Group Disscusion

Well, for the previous week before chinese new year, i miss lesson! Damn! Too busy man! Oh well, i heard there was a group discussion. Talking about group discussion, one thing i learn about group discussion is that you must have a good group! That is to have a good leader!

If you take a look at the world now, there are many leaders, good and bad. Being a good leader is not easy but however, being a bad leader, life is also not very easy. For example, take the previous president of the United States, Mr George W Bush. Due to his failure in leading his country, he became very unpopular. This is what i found in the Internet.


There are people who are so against him that they do this.

So moral of the story is, being a good leader is essential and every group success is base on how good the leader is.

I think i have a very good leader, Suhaimi. He dedicated the job very well. But i forget to go into my TP email to check as such, i never do!!! HAHA! Opps. Oh well!!!!!

My Dream Holiday

Many teenages dream holiday would be to Korea, Japan, Usa and etc. For me, my dream holiday is actually to one of the most romantic places in the world, also somewhere that might not be around anymore in the next couple of decades due to rising sea level. Yes as some of you might have guess, my dream holiday is to Venice!






The website i have choosen for travelling to Venice is http://www.venice.world-guides.com/. I chose this website is because it provides many information on Venice.
Why do i like to go Venice. One of the reason is that Venice is actually starting to sink. And if i dont visit it now, there might not be a chance to go there again. Thats one of the reason. The other reason is because it is one of the most romantic country in the world. And like in the movie that i watch recently, The Tourist, the show is actually based in Venice. It further inspires me to go there as the scenery is very nice and attracting.

As i went into Second Life to search for Venice, there were a couple of places they showed me. The Venice in Second Life looks kind of pathetic.





Thats all!!! I hope one day i can really travel there!!!!

STOMP

Well last week, we did a group discussion on the hit website in Singapore, STOMP. Why we were told to do that? It is due to fact that last week we learn about Citizen Journalism (something like that.) Somethings that i learn for evaluation criteria are  purpose, coverage, authority, accuracy, currency, accessibility, Presentation and Arrangement, Usability and Overall Quality. We evaluate STOMP using this criterias and manage to give STOMP an overall rating.

Well, in my opinion, STOMP is rather good website, other then the irrelevant things in it!!

As usual, lesson is still boring for me!!! Bye!

SECOND LIFE

I am very sorry for posting this late!!!


Anyway, i went shopping with shihan!!!

At the rooftop before going to shop!!!

In one of the shop!!!

I saw this really interesting shop selling all this. I wonder if this is appropriate for our studies? HAHA!!!!

Anyway i wanted to purchase the art but i realize i did not have money! Oh well, guess not fated with all this kind of "ART"!



Second Life shopping is not as fun as E-Shopping. E-Shopping is more real life to me. I get to purchase real stuff where as Second Life Shopping only get to purchase virtual stuff!!!! Anyway, I kind of hate Second Life... It is kind of difficult to use!!!!! Anyway! Lesson soon!!!!

Lesson 4 and 5

For this week, i learn that there are many search engines we have not used before. 2 of it i learn today was metacrawler and google directory. i have never ehard of this 2 search engine before in my life! Well shows that i am learning something in this CDS!!!

METACRAWLER

how does metacrawler work? when you conduct a search using meta search engine, the meta search engine will relay the search to to other search engine like google or yahoo. After that it goes for a round of filter and provides you with the relevant search. It is very useful as it gives you all the search available in all the different search engine. However, one bad point is it does not provide with many different search results.

GOOGLE DIRECTORY

Google Directory works like a street directory. Everything is categorized into different category. For example, looking for food in a street directory, we will go to the category and search for food and it will show all the different restaurants and eateries. Google Directory works this way. In a way, your search is narrow down as category is place to simplify all the search.

If you ask me, i prefer Metacrawler as it provides me with more information compared to Google Directory. However, different people will prefer different things.

Week 3

For week 3, lesson was much more slack for that day, and the day was ended with a discussion on the thread on Facebook. The topic was on life without internet. Ironically, we are actually using an internet portal to talk about Life with Internet. How contradictory is that? However, this just show how important Internet is to us.

So this is what i post.

Internet can actually be a tool that will help us in our everyday life. However, it can also be our downfall. As technology is so readily available now, it is almost impossible not to be able to contact anyone, even in the rural areas in Africa. With a Blackberry, we are able to acess any where in the world. However, due to the improve in technology, individuals have actually lesser time to do their personal stuff. For example, on Sundays, which is usually an off day for most working professional, with the up-to-date handphones, should an email come in, we are able to acess it immediately. This means that even on our off days, we are able to do work and contactable by our bosses or subordinates. This is actually not good as we do not have personal time for ourself. However, with the internet, it helps us to save time in alot of ways as compared to the traditonal ways. For example, it saves us alot of time to send a email now, compared to sending the normal mail by post. This allow messages to be pass quickly. But overall, i still feel that the internet can be both a friend and also a foe.

How i wish i dont have to do this every week!!!! :)




Google and Google Scholar


Google is actually a very widely use search engine. When doing project, i am very sure all of us will use Google, or the term, lets "Google It" is always heard. However i am sure not much of us had heard about Google Scholar.
Google Scholar is actually a search engine in which people use to find out about books and author and articles.
However, i find Google Scholar more useless compared to Google, which provides more information. But overall, using Google Scholar to find article and books is actually a very good tool.

If I Had $500

If i had $500, i would like to buy an Epiphone SG Special

I always wanted to own one of this. Some of the Specification of this guitar


Pickups: 2 Open-Coil Humbuckers
Hardware: Chrome
Scale: 24.75"
Nut Width: 1.68"
Neck: Bolt, Maple
Fingerboard - Inlay: Rosewood - Dot
Body Material: Laminated Alder/Maple
Tailpiece: Stopbar
Finish:
Ebony (EB)
Cherry (CH)


It is price at $481.50 at Swee Lee Online Store. (http://sweelee.com.sg/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1_17_22&products_id=201)

I have decided to buy this item from Swee Lee Online Store as i know that Swee Lee is a well known guitar shop and this would mean that their product will be of some quality.