Macroeconomic Reflective Journal

Macroeconomics has been the hardest subject I taken this semester. Honestly, it really a hard time understood these. I even sometimes just nodding my head but my brain is still thinking how does it comes from. Because maybe my brain is a little bit slow so I need time to analyze the process of the moving AD/AS curve. By the moment I understood, next week I forgot everything again.

            During the media assignment, I was helped a lot by my friend who is really good in economics. He teaches me again from start, I really thank him. But the problem is, now to recall what is AD/AS curve I really don’t understand again. I don’t want to trouble my friend again so I just let it be. On the media assignment, I was totally doing it by following the rewind of Miss Mala’s lecture. And I just wrote up anything miss Mala did because that’s what my friend told me. I know you will ask me, why I don’t ask the lecturer or tutorial, there is a feeling of awkwardness if I went to ask the lecturer, and I can’t really express my curiosity on the class, moreover in the consultation hours, I don’t feel any comfort except my friend is the one who explaining. I will also ended up nodding my head only while my brain is still thinking if I really went to consultation hours. I tried to read the notes and watch the lectures rewind, and it did help a bit, but there are still many questions in my mind I couldn’t speak out. I did write some notes on my notebook but when I open it again, I just feel blank again.

            This is not the first time having hard time on economic, on the first semester, I able to pass the microeconomic because I didn’t sleep the night before exam and keep doing the practice again and again so I could remember until tomorrow. And after the exams, honestly my brain was totally blank about economics when I woke up from my sleep. And I think I will do it again on this semester. I think until the exam coming I’ll pardon my friend to teach me again. I really want to apologize with Mr. Anthony, he did a good job in the class, it’s just I don’t quite catch up with him. I always thinking that I can’t be selfish to take everyone’s time and want the tutor explaining the same thing again and again, that’s why my pop quiz was a blank, and I didn’t write a thing because my mind was blank. But actually I did revise the lectures slides before attending the tutorial. For other subject, i still able to reflect them based on the notes, but this one is really i don't know what to reflect about, i don't even understand the material, i think i just reflected about myself here. 

BC Business Report & MIS Video Group Assignment Reflective Journal

BC Business Report Reflective Journal

Before I do this assignment, I hope that I could learn how to write a business report in the future. Since I am an International Business student, I supposed to be known for how to write a good business report. And yes, I did learnt how to generate a good business report now because I am the final compiler so, I read through everything and yeah it was done. I would really hope that it comes to be useful for the company itself and for other purposes.

By the process of doing this assignment, I realized that it is not just about writing a report, but we are looking deeper into how is this company able survive in the market, what makes it able to compete with another company in the same industries. And there is a thing that I grasped when we did the interview, which is the manager himself didn’t advertise his product through media instead he believe the most powerful advertisement is through word of mouth. He relied 100% on this free of charge strategy, and through that he can save a lot of cost and divert the money to the labor which he also trust the one that generates the sales for the restaurant itself.

When we organizing the business report assignment, most of the things are smoothly going on. One thing that I found hard is the recommendations for the problems. Recommendations could be found on Internet, but it were not really can be useful, because we need to consider about the situation we are facing, and yet the ability of the company to do so; that's why I think we need to spend more time on this part.

At the end of the day, we did come up with some recommendations that we have been thinking some time but there is one problem we cannot suggest any recommendation because it is out of our control which is the price of the rent known to be very high and it were increasing each year. We did think very hard for this and search for the answer anywhere online but it result nothing really helpful. So we just decided not to give any suggestion.

Another issue is a small issue that everybody faces, the teamwork of the group is nowhere to be seen. There is small confrontation during doing this assignment, but we all forget it like it never happens.

MIS Group Video Assignment Reflective Journal

In this module, I have learnt many things about the ways companies managing their systems and the how the applications work. The lectures are interesting, just the problem is, there are too many words presented, that’s why sometimes, we will be distracted by our own technologies. For the tutorials, I will say that it was awesome; I had a good time in the class. Mr. Ho is humorist and I think he is the one who bring up the atmosphere in the class with his jokes.

            When doing the group assignment, I found it was very interesting and fun. It was different with another assignments. Other assignments can bring me stress and pressure but this assignment I did it happily. I think this video assignment is very suitable with our habit, which is something that is related with technology. I can expand my skill of taking video and edit them. Besides I can put in my creativity in the short video. When I did the video, I think there is no big problem occurs when we doing it. It just maybe some of the students don’t own a very modern devices and technology. Luckily it doesn’t happen on us, although our team doesn’t own any video camera, but I did manage to borrow a DSLR from my friend.    

