Eventually we decided to take the song “unfaithful” by Rihana who she is among the happening one in town. Basically we took that as the rhythm of the song is very nice and easy to sing. But somehow the lyrics of the song didn’t bring much thought for me, at the same time its not a very meaningful one that I could talk about. Thus, here I would like to share with you all, a song that might be one of my favorite as I like the melody as well as the lyrics too. The song which I wanted to share here is “Flying without wings” sang by the once very popular boy band (haha) Westlife. I really like the song since I first heard the song. The rhythm of it is a very comfortable and easy listening one…

Everybody's looking for that something
One thing that makes it all complete
You find it in the strangest places
Places you never knew it could be

Some find it in the face of their children
Some find it in their lover's eyes
Who can deny the joy it brings
When you've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

Some find it sharing every morning
Some in their solitary lives
You'll find it in the words of others
A simple line can make you laugh or cry

You'll find it in the deepest friendship
The kind you cherish all your life
And when you know how much that means
You've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

So, impossible as it may seem
You've got to fight for every dream
Cos who's to know which one you let go
Would have made you complete

Well, for me it's waking up beside you
To watch the sunrise on your face
To know that I can say I love you
At any given time or place

It's little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you mine
And it's like flying without wings
Cos you're my special thing
I'm flying without wings

And you're the place my life begins
and you'll be where it ends
I'm flying without wings
And that's the joy you bring

I'm flying without wings

Basically the song is not just a simple romantic love song but a song about love, one love of all and for all. Include love of family, friend, love of life, and nature. In the first stanza we can see that the writer is trying to tell that that’s a very unique and special thing that can’t be definite, which everybody is searching for it through out theirs life time.
As for me, I interpret this way. The special thing might be the satisfaction that you gain when you do something that you love or to or with your love one. At the first stanza too it shows that the special thing you might find it somewhere you wouldn’t know.
Then in the second stanza, the song writer is giving example of different people found the satisfaction by different source. They are somebody who find it in the face of their children, some find it in their lover’s eye. He describe that if you found this special thing, you’ll be flying without wings. It show that the satisfaction of love is something very abstract, is something deep in your soul, you will never know it.
In the lyrics, the writer had bring out that the truth where simple little thing will make someone flying, and to different people, different reason will cause them so. The song also encourages us to be brave on fighting to reach our dream, because we used to think that it was impossible as it seems so. But if you let go of it or give up on it, how in earth you knew that it was not the one that completed you, not the one that put on the wings on you.
In the following part, was the singer’s confession to his girl, somehow for me, its really sound sweet. He wanted to do every little thing to the girl and the girl was the one that make him fly. He confesses that she was where he begin, and he will end there, indicate that the girl was his one and only beloved. Lastly the girl has bring him the joy of flying without wings. Its such a romantic and meaningful song, right?

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.