The support from my parents has been as great influence in my life even since I have graduated from secondary school. My parent have been giving me a lot of support and did not give up on me even though I have not done well for my ‘O’ level result. For the very first in my life I fear a lot of things and realize what I did during my days in secondary school life was terrible. My parent pin a lot of hope on me that I would be able to pass and go on to polytechnic but I have fail them sadly. Neither the less, till today of who I am, from ITE, Polytechnic and even now doing part time undergrad in UniSim. They still supporting and encouraging me not to give up and persevere in the things I do. Although there was a point in time when I told my parent that I would be taking up social work as my profession upon my graduation from polytechnic, they were rather shock and disappointed upon me after going through the studies in electronic engineering for so many year. Asking me that “Am I really serious of going or taking up social services as a profession career?” and a comment by my parent was that “Do you know that what you have studied in ITE and polytechnic can bring in stable job and high income and by going into the social service sector the salaries wise will be very much lower then what you are suppose to get.” As time passes, they are accepting that I am really into the sector of social service work and have been able to prove to them that I am enjoying and showing them that I am really all out into this field of work.
Anther person who have a great influence and changes in my life was my lecturer when I am studying in ITE. As like many other students who will try to skip their community involvement project or if can avoid doing. She has changes me and makes me realize the important of study and also about the community that need people to help and care for the less fortunate not just for the benefit of our own. She introduces me the club which she in charge and it called Community Service Club or CSC for short. I was skeptical at first not only about the kind of project the club does but also the people who run the club and it members. But after a few rounds of involvements, I begin to realize it not that bad after all and the people were friendly and forthcoming. It not only inculcates many values and valuable lesson. It teaches us the important about an individual of who we are and how we can make ourselves useful for the society while doing the community project.
There one particular area where it further enhances me into what I am was the regular weekly service to a particular community organization which is Rotary Family Service Centre. Where by my teacher had established contact with them for us to do regular service to the children in the centre such as giving tuition, play with them and even organize party or outing with these needy groups of children. I continue with the organization as volunteer after I have graduated from ITE for the next 7 to 8 years doing all sort of community work with the centre from children, youth and even elderly programme.
These are some of the values which I uphold and been practicing and these are accountability, concern for others, family ties, friendship, openness, self-reliance (determination in getting the thing I want), willing to work hard, respect for others, practicality, honesty, self-worth and team work. The way I am being brought up were rather family orientated such as being open and frank with each and every member in the family by having two way communication and honesty.
The important of family was that these are the people who know one another strength, weakness and are always there to support. Especially my parents who given me strong support, being there with me, giving valuable advises and people who understand me well.
My goals in life is to be able to give supports, to use my own life experience to help lead people in the right direction of life, treasure family values and imparting my knowledge to the next generation and of cause my own family in the near future. As I would like to leave my legacy behind for my future family generation who will in turn also impart these entire valuable lesson to the next future generation.
As an individual, I am a person who is more outgoing and tend to mingle well with people especially toward very close friend. But I also tend to be loner at time where I need space to think and do thing quietly. I am being seen as a person who treasures a lot of friendship and a person who make friend easily but individually my close friends who really know me were very few.
Especially when I am in groups with my friends be it outing, dining or entertainment. I am more pro-active in being the observer and play along kind of person in the groups. But when I am required to conduct group session in a formal setting, I can be serious with some laughter in between and also being seen as a person who know the subject well in a particular presentation.
When come to my attitude towards authority, I will display respect for people who are of higher position, fearful of myself if I ever make mistake, being honest and humble at the same time will keep me well balance. But when come to management of conflicts, I am sometime good sometime bad, at loss most of the time and needed sometime to readjust and bounce back onto the right track, tend not to bother too much in conflict that is unable to resolve and let it die of by itself.
Area which I need to improve on is management skill such as conflict, time and priority management, which till today I am still struggling on. Tend to unable to complete all my case note reports on time and at time when there conflict I tend to avoid first instead of handling directly on the spot.
A lot of these values which I mention earlier in the paragraph help me a lot when I see client in my work place. It hold my ground whenever I need to made a certain firm decision together with client for them to help themselves and not depend on other dependently. Most of the client who have seen me are very comfortable, are willing to explore with me further and will always share their problem and happiness about their live and families.