I think this assignment is the fastest assignment I have done if compared to another assignment. I didn’t feel bored during the filming and editing instead we have laughed so hard because of the awkwardness. I think for the next semester student, the lectures should give them this assignment also, I’m sure they will enjoy this assignment. I hope in another course also giving interesting assignments, because honestly as a student I hate all the essays writing and reading. I would love assignments that assign us to practice with something new and work using all of our body parts instead of facing the computers and come up with some paragraph of sentences.

            What I can relate from this assignment to the module is, I found that managing information we got and digest it into something really cool and useful really important. About how to maximize the information and use it for business purpose is the objective of this module, which is I think we have achieved a small part of it. We used the technology to create a video that is promoting an application for business purpose. By creating this short video, we can show the viewer how our application works and what are the advantages of it. When the viewer watched it, they will buy the application to give them flexibility and relaxed way of doing something important.

            For the overall, yes I did enjoy this assignment very much. Look forward to get assigned in something interesting. That’s all for my Management Information System Reflective Journal.

for you guys who want to watch the video. the video will be uploaded soon, thanks

The 10 Best Conspiracy Theories of All Time

1. Roswell and Area 51:

These two are cardinal points in the aliens and flying saucer mythos. The Roswell incident went like this: A load of aliens in a flying saucer were flying over New Mexico in 1947, when one of them made a complete bollix of a manoeuvre and SPLAT! - they hit a hillside and the military came and took the debris and little grey alien bodies away and one of them was possibly even alive, and they locked it in a room to keep it secure. All the townsfolk went bananas. Decades later there are still people insisting that this really happened, as they hustle you into their museum and souvenir shop where you can buy little alien dolls and bumper stickers. EBE-1, the alien survivor, went on to earn an associate's degree in English (presumably) and passed on many secrets to the US military - which is where Area 51 comes in. Area 51 is an experimental air base where aliens live (not EBE-1; it died in 1952, but several others from other crashed discs) and cooperate with the military in their quest to conquer the universe by back-engineering crashed alien technology. So now you know: We are not alone. 

2. HAARP: 

Called "The Moby Dick of conspiracy theories", the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP for short) is a big weird sciencey-type place full of antennae in Alaska. Basically, HAARP is capable of affecting the electromagnetic portion of the atmosphere, possibly to the point of affecting weather and the tectonic plates that compose the continents. The remote station is owned by the US military. Conspiracy theorists have built quite a list of the evil things they use it for. I hope you're sitting down for this, because not only was HAARP responsible for the 2011 Japanese tsunami, but also several quakes in China, Haiti, Chile and other countries. HAARP has also been blamed for mysterious incidents in which thousands of birds have literally fallen dead out of the sky, and gangs of fish discovered floating dead on the surfaces of lakes and ponds. World leaders, including Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have blamed HAARP (and by extension America) for earthquakes and weather control. Most chillingly, several years ago, former Japanese Finance Minister Haika Takenaka claimed his country was threatened with an "earthquake machine" by a secret elite banking cabal that runs the planet. The reason? Japan had paid off its World War Two debt and the banks wanted to lend it more money. Problem was, they didn't need any money. 

3. The Philadelphia Experiment:

Phew! Yep, that HAARP stuff is no small potatoes, huh? For relief, let's go on to something more entertaining. The Philadelphia Experiment (or Project Rainbow) was a naval project that sought to render large military hardware invisible. Sounds daft, I know, but they did it, dude! It was all based on mad Einsteinian equations and cosmic knowledge and stuff. It went down like this: The Navy put all these fellers on the USS Eldridge, then docked at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The plan was to merge electromagnetism and gravity in order to bend spacetime and create an invisible time-machine cloak thingy. Sounds completely barmy, right? Well, the bugger disappeared alright, but what happened next wasn't on the itinerary; the Eldridge was teleported 200 miles to Norfolk, Virginia, where it sat a while, before vanishing again and reappearing back in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, it reappeared 10 seconds back in time and several of the sailors' bodies had become physically fused to the steel structure of the ship! Other crew members simply vanished forever while others went extremely mentally ill. This is what happens when you mess about with nature, folks.

