Procrastination

"Procrastination" is something we are very well used to, its one of our lifestyle. We (specially me) spend my time in Facebook, You Tube, messaging to my friends (probably not a girlfriend because still I haven't got a one ;) :P ), postponding things what I have to do right at the moment. Now today what Mr.Rehan said was stop procrastination and start what we are suppose to do and how important it when it come to our studies.

He showed  us this video of Procrastination.

Motto

 

Everyone should have to have a motto. When it comes to my case I've got several,

• "Great achievements are with great sacrifices"
• "Love the nature in-return the nature will love you" 

In order to achieve a goal you need to do some serious sacrifices that's  my point of view. And about the nature  I'm kind of a Nature lover so if you care for the nature the nature will automatically look after you, my argument here is if u pollute the environment in return the bad effects are also on you.   

Recycle

 Mr. Rehan asked last week asked us to create something which is useful out of trash. then to identify its properties and its users. Now for this what I planed was to make a Pen Holder out of a card-board box which I was going to throw. 

20th March 2012

Today we had to present our creations. seriously there where many creative ideas, they where really great the effort they have made to make it. I'm really poor in remembering names so I cant says exactly the persons name but that 'Kingfisher' collage art done by that girl it was simply awesome. Even that wall hanger was mind-blowing I really like it :). 

     

"Skills" some has got really good skills

I'm suppose to write a blog post every day when we have LFS, but  i couldn't do it :( This time Mr. Rehan gave us an activity

"Think about something you do well, a difficulty you overcame, or a personal achievement, no matter how small.  Write down all the elements that go into something you have done well

–What did you do to create the conditions that led to success?

–Which skills, attitudes and qualities did you exhibit? Did you practice?

–Did you urge yourself on in a particular way?

–Did you find people to help? Or did you just believe you could do it? "

I was thinking about it really hard noting comes to my mind :/ but Mr. Rehan said write-down something doesn't mater how small it is. Then my light bulb lit :P.
When  was at school my friend used me to call me 'the tech guy' its because I was really good at fixing computers and considerably good in computer literacy. I think this is a personal achievement, even one of my A/L tutor (Mr. sanjeewa Dharmawardhana) asked me to prepaid his tuts series after my A/L exams.

To get this achievement I mastered my skill working hard, believing that in myself that I can do this. I think this is my strength and need to work more to polish my skills.

     

Perfection vs. Imperfection

Today it was a really interesting day at the class. We made rockets out of paper and set it around the class. Our lecturer Mr. Syhid Rehan said to send the rocket as to hit the white-board standing at the back of the class room. So we sent them some went and hit the projector slide and some really went closer to the whit board and crashed, but some just went side ways and even some didn't fly. My rocket went near to the board and crashed its little bit of disappointment tough. With this activity what Mr. Rehan wanted to convey about the structure of life. 

Do we really want to work on our weaknesses or do we have to work on our Strengths??? it was the question he raised. Or do we have to work on both? for this question my answer was we should work on our 'strengths' rather the weaknesses, if we workout with our strengths those will develop and make us more perfect in that area but if we try to improve our weaknesses giving full attention to it we might loose our Strengths making us more weaker and weaker.

The most highlighted topic of the day was  'Can Imperfection make Perfection?'. What is Imperfection its really means? according to Oxford Dictionary it is a fault, blemish, or undesirable feature. How can we really measure Imperfection? whats the benchmark to compare with? its really an unanswered question to me. I think its relative. It depends on person to person attitude is what matters in this kind of things.

TO BE CONTINUED!!!!     

Self-reflective Protfolis

Mr.Syed Rehan lecture of Learning for Success a module in the first year degree program asked us to do an assignment on Self-Reflective Portfolio reflecting Personal goals, reflections and strategies for success. so in-order to do so I needed to do a research on self-reflective portfolio.

“A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits to the students and/or others the student’s efforts, progress, or achievement in a given area.  This collection must include: student’s participation in the selection; the criteria for selection; the criteria for judging merit; and evidence of self-reflection or self-assessment.”(http://www.nwrel.org)

According to the "Northwest Regional Educational Laboratories" a portfolio means a collection of students investigations and research on topics what he has learned.