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Teoh Hui Jing, A173923, 31/7/2022

How is your progress?
So far so good, everything ran smoothly. I spent some time everyday to make sure that I play guitar consistently. I have learned various chords and fingers shifting. In week 2, I mainly focus on playing chord E, D, A and F. I eventually cope well with the string and my fingertips are now being able to firmly press on the string to create a precise note.

Points to remember from week 2!
- Hammering: Not to press too hard but to figure out the force needed to press on. Pressing too hard will only strain your fingers and the accuracy is sometimes being reduced.
- Chords shifting: I have to start with slow practice before progressing in order to familiarize the change of chords.

Your feelings & thoughts
The excitement of learning a complete song with different chords is real. I am glad that I manage to progress until here. Practice makes perfect. I am pumped to learn more songs after familiarizing with the chords shifting.
I think that adapting to something new, or something out of your comfort zone is tough since we have to face a lot of unknown, but eventually when you start to work on it, things are getting smoother and rounder.

ONE good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
With the basic guitar chords, I can play any contemporary songs as long as they are not too complicated.

Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
When shifting from one chord to another, I will still have some delay and it will be out of tempo. To overcome this, I have to practice more.

Your plan for next week (Week 3)
Adapting with the chords and try to challenge songs with different arrangement. Practice my right hand so that the striking is smooth.

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Najwa Syakirah
A173573
03/08/2022

2. How is your progress?
I can read some of the words in Korean now!! I will try to spell the words and cross checked it with google and my handwriting in 'Hangul' also improved!!

3. Points to remember from week 2!
There are formal and informal ways of speaking in Korean language depending on who we are speaking to.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
Week 2 is much more complicated than the first week. It was challenging at first but with practice I believe I can easily communicate and understand Korean language.

5. ONE good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
Can understand and enjoy Korean drama better :))

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
Whenever I read korean sentences, I have a hard time to read it smoothly. The best that  I could do to improve is to read a lot of korean as a practice.

7. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
I will learn the expression about family and learn how to count numbers

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Sajeeth Revindran
A173427
31/7/2022

2.How's my progress

Currently i finished my week 2 of my elective posting.So far it had been great and i learned alot of new words in Chinese Mandarin.I learned new words in Chinese Mandarin for foods such as chengzi ( as orange),apple (pingguo) and for cuisine fried mi ( char mian), fried rice (char fan )It was quite challenging at first since the words were new.I asked for my chinese friend's help and they thought me how to pronounce correctly.I learned how to express my opinion about an object's colors,state my preference and how to bargain for good price.

3.Points to remember

Practice makes perfect is not an understatement.I can see that my pronounciation of Chinese Mandarin words are much better.

I practice my pronounciation by engaging conversation with random chinese strangers such as food vendors and chinese salesman.

Although they can understand but i find bit of difficulty in understanding them when they talk so fast.But i always remind myself to take it slowly.

4.I feel really contented to learn Chinese Mandarin because i am able to spend my semester break in a efficient way.

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

Being able to converse in Chinese Mandarin with people who speak Chinese.

6.Any difficulties/Concern

The difficulty i found during my second week of elective posting is forgetting the words and sentence i learned from first week.I overcomed it by reviewing the note from 1st week once again and then i was able to recall it again.

7.My plan for next week (Week 3)
I will be learning on how to give directions  and how to speak about transportation.I will be gaining knowledge about temperature, seasons, and personal health

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Name: Amriit Kaur a/p Sarjit Singh
Matric No: A173451
Date: 31/7/2022

2. How is your progress?
My progress has been great. I have spaced out my learning like planned last week and it has been really helpful. In the second week I learnt how to make a self-introduction, meet classmates from different countries and learn vocabulary commonly used in the classroom. Now I can introduce myself and which country I'm from (Nǐ hǎo, wǒ shì Amriit, wǒ shì  Mǎláixīyà ren).I have also  learnt how to recognize Chinese characters, it is challenging but at the end of the week it got a little easier to identify them. I also learnt how to combine simple words and form short phrases.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
Pronunciation is very important because the same word has different meanings with different pronunciations.

