few days ago i planned to go for haircut with my sister and she's working by the time i finishes my class.i had had to stay in the college to wait for my sister so that we can meet some where and drive only one car instead of two .after that we keep in touch with each other on the phone where are we suppposed to meet at and unfortunately my phone is almost out of battery. when she called me and she's telling me where i have to park my car and she pick me up my phone started to signal me that it's low battery .

so when we confirmed the parking location and i tell her that my hp is gonna out of battery soon and so she hang up.when i reached the location , my phone is totally out ! and i was about to call my sister .asking her where is she now but since my hp is out of battery , i have to wait for her.for like about 20 mins she's not even reaching yet..i decided to get down from the car and look around whether there is any public phone so that i can make phone calls to my sister.. And guess what she says??

she reached the salon already. she's telling me that she gonna pay first and some other day she will come when she's free and the hairstylist is free either. and i have to wait for my sister to meet me up. i slept in the car and i woke up when she honked me. we went to night market . while she was driving she tells me that why didnt i drove to there .then i was like i tot you meeting me up ?? she say cancelled already what then..
i was speechless at that moment. my sister say okay it was all misinterpretation because of my phone anyway.. thought it was the way we thought but other people think that we understand what are they talking about.

i experienced the selective listening situation few days ago which when i was in my friend's house. basically, me and my friends were sharing some news with each other.While we were watching movie some of them were talking behind and eventually all of us will turn to the back and listen. However , there is this girl she was all the while watching the movie and laughing (because the movie is hilarious) and she didnt know what we talking about. When we mentioned her name Miss J then she was like hah??

then there goes Miss K says "J you seriously is a selective listening person, just now you were not listening to us and now u started to answer us when you heard your name".

then Miss J replied " Of course. I dont know what you guys talking about so when i heard my name i thought you guys talking about me"

i believe that selective listening is you listen what is related to you and what is about you . For example , when you heard people talking and mentioned your name , you will eventually turn to that person and says "yes".. other than that he/she doesnt wanna care about if is not related to them.

we will experienced what we've learned in human communication in our daily life which can improve our communication skills.

You know there is this certain assignment due after the midterms and you haven't really put much effort or rather not even started it at all due to the fact that most of your time was spent on studying while putting aside this said assignment on the pretext that "there is always more time later". Well, sometimes when you get unlucky, things just pile up so bad the forecast of the week seems to be thunderstorms as you struggle to finish not one, not two, but three assignments given weeks in advance. It's times like this where having good team members count.

Based on my experience last semester, i find that this problem is just another phase us procrastinating students go through. Especially in group assignments, we tend to lose track and ultimately its the person who desperately wants the points who pulls the extra weight for the assignment. My psychology research paper is an example. Me and my friend Raymond did most of the work while we sent some books to the other members to read so that they wont be blur on presentation. He typed 3/4 of the paper while another member is supposed to type the rest and another was supposed to edit the format and check for grammar mistakes. In the end i discovered to my shock and horror the editing was terrible and the 1/4 of writing was missing. I spent the whole night correcting the mistakes, retyping the reference list cracking my head for the last 1/4 of material, and preparing the slides for the presentation the next day(my original task).

Thanks to the research Raymond put in and my stubbornness for perfect formatting and power point slides, we got the highest marks for the whole assignment even though i felt like a walking corpse that morning.

After reading Chapter 9 of the text book on members and leaders in group communication, i realized we did not approach the assignment properly. We should have been more group oriented. We had a group of four, if not for the fact that Raymond took ADP for psych before this we could have failed the assignment because we didn't utilize all the resources we had or rather we underused them. Individuality with a group orientation is effective but without it, we are just like having many captains on a ship. As the saying goes, too many cooks spoil the soup.

