:) At last

Winnie, Nara, Siyi, Daisy, Chi, Mica, Wendy, Robin, James, Leo, Lex, Long, and everyone else..,

I Love You all :)

even if there's another 10 years, I'll never forget the time we were all together.

一年過得太快, 就算以後是不是有繼續聯絡, 這一年的快樂永遠都會在

想忘也忘不掉, 這就是真正難忘的回憶

You're always on my mind 你們是我心海最美的澎湃:D

As if the memories stay in the camera forever :)

when it's nearly finished

Haven't been blogging for awhile, most people had already gone home apart from those who are doing further maths. Well, I feel like I should post something on my blog...

Most people were at the ball and we all had a great time that I'd class it as the most precious time of the year.

A year has gone and it passed way faster than the past few years, I felt like it's only February.. If only I could predict what is going to happen or what has been changed.

First I dropped Biology and Sociology, then finally I've dropped Economics and Business Studies as well; most of my subjects really, apart from ICT. Although it seems like a waste of space for coming to EF, still I've learnt a lot as well, especially from Chris, and I wanted to thank you:) .

People come and went but memories stay.

Solar Charging Backpack

This is a quite good idea for people use backpack a lot, which they take it to school, work and even camping, etc. Take camping for example, this solar charging backpack would be an excellent invention because people always carry some digital technologies with them, such as Ipod, mobile phone; therefore the backpack gives the convenience when those things need to be charged.

It is technically smart where the bag has light weight with a compartment of a water bladder, in this case, it is suitable for biking and hiking. The Voltaic Converter has 4 watts of solar power which is for fast charging; in addition, it only allows small devices unlike laptops. Battery pack is included where can store power when it's needed, so then people do not have to worry about when the battery is going to run out. It has 11 adaptors for some easy connection to handheld electronic devices, the provision would be enough for people to choose to use.

It can be worn as a backpack and also a sling bag, which is a quite flexible choice for people to know which one is the most comfortable for them. Considerably, the price of the bag £149, it could be consider as a logical and reasonable price to buy this product. It is unique and it also offers different colours for the front panel, which is a quite wide range of style and functions as I have mentioned earlier.

Is it ethical to advertise alcohol?

There are lots of advertisements that are trying to convince more and more people to buy alcohol, but is it ethical to advertise it? According to all the possibilities that teenagers who are under the legal age might consume alcohol and also cause problems because of it, etc. However, not all the alcoholic drinks are bad for us, there are some people regularly drink it for their own health.

The way of advertising alcohol is very important. Nowadays, some people get addicted on drinking, sometimes ended up with binge drinking; in addition if the idea of the advertisements lead people to the wrong side, then it's likely to be an encouragement in telling them to drink more and more. On the other hand, for instance, when advertising alcohol for people to drink healthily, such as a glass of red wine everyday, then this could be a benefit for people, on both knowledge and health.

Businesses also want more profit in what they are selling, throughout advertisements they are likely to get more attention from consumers. For my opnion, it's crucial for them to ensure the market research has done it properly, this is all about people's behaviour and attitude towards alcoholic drinks. Even though there are other drinks that are non-alcoholic but the shape/packaging are just like those real alcoholic drinks. In this case, they are trying to satisfy people who are under age but still could feel they are a part of the group.

It's hard to say whether is ethical to advertise alcohol or not because it would remains to be controversial. However, there are both benefits and drawbacks for people to consider when buying alcoholic drinks, so I think advertisements are just playing a role of influences that people might change they think of drinking alcohol, either is good or bad, for example.

Facebook - Online Communication Service

What's with the addiction of using Facebook? Most adolescents, even mature adults, they are all getting more and more obssessed with this kind of online communication tool to keep in contact with their friends, relatives, etc. However there's always oppotunities that people don't know they could be set in danger; strangers are everywhere and it's unpredictable and unpreventable, ususally it's out of our expectations.

