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NURHAZIQAH BINTI ABDUL HALIM
A168435 (9/8/2021)

How is my progression?

I’ve mastered the basic and easy chords for ukulele, just by having repetitive practices guided by my online tutor.

It is actually very tricky since I have to get used to positioning my fingers and not touching the other strings.

Other than that, I’ve learnt how to strumming using pick and picking patterns. These two are different things. These are the component has been taught :

- Right Hand Technique,

- Thumb Picking

- Finger Picking

- Picking Patterns

It took me one whole week to learn the picking technique, while refering to the videos by my online tutor.

3. Points to remember from week 2!

Not to give up because strumming with pick is actually tougher as I thought because I have to control the same amount of pressure while strumming. And if I want to change between chords in a song, I have to be fast so it won’t sound weird.

4. Your feelings & thoughts

There is certain time when I feel this project is tricky and frustating because I have to memorise the chords and there’s a lot! However, my feelings are kept neutral as time goes by. Nevertheless, picking is the hardest for this week and it can become frustating sometimes

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!

The willingness to not give up and patience! As I can become pretty impatient, it is a value that I shall persevere from now on

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?

My difficulties are pretty the same as week ago, it seems like I’ve getting used to it. The difference is just by using a pick, I have to maintain the same amount of pressure because using a pick makes the sound louder and inconsistent. So, I think repetitive practise by using the ‘Pressure and Relaxation’ technique is useful. Picking is also so hard to be done because there are many patterns and each pattern have different steps. In order to get it right, I have to memorise the patterns. To cope with it, should follow my friend’s advice which is to practise according to the class and practise my own favourite songs via Youtube

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

Fun but challenging

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)

I’ll choose a song for my final presentation and continue for the picking for few days and proceed with playing my selected favourite songs.

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1. Your name, matrix number, date

Muhammad Firdaus Bin Hasnol

A168399, 26th Aug 2021

2. How is your progress?

In my second week, I picked up the same product ordered from a supplier . After that, I have packed the product according to the measurements requested by the customer such as 250 grams, 500 grams, or 1000 grams. Not only that, but I also do promotions on social media more often.

3. Things to keep in mind from the 2nd week!

Things to remember are not to be ashamed to learn and always thirst for knowledge. Next, always be creative and dare to take risks. Always be disciplined and sensitive to all aspects.

4. Your feelings & thoughts

Still eager to make the best and correct previous mistakes. Mistakes make me learn and stay strong in the face of challenges.

5. 1 good thing from what you do that you can practice now!

The thing I get is that I learn how to manage raw materials and maintain freshness to give to customers. not only that, in terms of packaging I also learned a lot from more skilled people.

6. Any difficulties / concerns? How do you cope?

The problem I faced was in terms of the delivery of raw goods sent from Kuala Lumpur directly to me. I am very worried in terms of the quality that will be received because the product has been exposed for a long time but thank God it did not happen, the product obtained is very quality and fresh. and also in terms of packaging and processing techniques but with the availability of the internet and resources from skilled people, the matter was successfully resolved.

7. 2 words to describe the progress of elective posting so far

Struggling but not giving up, there are many obstacles I have to face to improve the quality and progress of my project.

8. Your plans for next week (Week 3)

My plan next week is to study in terms of processing and organization. Next, Recheck in terms of finances. Make deliveries to customers via Cash on delivery (COD).

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EP WEEK 2

Nurul Izzati Binti Syahruddin, A168509, 20/08/2021

Alhamdulillah progressed for this second week, we got another 5 customers. To conclude for this second week of our sale, the remaining enamel pins are 57 and 63 enamel pins have been sold. Most of our customers are mostly from our circle. It will be great if our product could reach a wider range of people. Furthermore, we also added some value to our packaging by placing our business card and shredded paper to make it look more appealing. In addition, we usually have meetings at least once a week to discuss any issues or problems that we face during the selling process.

Points to remember from week 2 are to be more proactive and enthusiastic. What I mean is we need to think more about marketing ideas and ways to promote our page. These issues will be further discussed in our next meeting.

I am happy and excited since I have decided to do this and this is actually my baby step in my business career. I believe a little progress every day adds up to bigger results.

1 good thing from what I did that I can practice now is to be more proactive, brave, and have a willingness to learn and to do something new. Doing this business is like stepping out of my comfort zone. I believe if I can do this, I can do anything else that I have been wanting to do.

Since covid cases keep rising. This actually has an effect on our delivery. Since one of my friends handles the delivery, I feel so bad for her. Since we have no choice but to use the pickup delivery service and all of us are still new about this. By the way, covid could not be the reason for us to stop what we are doing, from this matter actually we get to learn how to handle delivery easier in the next future if we face with the same situation.

