Can earning RM 3000 in Malaysia take care of your girlfriend

Hey everyone. It has been a very very long time since I started updating this blog. Initially, this blog was supposed to be an educational blog where I post up my assignments and stuff. But nowadays since I've graduated uni, I feel like there is another need of this blog. Well, the main purpose of me maintaining this blog is mainly to keep track of my writing skills. I do have a personal blog where it is a place for me to nag about stuff. 

So let's get straight to the point. Can a men earning RM 3000 in Malaysia take care of his girlfriend. Well, some of you may ask, why do you write such a thing? To be honest, when I was watching a video yesterday and something pique my interest. The content of the video was Can you take care of your girlfriend if your salary is at RMB 5000. The results of the survey wasn't really shocking. 70% of the China lady said that it is not even enough. They all said that they need more than 10k a month to survive. 

I was like WHUTTTTTT? But when I heard their reasons, it is even more funny. Some have pets who spends like 3-4k a month. Some need make up products, some want bags and those secondary things. Well, it is quite funny. Do you need all those things from a men? Your pet you also want your bf to take care? The bf main job is to take care of you not the pet. Another 30% of the participants are those realistic once. They said that maybe it is enough and some even said why use the money of the men when they can earn themselves. 

So after I watched the video, I did a simple survey on Facebook naming, Can you take care of your girlfriend when you earn RM 3000. Well, it is actually same as earning 5k RMB. So I tried asking and the answer I got was kind of to my surprise. One of my friend from uni posted something like "Why gf can't take care of themselves?". I mean, her point of view was actually quite good. We discussed about it and I got a piece of her mind. She was talking about gender equality in the world. 

As gender equality have become such an important matter in the world, we would always associate gender equality to feminism. Women should have the same pay as men. Women should have this, should do that. But imagine this. When everyone is saying this, what about the men? When women achieved gender equality, what about those men who worked as hard? When we talked about gender equality, it means equality for both sides, oh well if you considered those who are gender-less. Hahahahaha. If what we fight for today, would not bring peace around the world, why fight for it? 

A lot of feminist think that fighting for gender equality means that I would fight for what is right for me and my gender. But doesn't it go back to the word gender? Gender equality means that we would fight for the equality of human beings regardless of whether they are men, women or trans. If you are not fighting for that, and you kept saying that gender equality is for female only, then you can go and drown yourself in the sea. We do not need you to fight for the equality. 

So back to the problem. From my point of view, I think that this matter, it has become a norm for women out there with what I called, Princess Syndrome. In short PS. So what is PS? It generally means that those women, who do not work hard for what they want, and they would constantly request their parents, their bfs, and their siblings to pay for what they want. They would just 'manja' a bit to their partner and they would do it. 

So when we look at these things, sometimes I just feel like slapping those people. You want something, why not work hard for it? Why ask the men to work hard for you? They work hard for you, bought you all those things, and does it meant that he loves you? Are you a leech? To what extend you want to suck those energy and money out of them? 

Often, all these women are always associated with gender equality. They would always say, men are earning more than us, so they SHOULD take care of us. Well, I mean, if by taking care means he look after you when you are sick, buy you porridge when you need, be there for you when you are facing hard times when you are at work, those I agree. But by taking care you mean buy you Prada, Gucci, YSL, LV, Burberry, iPhone, well then you can again drown yourself in the sea. 

Those things are really what I called material stuff. Do you need those to show people how much you have? Is posting on Instagram with the pictures of you going out to a very expensive dinner something that would make you proud? Would having a LV bag make you rich? Answer, NO. Those are just social expectations of what you perceive. Those things, are what you want people to see. It is not important. Why can't you just let go of all of those and live as a normal couple? 

After talking for so much, I feel that, well you know, if you know how to manage your finances, earning 3k in Malaysia is definitely enough for you to take care of yourself and girlfriend. But if you want to have a family, that is not entirely enough. Readers, what do you guys think? Give me some feedback let me know what you thought about. 

Signing off, 

YiXin Ching. 

Professionalism

So what I am gonna discuss today here is Professionalism.

What does Professionalism actually means?

