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1. Your name, matric number, date

Hello, it’s Elora, A162653 and it is the 7th of August.

2. How is your progress?

I am in Week 3 of my Modern Masterpieces of World Literature course. In Week 2, I have reviewed Candide, Lu Xun and Eileen Chang. Please refer to uploaded pictures for a summary of activities.

3. Points to remember from week 2!

I chose to write only on Candide this week because my reflection will be too long to also include the works of Lu Xun and Eileen Chang -- I just simply enjoyed Candide too much.

Please understand that the aspects of religion discussed here specifically refers to the 18th century Catholic churches which were proven to be rampant with corruption. Do not take this out of this context, else this will not be read as an intellectual inquiry but a piece of hatred or sacrilege. (I do think that a lot of skepticism or blatant hate towards philosophy stems from some people’s inability or refusal to understand the context and historical happenings surrounding the philosophy.)

Written by famous French Enlightenment philosopher, Voltaire, in the 18th century, Candide is an antithesis to all that the optimism determinism that Leibniz stood for. Well, that sentence used a lot of big words and ideas, so I will break them down. The Enlightenment is a philosophical movement -- I simply dubbed it as “a new way of thinking” -- that challenges all of the old ideas of living through reason. This philosophy posited that the authority and legitimacy should be separate from the church and thus power should be given to the state.

This era came as a response to a century of religious conflict in Europe to mostly stop another intolerant religious war from happening again. Enlightenment rejects the supreme power of the churches and argues that reason should be the backbone of society.

Leibniz was a philosopher who believed in optimism and determinism in which God has created this world as the best of all possible worlds. Voltaire criticized this by making his main character Candide and his other characters endure all possible horrifying calamities in the world such as contracting Syphilis, sexual enslavement and public humiliation. All to ask one simple questions: is this really the best of all possible worlds?

4. Your feelings & thoughts

Candide

“As the dying voices call out, will you dare to respond to this appalling spectacle of smoking ashes with “This is the necessary effect of the eternal laws Freely chosen by God?”

In the wake of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, Voltaire was critical of Leivbniz’s philosophy and used satire as a form of literary criticism in his novel. I love this idea of challenging religious hypocrisy which was rampant in the 18th century and unfortunately still as pertinent today. It seems like we as a society did not learn anything. I believe this is one of the importance of learning philosophy and history because “everything that we forget, we do it again.” Of course this quote was stamped on the front of our history textbooks in high school.

Not everything that has happened can be explained through the lens of optimism. World hunger, climate change and the ongoing pandemic are examples of problems that require a clear and just mind to solve. Reason is needed to form policies, engage with communities and prepare solutions. Oversentimentality does not serve a purpose here but I do view it as a strong tool to solve moral and religious conflicts in society.

I am extremely critical of people who use “this is for the best” reasoning because sometimes things happen for no benefit. This view is extremely dehumanizing especially when used to explain horrifying humanitarian problems. I joined a humanitarian mission once in Lombok and I strongly believe that no one is capable of uttering these words towards the victims of the earthquakes -- that the earthquakes happened for the best. Can you say those words to children who have lost or even abandoned by their parents after the earthquake?

Surprisingly (very, very much so), the victims themselves actually believed in optimism and rationalised that the horrors that had happened to them was for a reason unknown to them. This view pervaded the community that we reached out to help and it did give them a sense of relief and comfort to understand that their miseries are not for naught.

After connecting with these people, i realised that different philosophies actually exist to serve different purposes. Even though I may strongly believe in one teaching of philosophy, it does not mean that the ones that are different are inherently flawed or simply wrong. After all, everyone has different experiences and it is easy to see how we can all think differently.

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

Practicality is a cherished value so i try to make do with what i currently have. I also decided to view world problems and past traumas in life with a clear perspective and to be more analytical and fair minded.

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

So far, this course has been interesting and definitely what I wanted to learn about.

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

Mind opening.

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)

Next week, I will focus on the Ficciones and Death and the King’s Horseman.

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IAN'S ELECTIVE POSTING PROGRESSION - WEEK 02

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Mastering Guitar Language
Week 02 - Guitar Theory and Fundamental Guitar Chords

1. Name, matric number, date
Hello everyone. My name is Muhammad Azlan bin Agustiar (A167568) and this is the update about my elective posting progression week 02 (August 13th, 2021).