I learnt that when I put myself in awkward situations, I learn the best. For example talking to my friend in the language that i have very little knowledge about actually made me braver and more confident. I also got the feedback that i needed.

Writing out the Chinese characters helped in remembering and identifying them

4. Your feelings & thoughts
I'm feeling happy and excited with my progress. It is a small progress but I really do hope to come out of my elective posting  being able to have longer conversations with my friends

5. ONE good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
Practice makes perfect and spacing out my learning really helped

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
I realized that I have begun to forget some of the words and characters that I have learnt from the week before so I had to revisit those videos.
I also need to work more on my pronunciation, I had the chance to have a short conversation with my friend and I was told that my pronunciation isn't proper so that is my main focus.

7. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
More focus and my pronunciation, continue to have more conversations because only with practice will my pronunciations get better

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Name: Ng Khai Voon
Matric No.: A173439
Date: 31/7/2022

2. How is your progress?
Everything is going fine, I have no problem accessing all the documents on the website that I am using. I arranged my daily schedule so that I spend at least one hour a day to learn this.

3. Points to remember from week 2!
Everything goes smooth. I am trying to pick up as much as possible the pronunciation of Korean language. I also try to speak Korean with my friends who are also learning Korean so that we can correct each other.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
Learning a language is important so that we can speak an extra language to people. Although it is not an easy job to start learning language at my age, but I must try my hard to master it.

5. ONE good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
As mentioned in week 1, I used some simple Korean terms in daily life. I try to speak Korean with my friends and family. I have a few friends who are taking Korean language as their elective posting. So we decided to practise it among ourselves and also get to correct each other.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
I found out it is difficult to pronounce it sometimes and also to speak in a complete sentence. So instead of sticking to my usual learning platform, I searched on Youtube about other Korean learning sites explanation about grammar.

7. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
I will keep my pace and continue learning in week 3. All the best to me!

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This is the script provided by the lecturer and this script help me practice speaking in korean language

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Nur Athirah binti Abu Bakar
A173678
31/07/2022
Sunday

2) my progress for this week, I’ve advanced to the second module of learning korean. In this module I’ve been taught on how to introduce myself in Korea. During this week on how to ask others nationality and also their occupation in korean language. It is really fun experience as I learn how country name is pronounce in korea. For example Korea is known as ‘hanguk’, United State of America is pronounce as ‘miguk’, Australia is pronounce as ‘hoojo’. Some nation is pronounce almost the same, for example Singapore is pronounce as ‘Singgaporee’ . Russia is pronounce as ‘russiya’ and New Zealand is pronounce as ‘new zilande’.

3) Point to remember for this week is is correct pronunciation of certain words. Beside, I also need to remember when to use certain words in a correct time. For example, anyeonghaseyo is use when we meet someone. Anyeonghekaseyo is use to bid goodbye to someone. Anyeonghakeseyo is used for someone who is leaving saying to someone who is staying. The words can be confusing as it sounds almost the same.

4) for this week I feel great and extra excited learning korean. This is because instead of writing and reading Hangul, I can also pronounced and speak in korean.

5) one good things that I did is being consistent. Learning korea is all about being consistent and keep revising. This help me to remember the pronunciation better and recognise the the words better

6) Difficulties that I faced during this second module is, the pronunciation of the korean words. To be honest it is quite hard for me to utter certain words. It takes more time for me, to make my tongue familiar with words. How I cope with this, everytime the lecture finish, I would listen to words pronunciation again and again. I also will try to pronounce the word numorous time.

7) My plan for next week is to start module 3 and I also would like to practice what I’ve learnt in week 2 with my friends.

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Name: Yiew Yee Hann
Matric No.: A173428
Date: 31/7/2022

2. How is your progress?
My second week is learning about vocab and conversation about travel. It's nice that I've learnt more vocab and be able to converse more fluently compared with my past experience!

