Interwoven...

Interests, dreams and aspirations are interwoven. At least for Shahuma, who just turned 24 earlier this month, it is!! ;D She is currently waiting on pins and needles to finish her degree!!

Her interests?? People people people annnd people as the photo indicates!! Hehe!! That pretty much covers it. People just plain interests her. Maybe you might have been clued into the fact that she studies psychology now… Although by that guess you’d only be partly correct… She does business psychology... So whats the difference you might ask. The difference is that it’s just business incorporated into psychology. It covers the human element part of the business world.

So let’s get back to her favorite topic!! Yup!! People!! They are so alike yet so different. Sometimes it’s the similarities that make them fascinating… and sometimes it’s the differences that make them fascinating. Their predictability in the course of life... and just when you decide that everything about them is predictable they do something unpredictable. Alryt… as you might have guessed she could ramble for hours and hours nonstop about how intriguing people can be. So she’ll just stop right here and talk a bit about her dreams and aspirations. What does she dream of?? She dreams of doing something for humanity. Something that would make her life seem worthwhile. Something that would bring a change to society. A cynic might categorize her as a hopeless dogooder. But hey... as Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”. If no one does anything about any of the world problems thinking that they can’t do anything alone then the problems would just escalate, won’t they? Moreover if you ask around enough people there are others just like you who wanna help make the world a better place. Guess its getting a little heavy here. Alryt…winding down a bit… Lets hear abt why she chose to study business. She believes that she gotta have a head for business if she is to manage a charity organization one day. And yea… thats right... you gotta have money to achieve any dream.

Team Evolution - Emergence

Hello again people!

This time around, I'll be talking about something more serious. It's about Team Evolution for the group assignment. Sounds cool huh? It's so so la.. Well, enough ding dongs and here goes :

Emergence is a stage when a consensus is reached amongst teammates. To tell you, it wasn't that easy. First, there is this thing called Problem Awareness. It is as obvious as it sounds. Now that's the easy part. There are always speed bumps known as Communication Barriers. First and the most common one is Noise and Distractions. When you're with a bunch of friends, it is almost GUARANTEED that there will be noises. Not too much from the surrounding but the friends. Apart from that, the meeting was carried out in a cafeteria. Oh yeah... Maximum noise and distraction. Food, people talking about their spouses and checking out girls who passed by, just to name a few. The other barrier is Competing Messages. Once we managed to get together and discuss, each member splurts out their own ideas and methods on how to do things. Yay! Another half an hour gone sticking into each other's throat. Once the drama's over, we stepped back and dealt with it like civilized people. You've guessed it, democracy. It may not be the best way to govern a country, but hey, it works for a bunch of students trying to just finish the assignment on time. Finally when everything's planned out, it was good enough. We said goodbye and went off looking as happy as this dude.

John Sim

Come What May

Yo~

Hey, how's it goin'?

How's your day really, cuz' let me tell you hers was just uneventful. Woke up late (in the process, ignoring FOUR deafening alarms situated right next to her ear), waited 2 hours for her friend to pick her up, went to Tropicana City Mall and waited Another 2 hours for more friends, then, they watched a movie (Kungfu Panda 2 is not bad....), later went to dinner, then drove home. Well, this is bout' as uneventful life's gonna get really. Haha...

Introductions:

Hi! Her name is Grace, she'll be in her 20th summer this June (yay!) and well, by now you could really guess that sarcasm is a favored hobby of hers, if you catch my drift.

Let's get to know her :D. I'm ecstatic, aren't you?

Hmm...well from a tender age, people have been telling her, dream big and you will live big. Yea, that sounds good no? However as a child, even now, she never really had ambitions nor did she think of dreams to fulfill. One could say she is contented with what she has, and with what she needs.



Alright, she admits, like any normal human she has things that she does crave for, to fulfill. Like she would love to go to Japan and live there, to learn the art of kendo, speak like a true Japanese (Yes, she's a Japanese fanatic), and that she really wants to experience Europe from a backpackers point of view, and learn to speak Russian, Spanish, German and Korean fluently while visiting each country respectively. While I'm at it, as a Christian, she want to go on missions and help those in need, to fulfill my duty and to shower love to those in need of it.

@.@

Wow...okay. Backtracking a little, she admits, that is a Long list of things she wants to do, with a serious heaping of $$$$ and commitment to actually be able to fulfill them, but hey, she's human right? Haha XD

Well now, she has been able to partially accomplish at least some of her wants i would say, like,
she is currently taking Korean classes, teaching herself Russian with a dictionary (killer she tells me), she has a German friend that taught her the basics of speaking German, and she is currently a student of Psychology; learning to understand the people around her on a deeper level [she's vying for a place with Neurolinguistics, keep your fingers crossed :)]

Ultimately, I will say that, she is still quite contented with what she has. True she barely scratched the surface with what she dreams of, but hey, at least she knows that she has taken the first few steps that she knows, with determination, passion and commitment, she can fulfill her aspirations. Be it 10, 20 or 50 years, why rush? Life is short and she tells me, It's the journey that really counts not the destination, right?

'Remember, life isn't about how many breaths you take, but about the moments that takes your breath away.' - Will smith, Alex Hitchens; Hitch

Hobbies + Dreams = Awesomeness

Greetings fellow readers!

This post is about a person named Sim Xuan Chi aka John Sim, age 21. He is currently studying in HELP University as a first year psychology student.

As for his interests, there are just too many of them. For starters, there's basketball, which he plays almost every week without fail. Any kind of sports would interest him. Kind of a typical guy huh? Anyway, other than sports, there is also music. Music has been his partner for the past 7 years since he picked up the guitar. And now, he also plays the drums! Talk about talent. Haha. He is also into outdoor activities like hiking. The most recent hike took him 9 hours to reach half (yes, half) the mountain and back. It was really weary on him. Almost bedridden.

This is supposed to be the 45 degrees hike up, but the camera didn't pick the angle up. Too bad.

In his recent trip to Ipoh, he joined his bunch of friends in paintball and water rafting. Both were new things to John, so he didn't hesitate to join. Well, maybe a little for paintball as he was broke.

Paintball's fun when you win!

Having said that, he did not regret one bit about doing paintball and water rafting. ESPECIALLY water rafting. It was pure excitement though it was quite scary. He fell into one of the rapids when the raft hit one. Here's the video of the fall :

As for now, he is into fishing. I mean REALLY into fishing. However, he did not bother about what others think of him and his new found hobby. Fishing was relatively new to him, started about a year and a half ago. Now he is getting considerably good at it.

This is his largest catch of a fish native to the amazon, Pacu of 7 kg.

Through fishing, he has made many new friends who are really passionate with what they are doing. This kind of spirit is rare now. It is this kind of passion and people that had kept John hooked to fishing. Not only the people are in great spirits, fishing actually exercises his brain to think more critically to solve problem. Make do with what you have to solve the problem in hand. Creativity went wild when he decides to try anything he can grab a hold of to use as bait. Corn, flour, eggs and even roti canai dipped with dhall was not even spared!

When it comes to dreams and aspirations, John doesn't have any specific target but he is looking to have a career in the line of psychology. In details, he still has not got an idea yet. To puts things rather simple, he never misses an opportunity to learn and earn. For now, he is just concentrating in his studies and tries not to worry too much about the future as it is unpredictable.

Just sit in for the ride called life.