So to avoid this, team members for human comm, meeting after class on monday.. we have things to setttle..

i saw my friend facebook status before,
"you always say i just don't listen, yes! i can very confirm to tell you that boy are never listen, however you also never shut your mouth."
many friend comment on his post show they are agree with it. ya, i'm one of them. xD
not only us, i guess everyone also will agree with that, boy don't listen and girl like to talk. so what is the chemical reaction when two gender meet each other? nothing than that, just like an asteroid smash on earth. haha!

in this blog post, i will focus more on why boys never listen to other. why i focus on it? because, i'm male and i can say that i know what a boy thinking when a girl talk a lot beside his ears, i tried before. =.=

first, lets us start with the relationship between parents and son. teenagers normally would'nt listen much of their parents because a teenager want their own life. they don't want other people to disturb their life and decision. teenagers will reject their parents, however there are some difference between a son and a daughter. daughther may try to change their parents mind by giving a lot of idea and opinions. sons different, why? because they don't like to have conflict with parents, but on the same time, they would not agree with what parents saying. so, what they trying to do is just don't listen and avoid the problem and question given.

second, common things, couple. when conflict happen, boys less argue with the girls to win the conflict, they just keep quiet and let the girls keep talking. however on the same time they also not agree with what the girls talking, but they try to avoid from conflict so they keep quiet and not listening. because of this, a new conflict will come out again, and conflict would'nt stop and keep going. conflict only will stop when boys clam their girlfriends and did a lot to let her be happy, but never say anything to what their girlfriends complained. they not show that they are agree with the claim or dislike the claim. boys just avoid from conflict.

third, relationship between workers. when they facing a problem during work, girls and boys act differentlty. girls may take this problem to the surface to have different ideas with everyone. boys may keep quiet to find a solution to solve the problem. when this situation happening, boys will be very stress and hate everything that is disturbing him, in this time, if girls come and talk about the problem with him, boys would'nt listen because they are already in a stress condition, they just hope to be quiet and get a solution themselves. because of they are not listening to the partner, they will be claim as irresponsible and a lot of bad comment come into him.

from three common relationship above, did you all found the same thing about boy? boy always avoid from conflict, so they keep quiet and not listening. but actually in their mind they are thinking solution for the problems and how to solve the conflict. i, as a boy, also hope that every girl can understand that our way of think is different, we keep quiet does'nt mean that we not care about anything, but we just don't like to show it on our face.

Today is the last day of February. It is the last day of rest before normal classes in college starts again. It is also the last day of the Chinese new year festival which also means its "valentines day" for the Chinese. But most importantly, today is the last day to do my blog posting so here i go again.

Seeing as this is the last day of Chinese new year,let me just share with you guys some drama that happened a week ago during a dinner at my grandma's house.

On the sixth day of the new year (today is the fifteenth), My whole extended family met at my grandma's house to celebrate her birthday. To lessen the burden of my grandparents, it was decided between my mother and her siblings that the adults will cook instead of the grandparents. Ideas popped up here and there and in the end it was decided that we should have steamboat for dinner! there was only one problem - Steamboat is nothing without seafood, and my grandparents (plus my youngest uncle)are vegetarians. A quick solution of having two separate steamboats was suggested and everyone was happy. Or so it seemed.

At about dinner time, although not all the guests have arrived yet, the some of the children were starting to feel hungry. So some of the adults decided to start the normal steamboat to let the children eat. When this happened, all those present who were omnivores went out to the porch to eat. This made youngest uncle very unhappy.

To cut the long story short, at the end of that day, I helped to clean up, my cousins helped to clean up, my other relatives helped to clean up, but youngest uncle sulked at a corner eating cake with "annoyed" written all over his face. Sometime after i left, according to my aunts, he stood up, half eaten cake in hand and scolded his remaining sibling about how wrong and disrespectful they were for leaving the elderly (ironically he is included) to eat alone at the dinning table and to contaminate the utensils and cutlery with meat. When he went home, he composed a very fiery email to everyone telling how wrong everything was and firing accusations everywhere.

Now, while this conflict has brought into light that we might have overlooked certain important elements regarding how to treat the elderly since this conflict was sparked based on a clashing of cultures ie beliefs and religion,the way the emails were presented was very accusing. he had placed all the responsibility of what he saw was wrong on us. till this day, many have been proved unreasonable and at first he refused to apologize saying that he was disappointed that we wont change our perception so he wont change his either. He attributed stubbornness and ignorance as a reason for the 'mistakes' he saw.

We have learned that competing style of conflict causes resentment. i can say it is very true especially when used with verbal aggressiveness. Blaming is never a good choice. i can understand where he is coming from but its very very one sided. from his outburst, it can also be said that he has been gunnysacking many 'mistakes' over the past few year. The adults have called a family meeting to address the issues he has pointed out but he has refused to attend claiming that there is no need to discuss anything and just do what he said. I really hope this issue is resolved as i cant have much say in this. this is between the adults. how embarrassing..

what's about self-disclosure ?

self-disclosure is the process of revealing something about ourselves to another person. Usually refers to infomation that would normally be kept hidden. We eventually will reveal our personal information to others when it happens to self-disclosure.