3. Points to remember from week 2!
Practice really makes perfect! Because of the lecture notes, I'm able to read Korean faster than before and I also have a better understanding of a long conversation now! I can also pronounce better but I need more practice on it.

4. Your feelings & thoughts
I'm feeling pretty good as I can see the improvement in myself. I think I need to practice more especially with native speakers if possible so that I can learn more daily used vocab.

5. ONE good thing from what you did that you can practice now!
I have more confidence in myself when I'm speaking Korean with the others now.

6. Any difficulties/concerns? How did you cope?
Fortunately, the lessons for this week are still pretty easy for me so I'm still able to finish them easily.

7. Your plan for next week (Week 3)
I plan to finish the lessons for next week as soon as possible to recap back what I've learned throughout the first few weeks. Hopefully I can manage my time well to make my plan works!

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My creations and WIP of the week! The screen shows the written pattern for the flower coaster.

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Week 2 of Crocheting My Life Together! 🧶

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Week 2 of Crocheting My Life Together! 🧶

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An-Nawal IsaBelle Farissa Binti Ismail Faizal
A174007
31/7/22

My progress

At the end of week 2, I’ve definitely made progress in my learning curve to crochet. I’ve completed my online course and now I’m attempting to incorporate the knowledge I’ve learnt to make my own pieces of creation. I’ve started on a few projects, and have completed two- a flower shaped coaster and a bandana! The larger sized project is a work in progress and I’m excited to finish it in the weeks to come. Throughout the week, I’ve learnt new stitches, such as the magic ring, the puff stitch and the picot stitch, which i didn’t even know existed when I first started learning. I’ve also learnt how to read patterns as it is one of my objectives for this posting. In fact, the flower coaster was made by reading the pattern and not through referencing a video, which is definitely an accomplishment in my book. In addition to reading patterns, I’ve learnt to add or reduce stitches in order to modify the sizes of my creation particularly in my ongoing larger sized project ie: a drawstring pouch.

Points that needs to be remembered:

A bigger project is not necessarily a hard project. Surprisingly, making the drawstring pouch is much more easier than making the flower coaster. Thus, I shouldn’t be scared to take up bigger projects because sometimes it’s just simple stitches done in a repetitive pattern at a larger scale.

When moving on the next row of stitches, I have to flip the project around and then proceed with the new row. This was not something mentioned in the steps of the pattern so i definitely need to keep that in mind when referencing written patterns.

Counting stitches is very crucial when referencing written patterns. One extra or less stitch will cause the whole project to look odd and disfigured, I’ve learnt that the hard way.

My feelings and thoughts

There’s this new wave of excitement I feel as I’ve completed the practice rounds when following the course. Now that I’m done learning the basics, I’m able to pick new projects to start on and basically crochet whatever I wanted. I’m also curious on how many pieces of creations I can make throughout this elective posting. Will I able to crochet faster? Neater? Recreate more advanced patterns? When creating the bandana and drawstring pouch, I’ve found rhythm and it was great able to repeat the same movement and stitches until suddenly a completed project is done, that definitely helped me to get my mind off other things and had placed me in a better state of mind.

One good thing I can put to practice

I’m able to read written patterns now! That itself opened a new, bigger realm of possibilities of creations I can make. This is because there are much more written patterns than youtube or video tutorials on the net. So being able to read these written patterns have given me more options to create in the future!

Difficulties/ concerns and how I coped

Like I’ve mentioned above, the bigger projects are sometimes not the difficult ones, the sneaky little flower coaster had me questioning everything I practiced before this. It took many different stitches to create that tiny little flower, basically that coaster took a lot of technique to create. In addition to that, I wasn’t referencing a video, I was crocheting it based on a written pattern, so I had no idea if I was actually doing the right thing. However with crochet, when you feel something looks odd, there’s a simple option of untying it and redoing it. So that’s what I did until I completed my first more advanced coaster!

