Blog 1

Hello, my name is Yew Khai Meng, It is the first time I write blog, I never write blog before. I also rarely read other people’s blog before, in my opinion, write a blog same with write a diary; is about record the experience in daily life and some feeling about particular event, in the future, we can refer back what we have experience, it is like a memory book. It is also one of a way to express people’s emotion. I heard that some people write blog to scold other people, it is also a kind of expression. Some people also use blog to do business especially small business for example selling clothes, pants. They use blog to do business because it is free of charge. Opps, it seems to be talking too much useless thing. Let go back to the main topic, I felt surprise that Ms Nurdiana required us to write blog. It is a new approach for us to refresh what we have learned in the class; another benefit is that we can learn from our classmate through reading the other’s blog and discussion. The other thing is debate; it is very hard for me because my English speaking is not that good and I am not familiar with the rule of debate even though I participated one time in secondary school, anyway it is a new challenge for me, and I should try my best to fight for it.

During the first class, I learned the meaning of ethics, but I still cannot differentiate morals and ethics after attend a few classes. In my opinion, both ethics and morals are similar that about the general understanding of right or wrong for people to behave. I hope I can discover more about the differences between morals and ethics in future classes. Besides that, we also learned the importance of ethics, before we attend this class; we already knew the basic knowledge of importance of ethics, human need ethics as a standard of rule in order to live together without conflict. A part from that, ethics is also very importance in business world, in the principle of finance, the tenth principle says that “ethical behaviour is doing the right thing, and ethical dilemmas are everywhere in finance”, this principle means people will behave unethically even though they know it is wrong, because of attracted by benefit such as money or position, human could give up their own principle and choose to behave unethically. Business cannot operate without the concern of ethic especially food and beverage industry, it could harm people directly. After the first class, we realise that every people has their own limit for them to behave ethically, once over the limit, people will no longer behave ethically, the limit always determined by money. To be honest, I also has my own limit, my limit is variable means my limit is depend on the situation, first of all I will consider the impact on my unethical behaviour, the most important factor  for me to consider is the people that I could harm, second thing is the benefit for me to behave unethically. But so far I never behave unethically before even still a small thing. Of course lie is also consider a kind of unethical behaviour, but for me I will not purposely lie a person unless lie to a person is good for them meaning to say that sometime we got to lie in order to avoid some unhappy things happen.

Another topic to share here is that some time we will realise some people left their belongings such as wallet or phone in the toilet, do not return and take others thing for our own is also consider behave unethically. I still remember I did it before in a shopping centre, I realise a camera which dropped by others, after I took the camera, my first intention was to leave the shopping centre because I worry the person came back to find his or her camera; means I wanted to take away the camera. On the way going out to the shopping, I was thinking whether wanted to give it back to the owner or not. After that I opened up the casing of the camera, I found two hundred US dollar (six hundred Ringgit Malaysia) in the casing. I tried to find whether got any passport or not, but I cannot find. At that time I had the intention to give back the camera to the owner. Finally I took the camera and money as my own. A few month ago, I left my phone insight the toilet in our university, after almost two hours, I realised I lost my phone. At that time, I was very sad because I lost my phone and I needed to ask for money to buy a new phone. After that I tried to call my phone, the staff of ICT department pick up the phone and talk to me, after that I went to ICT department to collect my phone, I wanted to know who took my phone to ICT department, but that person did not write his name. After this thing happen, I felt very bad because I took the camera for my own and never tried my best to found the owner. I promised that I will return anything that I found in anywhere to the owner. I was so lucky to meet good person, but I know lucky will not always stay with me, I have to help other people to be good person also.

There is another topic I want to share on this blog which is the situation in our class; our class is so quiet (I am also one of the person that always keep quiet) which do not meet the requirement for this class. In my opinion, the first factor is that all of us come from difference school; we may not know each other, automatically we will keep quiet. Second factor is that our class is in the early in the morning, most of us seem to be in the sleeping mood (including me). I believe that after a few classes, we will know each other better, so we can share our point of view. Anyway we cannot blame anybody; we should break the “ice” as soon as possible in order to learn from each other, we can do it^^.

Thanks for reading my blog.