I was reading my friend's blog and I saw this
c.h.i.n.a.
come here, i need affection.
k.o.r.e.a.
keep optimistic regardless of every adversity.
h.o.l.l.a.n.d
hope our love lasts and never dies.
i.t.a.l.y.
I trust and love you.
l.i.b.y.a.
love is beautiful; you also.
f.r.a.n.c.e.
friendships remain and never can end.
b.u.r.m.a.
between us, remember me always.
n.e.p.a.l.
never ever part as lovers.
i.n.d.i.a.
I nearly died in adoration.
k.e.n.y.a
keep everything nice, yet arousing.
C，a，n，a，t，d，i，a
cute and naughty action that developed into attraction
e.g.y.p.t.
everything’s great, you pretty thing!!
m.a.n.i.l.a.
may all nights inspire love always.
p.e.r.u.
phorget (forget) everyone...remember us.
t.h.a.i.l.a.n.d.
totally happy. always in love and never dull.
j.a.p.a.n.
just a pig and nothing.
M.A.L.A.Y.S.I.A
Memories Are Lovable As Yielding Sweet Infinite Anniversary.
I found out it is quite an interesting article, so I would like to share it here.I will never ever think of countries names actually can be read in this way. After the words are separated, most of the meaning are talking about love. This proves that the feeling of love had already become one of the important element in many's heart. Love can change a person, love can change the world. In our human communication subject, love can be divided into a few types,which are the Eros love which seek for beauty and sensuality and focuses on physical attractiveness, ludic love chich seeks entertainment and excitement and sees love as fun, storge love which is a peaceful and tranquil love, pragma love which is practical and traditional, manic love which is an obsessive love that needs to give and receive constant attention and affection and agapic love which is compassiobate and selfless.
Between all the types of love, i think that the eros love is mostly seen around me. This is because friends around me are mostly this kind of person. They like to tell me in this way when they have a new target to get as their girlfriend, they will say "hey, I tell you huh, I have met a girl, very pretty, very sweet and the body shape look so nice." Mostly guys around me are attracted by girls when they just look at the physical of the girl. After they successfully get the girl as their girlfriend, they started to critic about their girlfriend not as good as the other girl they met. This is not a good act. So guys, try to be satisfied and grateful with the girlfriend you are having now.Peace.^^
by Leong Shong Hon
October 31, 2009
Name of the Countries
I like lollipop
When people first heard this, they might think i am kind of childish or what. But actually the word lollipop does have another meaning for me.
For the 16 years of my life before i was form 4, I was quite introvert. I don't really talk to people, i don't really attend to the co-curriculum, i mean i went but just for the sack of attendance.
Then in the year of form 4, i started to changed (quite a bit). I will talk to the others, but not often, or not a long talk, at least i did not close myself up again. This is because of Lollipop. Lollipop which i am referring to is not the sweets which can be seen at the market. The lollipop which i mean is actually a Taiwanese boy band. They don't sing well, but what they do is they dance well and they always create a happy scene for those people who like them. I started to watch their show, started to influenced by their way of talking, started to think of their dance unconsciously. Whether you believe it or not, in a way they are like communicating with me, giving me some power to change myself. Soon, I started to dance with my really close friends, and my senior saw us, asking us to do performance, and my because of performing my friend's amount increased.
So after the two years of dancing with my friends, i realize that dancing is actually one of my way to communicate with my close friends. From the way i dance, it actually showed them how i feel at that moment, whether happy, sad, angry or other feelings. Honestly, my mind was blank whenever i dance, but they say they can interpret my feelings through my dancing. This most probably because of my non verbal language i think. Right??:)
By Leong Shong Hon
October 27, 2009
Working As A Team
Today a few friends of mine and me was busying about the marketing project, which was to set up a stall to sell something in order to write out our proposal for our presentations. Its actually quite hard to run on a business, one of my friend Chun Haw and me sat at the stall for several hours. but luckily we able to manage our stall properly, in the way of selling, providing good service, i think we actually did provide good services.