There was once whereby I see myself that I am being too involved into a family situation and I was unable to see the bigger picture of it. I feel for the client not getting any respect from their family member who treat this client very badly and being biased against her. It makes me realize that my own values and experience have got parallel on stronger on this case because of the issues of respecting and being open with each other in the family. I have got a strong sense of view on family ties and hence I tend to move closer in making sure that these values are being instilled. But being practical, majority of the family in general were not being brought up the way my parent had brought me up. Hencefore, in order for me to overcome this I have to be stand by the side and explore other family members in the household and help assist client to find it own strength perspective and empower them to make their own decision within their own family.
Biasness toward certain groups or holding some stereotypes were not an issues to me as I will also get to learn and understand their different culture and their way of life in handling certain issues in life.
Anther person who have a great influence and changes in my life was my lecturer when I am studying in ITE. As like many other students who will try to skip their community involvement project or if can avoid doing. She has changes me and makes me realize the important of study and also about the community that need people to help and care for the less fortunate not just for the benefit of our own. She introduces me the club which she in charge and it called Community Service Club or CSC for short. I was skeptical at first not only about the kind of project the club does but also the people who run the club and it members. But after a few rounds of involvements, I begin to realize it not that bad after all and the people were friendly and forthcoming. It not only inculcates many values and valuable lesson. It teaches us the important about an individual of who we are and how we can make ourselves useful for the society while doing the community project.
There one particular area where it further enhances me into what I am was the regular weekly service to a particular community organization which is Rotary Family Service Centre. Where by my teacher had established contact with them for us to do regular service to the children in the centre such as giving tuition, play with them and even organize party or outing with these needy groups of children. I continue with the organization as volunteer after I have graduated from ITE for the next 7 to 8 years doing all sort of community work with the centre from children, youth and even elderly programme.
These are some of the values which I uphold and been practicing and these are accountability, concern for others, family ties, friendship, openness, self-reliance (determination in getting the thing I want), willing to work hard, respect for others, practicality, honesty, self-worth and team work. The way I am being brought up were rather family orientated such as being open and frank with each and every member in the family by having two way communication and honesty.
The important of family was that these are the people who know one another strength, weakness and are always there to support. Especially my parents who given me strong support, being there with me, giving valuable advises and people who understand me well.
My goals in life is to be able to give supports, to use my own life experience to help lead people in the right direction of life, treasure family values and imparting my knowledge to the next generation and of cause my own family in the near future. As I would like to leave my legacy behind for my future family generation who will in turn also impart these entire valuable lesson to the next future generation.
As an individual, I am a person who is more outgoing and tend to mingle well with people especially toward very close friend. But I also tend to be loner at time where I need space to think and do thing quietly. I am being seen as a person who treasures a lot of friendship and a person who make friend easily but individually my close friends who really know me were very few.
Especially when I am in groups with my friends be it outing, dining or entertainment. I am more pro-active in being the observer and play along kind of person in the groups. But when I am required to conduct group session in a formal setting, I can be serious with some laughter in between and also being seen as a person who know the subject well in a particular presentation.
When come to my attitude towards authority, I will display respect for people who are of higher position, fearful of myself if I ever make mistake, being honest and humble at the same time will keep me well balance. But when come to management of conflicts, I am sometime good sometime bad, at loss most of the time and needed sometime to readjust and bounce back onto the right track, tend not to bother too much in conflict that is unable to resolve and let it die of by itself.
Area which I need to improve on is management skill such as conflict, time and priority management, which till today I am still struggling on. Tend to unable to complete all my case note reports on time and at time when there conflict I tend to avoid first instead of handling directly on the spot.
A lot of these values which I mention earlier in the paragraph help me a lot when I see client in my work place. It hold my ground whenever I need to made a certain firm decision together with client for them to help themselves and not depend on other dependently. Most of the client who have seen me are very comfortable, are willing to explore with me further and will always share their problem and happiness about their live and families.
There was once whereby I see myself that I am being too involved into a family situation and I was unable to see the bigger picture of it. I feel for the client not getting any respect from their family member who treat this client very badly and being biased against her. It makes me realize that my own values and experience have got parallel on stronger on this case because of the issues of respecting and being open with each other in the family. I have got a strong sense of view on family ties and hence I tend to move closer in making sure that these values are being instilled. But being practical, majority of the family in general were not being brought up the way my parent had brought me up. Hencefore, in order for me to overcome this I have to be stand by the side and explore other family members in the household and help assist client to find it own strength perspective and empower them to make their own decision within their own family.
Biasness toward certain groups or holding some stereotypes were not an issues to me as I will also get to learn and understand their different culture and their way of life in handling certain issues in life.
