A Small Yet Significant Dream

Koo Yong Boon, Videographer & Announcer

Hey guys, my name is Koo Yong Boon, you can call me Franky as well. When people ask what I am studying now, and after they know the answer, half of them will give me the face like “What? Are you sure?” Then, those people will ask the following questions like “So can you read my mind now?”, “Do you know what I’m thinking?”, “What are you going to do in your future?”, “Are you sure Psychology can help you earn money?”, and etc.

The reason why I want to study psychology is because I’m interested with it, simple and easy. I like to interact with people, I want to learn more about a person, and I want to know the role that psychology plays in our life. "MY Psychology", is a group of passionate students who are trying to share the knowledge of psychology to the public audience by using simple, easy, and understandable language. We are trying to make a difference in this society. Since psychology is everywhere in our life, no matter what you are doing, there are sure to have something that related to psychology. Your habit, your friends, your family, and the characteristic of you, all of these are some of the factors that shaped who you are today, and all of these are related to psychology.

Throughout this production team, you get to learn more about how psychology plays an important role in our daily life. I’m now the second year last semester student in HELP University Bachelor of Psychology degree course, I really enjoy what I have learned here, and it really affected my life so much. In these two years of studying psychology, I have changed my perspectives towards my life and this world so much.

There will always be reasons for you to do something, so there must have some reasons why I want to join in this production team too. Basically what I want to achieve in this production team is I want to learn more about video shooting skills and I want to learn more about the topic that I’m interested with. Normally in our education system, we are always getting spoon fed by teachers or lecturers. Due to this spoon feeding factor, most of the students nowadays don’t have the motivation to study the things that they were interested with. The education system in Malaysia had made majority of the students aim for the result in exam rather than aim for their dreams. You get how many A's in the exam is the result to show that how hard working and how intelligent you are. I totally disagree with this. It is true that some of the students they are really hard working and intelligent, they deserved to get the A's they want, but some of the students are being forced to get that A, they are being forced to do the things that they don’t like. I personally felt that nowadays, the majority of the adolescence in this society has lost their dreams. We are being force to learn the things that have been set by the education system, most of the time we are not allowed to question why we need to learn the things that we don’t like and the things that seem like not going to be useful in the future. However, we can’t refuse to learn, and so, we learned helplessness.

We learned to use another way to learn what we want to learn and what we interested to learn. That’s one of the reasons why we have "MY Psychology" today. We are using another platform to learn what we are interested with and what we are feeling that public audience should know with. I’m very glad that I have a chance to join into this production team. Thanks to all the members in this production team who are giving me a lot of chances to do what I want. Thanks to the people who are supporting us, you guys are the reason why we want to continue for it. Thank you.

A Golden Oppurtunity

Chan Ken Len, Designer

Hi all! This is Ken Len here. I am a second year psychology student in HELP University. I am really glad that I was able to become part of this production team.By joining this production, I look forward to expand and further develop my understanding about psychology. I am also desperate to learn about psychology knowledge that are out of the textbooks. Besides learning, I wish to apply these psychology knowledge to my daily life as well.

This production team aims to spread the knowledge of psychology among Malaysians' society as most of the Malaysians do not understand how psychology works. We wish to develop further understanding about psychology among Malaysians through publishing videos on Youtube since Youtube is one of the most visited webpage in today's Internet era.

I hold the position as a design assistant in this production. I hope I am able to provide assistance to the team with my skills and talent in art.

Last but not least, a million thanks to the founder of this Youtube Channel, Gary Yap who gave me this golden opportunity to present myself to all of you! For all the supporters, we will repay your support with the best of us! Cheers and stay tuned! :)

The Choice, Present & Future

Low Kok Sern, Researcher & Translator

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Low Kok Sern.

I participant this production team because I felt that many Malaysians are not aware about the usages of psychology. Many people also got the wrong notion about psychology and think that psychology is all about reading one another's mind. Whenever I talk to my friends or relatives, they always ask if I know what they are thinking then. Then, they will said that they cannot talk too much as we psychology students will be able to know secret. I am utterly speechless that many did not now the real purpose of understanding psychology.

