~*Communication in General*~

I've been wanting to blog about Communication in General for awhile now, and today seem's like the right day for it During my study year's of doing Foundation Studies in Health Care and Foundation & Community Skills Course, I have done three comuncation course's.

Communcation is the correct way to have a conversation between two or more people, it doesn't work alone. For communcation to really work, the person listening need's to listen and hear what the person is saying. The person talking then has there turn to listen and hear what the other person is saying, as this communcation between the two people is really working well. Also each person needs to read each other's body-language or emotions if using text. The reason I have made listen, hear, body-language and emotions BOLD is because they are the three key elements to good communcation. If you only do one of these, then communcation breaks down, meaning that the person listening will not actually hear what the person is really meaning.

When a person is listening to you and not hearing you, then they are starting to assume this is what they heard. By listening and hearing well, or by reading text (same as listening) and hearing what they say/type is real communcation.

There are losts of ways of communicating, but they all still have the three main key elements. Other communications are by e-mail, fave to face, groups, internet chats in groups or with two people, sign language and many more ways.

Everyone isn't perfect and no one communcates perfectly, it's nice to make sure that Communcation is near perfect to get a good outcome.

~*Jenn*~

~*Optical Illusion*~

This is - without question - the best optical illusion I've ever seen....If you stare at the image long enough, you should see a giraffee...

~*This is Me as a Cute Animal*~

aww I am a Kitten, how cute is that :)

You Are A: Kitten!

Cute as can be, kittens are playful, mischevious, and ever-curious. Like you, kittens hate getting wet. Kittens are often loving, but are known to scratch or bite when annoyed. These adorable animals are the most popular pets in the United States--37% of American households have at least one cat. Whether it is your gentle purr or your disarming appearance, you make a wonderful kitten.

You were almost a: Duckling or a Puppy
You are least like a: Frog or a Duck

What Cute Animal Are You?

~*WOW I am Back*~

wow talk about tblog being down a lot, gosh everytime I tried to add a blog, tblog would be down or was too slow and playing up. About time it is up again.

I completed my Frames course and did my exam. The Exam has 10 questions, 9 of them for me to write my answers and the 10th question was to create my own frame page!! So I emailed my 9 answers in with a note saying working on question 10 lol. To me I thought it was silly having them ask me to do a frame page on the last question as it would take a bit of time and more browser pages to open. (the exam was open in a browser page which I copied to word too) It took me 2 days to do my frame page, it was hard for me but I completed it. From my Tutor: The Frames Exam was perfect - A job well done and a definite 100% on the Exam. I am so proud of myself!!

Today I have created my index page (welcome) for my Forum so I am almost set to open it up and invite all those people that will benefit from the forum.

I also created this graphic today :)

My powerchair is still at Invacare, the tech could not pin point the problem so he was unable to fix anything. Invacare have contacted Invacare US and asked if they know what the problem could be and if they don't, should they replace the wheelbase frame or the seatframe or replace the whole chair! The creaking noise is in a moving part and to me that could be in both the frame and seatframe so I reakon replace the whole chair. So we are waiting to hear back from Invacare US.

~*New Zealand - Election Votes Counted*~

Well the results are in from the NZ votes and Labour wins with 40.74% with National behind by 1%. Below are the results

Labour: Party Vote 40.7%, Electorate Seats 31, List Seats 19, Total Seats 50

National: Party Vote 39.63%, Electorate Seats 31, List Seats 18, Total Seats 49

NZ First: Party Vote 5.84%, Electorate Seats 0, List Seats 7, Total Seats 7

Green: Party Vote 5.07%, Electorate Seats 0, List Seats 6, Total Seats 6

Maori: Party Vote 1.98%, Electorate Seats 4, List Seats 0, Total Seats 4

United Future: Party Vote 2.72%, Electorate Seats 1, List Seats 2, Total Seats 3

ACT: Party Vote 1.52%, Electorate Seats 1, List Seats 1, Total Seats 2

Progressive: Party Vote 1.21%, Electorate Seats 1, List Seats 0, Total Seats 1

I got the results from here if you interested http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/partystatus.html

(I gave the table a miss lol)

~*New Zealand - General Election*~

I am watching the General Election here in New Zealand and it's very tight between National and Labour. National was in the lead but now Labour has taken the lead by 1%. There have been less votes this year so the election tally will arrive quicker tonight. The Special votes will be the important count as thay could change the winner tonight or maybe give the winner a few more votes in total, but won't know the special votes for a week or two I think.

