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C R I T I C A L reflection of SEM1902

#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(void) {   cout<<"     It has been an excellent run - to those of you who were following this blog ever so faithfully, you would understand what I am talking about. The ups, the downs, the struggles, blood sweat and tears all culminated to this moment - on the verge of the finals, and with it, the conclusion of the second trimester of the first year. How excellent it has been thus far, in spite of ----- Oh right, I was supposed to be concise, wasn't I? That fairly sums up my progress from the first blog post, where I stated plain as day that I had problems with being concise. Perhaps "had" isn't the best tense to use, because I am still struggling with identifying what points are important . While the urge to go off-tangent and yap on and on about things that are as related to the parent topic as a crocodile and a bat are genetically is strong, I have been catching myself a lot more, as in the...
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Conflict mangement!

#include<iostream> using namespace std; int main(void) { cout << " "Really, John? Did you not just hear what I said?" "Yes, I heard it loud and clear. I simply don't agree with it, Susan. You know, it would help if you stop taking everything so personally and just grow up." "Excuse me, what did you just say? Who's the childish one here, not stepping into my shoes, sitting on his high horse and judging me?!" Now, John has a few options as to how he should respond. Should he: a) Tackle the problem tactfully, stating that he understands Susan's viewpoint? b) Apologize for his earlier choice of words? Wrong, he chose option C. He proceeds to remind her of how she wouldn't stop treating him coldly when he forgot to ask her along for a carnival trip 9 years ago, explaining how it therefore renders her accusations of his childishness invalid. You see, what was simply a discussion about which...
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Evaluating Listening Skills and Non-verbal behavior

#include<cstdio> int main(void) {   printf("     The slouched back-lean. The occasional glance at the watch. The periodic checking of the phone. The couple sat just opposite me, facing each other at the dining table. Their exchange of superficial probing questions gave away the fact that it was perhaps their first date - but the signs I listed earlier at the top of the paragraph betrayed another fact - that they probably were not quite as into each other as they'd have first expected.  Why do I say this? I wasn't the one who said it. They told it to me. Neither of them got up from their seats, delivered a half-witted apology to the other, strolled up to me and said "we aren't working out", of course. Their non-verbal communicative aspects, such as body language, told me that. Communication scientists have published many papers stating how the non-verbal aspects of communication actually make up a larger part of communication than the verbal aspe...
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First reflection, SEM1902 :)

#include<stdio.h> int main(void) { printf(" Hey there! Thank you for paying attention thus far. The font and the size can be eye-wateringly boring, I suppose, but allow me to assure you that everything, down to the font, has been selected to properly reflect the sobriety of this blog and its contents. Just kidding, that's the default font and size. Without further ado, should you choose to read on, thus as follows will be my personal, heartfelt, genuine and no-holds barred reflection of my communicative strengths and weaknesses, as well as the challenges I face. If you could not already tell from the first paragraph, I do have an issue (with myself, at the very least) with speaking concisely to the point. While I have no issue in flourishing my writing (and other modes of communication, including Morse .-.---..-) with parables and all manner of figures of speech, I do feel that I have an issue in cutting down my sentences and content to what is simply necessar...
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