Of what we have to be aware of is the language being used and various behaviours/actions/attitudes that would appeared on these online communication services. Throughout our personal observation, we should have known what's so fascinating about it; people can simply make friends from all over the world at any time, any place and under any conditions they wished to. It seems friendly and it's convenient comparing to arrange an appointment, for instance.

Anyhow, we really should be careful of this kind of service due to some of the inconvenience, such as fraudulency, spamming, etc. that would cause us a bigger trouble that we might not have thought of.

What does the high divorce rate tell us about the state of marriage and the family?

Nowadays, there an increasing number of couples divorced and leads to the high divorce rates. However, what does this imply on any effects on the state of marriage and the family? In fact, it is really a severe issue that there's a relationship that relates them altogether.

As we know the reasons of why the divorce rates are getting higher, it maybe domestic violence, difficulties in satisfying the living of family members, etc. What influences have been made to the state of marriage are that, due to the increasing divorce rates, people are likely to be more cautious about what they are doing or going to do. In the mean time, many people are more likely to be cohabiting with each other rather than getting married so urgent.

On the other hand, when a marriage comes to the development of a family, it just look as wonderful as they thought. However there are still many possibilities for spouses getting divorce and it is just as high as we can see; according to a resource from Guardian.co.uk, "...in 2002 the number of divorces increased by 2.7% to 147,735 - the highest annual total since 1996." Although the extract is from the year of 2003, but still the figure is shocking as it say it was 7-year high for divorce rates.

The influences on families can cause chaos as well, such as the childhood of small children, as they are still innocent but inevitably have to face the complexities made by their parents/adults. The responsibilities within family seems to be disappeared as such decision of getting divorce has been made; in another words, either they rushed for a marriage without any further consideration or couldn't think of a way to sort out the problems between the two.

The Marxist perspective on the family

The Marxist perspective comes from Frederick Engel, which it stressed on the patriarchal structure of families. Basically the Marxism suggested males are the dominant of the whole family. For instance, it's essential to solve the problem of the inheritance of the private property in order to pass them to their children/heirs; in another words, it's unlikely for women to be a part of the responsibilities because they've been designed to be controlled by the family in the Marxist view.

The socialisation in the Marxist view is that the family socialise children into accepting values of capitalism, which to be clear with the status/level within hierarchy. The bourgeois nuclear family emerged with capitalism, this leads to the patriarchal power of male to be dominating the inheritance property. Women, on the opposite side, would be powerless for any decisions to be made within the family but only to obey.

Females would have more domestic work at home whilst males are working, communicating and socialising more outside. They rear children and look after their husbands due to the non-costly domestic works/choirs.

Families also act as a safety valve toward those bourgeoisie men, which diverts their stress, anger and frustration. Meanwhile, Marxists also state their perspective of males would be less likely to go on trike throughout families play an important role to take responsibilities of them.

As in unit of consumption, families consume goods and services that provided by the capitalism. The Marxist view doesn't take in part of the family diversity, they believe that the nuclear family is determined by our economy nowadays.

Wildcat Strike

Wildcat strike, when you see the word 'wild', it usually demonstrates something that would surprise you or cause people's attentions. However, here the word wildcat strike means the unofficial strike that taken by the trade union; they have secret ballot where they vote surreptitiously.

As we know British workers are complaining about the unfair situation where refineries are employing more foreign workers instead of them; therefore they decided to go on strike. The Lincolnshire refinery has brought in Italian and Portuguese contractors, this results a big issue of the trade union go on strike. It seems totally unreasonable why they would get redundant because of foreign workers, they are the local habitat anyway.

Although for those refineries, they are also suffering under the credit crisis, the current condition is not as well as before. This cause them think of to employ foreign workers in order to reduce their production cost; the workers are all from the EU therefore the UK couldn't take in charge of them.

Anyhow, British workers' action of wildcat strike can be seen as a dilemma just like the refineries are suffering from the economic downturn; thus in some case, they should try to get an agreement on having ACAS in order to balance the complicated situation.