Besides, most Malaysians think that psychology students have a hard time finding a good job. What they don’t know is that our everyday lives are closely tied with psychological knowledge. When people communicate with each other, when a mother is teaching her child, or even when a person is eating or doing something, all of it is closely related to psychology appliances.

One of the goals of "my psychology" is to help people to better understand psychology as this production team will use an easy way to let people know more about psychology. So, that is one of the most important reason for me to participate in this production team.

I can learn many things in this production team. I learn how to make a video and learn how to write a script. I also learn extra psychology knowledge through this channel, because all of us need to do more research to let us have enough information to create a new episode.

I will not regret my choice for participating in "my psychology", and I am sure that in my near future I will not regret this choice either.

An Awesome Team & An Awesome World

Siow Ghee Hong, Researcher & Translator

Hi, everyone. I am Siow Ghee Hong. You can call me Yihong. I’m an ordinary student in HELP University and is also currently taking the course of Bachelor of Psychology with my fellow members in MY PSYCHOLOGY.

I would like to say that I am very happy I can be one of the members in this AWESOME team. Before I join this team, my uni life is only about assignments, exams, sleep, eat and play.

But now! I am different since my friend, Gary Yap, who gathers me and the seven other members here and do what we can do by sharing our Psychology knowledge with the public. This channel is our motivation to encourage us to move forward, learn and improve ourselves. We try to spread our knowledge to people around us especially to those who don’t actually understand what psychology is and help them to apply it in their daily lives through this channel.

Every day we live in world of Psychology, psychology is always around  us if you realize it and understand it. Psychology explains our human beings in term of mental process and behaviour.

If you want to learn more, please subscribe our Youtube channel and see more updates in our Facebook page and Blog here. :)

The Road That I Plunge Myself In

Hew Chong Shen, Blogger & Scriptwriter

My name is Hew Chong Shen, some may call me Hew just for simplicity's sake. I have been studying psychology for two years now (in an undisclosed university), and although the program allows me to learn many theories and understand human's peculiarities, it never allows me and my friends a place to apply our learned knowledge. 

That's when my friend suggested to launch this project, so that we can spread our knowledge in the field of psychology as well as let more people be aware of the many subtleties of psychology appliances in our everyday life. 

This is something that I never thought I would do, but I am very excited by this very notion, and I hope that I won't disappoint my fellow groupmates and you guys as well.

Moreover, I manage to become a part of a movement that I am sure will give rise to many more such projects to come, and I found myself immersed in a group of friends that have the same ambition as myself.

Many of my groupmates is very talented, some more talented in others in their particular areas, and I hope together, our talents combined can bring forth something that is entertaining as well as knowledgeable to everyone else. 

Lastly, I honestly don't know where this road will lead us, but I hope it's somewhere that is full of laughter and enjoyment. 

Love you guys, and stay awesome. :)

Psychology is everywhere

Chong Tin Fung, Announcer & Scriptwriter

Hey, I am Tin Fung, who is currently taking the course, Bachelor of Psychology in HELP University. I am glad to be a one of the member in My Psychology. This channel functioning as a medium for everyone to learn psychology. We would like to share about what we actually understand about the term, “Psychology” to the public. I strongly believe that the public has huge misunderstanding towards Psychology due to what media has portrayed. Hence, in this channel, we wished to change this faulty thought about psychology and insert new image of psychology to everyone.


So let’s talk about how we started to have this channel. It started from our founder, Gary Yap, a talkative, humor person who is my roommate and also housemate. He has a dream which is producing an educational video regarding to Psychology, to tell the people around him what psychology is. After a long period of struggle, Gary Yap finally gathered seven other members and created MY PSYCHOLOGY!


I feel that I am so lucky to have a group of passionate friends who always bring me new experiences. We live together, we study together, we play together, we help each other, and lastly, we created My Psychology together. I would like to say that this channel is not only an educational channel but also a symbol of our friendship and brotherhood. I believe that as time passes, we will have huge personal growth on each one of us as well as bringing some little changes to this country.


