The Chorus

Today’s(sorry it was a week ago, since I started to write the beginning at the time but stuck somewhere till now, sincere apology) class was quite interesting as we need no to prepare for any topic concerning. It’s indeed lighten up my day but somehow I have to admit here to Dr Jafre: I am so sorry that the previous blog that I should write but in fact I have not even start a single word, feel so sinful. Well I will try to post it within this week.
The Chorus, I never aspect it to be a French movie but anyway thanks God I did not sleep in the class. Actually the theme of the movie does impress me but unfortunately I doubt the originality of the disc, It stuck every now and then especially on the climate and the scene where the children were singing. Whenever Dr. is approaching the player, it will function like normal then.
The story start with one of the character flash back the to the year of 1949 if I am not mistaken, where they were in a boy boarding school. The setting of the story is central region of French. And roughly the story is about how Clement Matthiu try hard to help the children here by teaching them to sing, of course there is a lot of things they go through. In the end I believe this story somehow impress everyone in the class, it just bring us to some thought.
As for myself, I have to admit that I love choir and especially sang by children, so whenever I heard choir in any occasion with all the meaningful lyrics and sweet voices, I can’t help but my eye will started to flooded by my tears, I know it sound funny, but they are so touching that the melody really moves my heart. In the movie they sang nice song, but unfortunately I am not French interpret so I doesn’t get the meaning of their lyrics, thanks God again I did not cry in the class. Anyway the soloist Morhange is actually a true singer in the real life. His voice is so amazing flawless.
The attitude of the supervisor, Clement should be praise as well. The patient he possessed to teach these student is something I believe I can’t do as good as him. As we know the student in the Fond de’l Etang meaning “bottom of the well” is from not an affluent family, most of them are dumped out, orphan or problematic one. Thus they will be a bit difficult to approach them, as the environment where they has been brought up influence them a lot. So I could see that they are trying to put protecting shield from the supervisor. But Clement’s never say never attitude eventually build a choir group that indeed made everyone in the school even closer to each other. There where the scene of the principal take the initiative to play soccer with the school member. His effort has finally bonded everybody together.
His passion of music has once again been light up when he find out that the children there can really sing well. So he started to use his talent to help the student, and it did work out. These can also be reflect in our real life whereby if we were to do something up to our strength, where we were good at as a kick start. We’ll be more passionate doing it, and for sure we’ll be able to handle this more easily. So in my point of view, whatever we want to do we have to love to do it at first, and then we’ll be doing it well.
The story in the other hand shows us that deep down in a children heart, here I refer to the naughty one, they are always kind and innocent. Their pass has created who they are in the present. May be they just need a bit of attention. Is not an easy task to bought up a children, from the story I realize the responsibility of a guardian to always guide them with a lot of love and patient. Thus in impact I know that in the future I’ll have to provide the best for my children. And let them joining a choir group seems to be a good idea as well. Hahahaha…

Soft Skill...Undergraduate...Unemployed

First few things that come into my mind was confidence, leadership, communication skill, management skill, socializing skill, emotional control. For sure there are plenty of it and if one can mange to develope all of it then will lead him or her to an ideal personality.

For me hard skill can ensure you to be profesional of in certain field of carrer but without combination of all sort of sofk skill you cant so any futher. As soft skill will help us to play our role even better no matter in dealing with our career, family and friends as well.

Recently i came across this statistic from some news paper regarding highest unemployed graduates from public and private universities. Thanks God, USM asn't on the top 5 ranking. Other than saying that the fresh graduates now are chossy and expecting too much from the emplyer, somehow its true, I would rather think that they are seriously lack of confidence, and the reasons of being super low self-esteem might be cause by a few of factors, lacking of soft skill might be one of them. Confidence seems to be something given or borned but it can also gain by hardwork.

As an undergraduate who is still suffering the same desperate struggling of being lack of confidence. I could have point out some reason why students were to be in such problem.

Firstly they rarely expose themselve into the world outside, as we see majority of them don't care much about what is going on in the real wolrd. Frankly campus has been a comfort zone for us, thus it makes all of us or shall I say some of us tend to be running away from the truth, the real world, as reality is always cruel.
You can see that abundant of student of USM crowding everynight at Khaleel or what ever mamak stall, simply chit chatting, talking nonsense, "Lepak" in CC (cyber cafe) playing computer games. I wonder if they ever think about their future. I find it quite disappointed when I saw students spending their whole semester break parasiting at home rather than doing something meaningful like looking for job whether concerning their field of study or not. In some way it really helps a lot in the future.

Formal education and family education has bear a result oriented mindset on the students, parents or even the society. Difinitely its not an easy job to change the mindset but at the same time we have to balance in every aspeect. In my point of view, result doesn't mean much but the experience, practical does matter. If I were to be an employer, i would rather hire a candidate with experience than a dean-list student without any. As for my case, I dont really did well in my exam. ( I knew it wasn't a sign either) Anyway, I firmly believe that result is not everything but the your personality and experiences of life encountered. And this is where or how you develope your soft skill. Is not about attending or taking any soft skill courses, in my opinion.

I had notice that nowadays the students are devided into 2 categories, which i mean student in the university. They are both very extreme and aggresive. Its either they are extremely active in co-curriculam activities or other wise. No doubt joining actively in any society or clubs is a good path to develope all kind of soft skill and train up our self-esteem, but sadly majority of us belongs to the second category,

Last word of mine I would advise all my friends here to arm ourselve in which ever way with all these sofy skills to make us more competitive and marketable. But how? Thats what you should find a way out by yourself. The only clue I can give is step out from your room, think out of the box.