2. What have you done?
In the second week of this course, I finally had chances to play my new guitar. Yeay!!! I bought a semi-acoustic Yamaha FGX800C guitar from the LS Music Company during their online sale 7.7 and my pretty babe arrived two weeks ago. I gave her name Black Queen. My instructor taught me how to read guitar notes and play it as the chords on the guitar. This week, I have learned few basic guitar chords such as C, Cmaj7 (i love this one - the easiest chord ever), Cmin, D, Dmaj, G, Gmin and etc. Unfortunately, playing my little babe miss Black Queen is not as easy as she look like. I hurt all my left fingers when practicing. The guitar strings are hardly to press and hold and a little bit too much for my virgin fingertips. Thank God they are recovering now and more thickening day by day.

3. Points to remember in week 02
When playing a guitar, it is important to recognize two major guitar techniques. First is finger-style playing (plucking the strings one-by-one) while the other common one in amateur guitarist is strumming-style playing (plucking the whole strings together with a strumming pattern). Strumming pattern is how you will swing your right hand that holding the guitar pick and usually a single pattern is used throughout a song. For example I love to strum in pattern of down-down-up-up-down. Other than that, I also learned putting my fingers on different guitar fret board can produce a similar guitar chord. Fret is division of the strings - acoustic guitars usually have 21-22 frets. For example, there are 14 places where you can produce C-chord and according to my instructor, there are some more but if he teach me, that might also come out in my weekly quizzes too.

4. Feelings and thoughts
Oho haha. Again I regretted learning guitar because it is so painful and numbing my fingers but I felt energetic again once I mastered pressing and holding the strings gently. I feel even more excited when successfully play a complete happy birthday song in strumming pattern. It might sounds funny to some people but for me, it is quite a big achievement so far. When you can finally complete a simple song, it actually triggers you to practice more and more. Now, I am learning a new childhood song called My Bonnies Lies over The Ocean using the fingerstyle playing. My instructor also said that I can choose my next song to be learned if I can play this song by the end of this week (Friday, 13th).

5. One good thing learned to practice
There are two things I learned this week. First, theoretically how to play a guitar and produce a beautiful melody using different playing technique and second, the beauty of a music when you tried very hard learning it and finally able to make a cute performance. Now I know why most guitarist I admired like Scrubb, Stamp and even sweet Taylor Swift love their guitar so much. The guitar helps me to blend in with the melody of the music and it really calms me down each time.

6. Difficulty and concern
Like last week, my concern only focuses on my lessons that were conducted online. It were not that hard actually but not practical. Sometimes I am not sure if my instructor really heard the correct chords or not in addition with the internet connection that uninvitedly unstable. One more thing is that, my practicing time is limited since I cannot play the guitar at night or else I might disturb the nearby neighbors. Nevertheless, we should use all chances and opportunities available when learning during this pandemic era.

7. Two-word to describe EP progression
Your SONG and my MELODY

8. Plan for next week (week 03)
For next week, I will choose a song to be played during the evaluation that shall be conducted during week 04. I already survey some simple songs (including My Heart will Go On) and now trying to make the suitable strumming pattern and chords with my instructor. I really hope I can play a beautiful song by the end of this course.

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PAVITHA MUHANTHAN GA04012 (WEEK 2 PROGRESS)

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PAVITHA MUHANTHAN GA04012 (WEEK 2 PROGRESS)

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(image above is my own summary of notes from the online course)

1. Your name, matric number, date

- Hello again to all. Hope everyone's doing good.
Name : Pavitha A/P Muhanthan
Matrics No. : GA04012
Date : 8th August 2021 (Did my week 2 from 28th June - 4th July)

2. How is your progress?
- In week 2, the course was starting get a lot more interesting. I was learning new things and words that I've not heard before and it somehow pieced together the previous bits and pieces of knowledge that I had on botanicals. The learning objectives this week delve deeper into the characteristics of botanicals as well as other aspects to consider before getting or recommending a botanical to patients. To be specific the topics consists of contaminants and adulterants, how do botanicals interact with pharmaceutical (drug-herb interaction), special patient population to consider, the difference between FDA and 3rd party testing, how to find reliably tested botanicals and also how to shop for botanical.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
- I think the main thing from this week that stuck in my head is "natural is not equivalent to safe". Botanicals if not used properly and as indicated it could be harmful to the consumers as well. For example, some botanicals could induce toxicity. We were given a case of a 64y/o woman who had persistently high blood pressure and low potassium regardless being compliant to her medications. Upon further history, it is known that she loves consuming licorice candy. Licorice can help ease mild GERD however if consumed without control it could lead to increased blood pressure and hypokalemia.

