Saturday, 9 July 2011

Singapore Legal System

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•Democracy basics: The Singapore Constitution: The separation of Powers

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•The Singapore system is based on the separation of powers , in this video the concept of splitting power into 3 branch to check and balance each other is essentially is the same as USA .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7FQsCcbD8

Parliament

In Singapore, we follow the British Parlimentary Model called the Westminster Style of Parliament:

except that we do not have the House of Lords.

1) Law making function: Parliament makes laws and where necessary, the ruling and opposition will debate its merit before calling a vote on it.

NB: In Singapore we do not have the upper House of Lords

2) Inquisitorial function of opposition to serve as a check on the ruling party:

Here is an example of the inquisitorial role of an opposition in a fieRce debate in UK in parliament:

Compilation of funny moments all through the years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nz846dDids

Common Law

Historical origins of common law

Stare Decisis :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLleV7XhkRI

History of Common Law:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjSa7ccitME&feature=relmfu

Most important video of the course! all 42 Minutes of it.

THE LBO course is all above the main theme of the evolution and development of Law and this one on Negligence is the best example used by Common Law Universities worldwide.

If you miss this out, you may be in a daze throughout this course and this will shortcut your study time.

Thursday, 7 July 2011

Self motivational techniques

How to motivate yourself:

From time to time our motivation dips, this is pretty normal.

The difference between a good student and an average student can be narrowed if a student knows and understands that it is pretty normal that motivation rises and dips with time.

And he/she then takes action to recover from those dips.

Therefore there is a need for a student to self motivate when they realise the dips to get back up.

Maybe it may be easier to liken motivation to a kind of personal battery. If you are really low on motivation , the batter is almost zero, you should take spend more time on the below materials to charge it until you feel a rush of energy and learn to come back here to charge it from time to time.

And how you motivate yourself is such an important skill but is not formally taught in schools. You can count yourself lucky to be reading just this...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304213904579095303368899132.html?mod=trending_now_1

a) Movies: This is the time to watch movies that tell a good story , make you want to study and save your movie budget during the term from watching other irrelevant movies that does not help you pass exams in the cinemas out there.

https://www.google.co.th/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=movies%20that%20will%20make%20you%20study

b) Managing Procrastination for your Essay datelines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9SWJRwvHb4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjIsdbBsE8g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8D1cGW5Qk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWZcbufhRpo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=cpwkzb--Jwo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5g8rjdsgRQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wR_TWdVy0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ2T4-rUUcs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZGg3h8kxM

c) Short video clips on motivation

Just get to youtube: and type in motivational videos and watch the ones with most views...keep watching non stop everyday until you feel the energy. Try it.

here is what I found but it may be better you learn how to search for it themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ46Ot4_lLo Korea's got Talent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iADTpgRXYrk

Steve Jobs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzoNZoiAbbA&feature=related

The guru of motivation: Anthony Robbins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=pYp9IqJVgkA

Study Skills: Please include this as your homepage during this semester. This will ensure you are always on top of the necessary skills!!

watch this first :https://goo.gl/KOBQFB

1. Study skills course
http://www.lbcc.edu/LAR/studyskills.cfm

Comment: So far this has 3 million views

2. Study skills course
https://www.coursera.org/#course/learning

Another excellent site.

a) Self diagnostics

Print this check list bring this to each lesson, check each point and most importantly be honest to yourself, as the course progress, there must be clear improvement and reduction of bad habits. The worst thing you can do to yourself is to lie to yourself.

Failure Diagnostics checklist: How to check whether you are going to fail this course

SS = Go watch Study skills videos in businesslawvideos blogspot

M= Go watch Motivation Videos in businesslawvideos blogspot

Name of Student:	Solution	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
o A) Still in dreamland that the Law paper is easy when in fact is it the toughest	M
o B) Still in the holiday mood and your brain needs time to “warm-up”… until a couple of weeks before the exam	M
o C) Not coming for class or disappearing during class thinking that you can get by with the slides and textbook alone	M
o D) poor effort at preparing for the tutorials, in time, and comprehensively o Buddies: please check their tutorials	M
o E) Thinking the lecture was easy to understand and not doing your readings after each lesson and summarizing the lecture into a mind map	M
o F) Getting distracted in class, lack of active listening skills	M/SS
o G) Thinking you can get by studying someone else’s Mind Map and ending up confused	M
o H) Not motivated to seeking help or easier ways of understanding the topic when you get stuck.	M
o I ) Multi-tasking with while studying or during class	SS
o J) Thinking that failure will happen to the guy next to you and NEVER you. o 20-30% failed every sem… so out of every three , one of you will be back. So if we remove the repeaters, it means 40% of fresh students will fail.	M
o K) Expecting spoon feeding like a Secondary School Student without additional reading of the textbooks	SS
o Last minute cramming and studying	SS
o StudyBuddy’s Name: o ______________________ o Declaration: I hereby swear to tell my buddy the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about where he is heading.	Signature