The Pow Wow in the South of Heaven

I do not even allow my son to watch people playing snooker or billiard what more to play those develish nonsensical game. I played those games once and I was scarred for life. Well, i admit there were some other mitigating circumstances surrounding the scaring of my soul and skin and some dents on my helmet and motorbike but at the epicentre was snooker... snook..er.

It was a dark but not so lonely afternoon. I was about to do something important when my unholly mates woke me up. Then, the plot thickens...

Always the Good ol Days

Debate

In the ol days, I or teams with my style of speaking could easily win debates with a good albeit stretched definition of sorts. Through in language context when economy is expected and 9 out of 10 you will win.

Rugby

The good ol days, wait a minute, there have not really benn changes to the game in malaysia except that some of the younger blokes would play spotting ala Beckham hairstyle and UPM is not up there anymore. No real changes except the fact that I am actually considred a first choice at 40.

Work
Better now actually so the good ol days are only good for memory's sake as though they were good, people of imporatance seem not to have thought so. Now, well, people just pay me more and I like that a lot, in fact I like it very very much and also my wife, kids, mothers and the mamak shops owners ...

The Teacher

"A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops."

~ Henry Adams (1838-1918)

Thus, so and please... teachers, be prepared for your classes, be ready for the challenges and remember that influence can work both for the positive and negative side of the students.

Take them all under your wings and help them fly, but you first must be a flier.

Relationship studies

Attempts to grammaticalize relationship must
be seen as the concretization of intellectual categories, a process which is essentially trying to fit certain phonemena into whatever is relevant in our mind or from our background knowledge. This is not to say, however, that relationship analysis is not, or should not be, an analytical and structural pursuit but simply believing that it has too many varibales influcing it that have been around since the dawn of time. If one takes the position that
relationship is concerned with the quantitative understanding of how human beings process
and use relationship data, then it most certainly is. This does not have to mean, however,
that everything that can be said about relationship must relatable to observable,
phenomena that can be digested like an engineering manual.

The Teacher

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

~ William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

Teachers should avoid clutter- keep the audience in mind. The audience is nobody else but your students. the class is about them and only them. No artist would dare place all of his painting's elements on one side of the painting and hence no teacher shoukd prepare a lesson thinking only about curricullum without analyzing the needs of the students, be it IQ or EQ.

Balance the contents so that the audience has a feeling of interest; just imagine yourself as being one of them. Would you really come to see yourself teach.... . Build up different parts of the class set, and when students moves to a different 'level' of interest or boredom, you will have the right move in your set ready to tackle them. If done subtly and prepared to the best of one's ability, the audience would not notice the shift, class will go on, they and you will enjoy it and you might just be the one that inspires others through teaching.

Trying and Living

I will try
I will do
I will win and I will lose
hoping always.. for continous win
plannning and at times scheming
I will try and I will do
I will do and I will try
and I will rectify and I will fly
sometimes... and cry the unseen tears
as i will try and try and do and do
as that is life, you try and do as the tryings and doings are waht life is all about
happy will you be if there are mostly smiles at te end of your endeavours
as happy folks will smile and smile whatever the outcome of their ventures.

What is Parliamentary Debate

Debate, is understood to be the most demanding type of persuasive speech. A debate can be an informal discussion over disagreeing opinions or a formal contest between two or more teams. Hooke & Philips (1994) stated that the very basis of debate is the ability to communicate orally. They went on to explain that in debate, in order to be an effective speaker, one will be trained to vary his / her tone, speed, volume, fluency and body language as well as possessing relevant data. Freely (1986) stated that a debate consists of arguments for and against a given proposition. The UPD form adheres to all of these characters with additional explicit rules and regulations that however, may vary slightly in interpretation. UPD has specific contexts that need to be followed religiously, especially in competitive UPD set ups such as the World Debating Championship, Australasian Debating Championship and Worlds Universities Peace Invitational Debate.

The debate associations govern these competitions through holding debate seminars and training, aiding in competition organization and management, and also through their close alumni network with other debate associations which clearly resembles the features of a CoP. Messages and information on competitions and other activities would be posted on associations’ websites or through the world debate yahoo messenger group. Opinions on dates of competition, motions, venues and critical issues like the nomination of Chief Adjudicator and their deputies would be posted and discussed here and the opinions received are very influential towards the actual decision. Thus it can be said that debate as in University Parliamentary Debate is a shared activity of discourse that is govern by members of the society in terms of rules, roles and convention. Well, sometimes even the menu for dinners are controlled or at least influenced by the members of the UPD community.