Second week

The second week is ending. I am still in the process of deciding which courses that I will take for the semester. I've been attending all of the classes until now. As you can imagine, it is very tiring. In total, 6 classes (double that if you count tutorials, well some classes doesn't have tutorials yet). So far I have only decided to drop Language and Gender, and Communication and Culture amongst the options. Only one option is confirmed, which is Communication in Advertising. So, the dilemma is to choose one more.

As of now, I'm lacking 1 unit to graduate. At the moment, I'm taking Japanese to fill that 1 unit. Our options that was originally offered were all 3 units. Now, we are offered a Gennext course which is 4 units. So, If I decided to take the Gennext course, I will be able to drop Japanese. 

Here are the 3 courses left to choose from: Bilingualism and Multilingual Societies (3 units), Phonetics and Phonological Analysis (3 units) and Language Issues in Brunei (4 units). If I take any of the 3 units course, I'll have to keep Japanese. If I take the 4 units, I'll be able to drop Japanese. 

The thing is, I originally wanted to take Phonetics and Phonological Analysis, but now the 4 units is so tempting.

The question is, does less courses equal to less workload? One week left to decide...

First post

Hello. This is my first time blogging. It's not really something new to me because I do read blogs when I feel like it (If you check my profile, it says I've been on Blogger since February 2009). I have given some thoughts about starting up a blog awhile back, but I'm never really sure what to blog about. I don't think my life is that interesting to be shared to the Internet. Even on Facebook, I barely update my status even though I check my Facebook everyday (at least 4 times a day). Talking about Facebook, it has been such an important part of our lives, because most of us rely on it for our daily communication, especially work related. Trust me, work is the only reason (a large part, if not the only one) I stay on Facebook. Some of us who didn't have an account before had to make one due to the same reason.

Anyway, this blog is part of our continuous assessment in a course called "Academic and Professional Electronic Communication" which requires us to set up a blog (good enough reason to start one). So, this is an academic blog which will reflect the experiences of my current study in UBD.

The first week of study has ended. Courses are yet to be decided. Good luck to everyone.

Here is something that I want to share to my friends which is related to what we did in the computer lab last Thursday: Google tips

p/s: posted this since last Thursday. But it seems too short. I edited and reposted it again (Sunday and Today, Monday).