If you pay enough attention, “Psychology” is everywhere!


TF

A small step in my life

Hor Mu Yi, Announcer & Scriptwriter

Hello everyone, my name is Hor Mu Yi. One of the co-producer of this channel and a close friend to other mates. This is the first post for me to post about MyPsychology, let me not brainwash you folks first and give a brief introduction on how I get involved in this channel.

I once answered a tutor that we students of psychology should only concentrate on studying what is about psychology only. I was wrong. I think we are also responsible in spreading the ideas of Psychology and passing the knowledge we had learned around.

So there is one day my friend, Gary told me about this idea and I was like, "No, I do not know how to make videos wo!". But things did not end here as I had been searching for something to do and move forward. This would be a great place for me to learn a lot and improve! We soon discuss the details about the channel and pull a few other highly motivated mates to join us and start shooting the video.

The process of shooting was fun and hard. As the process goes along, I had trade in my time, energy and resources in return for great experience, friendship and knowledge! I told myself that if I could ever made this done, I will be standing on a new height than others. Yes, comparing with others is not a shameful thing and is a positive energy that keeps me moving!

It will be a small step in my life. A small decision I had made during the year 2013. A single nod towards my friend's request. Hopefully the following videos that we made were able to make a big change in your life.

Signing out, MY.

Welcome to the journey of MY Psychology

Yap Hou Huai Gary, Director & Video-editor

"Why psychology is not popular enough?

It's because I come from a developing city, Sandakan."

This is always my inner conversation to explain why people around me don't understand Psychology, that's why a lot of students including myself encountered a lot of criticism and disagreement towards your choice, Psychology.

Hi all.

I am Gary, come from Sandakan, Sabah.

I am an ordinary student, same with others, who are interested in Psychology and take Psychology. 

However, I discovered that I have a lot of friends who gave up to study Psychology because of the peer pressure and the culture around the living place.

It's because others can't see the function of Psychology.

It's because Psychology seems "incompetent" when it stands along with Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy.

From my personal experience, I nearly start a conflict with a businessman when he keeps criticizing how useless Psychology is and how he earns a lot of money without knowing Psychology. 

When time goes on, I discover that their ignorance towards Psychology is not their fault. 

Why keep blaming the slow development of my own city and pointing finger towards the culture within your place?

I always tell others that we need time for people to accept Psychology in their place.

Until one day, I tell myself, how long we have to wait?

Five years, ten years, or forever?

Why don't we as Psychology students pick up the educating roles, to share what we know and help them to learn and apply with Psychology.

I tell myself, I have the responsibility.

Being in the trend of Psychology, we have the responsibilities.

We are the ones who are nearest to Psychology,

if we don't take the first pace, who else?

That's how MY Psychology is born with this idea as well as my personal struggling experience with this course.

In line with my interest and passion in video-editing, I have an idea to produce a series of Youtube Channel to introduce Psychology knowledge and share its application in daily life and human interaction. By realizing this goal, I see the need of transforming the Psychology knowledge into public language, to make it more understandable and more approachable.

Slowly, I share this idea with my friends and some of them who believe this is workable are currently part of the production team. The team slowly shapes and the outline of the channel is slowly sharpened. Also, this is followed by the name of the channel.

I have used up few nights to think of the name of this channel, and here comes the name of "MY Psychology" after discussion with my production members.

MY Psychology signifies the field of Psychology in Malaysia (MY), and the word "MY" comes with the self-entitlement and connection with Psychology. We do hope that our channel approaches larger range of audiences and help them to learn the application of Psychology in daily life, meanwhile make contribution to the growth of Psychology in our country.

MY Psychology, this channel which comprises of Psychology knowledge is packaged with the efforts of the whole production team, we will work the best as we can, to enable everyone, to LEARN Psychology, to SHARE Psychology with others and APPLY Psychology to make life better.

Before I end this, I would like to send my deepest appreciation to my friends who believe this idea and join the production team for the first episode.

Thank you for taking time to read this first post of MY Psychology.
We have taken the first step in our path,
We have defined our long journey,
We are ready!

Welcome to the journey of MY Psychology