:: My Research Project ::

Research Paper:

1. Do you think your writing has improved overall by doing this paper? Explain.

Yes, I think
During I was doing the research paper, I had chances to read a lot of articles. My topic looks alike too technical, therefore I tried to gather the articles from other areas which are about economical and environmental. Certainly, we couldn’t plagiarize those professional articles, but we could learn some grammar and also some techniques of writing from them. That gives me a lot of idea to improve my writing skill.

2. What are some of the skills you improved in while doing the paper?

Beside the improving linguistic skills which mostly are reading and writing skill, I have learnt how to summarize the articles from more than 2 or 3 sources, give the citation and also gather the information from databases which are very precious for my education in the future.

3. How do you feel about your paper?

Even though, it’s not a perfect research, I satisfy what I have done. I spent many days for gathering and understanding the topic. I also had the hard time to summarize, but finally I finished it. I quite satisfy the information that seems to follow my plan.

Presentations

1. Did you enjoy listening to the presentations.

Yes, everybody has done the good jobs. Because of the variety of topics, I never got bored during the presentation. Also, they have their own styles which are very interesting.

2. What did you learn about presentation techniques while listening to them.

I tried to learn how to perform professionally during the presentation. Actually, many of them presented very professionally, but it seems to be too hard to me adjust ( hehe… maybe I would never change it in my life.)

3. What did you learn during the process of preparing for your presentations?

I learnt that using small script paper is better than using A4 paper because It’s easier to organize. (But during my presentation, I forgot to take it from my pocket at the beginning so I decided to continue without it.)

4. Were you satisfied with you own presentstion?

Yes, I think I have done my best.

:: Advertising ::

Nowadays, I don’t think that we can resist allurement of advertisement. I consider advertising is some types of brainwashing. Advertising is a powerful tool for building products image. I ever heard that in many organizations the most precious property is not real estate, factory, or product itself but it is brand. Why? Because they certainly put huge money to build the brand before it becomes well known. Advertising is everywhere. It is in the TV. It’s in the internet. It’s on big billboards beside highways. It’s even in the public toilets. It affects us and we finally become brand addicted.

:: Attending the Public Lecture ::

Ivan : Dams? Is it good?
Sang Yun : Ok
Arti : (...there are not many topics left...)
Arti : Ok !.........What is the topic?!?
Sang Yun : Good Dams Bad Dams
Arti: It's the best lecture ever...

It was 3 weeks ago. Actually, this is my first attending English public lecture. I found that their PowerPoint could help me a lot to following the content. Instructors occasionally use technical words or some difficult vocabulary that I don’t get familiar much but I could understand some words by guessing their speech and also reading some explanation from their slide. Actually, It’s really good because in my opinion, when I learn any new words in this way, it tends to be retained in my memory longer than general reading. (For me, It’s really true..)

PS. Because of we have 3 instructors for our public lecture, I feel more comfortable to listen the first speaker who is an English native speaker rather than the others and this is the benefits of living in Canada that we have more opportunities to learn the variety of pronunciations than any countries. Do u agree?

:: Post Opinion about Population ::

Population growing is very interesting topic. Many times when I learn some kinds of useful information, I always think about my country. What is my country's position. Are we considering this problem? and further more questions are so on. Thailand is an famous agricultural country. we declare ourselves as kitchen of the world (wow -_-'') and we are rich of food production, but I still not sure that if we don't pay more attention on keeping the balance of population growth, maybe we gonna be painful and have to confront its impacts soon.

:: Population PreActivity ::

Answer the Questions

1. My grandparents have totally 10 children included fathers and mother's parent and I have 4 sibling. In the future, I desire to have 3 children (2 sons and 1 cute young daughter)

2. The population of Thailand is around 60 million. It causes many problems especially in the big cities, Bangkok for instance, which seem to be too crowded and also people are stressful due to engaging high competition.

3. The world population is roughly 6.7 billion. (Alicexun, 2007)

4. The important factor in my opinion which controling populations of animal species is all about environment. If the environment is suitable, it will encourage animals to proliferate their offspring. Likewise in human, for example, the suitable environment might be considered by financial or social factors.

5. Government should take the role in order to control population properly. It’s a preventive solution to avoiding many adverse consequences such as lack of resource use, lack of space or other socially ethical problems.

:: Happiness After lesson ::

How you feel after learning Happiness Unit

According to the article about happiness I have read, I found that are interesting, many research try to figure out what is the happiness. Before, we are talking about happiness. I feel it’s a common sense. Without any worry, we may be at ease, but now I learnt that there are some links biologically between happiness and genetic. Otherwise, it reminds me buddhistic principle I have learnt since I was young. It mentions about living adequately and also focusing on the present time. It’s a truth that we should be in the middle way which is not too much and not too less. Meditation is another thing that shares the same concept of being on the present. It teach about trying to concentrate on your in-out breath that your mind will be calm and won’t have time to thinking about your personal problem. You may become more conscious then you can solve any problem in the right way. That’s amazing that the simple knowledge around 2000-3000 years can be used practically today.

PS. I’m not a religious person.