4. 9/11 Was an Inside Job:

Nobody will ever forget the world's most sensational terrorist attack. Especially the really weird parts, like i) Three enormous steel-framed buildings collapsing through the path of most resistance (their own footprint) at free-fall speed, while numerous firemen and maintenance people reported hearing "bombs" exploding up and down and beneath the towers; ii) Alleged Chief Hijacker Mohamed Atta's passport surviving the 2000-degree carnage only to be found in pristine condition on a sidewalk near the WTC; iii) No real wreckage or bodies from Flight 93 (as opposed to Pan-Am 103 and TWA 800, both of which exploded and fell from tens of thousands of feet and were rebuilt and examined forensically by authorities); iv) A hole in the Pentagon a fraction the size it should have been, while exposed offices within the impact zone clearly showed equipment, furniture and books undamaged by the smoke and fire the airliner's 8,600 gallons of fuel should have caused; v) Both CNN and the BBC reported the collapse of WTC Building 7 before the event actually happened, an error they called "an innocent mistake"; vi) Shortly before 9/11 an "extraordinary" number of put options were placed on the stock of the two airlines involved in the attacks, indicating that people knew it was set to plummet; vii)

5. Faked Moon Landing:

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", were the immortal words of astronaut Neil Armstrong, as he lumbered from the lunar module onto the moon's surface. Or did he? There are some who reckon they never went to the moon and experienced that "magnificent desolation". Instead, they say Stanley Kubrick faked the entire thing for NASA and confessed as much via numerous secret symbols in his later production "The Shining", starring Jack Nicholson as protagonist Jack Torrance. Among claims made by moon landing conspiracy theorists is the fact that the same moon mountain appears as a backdrop to several pictures supposedly taken in different locations (and in fact Buzz Aldrin, one of the Apollo 11 astronauts, had his photo taken in front of an identical mountain in Hawaii in 1969!) The great moon hoax doesn't end there though; the tread on the moon-boots later exhibited as Armstrong's doesn't match that famous photo of his Giant Leap left in the lunar dust; studio lights can be seen reflected in the astronauts' visors; the atmosphere-less moon's surface is bombarded by millions of tiny meteors every second, any one of which could destroy equipment or kill a human being; a "tinfoil" spacecraft could never survive passage through the Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belt.

6. 2012; The End of the World:

Not exactly a conspiracy theory, really, but not exactly not a conspiracy theory either. The End Of The World in 2012 has been linked to ancient civilizations, aliens, the global elite, astrology and the coming of a mysterious prodigal planet called Nibiru (or "Planet X"). Generations of nutcases have been waiting for 2012, fearful that the ancient Mayan calendar ends on December 21st, 2012 for one very good reason: Cosmic-level cataclysm that will purify the planet of the ills which are poisoning her (which, in case you didn't know, is pretty much us), plunging the world into a new cycle. The Mayan civilization collapsed over a thousand years ago, so I'd say that it ends just because, well, ain't a millennium into the future enough for now, Mayan calendar-making guys?!?! Others, like Zecharia Sitchin, have predicted the return of "Planet X", a rogue world on a crazed elliptical orbit that passes through the solar system every 3,600 years. According to Sitchin, Planet X deposited a super-intelligent alien presence on the earth during one of its rare drive-bys, who eventually created a hybrid race of semi-human reptilian gimps. The gimp lizard bloodlines have retained control of the earth until the present day (see #10 in this list) and are now the royal families, presidents, etc. Anyway, not the point. The point is some foolish peeps think the world's gonna go all pear-shaped on December 21st, 2012. 

7. Assassination of JFK:

This one's simple; the Kennedys were a shameless lust-crazed gaggle of corrupt fatheads who crossed the wrong people and got their just desserts. Kennedy family patriarch Old Man Joe built a total myth of nobility and #winning-ness around his immoral brood. Father Joe and others worked diligently to bribe, threaten and con powerful people into allowing all manner of Kennedy cheating to go unnoticed. Consequently, this buck-toothed quasi-reptilian gene pool attempted to leave an unblemished mark on American politics. They failed miserably. JFK was in reality a shadow of the Hero President Americans believed him to be; a serial adulterer, he suffered from Addison's Disease (which he denied point blank) necessitating a daily regimen of cortisone, amphetamine (and testosterone to combat the gonadal shrinkage caused by the steroid applications), to overcome his secret frailty. So, this secretly sick "hero", whose bootlegging father double-crossed La Cosa Nostra (by using them to influence union votes in Illinois but never repaying the favor) and on who the quite concerned FBI were compiling a thick dossier of disgust (thanks to his endless philandering behind wife Jackie's back) had it coming to him from several directions.

