So now left the last assessments to go and I'm gonna get it done and prepare for the presentation for 23 november.
After done some research over the workshop that we had observe, I found out that the workshop is still complying much rules and regulation compare to Malaysia. However, the workshop that we had observe is still lack in tidyness and cleanliness. The profession of the supervisor and service advisor maintaining at an impressive state where the customer has a clear vision on what had happen on their vehicle after a thorough explain from either the service advisor or the supervisor. Technician in the workshop mostly is cover in dirty clothing and dirty hands which will makese the customer feels uncomfortable when their vehicle is being repair and maintenance by the technician.
Although I can't get enough information on the financial of the workshop as it is private and confidential to them... Well anyhow at least I get some information on how the waste oil is really going through roughly...the workshop does not do any advertisement on any media but they had a lot of customers mainly because they had good quality of service but not with the cost of labour and prices on the spare parts as my friend had sends his vehicle to the workshop before with satisfaction on the service but with higher cost on the parts and labour...
overall to what I've seen the workshop is going to maintain a long operational state and it's going to do well in the next few years...Although the place is untidy and not clean, but with lots of customers coming in... i feel that if they improve their tidyness and cleanliness will attract even more customer to the workshop...
Monday, 21 November 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Week 11
So for this week although the schedule I had is tight, however at least I've started to do some research on the workshop chart flow of the spare parts, oil management, etc. With the flow research, i realise that sometimes it's not that easy to just dispose of the waste oil.
As back in my country, disposal of oil in a workshop is kinda convenience as the industry in recycling the waste oil is very efficiency and the organisation or company that collects the waste oil has a huge profit by recycling the waste oil. Therefore, there are tons of people picking up this industry sector as their business and they do earn a lot for the use and waste oil they have collected.
However, in NZ it seems that the waste oil activities are not as active as back in my country although there are also organization, private sector company and government sector company to collect the waste oil for recycle. I'm not too sure if there are really profit made from just collecting the use oil or use parts for recycle in NZ and that's what my next target will be.... researching and researching... lot of research need to be made from it....
But sometimes doing research are on some stuff are really intriguing which will get a lot of solves for the problems and question where it will also brings knowledge and understanding to a certain subject.
As back in my country, disposal of oil in a workshop is kinda convenience as the industry in recycling the waste oil is very efficiency and the organisation or company that collects the waste oil has a huge profit by recycling the waste oil. Therefore, there are tons of people picking up this industry sector as their business and they do earn a lot for the use and waste oil they have collected.
However, in NZ it seems that the waste oil activities are not as active as back in my country although there are also organization, private sector company and government sector company to collect the waste oil for recycle. I'm not too sure if there are really profit made from just collecting the use oil or use parts for recycle in NZ and that's what my next target will be.... researching and researching... lot of research need to be made from it....
But sometimes doing research are on some stuff are really intriguing which will get a lot of solves for the problems and question where it will also brings knowledge and understanding to a certain subject.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Week 10
Finally~~~ a 2 weeks holiday now back to work.. early morning had to wake up which makes me had some difficulties to get out from the bed and move my ass to the uni.. haha...
Today had a meeting with the lecturer one on one after class and discuss with the report and observation that we had done before the midterm break start... Well it seems that our observation report turn out to be just fine and nice.. but anything will have a flaw.... too bad we miss out the referencing....
Lecturer was really nice as i dunno how he knows that back in where i from... we never did any referencing before.... not even once for my whole life... So this would be the first time i'm going to do the referencing onto the next assessment....
I could did it imperfectly for the referencing but still I will still try to do and get it done and right so that i would get higher marks for the next assessment.... Now starting to research on the referencing method that being imply by the Unitec which is the APA referencing....
Today had a meeting with the lecturer one on one after class and discuss with the report and observation that we had done before the midterm break start... Well it seems that our observation report turn out to be just fine and nice.. but anything will have a flaw.... too bad we miss out the referencing....
Lecturer was really nice as i dunno how he knows that back in where i from... we never did any referencing before.... not even once for my whole life... So this would be the first time i'm going to do the referencing onto the next assessment....
I could did it imperfectly for the referencing but still I will still try to do and get it done and right so that i would get higher marks for the next assessment.... Now starting to research on the referencing method that being imply by the Unitec which is the APA referencing....
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Week 9
Today send the report and also the proposal altogether to lecturer and awaiting for the reply on our report.. hopefully it will at least be accepted by the lecturer....
Before we sent the email to the lecturer, me and my group mate make some final check on the report and also the proposal... i'm not sure if we really make it in a good way or a correct way..but anyway we hope that we get some positive feedback on the report and also the proposal....
Today after reach class.. saw on the board that our panel discussion is going to defer to friday... so friday had to wake up early again.. haha it's been a while since i last wake at 9am.. well.. all the classes i had now is like 10.30am start...
Friday going to have 2 big alarm to wake me up.. haha hopefully the panel discussion will be a smooth discussion and at least we can get the marks and 10% of it,,, haha
Before we sent the email to the lecturer, me and my group mate make some final check on the report and also the proposal... i'm not sure if we really make it in a good way or a correct way..but anyway we hope that we get some positive feedback on the report and also the proposal....