Online pawnbroker for consumers in a pinch

Have you ever been to a pawnshop before? This online pawnbroker is a really good idea for people who need to borrow a large amount of money. It's quite convenient that the business brings up the convenient form of short-term credit, rather than the alternative of bank overdraft and payday loans.

It gives people the convenience where they couldn't borrow a short time loans from banks. The progress is really simple, just by filling out the application form to describe the value of the thing they want to pawn, also according to the resource, it says a borrower is offered a loan of up to 40% of an item’s value, which is reasonable for people to be beneficial from this online pawnshop.

Everyone is offered the same rate which indicates the equity of the service. However, Borro is now only available in the UK but they are still trying to advertise throughout the Europe and US, in order to devote into a bigger market therefore there could be more feedbacks from customers; moreover, they could think of more to enhance their service.

Hyperlocal newspaper turns blogs into print

People get real time information from the newspaper, online news website, etc. Here's an invention that would turns newspaper blogs into physical prints, it sounds normal to me; however I found out something that's quite interesting after I read the article of this novelty idea.

Basically the idea is telling us that online news blog entries will be printed out, the important thing is the layout of the newspaper will be just like the same as the online blogs. It would be quite interesting to have the layout similar with the contents which appear on the Internet. Imagine you are holding a newspaper just like you're browsing a website, that would be very fascinating.

The printed newspaper will also include photos, puzzles, events, reader comments and as it says that other items of local interests. They also offer services such as newspapers will be distributed to neighborhood pickup points in the morning and afternoon, especially it will be different editions.

This might substistutes the original local newspaper, however it depends on how people think and need them.

Why are there inequalities among children?

Nowadays, more and more children are suffering from the inequalities. There's an increasing amount of children have been put in risks, both materially and emotionally.

Why do inequalities happen? As we know the society in no longer as peaceful as we thought, the most commonly form of family is Nuclear Family, which involving mother, father and their children. It seems that nuclear families are disappearing gradually, more children are living with lone-parent family, either living with mother or father. This really does an impact on those innocent children.

Poverty has a significant influence on the inequalities among children. Adults are likely to be at work for most of the time, in order to ensure their current living standard and family income. On the other hand, children wouldn't have enough child-care, therefore children's way of thinking could be isolated or there may be lack of dependency.

Abortion and its impact on families

It is a worldwide issue, abortion is getting in a wider range that nearly 46 million pregnancies are terminated every year; this can be seen as one-fifth of all pregnancies. According to a resource, it says there are some countries allow abortion and some of them are on a limited health ground of abortion.

Of the 133 countries in this study, 49 allow abortion on request or on broad social and health grounds. Only 13 of these nations are in developing regions and include Bangladesh, India, China, Tunisia, Turkey, South Africa, and Cuba. Another 40 countries—including six developed countries—permit abortion on limited health grounds. It is quite astonishing when we look at these figures and try to find out the reasons and the motivations of having abortions.

Abortion evolved from those unwanted pregnancy where women would usually take high risks, only to abandon their unborn babies. Whether it is legal or illegal, surely that now has becoming a prevalent trend from careless contraception. Laws are remained to be liberal where health problems should be a significant concern; there's nearly 70,000 women die each year and for sure, this is a quite serious number as there's one die in every 7 minutes.

Here's something that I think is quite important. Restrictive abortion policies mainly affect the poor who rely on the public sector for all their health needs; women who have the means can usually obtain abortions from the private sector. Women are likely to have the priority to obtain their needs from the private sector while the policies have been an influence on poor who can only get helps from the public sector.

How does abortion affect on families? In fact, abortion does not only impact on women but also the family itself. As we can imagine that abortion is a wound of marriage, it means the complicated situations between wife and husband, either conducted by disagreement or fear in misunderstanding. A child is also a human life where has the equal right as everyone else, it's a serious problem to solve and the decision-making is also a dilemma.

If we hypothesise a woman has been insisted to give an abortion by her husband, the possible reaction of this woman would likely to have different attitude towards her view of the family as time goes on. In the mean time, the woman has a child after the previous abortion, it seems to be a replacement of her grief from that unborn child; but actually things are not always this simple. It is interesting yet serious that why women would change their emotion towards this. It might be a feeling of segregated from the first child, feeling alienated and apathy towards the family.

