and getting lost. To avoid getting lost, it needs to remember the way it came in. Hence, the hippocamus is in charge of memory.

2. Cerebellum. In charge of body movement and balance.

3. Temporal lobe. Situated at the side of the brain. In charge of hearing. (Temporal sounds like telinga hence hearing)

Okay that's about a few things I can remember lah.

Anyway, was reading this journal on Brain Sexualization and Plasticity. Sounds interesting?

Found out that there's a type of fish named teleost fish. Below is an excerpt from the journal

Among vertebrates, teleost fish are unique in many respects, but one

of the most intriguing ones is their capacity to change sex during

adulthood. Indeed, while hermaphroditism is quite common in

invertebrates, mainly in worms and snails, or in plants, it is rarely

seen in vertebrates.

In contrast, teleost fishes

are known for exhibiting several forms of natural hermaphroditism. Some

species are synchronous hermaphrodites that have both ovarian and

testicular tissues and form spawning pairs performing cross-fecundation.

Other species undergo genetically programmed sex change

during development.

In protogynous hermaphrodites, animals are

first females before becoming males. In contrast, in the protandrous

hermaphrodites, testicular tissue predominates first but, after a

transition period, the ovarian tissue takes over and the fish behaves

as female.

I think this is the teleost fish

How cool, right?

XD

Stepping Into University

I'm finally back in the blogging world. I have so much to blog about but where do I begin?

University life has been pretty interesting so far.
But truth be told, I felt a little homesick the minute I stepped into the Residence. To be even more truthful, I was about to shed tears when I had to leave home just to get to KL. As you might already know, I don't fancy KL. Only like the shopping and when celebrities come over. But other than that, KL hasn't been my forte.

It's been such a culture shock here in University. There isn't class everyday. And classes don't start at 8 am and end at 2 pm. Haha. I have early classes at 8 am and sometime I have classes at 4 pm! And of course there are days when I don't have classes at all. That's the part I enjoy most. And people just dress however they want. Girls don't carry backpacks to school anymore. They all carry handbags to classes. Makes me wonder "Are they here to study or to go shopping?" o.O

Because I entered late, my course mates are all younger than me. I think me and my school mate --we're the only 20 year old in the class :3

Food-- there's not much variety here. Okay there's all kinds of fast food outlets here. You name it, they have it. But of course you don't expect me to eat fast food every.single.day. In fact, I eat economy rice on weekdays. And I try to limit myself to only spending RM 5 per meal, which also means I can probably take 3 kinds of vegetables and that's that. I feel hungry in KL all the time. I can have lunch at 1 pm and feel hungry an hour later. There's this voice in my head that keeps urging me to take a bite.

Assignments have been piling up. First week of my semester and I have 10 assignments to do. Not all same deadlines of course T.T But I guess that's pretty normal since most of the marks come from the assignments. If you think these assignments are like folios you did in Secondary school, please slap yourself across the face now. Wake up! They have this special site which helps scan for plagiarism. And there's no such thing as "Copy and Paste". We're only now learning it the hard way. I wonder what we learned in Form 6. Seriously, although having taken the General Paper in STPM, I have to take Moral studies and Malaysian studies in University. You gotta be kidding me, right?

Wifi - It sucks here. There are times when 2 days we will have WiFi and another 2 days nothing at all. Haha. Desperate time calls for desperate measures. Room mate and I will go down to the Chalk & Cheese cafeteria to use their WiFi but we have to buy a drink or eat something. Nothing is free in this world, right?
WiFi there sucks also la. Unifi my ass. I think because so many people are hogging it that there's time when we can't connect at all. :'(

There's a lot of walking here in Help University. And we have to rely on the shuttle buses to get to the campus building. Now I am thankful to have a place in the Residence. Everything is pretty convenient here although the room is small. I am thankful for having my school mate as my room mate. Despite the pressure from the assignments and the unfamiliarity of the place, I feel calm and am glad I chose to take up Psychology here.

Am missing my friends so badly! :(

Random #1

So, I was randomly browsing through a website, hoping to find more information on Psychology when I read something like this,

"To take up Psychology, being good in Maths would be an advantage"

WHATT?

o.O

And the reason behind that is because Statistics is involved

I'm screwed.

:/

Did I tell you I'm so excited to enter uni?

:D

Another One Bites The Dust

It's unfortunate to say that I didn't do that well for STPM

*cries*

No, I didn't fail any papers of course

Thank God

But I didn't get that pointer I was aiming for either.

You know that feeling whereby people expected you to do good and then they hear your results and you can look into their eyes and see/ hear what they're thinking.out.loud?

