Communication and Technology's Impacts

There are three importance of communication skills for career success, which are: communication influences how we think about our-self and others; communication influences the way we learn; and communication skills are demanded by business and industry. First, communication definitely make us think about concept we want to deliver and while we are communicating we try to understand others’ messages and priorities. It can happen when someone told us that we are not speak clearly and we need an improvement in grammar, it may be discouraging. So that is why, it is important to have a good communication skills as professionals. Second, communication really influence how we learn something. When we are not good enough in speaking then we are motivated to practice. Having a good communication skill is a symbol that we have effort, persistence, and self-correction. Third, business and industry demand person with a good communication skill. There is a fact that top level managers mostly hire a consultant to make their communication skills improve. Moreover, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, communication skills is the top rank of personal skills employers seek. So, that is all the three importance of communication skills to support our career growth.

Don't Talk about Healthy Life! It is sooo Hard!

“Just because you aren’t sick, doesn’t mean you’re healthy”

-LeBron James-

In today’s life, some common aspects like economic, politic, and social-culture are forcefully changed. On the other hand, are those changes able to influence human life? The answer is yes. Those changes latter on make human habits and human lifestyles look so complicated. Moreover, those changes are also impacting human activities. Human activities will totally re-arrange since people need to do more and more efforts to follow the era. They keep trying harder and forget to take a rest also dismiss their stress. This reality actually makes people do not realize that their life, time by time is not healthy anymore. Mainly, there are three simple ways that people can do to achieve a healthy life nowadays, which are: sleep well, exercise, and having a good diet.

Strengths and Weakness

Do I have strength? Or do you have any weaknesses? Yes, everybody include me and you are having both of weakness and strength. Weakness and strength are naturally owned by everyone when they were born. It cannot be disappeared and cannot be avoided but human only need to minimize their weaknesses and improve their strengths. My biggest weakness in English is tenses, but my strength in English is speaking. I can speak English in a good confidence even with no preparations. For me, make others follow my opinions by using English is a challenge and that is my final purpose while speaking English. To improve my strength of speaking English I do some activities such as using English to suggest others and joining English debating competition.

Self Relfection

Since I was in Senior High School, I always got a bad mark in English writing test. I do not know why and I cannot find any solutions on that. Need to know, I really love English but just in some aspects, such as reading and speaking. I realize that I am much better in reading especially in speaking. But time by time, I start to know why I hate writing in English. The reason is I have no skill and less knowledge of tenses and grammars. And maybe that is why my senior high school teacher sometimes did not understand with what I was writing. But when I joined both of ENGL 0302 and ENGL 0309, my writing skill was dramatically improving. I feel that. I start to understand how to make a good sentence with a clear controlling idea and making a structure-able paragraph with some supporting sentences. But do not forget about tenses and grammar because I almost remember all of the tenses and some of basic grammar (mostly use in writing) since I joined this class. That improvement shows to me that this class really helps me to have better English writing skill. If I can back to the past with the knowledge that I have today, I will easily get the best mark in my class or the best mark among entire students in my Senior High School.

Not Idol, But Inspiration!

Since my laptop repaired at 2009, I unfortunately found a new role model in my life. I seriously loved how he act and how he enjoyed his life. His name is Jay Chou. He is a Chinese Singer but he was born in Taiwan at 18th January 1979. I start choosing him as my life model due to some reasons, like he is a multi-talent singer and he has good personality.

I would like to inform you that Jay Chou had made his own film in 2007 and 2013, and both of those film became an Asia box office movie record broker, exactly when those two films was released. Not only made some films a few years ago, he was also an actor and won a Best Newcomer Award at 2005 in Initial D film. Moreover, he also able to play more than one music instruments, such as a drum, a violin, a piano, a guitar, and a cello (one of traditional Chinese music instrument). With all of those abilities, it is very sure to said and it proofs to everyone that he is the real multi-talent singer ever in the world.