Whether abortion is legal or not, the best solution should always stay on the principle of being more careful on contraception; even it has become inevitably unavoidable, women really need to consider more wisely about the consequences of abortion would brings along.

Oakley's rise of the housewife role

Ann Oakley conducted a research on the housewife role. She has interviewed women who are housewives from the 1970s about how is it like being a housewife.

They work 77 hours for average hours per week, also the interviewees commented on the aspects of their work that they like/dislike. Ann Oakley refers to the social isolation which housewives don't have a chance to interact apart from the children at home. And it's a repetitive nature of having the same housework take in turns. They also commented on the household techonology, how it liberates women from the housework.

However, Ann Oakley made an adjustment on some of the aspects from those housewives that don't really make things any different, and the housewife role is emphasising on women's role as a domestic labourer.

Elizabeth Bott's conjugal roles

Conjugal roles appear when husbands and wives get married and starting to have their own family and house; but this is just the simple way of saying. More in-depth, the conjugal role is a segregation between husbands and wives, results that came from the division of labour in a family. For example, the house keeping between family members, how should it be separated?

In Elizabeth Bott's classic study of Family and Social Network (1957), she gives a observation of one spouse devoted in the financial part of the family, and the other one who keeps those domestic part within the household, such as chores, for instance.

She has studied a more in-depth of 20 predominantly working-class London families. It shows the variable issues among spouses in sharing the same house, interests and outdoor/indoor activities, etc. This is due to the division of labout between husbands and wives. On the other hand, there are also families that shared the common interest and houseworks, which indicates not the whole amount of couples are in the sex role segregation.

Also joint conjugal means that women work on jobs and men are responsible for the domestic tasks.

Nature v.s. Nurture

What does the word 'nature' implied? Some people believe we were born in the way of how we live which means it's the genetic reason influenced us. However, nurture also take a part within this controversial argument, that people are actually affected by the surroundings and what they've learn/seen from others. There's no an absolute answer to this, it will keep staying at the same stage as people always have different point of view towards this.

Comments on ...

1. About the family

According to the resource, we can see that pets are part of the family as well as the children does. What I think is that pets can always be part of the family but in fact, they can never replaced the children because pets arent human being. Although there's a saying that the studies of kinship brings out pets as a substitute of children and providing emtional satisfaction; but what about communication? Does pets and the elder family members communicate in the same way? There was quite an astonishment as I read through it.

2. Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture

Right... Goth? Ive read through the extract but didnt understand well, but basically Ive been thinking that it's about identity, style and subculture, which indicates another important role that could be dedicated outside of a society, perhaps? Ok, I looked at the introduction of that book and it says"From dress and musical tastes to social habits and the use of the internet, Hodkinson details the inner workings of this intriguing group" The author, Paul Hodkinson has made some theory in order to cover all of those he wrote about culture.

3. To but or Not to buy

In nowadays, children has always got the unbelievable power that gradually to tell their parents what they wanted to buy and they must have it, the pester power as we called. Parents might feel quite an absurd that why and how their children arent the same as they were. The qualitative study conducted out a research of children living in families that have a proportional influence building up a dynamic in their contemporary consumer culture. Anyhow I think parents need to be able to keep learning in order to deal with their children.

Pen wallets/pencil cases made of leather or fabrics

Use leather or fabrics to make pen wallets and pencil cases. Sell the wallets and cases empty. Or buy pens and pencils at trade prices and add them to the wallets and cases respectively to make the finished products.

If a business produce a product that contains such material, I think the cost is likely to be higher, therefore their pricing strategy might go with skimming pricing in order to obtain people's trusts on their quality; also its demand would conditionally become inelastic.

Firstly, lets say they sell the wallets and cases empty; customers might think of buying more pens or pencils in order to fill in their new wallet/case, though they might not to. In this case, the business may consider of loss leader pricing instead of skimming.

