Reflection for my Third Week

    I hope I haven’t forgotten what I learnt last week. Well, what I’ve learned was how to do the tutorial on how to download a song from a webpage.

    Actually, I don’t have anything to say about this. It’s because, I’ve been downloading songs from the Internet since when I’m in secondary school. Not to say that I’m more experienced or whatsoever, but I just feel that downloading songs from any webpages is very dangerous because of the viruses and malicious softwares there. Last time when downloading songs was all the craze in the IT world, I’ve had quirky softwares auto-installing themselves on my house computer without me realizing them. This experience is enough to make me understanding that like an open market, anything and everything can be found on the Internet. However, choosing reliable and safe resources is the hardest part. Many websites claim that their pages are free from viruses etc but it turns out that the auto-execute programmes are able to feed your personal information to the World Wide Web. Reflecting on it, they need sponsors to continue their webpages and who are the sponsors? The creator of the malicious softwares themselves. Since then, no more.

    Not to say that I don’t download sings since then. I chose installing peer to peer programmes which lets me ‘share’ files on the programme without other ‘peers’, such as Ares (no promotion intended). Until now, it has been pleasant without any crashes whatsoever except when I tried to download keygen files for ‘cracked’ softwares that I use. That, I blame on myself, though not entirely. Malaysians are still far away from buying authentic softwares coz they are just too expensive. Still, that is another story altogether. The positive part form the lesson was that it made me feel like I’m one of the IT guy on the Internet that teaches ‘noobs’ or newbies on how to solve their computer problems. Who knows I’ll open my troubleshoot webpages next time?

Till then, see u guys soon. Very soon. =)

What Have I Gotten Myself Into..

So, this is the 2nd Resources class and I was actually anticipating to use the pc for what-nots. What nots are what I mean by Fb, Youtube and etc. Ya I did do my resources work but that just occupy less than 20 minutes of the 3 hours, including this blogging time. Sadly, the flash player is down and so there goes my Youtube-ing. Hm..I thought Resources class would enable me to access to multimedia stuffs. Again, i'm disappointed by my own stereotyping of how computers in learning institutions would be: restrictive, boring and of course, academic. It seems anything related to academic stuffs would be uncompatible with the latest techs. Why? Is it because the admin can't find the time to upgrade obsolete programmes in here? Sigh..
Anyway, all we did today were reading an article on how children use language creatively with limited resources. I particularly like the statement "Switch off the dark. I don't like the dark shining." It's supposedly said by a four year old in Britain. To me, it's just cute considering how an innocent and naive children would try their best to use the language that they are not fluent in. Personally, I don't have any recollection of children trying their best to speak English by were getting frustrated of their own inability to convey what they wanna say. The article also mentioned about creating unpredictable situations where children would be forced to communicate, regardless of the errors that they might make. I'm worried about this. Previously I learned through Behaviourism Theory that any mistakes that children make must be corrected immediately to avoid fossilization. So, which should I follow? Give them restricted opportunity to use the language by correcting every petty mistakes or giving them absolute freedom to speak as long as they are able to convey what they want to say? I would say that there should be a middle ground, giving children freedom to use the language but at the same time only correct major mistakes. Anyone has better ideas?
Anyway, I just entered the Photo editing section. Considering my immense interest in Photography and Photo Editing, joining this group sounds like the best choice for now. However, my laptop is aging badly. Badly to the point that I only use it for academic works. Installing Adobe Lightroom is a killer. Installing Adobe Photoshop CS3? I shall switch it on and wait for it to load by sleeping 8 hours 1st. Solution: get a good, very good desktop.
That's all for my reflection of today's lesson. Such formality. ~.~

Blog as my assignment

I never thought that it'll come to this, that I'll start to write academic stuffs in a blog which previously only shows teenagers' life perks and quirks in their everyday life. So, maybe I should call myself an academician now, where my life revolves around academic stuffs, knowledge related and all for the betterment of human race.
Let's just stick to basic introduction for now. This blog is supposed to be the place where I write my reflection on lessons learned. Any use for that? Yes. The lecturer is going to read it and understand how much I've learned over the weeks. Any private stuffs here? No, I don't think so. At least not yet.
As I'm typing this, I'm reminded of the little 'ordeals' from yesterday night and this morning. Typing furiously on the laptop while reading an article that I don't really have a hint about. Talking about passing up assignments of a subject that you've learnt of and plus passing up an 8 pages summary on the second day plus another 6 pages of online article summary. University life is definitely ironical, contradicting to my original idea of enjoyment for at least 2 years before I'm officially deemed an adult serving the country in classrooms using my voice and hopefully 'rotan' if I'm permitted to.
A little bit of myself. I like photography, and recently like our guys, like cars. Fast cars I mean. Now, why do men spend a lot of money on Top Gear every month and pouring through the mag featuring cars that cost millions or simpler to say, cars taht they are not gonna own except in the next life? Because, we believe that one day we're still gonna own one, race it through the tracks and laugh our butts off till we crash into a lamp post and reach heaven before we know it. Maybe girls are more realistic as they yearn for expensive handbags and shoes that is achievable by asking their rich boyfriends or husband to buy for them. Guys are a pathetic lot. But, who wears the pants in the house?
Blog as my assignment. Now, assignment as my blog. Preferable. I like.