I meet Helen Clark from Labour yesterday and shook her hand. Helen asked me, are you able to go and vote tomorow and I said, yep I'm voting for you. I meet Judith Tizard too.

NEWS FLASH - Just heard a News Flash on TV, of a light plane - pilot was threatening to crash the plane into the Auckland SkyTower tonight, in the end he crashed into the sea. The pilot is now in Auckland hospital. SkyTower was quickly evacuated and everyone is safe.

Back to watching the Election.

~*Busy Bee*~

I am so tired, but have enough energy to do a quick update since last time I blogged. Yesterday I was out all day, first Dad took me to Invacare so the tech could look at my wheelchair to see where this creaking noise is coming from, that I am hearing everytime I move and it's very irrating and annoying. We ended up leaving my new wheelchair there as it will take longer than I thought to fix, but lucky I had my old chair with me and got in that. Dad and I then went and had an early lunch and I had Subway. Dad went back to work and I shopped around the mall, then later went to see a movie called Red Eye which was totally awesome!!

at the moment with my Forum. I've set up a different one now hehe with the help of a friend who talked me through the setup step by step. I've learned so much about the different forums out there and how to set them up and using an ftp program which I've used before. I now have to design my index page, that's a welcome page which will have a link to the forum and other pages soon one day lol.

I have also recieved my Frames lesson 1, so I got to start working on that, but not today. Don't feel up to it.

I have been quite involved in the Lost Plot and the Tomb in my neopets game online. I have a Tablet which is like a puzzle and I have to play games to get my map, then go to the Tomb and find my door to go through to collect my tablet peice and so on till my tablet is full.

Here is another graphic I created

~*Kinda Busy*~

Haven't done much over the last few days. One thng I did do, was treated myself to getting my nails shaped and painted and they look good. Yesterday I was sorting out all my psp tubes and orgainsing my Graphic's folders as they were a mess! Looks better and more tidy now and easy for me to find graphic's. I am also going to upload everything to photobucket then backup tubes and graphic's onto cds. This may take me awhile but is the best thing to do.

Here is a graphic I just made, I really like the tube too

I have also been playing neopets on and off and checking up on my Aquapet Zizzy bought me. Well I am off now to eat some pizza, chicken wings, chip and have a pepsi too. Movie should be starting soon too.

Things to do for my Blog

Been awhile since I posted here. I want this blog to be my main blog as tblog seems to play up at times and want this as a backup too. This is a list of things I want to learn and find out if I can do things on here..

1. transfer my tblog template here http://smilesnz.tblog.com/ to blogger as I love my tblog layout/colors>> comments please
2. transfer my tblog posts or add them as a post and change the dates (I think blogger can do this)
3. have archives DONE
4. find out if I can add pictures to the sidebars of blogger>>>comments please
5. how to add a banner to my blogger>>>comments please
6. how do I transfer my blog directoreys etc

think that is all I can think of for now, so much to learn WOW this post was very easy compared to tblog :O I like it.

WOW adding the picture was easy, none of this uploading to a host before getting the pic url..wowzerss

~*Passed my HTML Forms Course*~

Been busy with life in general and online stuff. I went home for Father's Day and we had a BBQ dinner for Dad and gave him some goodies which he liked.

I've been doing a HTML Forms course which WebTech provides. It was tricky at times but overall good, so far the shortest course out of these HTML Courses. I passed my exam and here is my Certificate.

Went out to my old work place and had lunch with my friend's, we had SubWay and it was yummy. I helped one of my old workmates choose a Laptop the other day, which she had bought. I setup Nortons and installed some other software for her and showed her how to use them. The touchpad on the laptop was very sensitive, I was trying to scroll up the My Programs Menu and it clicked on the wrong things, basically the touchpad was too easy to click. I wanted the mouse lol, this was driving me nuts.

Now that I have a break from my course I can do some more graphic's and more work on my Forum.

~*Tri Nations is All Blacks*~

YEA YEA YEA!!!

All Blacks have done it and won the Tri Nations Trophy, 34/24. WAHOOOOO

Tri Nations Trophy
Bledisloe Cup
Lions Tour

WELL DONE ALL BLACKS!! Way to Go