It's also important to know a patient's past medical and drug history because in certain conditions such as immunocompromised patients or pregnant patients it is best to avoid botanicals. Also both pharmaceuticals and botanicals are metabolized in the liver with the same enzymes, so it could reduce the effectiveness of the pharmaceutical.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
- So far I feel motivated to continue with this course. At first it was a little tough to stick to a routine of taking an online course daily. I did slack off one or two days because something else came up but compensated the classes I missed on another day. Also the quizzes are getting tougher but still manageable. I am looking forward to the upcoming weeks because there will be more interactive activities.

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
- One thing I learnt this week that I can actually apply in my life is how to shop for botanicals. I learnt that a trusted reputable botanical would not have extreme claims, and the sentences used on the label would also be different. I also learnt it's important to look up the contact given on the packaging of the botanical to ensure it's from company that actually exists and to cross check any citations provided. Hopefully with these steps, I can explore more botanicals that I can incorporate in my life.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
- The main difficulty I faced during week 2 was, a deadline to complete the week 2 assignments and quizzes and I had finals that were postponed to that same week but I managed to plan out my schedule around it and being in hostel that week helped with that.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
- New and exciting

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
- I have completed week 3 of the course, so my plan is to update the padlet task for week 3 and I will start arranging my storyboard for the video so that when we get the finalized format I would not have to start from scratch.

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1. Your name, matric number, date

Abdullah Harith bin Azidin, A167553. Today is 9th August 2021

2. How is your progress?

I’ve completed half of the course content, it took some more time because I practiced drawing other stuffs from other sources. I did this to widen my experience a much as possible for this week. Since this is my first art course, it was quite challenging to grasp the basic as the course learning curve getting steeper. I also drew a realistic heart and a skull  as I wanted to find relation of drawing with medicine, I will try apply to other field of medicine as well.

3. Points to remember from week 2!

This week I learned about values and shades. I also learned more about how to create more detailed and realistic forms using values and shades. Drawing using pencil doesn’t have colour and its theory involved, hence values from the graphite of the pencil determined the form factor of every sketch. Contrast is also an important factor of making drawing look better with focal points. Anyway, all of these stuffs are hard to grasp and master for beginners, hence practicing shadowing and putting values are important to progress. Hence I did some values practice as I showed in the picture above. The best way to learn is to copy real life object by observing at its detail.

4. Your feelings & thoughts

I felt challenged but it made me more determined to work harder and learn more from the courses content. After doing several practices, it also made me more confident to try other stuffs outside the course content. Other than that, the course also made me to appreciate and respect artists more than ever. The complexity behind art is mind-blowing as I learned more. Drawing and sketching are also very important aspects of our daily lives. Every figures and pictures we found around us came from learning arts and its principles. Hence, we should appreciate the process behind it.

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

I learned how to draw from real life or picture. Drawing from picture requires focus on details and values, as well as perspectives and shadowing. I should do this more when learning picture-based subjects in medicine such as anatomy and procedural skills.

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

In every topic, I always met some difficulties even though it’s just copying from the instructor. The only thing I can do is practice and try again to achieve better result. Beside that, to avoid burnt out and stress, I always do short break and doing other stuffs to regain energy for another practice.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

Challenging and inspirational

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)

I plan to complete nearly whole of the course and use the last week to draw other stuffs for my final presentation. However, we will see whether there will be enough time or not. Next week, the content will include more specific tutorial to draw such as human bodies, face, landscape and others.

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WEEK 2: SHRIDHA NAIR PROGRESS UPDATE (A172221)

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WEEK 2: SHRIDHA NAIR PROGRESS UPDATE (A172221)

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1. HI!! I'm Shridha Nair (A172221) here to update my progress for week 2. It's the 9th of August 2021.

2. How is your progress?
It's going good. I finished the little I had left of Module 1 and managed to complete Module 2 as well. I feel like it was a productive week for me. This week's module was mostly understanding stress, it's impacts and how to overcome stress efficiently that it does not negatively impact our lives.

3. Points to remember for week 2.
I've honestly just been marveling about how powerful the brain seems to be. The fact that it has both the power to push us to success or to render us hopeless is both astounding and scary. A very important thing I've learned about stress is that we can't pretend it's not there. It's natural for us to feel better when we try to bury our stress. This just builds a pit that grows deeper making it an even bigger hole to deal with. Thus, it's important to learn to acknowledge that the stress exists. This self awareness then allows us to question the reasons behind how we are feeling so we may the restructure our thoughts to make us feel better about our stress.