The rewards and dangers of self-disclosure are :

-self-knowledge
a new perspective and deeper understanding of our own behaviour. Telling people about behaviour is the minor conversation but not deeper than that.

-improved coping abilities
you deal with problems especially comes to guilt.

-communication enhancement
you understand the messages until the extent that you understand the individuals.

-more meaningful relationships
relationship that is honest and open and allows for more complete communication.

-personal risks
expose to possible attack . some people with some intentions use against you.

-relationship risks
parents and best freinds which means your closest intimates may reject you for similar self-disclosures.

-professional risks
politicians who disclose that they have been in therapy may lose the support and teacher who disclose disagreement with school administrators may find themselves being denied tenure.

*Joseph A.Devito*

humans do disclose themselves because humans have a lot to express by telling others. Is very suffering to just kept it to only our own. having listener listen what we wanted to tell and say it will eventually ease our problems for awhile better than nothing .

self-fulfilling prophecy happens in our daily life because i realised that what i do it's related to it.
examples of self-fulfilling prophecy are :

Example One :

students are telling themselves that they can't even pass their papers because they dont have enough time to study for example for the midterm examination . they are just using self-fulfilling prophecy in a negative term .
they should say it in a more confident method which is the positive one . they should say they can pass the papers no matter how .

Example Two :

some girls thinks that they are very pretty and attractive and yes they using self-fulfilling prophecy in a positive way from their point of view. if they were not using it they will most probably thinks that they are very ugly and very dumb .

self-fulfilling prophecy is good when it is a good or positive way but not all people using it because they dont want to think positively in some conditions or circumstances .

JANETTE

Coming from two different cultures and backgrounds, I had to learn two different cultures. But I must admit, the only one common thing I can relate to about both my cultures is DANCE! I was twelve when I did my first Bhangra performance (Punjabi) and twenty when I first performed Kathak (Ceylonese) 
So now to begin with my story: on Sunday after kathak class, on the way home, I realized something. Dance is related with human communication!! Hence, the dancing thing we did the other day in tutorial  So anyway, if you have seen Indian dance performances, you will know that d performers are actually telling the audience a story in a different language. Everything is about non verbal communication @ body language. The most important form of body language we use is obviously ‘FACIAL EXPRESSION’, and also having to maintain eye contact with the audience. Hence, the think eye make-up we dancers normally have on. It’s exactly like he silent movie we did. We wouldn’t have understood all those movies we made if not for the good body language we used. I must admit, when we first learnt chapter 5, I didn’t see the importance of non verbal communication, but now I do!

About two weeks ago, my church invited the nearby toastmasters to hold a crash course on improving public speaking. The workshop took up two days and covered the basics of speech giving and public speaking.

The first day began with each of us being paired up with a partner. It was recommended that we paired up with someone we didn't know that well. We were then supposed to introduce our partner to the rest of the people. Including their names, age, hobby, and their deepest darkest secret.

Although many people said that they were bad at public speaking, the toastmasters told us later that we were speaking, and we spoke to an audience. Many of us realised then that it wasn't that hard after all.

And so the session went on and the toastmasters thought us many tips on how to prepare our speeches. From knowing the topic we are speaking and the type of audience we are speaking to, to the format of our speeches such as the Cause-Effect pattern and the Problem-Solution pattern. We were even shown video clips of toastmaster’s speeches at competition level and given examples of how our nonverbal communication should be like, such as expressions, tone, and gestures.

In addition to those we were also given a practise where we had to speak on a random topic on stage while avoiding pause fillers such as "erm", repeated words, dragging of words etc. The course ended with each of us splitting into groups of five and we had to come up with a product to sell to the audience. We had to deliver a persuasive speech as a group as a final practise.