So by Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, professionalism is the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person. Well, at different stage of our lives, we have to be professional in and when we are doing something. For example, when we are discussing about a worker sweeping the floor, his professionalism is to keep the place clean and making sure that there are no rubbish on the floor. If he does that, it means that he is professional.

People may ask. Why are you discussing this topic anyway? Is there any use of discussing about this? My answer is, Yes. It is really important to discuss this topic as a lot of the younger generations especially the 90's (no offence here), not all, but a lot of them, do not posses the quality of being called as professionals. Many a times, one single person holds a lot of roles in his or her life. Like me for example. I am a student, a son to my parents, a brother to my siblings, a counsellor to my friends, a mentor to my students and a lot more. Which means that I have to be professional at a lot of things.

Like being a student, by defining myself as professional, I have to attend to classes, finish up the tasks that was given by the lecturers, helping out my friends to complete the tasks and meeting deadlines for the task given. A lot of students do not understand this but, when we do something, we have to do it wholeheartedly. Take it as a chance and take it as when you are completing your work. If you are not professional in it, you will get scolding and even worse, offend someone else.

So again, why am I talking about this? Well, the story started a few days ago. If you guys followed my Facebook or my Instagram, I have been posting pictures while I was in Ao Nang, Krabi. Why I wanted to say this is because, I was sent to this trip by my lecturer with two of my assignment mates. Throughout the whole journey, I find that they do not posses as what I would call 'professional'. I am sorry to offend you guys if you read this but I find it hard to tell you on the face. So I will just say out everything here.

Being a student. We are obliged to complete all of our assignments, even if the assignment requires us to travel. Travelling is so damn fun, but at the same time, we went there for a trip for the assignment. So the interesting part goes. I am okay with you guys going to the pubs, drinking and dancing whole night. I really do. I had fun that night myself. But, didn't we have a plan before going to Thailand? We made plans so that we can complete everything within two days and we all can go have fun. We were supposed to follow that.

What is the case here is that, first, this trip is SUPPOSED to be an assignment trip. Why the hell did another human joined us and was planning everything for us. Yes I know he travels a lot and he is very knowledgeable. But he screwed up the whole plan. I have no idea why. You all said you guys wanna go, I followed. But the trips is getting too much and yes, I admit, I spend quite a lot myself. So I did not save up for the trips. But our main purpose here is to do assignment then trip.

Ok. To make the story short, I will be listing down some of the things that I feel is not being professional.

1. This is an assignment trip. Do you think that it is appropriate to bring your boyfriend/girlfriend? And when everything is being planned out so nicely, he/she had something to say and the whole team has to follow. 
2. Do you even read the questions before the interviews? Did you even pay any attention in the class? Have you ever wondered why our interview questions have to be reviewed by the lecturer? 
3. I as a Qualitative Researcher To Be knows what to ask and what not to ask. If you don't know how to ask, please do check online where there are wide variety of interviewing videos that can be learned from. If you never know how, I urge you to read up and watch some videos before commenting. IF you said something without any proof or evidence, the statement is basically not valid. So, please refrain yourself from saying things like: "If you ask like that people will think that you think they are dumb". 
4. I seriously doubt you as a student, even worse, as a media student. Have you ever learned how to use a camera? Have you ever watched videos on learning how to shoot a nice video? Have you ever considered that it is important when we shoot something, we have to make sure that the thing is not blurry and it is clear for people to see? If you have not, I suggest that you go and retake the subject in the uni under the Subject Code of SM 109, BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY. Clearly when you are doing the assignment, you had help from other people.
5. Being in a group, it is important that you respect what people have to say. But instead, you only want your voice to be heard. You do not respect other members in the group. 

Above is the 5 things that I think is really unprofessional. First, please don't mix your private affairs with your assignment. Second, please do make sure that you read everything that was posted in any of the group. If those information is not important, why the hell did I put it up and let you guys have a look? Third, please remember to read up enough information about what you are going to do. Yes. The information of the place is important. But is it not important that you understand how to interview people? Forth, when we are doing any assignment, it is our own duties and responsibilities, not other people's, not your friends', not your parents' but it is OUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY. 

If you can't see, I will enlarge it for you. 

OUR OWN RESPONSIBILITIES!!!

