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Hey people, my posts are not last minute work! It's because i saved all of them as draft first ,then i post all at one shot. :D

OVERVIEW

Hey yo! Back to blog once again. O man… just a blink of an eye, LMS is coming to an end, just a couple more weeks.

Time really flies, I had already completed my project. Hahaha i had really bad times during the project periods, having members not meeting up for projects. But still, thank god that my group got grade A/B currently. I couldn’t believe it still as I really thought that it will be screwed due to the amount of contributions from group members and all the last minute work. Well, from this, I’m able to learn a lesson that I should be more firm with my decisions and not giving in to other people easily(not showing face anymore).

Throughout past lessons, I had learned many things and the lessons helped me in discovering more about my own self. Be it my weaknesses or strengths. Things like the Johari’s window which convinced me to be more self-conscious as I’ve realized that there are many things about myself which other people notice but not myself. Also, for the topic on listening management skills, it really helped me recognize my own listening styles and enable me to rectify myself to become a better listener. There are many more things I can actually benefit from these lessons. With that, I can improve myself, enhancing my own personality to become a better person. All the things I’ve learned will now just stay with me in LMS lessons but will be with me as I move on in life, applying all the things I was thought.

Last but not least I want to thank all my wonderful LMS class mates and MR LESLIE. I believe these lessons we had been trough will indeed impact every single one of our lives.
BYE!

CONFLICT!

LMS class 18th May 2007.

Well, I’m still able to recall that day where my class t24 had a lesson with Mr Leslie. That particular session was rather interesting as we got to watch a show, ‘THE EXPERIMENT’. The show was really interesting as they show how normal ordinary people lead to conflict. But still, wasted, we only got to watch part of the video. Followed on, we went through the powerpoint slides on conflict and we managed to bring some knowledge about it.

I shall now touch on a little bit of the topic on conflict.

Life doesn’t go on without conflicts, it is just another part of life. This involves struggles, disagreements, disputes or quarrels . It is just the matter of how a person is able to cope with different situations, refrain from entering into conflicts with someone. It takes no effort at all to spark off a conflict, starts when people perceive that their needs, interests, views, values or goals are incompatible. There are pros and con for when conflict arises. The pros are that it is able to strengthen or enhance relationships as well, promotes group creativity and many more. However, it may weaken relationships as well when one is unable to overcome the problems they face. Conflicts do not only occur within friends but with families as well. Of course, conflicts do revolve around my world though I’m the kind of person who tries to stay out of it.

One of the major conflicts I faced was with my parents. That was 4 years ago when I first accept Christ into my life. Indeed that was the turning point of my life, from a guy once who was rebellious and notorious to a guy who has a better attitude and well behaved. As my parents were rather strong free-thinkers, they objected me from going to church and grounded me on weekends. I felt that they were really unreasonable. From that point of time, my parents and I often enter in to conflicts or ‘cold war’ although I always tried my best to stay out of it, I hate conflicts. Most of the time we quarrel and things didn’t turn out right. So for subsequent 6 months, I had been coming out with excuses on Saturdays and Sundays so that I could go for church services. At the same time I had been praying for a break through. 6 months later, I had appendicitis and so ended up in the hospital. my church mates came to visit me then after the visitation, my parents send them home. On the way back, one of my church mates accidentally leaked out that I have been attending church regularly. With that, my parents then realized how devoted I was and finally, they allow me to attend church without any objections. Everything ten stopped, be it conflicts or cold war. Besides, they became more reasonable and understanding. In addition, our relationship became better after all this conflicts and distrust.

See what I meant, there is no doubt that conflict can strengthen and enhance relationships but it is an after effect, after u pull through the difficult times. That’s all for today hope u will look into what I’ve said.

Thank you mum and dad..
Cheers:D

MANAGING ANGER

WOw,i'm way behind time for my blog postings.haha..By the way lets get started...





During week 2, we had a lesson regarding anger management for lms. This lesson includes Cow behavioural styles,the RAP style and Negative self talk.

Triggers of anger

Any thing under the sun can trigger anger within us.It can be the slightest thing which we dislike or does not go according to our will.Or maybe it is something not worth mentioning.People who are petty definetely have more triggers in life as compared to the rest.

Different people have different way of managing anger.Some people who are rather petty,they tend to get angry really easily and instead of controlling themselves,they choose to release their anger and make a big fuss out of it.This kind of behaviour is usually categorised under outburst in COW behavioural style.Where as for people who choose not to be angry or choosing to look towards the brightside and people who prefer keeping things to themselves or prefer to give in during situations,they are classified under control and withdraw respectively.