Strange as it may seem, I did badly on stage. I completely had no confidence in the 'product' which was a jeans converted into a diary cover. But I really appreciated the comments and suggestions that the toastmasters gave me. They told me I needed to be more confident and not lose control of the stage and to just relax. To my greatest surprise, Mr Murali gave us the exact same topic to do as our presentation, except this time i had the toastmasters' experience on my side.

basically , i'm a person who full with curiousity in my mind.
because i need a reasons for a person to tell me specific things and do something.
curiousity will gain when you can't get the reasons that you dying to know.
why people feeling curious about something???
why dont people just leave it alone and stop thinking because it will make you even more curious about it.

curiousity occurs when you ask somebody about anything , people replied with a person's perspective or point of view and you tend to dont understand what is the reasons that make this person say so..
curiousity can make people eager to know something.

situation A

A says : you know what . C says that girl sitting at the corridor there infront of the PC is a filthy rich girl .
B says : how you know about that girl ?
C says : i just know but i'm not sure because i have never been stalking her to back home so i dont have an evidence for this statement. *smile*
A says : as you can see she always dressed up well and she look like one too (means she look like a filthy rich also)
B says : when you dont have any evidence that shows she is better keep quiet gossiping.
C says : okay i will just stop talking about her .
A says : okay me too (she's very eager to know more about that girl because she's curious whether is she rich or not ).

okay A,B and C doesnt even know that girl but they already assumed that she's filthy rich and all sorts of things if one of them knew that girl all of the gossiping conversation will not happened. lack of communication and being friendly to people ;conflict might happen and simply assuming or guessing people's identity is not an ethical way to do so.communicate with that girl to kknow whether is she rich or not ! stop guessing and stop letting your curiousity to grow.

curiousity always in me. i always eager to know an answer from anyone.

janette

we were assigned to create a product and sell to students.
we'll be freedom to apply our creativity to invent a product.
students are allowed to choose existance of a product but its better to modify it or fully created by your own.

Life Enhancer
i created an elevator that can carry cars to the carpark and this is mainly for the shopping mall carpark purposes. i believe classmates doesnt like my invention but i like . at first they are amazed about this machine system , its because they are a lot of things to be considered so explanation from me is a little not satisfying. nevermind i'll do better next time. okay , this machine i invented is basically moving forward to a high technology system to upgrade consumers standard. this is how the system works , there are buttons and screen beside the machine and there are screen to display plate numbers , alphabet pad , thumbprint and intercom (in case people need help with the machine). first the car will stop infornt of the machine and after customers got their ticket and they have to insert their car plate number and place their thumb on the thumbprint scanner and the car will have to park in the machine so that the car will be moved to the elevator.
then the car will move with the conveyer belt at the bottom of the car to move to the carpark space. Lastly , when you need to collect back your car just place thumb on the thumbprint and the car will be remove back to the entrance of the machine and its done ! 
there is questions people thrown to me which are how much will it cost ? and how you earn profit ?
the cost will be up to billlion i guess because it is very computerized system and i earn profit from the parking fee that the shopping mall charge , it will be higher because of the new invention builded at the mall.

the purpose of this assigment  / presentation is to relate with public speaking preparation and delivery.
which is chapter 11 in the textbook. it guide us to communicate with others by delivering them my ideas and allowed them to ask questions so that the whole presentation each other are communicating.
is all about clarity,vividness,appropriateness,personal style,power,sentence structure and the conclusion. all of these is to guide you to deliver a good public speaking .

janette

in one of the previos lesson, mr. Murali teach us a chapter about relationship. i don't know how should i feel when i stay in the class. this is because something had changed in my relationship status before last semester holiday and it is going under out of my control.

however, i'm nt going to talk about that in this post. what i'm going to talk in this post is what i found today for my relationship.

i know i must post another post as my homework for human communication class. i'm out of idea, so i went to look at my previous blog. a forgetted blog, full of memory between me and my secondary school lover. in one of the post, i found something i wrote before and i had a different feel with it now.
i wrote,

human always learn to grow up,
this is what other people talk to me,
i always disagree with it and never take it in my mind,
always believe in myself that i had grown up.
however, time pass,
feeling changed,
as example, i will laugh at myself when i think back about my primary school life when i in form1,
now in the college rehearse in mind about my secondary school life,
what i did is smile and shake my head,
how i passed these all through my life?
now i understand one thing,
human never have one specific example,
you can't say that in this moment, what decision you did is the most accurate and the best,
because when you reach another stage of life,
what you think will always different,
until the day we die, our stage in life keep changes,
so in conclude what we did at time cannot say as the right and accurate way to do so,
what the most important only now,
only now is what we can control in hand,
you can't change the stupid things that had passed,
you also would'nt know what is going on in the future,
so what we can do in this moment that we can control?
sorry, i'm unable to answer this question,
because i just think about the question,
and i'm not going to think about the answer, the answer always change when we are in different stage of life right?
what you all think about it?

it is not straight related with relationship i think,
it even not so much related with human communication also i think,
i don't know,
i just try to post what i feel,
welcome all to comment about this,
i appreciate it, thanks!