8. Global Warming and Peak Oil: 

I bet you're a well-informed, cutting-edge dude or dudette, huh? You'd drive a car that ran on liquidized circus peanuts if you could, such is your commitment to SAVING THE PLANET. Well, kid, I've got news for you: "Global warming" is a natural phenomenon. Ask any geologist. Just remember not to call it global warming. It's global climate change. Even our beloved ozone (O3) is a greenhouse gas. It blocks the ultraviolet light coming in, but it also blocks infrared radiation from re-entering outer-space. Does this mean we should try to strip off the ozone layer? Nope. Public Enemy Number One here is good ol' carbon dioxide (CO2), right? Wrong; naturally-occurring water vapor accounts for much more than CO2. Plus, volcanic eruptions expel thousands of times more CO2 than humans annually. Now there's a cocktail party douchebomb you can drop on those damn hippies next time you get the chance. We couldn't match nature's giant chimneys if we tried. Meanwhile, the tinfoil hatters insist the fossil fuel elites are to blame. Y'know, George Dubya an' his reptilian cronies? Which brings us to the Peak Oil conspiracy. This one's a good 'un, mainly because the tinfoil hat brigade have kinda missed the point, but the geologists and economists didn't. So-called Peak Oil is basically the concept that global oil reserves "peaked" sometime in the past and are now ever-dwindling which, surprise, surprise, means we have to pay ever-higher prices for the stuff. Peak Oil is based on an erroneous report made in 1956 that the peak would occur in the late-60s to early-70s. When that didn't happen, the prediction was moved to 2006, but unfortunately all that's happened is that oil has been made to appear scarcer and is more expensive than ever. Meanwhile, all around the world, PhD students and other academics are working tirelessly not to save the planet but to secure grant research money and maintain the lie.

9. Spaceship Moon:

David Icke probably tells this wackiest of wacky stories the best of all. Basically, the moon isn't what we think. It's really a great hollowed-out rock that the ancient aliens used as a bloody big spaceship to travel to the earth many thousands of years ago. There are supposedly prehistoric stories, oral accounts of the time the moon first arrived in our skies, describing many cataclysms caused by its presence. (Supposedly, the moon being hollow makes it extremely susceptible to orbital alterations would would in turn affect the oceans and tectonic plates of the earth) Once the devastation and mayhem was over, the aliens placed the moon in an orbit that made it appear exactly the same size as the sun. They also set it spinning at a rate of one rotation every 24 hours, which meant the same side of the moon was always facing the earth. This is apparently because the so-called "dark side" of the moon is bristling with giant alien constructions and even cavernous holes in its surface which they didn't want us to see. They then set about shrinking the minds and memories of human beings, causing them to forget the horrors they'd seen. This, according to crackpot lore, is how the aliens wiped out large numbers of the then "mystic, multi-dimensional" population, only to re-stock the race with hybrids (humans with alien DNA) who are programmed to control the minds of global society by means of ritual Satanic abuse, religion and warfare.

10. Lizard Elites, the Illuminati and New World Order:

So...I know; things have gotten pretty damn silly at this point, but bear with me, it's all about to be tied together (well, not all, but a lot of it). Let's see...what do we have here? Aliens arriving in a hollowed-out "mooncraft" (or a strange planet that passes by every 3,600 years), mating with humans to create an elite bloodline that goes on to conceal the existence of UFOs and perpetrate many attacks and insults on the human race. According to conspiracy theorists, there are 13 alien bloodlines known as The Illuminati, and they are able to shape-shift through different dimensions and morph into their true form: 7-foot tall lizards.

There are scores of political and other organizations said to be dedicated to the secret Illuminati control of humankind, such as the Freemasons, Skull and Bones, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, The Speculative Society and the Bilderberg Group. World leaders and royal families have long been recognized as forming an incestuous web of secretive interconnections, and it is via these organizations that the lizard elites operate in the light of day. Among the more notorious annual celebrations enjoyed by these cold-hearted beings is the effigy sacrifice to the owl god Moloch, at Bohemian Grove in northern California. Renowned leaders from throughout the world make their way to the Grove every year in order to enact the ritualistic murder of a child. (Is this the semi-public face of a dark cabal who actually use child sacrifice as a qualification into an exclusive club that then confers the power to go on to murder many millions more as a King, Prime Minister or President?) If the conspiracy nuts are right, the powerful people of our world really are the vilest bastards imaginable. Which kinda makes sense, when you think about it. I hope you enjoyed this all-too brief rundown on what I consider to be the best conspiracy theories of all time. I'm sure you'll have other ideas or can provide surplus information regarding these fantastical nuggets of our age. 

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