Blog post 4

          Hello everyone, funny how fast time flies and we have reached the end of the course. It felt like it was just a week ago when I was tasked with writing a blog for this course. The time has come for me to verify if I managed to accomplish the 2 goals that I have set for myself at the start of this course. The 2 goals are improving my self-awareness and communication skills.

For my first goal of improving my self-awareness, I am glad to update that I have made good progress. I can understand myself better now as compared to me at the beginning of the semester. I accomplished this by setting aside 5 minutes to reflect on the day before going to bed. I would start by asking myself questions like "Is there any point of time in the day that I may have mismanaged my emotions?" and "Is there a source as to why I am feeling this way?". These two questions effectively helped me understand myself. I realized how my mood may affect how I communicate with my peers and when I let my emotions get the better of me. This way I will know what triggers such responses and I can plan for a situation similar to this.
For my second goal which is improving my communication skill, I am sad to say that I did not manage to improve communication skill. I still belong to the group of listening just to reply and the only improvement I had made is by holding back some of my comments. By doing this, I can understand what they have to say before interjecting with my comments.
I want to end off this blog post by listing down what I would do to further enhance my interpersonal and work communication skills. I hope to further improve my communication skills by putting in more effort to pay attention and let the other person talk without interrupting him. I also intend to reduce my talking speed so that I can speak more clearly and to process my thoughts.  I also aim to have some time set aside each day to practice my communication skills so that I do not stutter when I speak. I want to improve my self-awareness in terms of the signs and signals of body language so that I can more easily understand and communicate effectively with them.

Bonus Blog Post

Bonus Blog Post: Reflection on shooting 

Hi! For this blog post, I will be talking about some challenges faced during the making of the presentation video. The challenges faced are "Limited shooting time due to conflicting schedule ", "missing storyboard" and the "Video making expertises". 

Due to our pack schedule of SEEMS, we are seldom all free to work on the shooting of the video. But thanks to Marcus who took the time to plan the shooting schedule by compiling all our free time that we are able to do the shooting together. For the missing storyboard, it happened when we lost the storyboard and when all of us can't find it, Ernest decided to step up and redo the whole thing. Thanks to Ernest we are able to submit the storyboard on time. Another person I need to highlight is Teck Cheng. Our group is very lucky to have Teck Cheng in our team due to his video making expertise, without his video camera, tripod, and video production skills. We will have to face a lot of trouble in the production of the video as no one else in the team knows about video making.