Do not tell me ever again that you will ask your friend to do it. The consequence of constantly asking help is that even the basics you do not know how to do. You can't even function a camera properly. You don't know what is the depth of field, you don't understand what is aperture, you have no single idea of how to use the manual focus and you failed as a student. You never bothered to learn even the simplest thing while you are studying in the university. Not that I am saying that everyone needs to learn how to function a camera, but it is important for us who studied media to know. The things that you gave me are all blurry, out of focus. And you dare give it to me? If you say that you strive for the results, why can't I see it? Why can't I see you putting in efforts to make sure everything is alright? 

Fifth, you clearly have to learn how to listen. Not hearing, but listening. Learn to listen to what people has to say. Learn to be patient on what people wants to say. Learn to accept what people has to say. I know you are much older than me. But that does not mean that you are more knowledgeable or you are more capable than me. If you think that you are capable, prove it. Don't only know how to speak and when things does not go in your way, you blame other people. If one day when you are out in the society, you do not listen, you will lose a lot. When you don't listen, you can't even follow the simplest of the instructions that was given. And what use is that anyway? 

Ok. I am done ranting here. I really hope that you can change for the better. To that one single lady, thank you for letting me learn all these from you, so that I will not repeat what you did. I hope you can get a good grade and a good job soon. And I hope after this, I would not need to have anything to do with you. Good bye and hope I never need to be in a group with you ever again. 

Cheerios, 

By a very angry me,

YiXin. 

Interning Life

Well, I'm back. That's something that I wanted to say for a very, very long time. But tho, sometimes, I just don't find time to do so. I'm really sorry for the missing posts that I should have been posting. I won't give any excuses to cover up for my laziness and my habit of procrastinating and slacking all the time.

So, as the title suggested, I am now an Intern. What does interns do? How to do your job better? How to fit to the environment of the company that you are working with? That is what we are going to talk about today.

Let's just discuss the 3 question there. I think it would take quite a lot of time.

1. What does Interns do/should do?
Well, that varies to the job offers that you got for the company. For me, I was being put in the Talent and Leadership Division. Which means, there are a lot of HR Stuff going on where I am working. There are a lot of responsibilities being put under the shoulders of an Intern. For me personally, I don't think it's something hard. But you have to bear with the boring-ness of doing the same thing all the time. Ever since I've entered, I've practically been doing the same thing over and over and over and over again. There are stuff that I can't say here as, well, people know. Working in HR, the information that was given to me is very very sensitive to the company. I won't name any company here. So even if I said something mistakenly for once or twice, people won't know.

Back to the story. So ever since I've joined the company as their intern, I have been doing the Moderation Deck, The Engagement Deck and a lot of data compilation. Aside from that, I also needed to help anyone with anything possible, when I don't even know how to do it. This, also is a responsibility of an intern to learn a lot of things. There are a lot of interns out there, who are lazy and just wanted to pass the requirements of the course, gone for internships. But REMEMBER! That is not the way of working.

Being an intern, you have to keep learning new things every single day. I know I sound very boasting but that is actually true. Even the tiniest bit of thing you learn is very important. You must always respect all your colleagues and supervisors. Well, I kind of have a lot of supervisors around in the company as I was constantly being thrown here and there to help with all sorts of thing. They have so much more experience than you. Things that you can learn from them is practically endless. So ask up anything that you don't know. They will be willing to teach you, if you have the passion to work and to learn.

My colleague once told me that he met one intern, who just wanted to play with the phone and do photocopy stuff. I'm like WTF? You are wasting your own time and you are wasting the company's resources to be invested into you. You even lose the chance of continue to work at the place you worked. Be passionate about what you do. If you are not, why chose that place in the first place? Right?

2. How to do your job better?
Like I've mention, keep asking. Ask all sorts of questions on the job that you are doing. When you are stuck with something and can't proceed, ask your colleagues and your supervisors. Ask your friends if you need. When you ask, the answer you get is always different. If I know well, mostly the interns are being put under one supervisor. So if you have any problems, ask your supervisor. In any case that your supervisor sucks like hell, ask other people.