2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

Flexible and motivating

My plan for next week is to discuss with other team members how to promote our page on social media, marketing ideas, and how to make our page more attractive and captivating so that many people would like to visit our page.

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1.     Your name, matric number, date

Kesavan A/L Karunanidhi, A167914, 14th August 2021

2.      How is your progress?

Well I am in the 2nd week of my course. This week I have watched videos regarding the Birth of elements and Higgs Boson. This week was little more towards history and also involved so much calculations. This week required a little physics knowledge which of course I have forgotten so I had to flip through my secondary physics books and go through the formulas in order to understand better the topics. After viewing the videos, I completed the set of questions and I managed to get most of the questions correct in my 1st attempt.

3.     Points to remember from week 2!

This week I have learnt how the chemical elements of the periodic table exist. At the very beginning of the universe, at the Big Bang, there were only hydrogen and helium formed. However, we need other elements like carbon ,oxygen, nitrogen to make up our bodies. These elements are produced by a nuclear reaction which releases neutrinos (subatomic particle with no charge). This reaction is happening in the center of the Sun. The only thing we can see is the surface of the Sun. We can't see straight into the interior or center of the Sun because light doesn't penetrate through it as the Sun is so hot and dense, it’s sort of foggy, thus we cannot see the center of the sun directly. Since these elements exist inside the Sun, this explains why we cannot live without Sun, why there will be no biological system probably exist on Earth. Have you wondered how the Sun shines? The Sun release it’s mass as energy, that’s how we receive the sunlight. Since the Sun is releasing its mass as energy, it is getting lighter and lighter, thus the Sun will not last forever. The Sun can only produce certain elements and not all as the reaction can only go beyond a certain level. Other bigger heavier elements are produced by more massive stars, but these can be only released after the explosion of the stars at their end of the life.

4.     Your feelings & thoughts

This course is actually getting harder but I am not regretting for enrolling myself into this course. Since this week was little more on history so it was kind of boring, I manage to complete it.

5.      1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!

As I mentioned earlier, this week also required little of physics. So I was diligent enough to open my secondary physics books to go through little on the formulas in order for me to understand well about the topics this week.

6.      Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?

This week was little more towards history which was kind of boring and I started to lose my attention so I couldn’t focus the lectures continuously. I took some breaks in between to regain my focus.

7.      2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

Still interesting and exciting but slightly getting lazy

8.     Your plan for next week (Week 3)

I have to continue watching the lectures and answer the quizzes as well as the grading test. I hope I can do well just like this week and be less lazy.

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Puvisha Devi a/p Ramasamy (A168789)
21st August 2021

During my second week , I have completed my reading on the steps in agriculture. I also have visited the vegetable farms . During my field work , I have learned a lot from the workers. They are producing vegetables like cucumbers and tomatoes. The workers taught me about soil preparation and sowing .  I also observe them harvesting the crops .

Soil and crop selection are the most important initial step in farming . When choosing crop , farmes should consider the factors such as salinity level of soil and water resources. Usually the farmers will rotate their crops in order to increase the soil fertility and improve the soil structure. These are the important points that i learnt from my second week of field work .

I am feeling excited to visit the vegetable farms . The place is breathtaking.

One good thing that i did was learning and discovering new things . I would have chose some easy online courses instead of learning agriculture , but my passion towards learning new things have made me to do my project on agriculture.

However this project is not easy because i had to do some field work in order to achieve my project goal . Due to the pandemic , I couldn’t visit the farm frequently to learn. I had to visit only twice a week to learn . This will limit my experience.

I would describe my project as productive and exciting.

I am planing to visit the farm again during week 3 . Next i will be learning on manuring , irrigation and weeding of the vegetables.

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Wan Putri Nursyuhada binti Jaafar (A168462)
19/8/2021

So far, we have received quite a few orders from people. However, we hope to get more orders soon. It was hard to gain customers since our merchandise is more focused on one fandom so, we have to come up with ideas that could attract more people from this fandom so they would be interested in buying our product. Since most of our buyers are from the people we know, we hope we could reach to other individuals as well by continuing to promote our product so it would reach them. Furthermore, because of the rise in covid cases, it's been quite difficult in terms of delivery.

Points to remember in this week is to keep on trying as this is something new to me so I would not expect for it to work straight up from the start. Of course, there would be some difficulties along the way, but it is fine as long as there is progress.

I still feel motivated and my resolve has not changed as I hope I could expand the business more.