Two weeks ago, mr.murali gave us this really interesting assignment. We had to come up with this silent movie, about anyhting and everything :) It was a little difficult at first because we weren't sure whatsotoryline we were going to come up with and how we were going to work with each other. W ere we going to be able to agree on one storyline?? Who was to do the recording?? However, wverything worked out well. Infact, we learnt a lot about body language. Only then I realised that body language @ non verbal communication plays such an important role in one's life and how its ambigous. To me a particular sign can mean 'you want to eat?', and to another it can mean something really vulgar (Rusell Peters). We don't realise how people tend to pick up non verbal communication better than verbal communication. So its also very important not to contradict your non verbal communication with your verbal communcation.

recently , i'm kind of joined CF which is christian fellowship .
the venue is at the KPD BLOCK E *where the bus stopped when drop off and pick students*
every friday at 12.30 .do come if you interested .
for me i'm a unofficial joined as CF member yet.
i attended twice which are last week and yesterday (friday).
the first day i went in there is like feeling weird already because they were singing and i dont know what song is that so i just sing along if i can. after that, we played some games called the squirrel and the tree .
sounds childish right? but is fun though .
the motive of these game is too let people make new friends with one and another .
as the game is going on we will have to ask for people's names and communicate with each other.
something like being friendly with everyone and know more friends.
being shy is no longer exist because every situation will have to communicate no matter to make friends or pretend to be friendly you still have to speak and talk to people.
other people need to know more about you because the curiousity just can't be avoid.
why not just communicate with people no harm . It doesnt cost you anything and it doesnt hurt you .

be more friendly your life with go more easily.

janette

love for me is not defined as blind.
maybe sometimes i will misinterpret some circumstances that involved love and it's blind for some people.
sometimes people just feel unontrollable towards love and some people say love somebody unconditionally that is call love. love doesnt mean that girl and boy have to fall in love with each other in fact it can be only one party that involved.
isnt it because they fell to deep for it ?
most of the people fall in love with each other probably because they do talk to each alot and they eventually fall for one and another because they always do communicate.
communication in mankind plays a big role because human without communication they can't even talk and speak to each other. human needs to share their thoughts no matter pathetic issues or happy moments.
nothing without communication works.
no one live without love. in fact you are living with it every single day.
the feeling being loved is really good and you will feel you are the happiest human in the world.
feeling contented too because love is better than anything else.
love can be from family, boyfriend or girlfriend ,pets and friends.
every categories will have different feelings because the relationship status are different.
for family , they really love you the most and love you unconditionally.
for couples , he/she loves you because they cares about you and they will very comfy being with you.
for pets , they love you because you always play with them and they know who treat them good or bad. of course they know how to differenciate because they do think.
lastly for friends , friends for certain people, they spend more time with friends more than family because hanging out with friends do feel awesome. In college people do have friends and friends mostly shared thoughts with one and another. Friends forever will know your secrets than the family do since you doest want to reveal to your family members. Literally, communication occurs more with friends because having and spending longer hours with them. Remember that , friends always by your side if you found the right one.

love is not always blind.

janette

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal_communication#Repeating
lets see the definition of nonverbal communication through wikipedia.
frm information, there are 7types of movement and body position show the nonverbal communication.
there are Kinesics,Posture,Gesture,Haptics,Eye gaze,Touch and Voice.
i always believe that there are something more than these to form our non-verbal message. people can look through our little body movement and know what are we thinking about. i don't think that is miracle because sometime non-verbal message perform more than our verbal message.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship
information frm wikipedia again..
relationships, we can see there are some types of relationship given in the box..