Today after reach class.. saw on the board that our panel discussion is going to defer to friday... so friday had to wake up early again.. haha it's been a while since i last wake at 9am.. well.. all the classes i had now is like 10.30am start...
Friday going to have 2 big alarm to wake me up.. haha hopefully the panel discussion will be a smooth discussion and at least we can get the marks and 10% of it,,, haha
Week 8
Today me and my groupmate decided to go to the workshop that we had choose to observe... upon arrive at the workshop, we greet the service adviser which also the Service Adviser there and also have some conversation with the boss of the workshop.....
After making some questioning about the workshop and also the work flow of the workshop, we get the permission to capture some picture around the workshop...
The workshop is kinda small and it's a bit not that standard workshop which follows all the rules and regulation of a real standard workshop.... It's consider as a road side workshop and a rather small workshop....
Although they are quite busy and doesn't manage to answer all the question that we going to ask...but at least we get some information and observation which we could start off with our report on observation around the workshop...
It seems that there are kinda a lot of things that does not really comply to the rules and regulation that i've known... well it can consider as this time the visit was successful as we were able to observe a lot of things... I think we would have a long report to write... probably... haha
After making some questioning about the workshop and also the work flow of the workshop, we get the permission to capture some picture around the workshop...
The workshop is kinda small and it's a bit not that standard workshop which follows all the rules and regulation of a real standard workshop.... It's consider as a road side workshop and a rather small workshop....
Although they are quite busy and doesn't manage to answer all the question that we going to ask...but at least we get some information and observation which we could start off with our report on observation around the workshop...
It seems that there are kinda a lot of things that does not really comply to the rules and regulation that i've known... well it can consider as this time the visit was successful as we were able to observe a lot of things... I think we would have a long report to write... probably... haha
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Week 7
Today me and groupmate sit down together and start to write off the proposal as from the last week we agree to come up with ideas on what to observe and what to do in observing a workshop that we had chosen. Using the templates/format that we had found earlier week before, we start off in writing the proposal...
From the discussion i feel that although it's just a simple proposal, but within the discussion at least we get to exchange our ideas on what to observe and what we had to write in our report further on.... Last week i try to write off the proposal my own but it seems that it's still having some flaw in the proposal and i too get stuck in writing a good proposal out of one brain....
When we both discuss and came up with the proposal we done it in like 30min or so... i still remember last time for me to get a proposal done i need more than 30min or an hour or so to get stuck at the end... puff* really a slow making machine brain i have....
So next week on we going to start to observe the workshop and get our report done....
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Week 6
Until today me and my groupmate still struggling on how to get our proposal done and sent to our lecturer... i know it does take a long long time and we still haven had a progress or anything to came up with.. but we just have to continue to come up with ideas and what we should be discussion and observing on the workshop that we had already pick to observe...Question pop up on my mind when thinking all stuff of things...
Is it we have to get permission from the workshop that we choose before we proceed with the proposal? or we had to get our proposal done and then we just have to proceed to the woekshop to get the permission? I think i really had to start to work things out de lea...
At least get some idea on what really need to be observe such as...
THe flow of the traffic in the workshop, the way the customer being approach, the mechanic bay working area, the waste oil disposal area, the place that locate the spare part and storage area, etc....
Is it we have to get permission from the workshop that we choose before we proceed with the proposal? or we had to get our proposal done and then we just have to proceed to the woekshop to get the permission? I think i really had to start to work things out de lea...
At least get some idea on what really need to be observe such as...
THe flow of the traffic in the workshop, the way the customer being approach, the mechanic bay working area, the waste oil disposal area, the place that locate the spare part and storage area, etc....
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Week 5
Today just got my blog get followed by my lecturer... At first I thought I was the only one~~~! to not getting followed... but to my surprise there are people actually not even had a blog and just starting to create one....well.. it seems i'm not the only lagger here.. haha....
But anyway today there's a coursemate came asking for my help on comparison thing because he got no groups and all.. I'm willing to help of course.. but then.. what I'm not happy with is that he requested that after we've done our report we send him the report and he did the comparison...
It's comparison to him but to me is like reference and copying... So what I told him that we did our report and he did his report and we compare it at the class... that's the only condition.. if he haven't done his report.. then we would not show him our report.. cause it's like copying... it's really a bad feeling that your work being used by others...Pilagrism? something like that... haha....
Anyway today going to getting on with the proposal and got the sample so going to start one and hope to get it done ASAP....
But anyway today there's a coursemate came asking for my help on comparison thing because he got no groups and all.. I'm willing to help of course.. but then.. what I'm not happy with is that he requested that after we've done our report we send him the report and he did the comparison...
It's comparison to him but to me is like reference and copying... So what I told him that we did our report and he did his report and we compare it at the class... that's the only condition.. if he haven't done his report.. then we would not show him our report.. cause it's like copying... it's really a bad feeling that your work being used by others...Pilagrism? something like that... haha....
Anyway today going to getting on with the proposal and got the sample so going to start one and hope to get it done ASAP....