Actually what I want to say in this blog is the team working. Today we worked as a team, and its is actually related to the chapter we learned today, the chapter of members and leaders in small group communication. With an unconscious heart, i realize that actually the group members of mine do have the characteristics of encourager, harmonizer, compromiser and also follower. actually our team has two people who acts as an leader, at least i think they are although they did not admit. This is because they acts as an encourager and also harmonizer. The day before the selling our products, i kept asking do we able to finish selling our products, they put a smile on their face and said, it is possible, and asked me not to worry. Today while selling our products, two of them tried to increase the percentage of our sales by using different strategies. How bout me? Actually I am a typical follower, maybe I am already used to it, since I was a kid until now, I keep on doing things that people ask me to do and sometimes i might do it well, sometimes i might just simply do it. But I am quite proud of myself today, because i think i really did a great job. At least I did not make the situation worst. Please allow me to give a little applause to myself..^^
By Leong Shong Hon
October 25, 2009
Black and White
Recently I had been watching a Chinese TV series call Black and White. It is a story about a guy who born with a very ugly face, hunch back, parents died since he was ten and always get bully by people. One day he get caught by some mysterious people and the moment he woke up, he was given a very nice face, a whole new sports car, a bungalow, every month 30 thousand cash given to him and he has given a job as a police. However soon he find out that all this was given by a head of gangster who is probably his father. Since the moment he was given a new face, he tried to become a good police but after he find out his true identity, he realize that his life has totally change, he is confused whether to help the gangster side or to arrest his father.
For me, this drama contains a lot of hardship for the main character. Such as, when he find out that he is the son of the gangster, he screwed up his friendship with his best friend who is also a cop, he find out it is hard to make decision whether to be good or be bad, he find out the girl he likes might turn to become his sister.
In our daily life, of course we won’t be able to get into this type of situation. But what I want to say is, our decisions might turn our life into disaster. Such as the main character, he choose to accept the life people gave him although he don’t know who is the one who gave him all the properties and in the end he turn up to choose whether to be good or to be bad. We don’t want to lost our friend which we very care about, we don’t want to turn people down who expect us to do good. So, we must always do the right choice, do the right thing.
By Leong Shong Hon
October 19, 2009
Culture pollution
Recently there is an advertisement going popular and popular, which is the P1wimax advertisement. Even kids around the streets are talking using the slogan "cut already or not". For the Marketers of the P1wimax, it is definitely a good things because the advertisement is so popular until kids also know about it. But for me, the way they are selling the advertisement is like kind of not suitable for kids, such as, one of the lady in the advertisement said after you cut it it will be more faster and more comfortable with a very seductive voice. For teenagers and adults, they might be interpret the message in another way when they first listened to the advertisement and find out it is awful if they do not finish the advertisement.
In an objective view, it is absolutely a wrong thing to do. But when we look it in a subjective view, it might be correct. This is because the way wimax do promotion might be slightly wrong because of what they say, but in the end of the day, they get their sales, they success in selling their products.So, for them, it is not a wrong thing to go. It is a good culture pollution for them.
Nowadays, many friends of mine, including some of my relatives 'had already cut', based on their comment,the wimax is better than their old one. But of course, for me, I won't simply listening to their comment, I think I will go and try the speed of wimax first, only decide whether I want to change my network or not.
By Leong Shong Hon
English Emcee VS Chinese Emcee
When I met Xandria Ooi, for the first time she was not hosting an event. In fact, we were seated together, yeah the special VIP table reserved for the committee members of the organizing Catholic High School Prom Night @ Hilton Hotel, KL. She was the invited guest being an alumni of CHS. Of course, she came with her boyfriend, Yuri Wong (now her fiancee) and I'd Kevin Loo as my date for that night. Meeting her changed my perspective of her, all the while I thought of her as someone proud and aloof. She was warm and she managed to break the "ice" by asking Yuri to speak with Kevin and find creative ways to interact with us in a cool, interesting conversation.
The other day, I met her again, but this time as the emcee for the Pink Run at KL Tower in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month. She was very professional. She chose her words. Well and she managed to convey a meaningful message to the crowd, the big crowd present, in English of course!
Last Sunday, was the Selangor Turf Club Ladies Day. I was there with some ladies in our most stylish outfits. This was the first time I attended an event hosted by a Chinese/Cantonese speaking emcee. I find her a bit too loud and informal at times. Maybe it was a Horse Race and she had to raise her voice to bring in the excitement? :S Hoping the spectators would place more bets, I guess. No offense.
