Yup, 12 weeks of school is coming to an end, and despite the hectic projects, I think school life has been a blast thus far. And if there's a module which I'm going to miss the most, its definitely Communication 101 class.
I really enjoyed this module alot and the Prof. (Dr Ong Siow Heng) has been really great too. haha. But interestingly, most of us (including me) actually didn't like him or his lessons initially.
Cant really remember why, but perhaps it was because he looked very serious at first, didnt smile and he was intimidating. This guy talks with amazingly precise enunciation, in perfect sentences, if not paragraphs. He's like some karate black belt holder in the art of paraphrasing and debating.
Don't mess. he will break your neck.
Haha. And his articles are extremely SICK. SICK as in disgustingly cheem. He has penned several articles for the Straits Times and some of the articles which he gave us were IN-COM-PRE-HEN-DA-BLE!!! Im sure his students will never ever forget that infamous "Second Persona"...
"The critic can see in the auditor implied by a discourse a model of what the rhetor would have this real auditor become. What the critic can find projected by the discourse is the image of a man, and though that man may never find actual embodiment, it is still a man that the image is of."
After talking through portions of the article, he looked at us like we didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
Which we didn't.
Imagine reading 15 pages of such cheemalogical crap??? I felt like some Alcatraz lifer thinking that there was no way in hell I was going to get through the course alive.
But as weeks went by, his lessons became more fun as we warmed up to him and vice versa. He also started smiling ( a-la Slyvester from Singapore Idol ) and he started cracking jokes.
Prof. Ong is stand-up comedy material Im telling you. He jokes with such a straight face that he becomes such an endearing person and whatever barriers which stood between him and us disappeared in an instant.
And the past 3 weeks had been magnificent as well. We had to promote products or services and somehow through these products/services, you actually get to know a person better... And i also think that we are going to end up remembering one another by the things we sell rather than our names.. haha..
And I also successfully made a fool of myself in one of the group video commercial presentations which did in the last week.
But I guess it's OKAY la since the overall video was pretty cool and the class did love our commercials and did crack up.
( Okay okay, so self-perception and reality seldom collide. But I would really like to believe that I brought a smile to people's faces ya? )
Kennyster @
11:49 PM
The Unpretty
Kenny Loh
23
Formerly from Dunman High, VJC and formerly a proud member of the 2SIR 11th mono Alpha Company Apache warriors.
Currenly a 3rd year student at the Singapore Management University.
I'm into books, pool, soccer & conversation (by day), justice, honour & vengeance (by night).
Constantly on the lookout for crimelords, deformed megalomaniacs and women.