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Week 4
Today went to the class getting prepare to think of the proposal.... Me and my groupmate had came up with the workshop we going to observe and use as our project... I look upon the internet for the format of the proposal. Before i really start off with the proposal, I go and meet up with the lecturer to get the lecturer follow my blog... although it took quite sometime to get it done since i was using most of the time queing up to get my blog followed as alot of my classmate just starting to have their blog up on the net today.... but I saw some classmate also had started their blog reflecting writing up until this week...
After getting my blog followed, I have a little chat with my coursemate to get some idea on what they really plan to do and observe which given me some guideline and ideas on how to prepare the proposal... so I've plan to go back and start to come up with a proposal together with my groupmate so that we can send to our lecturer and get approval.
Once approve, we will get the permission from the workshop and start our observation and also projects going on... hope things all going smooth and steady....
After getting my blog followed, I have a little chat with my coursemate to get some idea on what they really plan to do and observe which given me some guideline and ideas on how to prepare the proposal... so I've plan to go back and start to come up with a proposal together with my groupmate so that we can send to our lecturer and get approval.
Once approve, we will get the permission from the workshop and start our observation and also projects going on... hope things all going smooth and steady....
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Week 3
So today we kinda have a class crash together or rather say that the class has been combine together on technology project and also the professional practice class altogether. But anyhow today after the technology project class, we still can get some tips on what to do on our proposal for the professional practice and also saw alot of people starting to came up with their proposal...
Today we had decided to pick a workshop near to our place of living... Hoping to get the permission from the workshop owner to have our observation done on their workshop... Planning out with friends ease up the complication of a matter as it will be easier to solve things with 2 minds rather than 1...
So going to head out to the workshop we have already plan and wishing to get permission and get it on with our projects~~~
Today we had decided to pick a workshop near to our place of living... Hoping to get the permission from the workshop owner to have our observation done on their workshop... Planning out with friends ease up the complication of a matter as it will be easier to solve things with 2 minds rather than 1...
So going to head out to the workshop we have already plan and wishing to get permission and get it on with our projects~~~
Week 2
Starting of week 2.. first thing i remember is... oppps... my blog... as i forgotten on the blog and the lecturer remind us of doing it on time as we can't cheat when there's the date of post.. but anyway at least i'm not way back for like 1month or so right? haha..
Today we start off with discussing on how we going to observe a workshop that we had choosen for ourselves.. my groupmate not yet arrive to new zealand so at the meantime i was thinking of few workshop that we can really study on it...
Got some tips and hints from former last semester student.. his 'speech' has given me lots of ideas and ways to do on our workshop observation project for this course... It's been really a big help for him to share out his experience... appreciate on his sharing....
I realise that although i dislike doing this kind of project like going for interview and stuff as i know i do really sucks in communication.. for me it's hard to approach people and i won't do it automatically unless i am really force to... i know it's a bad habit but then i still need to overcome it.. right?
Today we start off with discussing on how we going to observe a workshop that we had choosen for ourselves.. my groupmate not yet arrive to new zealand so at the meantime i was thinking of few workshop that we can really study on it...
Got some tips and hints from former last semester student.. his 'speech' has given me lots of ideas and ways to do on our workshop observation project for this course... It's been really a big help for him to share out his experience... appreciate on his sharing....
I realise that although i dislike doing this kind of project like going for interview and stuff as i know i do really sucks in communication.. for me it's hard to approach people and i won't do it automatically unless i am really force to... i know it's a bad habit but then i still need to overcome it.. right?
Monday, 15 August 2011
First week
First week in this class.. although got some crash time with my engine class but it will work it out.. that's what i thought when i enter this class first.. and guess what.. it's really work out as it will change into wednesday which will be easy for everybody...
First day in the class get to know some other classmate from around the globe and glad to know that have alot of malaysian in the class too... Feels a bit like home with own races over here... but still hope that I can make some international student from other country to broaden my social network...
First day got the assignments.. or rather is a project that require us to select a workshop for observation... I was thinking "Oh another projects, we need to go to the workshop to observe and do interview and stuff".. I am sucks in communicate with other people and really it's kinda hard for me to approach other people to start off a conversation unless it's someone i really known well enough....
But anyway this is a project and also i still have to do it... 2 people in a group is needed so i was thinking i will ask one of my friend to join me.. but unlucky he will be here in 2 weeks time so i would have to wait for him and in the meantime really thought of what workshop should we observe.
First day in the class get to know some other classmate from around the globe and glad to know that have alot of malaysian in the class too... Feels a bit like home with own races over here... but still hope that I can make some international student from other country to broaden my social network...
First day got the assignments.. or rather is a project that require us to select a workshop for observation... I was thinking "Oh another projects, we need to go to the workshop to observe and do interview and stuff".. I am sucks in communicate with other people and really it's kinda hard for me to approach other people to start off a conversation unless it's someone i really known well enough....
But anyway this is a project and also i still have to do it... 2 people in a group is needed so i was thinking i will ask one of my friend to join me.. but unlucky he will be here in 2 weeks time so i would have to wait for him and in the meantime really thought of what workshop should we observe.
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