The second reason of why I love him so much is because his good personality. I know the fact that in 2001 his face was chosen by TIME Magazine to be their cover with the caption, "He doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and surprise, he actually writes his own hits. Meet the New King of Asian Pop." Oh, man!! What was that!? Was that real!? Yes! I answer you with my finger swearing. That was true. That was the truth. The New Asian King of Pop was born and started to threat the older singer at that time. Nowadays, he is the best singer in Asia and has million fans even without fan base. He has made more than 10 albums and held various concerts that were attended by more than 30.000 people per concert. The simple reasons of why everyone still love him just because his humble personality; he is not sensational and he is free from every law scandals during his career. Should be Indonesian Artist’s inspiration! (Hahaha..)

Overall, I love Jay so much; even I like other people too. For me, Jay Chou is a very great singer who has multi talents and has good personality. If I have a chance to meet with him, it would be very good, but I know, it is lack of possibilities since I live in Indonesia and he lives in China. But I can follow his positive life style and competitiveness. Thank you so much to read this post and bye-bye. 

I Want A Lot of Friends, Not A Lot of Girlfriends!

A long debate between having a lot of friends or having a lot of girlfriends was becoming a hot topic to be argued. Some people believe that having a lot of friends would give more advantages than having a lot of girlfriends. In the other hand, one who believes contrast is getting stronger and stronger to their own principle. It is causing an equal debate between two conflict sides and appearing strong protectors for each idea.

My Dawgs in Senior High School

My nickname is Joe. At 2013, I was accepted by the greatest dormitory senior high school ever in Bali. This senior high school has a policy to divide students into nine houses and gratefully I was joining The Hornbill house as the third generation with another 7 members. This house makes me realize if people can understand others even they do not one's siblings or relatives. At some crucial points, this house indirectly teaches me on how to be a better person by understanding each other, speaking gently, and introducing me what the teamwork form is.

To begin with, every house' members are coming from every regency in Bali, but in fact, most of them come from Buleleng Regency like me and my house. Only 2-4 students who are coming from other regencies such as Negara, Karangasem, Klungkung, Gianyar, and etc. I know my job that time was to understand and respect each personality, although it was a severe trouble for me. Some debates between members cannot be avoided. Cried, no talked, even yelled were normal memories that I will remember forever. But time by time, we can understand everything and start to live like a real FAM. I know and I feel exactly how wonderful it is.

Not only teach me on how to understand each other, this house also trains me to be a good speaker. Every Friday's night, there will always an evaluation meeting for sharing, suggesting, also motivating purposes. With no doubt, as a junior I use this schedule to hear what my senior said moreover, as a senior I use this chance to speak gently in front of my friends also my junior. I motivated myself that I should be able to influence everyone by only hearing my short speech. One year as a senior, I felt full enough and decided to talk without any notes again even only in a piece of paper. It was a self-proud to see that my speech was easily accepted by my junior also my friend and it was totally due to Hornbill house members who kindly listened my speaking while I was a newbie speaker.

Finally, the precious thing that I had been getting during my invention in Hornbill house' family is how to have undefeated teamwork's plans. Every six months, usually there will be a big competition between nine houses to celebrate school's birthday, independent day, and some religious ceremonies. The Hornbill house always conducts important meetings not only twice, but uncountable times to fix everything that needed. The preparations was serious and cannot be disturbed by anyone. Sometimes my senior blamed me if they see some mistakes. My sisters also cried if they made some mistake s even none of our senior blamed them. You can imagine how scared the situation that time. However, with those experiences I know that if people want to win a championship, they need to prepare everything as fix as they want to win it.

Overall, considering all of that life-knowledge I feel so lucky to be a part of Hornbill house's member since it taught me many things and realizes me that brothers can be one's sibling even with no blood-relation. I notice those things would be very useful for my future. I want to pronounce a huge Thank You for you due to wonderful memories and great experiences that you give to me. As a closing, I want to say goodbye and take care!

WE CAN, WE CAN, GO!!!