Well, to conclude, although it's unfair to judge the Chinese and English emcees "style" of hosting events based on two experiences, I still prefer Xandria Ooi's style - Warm, tactful and polite :)
October 17, 2009
A type of non-verbal communication
The non-verbal communication I would like to say in today’s blog is dancing. Actually dancing is also a type of communication. For example, people who do break dance which is also known as the bboys, they don’t actually talk much, they have their very own hand language when they are dancing with each other. There are a lot of competitions all around the world, when Korean go to Japan, they do not know how to talk Japanese, but this doesn’t affect them when they dance, because when they dance, the Korean can use all their body language to talk with the Japanese, such as using hand language of the Bboys insulting the competitor or praising they have great moves. Other than that, when one people dance with another people, they can actually feel how the person think of them. And this situation mostly happens to ballroom dance dancers. This is because mostly when doing ballroom dance, guys can invite a girl as their partner to dance, and normally guys will invite girls that they like or they hope to couple with to be their partners. Other than that, like the Sarawak people, they dance when they are celebrating the festivals, based on the spears and the equipment they hold, even thought the dancers did not say, but the crowd can easily know that they try to perform and paying respect to the warriors that use to sacrifice to their tribe before. For me, sometimes when I don’t feel like talking to my brother, also I will use dancing language trying to tell him what I am thinking. But I dance street dance, mostly street dance hand sign and languages are insulting people, so I don’t usually show to my friends, if next time I do this kind of moves to people around college, this really means that I am really in an angry mood.^^
By Leong Shong Hon
October 14, 2009
~LIFE~
Life is a struggle
You might try to rise higher
~Positive Words,Powerful Results~
Kind words have the power to
October 12, 2009
Whatever you do, don't say WHATEVER!
According to a US survey published in the STAR on 9 Oct 09, the most annoying word is "whatever". If you want to be a great conversationalist this is certainly a word to be avoided. Therefore, whatever you do, don't say WHATEVER in conversation.
October 11, 2009
Religion
In this blog, i would like to talk about the way that religion communicate with us. I still remember clearly that while I was still in the national service camp, I was force to join a Buddhism class. The class was held on Thursday and Friday night, and also Sunday morning. The routine of the class is something like, first when u arrive to the class, get yourself to meditate, then, they will ask us to follow them to read some paragraphs, wishing our family, friends and also teachers in the camp to become healthy and happy always and then they will start talking about all the Buddha things.
At the beginning I don't really have the spirit or the heart to join the class, like what I said I was forced to go there just because every religion has their own class to attend. Day after day the teachers in the Buddha class keep talking about those karma things, keep talking about how we suppose to treat our family members, but of course the good side. At that moment, family is the most important thing for me. So i started to really listen to what they say, really like go into the Buddha things.
So what I'm trying to say is, actually religion is somehow like hypnotist, but it is just an opinion of mine. They talk to you, giving you some opinions and supports when you need help. They fill up your emptiness when you feel alone. Although we can't see Buddha, but to some people they do believe that he is just around us all the time. Although we can't really talk to him, but we do always talk to him, such as when we are praying, when we are unhappy, that is what I'm trying to say, religion does fill up our empty heart when there is no one around us to communicate with. Religion is one of the way that can actually make us to say out what what we hide deep inside our heart. So how bout trying to talk to the God next time when you really feel depressed and there is no one you feel like talking to.
By Leong Shong Hon
October 10, 2009
The power of communication
Recently CY had talked a lot with me, encouraging me doing things that i don't used to do, encouraging me to do things that i would not think of doing in the past. Furthermore, she asked me to join some activities that i would never think to participate before. She even pointed out what actually my problem is. I think that is why we need a friend around us who we really can talk to.
The next day after the conversation, I had a presentation. As usual, i felt nervous. One of the buddy practice my talk with me in the DSA, pointed out which part of my speech i should do more effort in order to improve, before i go out and do the presentation, he gave me some moral support. After the presentation, i get praises from my friends and also the lecturer, I don't know was that just to comfort me or they are talking the facts. But what I am sure at that moment was, I felt happy when i heard that, and i felt more calm before i did the presentation. Although i said thanks to them for several times, but i don't mean just simply saying that, i really mean it.
Actually what I am trying to say is, a simple conversation actually contains of some kind of power, it can make oneself feel happy, sad, nervous and so on. It also can build up a person's confidence, and also comforting people when they feel bad. A simple conversation also can make people feel relaxing, feel comfort. But what I want to say is, we have to really beware of people who we are talking to. Sometimes there are people who doesn't really trustworthy, they give out negative powers. they influence our emotion and might make us feel inconfidence. To conclude, I would like to say that, the power of communication will really bring benefits but also will bring disadvantages. We must always beware of what we say.