1 good thing from what I did that I could practice now is knowing what to write and how to promote the business so it would sound more pleasant and attractive.

There have been some difficulties in terms of delivery. Due to our situation right now with the covid cases, there have been changes in the method of delivery. But with some time, I'm sure we'll get used to it. Other than that, finding time for us to discuss the business took some time as we have different things to attend to. But we all managed to adjust our schedule accordingly.

2 words to describe elective posting progress so far is inspiring and thrilling

My plan for week three is to come up with ideas on how to reach more customers.

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Ariff bin Norbani (A168023)
10/8/2021

I have collaborated and asked opinion from experts and friends in this field to improve my products and marketing strategy. I also have contacted a total of 6 printing shops to get quotation and prices and compare them. After that, I select and finalize the material and designs for my product with the printing shop. We discussed together and I have ordered for a sample first before proceed with the full orders. When the sample arrived, I was so happy and satisfy with their printing and the material. After that, we proceed with the rest of the order. To complement all these processes, I have learned basic business and marketing strategy through reliable articles and videos.

Communication skill is really important in entrepreneurship as we are dealing with many people.

Week 2 was so interesting and I had a lot of fun because I get to experience dealing with different types of people.
Communication skill is a skill that we all need to master as we encounter different people every day. I also learned about basic business and the right way to start a business.

The difficulty I encounter is time limitation as the printing shop is so busy with their orders, plus the implementation of MCO. It is so hard to deal with them to keep up with our schedule.

Fun and interesting.

I will start collecting customer order using Google Doc. Advertising and promoting my product on social media. I will be active on social medias to reach my target customers and keep updating and posting about my products. I also will learn managing my own account

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1. ANIS NABIHAH BINTI MOHD NOOR, A167888, 18/8/2021

2. Overall, the progress is good. We've gained another 5 customers in this second week. But most of the customers are people around us. From my point of view, It will be more delightful if the buyers are random people as it shows that our marketing is attractive and interesting to public. However, Im so grateful for it. Furthermore, we also promoted our products through other social media such as telegram and Facebook. However, it didn't show any good signs. We didn't gain any customers from those platforms. Meanwhile, we also added some packaging stuff like business cards and shredded paper to make our packaging more attractive. I ordered them for Shopee at a very affordable price. I am so happy.

3. Be more proactive in marketing. We have to think of more ideas on how to attract more customers to buy our products

4. I am demotivated sometimes as it's not easy to gain customers. Plus, our target audience is mainly BTS fan club members. Therefore, the main idea is to make our marketing more attractive and convince people that our products are interesting

5. be creative and friendly. Creative in terms of promoting products such as videos and platform used. But I have to learn more about it.

6. My difficulty is the same as week 1 which is delivery issues. Since the covid cases are continuously rising, I have no choice but to use pick - up delivery service. However, I am still learning about it. Plus, it requires me to print out the parcel details, but my printer ink was running out last week. Thus, i had to order the ink through Shopee and just received it today. Hopefully, I can post out the items ordered as soon as possible.

7. fine and interesting

8. To improvise our marketing skills. We need to brainstorm on how to make it more attractive interesting. I hope we can gain more customers in week 3.

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1. Your name, matric number, date
Wong ZiKang (A167787)
11/8/2021

2. How is your progress?
For the second week of my elective posting, I am going to setup a social media webpage to promote my product. The social media chosen is Instagram.The name of my Insatgram profile is Nutrispread ( https://instagram.com/nutrispread?utm_medium=copy_link ).  I try to get some idea on how to setup my own webpage by referring to others account. It is not easy but definitely a precious experience for me. At the same time, I have started making some peanut butter. I have tried out some recipes, and improve by combining several of them. I have taken pictures of them and recording video of the process of making peanut butter. These will be posted on my Instagram as part of the promotion to my product.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
Point to remember from second week is that be persevere and be brave to embrace new things. To come out with a final product, a healthy homemade peanut butter requires a lot of trials of different recipes. Consistently trying out new recipe and combining it with the previous one would be the key factor to come out with a good, healthy peanut butter. The process is tiring but I enjoyed it a lot. Be brave to embrace new thing. Social media is the best way to promote our product. Although I have no experience on this, but with reference to others’ account, I find it easier to setup my own webpage.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
I feel more excited this week as I am going to produce my final product soon.

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
One good thing that I can start practicing now is be persevere. Although the process is tiring, but we should not give up easily. This quality is important for us as a medical student, because there is still a long way for us in our medical career.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
The difficulty is I am not good in managing social media account. However, I find it easier to setup my own webpage by referring to others.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
The 2 words are joyful and contented.