On the other hand, if they choose to buy pens and pencils at trade prices and add them to the wallets and cases respectively to make the finished products, customers might think the service is even more sufficient than they expected thus would be willing to pay more so the business would gain.

Sociology experiment

This Sociology experiment is conducted by students of The George Washington University in the US. Basically it's about how people react when a stranger walks right next to them.

Imagine walking on the street all by yourself and suddenly a stranger starts to walk right beside you and wouldnt leave; what would you react? According to this experiment, most people has the similar reaction; at first, they didnt notice there's someone near them but when they gradually find out, some of them confront the guy, some just stared at him, some are angry and some are scared. Although different people have different reaction towards the weird action from a stranger, but their reaction in common is they wouldnt just ignore the stranger.

Something must be done

The question is - what?

From my point of view, I think it's true that there's something must be done to bridge the imbalance condition in learning progresses. The simplest way of dividing it into 2 groups, one who has the enthusiasm and keen to work hard and the other one who has the thought of being relaxed and preferred the slower pace of learning.

According to the resource, it mentioned the team-building work which there are 7 activities in order to improve all sorts of skills how to work as a team, such as cooperation, negotiation, communication, problem-solving, division of labour, leadership, etc. What always comes into play is that the most important thing which stands out for the whole team, people ought to know the significance of working together and in a way to encourage each other.

Take blogging as an example, people who write daily blogs could be an encouragement towards others; also communication and negotiation, for me, I think is quite important as the peer influence may be powerful. Furthermore, after communication, we should think back of what we've been told or discussing about, and as well as in a quiet space with only yourself; the purpose is to refresh your mind and get back to the team, it could help with finding out what you think now isn't what you thought anymore, perhaps.

One thing that I think to achieve the top is what you have tried your best, not meaning that you thought you have Tried but Actually done something where you can checked back by any evidence. If everybody has tried their best within a team, although in some occasion the team doesn't succeed, for instance; but the progress they've made/experienced can make the most out of the whole thing.

The Halo-effect

Get to know about the Halo-effect.

The Halo-effect, basically is about what you think about one thing that you could also judge as it's similar with one another.

When reading through those Sociology topics that we are going to be tested on, I found this word in topic 4 which it talks about "Differential achievement" that in terms of social class, why middle-class children do better at school; the Halo-effect is one of those factors.

If applying the Halo-effect on this question, despite all the material things the children could get, how they appeared in front of everyone, even teachers, the possibility of getting better impression would results; meanwhile, the Halo-effect from teachers might cause distort among students where the middle-class children could be easily praised but not the others.

The phrase is also now well-known and being used in the Business world which can be applied on the similar condition.

What is Sociology?

For our curiosity, we've been always thinking about what does the word Sociology mean? Sociology is the study of how society is organized and how we experience life. But is it just that simple? In fact, Sociology is involved in one of several Social sciences, which Social sciences study humans and the social worlds they create; therefore in another words, Sociology is the science of human behaviour as it's coming from a group of people's way of living.

Sociology is define as how we function in everyday life in order to build societies and form different cultures and also it's about the interaction among people who belongs to similar and different part of social structure.

Social structures are made up of arrangements between people within a society. These arrangements include patterns of behaviours that are characteristic of the people involved. As we know people's characteristics and behaviours play an important role of forming social structure, thus it includes people from different societies evolve into different social structure that can be varied in a larger society. For example, the relationship between students and teachers result in individuals' behaviours make up social structures.

Societies are groups of people who share a common culture, also refer to intricately structured arrangements of relationships among people. In nowadays, different societies are formed by many groups of people where they interact with each other throughout
working,learning,social settings,workplace,universities and even fighting; nevertheless, not everyone in a particular society shares the same culture, people participate in cultures different from the larger culture of that society.

When talking about Sociology, we have to get a sociological perspective which is a way of seeing the world. It helps us to understand the social reality in a way of knowing how it get to forms the field of Sociology. People gives out their observation from everyday life.

