Myself

       The name given by my parents is Jasmin Bt Mohd Jifri. But I am commonly called as Jasmin among my family members, friends and also my teachers. I am 19 years old and currently I am doing my Diploma in English at Sultan Idris Educational University or commonly known as UPSI located in Tanjung Malim, Perak. My hometown is Kampung Keda Bukit Kura, Kuala Nerang, Kedah Darul Aman.

       I started my learning when I was 4 years old in kindergarten and finished my kindergarten when I was 6 years old. After that I went to Sekolah Kebangsaan Pedu as a Standard One student. The school is near to my house and it takes about 10 minutes for me to reach the school. I sit my UPSR and I managed to get straight A's in my UPSR. Since I have got an excellent result, I was offered to Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato' Syed Ahmad, a cluster school and I accepted the offer. I continue my study in SMK Dato' Syed Ahmad as a Form One student in religious stream and I sit for my PMR there. Unfortunately, I did not manage to get an excellent result for my PMR, yet I got 6A2B1C so I did not apply for any better school. I continue my studies in religious stream as well for SPM and gratefully I managed to get 8A1B for my SPM result. Since I love to learn English, I decided to apply for universities that offer English programme and I got accepted in UPSI for Diploma in English Programme.

       Everyone has their own likes and hobbies. As for myself, I have my own hobbies. During my free time, I love to listen to songs and sing whether alone or along with family and friends. If I have free time, I will always sing to myself and sometimes I will sing in front of my friends. As for listening to the different songs, I prefer to listen to English songs because I believe that it is one of the way for me to improve my English. When I listen to English songs, I will try to follow the pronunciation and the different accents correctly and it somehow had improved my pronunciation a lot. I also prefer to listen to instrumental songs since for me it can make me relax whenever I am feeling depressed by my daily pressure.

      Similar to other person, I have my own dreams for my future. One of the dreams is I want to be an educator. At first, it never crossed my mind for me to be an educator, for example, a teacher. Since my passion was about art, since I love to sing very much since I was younger until now. But somehow, my parents have a really high expectation for me to be an educator and it has been one of their biggest dream. Because of that, I decided to give up on my dream and continue to achieve my parents' dream because I believe that usually, parents' choice will lead to a great success. I want to make their dream comes true, but in the same time I still can always do my dream, with changing it to my hobby. I can sing whenever I want but I cannot be a teacher whenever I want, that is the principal that I hold on to.

       In life, the most important thing is never give up on any things that you are doing. And it is important for you to make an effort, and give the best for yourself and others that related to you. I believe that, being myself, will able me to make great changes in my own way.

Reflection (Week 2)

       On Monday, the first class for the second week, we needed to show Miss Amreet the topic that we have chosen for the Prezi presentation. It was to make sure that the topic is interesting to be shared with the whole class and it had to be approved by Miss Amreet in order for us to continue doing more reading and research about the topic that we have chosen earlier.

        We needed to show things we planned to present, it means the subtopics for the main topic. As for my topic, Korean Traditional Games, I was planning on presenting about the history of the games and the way Korean play the games. I explained that I will also put some images and videos for the audience to understand clearly about the topic because I might cannot explain clearly about the way of the game being played so I hope that the video will make the audience understand clearly about the games. Gladly my topic was approved without problems but Miss Amreet made a suggestion for me to do some demonstration on how to play on of the game.

        On the Wednesday class, it was the Prezi workshop for us to learn about Prezi. But since we have learnt about Prezi when we were in Semester 2, it was not difficult for us to understand about Prezi and all the functions.  Since we were already familiar with Prezi, we were just needed to continue on planning our presentation. I have chosen the topic and I try to look for any information that related to the topic including videos and pictures. I also practice how to explain and present the topic so that my classmates will understand about the topics.

Reflection (Week 1)

Throughout the first week, we were introduced  to this new subject which is BIK 1193 Writing for Multimedia and Web. On the first day class, our lecturer, Miss Amreet Kaur has given brief introduction about this course. We were shown the Instructional Plan for the course. Miss Amreet has explained about the course as well as the assessments that we need to do for this course.

Since it is the first time we met Miss Amreet, we did self-introduction to get to know each other. During the session, we were asked about our expectation from this course, which is things that we expect to learn  from this Writing for Multimedia and Web course.

For me, I expect to learn something new from this course which can be useful for me to enhance my skills in any work or project that will be related with multimedia and web in the future. I also expected to enhance my writing skills in multimedia and web purposes which can be useful when I graduate from this program.

We were also have been told about our assessment and the due week for the assessment. The first one is Prezi presentation. For this Prezi presentation, we were asked to  do a presentation based on an interesting topic. But the topic must be approved by Miss Amreet so we were given time to think of the topic and make a research about everything that related to the topic chosen for the presentation.

For the whole first week, I spent time to think of the topic that I wanted to present, and I have chosen ‘Korean Traditional Game’ for my Prezi presentation and I did some reading to choose the subtopics that I want to highlight in the presentation about the topic later.