4. Your feelings and thoughts.
To a certain extent, I feel okay. The syllabus in this course is straight forward and easy to pick up but it leaves you with a lot to think about. A lot of reflection and exploring yourself is encouraged in this course which honestly makes me do the same. I spend quite a bit of time after absorbing the course material just thinking about how this affects how I think about myself and the challenges that I face on the daily. It's interesting how I can apply the things I'm learning into my personal experiences.

5. 1 good thing that you can practice now.
One skill that I found very useful was self interrogation. It's interesting to realise how quickly the mind is able to spiral through 50 different things in the matter of minutes. This makes it easier for us to impose our own beliefs or perspectives onto things that are objective. This makes us susceptible to stress as we tend to overthink based on our past experiences. So, one thing I have learned is to interrogate myself and challenge my  own beliefs or opinions to figure out why I am thinking in a certain way. This allows me to see whether the way I feel is the best possible way to take something or if there is a different angle I can see this from. This allows me to restructure my thoughts.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
I initially had trouble digesting some material as I had opposing views. One of the components in the material talked about changing the way we think and how our thoughts are in our control. I don't really agree. It took me some time to read it over again to come up with my own opinion of what I thought of it and why I still don't agree. Thoughts are spontaneous and very difficult to control. They are sometimes reflexes conjured by our mind based on previous experiences, cultures, principles or values. We shouldn't have to control them sometimes or blame ourselves for thinking a certain way. That does not define you. How you feel about something does not make you who you are but what you do or think with that feeling after that is what makes you who you are. So, it's okay to think bad thoughts sometimes. It's how you act after that's important. Bad thoughts do not make you a bad person.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
Contradicting. Insightful.

8. Plan for week 3.
To complete Module 3.

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EP WEEK 2

1. Your name, matric number, date
Sharveenraaj Maghalingam (A168501). I am back with an entry for week 2. Entry date : 8th August 2021 (Sunday). Time of entry : 1:38 am

2. How is your progress?
My progress on week 2 is going good actually. I have been learning much more exciting things. I didn't find hard to be adapting to the technical terms that I have been seeing in this course. I am actually loving it and kinda grateful to get into this course regarding human relationships. As of now I am way pass my week 2 classes and already in week 3. I actually am starting to understand the flow of this course way much much much more better than the previous week.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
As a proof that I am able to understand the technical term in this course. I would like to introduce the term social script. Social script is a unspoken rule that the society follows. Rules on like "Who should make the call for paying?" or even "Who should plan on things for a date?". Technically this is what we call a script and when someone goes out the norm for not following the script they deemed to be weird and not following the rule (social script = unspoken rule. See it's a rule that nobody knows how it came to and nobody knows why they even follow it, even so myself) Maybe you do to, you never know hehe. Then again different societies have different scripts, western culture has a different script when we are to compare it with Eastern culture because a social script depends on socio-cultural environment as well as many other various factors.

Next, I learned that first impressions are important cause to some people the way we dress, the way we portray ourselves does give an everlasting impact on someone else. Probably you have to give first impressions for your own benefits. It's not wrong to give a good impression. Even the way your tone of voice sounds, the way you smile will be taken into count as first impression. Many of us thinks that the way we dress neatly is how we can give a everlasting good first impression but there are many more to it.

Self confidence. Is also important. Let's say we are meeting someone maybe for a meeting with client, a date or anything that is important. It's normal for us to feel nervous cause it's the normal human thing to do but how can we be confident in ourself is the question. How? Give positive false statements to ourselves. Say that we look good, we got this, it's nothing just a small matter. Hence by giving this this statement it does help to give us a boost a confidence. Better example? Let's say we are entering a new competition and you know there are many other better competitors than yourself what happens to your confidence? It tends to get a little shaky doesn't it? So how we can give ourselves a boost? Give positive false statements keep telling to ourselves that we got this, we can do this and we are the best and no one else. In a way it helps to boost your confidence and lifts up your spirit.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
I feel that what I learned in week 2 is actually helpful and applicable in real life situations. I without knowing growing up have done positive false statements for myself and learning this just made feel like "wow I been doing this and I been telling others to try this out by giving the name fake confidence. Hahaha well now I know". Besides that I was actually very excited to learn more on this course and even as I am typing now I can't wait to go more in this course and give updates on week 3 and week 4 because I went through the list of lessons and they are exciting topics varies from range of communication, reception, how to build and manage relationships, termination of relationships, transformation of relationships and even a specialised lesson about managing emotions and breakup journey.

