UIR Blog

Meaning

2007-10-09T09:10:00.000+08:00

Poet of the day

Barnaby Googe - On money

Give money me, take friendship who so list,

For friends are gone come once adversity,

When money yet remaineth safe in chest,

That quickly can thee bring from misery.

Fair faces show friends when riches do abound;

Come time of proof, farewell, they must away;

Believe me well, they are not to be found

If God but send thee once a lowering day.

Gold never starts aside, but in distress,

Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness.

Half way round the clock

2007-10-07T17:01:00.000+08:00

Weather was very bad this morning and afternoon. Looked like it would damage many trees and cause floods. However, it gave my windows some laundry services. Tidy and clean up your houses 'cos the mosquitos and cockroaches will come for shelter in your homes.

Usual family day. Went out to eat bla bla bla.

Visited C&C Mitsubishi. Wanted to test drive the evo 9 for fun, but suprisingly, out of stock. The new lancer ex looks nice. Evo 10 will be launched in December. Not interested anyway.

Time there is now, off to pay my mom a visit before work starts.

Good luck and all the best to everyone out there.

Wierd?

2007-10-06T10:31:00.000+08:00

I feel that I'm a 'lil wierd, fancy blogging.
Been visiting numerous blogs over the past few days while slacking in office, so maybe I should start instead of giving comments about others. Spend some free time to improve my essay?

Anyway it has already started.

This blog was previously the one i created for my CDS-UIR project, and the previous posts are in relation to drug abuse (project) so do take a look just for some general knowledge. Not that fantastic as I got a C.

Didn't have good sleeps over the past few days. Time I have now, off to a nap.

Evaluation

2007-01-25T11:07:00.000+08:00

So far I've done evaluations on 4 different websites.
Though facts and information given are useful and relevant, the site are not up-to-date. The latest article i could get was a 2002 article. Fortunately I could find some answers.

Practical 3

2006-12-06T16:24:00.000+08:00

1.
http://news.adventist.org/data/2003/10/1069709415/index.html.en

This site provides the news of the latest activities organized by the church to
go against drug abuse. The church also announced the activities they are organizing to the public as an information about their campaign.

2.
http://www.rand.org/multi/dprc/projects/impacteen.html

A database site. It explains the research on effects of drug abuse done by a
team of researchers from Andrews University.

3.
http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/library/multimedia.asp

A multimedia site. It provides a few video clips and facts relating to drug
abuse. The main examples given are heroin and ecstasy.

4.
http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/HTML/Volume2/26Substance.htm

A RSS site. A list of information about drug abuse and prevention is provided.

Practical 2

2006-11-14T00:29:00.000+08:00

Topic: Discuss the impact of drugs abuse on youths

Site 1: http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/secondary_modules/Drugs/teen_drug.htm
Organization
This is a site that publish its research on drug abuse on youths. Besides that, it also allows the public to volunteer fighting deaths caused by drugs.

Site 2: http://www.uib.no/isf/people/campaign/drug.htm
Personal
A statement and composition written by a Nigerian student activist. He express his opinions on drug abuse on Nigerian teenagers and expain the consequences.

Site 3: http://www.thenoblesvilleledger.com/articles/0/078214-1930-116.html
Subject-based
An article that explains why teenagers take drugs.

Site 4: http://www.socialworkers.org/research/naswResearch/substanceAbuse/default.asp
Organization
The site tells us how harmful a drug can be, and how social workers help out.

Discussion Forum: http://www.ycwa.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1151576970

Basically, I used google to do my research.
Organizational sites are more practical. They give statements based on what happened and research results.
Personal sites give statements which are based on one-sided views. May be bais or false. But it is based on what the author feels.
Subject-based sites are more theoratical. They go by the book.

My reflection: Even I search up to 10 different websites, i still find the same answers. But, I feel that doing my research with organizational sites is more effective in producing results.

First UIR lesson

2006-11-05T22:05:00.000+08:00

Ok, i just got started with a blog because of my UIR CDS. Well, hope it'll be fun.