Boyfriend · Bromance · Casual · Cicisbeo · Cohabitation · Concubinage · Courtesan · Domestic partnership · Family · Friendship · Girlfriend · Husband · Kinship · Marriage · Mistress (lover) · Monogamy · Non-monogamy · Pederasty · Polyamory · Polyfidelity · Polygamy · Romantic friendship · Same-sex relationship · Significant other · Soulmate · Widowhood · Wife
are these the relationships we have? i don't think so. at least these are the basic relationship between human. relationship sometime help a lot in our society. because of relationship, we feel warm living in this world althought it may is bad relationship. why i say so? because relationship proven that we still have each other in world. investigation also proven that people each other to prove they are alive. thats why we need relationship.

so what the chemical react when non-verbal message combine with the relationship?
it form a lot.
but for me, i think caring is the "warmest" body language form between people.
simple caring movement like touching another people head when he/she is fever, hugging or borrow our own shoulder to someone that is crying because of sadness.
feel like familiar?
maybe because of you did it or someone did that to you before?
would you feel warm when someone that is important to you did these?
is it better than a lot of talk around you?
simple examples had shown that non-verbal message sometime bring the most and the first more than verbal message.
like what i always say, do more, talk less.
let's use our non-verbal message well!! ^^

During the December holidays, I and a group of college friends went on a trip by ourselves to the sunny isle of Penang. Fifteen people, two cars, one destination, and one Garmin GPS gadget. What could possibly go wrong? The moment we hit the state of Penang, the GPS named Mindy by ‘her’ owner, ran out of battery and the driver had accidentally spoiled the car charger one hour ago. Thus there we were - fifteen teenagers in an unfamiliar land, with no food, no water, and a hell lot of cash, forced to abandon the wonders of technology and refer to the map that I brought along.

Oh how they mocked me when I showed them the map two hours ago. Suddenly all eyes were on the map and there was chaos as the three guys gave driving instructions while the girls just sat still and quiet with one of them playing PSP. After about half an hour of scratching heads, pouring rain, traffic jams, and not to mention maneuvering through Penang’s notorious one way streets, we finally managed to find our way to our hotel at the heart of Penang downtown. We thought our troubles were over, but it was far from it.

Just hours after arrival, we decided to walk to a nearby food stall to have a simple snack. After Ken and others had their oysters, we decided to make our way to Gurney Drive for dinner. There was only one slight problem – Mindy was still charging in the hotel room, and someone read the map and told everyone it was walking distance from the hotel.

It was not.

We spent the next hour or so walking along the roads while the day grew darker and darker. As the clock struck eight, we almost threw the map literate into the sea for causing us this dilemma. When it was 8.45pm, we reached the hawker centre and all the hunger bellies and appetites were filled. Now the only question was - How do we get back?

What really happened was that this person came to Penang with his family a few months back. During his visit, he went around in his dad’s car and saw many places. The problem was, we all assumed that since he sounded sooo confident in his directions, he must be from Penang. How wrong we were and we paid the price for our little miscommunication with bruised feet and prolonged hunger. Now this would have been forgiven had he not insisted on knowing the way to a very famous fired kuey teow store in Lorong Selamat and then taking us on an hour’s walk around the stall in circles. (We still didn’t find out he was not from Penang then. That information was revealed after the hunt for the noodle stall.)

Miscommunication can be destructive. In this case, we got lost for an hour under the hot sun. What if the situation changed? What if there is more at risk than simply time and perfect white skin?(Not to mention roaring bellies.) Even when we were looking for the hotel, there was misucommunication. There were too many of us giving instructions at the same time. I am pretty sure the driver was also confused. When we speak, we must make sure that our message gets across with the meaning it is intended for. We need to say what we need to say, say what we mean, and mean what we say. Also, jumping to conclusions is a very bad habit. When there are a lot of assumptions, the miscommunication grows wider and wider.

So be clear, mean it, and ask questions when you are not sure what is going on.

A reminder from your friendly neighbourhood
Samuel Goh.

Before the first human communication class, what I know about human com is communication between human using verbal and non-verbal language. From the class, I know some forms of human communication, example, intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, interviewing, small group communication and other else. As we know, people communication with themselves the most in a day, the function of intrapersonal communication is to persuade, rehearse, making decision in certain incident.

In many different kind of communication we have, which communication you like the most? I know we need all the communications, but maybe in some certain situation you may more enjoyable to some kind of communication. For me, I’m more enjoying to include in a small group communication. Small group communication, communication among groups of say 5 to 10 people; it may include your friends, classmates, or family members. Different people may action differently in a small group communication, some may talkative while some may stay quietly and listen to others when they are in a group chat. Lets us see what is the purpose a group communication, it is to solve problems, develop new ideas, and share knowledge and experiences. People say work together can make the work become easier and corporate with each other also other way of maintain the relationship between peoples.