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
Work on my first impression skills, work on self confidence. These I can work on. As for social script I am unsure of how can I practice it because it just happens when we are communicating with people and building relationships we tend to follow certain unspoken rules by society. What are the rules? I would not know realise it until the very moment that I am building a relationship with others but at that point I can reflect on my actions on why I am doing this and so on because that can most certainly be a certain social script that I am following.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
As far I didn't have any forms of difficulties in this course.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
Smooth and fun

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
I have started a little bit on week 3 and I will continue through it. I was thinking of brainstorming ideas for my EP project because I chose to do video. I was thinking of starting to do drafts on contents, ideas, storyboard, a script for the video and maybe look up on ideas how I can edit my video at the end to make it fun.

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WEEK 2: PREMANESAN A/L SIVANESAN (A167929)

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WEEK 2: PREMANESAN A/L SIVANESAN (A167929)

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1. Hi, my name is Premanesan updating everyone on my progress for 2nd week. My matrics number is A167929 and today's date is 8th August 2021.

2. How is your progress?
My progress for second week is going very well as the course is getting interesting. I have finished my module 2 for 2nd week and there are 4 modules left in the course. I started to understand the course much more better than my previous week.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
I learnt that worries are one of the most important external factors that push someone to have poor mental health. Worries are classified based on how we perceive it and overcome it. There are many ways to cope with worries and knowing it is very essential for mental fitness. One of the best way of coping worries is cognitive strategies.

Next, I also learnt that emotional and behavioral consequences of a person are not directly caused by events that triggers it, rather they are caused by how we evaluate the events. Negative emotions and irrational behaviors are consequences of irrational beliefs which lead to inappropriate actions.

Last but not least, cognitive restructuring helps a person to practice new and helpful thoughts.

4. Your feelings and thought
I feel good so far as the course is very interesting as they use illustrations, case studies and various analogy that helps me to understand the content better. I feel happy and motivated as the contents can be very helpful for me to strategize my mental fitness.

5.  1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now
One thing I learnt is that I can identify any distressing event in my life and evaluate them whether they can affect my mental health and if yes I can easily overcome them by dispute them and develop more helpful thoughts to overcome the distressing events.

6. Any difficulties or concerns? How do you cope?
I have no any difficulties in this course so far.

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

8. Your plan for next week (week 3)
I am half way to complete my module 3 so I planned to complete it by next week. I will then complete the padlet for third week updates

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1. Your name, matric number, date
Suhan Raj, A167987, 12/08/2021

2. How is your progress?
I am on sechdule, did additional notes as well based on this week's videos, pdf of notes is shown above.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
This week was all about eyewitness recollection. It is a very complicated topic to say the least. First point is that memory reliability is quite low, that is memories are subjected to wrong time-slice error and narrative construction which can create false memories. Second point is, the confidence of an eyewitness on his/her memory is not related to the accuracy to his/her memory. That is, a person with a false memory is proven to be more confident with a person with a true memory. The third point is it is very easy to manipulate the memory of person for example exposure to misinformation or even a use of a weapon will render an eyewitness memory questionable. The forth is the methods that can be used to invoke a more accurate memory such as the usage of forensic hypnosis and cognitive interview

4. Your feelings & thoughts

I am very happy and excited with the content of my course. My thoughts on this course this week is how maliable a person memory is.

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
I can use methods used in cognitive interview to help my friends and family to help them remember if they ever lost something

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
Again, i have no difficulites nor concern this week

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
Eye-opening and Valuable

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
To watch and understand the contents of videos in week 3 and do notes as well

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Week 2 : Nur Syafiqah Binti Abdul Samat (A163239)

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Week 2 : Nur Syafiqah Binti Abdul Samat (A163239)

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1.       Your name, matric number, date

Hi! I’m Syafiqah Samat (A163239). Today’s date is August 11, 2021

2. How is your progress?

My progress in learning keyboard is going smooth and good then before. So in week 2, I learnt my first scales which is the C major scale. Like previous lesson, I learned how to play a 5 finger scale. But in week 2, I need to complete 8 tone scale!

3.       Points to remember from week 2!

We have 8 notes in total but we only have 5 fingers. So we need to learn a fancy way of tucking my thumb. First, I learn by using only my right hand. When using my right hand to play, I need to rotate my thumb under my finger to play the F note. Things are a little bit different when I come back down the scale. Instead of tucking, I need to rotate over the thumb to land on the E note with my 3 finger.

