Grant Final--Reflection on ES2007S

Goodbye, my fellow classmates. Goodbye, Ms. Lim. Farewell~~
--- By Ella Liu Chang

For the final blog post, I would like to quote my own words. Actually, these sentences were locked in my heart during the last class of ES2007S. I tried to find an appropriate time to say goodbye for everyone. However, finally, I failed to take action, because I was afraid I would be very emotional and tears would drop down if I did so. Therefore, now, I must seize the last chance to express my feeling of this module ES2007S.

I have confidence to say that ES2007S is one of the most useful and intensive communication module I have encountered. The skills introduced by this modules are closely related to my career in the future. It equips me with a lot of interpersonal and intercultural skills. When I was interviewed by my internship supervisor, I would like to tell him that I am the person who have strong problem solving skills and leadership. When I have a speech in front of my club committee, I would like to tell them that I am the person who have very good decision making skills and you would like to rely on me. All in all, all my confidence comes from this beneficial module---ES2007S.

Besides fulfilling the requirement of the last blog post, what I really want is to highlight the activity we did in the last class. That is really insightful and it touched my heart.

I could not throw away the first two roles in my life --- "Daughter" and "Girlfriend", as well as the third one --- "Friend". Without friends, I was not be myself anymore. That is why I always choose double room in the hall of NTU instead of single room. I would like to chat with my friends and it makes me feel alive. For the role as a girlfriend, although there are always some conflicts between my boyfriend and me, I still cherish this kind of relationship and I will try my best to save it as long as I can. The most important role for me is daughter. I love my parents, I love my family. I seldom say thank you to my parents before I came to Singapore. However, now, I strongly feel that I have responsibility to take care of my parents. In the past 20 years, they put too many efforts on me and help me to reach the peaks of each phase of my life.

In the name of friendship, love and family, I have a big thanks for you, for everyone appeared in my life, including my fellow classmates of ES2007S. Thank you very much.
Wish you all the best in the coming exams!!!

Cheers~

LIU CHANG

Reflection on the presentation today

In order to give an overall reflection on my own presentation, it is better for me to write it with the “fresh” memory for today presentation.

Firstly, I want to say that “Congratulations to all the presenters. Thank you very much for my team members, Akash and Chenchen. We are all done the good jobs! Cheers!” Indeed, today, all the presenters performed very well and show the full confidence to the audience, including myself.

This semester is quite special for me, because I am an exchange student from NTU. I took 2 modules in NUS and 6 modules in NTU as well. In fact, taking 8 modules in one semester in NTU is still in the average level. However, I am a partial exchange student. That means I have to travel frequently between NTU and NUS. That means I have to sleep on the floor of my friend's dormitory in NUS. Hence, that is not so easy for our team to organise group meetings as frequently as we want. Actually, due to my Taekwondo training on the Wednesday night, we only have less than 2 hours to rehearse the whole process of our presentation on the coming Thursday morning. Meanwhile, due to the video, it took about 2 minutes out of 20 minutes presentation. Therefore, how to control the time is the biggest challenge for us. Fortunately, although we were so passionate during the real presentation, the time was still in control.

Actually, when I was an audience sitting on the chair and listening to the presentations from other groups as well as my team member, I strongly felt the confidence coming from their hearts. At that moment, I have to say that I became more and more nervous, because I feared that I couldn’t perform as excellent as they did. Therefore, to reduce the sense of anxiety, I started to take deep breath and spoke to myself, “You have put a lot efforts on this project and you fully prepared for this coming presentation. Based on your excellent presentation skills, as long as you show the passion and enthusiasm to the audience, you will be the winner for today! Go, go, Ella!” Although these words looked quite stupid, they were the sunshine shining in my cloudy sky. They were essential for me to build up the confidence and help me jump out of my speech script. Without these stupid words, my presentation would go down to the hell.

The biggest improvement of my presentation is the volume and pace. I still remember that after the peer teaching, I saw many comments on my "soft" volume and shortage of confidence. The same fault won't occur twice in my life. Therefore, I grabbed this opportunity and turn up my volume and show my full confidence in front of the class. On the other hand, the weakness for my presentation would be the inappropriate pauses. There were still many “en”, “ah” involved in my presentation and make it sound not so fluently. Also, probably, I have used up my power and passion in the presentation session, so that, during the Q&A session, I didn’t answer as many questions as I could with strong evidences. I think there is a long way for me to improve my presentation skills and the weakness will be my direction in my further study.

Last but not least, thank you for the attentions from all the audience. Wish the following presentation teams all the best.

Cheers~