First Stage - Idea Proposal

In the first week of module learning, the lecturer of this module, Dr. Wendy gave us introduction of this module briefed us on the requirements as stated in MIB and explain briefly about the assignments especially the group project. As the covid-19 pandemic is still going until now, the learning process of this module would be conducted online for the half of the semester. Due to this problem, sadly we couldn’t conduct face to face community service in order to prevent the spread of the virus. Honestly, I really wanted to do face to face community service because we could embrace our sympathy more when we do it by real interaction and also I felt like doing this project online is quite hard to do. However, this could be considered as challenge which more like an opportunity for me to learn and think critically. 

            Through the early weeks studying this module, me and my group were focusing on the proposal of idea. Most of the time we rely on Microsoft teams meeting to do discussion and brainstorming idea.Doing discussion through online sometimes comes with some difficulties especially if the network connection is not good because we rely so much on it. However, I’m still grateful that even though our group members are in different countries (Malaysia and Indonesia) we still could discuss and talk to each other. We’ve also manage the assignment tasks by using trello app in Microsoft teams to ease us to look for our progress. At first, I really feel like this module is a bit challenging and hard to pass through. I even feel like giving up at the first stage to be honest and I’m sure that my teammates also feel the same. However, in the end, we made it! Even though we feel like giving up but we didn’t give up!  We really need time and several group meeting to finally come out with the finalized idea tho. During the difficulties, I’m sure that I have push myself to generate idea and try to look for the problems going on and finding its solution. One more thing, this MCO force me to improve my communication skill. Unconsciously, I really feel like I’ve been improving my communication skill through conducting several brainstorming.

            We have faced many problems especially in creating the idea that could possibly be spreadable, measured, executed and meet the main goal which is helping people in concern. I must admit that some of our ideas were nice but they didn’t meet the requirements. On the first week, we came out with the idea of helping women as we found that they have tendency to get stressed because too much work has been assigned to them during this MCO. We were thinking of encouraging the women to have some stress relief time through doing positive things like planting veggies. However, this idea turned out to be unacceptable. Going through some more meetings, we have found another idea which is to conduct an online-based activity on rising awareness towards mental health especially among the students. As we found that the tendency of having mental illness among international students who are stuck and couldn’t get back to their home-country has risen. This encourage us to gather an activity or can be called as campaign to help those people as they are not included in majority line for government to pay attention to but more to minorities. We have decided to create a social media account to spread mental health challenges especially through Instagram so it will be easily spread and reach more people as Instagram challenges have been a great trend nowadays. We expect our project could help them to feel not alone and not left behind to reduce the tendency of them having mental issues. Other than that, me and my group members as the conductor will also get the benefit of this project because someone said that giving positivity to others will bring back positivity to yourself .