Self Reflection (Portfolios)

I learn that the AC class is a basic foundation that teaches me how to write an academic essay. Until the end of the first semester, overall I don't see any drastic improvement in my writing skills due to the fact that I'm still haven't adapted to it, especially for academic writing where there are certain criteria and steps that must be fulfilled in writing an academic essay. Although, I do also believe that I have improved a bit base on what I've seen so far; for example, my cause and effect essay it's not much but I feel like I have improved myself in term of the way I'm writing my essay. Even though my score is not that high, but it shows my improvement from the first academic essay that I've made. Of all academic essay that I have written, I prefer to write cause and effect essay rather than comparisons and argumentative. The reason why I chose cause and effect essay is that they are much more direct essay that stated the cause or the effect of my particular topic. Furthermore, it is easier to find the right scholarly article due to the fact that there many authors who wrote about cause and effect articles on some topics. The most challenging essay that I've written so far is an argumentative essay due to the fact that argumentative essay is written base on my own stances, and it is difficult to found a solution toward the counter-argument. Furthermore, writing an argumentative essay is discussing on both views and determining which side I should take without any uncertainties. Which require a lot of details about the topic, which is quite challenging for me due to the fact that I have to read many pages to obtain the detail as well as the main idea. The way I overcome my challenges is to read calmly even with the time I keep on ticking, even if it takes a lot of time just to read the article. Class activities that helped improve my writing are blog journal, where the blog helps me in expressing more on my thoughts and feel allowing me to construct a good blog. The blog helps in a way to provide a basic construction of making an essay, where I believe attracting the reader is the number one priority in constructing a good essay. Base on many blogs that I 've written so far, I learn that blogs help to essay differently. However, the downside of making a blog is that I wrote every blog in an informal way for the purpose to attract the reader even though my goal is to improve my writing skills using much more academic or more formal. As for the assignment, I say that blog journals are the most helpful assignment in enhancing our writing skills base on what we have learned so far. But, It's not academic writing which not requires a lot of research to write a blog. On the other hand, a blog journal helps me to remove my frustration over a variety of things which is helpful in expressing all of my thoughts and feelings over the topic. 

Reflection of Argumentative Essay

After finish writing, my argument essay, my biggest challenge of writing this essay is probably reading the article. Since reading four scholarly article takes a lot of time to obtain the main idea, other challenges that I face in making an argumentative essay is remaining neutral in some way, where I have to take both points of view and provide a solution toward the counter-argument base on what I've believed. I believe there are none what so ever making an essay is easy, due to the fact it takes a lot of time and energy for making an essay. Since I haven't submitted my first draft. So, I'm not sure the changes are. However, I do make some changes in my argumentative essay from the introduction and the author citation. Although it hasn't been check by the teacher and students so I'm not sure if it is correct or not. I think this is the worst essay I've ever made due to I haven't managed my time well and haven't fully prepared. Which lead me to get no feedback from the teacher as well as the student. Writing an academic essay is not an easy task, where I'm struggling in finding the right sources that can support my essay. Furthermore, I'm still struggling in the author's citation even though I've read the book, and ask my friend. I still don't know how to make the right citation. The way I plan to improve myself is to read more articles and relearn how to make the right citation. I could have put more effort into my argumentative essay. However, without any feedback, I'm not sure I can put more effort into it due to I don't know what is my mistake. Ready or not, I believe that we will eventually write a longer academic essay due to the fact that writing an academic essay is important for future majors. I'm not sure about how prepared I am in entering AC 2. However, I believe that there are rooms to improve.