Aside from that, one have to be very passionate to do their job better. If you are not passionate, you don't even have the motivation to continue working further. To keep up with working all that shit together, It's actually hard. You don't even have the motivation to work, how can you work better and do a better job. Everyday is a new day and it's a new challenge. When you did something wrong, you have to know where you did wrong and try your best not to repeat the mistakes. When you learn from your mistakes and never repeat that mistake, that means you've grown. It's hard for anyone to admit to their mistakes, or sometimes people just tend to point their finger at themselves, but, you just have to know when say I'm sorry and learn the experiences of the mistakes that you have made.

3. How to fit into the environment of the company and the people you are working with?
This, you just have to expose yourself to more situations and you will know. For me, I am working in an entirely new environment. I'm a Malaysian Chinese. So since I was a little boy, I've been in an environment that I was used to. All Chinese, Mandarin speaking, high competition, a lot of politics. But now, I am working in a very peaceful environment. The way my colleagues work, is calm but with high precision. Their speed of working is not like what I've experienced before. So it's somehow good for me as I am those kind of people who are always in a rush, wanting to finish up my stuff quickly.

Not only that, one also have to commit. When you are in that company, you have to know that you are stuck with them for the period of time. You have to work your best to fit into them. So what I did was that I always set a target for myself everyday when I get to work, mentally. Stating that what are the things that I want to get done. So if you can't finish that stuff, you have to stay back and finish up till the target that you are working. Being consistent with your work and reaching your target, it helps a lot no matter in what stages of life you are in.

I think I've spoke/written quite a lot for now. Last piece of advice for all the interns out there. Don't be afraid of trying new stuff. Don't be afraid of going out of your comfort zone. Challenge yourself to do better everyday.

With that, signing off.
Cheerios,
YiXin~

Story of My Life

It may be odd when I am writing an educational article and the title is "Story Of My Life". Although I am not that old yet, but I've learned a lot ever since I've been in school. I have been studying my entire life, as I can say. Well, what I meant of studying is that going to school, universities, learning from my teachers. But. as I grew up, during the different stages of my life, I've learned different things that could be very useful to my future. Here, I will share to you guys.

When I was in primary school, I learned that I have to be disciplined. Asian style of teaching was very different from the European Style. Well, at least my time was very different. I started my primary school when I was 7 years old, which is the year of 2002. My teachers. We were taught to be a good kid using a cane. The teachers will hit us on the palm when we did not do our homework, or did not bring our homework to school. The teachers' assumptions of why we did not bring the homework is that we have not completed it. So they would punish us using the cane. It has been that way from Primary 1 up till Primary 6.

Because of this cane, I was taught to be disciplined in my work. If I missed a homework, they will hit me. So to avoid being hit, I will complete my homework in time. I will remember to bring all my stuff to school and I will not disobey the teachers. This, had a positive effect and a negative effect. The positive effect of this kind of teaching method is that I do my work on time, efficiently and at least finishing up everything on the guidelines that was given. A lot of people nowadays do not have this sense of responsibility. They will try, finding a way to escape what they are suppose to do. Being a human, we have to be responsible to what we promised to other people. When the lecturers gave us an assignment, it is a trust that the lecturer gave us, for us to complete the assignment. The negative thing about this kind of teaching style is that I became very dependent. I will have to rely on people to tell me what to do. This actually stops people from generating ideas from their brilliant minds.

So, when I got to the secondary level, which is in the year of 2008, when I was at the age of 13, we were required by the schools to join activities. Co-curricular activities. I joined quite a few actually. Wushu Club, Monitorial Club, and Choir Club. Joining all these clubs, it gave me an opportunity to know what I was capable of and what I am good at. I was positioned as a few posts, the Maintenance Manager, Treasurer, and Secretary. These experiences gave me the knowledge on how to do things. I actually learned a lot during the times when I was in all these posts. Being the Maintenance Manager, is is like being a logistic manager. I have to keep track of the things and more. Being the treasure, I learned to manage a large sum of money, what are the steps when I go to the bank, where should I report to and how to write a monthly financial report. Being the secretary, I learned to write decently on formal stuff, academic writing, and more.