Then on left hand also the same. Then, after I already okay with right side and left side. I try to play with both hand simultaneously.

4.       Your feelings & thoughts

In week 2, I feel more comfortable playing the keyboard. It much easier then before eventhough the new lesson a little bit challenging which need to use both hand to play.

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

So for me, a beginner, scales will help me to become more comfortable moving around the piano and help me to develop the fine motor skills in my hands to be able to play any music that I want.

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

Playing this scale, especially hands together a little bit difficult for beginners like me. So the only thing to improve is PRACTICE! To master this scale usually it can take days but sometimes weeks. The reason it is difficult is because I need to change fingering at different times. But with practice and time, it becomes easier.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

Enjoyable yet challenging!

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)

My plan is to master the C major scale then move to A minor scale and add some emotion to my playing. Wish me luck!

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1. Your name, matric number, date
My name is Toh Chei Ying (A166904), today's date is 11st August 2021.

2. How is your progress?
As mentioned, last week I learned about open strings which are GDAE. This week I had learnt about presses at open string D in order to produce the E, F# and G tone. Besides, the teacher also teaches me how to adjust the tune with a fine tuner.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
Practice more about the open strings. Because it is the basics of playing the violin. Besides, we need to always check the tuner by using the soundcorset application to make sure it produces a correct tune.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
I feel it is very challenging and fun at the same time. It is very challenging to learn a new musical instrument especially via online platforms. This is because we need to learn a lot of new things besides playing the instrument. For example, we need to have the before hand work, such as adjusting the tunes of the violin, wiping the bow using the rosin and so on. However, it is also fun for me as there all are something new for me.

5. 1 good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
Become more consistent and practice constantly. Learning a musical instrument is really a challenging thing as we may feel frustrated when we are unable to reach the target after many practices. However, we will be able to play the violin well if we put more effort, energy and time into it. Hence, I believe hard work will always pay off, as long as we keep on practicing hard and thus, we will definitely achieve our goal one day.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
Like what I had mentioned last week. Having online classes is kind of challenging because the teacher is unable to show us the correct technique of playing the violin. Besides, the classes might be delayed due to some poor internet connection.

Besides, I always arrange time to practice more by using a soundcorset application in order to adjust the correct tune. Moreover, I had to buy an online data package in order to make sure the internet connection is always good.

7. 2 words to describe elective posting progress so far
Challenging and fun

8. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
I will continue my online course and practice more on the skills. Besides, I will start to learn other tunes in week 3.

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Your name, matric number, date

Greetings! It’s me, Nur Tihani (A169745), and today’s date is 7th of August 2021. It’s nice hearing from you again.

2.      How is your progress?

Finishing a quarter of my english comprehension course, abundant new foreign concepts are introduced, which inflamed my excitement to learn more. To summarise, I was exposed to  rhetorical thinking, , logical fallacies, PWR method of writing, and critical writing. Leaving me with another 3 units to complete, the pressure is on the line. as the course materials are lengthy with additional assigment given, I am concerned if I am able to complete my final project.

3.      Points to remember from week 2!

In college-level writing, a fundamental concept to consider is rhetorical approach, which encompass 3 elements of persuasion; ethos (writer’s credibility), logos (reason/logical approach), and pathos (emotional responses). These 3 elements should always be in balance and dynamic to each other in an argumentative text.

Rhetorical approach will depend upon rhetorical thinking. It is vital to consider the context, the media, the purpose, and the author’s tone, voice and persona. Logical fallacies should be avoided to preserve our credibility as a writer.

There are two writing style approaches.

(A)   Process-based writing

A style of writing which develop multiple drafts and being revised frequently before a text is finalised; which differs to the traditional

(B)   product-based writing

Forces the text production to be done without revising.

Writing is a non-linear process, and idea refinement happens as we compose. Feedback from multiple individuals are vital in revision.

PWR (prewriting, write, revise) method of writing is introduced to aid college students. Prewriting consists of planning, brainstorming, and outlining.

4.      Your feelings & thoughts

Learning new skills require me to step out from my comfort zone. I am struggling to fit my study sessions as I am occupied with house chores. However, I generally enjoy learning new knowledge.

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

Reading new books and educating myself.

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

I am struggling to follow my timetable for study sessions. However, I am currently putting time limit on my screen time of playing games and mindless scrolling to focus more on my EP.

7.      2 words to describe elective posting progress so far

Slow and steady

8.      Your plan for next week (Week 3)

I will continue learning unit 2, 3 and 4 before proceeding to finish my assignment.