Also, by talking about societies, it mentioned the word culture, what is culture? Culture is a collection of shared beliefs, behaviours and products of a group of people. We are all having different culture and therefore it build up many cultural events that might specified a particular area; such as Chinese new year, Moon festival, etc.

In order to grasp the complexities of Social Science, we need to think like a sociologist and to be aware of daily circumstances around the society.

How is Sociology Research Conducted?

Source.

A Sociological research is based on 2 principles, Conceptual and Empirical, which is logically accpeted. People usually explain things based on a concept so that others can gradually understand what they are talking about; so does in Sociology, there are several type of norms such as Folkways, Mores, Laws and Values. These norms are trying to explain how things can be allocate to a particular part of concepts where people can clarify them more easily, for instance.

Reasearch based on empirical seems to be necessary as people has the previous knowledge for doing the particular thing; even through active investigation, how people can be affected by media programme and the way of how to interact, etc. It forms a conneciton between itself and and several concepts therefore enabling people to check on the research progress for its logicality.*

*"These twin aspects, the conceptual and the empirical, and the fact that they must be constantly related, make sociology not only a respected academic discipline but also a valuable contribution to other human activities."

Sociology Forums

There are 6 Sociology forums in Chris's blog that I've looked at.

1.The Student Education Forum

This forum is basically more of a asking-and-answering(based on giving opinions) space where people's questions can be solved by others. It's generally talking about Education, such as democratic school, pupil sub cultures, gender gap(i.e. girls versus boys), etc.However there's a topic that attrat me is "What best explain working class underachievement". The top voted reason is 'Material deprivation', which means parents couldnt afford material things like books, computers, etc. for their children; therefore the result of the discussion gives an interesting conclusion, which I think it's quite good for everyone sharing their ideas and thoughts here.

2.The Forum Site

This one is very similar to the first one, but it's talking more about Sociological essay writing or life history, etc. Although it basically talks about everything within the subject Sociology.

3.ScienceCentral.com

It comes up with the title of The Society for Applied Sociology. I've clicked on the Details button and looked through the 4 topics that are shown in another web page, it talks about applied Sociology. This is more likely to be a site for people who wished to know what's in applied Sociology and what is it about, etc.

4.INTJ Forum

This forum, for me, is more formal somehow, although it works based on the same funtion just like the first and second one does.

5. Explore ideas

Does it worth exploring? I dont quite like the layout of the site and maybe it could be clearer with its articles. In fact, I dont really know how to browse the site...

6.The Student Room

This is a suitable forum for students who are studying Sociology. As we can see there are topics like needing help for Sociology essay, different exam board's topic contents, etc; I think it is worth to explore and would get what we wanted to know/learn.

Mnemonics

DVDS for sources of finance.

Debentures
Venture capital
Debt factoring
Share capital

:)

Is Internet Explorer a monopoly?

There are various of enterprises that has developed different version of browsers to which letting people to use it as a more convenience resource to search for what they wished to know. The browser ecosystem has already including a few firms such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Sleipnir, Safari, etc; whereas Internet Explorer is seemingly dominates the current browser market with the figure of 80%.

However, Google has recently comes up with an innovation called Chrome, which might be another invention that has the potential of being a dominant browser in the browser market; in addition that Google Chrome can become a strong competitor towards the IE. Throughout a list of their own benefits and drawbacks, e.g. IE is slow, cumbersome, shaky, poor at following standards and perceived by many to be a security vulnerability, therefore how users think about it can be the next essential step to help through with their work in the market.

"Mozilla's Firefox is very well respected and yet it commands less than 20% of the browser market which just shows how hard it is to overtake an incumbent although Google does have almost unparallelled ability to promote it to almost the entire online audience" According to the BBC news of Google launches Internet browser, Nate Elliot stated the truth of how Firefox is powerless in the browser market. Also those who are competing with other established browser names should be aware of the survival within the market.

As Google has already accomplished the reputation of a well-known website for everyone to browse/search, most people which represents the average users, Google, to their extent, is the Internet; thus for Google to compete with Internet Explorer, it has better potential comparing to others. They've got the idea of how to satisfy users' need and knowing how to make things even better.