Till today, I was really thankful for the things I've learned during my secondary school life. I am a mass communication students and I gave myself the impression that I need to know a lot of things. I have to organize event and know how to run an event. I learned how to write properly, manage money and arrange on the logistic stuff. Without all the experiences that I gained from secondary, I would have suffered a lot.

Not only of that, during my secondary school life, I've learned not to trust anyone too easily. In the mid of my 5 years in secondary school, a lot had happened. It made me to who I am, not to trust anyone too easily. It was quite a long story but at the end, I felt like I was being boycott and my so called trusted friends lied to me. I was very disappointed in them. Using this experience, it reflects to me that living in this world, we have to be trustworthy to people. When they told you something or pass you something to do, it is that they are trusting you to complete what they have just requested. If you did not do, it breaks the trust and they will not find you again. Relating this back to the life, when you break a trust with someone, it is a very serious offense.

In my university life, from the year of 2013 till now, I learned to be more independent in life. I left my parents to study once I've been into uni. They let me grow on my own as a person. Being responsible for my own life. This, I have to be very independent. I have to learn how to do the household chores, how to cook and all those stuff. Being independent is a very important aspect in our life. Think of this. If one day our parents passed away, who is left to take care of us. So we have to start from little to be independent.

So that is the story of my life. What's yours? Tell me and share with me on what you've learned throughout your life.

Cheerios,
YiXin Ching
[chingyixin1@gmail.com]

Planning ahead

Let's get to the topic straight away. Planning ahead.

So what does planning ahead is? It is actually planning generally. Being able to plan your time and schedule it out in a piece of paper, it actually does help in your everyday's task. Giving an example, in one day, I would need to do my research, my assignments, writing essays, cleaning the house and everything else. How does one cope with all these deepshit everyday? Most of the people would be like, oh, i just do it when the time comes. Let me tell you, to be honest, the time never came. You have to find the time yourself.

So what I am going to discuss on for today, is planning ahead. People often tell us to plan ahead. It was told to me by a lot of people. Like my lecturers, my parents, my friends, my students, my supervisors, my siblings. Well, basically everyone does tell me to do it. But somehow, I just tend to go very spontaneously. I do not really care for what I am going to do as long as I complete what I am supposed to do.

To be honest, it is a very bad way to do. I always do learn my lesson for not planning ahead. Many of us faces things like this especially students. We DON'T PLAN AHEAD. And when the time comes, we face what I call, deepshit. A bit vulgar eh. But there is no other better word to describe the deepshit that we will be facing if we don't plan.

Planning starts a a very early stage of life. Ever since we started on our primary school, we are learning to plan. Planning is a very essential thing to do every day. It helps you in getting more 'Me-Time' So on today's topic, we will be discussing on planning.

I know, I'm not the most suitable person to be saying this, but, passing through one tough semester, I've learned that I need to plan very far ahead. Not to say like plan for 5 or 10 years ahead. That is generally impossible. You can't know what will happen in 5 or 10 years. You can't even know what is going to happen in the next minute. But planning is just a backup to your already successful life.

The first step of planning, is to have a very clear mind of what you are going to do. Why do I say this? Well, planning takes time. Every planning does. If we don't even know what we are going to do for the day, why plan? Just stay home and sleep. But you still have tons of things that you need to do. Like piles of them. So what are you going to do? Be clear of what your tasks at hand. Until you finish, don't take up any other tasks.

Second, is to know your limits. Continuation to what I've said above, being clear of the tasks at hand. If you think you can do it, then take the task. But if you really can't cope, drop it. I have a very good example. I am currently proceeding to my final year in my uni. Well, although I'm still in my second year, I've took up  my research paper course which requires us to do our research. On top of that, I still have other assignments to do. Well, I did not know that the subjects will have this much workload. So, I am very confident with myself, I took up all the major courses. To be honest, I really regretted. I thought I can work it out. I THOUGHT. But, little did I know that my limit was just to that level. People were calling me crazy taking this heavy load. But, I don't care. I didn't want to believe that I can't do it. So to make the story short, I failed quite badly to be said.

Although I still managed to work everything out, but I still am disappointed in my end product. This is the result of not planning. If I have planned, I would not have missed so many classes to cover up for my undone assignments. I know. Some of you readers might think that I am a bad student. I accept that I am a bad student. I miss classes. So planning is very important, knowing your limits it a step before planning.

