In my opinion, most of the Canadians are very open-minded. Kat sini, i mean open-minded for a good deed yang kte boleh contohi and not the other way. They are able to be criticized and yet they can accept other people's opinions easily. Over here, if u are making noise during the lecture, they simply tell u to be quiet and the person who making noise will then says sorry. They take it as an advice and think positively. If in our country, i think if u ask the person to be quiet, i'm sure that person will hate u forever and start to mock u behind. We always think negatively that make us hard to accept advice from other people.
Actually, i got a story to tell u guys. That incident happened while i was in Chem Eng lecture just now. We supposed to do outline for our research projects and my lecturer would like to see it in just point form. During the class, she asked us to exchange the outline with our own partners who sat beside us. My coursemates who were from malaysia too sat in front of me and i saw the outline that my friend held was so long and it was just like an essay and it didn't look like an outline. I thought that outline was belonged to my friend. As usual, i like joking with him and it was not my intention to say so. Unfortunately, at that time aku tercakap dalam BI lak..so of coz semua boleh paham ape aku cakap. Then i said to my friend:
" That's too long. It's not an outline, it's a summary! "
Then, i saw a guy look behind and he was looking at me while smiling. I started to feel weird why he was smiling at me when i said that. So, I tried to see the name written on the paper from behind and OMG ....it was not my friend's name! Then i knew that the paper was belonged to that guy and that was why he kept smiling at me. I felt so guilty and immediately said sorry to him and explained to him that i thought that paper are belonged to my friend and it was not my intention to critized him. My friend laughed at me and masa tu aku rase malu sgt2 kot. Nasib baik mamat tu x marah kat aku instead he just smiling and said that's okay. He said that he also thought that his outline was too long. Huh, what a shame! From here, i respect that guy sebab die masih boleh memberikan senyuman manis kat orang yang kutuk hasil kerja die. Tapi bukan niat aku nak kutuk pon..seriously!
As conclusion, try to be open minded and ready to accept others criticism. Using that critism, we can lead ourselves to a better way. Sometimes we make mistake and we don't even realize it. Human is not perfect and sebab tulah kte perlu ingat mengingati antara satu sama lain=)
p/s: that guy really taught me to be open minded in accepting criticism and i admired his attitude so much!
2 comments:
Well, not everyone here can accept criticism with open-heart. That guy was Syed Ahmed if i am not mistaken, one of the most active users in 1st year discussion board, and of course one of the smartest. Remember him? What I like about Canadians is, most of them are very polite. You always heard "Thank you" and "Sorry". That made me warm. The lesson was, look at the name 1st before spit out your not-so-pleasant comments. Haha...
owh r u sure his name is Syed Ahmad?
i saw his name on the paper and if i'm not mistaken his name starts with a letter Q not S..haha. Well, i admit that i'm a little bit hard to accept criticism too but at least we can try to be a better person. Btw, i thought the paper was yours..haha..that's why i just wanna joking with u but it turns another way=(
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