In order to sums the whole thing up, I think Internet Explorer is not essentially a monopoly, especially it now has its new competitor, Google Chrome. They could both be improved in some ways to keep their competitions going; also for what could have been an influence towards the users, it is the choice have been made and the motivation being connected through the browsers.

Motivation and Behaviour

"Most modern psychologists agree, however, that motivation stems from a mix of inborn characteristics and external learning."

As you think about it more carefully with this statement, it's very logical as we all (at least most of us) live it this way!

What you have seen/known from childhood and what you have learnt from school/other people, it's always an influence which constantly shaping your characteristics. In this case, what you think can be affected straight away from your own characteristics, which means think in a preconscious way, that how are you going to get works done, for instance.

Motivations are variable as how people think what they are and how they really motivate them.

How to keep generation Y motivated?

Before reading through the passage and listening to the podcast, I wasnt sure what generation X and Y stand for; but now I have a clearer image as to how they differ from each other and Im quite impressed with the differences in motivation that X and Y have.

The generation Y, also called the New Millennials, were born in the 1980s and early 1990s who have become established members of the workforce; on the other side, generation X, those who borned in the 1960s and 1970s that are the predessor of those generation Y.

Is there any correlation between these 2 different generations? Also, how are these different age groups get on with each other?

In the podcast, Tammy Erickson the author of 'Plugged In' talks about the generation Y and how they behave within the work place. What makes generation Y distinctive is a quite interesting key point; they usually have a very interesting teenage hood which can dominates/shaped their characteristics during that certain period of time; where people give their thoughts of how the world works, for instance.

There are other things that are very interesting about Gen Y. When Adam Jones asks Tammy about how Gen Y uses technology whereas an increasingly growing has been happening among them and how does it affect them; She called them as the 'first generation of unconsciously competent technology users' which referring to a pre-conscious memory that they have. I think this is a quite impressive way of interpreting it.

Another interesting thing is that how different between Gen X and Y, when they are doing actually the same thing but in a totally diverse way. Gen X must have a schedule to plan what they want to do in a few weeks time; unlike Gen Y, they dont.

Gen Y likes to be challenged by many different things in any area, even if they havent had the experience before. They like to figure things out by themselves, in addition to test their ability of how far they can get on. But in the meantime, Gen X often dont truly understand how these undermanned learners, if they're suitable for the work they've been give. That somehow developed a gap between the 2 generation and would be misunderstood.

To keep a company happy, the relationiship betweent the managers and the employees must be improved from their actual position where there's a gap of the present and the traditional; furthermore, Gen X may need to explore how to keep Gen Y motivated and the way they act motivated; one thing is very important as a key feature, they love to be challenged.

Something.

• Oxford University Dance Society

• Contemporary: Monday - Main Hall, Oxford & Cherwell Valley College, Oxpens Rd (6.00-8.00pm) OYDC Performance company for 15-25 yrs. Directors, Cecilia Macfarlane, Joelle Pappas & Claire Thompson. Contact Cecilia on 01865 515576

Something REALLY funny!!!!!!!!!!

You will actually laugh until you die...(Haha, well not really but it's incredible)

Okay, now go and have a try :D

3 days left

After the 2-hour Business revision, I went to the library for an another hour to revise.

During this weekend, Ill go through the Business websites that are in Chris's blog, also practise some past papers again to check the particular parts that I need to be aware.

:)

Exams are coming

Honestly, I dont know what's really happening in the past few days, but the overall problem is that my DEAR host family :) ! Anyway, we'll sort it out sometimes.

First of all, I'd like to say I've been trying quite hard these days, although I know I might not reach the top or the best, but I will keep it this way as hard as I can...

I went to the Business revision class today and have been discussing some past papers, well it's not that hard and it's true, the possible reason may be that Im still not working hard enough. But Im really trying and still am.

Ok, the next thing is Ill try to prove what I have done and post on the blog as often as I can...

I really will TRY to update as often as I can.