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
My plan for third week is trial of more recipes and to come out with a final product. By the end of third week, I will start with the mass production of the peanut butter.

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1. Your name, matric number, date
Ahmad Basyir bin Muhammad (A167594), 16th August 2021

2. How is your progress?
So far I've done a lot of marketing and advertising along the second week. I used social media as the platform for my promoting tools. I've created a Facebook page and a professional Instagram account mainly to be utilized as my marketing platform. I forced myself to be consistent in updating new posts every single day, at least one post per day. The reason being so that my followers knew what I was doing, hence to build trust between my prospects.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
Certainly, the important point I should remember from week 2 is that I gained numerous experience in digital marketing especially on preparing e-posters so as to make it enchanting to the targeted audience. Apart from that, I gained unlimited knowledge from both the everyday virtual classes as well as my mentor. What I learned is that in property investment, it is not capital the most crucial thing, but it is knowledge.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
There were mixed feelings throughout the second week due to ups and downs I've been through. Sometimes, I felt keen to gain knowledge, but other times I felt somehow I lost confidence in the marketing process because I thought many people were judging me based on my marketing skill. I had some thought like would they either hate me or like me if I were to update different kinds of posts every day, is it too boring or disturbing. Some thoughts like that had been bothering me at times.

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
The best thing about this activity besides from learning about property investment, I got the awareness that I should spread the knowledge to everyone else so that they know the significance of property investment. It's not about the investment, instead much more beyond that. So now, I could practice my promoting and marketing skills.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
Truth to be told, of course there was difficulties, it was undeniable. Things like lost confidence tend to happen when I didn't get to build trust in my prospects despite of being consistent all day. Therefore, how I managed to cope with it was by self-reflection. I gave myself some self-thoughts, such as did I do things right or maybe my expectations were too high that it tend to break my heart if I didn't succeed to reach within time. Ultimately, I grasped that if I want to achieve something unbelievable, I should do unbelievable things.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
Mixed and Consistency.

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
I had set up a plan for next week, which is to expand my targeted audience in social media. To do that, I should add friends on Facebook who are related to this kind of industry so that my circle of prospects would be bigger.

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My Instagram business account, Beautiful Creatures (@kireicreatures) and a few of my paintings done on Week 2. 

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1. Your name, matric number, date
Valerie Chong Tze Yee (A168539), 1st Aug 2021

2. How is your progress?
In week 2, I had opened a small business account on Instagram called Beautiful Creatures at @kireicreatures. My progress right now is going smoothly as I had gladly painted my own four masterpieces to be on sale to my friends and family which are Forest Kitsune, Blue Whale, Nishikigoi, and Lilac Dragon. I used IG as a platform to advertise and I successfully gained 62 followers and my friends’ interests to buy 3 out of 5 paintings I created. Besides, I also welcomed custom orders from my clients without extra charges and garnered 2 clients for paintings, Tiara and Libre Comme L’air.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
There were a few learning points I gained that was crucial to know before opening a small business. Firstly, it is important to enhance my planning skills because I was so overwhelmed with so many orders in 1 week and it made my plan a little bit messy. I should have also bought my painting instruments first instead of waiting for orders. Luckily, I got to fulfill everything on time. I also learned how to make a sales report for my paintings to count the total prices sold and my profits. Surveying products in Shopee is also important to check for the cheapest and the best quality of the painting instruments.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
I felt happy and excited because a lot of my family and friends were really supporting me by following my Instagram account and liking my pictures. They gave me courage and support to fulfill more clients’ orders and they made me feel so loved. At first, I thought I could not garner that many responses because I was not confident with my paintings' looks but I was wrong.

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
Advertising and promotion skills. I learned to advertise my business by putting up IG story notices in my private account and also gained family members’ and friends’ recommendations in IG, Whatsapp, and Whatsapp status. Hence, I can practice more on this for future business.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
The difficulties I faced was that I was too overwhelmed with ample of painting orders and I had a hard time getting a transport to deliver the paintings to their addresses. Luckily, I was able to get a helping hand from a friend who has a transport. “Tiara” painting needed to be done and deliver in 4 days which was quite short as it was a gift for a friend’s birthday. Hence, I painted this 1 whole day and it was tiring.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
Exciting and Fulfilled

8.Your plan for next week (Week 3)
My plan next week is to continue painting the customized orders I received and further expand my business platform to Shopee to sell off the remaining paintings. I also hope I can do more timelapse videos of my paintings sessions to attract more viewers from Instagram publicly.