My plans for week 3

I plan to finish my drawstring pouch and start on other projects to fill up my posting time. Hopefully I can start on my character creation as I’m just currently waiting for the materials to arrive. I also plan to attempt the flower coaster again to see if there’s any improvement in the outcome. In a nutshell, my plan is to crochet and crochet some more!

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1. Your name, matric number, date

Aberame A/P Suseenthiran, A174059, 29/7/2022

2. How is your progress?

I’ve been doing more experiments with my baking and I baked two different types of brownies. One of it was a classic crunchy top and the other was a softer, denser brownie. I experimented with the second brownie to make it fit my preference and I thoroughly enjoyed making alterations as it helped me understand the significance of each ingredient in the already given recipe.

3. Points to remember from week 2!

Brownies are not the same as cakes. Brownies require minimal skills as it doesn’t require fancy equipments and has a fixed list of ingredients. Brownies are also easy to improve to our taste. We can add caramel, nuts or even chocolate chunks to make it chewy if that’s what we prefer.

After going through various recipes, I understood that dense brownies require more liquid ingredients like evaporated milk meanwhile crispier brownies rely on dry ingredients especially sugar. I also learnt that brownies aren’t supposed to mixed thoroughly using a beater as incorporating air will make it fluffy and cake-like.

4. Your feelings & thoughts

I feel ecstatic because I experimented with a recipe and yielded a successful final product

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

Following the instructions completely the first time before making any alterations to avoid any confusion

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

Fortunately, I made good progress this week and hadn’t met any major bumps. I am thankful for that.

7. Your plan for next week (Week 3)

For next week I am planning to make only pound cake

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Hi,my name is Sanjay Ramesh (A174051)
Date:31/7/2022
Day:Sunday

2.   My progress so far has been incredible,I have finished the second section out of all four that I need to do.In this part the journey was extremely close to my own experiences that I did not do justice before this,it was about having courage to speak one’s mind.This part of the course there were 4 video assignments and 3 quizzes which I found really interesting and fun to do.There were also 2 new discussions that happened,where I saw a lot of people with extremely different perspectives and also ideas on the same topic. 🤯🤯🤯

3.    Things I will forever remember from this is that I need to be truthful and be brave when I say something,let it be an opinion or to defend myself.Showing your true self is never wrong and it’s better to be truthful in a conversation rather than just lying your way through even though it makes things uncomfortable.Be bold when you speak and speak in your great sense of mind and don’t just waste your words.In conclusion,a leader should be able to communicate for the betterment courageously.💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

4.   I am feeling rather comfortable and happy to do this course because the more I indulge myself in it,the more I learn to be better because it relates so much to my life.

5.   I can really handle hard and difficult conversation very well and can talk what is in my mind respectfully and bravely.👀

6.   This week,my time management was a bit off because I had some emergencies to handle but I managed it well and did my best throughout the week.

7. Next week is all about humility in a conversation which I think I need to do some pre reading before attending the classes because honestly I do not know what do they mean by it 😂😂😂

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MOHAMAD SYAHRUL IQMAL BIN MOHD BAHARUDIN

A173642

30/7/2022

This week, I have started learning about numbers in Mandarin. I learned how to write and pronounced the numbers in Mandarin. Other than that, I have also learned a simple conversation dialogue on how to tell and ask others about phone numbers in Mandarin Chinese. Besides that, they also taught us how to read and pronounce date and time in Mandarin.

Points to remember in week 2 are in Mandarin, they use the “year + month + date” formula to write their date and if we want to say the year in mandarin, we need to read out each digit and add the word “nián” at the end of it. For example, 2022 will be read as “èr líng èr èr nián” which literally translates into “two zero two two year”.

In my opinion, learning Mandarin is easier than I thought as the pronunciation is quite simple. However, the Chinese number characters took quite some time to memorise.

One thing that I learned and can be practised now is that writing the Chinese characters in a book makes it a lot easier to be memorised.

So far I have not faced any difficulties as the learning points for this week were not too heavy for beginners just like myself.

My plan for the 3rd week is that I want to try and make a simple dictionary so that I can jot down new words which will help to expand my vocabulary.