Screen Time

When I heard or read the word "screen time", the first thing that comes to my mind is the amount of time that we used electronic every day. The creator of the mobile phone has implementing screen time, which is used to remind us as the user to manage our time using a mobile phone. The way screen time work is by monitoring our daily activities on our mobile phone and report your activities to see if you played a lot of games, spend time on social media, or using your gadget for working purposes. Screen time can provide a risk to the user, especially health and social issues. Too much screen time would damage their eyesight. When we read or scroll through social media we tend to blink much lesser which leads to dry eyes. Other symptoms caused by too much screen time are giving eyestrain, headaches, and even stress. Furthermore, screen time also causes a sleep problem that is caused by the light emitted from the screens that disrupting our sleep cycle in the brain, which leads to insomnia. The risk of screen time can damage the relationship with their close one, whether it is their family or friends. Even with this concern, I do also experience insomnia due to the fact that I have been using my phone and laptop for working and entertainment purposes, there are times when I slept only 2 hours. As a person who likes to stay up all night, I would try to set a limit but I would not guarantee success. As a night person, I would prefer to work during night time where it is more productive for me. My limit of screen time is when I finish all of my work or when I'm experience fatigue, that is the time when I went to sleep. I think children nowadays have experience more screen time, rather than when I was a child. Technology has been more advanced than before I was a child where they provide a variety of entertainment that allows children to stay entertained for a long period of time. When I was a child, my parents only bought me toys to stay entertained. To some extent, I agree with banning screen time especially for children due to children need to get more exposure to outside activities rather than staying in their bedroom watching movies or playing games, It is healthier to go outside and socialize with other people. However, children also need to expose to gadgets, where I believe that we live in the era of technology which they will develop further. By allowing children to use their gadget is allowing themself to adapt toward technology and using it in an effective way.

My Dream

I want to become the owner as well as becoming the head chef of the restaurant. I always love cooking and things that are related to food, where I see not just for consumption but also a form of art that brings joy toward the consumer. For me, cooking is like doing an experiment, where trial and error occur there are times when my cooking tastes not as good as I thought. However, I tried over and over again until I found the taste that are befitting for me. 

My long term plan is learning Japanese until I can communicate with Japanese people, as I would like to learn more about Japanese culture and work in a Japanese restaurant to increase my experience in cooking as well as how to run a restaurant. Furthermore, I would like to focus on how to run a business due to the fact that my dream is wanting to become the head chef as well as becoming the owner of the restaurant. Which is why I need to learn how to manage my restaurant. 

There are times when I'm questioning myself about my dream. From middle school until high school, I always ask myself if I'm on the right track or not. There are some roads I can choose either becoming an environmentalist or becoming the owner of the restaurant. I like to learn more about the environment where I want to make people aware of environmental concerns, at the same time I also like cooking and my interest in learning new technique of cooking. In the end, I've realized that I love cooking more than becoming an environmentalist.

Seth Goldin said:" Don't build a business because you want freedom, build a business because you want to run a business.", where Seth Goldin is trying to say that pursuing your dream is base on your own interest on doing it, Interest is derived from motivation, passion, and inspired by other people. Which lead me to believe that people's interest in doing what they love to do is because they are inspired or motivated by other people. While having an interest in doing because of passion.

Something that I have never learn to do, but wish I had. Although it doesn't really relate to my dream, I wish that I can play a musical instrument especially guitar and piano. I was never really good at playing a musical instrument, there is a time that I have an interest in learning it. However, I don't have the patience to learn how to play a musical instrument.

Representing My Country in International Exhibition

If someone would ask me to send one object that represents my country to an international exhibition, I would choose batik as my object. In my point of view, it is important for a country to introduce their culture first where I believe that culture is one of the important aspects of our country. Batik is made out of silk cloth as the basic foundation then decorate the cloth with wax and dye. Batik is the most popular traditional clothes in our country. Which lead me to believe that batik is the most appropriate object that represents my country. A traditional object is the most reasonable way of representing the country, due to the fact that traditional object is created and became very popular on that very own country that has been accepted by societies in that particular country to use traditional object can be representing their very own country. Batik is used for clothes, handkerchiefs, and pants but the most popular one batik in the form of clothes. Batik provides a unique characteristic that makes Indonesia different from other countries. Indonesia is made up of various tribes with each have its own traditions. However, batik helps to unify all of the tribes become one, as batik can remind each tribe that they all shared the same land which is why our country celebrates batik day every Friday. The creation of batik has been past down for many years, as they part of Indonesia's history. Batik has a unique pattern that some people would not understand, however behind that pattern there is a meaning which all depends on the person who creates it.