After all those, is to keep a mental calendar very clearly in your mind. As I have this much workload for my work and stuff, I tend to get messed up on dates. Well, another real life example from me. I always don't refresh my calendar very well. When people tell me that I have this to do on this day, I will say that it is ok, I can attend. But then, the problem comes after this. Suddenly, something on the back of your mind just came to the very front and you have another appointment on the same day. Well, you just have to choose. But, by choosing, you are loosing a lot from the party you rejected. You lost faith and confidence from them. It's a bad way. So plan very well for everything.

Planning, for someone like me is a very tough job. But for some people, it's a very easy job. So what do you think about it? For me, personally, after being through this semester, I think that I have to configure my brains to adjust it better. Plan plan plan. If I don't, the future would be very difficult to me.

Oh, and one last thing about planning. Follow whatever you have planned. Jot down whatever you have planned so that you would not forget. Always refer back to what you have planned. If not, you would have suffered. Please, if you have any comments regarding on this, please ask the professional. People are giving courses to planning. But you can still comment on what you think about it. I am more than happy to share more with you.

Cheerios,
YiXin Ching
chingyixin1@gmail.com

Teamwork

Well, well, well. It's been a long long time since I've written something on this post. Yes. It had been really long. Because of all the uni work and stuff. I know that this blog is supposed to be something related to my uni stuff. And so, our topic today will be about Teamwork.

I remembered when I was in my Secondary 1, I was 13 back then, I attended to a camp that was organized by my school's choir club. It was some sort like a 3 days master class. It was fun. Everything that we done that time, I still remembered it until today. There was a session, where I forgotten who the speaker was. She was talking about being as one, singing as one.

The master class started like this. How would you cook a plate of delicious fried rice?

So all of us have different answer to it. Rice, ketchup, egg, onion, abalone, prawn and etc.

So it related back to what I wanted to say now. Teamwork.

While you are working in a group, doing your group assignment and stuff, sometimes you will be assigned to the members by your teacher or your lecturers, and sometimes, you get to choose your own team mates. Well, not necessarily on assignment. You can also think about work, sports, anything that required teamwork.

But, every time you choose a partner, or group member, or you were assigned, you won't know their personality. Everyone in the group have their own personality. Some might be those who can uphold the role of the leader and some are those who can be a team player. It depend on what type of jobs or assignments that you are talking.

So, people have their own personality, like I've said. You can't choose what type of personality they will have. Being in a team, and to maintain the teamwork in the group, is first, to learn how to tolerate to one another. Like a plate of yummy fried rice. You need a lot ingredients to make it tasty with different taste. In a group, if there is one less people, your job would not be done nicely.

Tolerating each other's weakness is the first step. I know, people do have different temper. It takes different things to tick people off. When you are in a group, you must always know when to help and when not to help. The time you help is the time you are tolerating to them. They might not know how to do it, you help. If they are overly attached to you, asking you whatever, that is the time you push the responsibilities back to him/her.

The second step, is to listen. Youngsters are very impatient, and sometimes egoistic. They always want everything to go in their way. But that is not how it works. Being in a team is to accept all the ideas given and take the once that will benefit the group the most. Everyone's ideas are different. Try taking a part of the idea from one person, putting it with another person. Well, at the end of the day, you will find something amazing created from this teamwork that we are saying.

The third step, is to work together. While we are doing assignments, we will be like:" Oh you do this part and you do that part. By day XXX give it to me and I will combine everything." But, but but..... Not to say this is a bad way of doing things. Everyone does it this way. But have you ever wondered, if you are doing it together, you will know where are your strengths and where are your weaknesses? When you know them, you can ask help from your team mates or you can provide help from your team mates. It's the same theory as sports. If not, why are the sportsmen train together? Why does a team of football player required to train together? Provided you not talk gossip when you are working.

So this is the 3 steps that I think can improve teamwork. Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. I took all of this based on my own experiences. If you think otherwise, please don't hesitate to tell me. I will be more than happy to discuss it with you.