Like, 

"OH. That's it?"

Yea, that's it.

I have difficulty telling people my results because I do not want to see that look in their eyes anymore.

I'm ashamed of my own results.

Then my brother told me,

"It's okay. It's just a piece of paper. Your results won't matter when you start working'

It probably won't.

But right now, it's everything I can think about.

Thou shall not give up!

I know I could have done better

Did I give it my all?

Probably half-heartedly.

And Maths just likes screwing with me.

This is just the beginning, right?

Thank God I'll start Uni at 20.

It's like a whole new beginning

And then, maybe STPM won't matter that much

For now, let STPM be a reminder for me to excel in my Psychology course.

Turning Tables

After going back and forth on what course I'm gonna take,

it's finally decided!

No medicine

No pharmacy

Nada.

I'm gonna do psychology.

I'm very sure of it.

Like how a monkey is sure it likes banana.

Not a really good example, but there you go!

Made up my mind yesterday,

On the way to KL,

After sleeping for what seems like 2/3 of the journey,

I finally made up my mind!

I didn't know there were SO MANY job opportunities for a psychologist.

Like you can work ANYWHERE!

In a firm, a corporate company, SHELL...everywhere!

Cos people need constant motivation!

Or the world is just getting even crazier

Okay sick joke. I'm not wishing for that.

I'm sorry.

After reading that DoctorJob mag, which I should have months ago,

But better late than never right?

Anyway, after reading that, I also know the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist

Finally!

Haha I must sound really stupid right now.

:/

But I don't give a damn.

:p

Come to think of it, I've always chosen a career which involves social interaction with other people

First was medicine.

I was so determined to be a paediatrician because I love kids

But let's be realistic, I don't think I can survive competing with all the other doctors-wannabe out there

All the pressure and commitment involved

I think I was sucked into the glamour of it

But when I went for a "one week medicine course" before the JPA interview,

the doctors in GH said

"There's NOTHING glamorous about being a doctor"

Now, THAT'S a bummer!

Then I wanted to do pharmacy

That was before I entered Form 6 and decided that I don't really enjoy Chemistry besides Organic Chem.

Then slowly, that ambition faded into dust.

Finally, my aunt advised me to take up psychology

Which was what I chose without knowing much about, initially.

All I know was I wanted to help people,

Especially children

Like kids with autism because one of my cousins is autistic.

And then came yesterday, which to me was like a wake up call.

I knew so much more about Psychology!

And I love it!

I think it fits my personality.

Today I just needed a little reassurance .

My best friend, Raveena-Mei gave me just that.

She said,

"Yes. I see you being a psychologist because, you are very kind, honest and diplomatic. You know how to give the right advice at the right moment. You're very open and you are very humble, hence if someone argues with you, you state your opinion and leave it at that, you don't let your ego get in the way. And you're compassionate about people. How they feel? How are they doing? You take it upon yourself to make them feel spectacular"

Thank you!

I feel so much appreciation for my family and friends who were supportive of my decision.

After looking through the list of local universities that offer Psychology,

I think there's only one--UMS

And that's really far.

So, let's just stay in KL or Singapore while we're at it.

My parents are okay with me entering a private university.

If all else fails, I'll get into IMU and do my degree

Cos that's the only university that I trust.

And no, I don't think doing Form 6 was an utter waste of time

Because I hadn't decided what course I wanted to take after finishing Form 5

I mean, who am I kidding?

I didn't give a damn about A levels or foundation and what's not after completing SPM

All I wanted was a break

But after pondering long and hard about what I wanted to do,

A-levels was a definite no because it was WAYYYY expensive

I didn't get accepted for Matriculation (I don't think I'd be able to survive either)

Foundation was not in the decision because I didn't know what I wanted to do

So Form 6 seemed like a fair choice

Despite everyone (esp my bro) pressuring me about how tough it is

It IS tough.

No joke.

But I got through it and I gave it my all

Now let's hope the results won't disappoint

Results will be out early March

Now I can go kill myself

I feel like I trailed out of my main topic.

Oh yes, I wanted to reinstate that,

No, I didn't waste my time doing Form 6,

For all you narcissistic, pessimistic goons out there who would beg to differ.

I made the right choice with Form 6

Now I'm gonna do the same with Psychology.

Congratulations for still reading til' here

Thank you if you are still supporting me

:)

Leave a comment, if you must!

Just Because You're A Pain In The Butt

What the hell was that?!

Why are you screwing with my brain at times like this?

U b****

I'll never get over the fear of Maths.

Not now

Not ever.

Thanks a lot, you JERK