Why I will be more enjoyable in a small group communication? Maybe it is because I’m a basketball player since I’m still 12years old. I had been well trained communicate well with my teammates. I like the time when I’m discussing about basketball with my teammate to improve our skill and strategy. By the way, the time that I love the most is when we are on the basketball court, every one of us facing the same opponent, shouting or whispering to each other so that we can corporate well to defeat our opponent. When we are communicating well in a match, the chances for us to win the match will increase a lot. This is because we already cultivate our own unspoken consensus and we know what our teammate thinking and we will help each other.

Group communication, a form of communication that I enjoy the most, I always believe that communicate in a group can solve problem faster and more effective than solve the problem alone. Once again I mention, another type of communications also playing an important role in our daily life, however in my opinion, we should choose a way of communication that suit us the most so that we can did well in the progress of human communication. In the end of my article, I will conclude it with a popular belief about Human Communication, the more you communicate, and the better your communication will be.

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: you must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. - James 1:19

When I read Ashley's post this verse just jumped to me. Over the last week we have all been kind of slow in deciding what movie/scene to use for our group assignment. So during the discussion time, almost immediately I thought of two possibilities. The first was a 2007 movie called “Bucket List” starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. It is about two terminally ill men escaping from a cancer ward and heading off on a road trip with a wish list of things to do before they die. It’s a beautiful movie with a lesson of life and a lesson of death. The second movie I thought of was a not so popular 2008 movie called “Fireproof” starring Kirk Cameron and Erin Bethea.

Now, Fireproof is not like your regular blockbuster. In fact, it wasn’t even shown in Malaysia. It’s about a fireman who tries to save his marriage from divorce when his father challenged him with a 40 day “love dare”. Each day, his father gave him one simple task to do that was supposed to help him slowly reconcile with his wife. Interestingly, this very bible verse was given to him on the first day. It says to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. For the rest of the day, he was to avoid saying anything negative to his wife at all. Since Ashley has touched on the first part, let me elaborate on the other parts.

Slow to speak – one of the principles of interpersonal communication is that communication is irreversible. What’s done is done. In the movie, the protagonist’s friend tells him that “A woman is like a rose - Treat her right and she’ll bloom. Treat her badly, and she’ll wilt.” Being slow to speak means thinking about what you are saying and evaluating the consequences. Sometimes, especially when you are angry, this can be very hard. In these situations, it is better to say nothing at all than saying something that you will regret later. Sure, you can’t hide the fact that you are angry but you can prevent further damage if you just hold your tongue. I managed to be in such a situation once; I had a friend that was being very very stubborn and utterly refused to lend a hand when I needed the help. Normally, this wouldn’t be an issue but I had always stood up for this friend whenever he was in the same need. I had even argued with my father over helping him a few times. Naturally I could demand his help, I could do a lot of things, but I didn’t. Such an action would have destroyed the kind of friendship we had. It would never be the same again.

Slow to get angry – One way to avoid fights and miscommunication is not to get angry in the first place. When you are angry, anger clouds your judgement and your ego and need to be justified takes over. The situation becomes ugly really fast like what happened to me. My friend was already angry and accusing me of using him among other things. He was angry, and I was beginning to get angry. I cannot begin to think what might have happened had I not rationalized my actions. Instead of being angry, I stopped and thought – Maybe there is some truth in what he is saying. Once that happened, I started to listen, and once I listened, I gained an understanding of how my friend felt about the situation.

So in conclusion, the three parts of this verse actually work together. When you hold your temper, you think before you speak, and while you are thinking you actually listen to what’s being said. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then I suppose the tongue is mightier still. A good communicator is someone who knows when to speak, and what to speak.

Till I have another Divine inspiration,
Samuel Goh.

If you can see, this article clearly showes us one very important aspect of human communication: THE KEY TO GOOD COMMUNICATION IS LISTENING. Many people tend to lack this in their daily communications.

