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I live in a HDB flat. At my floor, there are 3 other households (1 Chinese and 2 Malay). The main character of my story is one of my Malay neighbors who live directly beside me. They are a family of 3 (young parents and a little daughter). They loves plants and placed around 4-5 pots of plants along the corridor, which is outside my room.
Whenever the Malay mother is clearing and sweeping her corridor, she will sweep the rubbish towards my corridor and leave them in the drain. Whenever I water my plants or wash my corridor, the water could not flow into the drain as there is a blockage by the rubbish.
There was once my room was attacked by ants which crawled from the outside. After some investigation, I found out that the ants came from my neighbor’s plants. The ants were so smart that they crawled from the plants, crossed my windows and sneaked into my cupboard. I spent one whole afternoon killing millions of ants. My room was full of pesticide smell.
In HDB, we usually got people who distribute flyers and they leave them at our gate or our door-step. There was one incident where I saw the Malay father actually used his feet to drag a piece of his flyers from his door-step to my corridor. He knew that I have seen his action but he just walked away. I was wondering why can’t he pick it up and throw it into the dustbin.
What do you think I should do?
There are 6 billions of people in this world. In everyday life, there are many people around us. And it is communication that allows us to convey message to one another. Furthermore effective communication skills give one an ability to inspire and influence others.
For me, developing effective communication skills helps to improve the way I communicate with my family and friends, and prepare me for my future job. Communication is not just verbal, but it also includes writing and nonverbal communication. Being able to cope well in these 3 areas of communication is a tough task but once acquire it, it will be very beneficial in both career and fostering relationship with people.
One of my weaknesses in communication is that I am a communication killer in front of new friends. I cannot find an appropriate topic to keep our communication going. And I do not know whether my topic interests him/her. And I realized that usually people who can talk well are popular. Thus, in order to enlarge my social network and be popular among my friends, I need to develop effective communication skills.
When I enter the workplace, communication with superiors, subordinates and colleagues are important. If I cannot communicate clearly, I would not be able to get my message across correctly and it will cause problem to my job. At work, writing is especially critical. Writing is a form of formal communication and an essential part in the workplace. If I cannot write well, there will be many misunderstandings as the reader will interpret the wrong meaning from my poorly written document.
Hence, to be able to popular among friends, and prepare myself in the workplace, I decided to attend ES2007S to develop effective communication skills.
I live in a HDB flat. At my floor, there are 3 other households (1 Chinese and 2 Malay). The main character of my story is one of my Malay neighbors who live directly beside me. They are a family of 3 (young parents and a little daughter). They loves plants and placed around 4-5 pots of plants along the corridor, which is outside my room.