By Leong Shong Hon
October 8, 2009
1 Malaysia - A civil cultured society
We are all moving towards building a nation 1 Malaysia. Malaysia, as we know Malaysia is a melting pot of colours and faces with races such as Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan and Dayak. We live in harmony and we have mutual respect for one another. Every citizen has an important role to play to build a society that is peaceful and law-abiding. As a result, we are able to attain peace and stability.
Remember the proverb, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world". The building of good character begins from the cradle. The role of a mother is very important in shaping a child. Communication influences the way children think and act. Their minds absorb the information they learn. They express themselves better and become more creative in their thinking.
Children are constantly being exposed to diverse images, viewpoints and opinions on our customs and our traditions. The traditions that we follow shape our culture. Malaysia is truly a nation with a diversity found only in few places in the world. So, it's our dream to continue to build a civil cultured society that holds this nation together. A sense of pride in being who we are - 1 Malaysia
October 4, 2009
Toast to the Bride and Groom!
I attended a wedding dinner of my Uncle Leong at Marriot Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, some time back. It is customary that the groom's family hosts the dinner. The father of the groom should speak first, followed by the best man, before the toast. A fabulous speech cum toast can turn an ordinary occasion into an extraordinary celebration and make a simple moment special :) What I remember clearly was the speech given by Uncle Robert, his best friend also his best-man, before the toast!
In his speech, he made it short, sweet and snappy. It had a good balance of humor, interest and meaning. He lighten all of us up by relating the incident how the bride and groom met each other at the airport while they were stranded on an island for a night. He also reflected on the outstanding accomplishments of the groom, how he climbed the corporate ladder. He chose simple words as often the simplest words sound the most sincere, about the groom's relationship with his friends and GOD.
Uncle Robert indeed a charismatic person unfazed by the 300 invited guests at the ballroom, he was able to deliver a speech that captivate the crowd no matter what words are being said. Ending with a line quoted by him before the toast, "Wishing the bride and groom many blessings from God. To good health and Love, double happiness!"
opening of a conversation
It is quite hard when you want to start something, as in set up a business, activity or a company. But for me, it is much more harder to start a conversation, especially to the strangers. First, you will need courage to do so. When you do have the courage, it doesn't mean that you will have the chance to have a good conversation. The most important thing is that you need to have a good opening skill.
The most common opening that use by people is the skill 'small talk', which also known as phatic communication. For example, we always ask people how do you do when we first meet with people. This is one of the way to start a conversation using small talk skill.What do we usually talk when we use phatic communication? Actually we do have a lot of things to talk. But most commonly people will use the weather or films they recently watch. For instance, while I was in secondary school, I like to talk with my friends about drama I watched before the night to school. Most commonly i will start our conversation like that, 'hey, did u watch that drama yesterday, that was quite interesting......bla bla bla.' That is an example of mine, I believe that many people have gone through that before too.
Other than that, greeting people also consider as an opening of a conversation, such as the word 'hi'. It is a very simple word but it does greet people, it does makes people feel that you are a polite person, but definitely you have to speak it out in a nice and polite tone. When you can do so, it usually lead us to a happy conversation.
Having a good opening is the key point to a good and comfortable conversation. So remember to use good small talk skills next time when you meet your friends.
By Leong Shong Hon
Self Check
I guess that I don't really know how to talk to people when I'm in a group discussion. For example, we were put inside a group for group work in the human comm tutorial class. I don't really dare to voice out, although i do have some ideas going on inside my head. Maybe because of I'm lack of confident again.
Another example, when few of my cousins sit together and talk. I am always the one who acts as a listener. I will think that is it I don't want to talk, I don't like to talk, or I really don't know what to talk? Actually its very hard for me to talk to others. It is much more harder when I'm being put inside a group discussion, no matter the group is close with me or just ordinary friends.
But still, I would like to think that it is because of my lack of confident. Because this is the only way i can find to improve myself. And my very lousy English. I don't really speak well English, this makes me do not always talk to people who doesn't speak Chinese. I do always doing self checking on my own but i does not always able to do corrections on my own mistakes. That is the part that makes me feel upset about.Hmm...never mind, I think I am still able to correct them, as long as I have the heart, right? Tomorrow will start college again, it is really hard for me to get up from my warm and comfortable bed and go to college. I hope i can make it, reach school on the time. I'm trying to get rid of Monday blue.
By Leong Shong Hon