Introduction :-P

Hi :-P.

Thanks for visiting my blog. I am Cong, a year-two Computer Science student at NUS. My English name is Ken, which is pronounced same as 'can', showing the 'can do' spirit :-P. I'm writing this blog to record my journey through the WP2201C module, titled 'Gender and (mis)communication', a writing module. Truthfully speaking, I hate writing, since my writing sucks. I'm more comfortable with listing points shortly and straightly. Unfortunately, life is complicated, and writing (and communication) is an essential skill in life, and that's why I am here.

Regarding the module, after the first week, I already felt that it is seriously an interesting module. So interesting that I even forgot to ask the professor to check my attendance (I was a bit late), which has never happened before :-P, probably the most interesting 'writing-related' module I have ever taken. The readings are really good, with informal but very familiar examples, which I can only say to be damn true. I suddenly realized that I misunderstood my friends quite a lot back then.

About the first article prof gave during class, 'Can't we talk', I can do nothing but agree almost totally with the author. The only thing I do not quite agree is the final example, regarding the car. The case in which the broke is out of order is quite extreme. Also, the funniest thing I remember is that a group in the class suggested that what would the man do if the woman insisted on buying a 'hot pink' car instead. Before that, I always thought if I were the man, any car would be the same. However, at that very moment, I suddenly could not even imagine myself driving a 'hot pink' car. Haha, I think I would rather walk than drive such car. Anyway, in conclusion, the article was very good in both WHAT it wants to show and HOW it does that successfully.

The second article, 'Teacher's classroom strategies' was also good, but not as interesting. My first impression was that gender is not the main cause for such difference in classroom. Environment factors should also be taken for consideration. Anyway, the most important point I learnt/realized through this article is that from now on, I should look at HOW an author gives his/her points, rather than just WHAT he/she wants to give. Ever since I was little, I have always read for WHAT the article is about, not HOW it is structured. Only during that lecture, I realized I missed some important points in the article. Many, many thing I did not pay attention to just suddenly became so important, and also, so beautiful. From how the author smartly indicated her to be an expert, but did not ask people to to as an expert, but as a colleague, and how magically efficient that way is. In short, it is the art of writing, and it is what I am here to learnt about. Quite beautiful, indeed.