Wednesday, August 4, 2010

MTV EXIT


Hi All,

Here's another installment for our blogs!! Some of you have seen this powerful video in class already, but I would love to further discuss it's effect on us throughout this week as well.

I have a few questions that might help direct our discussions as we go along.

1) What do you think about the portrayal of the video?
2) How do you feel about it's message? Are you surprised that this kind of thing still happens
today? Why?
3) The issue we talked about in class was about how basic human rights and workers rights were slowly formulated and championed by people in the Victorian era i.e. people like Charles
Dickens. How do you think we can be part of ending this problem in our era?

Friday, July 23, 2010

The Story of Stuff


Hey there everyone. If you're reading this. Thank you for taking the time to look at this video besides looking at the Story your peers have written.

This video is connected to the next class we are having this coming week. It's about civilizations and the impact they have on the world we live in today.

I'd like you to watch it and tell me what you think. I will be showing it again next week when we have class together but I was hoping that you'd get a head start into thinking about whether our Civilizations are really civilized.

Think about what makes a civilization civilized. What does a civilized society do Socially, Technologically, Morally, Religiously and Environmentally? These are all questions we should ask ourselves as a community of people living together.

Group 2's MR. ACCOUNTING!!

He does not have wings, nor does he wear his underwear outside. He is a perfectly normal guy, who wears a suit and neatly starched pants, carrying a bag filled with only pens and papers, he’s known as a genius. His best friends are numbers and he can calculate as fast as lightning.

His name is *drum roll* … Mr Accounting!!!!

Have you ever heard of Mr. Accounting ? I’m sure you have not. No one has ever seen his face, so we don’t know whether he is handsome or not. But since he is brilliant with numbers, let’s just assume he is good looking. He has photographic memory, where he can memories books after looking at it once for five seconds. His eyes can work as a scanning machine, just like those at the supermarket cashier. One look at the book’s bar code and he can recite the entire content of the book. However, it only applies to accounting books. Don’t get frustrated or sad when you cannot balance up your balance sheet, because Mr Accounting is always here to help.

But!, as perfect as he is, He has a deep dark secret. He is in Love with Miss Accounting!! Awwwwww!

However, one day, Mr. Accounting’s best friend and side kick Mr. Add Maths found out about Mr. Accounting’s secret. Out of Jealousy Mr, Add Maths ( who likes Miss Accounting too), kidnaps Miss Accounting to his not-so-secret lair- His house basement.

The minute Mr. Accounting found out, he immediately rushed to Mr Add Math’s house with his Nissan Daihatsu and demanded he release Ms Accounting. Being the evil and cunning person he is, he wouldn’t just give her back. Mr. Add Maths challenged Mr. Accounting to an accounting tournament!!. The Battle lasted for hours. In the end, Mr. Add Maths made a careless mistake and his balance sheet did not ….gasp balance! Mr Accounting emerged victorious.

Once Ms. Accounting heard the news, she jumped straight into Mr. Accounting’s arms and lived happily ever after.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Welcome to PAFlog CUL & IDS 1

Hey everyone! Welcome to the PAFlog CUL & IDS for July intake 2010 Group 1.

This blog allows you to give comments and share ideas about our class.Every once in a while I will be adding articles, pictures and sometimes videos that you can comment about.This is a great way to participate in our class discussions even when we aren't in class.

Here are some basic rules:

1. This blog remains a safe haven for students to share their ideas. DO NOT INSULT, PUT DOWN OR MAKE FUN OFF people on this blog.

2. Respect the rights of your friends to have an opinion. If you do not agree with their ideas let them know respectfully and explain why you disagree.

3. Always use your official name in your i.c. NOT a nickname or online name. i.e. Weng Kit NOT loverboy92

4. Your comments can be light hearted but remember the aim of this blog is to share ideas and opinions on your lesson in class. So please try to focus on the lessons. If you have something funny that's related to the topic to share with us, by all means share it.

5. Vulgarity is not permitted on this blog So no swear words.

6. Racist comments are not tolerated on this blog and will be considered grounds for expulsion from the blog.

If we are in agreement to all these ground rules then we can definitely dive in to this project and hopefully by the end of the semester we can have a good body of work that reflects our thoughts and ideas about various topics.