Friday, September 7, 2007

MDeC Training Program for MMU, Melaka (3rd Batch) - (Part 1)

June 2007, we conducted the MDeC K-Workers training program for the 3rd batch of University Undergraduates. This time we conducted the program for MMU Melaka students (again...)...but I would have to say that this batch of students were slightly different as compared to the 1st batch of MMU students we trained last year....This particular group of students were absolutely FANTASTIC ! Most of them have very good attitudes towards life...and most importantly, they're very willing to learn. I honestly believe this particular group of students will have a bright future and they'll definitely go very far in their lives...

As usual, I conducted the "Innovation & Creativity" module...but this time I had my very good friend and training partner, Ee Hock Seng co-train with me. I'm not going to bore all of you with more of my babbling and boring text, but suffice to say, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves during this program! So, below are some of the photos we took during the training. Enjoy!
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That's me!
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And that's my very good friend and co-trainer, Mr. Ee Hock Seng conducting one of the sessions...he's a man with a very big heart and he's very fun to be with...
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This time we tried something different...Instead of just using magic and mind-boggling puzzles to help unleash the creativity within the students...we also used very creative ways to teach the students how to count from 1 to 100 in Japanese....in under 10 minutes...(mind you, all of these students have no prior knowledge of the Japanese language). Just in case you're wondering what they're doing here, they're actually scratching their knee because it's itchy...*all of them having itchy knees at the same time??* YES...haha...well...actually NO...they're just using some creative linking methods to link the first 2 numbers to something they're familiar with. 1 in Japanese is ICHI, and 2 is NI. When you put them together, it sounds like "Itchy Knee"...

Just FYI, 1 to 10 in Japanese is:-

1 - Ichi
2 - Ni
3 - San
4 - Shi
5 - Go
6 - Roco
7 - Shi - Chi
8 - Hachi
9 - Kyu
10 - Ju

I'm not going to go into the details of how this is done, but if you're interested to find out how to do it, ATTEND THE TRAINING! haha...just joking. If you're interested to find out how to do it, just ask me out for a date...and I'll share it with you...this offer is open to ladies only...haha...as for guys, just give me a call, I'd be more than happy to share this with you... (if you buy me lunch!)
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8 is Hachi...notice their hand gestures...the egg is Hatching...
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10 is Ju...

1 to 100 in under 10 minutes...and all of them could remember it even after 2 days...no sweat!

This technique was actually taught to me by my dear friend and training partner Mr. Jeyaraman a.k.a. the Memory Man. This man has got fantastic memory! Jeya and I conduct public programs together to teach students how to significantly improve their memory and remember facts & information easily. During our program, we also share study techniques and mind-mapping techniques with the students to significantly reduce the time they need to do revision...and at the same time improve their results in exams so that they can have more time to develop themselves in other areas of their life (i.e. leadership, communication skills...etc...), which in my opinion, is equally important, if not more important than exam results.

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As usual, we did the 'Egg Game'...This is the first group with their work of art...
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A closer look at their structure...Looks solid and nice eh? Wonder if it'll prevent the egg from breaking.....
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This is the 2nd group with their masterpiece...rather spikey struture they have...wonder if those spikes serve any purpose....or are they just for decoration?
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A closer look at group #2's masterpiece...
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And this is group #3, with their erm....structure?
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A closer look at their...structure... looks more like a creative art piece...a very creative and beautiful piece of art...
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This is group #4...with their.................erm.......straw bag?...
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A closer look at the...Straw Bag structure....
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Well, that's all for this posting. In the next posting, we'll see how the students launched the egg and which group's 'structure' managed to prevent the egg from breaking...till then, Ciao!....

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