Speaking of which,i'm those kind of people who choose to control or withdraw during minor or not so serious situations.On the other hand,i will choose outburst during extreme situations or when someone really gets over my head.Recently,i have been able to cope with or control my anger rather well even during some extreme cases.i shall move into it later on.

Besides the COW behavioural styles,RAP style is imperative.Many people deceive themselves a times,they choose to believe that they are not angry when they are indeed infuriated.This should not be the case!Infact,they should just recognise that they are angry and deal with it in a proper way by analysing or changing thier thoughts.Followed on,they should plan how to sort things out.With that,a person can really change and being able to cope with their anger and calm oneself.

Whenever a person gets infuriated,they have the tendency of having negative-selft talk.when people get angry,they might just begin calling one another names,pinpointing one another,cusing one another in mind, so on and so forth...It is very common.Thus,i feel that one should change and begin to talk things out in a proper manner instead of having negative-self talk which might stir things up within oneself.

One of the 'extreme' issues(caused me to be really pissed!) i've been through few weeks back.

I was walking along the street with my friends and one of my friend accidentally bummed into a guy without apologising. That guy then approached us and he mistaken me as my friend so he pushed me and started spouting vulgarities.I told that guy that it wasn't me but he refused to believe it and he threatened to bash me up.I was then infuriated.Despite of my anger,i chose not to retaliate and i controlled myself.I continued to explain to that guy that is was my friend and my friend then apologised.Still he didn't believe it.I did not want to pursue the matter so i withdrew and apologised before things get worst.I believe for this unreasonable case no one will ever give in and take the blame.I believe for different situations,there must be a way to sort things out,and one should not release their anger.After going through cases like this,being able to manage their anger, a person can develop a better character and will be able to manage their anger when tougher times arise:D

Self-esteem and self-awareness

I'm sure by now most people should know themselves relatively well, whether they have low or high self-esteem.Also, many people are still unaware about other peoples' impression on them.In this world we should be more aware of what is happening around us.Furthermore,I feel that having neither high or low self-esteem is the best,in other words moderate self-esteem.

Last friday,i had a lesson on self-awareness and self-esteem conducted by my cool tutor, Mr leslie.At the beginning of the lesson,the class played a simple game---.The game's objective is togain as many points as possible.We were told that we would have to stay back if we got negative points.
Initially the game went on smoothly and everyone trusted one another including me who was rather confident that every group will cling on to their promise.Until the second round where one of the groups decided to go on by their on way and so they broke the promise(putting the same answer through out the entire game) we made.As it went on,some of us including me were rather pissed(just for a short while).But of course, that particular group weren't that bad,they were aware that the teacher wouldn't keep us back after lesson,they turned out to be right.From that ,i realised my weakness which is not being aware of whats going on and being over confident in answering all the answers.I learned that i shouldn't have too high self-esteem and i got to have more self-awareness in future.

Self-esteem and self-awareness are just part and parcel of life...


During my secondary school days,I tend to have higher self-esteem when it comes to sports. For me,i'm always full with confidence during competitions which allows me to perform to my very best. With that, my rugby coaches see the potential in me thus,they chose me to be the captain of my school rugby team. Having a role as a captain, i had to boost my team mates' morale,bonding them together and many more. That really helped me to be more serious in my work and to be more responsible.

In year 2005 when i was seconday 3,there were divisions within the rugby team one month before the rugby national tournament.I did know about it until one mounth later.Some of the teammates despise one another including me due to our huge ego.Some even think that we were arrogant.I was really troubled and had problems bringing the team back together. In the end, still i failed to bring them back as a team and that resulted to our defeat in the second round of the tournament.During that period of time, i was really affected and had the mentality that i was a big failure.From then on,i changed,started to have really low self-esteem,thinking that i wasn't good enough for anything.That also affected my studies and i failed badly for my mid-year exam.All my frends did well except me.I was really down,my self-esteem further deteriated.

I continued to be at that state of mind until the mid of july when i had a rugby camp. I thought that that would be a great chance for me to bond the team back again. I tried my best,and my hardwork paid off. Finally after so long,i managed to bring the team back again. My confidence then restored and remain humbled.I began to be more hardworking and to have more perserverence.Soon everything turn out to be better. I set goals and really worked hard towards them. I cleared my sec 3 end of year exam fairly well and was promoted to sec4,i felt that i was on top the world.Everything seem to be fine. During the december holiday,my team trained hard,determined to achieve something in year 2006.in 2006,We were confident and were out to win which we did and we managed to clinch the national rugby bowl champion which was not easy for a normal neighbourhood school.

With that,I learned that having neither too high nor low-self esteem is imperative.In addition,i feel that we need to me more self-aware and rectify if our characters are not acceptable to others:D