I totally agree that listening is very very important where communication is concerned. Many of us feel the need to just talk and talk, without even listening to what the other party has to say.Last year, my mum told me, the only reason she is really close with my granny(her mum) is because my granny always sits and listens when my mum speaks about her problems and vice-versa. Today, my mum has a good relationship with me because she too listens to me when i'm in 'dilemma's :p Be it college, boys, friends, she's always there to listen and console me :) This doesn't only work with family relationships, it can also work with lecturers and students, or even employer's and employee's. I worked in a call centre(CIMB) last year, and I had the best relationship with my supervisor. She not only coached me, but was always there when I had problems at the call centre and needed to speak to someone apart from my mum. So I truly feel, listening is indeed the key to good communication.

When I first enrolled for to Human Communications', I kept wondering to myself what is human communications? How is it going to help me? Then I decided I'll leave all these questions for Mr.Murali to answer! So on january 5th I went for my first class, which as planned, answered my first question. I found out that 'communication' according to him is the process of transferring messages and information among 2 or more people :) It can be in the form of verbal language or non verbal language. Non verbal language simply means one's body language. Prior to that, we also got our 1st assignment, which is to analyze a particular clip from any movie based on the four principles of human communication, and how can we improve it. I personally feel this assignment will be the answer to my 2nd question. Not only will it help me communicate better with the people around me, but it will also allow me to understand this subject better and maybe to be the one of the few to score a HD!

how come a best friend of yours can be a stranger ? isn't it strange ?
yes . why is this happening ?
because lacking of communication between one and another. relationship seems to be faded time to time if did not keep in touch with each other. either sms or calling will do to keep a good and lasting relationship.

the following is my own experiences.

Me and my friend were good friend since from primary school. We used to be with each other everytime when we were in school. Same goes to when we were in secondary school. Even though , we were not in the same class but we still find each other after school and walk together. When time comes , a blink of eye we were in college and coincidently we were in the same college too but she's in further intake. Due to completing assignments and studying for examinations we seldom go for outing.

So i planned with other friends to go out together , maybe for lunch or for a drink. I do not believe that ,over a small matter she's out of sudden kind of angry and she scolded me using words while smsing. She have her own reasons why she can not go out with us because she have to help out her family and i do understand your situation. If you tell me in a more proper way i will forgive and try to understands you. I should have apologize to you too because i used those words that i normally use to talk with my friends in college that i dont even know it will hurt your feelings. After that, she's told me that we were from different background so i dont understand what is she doing now. It's not that matter , is because you are moody u push all the blame to me. Isnt this unfair for me ?? Anyway, everything is over and our friendship is back to normal now because you know that you are wrong too.

The conclusion is due to lacking of communication with each other our friendship will fade off easily because we no longer understand what each other thinking. When we talk we do share thoughts and everything happened around us so that we know what is happening around each other. We can understand each other more there will be no conflict occurs between people. Conflicts normally happen when people misunderstood each other and they assume things happen the way they thought it would be. Do not assuming when you not sure about something and ask when you are curious to know about it. These is how people start communicating.

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communication ?

communication is defined as the interactions that involved one or more individuals. Communication divided into two categories which are the intrapersonal and interpersonal communications.
Intrapersonal communication is talking to self so that you learn and improve self more.
Interpersonal communication is interactions between two or more individuals.
Communication occurs when everyone is willing to reveal and learn about others and self. Human do communicate and so the animals do communicate but is in a different way because human communicate is a verbal communication and for animals is a non-verbal communication. Animals do not talk but they interact by actions.

Students do communicate every single day and time especially there is friends around because human needs communication to understand others and sometimes because we do curious about what others think about us. By communication , we will learn and understand others and self more as people tell us. Communication is also a skill that some of us already have it beforehand but is just slightly little natural skills. To have more skills we have to communicate with others. We not only communicate with people face to face but through technology we also do communicate by sending emails , chatting and so on. Technology is to encourage people to communicate and step into further for ones future. Communication not only talk to people but have to listen to what other people trying to tell you. We communicate when people speak to us and we listen and we response to what people telling or asking us.

For example , your group of friends is telling you there is a few hot guys in the college and just attended the same class as you. Your response is by asking them what classes you attended just now and what is his name and where is he now ? . We do listened and we response and this is how communication occurs between human being. Communication occurs naturally. When people is asking us questions and we do response by answering their questions too . This is very natural unless for those who are shy , no self-confident and so on might need more time to adapt to some situations.


Janette Kwan