Cheerios,
YiXin Ching
[chingyixin1@gmail.com]

Week 12 and 13 Panel Discussion: Arts

This two week's discussion is about Arts. Arts in like many forms like singing, dancing, playing instruments, and many many more. But here today I will talk about the instruments of the east Asia and the South Asia.

As I've always said that different places have different types of things that they are proficient in. But for music, for instrument playing, they have their pros at both of the civilization. Just that the pros in the field of instruments are different. There are so many types of instruments throughout the world and we can't really like identify how many if we don't do a specific research. China alone have more than 20 instruments that could be played. For example, we have Er Hu （二胡）, PiPa (琵琶）, and more and forth. Er Hu is somehow similar to Violin and the PiPa is somehow similar to the Guitar.

For Indian, I can't tell for sure. But they also have a variety of instruments that they play. So I have to do my research on that. So, what are we gonna do with all these things? We use them for performance of course. For Chinese, our traditional instruments are basically used as talents. Many of us do not play those Chinese Traditional Instrument anymore. It is because the way we write on the music scores are totally different from the west.

Speaking of West. Something pops out in my mind. Why does all these instruments not in the Western Countries? When we go to the western, we can hear the more frequent used instruments. We know that the European Country did came to Asia and started taking over places like China and India. But when they were there, they took a lot of the paintings and porcelains. But why did they not take the instruments? Why did they not learn for the music?

Do they think that Chinese Music is not one of the treasures? Somehow when I think of it, I do feel quite lucky that they did not take it. It they do, now, there are even lesser people that will be playing on the instruments. Just a fact.

So here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkjRrM5k_Co. This is a fusion of East Asian and the Western music instruments. Have a look.

So because this topic is quite short, I will be adding on some of my own topics that I've read for the panel discussion. I've forgotten to say. This two week's discussion were being done in a Panel Discussion way. In a group of three to four members, we are to discuss on the readings that we were given and discuss. Not present but discuss. My topic is on GuoHua which means National Paintings.

China had been such a wealthy country for century. It's full of treasures, in the sense of the jewellery, paintings, arts, porcelains, and many more. Just that paintings are far more easier to be taken. So when the europeans went to China, they took mostly gold and paintings. Half of them were taken, half of them were burnt when the Chinese tried to defend their palace, some were missing and some, I don't even wanna talk about it.

People in the Republic of China are looking more heavily towards this paintings. When time passes, the people had to adapt to the system. A lot of the painters changes their way of drawing the painting from using floral and animals to draw on love and filial piety and yeah some other stuff to what they draw today, of politics, economics, well mostly on the current matters that they faced.

So it is very hard to find someone that is proficient in drawing using Calligraphy brushes and ink. One painting nowadays using calligraphy brush from a painter can cost up to thousands but if you have the traditional paintings from the Ching or Ming Dynasty, you could be a millionaire in the matter of minutes.

So here, I am going to end my topic. I'm gonna do a little conclusion on the subject.

Throughout the semester, I've learn so many things that I have not had ever dreamt of studying. I had actually no interest in the subject. When I saw that I have to choose between Psychology and this, I had a brief idea of taking on psychology and not this. But in the end, I chose this. I explored so many things. Things that were not in my comfort zone. I've learn to scan texts and not read the whole passage form head to toe. It had been a wild journey for me in my university life so far but it had been a great experience.

I must thank my lecturer, Dr. Clarissa for guiding us throughout the semester. Without her guidance, I think I will die doing this course. Initially from the previous lecturer, this course was to be a lot of memorizing and theories but Dr Clarissa changed it. She changed it to be more to reading and understanding of the texts. So much thanks for it.

It was fun being able to write all my thoughts and I am so proud of myself to see how I've grown as a student. In the way of thinking and everything. I've learn so so much from this whole course. So I think this is getting faker. So I'm going to stop here.

Lastly, I really thank Dr. Clarissa for everything. For more information on Dr. Clarissa, Please do visit her blog. https://scandalousthoughts.wordpress.com/

This is it for Eastern Civilization Forum Posting.
I hereby announce that I've finally ended in writing the blog posting.

Cheerios,
YiXin

P/S: If you still have question and comments, you are always welcome to post something or comment on something. XD