-knowing the real me-

When I was still a child, I already learned to mingle with others. My parents exposed me to a bigger world, the real one. I always play with kids of my age before and even now, I still do the same. There I gained confidence. I learned not to be inferior. I guess that's my parents' goal: for me to be confident and to be able to face people in any situation.
Belonging to a society is indeed an important thing an individual must undergo, and I am aware of it. Through this, I can develop important things I am supposed to develop. I am able to have my own identity. And so my family, friends, colleagues, and everyone that surrounds me would appreciate and recognize me as me, Vincent.
I am ambitious, I admit. That's me and the rest of my traits follow (funny, religious, smart, etc.). The categories of self-attitude discussed by Littlejohn include the consensual (objective) and subconsensual (subjective). The “poor in math” thingie (my description for myself) basically is under the consensual and the other adjectives belong to the subconsensual. These traits (both consensual and subconsensual) as mentioned, were all developed because of the society I am in. I become ambitious honestly because the society says I must (well, that's for me huh!).
My friends say that I am funny. Probably because I crack jokes anytime and anywhere, corny or not. That's what I leave to everyone so they would easily identify me (that if somebody asks if they know Vincent, they would automatically say: “ah si Vincent, 'tong clown!” haha!). They value or remember more my comical prowess (char!) over my being smart (poor thing) and being religious (partly true). These maybe they see through my self-conception. Little john defined self-conception as the plans of action towards the self as an object. It involves identities, interests, goals, ideologies, and self-evaluation. Because this self-conception anchors attitudes, they can easily judge me using this as their reference.
And like any other living organism in this world, I am also judged in a worst manner by some people. To be called “payatot” in front of many people, I think is an insult, a slap unto my face. Well I admit it shows. It hurt me mainly because to accept the truth is hard. “The truth hurts”, they say. But sometimes I tend to see the angle of insecurity as another reason of insulting me.
“...Because attitudes are verbal statements, they can be measured and observed” (Littlejohn). I am ready that everything I did and I am about to do will be judged by the people surrounding me.
This leads me to saying that the topic symbolic interactionism is indeed interesting. Sometimes, the symbols we use to encode to other people are decoded differently. Meanings definitely are just on people. So whatever people say, it will be very fine with me as long as I know I';m doing the right things.

defining communication based on my own understanding and on the class discussion <1st entry for COMA 101>

I exist for 17 years in this moving world.

I learned to talk.

I learned to write.

I learned to read.

I learned to come up with my own ideas.

I learned to listen.

I learned to share.

I learned to express.

I learned to respond.

Things I do not always seem to value. They just mean so ordinary, a part of my daily routine. But when I enrolled in this course, pooooF, I STARTED GETTING INTERESTED TO THEM!

Learning communication is important. It makes us more aware of the happenings around and would help us understand better some of its basic concerns.

Having a pinch of idea about it, I concluded that what I was doing in my life (those written above) is in fact a part of communication.

Communication is a process.The usual walk at the covered pathwalk going to the Admin building may involve communication (situation given to us during the recent discussion). When we meet somebody, be it a a stranger or a friend, a brod/sis or our teacher, we usually say "hi, hello", tap each other's shoulders, do handshakes, or even raise eywbrows. These are few ways of communicating.

With these, I can say that communication is simply a vehicle of espressing/sharing our ideas, feelings, or thoughts to an individual/individuals capable of responding. There might be a lot of reasons whuy we communicate. Some would consider it as a requirement (cases like the handshakes of fraternities and sororities or the teacher-student relationship where students should greet teachers). Realizing the diverse cultures and traditions of the world, our group (recent groupings... by 3s) agreed that communication definitely varies from place to place. Japanese would not want look eye-to-eye when communicating, according to Prof. Saclot, cause this might mean intimacy. Whereas here in the Philippines, sincerity when talking means looking eye-to-eye. This differences could be one of the factors of misunderstanding in communication.

A lot of barriers in communication may occur along the way and one good example is the situation above.

The observations and analysis our group has collected were based partly on a scientific and partly on a humanistic way. Scientific because some observations were limited to our senses (basically what we see). Humanistic because some insights are really proven and were based on facts (like the japanese tradition).

This is my blog for now. this may sound so boring but hey, I love this and I am interested to learn more about communication.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication

defining communication based on my own understanding and on the class discussion <1st entry for COMA 101>

I exist for 17 years in this moving world.

I learned to talk.

I learned to write.

I learned to read.

I learned to come up with my own ideas.

I learned to listen.

I learned to share.

I learned to express.

I learned to respond.

Things I do not always seem to value. They just mean so ordinary, a part of my daily routine. But when I enrolled in this course, pooooF, I STARTED GETTING INTERESTED TO THEM!

Learning communication is important. It makes us more aware of the happenings around and would help us understand better some of its basic concerns.

Having a pinch of idea about it, I concluded that what I was doing in my life (those written above) is in fact a part of communication.

Communication is a process.The usual walk at the covered pathwalk going to the Admin building may involve communication (situation given to us during the recent discussion). When we meet somebody, be it a a stranger or a friend, a brod/sis or our teacher, we usually say "hi, hello", tap each other's shoulders, do handshakes, or even raise eywbrows. These are few ways of communicating.

With these, I can say that communication is simply a vehicle of espressing/sharing our ideas, feelings, or thoughts to an individual/individuals capable of responding. There might be a lot of reasons whuy we communicate. Some would consider it as a requirement (cases like the handshakes of fraternities and sororities or the teacher-student relationship where students should greet teachers). Realizing the diverse cultures and traditions of the world, our group (recent groupings... by 3s) agreed that communication definitely varies from place to place. Japanese would not want look eye-to-eye when communicating, according to Prof. Saclot, cause this might mean intimacy. Whereas here in the Philippines, sincerity when talking means looking eye-to-eye. This differences could be one of the factors of misunderstanding in communication.

A lot of barriers in communication may occur along the way and one good example is the situation above.

The observations and analysis our group has collected were based partly on a scientific and partly on a humanistic way. Scientific because some observations were limited to our senses (basically what we see). Humanistic because some insights are really proven and were based on facts (like the japanese tradition).

This is my blog for now. this may sound so boring but hey, I love this and I am interested to learn more about communication.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication

hey... (not yet my first entry sir)

whew... this is my blog.
actually, this is for my COMM. ARTS 101 completion. hehe. I really find it so tiresome making a paper portfolio so i decided making this blog. i guess, i can express myself better here. I also believe i can share a lot of things, basically a lot about communication. i hope i can. hehe.
enjoy this blog guys.